Patents Examined by Annmarie Irwin
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Patent number: 11360482Abstract: Via a first processing thread, an ADV is controlled according to a first trajectory that was generated based on a first reference line starting at a first location. Concurrently via a second processing thread, a second reference line is generated based on a second location of the first trajectory that the ADV will likely reach within a predetermined period of time in future. The predetermined period of time is greater than or equals to an amount of time to generate a reference line for the ADV. The second reference line is generated while the ADV is moving according to the first trajectory and before reaching the second location. Subsequently, in response to determining that the ADV is within a predetermined proximity of the second location, a second trajectory is generated based on the second reference line without having to calculate the second reference line at the second location.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Dong Li, Liangliang Zhang, Yajia Zhang, Yifei Jiang, Haoyang Fan, Jiangtao Hu
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Patent number: 11188070Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for mitigating key fob error for remote parking assist systems. An example vehicle includes wireless modules that communicatively couple to a key fob and a mobile device and a processor. The processor, when the key fob is usable, estimates a location of an operator based on the key fob, and operate an autonomous parking system in a first mode. Additionally, the processor, when the key fob is not usable, estimates the location of the operator based on the mobile device, and operate the autonomous parking system in a second mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Erick Michael Lavoie, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Alyssa Chatten
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Patent number: 11112802Abstract: An automated steering system for an agricultural vehicle operating in a row crop field. The automated steering system includes a correction system having a controller and an alignment sensor. The alignment sensor is disposed between two adjacently spaced crop rows and generates output signals indicative of the alignment sensor's lateral position relative to the two adjacently spaced crop rows as the vehicle advances in the forward direction of travel. The controller receives the generated output signals from the alignment sensor and determines an offset distance of said alignment sensor from a centerline between the two adjacently spaced crop rows. The controller outputs a modified vehicle position signal corresponding to the latitude and longitude position received from said GPS receiver shifted by the offset distance. The vehicle's on board navigation controller causes the vehicles on-board steering control system to steer the vehicle based on the modified vehicle position signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: 360 Yield Center, LLCInventors: Reid J. Aberle, Jonathan T. Welte, Timothy Sauder
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Patent number: 11067409Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing remotely captured sensor data. A computing platform having at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory may receive, via the communication interface, from a user computing device, sensor data captured by the user computing device using one or more sensors built into the user computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may analyze the sensor data received from the user computing device by executing one or more data processing modules. Then, the computing platform may generate trip record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the trip record data in a trip record database. In addition, the computing platform may generate user record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the user record data in a user record database.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Pratheek M. Harish, Benjamin Robertson Yeomans, Alexander Herrmann, Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Dipti Karmarkar
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Patent number: 11052916Abstract: A conveyance amount controlling apparatus includes a control state detector, a road surface state detector, and at least one conveyance amount controller including a conveyance device conveying, to a driver, information representing a road surface state and a conveyance amount controlling device controlling a vibration conveyance amount as a conveyance amount of a vibration caused by a road surface irregularity. A second conveyance amount, as the vibration conveyance amount obtained when a road surface state amount less than a first threshold is detected by the road surface state detector, is less than a first conveyance amount, as the vibration conveyance amount obtained when execution of an automatic driving control is not detected by the control state detector. A third conveyance amount, as the vibration conveyance amount obtained when the road surface state amount equal to or greater than the first threshold is detected, is greater than the second conveyance amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichiro Tsukasaki