Patents Examined by Ana D Thomas
  • Patent number: 10755497
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for monitoring a moving vessel using a detachable drone coupled to the moving vessel. An event is identified that triggers detachment of the detachable drone from the moving vessel. The detachable drone is detached from the moving vessel. The detachable drone is moved to a predetermined location. A beacon based on beacon data is transmitted from the detachable drone. In response to the detachable drone receiving a request for the data, data collected from monitoring the moving vessel is delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Florence, Jordan T. Moore, Walker L. Sherk, Pu Yang
  • Patent number: 10740703
    Abstract: Methods for identifying and addressing inefficiencies in agricultural production activities caused by physical obstacles in the target field. A method and system is disclosed for determining an optimized travel path for an agricultural implement, specifically in the presence of an obstacle or obstruction such as an access road, oil well or public utility infrastructure. The method may further comprise means for determining the impact of such obstacle or obstruction on production from the agricultural land, as well as means for determining an optimized implement type and configuration. One or more travel path plans may be generated for selection of one by an agricultural producer. The method may also comprise means for determining an optimized location or position within a plot of land for an obstacle or obstruction that has not yet been constructed, as a way to reduce or alleviate the negative impact of such obstacle or obstruction on production from the plot of land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: VERGE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Lane Story
  • Patent number: 10706720
    Abstract: A system and method for predicting travel time of a vehicle on one or more routes within arterial roads. It collects historical information from probe vehicles positions using GPS technology in a periodic fashion and the sequence of links traversed between successive position measurements. Further, it collects information of neighborhood structure for each link within the arterial roads network. A NoisyOR conditional probability distribution function is proposed to capture the spatio-temporal dependencies between each link of the arterial network and its neighbors. It learns the parameters of this data driven probabilistic model from collected historical information of probe vehicle trajectories traversed within the arterial roads network using a proposed expectation maximization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Avinash Achar, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam
  • Patent number: 10699495
    Abstract: Provided as display portions configured to display maintenance related information pieces about a plurality of maintenance items of a vehicle are: a first display portion configured to, when at least one of the plurality of maintenance items is in a predetermined maintenance period, display the maintenance related information piece about the maintenance item that is in the predetermined maintenance period, the predetermined maintenance period including a predetermined maintenance timing and periods before and after the predetermined maintenance timing; and a second display portion configured to, when none of the plurality of maintenance items is in the maintenance period, display only the information piece about a nearest one of the maintenance timings of the plurality of maintenance items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuneo Kudou, Hiroyuki Watase, Fumiaki Sugino
  • Patent number: 10677606
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an application executing on a mobile device. The method renders an animated navigation presentation for output to an external display screen not part of the mobile device. The navigation presentation includes an animated map showing at least a portion of a route to a destination. The method simultaneously displays information regarding a maneuver along the route on a display screen of the mobile device without displaying a same animated map on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the displayed information regarding the maneuver comprises a graphical instruction and a text instruction for a next maneuver along the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Emanuele Vulcano, Bradford A. Moore, Jorge Fino, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: 10677932
    Abstract: According to the embodiments provided herein, a trajectory determination device for geo-localization can include one or more relative position sensors, one or more processors, and memory. The one or more processors can execute machine readable instructions to receive the relative position signals from the one or more relative position sensors. The relative position signals can be transformed into a sequence of relative trajectories. Each of the relative trajectories can include a distance and directional information indicative of a change in orientation of the trajectory determination device. A progressive topology can be created based upon the sequence of relative trajectories; this progressive topology can be compared to map data. A geolocation of the trajectory determination device can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Alper Yilmaz, Ashish Gupta
  • Patent number: 10668882
    Abstract: An apparatus includes one or more sensors and a control unit. The one or more sensors may be configured to generate signals in response to movement of a vehicle. The control unit generally comprises (i) an interface configured to receive the signals from the sensors and (ii) a filter configured to reduce an effect that a mechanical transfer function of a housing of at least one of the sensors has on at least one of the signals. The filter may be configured to utilize a variable frequency band digital representation of the mechanical transfer function to negate the effect of the mechanical transfer function of the housing on the at least one of the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: VEONEER US INC.
