Patents Examined by Anh V. La
  • Patent number: 11623564
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications device for providing an in-vehicle driver warning system during a vehicle journey using sensed driving information and local traffic information is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AUTO TELEMATICS LTD.
    Inventors: Gillian Switalski, Andrew William Wright
  • Patent number: 11623654
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assisting navigation of a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of assisting navigation of a vehicle includes receiving navigational data relating to an intended route of the vehicle, receiving object data relating to at least one external object detected within a vicinity of a current position of the vehicle, determining whether the at least one external object affects an ability of the vehicle to proceed along the intended route, and generating at least one instruction relating to the ability of the vehicle to proceed along the intended route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Luis Bill-Clark
  • Patent number: 11612358
    Abstract: A method for providing a thermal feedback, includes executing a virtual reality application providing a virtual space that includes a virtual area to which an area temperature attribute is assigned, and a virtual object to which an object temperature attributed is assigned. An area event that reflects that a player character enters the virtual area is detected. A feedback device is controlled to output thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute when the area event is detected, the feedback device outputting the thermal feedback using a thermoelectric element performing a thermoelectric operation. An object event reflecting the player character is influenced by the virtual object is detected. The feedback device is controlled to override the thermal feedback associated to the area temperature attribute and output thermal feedback associated to the object temperature when the object is detected while the player character is in the virtual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TEGWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoungsoo Yi, Ockkyun Oh, Jong Ok Ko
  • Patent number: 11610480
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for identifying, monitoring, and sharing vehicle information amongst sensors. In some implementations, a system includes a central server and a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are positioned in a fixed location relative to a roadway. Each sensor in the plurality of sensors is configured to: detect vehicles in a first field of view on the roadway. For each detected vehicle, each sensor is configured to identify features of the detected vehicle and perform operations for each feature. The operations include generating feature data representing the feature, generating a unique identification of the detected vehicle from the detected vehicles by concatenating the feature data representing the identified features of the detected vehicle, and adding the unique identification to a list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cavnue Technology, LLC
    Inventor: David Hahn Clifford
  • Patent number: 11610684
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating and reporting of trauma to organs of passengers in a vehicular crash in real time is provided. The systems and methods include and use one or more in-vehicle sensors, a processor, a server, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media to analyze a crash and trauma to passengers. The systems and methods may be further configured to optimize operation of a vehicle to minimize trauma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MDGO LTD.
    Inventors: Itay Ben Gad, Gilad Avrashi, Eli Zerah, Amit Kerterman
  • Patent number: 11572089
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a proximity alert information form a locomotive directly to a device usable by wayside personnel or vehicles thereby alerting the personnel of an approaching locomotive. The proximity alert is facilitated by current PTC and ITCM messaging infrastructure, or is retrofittable to non-PTC equipped locomotives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Stokes
  • Patent number: 11571970
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring one or more machine vision sensors to obtain perception information concerning one or more third-party vehicles proximate an autonomous vehicle; identifying one or more vehicle shapes within the perception information, thus defining one or more detected vehicles shapes; generating proximate object display information that locates the one or more detected vehicles shapes with respect to the autonomous vehicle; and rendering the proximate object display information on a visual display system, thus confirming the perception of the one or more third-party vehicles by the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ramiro Almeida, Pierre Beaudreau
  • Patent number: 11571162
    Abstract: Conventionally, Atrial Fibrillation (AF) has been detected using atrial analyses which is vulnerable to background noise. Again there is a dependency on statistical features which are extracted from R-R intervals of long ECG recordings. The present disclosure addresses AF detection from single lead short ECG recordings of less than one minute wherein automatic detection of P-R and P-Q intervals is difficult, which introduces error in feature computing from the segregated intervals and compromises the performance of the classifier. In the present disclosure, a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based architecture comprising two Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks is provided for temporal analysis of R-R intervals and P wave regions in an ECG signal respectively. Output sates of the two LSTM networks are merged at a dense layer along with a set of hand-crafted statistical features to create a composite feature set for classification of the AF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Rohan Banerjee, Avik Ghose, Sundeep Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 11568722
