Patents Examined by Bakari Underwood
  • Patent number: 12112635
    Abstract: A process for local traffic approximation through analysis of cloud data is provided. The process includes, within a computerized traffic flow estimation controller of a host vehicle, operating programming to monitor a planned navigational route of the host vehicle, identify along the planned navigational route a road section including cross-traffic, monitor cloud data related to a mobile cellular device, analyze the cloud data to identify traffic posing a hazardous condition to the host vehicle within the road section, and generate a vehicle alert to a driver of the host vehicle based upon the identified traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Prakash Mohan Peranadam, Mohamed A. Layouni, Meng Jiang, Shengbing Jiang, Jiyu Zhang, Erik B. Golm
  • Patent number: 12056633
    Abstract: The method can include optionally training a transportation modality classification model; determining a transportation modality of a trip; and optionally triggering an action based on the transportation modality. However, the method can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable elements. The method functions to facilitate a classification of a transportation modality for trips based on location data (e.g., collected at a mobile device). Additionally or alternatively, the method can function to facilitate content provisions based on a trip classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Zendrive, Inc.
    Inventors: Sambuddha Bhattacharya, Amol Bambode, Laxman Jangley, Darshan Shirodkar, Rajesh Bhat, Abhishek
  • Patent number: 12057012
    Abstract: A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Inoue, Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Kenji Komori, Takahiro Kurehashi, Hiroki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12055934
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for improved trajectory planning. A method can include providing two of (i) a first value indicating a change in velocity to alter an orbit of a first object to a transfer orbit; (ii) a second value indicating a range between the first object and a second object; or (iii) a third value indicating an altitude of the first object relative to a celestial body around which the first and second objects are orbiting as input to a machine learning (ML) model, receiving, from the ML model, a holdout value, the holdout value a prediction of the value, of the first value, the second value, and the third value, that was not provided to the ML model, and providing the holdout value to an orbital planner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Harrison A. Brown, Darrell L. Young
  • Patent number: 12014626
    Abstract: A vehicle speed prediction apparatus includes a data preprocessor that performs preprocessing of correct answer data and input data for deep learning, and a deep learning modeling device that is configured to learn a relationship of a lane speed for each exit lane, based on a representative speed per link, the number of collected probes, and a collection time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Nam Hyuk Kim
  • Patent number: 12000705
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining travel direction and/or location data based on sequential semantic events. The approach, for example, involves processing sensor data collected from at least one sensor of a mobile device to determine a set of observed time-sequenced semantic events. The semantic events are associated with traveling within a transportation system, and at least one semantic event of the set of observed time-sequenced semantic events is based on a turn angle value determined from the sensor data. The approach also involves initiating a comparison of the set of observed time-sequenced semantic events against a set of known time-sequenced semantic events and/or a known piece of information associated with the transportation system. The approach further involves determining a direction of travel and/or a location of the mobile device within the transportation system based on the comparison. The approach further involves providing the direction of travel and/or the location as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Harel Primack, Silviu Zilberman, Ron Begleiter
  • Patent number: 11976933
    Abstract: A link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combination of link candidates from among link candidates having an angle with respect to a movement direction of a pedestrian equal to or smaller than a threshold value among link candidates for n walking route networks. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that do not intersect with each other among the acquired combinations of link candidates. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that do not connect to each other among the acquired combinations of link candidates. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that are not on the same straight line among the acquired combinations of link candidates. A candidate determination unit (26) acquires a combination of link candidates closest to position information of a pedestrian when there are a plurality of acquired link candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Abe, Keihiro Ochiai, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Patent number: 11970209
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing real-time feedback to a driver of a vehicle based on real-time datasets is disclosed. The systems and methods include obtaining one or more sets of real-time data associated with a vehicle. Performing one or more operations on the set of real-time data, wherein the one or more operations are based on the set of real-time data. Generating, a feedback alert based on results of the one or more operations and one or more detected real-time behaviors of the vehicle. Providing the feedback alert for presentation at a user interface on-board the vehicle. The real-time data may include contextual data, environmental data, operating data, data for a plurality of drivers, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventor: Brian Mark Fields
