Patents Examined by Adam D Tissot
  • Systems and methods for UAV interactive instructions and control
    Patent number: 11635775
    Abstract: A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving, by a processor of the UAV, a plurality of images captured by an imaging device coupled to the UAV, identifying, by the processor, a target in at least one image of the plurality of images, determining, by the processor, whether the target is a stationary target or a moving target based on analyzing the plurality of images, and automatically effecting, by the processor, movement of the UAV based on determining the target is the stationary target or the moving target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyu Wang, Tao Zhao, Yun Yu, Guyue Zhou, Ketan Tang, Cong Zhao, Ang Liu, You Zhou, Minjian Pang, Xiao Hu, Litian Zhang
  • Cognitive system for localized LIDAR pollution detection using autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 11636353
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a cognitive system using an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of sensors configured to obtain the weather forecast for a pollution detectable area; a cognitive input to determine the pollution detectable area having highest sensitivity of pollution; a light detecting and ranging system configured to spatially probe pollution levels distributed in the pollution detectable area; an evaluation system to evaluate the probed pollution levels in the pollution detectable area; and a recommendation system for recommending an action to be taken based on evaluation system results of the probed pollution levels in the pollution detectable area, wherein the pollution levels are detected based light emitted by the light detecting and ranging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger, Michael Rizzolo
  • Method and system for controlling construction machinery
    Patent number: 11634887
    Abstract: In a method of controlling construction machinery, a bucket of a working device is moved along a first excavation trajectory to perform an excavation operation on the ground of a work area. A digging force exerted on the bucket during the excavation operation is calculated. A new second excavation trajectory is generated based on the calculated digging force. The bucket is moved along the second excavation trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changmook Kim, Dongjun Lee, Changu Kim, Bukun Son
  • Method and device for determining personal commute time period
    Patent number: 11629968
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for a personal commute time period. The method includes: obtaining data of at least one commute trajectory of a user within a preset time period; performing cluster analysis on the data of the at least one commute trajectory to obtain at least one commute trajectory cluster, and obtaining a combined trajectory according to the commute trajectories in each commute trajectory cluster; for each commute trajectory T of the at least one commute trajectory, determining a commute speed of the user according to a combined trajectory corresponding to a commute trajectory cluster to which the commute trajectory T belongs; and determining a commute time period corresponding to the commute trajectory T according to the commute speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuezhi Zhou, Xiang Lan, Di Zhang
  • Guidance method and system for assisting in following a trajectory for velocity-vector piloting of an aircraft
    Patent number: 11629976
    Abstract: A method for guidance and for assisting in following a trajectory for velocity-vector piloting of an aircraft includes a step of calculating, at all times, lateral and vertical offsets of the current position of the aircraft from a target trajectory, estimated by a flight management system, and then a joining heading and a joining gradient for the aircraft to join the trajectory depending on these offsets; and a following fourth step of displaying, in head-up or head-down form, a consistent guidance symbol centered on the calculated joining heading and the calculated joining gradient for joining the trajectory, on a piloting screen showing a velocity vector. The fourth step may display, in addition to the guidance symbol, one or more items of information anticipating the next trajectory break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Thierry Ganille, Florent Mennechet, Xavier Servantie
  • Train control method, apparatus, and system
    Patent number: 11623670
    Abstract: A train control method is provided for a vehicle on-board controller (VOBC) configured on one end of a train. The method includes: performing a train awakening process; acquiring a running plan sent by an automatic train supervision (ATS) system after the train is successfully awakened; setting, according to a direction indicated by the running plan, a running direction of the train to be downward or upward; when the running direction is set to downward, using, as a head for train positioning, one end of the train not configured with the VOBC, to acquire positioning information of the train; when the running direction is set to upward, using, as the head for train positioning, one end of the train configured with the VOBC, to acquire the positioning information of the train; and controlling, according to the positioning information of the train, the train to pull out of a parking garage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Dandan Wu, Faping Wang, Zhili Wu, Yunlan Bao, Kaikuo Zhuo
  • Predictive indicators for operational status of vehicle components
    Patent number: 11620863
    Abstract: Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for monitoring vehicle components and providing indications towards the condition of the vehicle components and providing optimal indications towards replacement or maintenance of vehicle components before vehicle component failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Jeffrey Davidson, John Robert Ford Kyes, Thomas Arthur Walli
  • Method and system for adaptive motion planning based on passenger reaction to vehicle motion in autonomous driving vehicles
    Patent number: 11619937
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of automatic motion planning for an autonomous driving vehicle. Information is obtained with respect to a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle operating in a current vehicle motion, wherein the information is to be used to estimate the operational capability of the autonomous driving vehicle with respect to the current location. Sensor data are obtained, via one or more sensors in one or more media types. A reaction of a passenger present in the vehicle with respect to a current vehicle motion is estimated based on the sensor data. Motion planning is performed based on the information with respect to the current location and the reaction of the passenger to the current vehicle motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Zheng, David Wanqian Liu, Timothy Patrick Daly, Jr.