    Inventor: Jacob Pusheck
  • Patent number: 10672266
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for using magnetic signatures at predetermined positions along a roadway to monitor traffic travelling along the roadway by comparing the predetermined magnetic signatures with magnetic signatures being dynamically and continuously measured by each vehicle as they travel along the roadway. Magnetometers incorporated into mobile devices or otherwise incorporated within the vehicle measure magnetic signatures for comparison to the predetermined magnetic signatures that form a connection graph or database of points that correspond to possible paths along a roadway. When a magnetic signature match is made, the system recognizes that the vehicle has passed a particular point on a roadway and forwards that information to the appropriate entity for further processing, analysis, or toll assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TollSense, LLC
    Inventors: Alex Baranga, Chris Georgieff
  • Patent number: 10654490
    Abstract: An autonomous driving device is configured to switch a driving mode, and includes a destination setting type autonomous driving mode in which a vehicle is made to travel to a destination and a following road autonomous driving mode in which, when a destination is not set, the vehicle is made to travel along a road. The autonomous driving device includes a display unit and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when the display unit is made to display a traveling route along a following road traveling route, make the display unit display a traveling route from a current position of the vehicle to a nearest branch road in front in a moving direction along the following road traveling route and a moving direction on the nearest branch road along the following road traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Bunyo Okumura
  • Patent number: 10656656
    Abstract: A mobile robot of the present disclosure emits a first patterned light downward and forward from a main body on a floor of an area to be cleaned and a second patterned light upward and forward from the main body, determines an obstacle based on an image of each emitted patterned light which is incident on the obstacle, and senses a tilt of the main body to compensate for the tilt. In this manner, an obstacle may be determined accurately, and after the tilt compensation, redetermination is made as to whether it is possible to pass through, so as to enable the mobile robot to pass through or bypass the obstacle. Accordingly, the mobile robot may reach a wider area to be cleaned, thereby extending the area that may be cleaned, and enabling fast determination and operation for effective traveling, such that the mobile robot may escape from an obstacle without being limited thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Woochan Jun, Chulmo Sung
  • Patent number: 10598069
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for regenerating a particulate filter. In one example, vehicle speed control mode parameters may be adjusted in response to an amount of soot stored in a particulate filter being greater than a first threshold. The vehicle speed control parameters may be returned to base values in response to the amount of soot stored in the particulate filter being less than a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Carl Leisenring, Allen Lehmen, Colin Yager, Gregory Mason
  • Patent number: 10599688
    Abstract: An application programming interface (API) for automatically providing digital maps to third-party software applications is provided. The API is configured to (i) receive a string of alphanumeric characters from a third-party software application that executes independently of a map service, (ii) automatically determine whether the string is consistent with one or more indications of geographic locations, (iii) when the string is consistent with an indication of a geographic location, determine whether a digital map of a geographic area including the indicated geographic location should be generated, and (iv) in response to determining that the digital map should be generated, receive the digital from the map service and provide the digital map to the third-party software application for display via a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bailiang Zhou, Kenneth Richard Hoetmer
  • Patent number: 10593216
    Abstract: Embodiments for managing drones by one or more processors are described. A first aerial drone having a payload coupled thereto is controlled such that the first aerial drone travels from a first location to a second location. A second aerial drone is controlled such that the second aerial drone travels to the second location. While the first aerial drone and the second aerial drone are in flight at the second location, the payload is detached from the first aerial drone and coupled to the second aerial drone. After the payload is detached from the first aerial drone and while the payload is coupled to the second aerial drone, the second aerial drone is controlled such that the second aerial drone travels from the second location to a third location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Chow, Grant D. Miller, Nader M. Nassar, Richard J. Newhook, Erich D. Walls
  • Patent number: 10564642
    Abstract: A work vehicle may be provided such that in autonomous traveling, contact with obstacles is avoided, and work is efficiently and safely performed. A work vehicle may include: a positioning device 174 measuring the vehicle body's own position; an obstacle recognition means recognizing an obstacle P, E, U; and a control unit having the vehicle autonomously travel on a planned travel path R1 preliminarily set; wherein the control unit includes obstacle position information D4 preliminarily stored; while traveling on the planned travel path R1, when an obstacle P, E is recognized by the obstacle recognition means, at a position stored in the obstacle position information D4, avoidance driving is performed to avoid contact with the obstacle P, E; and when the position of an obstacle U recognized by the obstacle recognition means is different from the stored obstacle position information D4, the traveling is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Iseki & Co., LTD
