Patents Examined by Ashley L Redhead, Jr.
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Patent number: 11332130Abstract: A collision avoidance control method for a vehicle, through which a collision avoidance control apparatus controls a vehicle to avoid a collision. The collision avoidance control method includes: calculating a TTC (Time To Collision) between the vehicle and a rearward vehicle, when the rearward vehicle approaching the rear of the vehicle is sensed; determining whether the vehicle and the rearward vehicle are likely to collide with each other, by comparing the TTC to a preset reference TTC; and performing a collision avoidance function when it is determined that the vehicle and the rearward vehicle are likely to collide with each other, the collision avoidance function including one or more of a collision risk warning signal output function, a forward acceleration control function and a lane change control function.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyung Myung Lee
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Patent number: 11332141Abstract: A plurality of candidate estimated paths (301) for a vehicle (100) to travel to an intermediate destination (300) while avoiding a moving object present by estimation time is generated depending on cost information of lanes (200, 201), and an estimated path selected from the plurality of candidate estimated paths (301) is set as a path of the vehicle (100) for each estimation time.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuki Takabayashi, Yasushi Obata
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Patent number: 11318953Abstract: A vehicle, operating system of a vehicle and a method of operating a vehicle is disclosed. A local electronic control unit is operated at the vehicle in order to control the vehicle. A backup electronic control unit is operated at a remote computing platform for control of the vehicle. A control of the vehicle is transferred from the local electronic control unit to the backup electronic control unit upon occurrence of a fault at the local electronic control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Soheil Samii, Bo Yu, Fan Bai, Massimo Osella
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Patent number: 11322023Abstract: A driving support apparatus is provided with: a recognizer configured to recognize a light of a traffic light that exists ahead of a host vehicle; and a controller configured to perform a deceleration support control if the host vehicle needs to be decelerated on the basis of the recognized light. The controller is configured to suppress a degree of the deceleration support control if the host vehicle needs to be decelerated on the basis of the recognized light and if the recognized light includes a light indicating permission to travel in a particular direction, in comparison with when the recognized light does not include the light indicating the permission to travel in the particular direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiko Adachi
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Patent number: 11315431Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a plurality of objects in a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, one or more clusters of the objects based at least in part on the data indicative of the plurality of objects. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, whether to enter an operation mode having one or more limited operational capabilities based at least in part on one or more properties of the one or more clusters. In response to determining that the operation mode is to be entered by the autonomous vehicle, the method can include controlling, by the computing system, the operation of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more limited operational capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Brian C. Becker, Michael Lee Phillips, Yang Xu, Eric Michael Perko, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov
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Patent number: 11312375Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle anti-collision forewarning method, an in-vehicle computer device and a vehicle anti-collision forewarning system.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: Beijing Idriverplus Technology Co., Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Lei Zuo, Lisheng Yang, Dezhao Zhang, Xiao Wang, Xiaofei Li, Cheng Xu
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Patent number: 11305760Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling the avoidance of an emergency vehicle, and a vehicle system are provided. The apparatus includes a communication device to receive traveling data from vehicles traveling in a specific section on an expected traveling path of the emergency vehicle, a determination device to identify locations of the vehicles from the received traveling data and to determine at least one control vehicle based on the identified locations of the vehicles, and a controller to determine an avoidance control time point of each control vehicle based on an expected approach time of the emergency vehicle to the control vehicle, and to transmit a control message to the control vehicle based on the avoidance control time point of the control vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Dong Jin Shin, Myeong Gyu Jeong, Dong Youl Lee, Jae Am Seo, Hyeok Sang Jeong
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Patent number: 11299168Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for timing synchronization between multiple computing nodes in an autonomous vehicle host system is disclosed. Timing of a first computing node of an autonomous vehicle host system is calibrated based on an external time source. A first timing message is transmitted from the first computing node to a second computing node of the autonomous vehicle host system via a first communication channel between the first computing node and the second computing node. Timing of the second computing node is calibrated based on the first timing message, wherein immediately subsequent to the calibration of timing of the second computing node, timing of the first computing node and of the second computing node is synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Manjiang Zhang, Shengjin Zhou, Davy Huang, Min Guo, Bernard Deadman
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Patent number: 11299148Abstract: The present invention provides a travel control apparatus for controlling traveling of a self-vehicle to avoid another vehicle on a front side, the apparatus comprising: a calculation unit for calculating a relative speed between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle; a state detection unit for detecting an operation state of the other vehicle; and a control unit for controlling avoidance processing of avoiding the other vehicle and causing the self-vehicle to pass a lateral side of the other vehicle, wherein the control unit changes a separation distance to separate the self-vehicle and the other vehicle in the avoidance processing in accordance with the relative speed calculated by the calculation unit and the operation state detected by the state detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Shohei Yamashita
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Patent number: 11285956Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle control device that performs travel control of a vehicle, comprising: a detection unit capable of detecting a situation around the vehicle; and a control unit for controlling the vehicle based on a detection result in the detection unit, wherein based on a fact that lane change of another vehicle that is performed between a first lane in which the vehicle is traveling and a second lane adjacent to the first lane is detected by the detection unit, the control unit changes an operation condition on an occupant for permitting lane change of the vehicle intended by the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuya Yashiro, Tadahiko Kanoh, Kanta Tsuji, Daichi Kato