  • Turning system
    Patent number: 11613303
    Abstract: A turning system includes a steering wheel, a turning actuator that has an electric motor incorporated thereinto and turns turning wheels, and a control device. The control device is configured to perform: a steering operation amount calculating process of calculating a steering operation amount; an angle command value calculating process of calculating an angle command value; an angle operation amount calculating process of calculating an angle operation amount; an operation process of operating a drive circuit of the electric motor; and a correction process of correcting a parameter upstream from the angle operation amount calculating process such that a drag force resisting an operation of the steering wheel for increasing magnitude of the turning angle is applied when the magnitude of the turning angle is equal to or greater than a turning angle threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Terutaka Tamaizumi
  • Programmatically determining location information in connection with a transport service
    Patent number: 11605246
    Abstract: A computing system receives location data from a computing device of a transport provider and based on the location data, monitors a location of the transport provider as the transport provider operates a vehicle to travel towards a service location of the service request. The system determines, based on monitoring the location of the transport provider, that the transport provider has not indicated at least one of a correct start location or a correct start time for fulfilling the service request. In response to determining that the transport provider has not indicated the at least one of the correct start location or the correct start time, the system uses a set of the location data received from the computing device of the transport provider to determine the at least one of the correct start location or the correct start time for fulfilling the service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Brinig, Daniel Heller, Todd Sifleet, Jyothidhar Pulakunta
  • Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles that provide a vehicle service to users
    Patent number: 11599123
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining autonomous vehicle user boarding times are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining location data associated with a user device associated with a user. The method includes determining an estimated time until the user starts boarding the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the location data associated with the user device. The method includes obtaining data associated with the user. The method includes determining an estimated time of boarding duration for the user based at least in part on the data associated with the user. The method includes determining an estimated time until the user completes boarding of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the estimated time until the user starts boarding the autonomous vehicle and the estimated time of boarding duration for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Brian Donnelly, Michael Aitken
  • Power management system for autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 11597337
    Abstract: A power management system is disclosed for managing power in a vehicle. The system may include a power distribution unit (PDU) communicably coupled to a power controller unit located in the vehicle. The power controller unit comprises a microcontroller configured to: receive, from the PDU, a temperature value that indicates a temperature of the PDU, one or more voltage values from the one or more voltage sensors, or one or more current values from the one or more current sensors, perform a determination that the temperature value, the one or more voltage values, or the one or more current values are below one or more of their respective pre-determined threshold values, and send, after the determination, a health status message to a computer located in the vehicle, where the health status message indicates that the PDU is operating in a safe operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Kaixin Zheng, Xiaoling Han, Zehua Huang, Yue Pan, Zhaohan Jia
  • Dynamic load damping apparatus
    Patent number: 11592072
    Abstract: A dynamic load damping apparatus is employed in a hydraulic steering system control circuit of an aircraft. The dynamic load damping apparatus is positioned in the hydraulic steering system control circuit in parallel with a control valve of the control circuit that functions as the hydraulic fluid source of the control circuit and an actuator that controls movements of a nose gear of the aircraft. The dynamic load damping apparatus dampens loads transmitted to the hydraulic actuator that controls the steering movements of the nose gear on the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Justin Christenson
  • Intelligent vehicle pass-by information sharing
    Patent number: 11587434
    Abstract: A device and related method are associated with a focus vehicle. The device comprises a sensor that senses area information about an information area usable to assist the focus vehicle and an oncoming vehicle to pass each other, a transmitter that broadcasts the area information via a vehicle-to-vehicle network protocol, and a controller. The controller produces an assisting result from the area information and vehicle information related to the focus vehicle and the oncoming vehicle. The vehicle information includes first distance information of the focus vehicle from the information area, and second distance information of the oncoming vehicle from the information area. The device includes a display that displays virtual traffic information representing at least stopping and proceeding of the focus vehicle onto a windshield of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Saito, Hayato Uenohara, Hiroki Yoshinaga, Kazuhiro Konno, Masakuni Okada, Takeyuki Shimura