    Inventor: Koki Ono
  • Patent number: 10553123
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to determining a measure of collision risk between a taxiing aircraft and an object external to the taxiing aircraft. The measure of collision risk is determined using the dynamics of both the taxiing aircraft and the external object. The taxiing aircraft's dynamics can be determined based on collected position, heading, and ground-speed data. The external object's dynamics can be determined based on location data tracked by an object tracking system, for example. A measure of collision risk is calculated, based on the determined dynamics of both the taxiing aircraft and the external object. In some embodiments, image data of an area external to and including the taxiing aircraft is formed. The image data can be annotated with the calculated collision risks and/or indicia of regions of the taxiing aircraft and/or the external objects associated with the collision risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Pesik, David Matty
  • Patent number: 10543840
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detection section that detects a presence and state of any nearby vehicles traveling in the vicinity of a vehicle; a speed generation section that generates a target speed of the vehicle based on a state of a benchmark vehicle from out of the nearby vehicles whose presence and state have been detected by the detection section, the benchmark vehicle being closest to the vehicle in a direction of progress from out of a first vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle in a current lane in which the vehicle is traveling or a second vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle in an adjacent lane adjacent to the current lane; and a travel control section that automatically controls at least acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle based on the target speed generated by the speed generation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori Takeda
  • Patent number: 10540828
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating estimates of failure risk for a vehicular component in situations of high-dimensional and low sample size data are provided herein. A method includes splitting a first input time series comprising multiple data points derived from a vehicular component across a fleet of multiple vehicles into multiple sub-time series; generating a first failure status predicting function of a first selected sub-time series; deleting, from the first input time series, the portion of the data points that corresponds to the first selected sub-time series; repeating the preceding two steps for a second selected sub-time series; generating a second failure status predicting function of each selected sub-time series; applying each second failure status predicting function to a second input time series to calculate prediction of failure values; and identifying the largest prediction of failure value as an estimate of failure risk for the vehicular component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hyung-il Ahn, Matthew Denesuk, Axel Hochstein, Ying Tat Leung
  • Patent number: 10534801
    Abstract: A map screen determining method and apparatus, which includes obtaining profile data in a track dimension of a target digital person, where the target digital person is generated by a digital person generation system and consists of multiple dimensions of target user profiles corresponding to a target user, and the target user profiles are generated by processing multiple dimensions of data from multiple data sources, determining map data of a target area, where the target area is a specific map area that needs to be presented to a user, and determining a tracing map screen according to the profile data in the track dimension of the target digital person and the map data, where the tracing map screen represents a track feature of the target digital person in the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyan Huang, Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 10533303
    Abstract: A construction machine includes a control device having a reaction-force correction control section. When a difference between a target operator input and an actual operator input for a front member exceeds a preset range, the reaction-force correction control section executes correction to increase an operation reaction force to be applied by a reaction-force applying device to an operating unit operating an actuator driving the front member. When the difference falls within the range, the reaction-force correction control section executes correction to decrease the operation reaction force to be applied by the reaction-force applying device to the operating unit operating the actuator driving the front member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tsuchie, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Moriki, Yasutaka Tsuruga
  • Patent number: 10527437
    Abstract: A system and method for cognitive risk mitigation are presented. Embodiments comprise journey prediction, parsing of data sources, risk assessment and mitigation, and natural-language user interaction by a cognitive processor. Data is gathered from a plurality of data sources and analyzed in the context of one or more of the user's intention(s). A dialogue with the user, in natural language, aims to provide and select one or more suggestions relating to the one or more user intention(s) such that the risk(s) relating to the one or more user's intention(s) is reduced. During the dialogue, cognitive reasoning may be performed, wherein the cognitive reasoning includes the ability to justify each suggestion and the ability to infer information from the interaction such as, for example, data obtained in a dialogue may inform subsequent inferences. The embodiments may use speech synthesis and speech recognition in an interactive spoken dialogue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Epperlein, Claudio Gambella, Wynita M. Griggs, Yassine Lassoued, Jakub Marecek, Martin Mevissen, Julien Monteil, Rodrigo H. Ordonez-Hurtado, Giovanni Russo, Robert Shorten