Patents Assigned to Here Global B.V.
  • Patent number: 12386075
    Abstract: An apparatus obtains instances of crowd-sourced data corresponding to a first time period and determines a respective corroboration score based on map data a respective instance of crowd-sourced data. The apparatus determines a first representative corroboration score for the first time period based on respective corroboration scores determined for the instances of crowd-sourced data corresponding to the first time period; and compares the first representative corroboration score for the first time period to a second representative corroboration score corresponding to a second time period, wherein the first time period is different from the second time period. Based on a result of comparing the first and second representative corroboration scores, the apparatus determines whether the instances of crowd-sourced data are potentially manipulated. Responsive to determining that the instances of crowd-sourced data are potentially manipulated, the apparatus performs at least one mitigating action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Henri Nurminen, Pavel Ivanov, Marko Luomi, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola
  • Patent number: 12382243
    Abstract: A system, method, etc. for providing a geopolitical region discovery service comprising obtaining an indication of at least a first location an end user device; wherein the indication of a first location is obtained at a predefined time interval, obtaining geopolitical compliance data for one or more geopolitical areas proximate to the first location of the end user device, determining a geopolitical interaction indicator based, at least in part, on the obtained indication of first location and geopolitical compliance data for one or more geopolitical areas proximate to the first location; and, generating at least one feedback for an end user device or software client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Petri Rauhala, Mikko Blomqvist
  • Patent number: 12371037
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for emulating vehicle features of a first vehicle in a second vehicle having different features. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a user operating an unfamiliar vehicle; determining vehicle features familiar to the user; and providing emulation of one or more features of the vehicle features familiar to the user in the unfamiliar vehicle. According to some embodiments, the vehicle features familiar to the user are determined based on one or more vehicles familiar to the user. According to certain embodiments, vehicle features familiar to the user include one or more of vehicle size, vehicle performance, or vehicle autonomy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young, Jerome Beaurepaire
  • Patent number: 12372373
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for generating a storage lane marking for a map database. The system, for example, generates a candidate storage lane marking for a first topology based on: the candidate storage lane marking being (i) to the left of a leftmost through-traffic lane marking of the first topology or to the right of a rightmost through-traffic lane marking of the first topology, and (ii) on either start or end of the first topology. The system further makes a determination of whether the candidate storage lane marking is valid based on one or more of following: (i) whether one or more vehicle path locations are located within a polygon defined by (a) the candidate storage lane marking and (b) a corresponding edge of the first topology, or (ii) whether the candidate storage lane marking is located within another topology different from the first topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Zhenhua Zhang
  • Patent number: 12372371
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for updating map data. The system, for example, obtains sensor data from one or more user equipment. The sensor data is associated with a road object. Further, the system, determines a first location of a road observation sight and a second location of the road object based on a timestamp associated with the first location. Further, a distance associated with the second location of the road object and a center point of a link, is calculated. The link is a map matched link associated with the second location. Further, the system updates the map data based on the calculated distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Bruce Bernhardt, Advait Mohan Raut, Jingwei Xu, Weimin Huang, Yuxin Guan
  • Patent number: 12375878
    Abstract: Methods and devices for privately verifying and enhancing location data are disclosed. A location-based services server receives a possible location of a mobile device. A location verification system determines a detected location of the mobile device. The location-based services server and location verification system communicate using a private set intersection technique to determine whether the possible location corresponds to the detected location without the possible location or detected location being shared. Probabilities associated with the possible and detected locations can also be combined to enhance the accuracy of the possible location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Oleksandr Kondrashov, Onur Derin, Giovanni Lanfranchi
  • Patent number: 12359939
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for learning to generate maps from raw geospatial observations from sensors traveling within an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Tero Juhani Keski-Valkama
  • Patent number: 12363495