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Patent number: 11288957Abstract: A method for determining wrong direction using a heat map includes: receiving sensor data from at least one sensor in communication with a hardware processor. The method also includes identifying a plurality of traffic participants and determining at least one attributes including at least a direction of travel. The method also includes generating the heat map based on the at least one attributes of the plurality of traffic participants, where the heat map indicates at least travel direction of the surface area. The method also includes receiving sensor data indicating a direction of travel and location of a first vehicle; and comparing the sensor data of the first vehicle with the heat map to determine when the first vehicle is traveling in an opposing direction to the travel direction of the heat map.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventor: Ganesh Adireddy
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Patent number: 11285957Abstract: An estimation unit, if an acquisition unit acquires, as information outside a vehicle, information of a following other vehicle that is a vehicle traveling on a lane different from a traveling lane of the vehicle and is traveling behind the vehicle and information of a preceding other vehicle that is traveling ahead the vehicle and the following other vehicle, estimates, based on a behavior of the following other vehicle to the preceding other vehicle and a behavior of the following other vehicle to the vehicle, whether the behavior of the following other vehicle allows a lane change of the vehicle to enter between the preceding other vehicle and the following other vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayasu Kumano, Yuji Yasui
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Patent number: 11285947Abstract: A traveling control apparatus includes: an information obtainer configured to obtain braking state information of a braking device in the host vehicle; and an ACC-ECU configured to execute traveling control including constant speed traveling control to cause the host vehicle to travel at a constant speed based on a preset vehicle speed, and follow-up traveling control to cause the host vehicle to travel so as to follow another vehicle traveling ahead of the host vehicle at a predetermined inter-vehicle distance. The ACC-ECU deactivates the ACC at a time when a braking performance index EV1z, derived from braking state information obtained by the information obtainer while the ACC being in operation, is deemed to be decreased by more than a predetermined first variation width IN_dif1, as compared with a braking performance index EV1a at a time of the ACC having been activated.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Matsushita, Yoshimichi Kawamoto, Takashi Horiguchi, Shigeru Yamawaki
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Patent number: 11287271Abstract: A method for vehicle sharing service may include obtaining, from a terminal device, a location of the terminal device via a network. The method may also include obtaining, from the terminal device, information associated with a vehicle, the information including an identifier of a short-range wireless communication module of the vehicle. The short-range wireless communication module may emit a short-range wireless signal. The information associated with the vehicle may further include an intensity of the short-range wireless signal determined by the terminal device. The method may further include determining a location area of the vehicle based on the location of the terminal device and the intensity of the short-range wireless signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: BEIJING QISHENG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhuangzhi Wang, Zhifeng Hu, Wei Duan
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Patent number: 11279361Abstract: A method of improving efficiency of a vehicle behavior controller using a traffic state estimation network is described. The method includes feeding an input of a feature extraction network of the vehicle behavior controller with a sequence of images. The sequence of images include a highway section and corresponding traffic data. The method also includes disentangling an estimated behavior of a controlled ego vehicle. by the traffic state estimation network. The traffic state estimate network disentangles the estimated of the controlled ego vehicle from extracted traffic state features of the input provided by the feature extraction network. The method further includes selecting an action to adjust an autonomous behavior of the controlled ego vehicle according to the estimated behavior of the controlled ego vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Ippei Nishitani, Hao Yang, Rui Guo, Shalini Keshavamurthy, Kentaro Oguchi
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Patent number: 11276312Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a program that can curb unnecessary driving control are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Toda, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 11268264Abstract: A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller receives actual topography information of a work target. The controller determines a design surface that is positioned below the actual topography. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement along the design surface. The controller determines if slip of the work vehicle has occurred. The controller raises the design surface when the blade tip of the work implement is positioned below an initial target surface when the slip occurs. The initial target surface is the design surface before the occurrence of the slip.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Eiji Ishibashi, Takahiro Shimojo, Akifumi Inamaru, Toshihiro Kawano, Yasuhito Yonezawa, Yosuke Kogawa
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Patent number: 11267488Abstract: An automatic driving control apparatus for a vehicle can selectively switch between a manual driving mode in which a driver manually performs driving operation of the vehicle and an automatic driving mode in which driving operation is performed automatically along a target traveling route. The apparatus includes a driver identifier that identifies the driver, a driving experience value evaluation unit that evaluates a driving experience value based on a traveling history in the manual driving mode of the identified driver, a shift permission time setting unit that sets a shift permission time from the manual driving mode to the automatic driving mode based on the driving experience value, and a driving mode switching unit that controls the driving mode so as to be switchable to the automatic driving mode on condition that at least a driving time by the driver in the manual driving mode exceeds the shift permission time.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Namba, Hajime Oyama, Masato Mizoguchi, Keisuke Kuwahara
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Patent number: 11260884Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus that controls a vehicle, comprising a controller configured to execute lane departure suppression control to suppress the vehicle from departing from a division line, wherein in a case in which the shape of a road is a curve, the controller delays an operation timing of the lane departure suppression control compared to a case in which the shape of the road is not the curve, and in a case in which the shape of the road is the curve and an oncoming vehicle is detected, the controller decreases an amount of delay of the operation timing of the lane departure suppression control compared to a case in which the shape of the road is the curve and the oncoming vehicle is not detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsuhiro Eguchi
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Patent number: 11254321Abstract: A driving assist apparatus comprises a driver monitor sensor which detects a state of a driver of an own vehicle installed with the driving assist apparatus. The apparatus determines whether the driver is in a drowsy state, based on the state of the driver detected by the driver monitor sensor. The apparatus determines that a light collision occurs when a light collision determination condition that at least one collision index value representing a level of a collision of the own vehicle is larger than a light collision determination threshold at which an airbag is not developed, is satisfied. The apparatus executes a secondary collision damage mitigation control to apply a braking force to the own vehicle or limit a driving force applied to the own vehicle when determining that the driver is in the drowsy state, and the light collision occurs.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Mase, Hideyuki Usui, Yoshiaki Moriya, Jiro Ohachi, Yuki Tomiku, Yuji Misumi, Tetsuhiro Narita, Masakatsu Onitsuka