    Abstract: A criminal act detection system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving data from a plurality of geographically distributed personal electronic devices; determining, based on the data received from the personal electronic devices, that conduct consistent with a criminal act has occurred; and sending information pertaining to the conduct consistent with a criminal act to one or more of the personal electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Edward Manuel Alonzo, III, James A. Wheeler
  • Patent number: 11557195
    Abstract: An alarm management system includes a control arrangement, an alarm device, a blockchain, a blockchain application, and a plurality of nodal access sites. The arrangement includes a processor and a storage medium. The device is configured to output an event signal to the control arrangement. The blockchain is stored in the medium, and includes a plurality of transaction types. Each transaction type includes at least one linked transaction, and the at least one linked transaction is time stamped. The blockchain application is stored in the medium, and is executed by the processor, and is configured to time stamp each one of the transactions. The blockchain is applied by the application to determine a current associated transaction with any one of the transaction types, and output data associated with the current transaction. The plurality of nodal access sites are configured to receive and output the data associated with the current transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shantanu Choudhary, Balaji Kaliappan
  • Patent number: 11557125
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the environment of a vehicle includes evaluating physical measurement data obtained from the environment of the vehicle to determine whether at least one person is approaching the vehicle, how many people approach the vehicle may also be recorded. The method includes evaluating physical measurement data obtained from the environment of the vehicle to determine whether at least one person is moving away from the vehicle and, if appropriate, the number of people that are moving away from the vehicle is also recorded. The method further includes carrying out a check as to whether the number of people that have moved away from the vehicle corresponds to the number of people that have previously approached the vehicle. In response to the check resulting in a difference, it is determined that the vehicle is in an unsafe state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Mielenz
  • Patent number: 11541880
    Abstract: An information processing method, a server, and an intelligent mobile robot, so that when the intelligent mobile robot encounters a danger, the intelligent mobile robot exchanges information with the server to achieve a purpose of escaping from a scene to a safe place. The method includes: receiving, by a server, a danger alarm sent by an intelligent mobile robot, where the danger alarm is used to indicate that the intelligent mobile robot detects a dangerous event; determining, by the server, a safe position for the intelligent mobile robot, where the safe position is a position in which the dangerous event does not occur currently; and sending, by the server, an escape instruction to the intelligent mobile robot, where the escape instruction includes the safe position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuqi Liu, Chao Ai, Zhiguo Wu
  • Patent number: 11535123
    Abstract: A vehicular child monitoring system includes a child monitoring device having a connector for securing the device within a motor vehicle and oriented toward a child seat. The device including a mirror, a seat connector, a camera, and a controller having a wireless communication unit and a plurality of sensors. The sensors include a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a proximity sensor, and a child detection sensor. A child monitoring application is communicatively linked to the communication unit and includes functionality for displaying the information received from the camera and each of the sensors, and for determining a separation distance with the child monitoring device. The system including functionality for determining that a child is in the car seat, and that a separation distance is beyond a predetermined threshold and activating an alarm protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Jason Edward Sajovic
  • Patent number: 11537920
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting false alarms. Methods and systems described herein may receive data associated with an alarm signal using an interface, extract at least one artifact feature from the received data, and then receive a classification of the alarm signal as a true positive or false positive based on the at least one extracted artifact feature. The classifier may be configured to execute an ensemble of decision trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christine Menking Swisher, Preetish Rath, Cornelis Conradus Adrianus Maria Van Zon
  • Patent number: 11527147