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for providing syntax-based spatial auditory cues to facilitate user interaction with navigational assistance or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control. Methods may include: receiving an indication of location based information; parsing the location based information into one or more portions of information; classifying the one or more portions of information based on a syntax of one or more words contained in the one or more portions to obtain one or more classified portions of information; determining, for a respective one of the one or more classified portions of information, a communication mode associated with the respective one of the one or more classified portions; and providing for generation of audible communication of the location based information, where the one or more classified portions are communicated according to a respective communication mode associated with the respective one or more classified portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Francesco Grani, Thomas Lucka, Mario Lopez Batres
  • Patent number: 12359918
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to re-estimate misalignment between the body frame of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the vehicle frame following movement of a mobile device embodying the sensor(s) of the IMU relative to the vehicle. In a method, movement of the mobile device relative to the vehicle is detected. In response to detecting movement of the mobile device relative to the vehicle, the method identifies (i) a point in time prior to or corresponding to commencement of movement of the mobile device relative to the vehicle and (ii) a subsequent point in time at which the mobile device is stable relative to the vehicle. The method then determines the frame orientation between body and vehicle frames. Based upon the determined frame orientation between body and vehicle frames, the method also includes determining a navigation solution for the vehicle in reliance upon non-holonomic constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Jani Käppi
  • Publication number: 20250225727
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided to update a map layer including one or more light-based objects and use the map layer for localization. For example, the apparatus is configured to receive image data including a plurality of images of a light-based object generated by a source, use the image data to create a representation of the light-based object, and update a map layer to include the representation as a landmark. The apparatus is further configured to receive an image captured by an image capturing device and including the light-based object and perform localization for the image capturing device by using the image and the map layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Jeremy Michael Young, Leon Stenneth, Jerome Beaurepaire
  • Publication number: 20250209907
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein may provide a method for establishing traffic patterns in an efficient manner. Methods include: receiving historical probe data associated with a road segment; generating traffic pattern data and short-term traffic pattern data for a plurality of periods of time for the road segment, where the traffic pattern data includes traffic patterns that are consistent with historical traffic patterns during a first period of time, and where short-term traffic pattern data includes traffic patterns that fluctuate relative to historical traffic patterns during a second period of time; receiving real-time probe data associated with the road segment during the first period of time and the second period of time; generating traffic data for the road segment using historical traffic pattern data for the first period of time; and generating real-time traffic data for the road segment using the real-time probe data received during the second period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jingwei XU, Yuxin GUAN, Bruce BERNHARDT, Weimin HUANG
  • Patent number: 12337621
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing a tire pressure analysis. In one example, the apparatus receives first sensor data indicating a first tire pressure change associated with a first vehicle and causes a prediction model to generate a predicted cause of the first tire pressure change based on the first sensor data. The prediction model is trained based on historical data, the historical data defining a plurality of tire pressure signatures. Each of the plurality of tire pressure signatures correlates a cause of a second tire pressure change associated with a second vehicle to second sensor data indicating one or more tire pressure levels of the second vehicle over a period in which a wheel of the second vehicle completes a revolution. The apparatus further causes a notification of the predicted cause at a user interface associated with the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Amarnath Nayak, Alex Averbuch
  • Publication number: 20250201123
    Abstract: A system to learn parking restrictions of a region based on parking behaviors of vehicle parkers is disclosed. The system is configured for determining one or more contextual factors related to a user parking a vehicle in the region; computing a parking trust index based on the one or more contextual factors related to a user parking a vehicle in a region; classifying the user as a reliable parker if the parking trust index is greater than a reliability threshold and classifying the user as an unreliable parker if the parking trust index is less than a reliability threshold; and determining the parking restrictions of the area based on a parking behavior of the reliable parker and/or a parking behavior of the unreliable parker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: JEROME BEAUREPAIRE, LEON STENNETH, JEREMY MICHAEL YOUNG
  • Publication number: 20250200594