  • Patent number: 11958498
    Abstract: Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle, may include: computing features for each of the plurality of candidate trajectories; computing scores for the features of the candidate trajectories, wherein the scores are based on parameter values associated with their corresponding final trajectories; determining, based on the computed scores, a trajectory of the candidate trajectories to be used as a warm-start trajectory for trajectory optimization and applying the warm-start trajectory to develop a final trajectory for the vehicle; and autonomously operating the autonomous vehicle in accordance with the final trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Miroslav Baric, Jin Ge, Timothee Cazenave
  • Patent number: 11955000
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating and evaluating street grids comprising: receiving street grid information corresponding to a plurality of locations, wherein the street grid information corresponding to a location is associated with vehicular traffic information; training a pedestrian comfort model using the street grid information and the vehicular traffic information, wherein an output of the pedestrian comfort model is a predicted pedestrian comfort score that is based on traffic congestion from the vehicular traffic information; receiving a plurality of potential street grids; evaluating each potential street grid in the plurality of potential street grids using the trained pedestrian comfort model, wherein the trained pedestrian comfort model generates predicted pedestrian comfort scores for portions of each potential street grid; and generating an augmented map of each potential street grid that presents the predicted pedestrian comfort scores for each portion of each potential street grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dan Vanderkam, Douwe Osinga, Violet Whitney, Kabir Soorya, Jack Amadeo, Difei Chen, Brian Ho, Okalo Ikhena, Amanda Meurer, Samara Trilling
  • Patent number: 11955012
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle using speech recognition and transcription to provide a conversation log graphical user interface (GUI) display that consolidates communications with respect to the vehicle. One method involves receiving a data message from a system onboard the vehicle and generating a graphical representation of the data message within the conversation log GUI display, wherein the graphical representation of the data message includes a selectable element and is displayed on the conversation log GUI display concurrently with a graphical representation of a transcription of an audio communication with respect to the vehicle. The depicted data message and transcription are chronologically positioned with respect to one another in accordance with a timestamp associated with the data message. The conversation log GUI display dynamically updates in response to selection of the selectable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gobinathan Baladhandapani, Hariharan Saptharishi, Sivakumar Kanagarajan, Vengada Ganeshwaran, Dineshkumar Atchuthan
  • Patent number: 11941976
    Abstract: An environmental safety system may comprise a plurality of first sensors each located at a predetermined physical location of a traffic intersection and with a predetermined orientation. The system may have a memory storing executable instructions. The system may have one or more processors in communication with the plurality of first sensors and the memory. The one or more processors may be programmed by the executable instructions. The system may receive first sensor data captured at a time point and by the plurality of first sensors. The system may determine values of one or more parameters of an object of interest within a threshold distance of the traffic intersection using the first sensor data. The system may generate an information object comprising the values of the one or more parameters of the object of interest, the time point, and a signature of the information object. The system may transmit, via a communication network, the information object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventor: George Chu Luo
  • Patent number: 11940798
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle configured to autonomously pass a cyclist includes an imaging device and processing circuitry configured to receive information from the imaging device. Additionally, the processing circuitry of the autonomous vehicle is configured to identify a cyclist passing situation based on the information received from the imaging device, and plan a path of an autonomous vehicle based on the cyclist passing situation. The autonomous vehicle also includes a positioning system and the processing circuitry is further configured to receive information from the positioning system, determine if the cyclist passing situation is sufficiently identified, and identify the cyclist passing situation based on the information from the imaging device and the positioning system when the cyclist passing situation is not sufficiently identified based on the information received from the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Michael J. Delp, Ruijia Feng, Shan Bao
  • Patent number: 11926332
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for controlling an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a first probability distribution may be generated for the vehicle at a first future point in time using a generative model for predicting expected behaviors of objects and a set of characteristics for the vehicle at an initial time expected to be perceived by an observer. Planning system software of the vehicle may be used to generate a trajectory for the vehicle to follow. A second probability distribution may be generated for a second future point in time using the generative model based on the trajectory and a set of characteristics for the vehicle at the first future point expected to be perceived by the observer. A surprise assessment may be generated by comparing the first probability distribution to the second probability distribution. The vehicle may be controlled based on the surprise assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Johan Engstrom, Jared Russell