  • Heading or pitch determination systems and methods with high confidence error bounds
    Patent number: 11585951
    Abstract: Systems and methods for use in navigating aircraft are provided. The systems can use Geometry Redundant Almost Fixed Solutions (GRAFS) or Geometry Extra Redundant Almost Fixed Solutions (GERAFS) to compute high confidence error bounds for a heading angle estimate or pitch angle derived using signals received on at least two antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladislav Gavrilets, Huan T. Phan, James H. Doty
  • Generating training data for speed bump detection
    Patent number: 11586843
    Abstract: An apparatus including a capture device and a processor. The capture device may be configured to generate pixel data corresponding to an exterior view from a vehicle. The processor may be configured to generate video frames from the pixel data, perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects in the video frames and determine characteristics of the objects, detect a change in orientation of the vehicle at a first time, analyze the characteristics of the objects at a second time to determine a cause of the change in orientation of the vehicle and generate annotations for the video frames that comprise the objects determined to have caused the change in orientation of the vehicle. The second time may be earlier than the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventor: Shimon Pertsel
  • Method and system of controlling braking of vehicle
    Patent number: 11584344
    Abstract: A method of controlling braking of a vehicle is provided. When a disconnector is disconnected and an auxiliary drive wheel is separated from a driving system, vehicle braking is performed with regenerative braking by a primary drive wheel motor during braking. Subsequently, the disconnector is connected based on a vehicle stability state, and then, braking is performed simultaneously on the auxiliary drive wheel and a primary drive wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Gwi Chul Kim
  • Vehicle-based device for receiving information from a track-based transmission device
    Patent number: 11577764
    Abstract: A vehicle-based device for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes a receiving device which, when passing a track-based transmission device, is configured for receiving a signal, which is at least also frequency-modulated, from the track-based transmission device. The vehicle-based device includes an evaluation device which is configured for generating a crosstalk warning, namely in accordance with signal levels at different frequencies of the received frequency-modulated transmission signal and/or in accordance with the frequency curve. A vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, and a method for transmitting at least one piece of information from a track-based transmission device to a passing vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Liebig
  • System and method for assisting collaborative sensor calibration
    Patent number: 11579632
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a method of receiving, by a moving assisting vehicle, a calibration assistance request related to a moving ego vehicle that requested assistance in collaborative calibration of a sensor deployed on the moving ego vehicle. The method further includes analyzing the calibration assistance request to extract at least one of a schedule or an assistance route associated with the requested assistance. The method includes communicating with the moving ego vehicle about a desired location relative to the position of the moving ego vehicle for the moving assisting vehicle to be in order to assist the sensor to acquire information of a target present on the moving assisting vehicle. The method includes facilitating to drive the moving assisting vehicle to reach the desired location to achieve the collaborative calibration of the sensor on the moving ego vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.
    Inventor: Ankur Agarwal
  • Using mapped elevation to determine navigational parameters
    Patent number: 11580660
    Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating a host vehicle. The system may perform operations including receiving, from an image capture device, at least one image representative of an environment of the host vehicle; analyzing the at least one image to identify an object in the environment of the host vehicle; determining a location of the host vehicle; receiving map information associated with the determined location of the host vehicle, wherein the map information includes elevation information associated with the environment of the host vehicle; determining a distance from the host vehicle to the object based on at least the elevation information; and determining a navigational action for the host vehicle based on the determined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MOBILEYE VISION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Ishay Golinsky, Iddo Hanniel, Moshe Shenfeld, Yael Hacohen