    Abstract: A system to predict cancelled ride-hailing rides is disclosed. The system is configured for detecting, from a mobile application, one or more instances of cancelled ride-hailing rides based on contextual elements related to the cancelled ride-hailing rides; mapping the one or more instances of cancelled ride-hailing rides into one or more generalizable feature vectors; generating a trained machine learning model based on a training feature dataset, where the training feature dataset is an aggregation of the one or more generalizable feature vectors; and predicting, using the trained machine learning model, a likelihood of cancelled ride-hailing rides to take place in a specific time and a specific space partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: JEROME BEAUREPAIRE
  • Publication number: 20250198772
    Abstract: A system to assist an owner of a low-profile vehicle to avoid damages related to vehicle impact upon a raised feature of a road is disclosed. The system may be configured to obtain one or more locations of a vehicle impact upon the raised feature by detecting an occurrence of the vehicle impact and recording contextual factors related to the vehicle impact upon the raised feature, where the one or more obtained locations are clustered into a first location bucket defined by a manual detection of the vehicle impact and a second location bucket defined by an automatic detection of the vehicle impact. The locations may be map-matched to map locations. The system may cluster the map-matched locations and automatically predict, using a trained machine learning model trained on ground truth of a region, potential locations of vehicle impact relevant to the owner of the low-profile vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: JEROME BEAUREPAIRE, LEON STENNETH, JEREMY MICHAEL YOUNG
  • Patent number: 12332061
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a route for mood improvement are provided. For example, a method of determining a route for mood improvement includes determining a mood of an individual. The method also includes receiving a destination as an input. The method also includes determining a route from a current location of the individual to the destination via a plurality of road segments for improving the mood of the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Gianpietro Battistutti
  • Patent number: 12326342
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein may provide a method for analyzing traffic congestion at a toll plaza and identifying a preferred lane of travel through the toll plaza based on the traffic congestion. Methods may include: determining active toll lanes of all toll lanes at a toll plaza; obtaining probe data for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; determining lane-wise congestion for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; identifying a preferred lane of the active toll lanes; and providing for at least one of a navigational instruction or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control to enter or continue in the preferred lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Amarnath Nayak, Leon Stenneth, Advait Raut
  • Patent number: 12325426
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and user interface are provided for generating personalized splines. For example, one or more geometries that represent a portion of a road network are identified and a first spline curve is calculated from the one or more geometries. One or more additional geometries that represent a different portion of the road network are then interpolated, by a processor, and the processor then calculates at least a second spline curve from the one or more additional geometries, wherein the second spline curve is derived, at least in part, from personalized driving preference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Hitesh Baid, Leon Stenneth, Rakesh Singh
  • Publication number: 20250184954
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for updating database of network access point location are provided. The apparatus identifies a network access point accessible to a mobile apparatus and receives network access point information of the network access point. The apparatus receives a single-sided round-trip time (RTT) measurement of the network access point. The network access point information comprises identification data and a first signal strength value, and the single-sided RTT measurement comprises a second signal strength value. The apparatus scales the second signal strength value based on the first signal strength value. The apparatus updates the database of network access point location based on the scaled second signal strength value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: PAVEL IVANOV, LAURI AARNE JOHANNES WIROLA, MARKO LUOMI, HENRI NURMINEN
  • Publication number: 20250181961
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for determining an impact of high-beam lights on behaviors of vehicle users are disclosed. The apparatus obtains sensor data and map data associated with at a first vehicle, wherein the obtained map data is obtained from a map database. The apparatus further calculates a first probability score indicative of a usage of high-beam lights by the first vehicle based on the obtained sensor data and the obtained map data. Responsive to the calculated first probability score satisfying a threshold, the apparatus calculates a second probability score indicative of an impact on a behavior of a user of a second vehicle within a pre-determined distance of the first vehicle based on the obtained sensor data and the obtained map data. Further, the apparatus stores, in the map database, association data indicative of an association between the obtained map data and the calculated second probability score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: JEROME BEAUREPAIRE