  • Patent number: 11921222
    Abstract: A plant tracking apparatus, system, and method for tracking planting locations of a plurality of plants configured to be planted in a ground surface using a planting utensil having a handle, a blade, and a shaft defined between the handle and the blade is disclosed herein. The plant tracking apparatus includes a housing configured to be coupled to the planting utensil. The plant track apparatus further includes a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensor, a planting sensor, and a controller positioned within or coupled to the housing. The controller is configured to record location data from the GNSS sensor in response to a planting signal from the planting sensor. In certain embodiments, the controller may determine the planting signal by comparing data from the planting sensor to a predetermined motion profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Corey Craig
  • Patent number: 11922738
    Abstract: Systems and methods to fuse aviation-related data systems for comprehensive aircraft system health monitoring are provided. One example method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices, fault data indicative of a plurality of fault indications provided by a first plurality of components of an aircraft. The method includes obtaining, by the one or more computing devices, condition indicators describing the respective operational conditions of a second plurality of components of the aircraft. The method includes fusing, by the one or more computing devices, the fault data with the condition indicators to form a comprehensive data set. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more causes of the plurality of fault conditions based at least in part on the comprehensive data set. One example system includes a data fuser, a cause identifier, and an alert generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Taleris Limited
    Inventors: Maria Louise Watson, Robert William Horabin, Christopher Catt, Frank Beaven, Olivier Paul Jacques Thuong, Thomas Antoine Raymond Bermudez, Aishwarya Coffey
  • Patent number: 11912269
    Abstract: A collision avoidance assist apparatus executes an emergency steering control including processes to determine a target steering torque used to change a steering angle to avoid a collision of a vehicle with an obstacle so as not to move the vehicle out of a moving lane when the vehicle has a high probability of colliding with the obstacle, and the moving lane is a straight lane, and applies a steering torque corresponding to the determined target steering torque to a steering mechanism. The collision avoidance assist apparatus stops executing the emergency steering control when determining that the moving lane is a curved lane, based on only one of left and right lane markings at an avoidance side of the obstacle which is the left or the right side of the obstacle which the vehicle passes over while executing the emergency steering control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Mafune Kakeshita, Takashi Moriya, Sho Hashimoto, Akshay Rajendra, Michael Patzelt
  • Patent number: 11904892
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for training a machine-learning (ML) algorithm that contributes to piloting an autonomous vehicle using a velocity grid generated from a simulation. The method may include simulating a scene. The scene includes a simulated autonomous vehicle and at least one simulated object moving in the scene. The method may also include predicting a velocity of at least one point on the simulated object as it moves in the simulated scene using a ML algorithm. The method may also include comparing the predicted velocity of the at least one point on the simulated object with velocities in the velocity grid generated from a simulation. The method may further include adjusting the ML algorithm to more accurately predict velocity of at least one point on the simulated object as it moves in the scene based on a difference in the predicted velocity compared to the velocity grid, which yields a trained ML algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard Stenson, Minhao Xu
  • Patent number: 11904891
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for creating a velocity grid using a simulated environment for use by an autonomous vehicle. The method may include simulating a road scenario with simulated objects. The method may also include recording image data collected from a camera sensor, the image data comprising a first 2D image frame comprising the simulated objects made up of a plurality of pixels. The method may also include identifying a first 3D point on the first simulated object in a 3D view of the simulated road scenario, wherein the first 3D point corresponds to the first pixel in the first 2D image frame. The method may also include generating a velocity of the first point based upon a velocity of the first simulated object, and projecting the velocity back into the first 2D image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard Stenson, Minhao Xu
  • Patent number: 11897502
    Abstract: A computed-implemented method is provided for creating a velocity grid using a simulated environment for use by an autonomous vehicle. The method may include simulating a road scenario with simulated objects, collecting first LiDAR data from simulated LiDAR sensors in the simulated road scenario, wherein the collected first LiDAR data comprises a first plurality of points that are representative of a first simulated object at a first 3D location and a first time. The method may also include transforming the first plurality of points from a simulated-scene frame-of-reference to a first simulated object frame-of-reference, and simulating the first simulated object to move from the first 3D location to a second 3D location within the simulated road scenario between the first time and a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard Stenson, Minhao Xu