    Abstract: The invention includes electronic monitoring-device for monitoring controlled spaces, as well as systems and methods for such monitoring. The monitoring-devices may be battery powered devices, with various sensors and capable of wireless communications. Installation of the monitoring-device may not require any wiring. These monitoring-devices may be installed at a given controlled space to monitor that given controlled space and to electronically communicate occurrences of that given controlled space to various interested stakeholders, such as, but not limited to, a tenant of the given controlled space, facility operators of the given controlled space, the provider of the electronic monitoring-device, and/or third-parties (e.g., insurance companies, first responders, and/or law enforcement). The monitoring-device may provide details, information, alerts, reminders, notices, notifications, alarms, and/or the like to various authorized stakeholders of the occurrences within that given controlled space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan W. Wright, Mark A. Cier, John Knowles
  • Patent number: 11518401
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of cameras disposed at a vehicle and viewing interior of the vehicle and capturing image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the plurality of cameras to detect presence of the hands of the driver of the vehicle in the view of the plurality of cameras. The vehicular vision system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the plurality of cameras, determines a position of the driver's hands of the vehicle relative to a steering wheel of the vehicle. The vehicular vision system, responsive to determining that at least one of the driver's hands is not on the steering wheel and responsive to determining the vehicle is at or approaching a hazardous condition, generates an alert to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Gaurav S. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11514812
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically assisting physical activities. The system may include a body condition monitoring unit, and an autonomous companion unit. The body condition monitoring unit may obtain body condition data of a user. The autonomous companion unit may be automatically move alongside the user and guide the user. The autonomous companion unit may include a transporting subunit, a plurality of sensors, and a controller subunit. The transporting subunit may be enable the movement of the autonomous companion unit. The plurality of sensors may obtain surroundings data associated with the autonomous companion unit. The controller subunit may control the transporting subunit to move the autonomous companion unit according to a target movement plan. The target movement plan may include a target route and a target speed profile, which are based on a preliminary movement plan, the surroundings data, and the body condition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PINEGEM TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Wenhai Jiang, George Jiang, Margaret Zhu
  • Patent number: 11515030
    Abstract: An artificial agent based cognitive operating room system and a method thereof providing automated assistance for a surgical procedure are disclosed. Data related to the surgical procedure from multiple data sources is fused based on a current context. The data includes medical images of a patient acquired using one or more medical imaging modalities. Real-time quantification of patient measurements based on the data from the multiple data sources is performed based on the current context. Short-term predictions in the surgical procedure are forecasted based on the current context, the fused data, and the real-time quantification of the patient measurements. Suggestions for next steps in the surgical procedure and relevant information in the fused data are determined based on the current context and the short-term predictions. The suggestions for the next steps and the relevant information in the fused data are presented to an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Tommaso Mansi, Ankur Kapoor, Thomas Pheiffer, Vincent Ordy, Dorin Comaniciu
  • Patent number: 11505197
    Abstract: A vehicle security method includes: acquiring an input signal from a sensor unit equipped in a vehicle; setting a detection mode to a heart rate detection mode, in response to a security release operation being started, setting a radar sensor of the sensor unit to detect a target, and detecting heart rate information on the target; determining whether the heart rate information matches pre-stored heart rate information; setting the detection mode to a general detection mode, in response to the heart rate information matching the pre-stored heart rate information, measuring a distance, an azimuth, and/or an elevation angle between the vehicle and the target, and detecting body shape information of the target; determining whether the body shape information matches pre-stored body shape information; and releasing a security of a security device, in response to the body shape information matching the pre-stored body shape information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hee Chang Roh
  • Patent number: 11501125
    Abstract: Surgical articles, such as sponges, are provided in a pack which contains individual surgical articles having UHF RFID or other electronic labels which provide both (a) unique identification information for each article as well as (b) unique identification information for all articles in the pack. Prior to the surgical procedure, the labels are scanned and the identification information for all articles in the pack uploaded to a processor to create a list of available individual surgical articles. At the end of the surgical procedure, the surgical articles are collected and the electronic labels read and compared to the initial list to determine if there are any unaccounted individual surgical articles. The UHF RFID tag may then be used to determine a location of the unaccounted article outside the patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Innovo Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian E. Stewart, William Stewart, Jan Svoboda