Patents Examined by Behrang Badii
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Patent number: 11868127Abstract: A transportation system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) system for processing a sensory input from a wearable device in a self-driving vehicle to determine an emotional state of a rider and optimizing a vehicle operating parameter to improve the rider emotional state. The AI system includes a recurrent neural network to indicate a change in the emotional state of the rider by a recognition of patterns of emotional state indicative wearable sensor data from a set of wearable sensors worn by the rider. The patterns are indicative of a first degree of a favorable emotional state of the rider and/or a second degree of an unfavorable emotional state of the rider. The AI system further includes a radial basis function neural network to optimize, for achieving a target emotional state of the rider, the vehicle operating parameter in response to the indication of the change in the rider emotional state.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLCInventor: Charles Howard Cella
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Patent number: 11868131Abstract: A method of determining a flight path for an aerial vehicle, includes controlling the aerial vehicle to fly along a first route, identifying, during the flight along the first route and with aid of one or more processors, a change in a state of signal transmission occurring at a first location, in response to identifying the change, determining, by the one or more processors, a second location different from the first location, determining a second route to the second location, and controlling, by the one or more processors, the aerial vehicle to fly to and land at the second location. The change of the state of signal transmission indicates an abnormal state in a signal transmission between the aerial vehicle and a control device.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Litian Zhang, Xiao Hu, Ang Liu
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Patent number: 11868126Abstract: A transportation system includes an artificial intelligence system for processing a sensory input from a wearable device in a self-driving vehicle to determine an emotional state of a rider and optimizing a vehicle operating parameter to improve the rider emotional state. The artificial intelligence system detects the rider emotional state in the self-driving vehicle by recognition of patterns of emotional state indicative data from a set of wearable sensors worn by the rider. The patterns are indicative of at least one of a favorable emotional state and an unfavorable emotional state of the rider. The artificial intelligence system is to optimize, for achieving at least one of maintaining a detected favorable emotional state of the rider and achieving a favorable emotional state of a rider subsequent to a detection of an unfavorable emotional state, the operating parameter of the vehicle in response to the detected emotional state of the rider.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLCInventor: Charles Howard Cella
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Patent number: 11858459Abstract: Some embodiments provide a vehicle navigation system which can navigate a vehicle through an environment based on driving commands received from a remote control system based on manual operator interaction with an interface of the remote control system. Remote driving control can be engaged based on determination, via processing vehicle sensor data, of a health emergency associated with one or more occupants of the vehicle, and the remote control system can generate remote driving commands which cause the vehicle to be navigated to a particular location without requiring the occupant associated with the health emergency to manually navigate the vehicle. The remote control system can monitor the occupant via communicated vehicle sensor data and can control remote control devices included in the vehicle to provide external indication that the vehicle is being navigated according to remote driving control.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bartholomeus C. Nabbe, Tie-Qi Chen, Benjamin B. Lyon
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Patent number: 11858535Abstract: An electronic device and an operating method thereof may be configured to detect input data having a first time interval, detect first prediction data having a second time interval based on the input data using a preset recursive network, and detect second prediction data having a third time interval based on the input data and the first prediction data using the recursive network. The recursive network may include an encoder configured to detect each of a plurality of feature vectors based on at least one of the input data or the first prediction data, an attention module configured to calculate each of pieces of importance of the feature vectors by calculating the importance of each feature vector, and a decoder configured to output at least one of the first prediction data or the second prediction data using the feature vectors based on the pieces of importance.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dongsuk Kum, Sanmin Kim
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Patent number: 11845459Abstract: The invention relates to a device for remotely giving warning as to the state of wear of at least one blade of a windshield-wiper system of a vehicle comprising means for determining the wear of said blade and means for flagging said wear; said device is noteworthy in that it comprises at least one unit comprising a module called the removable diagnostic connector able to interact with a diagnostic service connector forming an on-board diagnostic input of the vehicle in order to establish a link with said diagnostic connector via the OBD protocol and means for communicating electronically that are coupled to the diagnostic connector and that are able to transmit, to a portable electronic apparatus, via a wireless link, a message indicating the wear of said blade when the means for determining the wear of the blade generate a signal referred to as a wear signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventors: Frederic Giraud, Laure Imbert, Damien Coquet, Eric Poton
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Patent number: 11845499Abstract: A control device for a power steering device includes a low-pass filter unit including a cutoff frequency adjustment unit configured to adjust a cutoff frequency for partially attenuating a component of an input signal, set the cutoff frequency to a first cutoff frequency when a steering torque signal is lower than a first predetermined torque value, and to set the cutoff frequency to a second cutoff frequency lower than the first cutoff frequency when the steering torque signal is equal to or higher than the first predetermined torque value.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Yasuhito Nakakuki, Kazuya Yamano, Atsushi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11840207Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling an electronic stability control (ESC) integrated braking system, which includes, when a failure in which pressure is unable to be formed in a master cylinder unit is detected during braking of a vehicle by the ESC integrated braking system, maintaining, by a controller, a braking force applied during the braking by closing designated oil pressure relief valves for coupling the master cylinder unit and a flow channel of a circuit, and when pressure (PC1) of a pedal cylinder becomes equal to or greater than pressure (MC1) of the circuit based on the maintained braking force, by a brake pedal stepped on by a driver, controlling, by the controller, the designated oil pressure relief valves to be in an open state and then switching the state of the designated oil pressure relief valves to a mechanical backup state.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Cheol Seol
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Patent number: 11840240Abstract: A road condition estimation device 2 includes: a reception unit 21 that receives pieces of sensor information from automobiles respectively, each piece of sensor information including positional information that is information regarding a position at which an automobile travels, and spectral information obtained by converting an acoustic signal generated when the automobile travels at the position into information in a frequency domain; a first classification unit 22 that classifies the pieces of spectral information respectively for roads on which the automobiles travel, based on pieces of positional information included in the pieces of sensor information thus received; and an estimation unit 23 that estimates a condition of a road for each of the pieces of spectral information classified by the first classification unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazunori Kobayashi, Hiroaki Ito, Shin Murata
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Patent number: 11840181Abstract: An in-vehicle communication device and a method for starting up an in-vehicle device are provided. An in-vehicle communication device according to the present embodiment includes: a first processing unit; a second processing unit; and a communication unit. The first processing unit, upon being started up, performs initialization processing thereof. The second processing unit requires a shorter time from start-up until completion of the initialization processing than the first processing unit does. Another in-vehicle device is connected to the communication unit via a communication line, and the communication unit communicates with the other in-vehicle device in accordance with control of the first processing unit and the second processing unit. The second processing unit, after completing the initialization processing thereof, transmits an instruction to start up the other in-vehicle device via the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Tomoki Matsuo
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Patent number: 11837091Abstract: A safe driving assist apparatus includes an image processing ECU configured to determine whether or not a specific object exists forward of an own vehicle, a wireless communication apparatus configured to acquire information on a road sign recognized by another vehicle from the another vehicle through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a driving assist ECU configured to determine, based on information on a road sign detected by the own vehicle and the information on the road sign detected by the another vehicle, whether or not a specific condition indicating that a possibility of collision between the own vehicle and the another vehicle exists is satisfied, and to execute, when determining that the specific condition is satisfied, notification control of notifying a driver of the own vehicle that the possibility of collision between the own vehicle and the another vehicle exists.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsuharu Kato
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Patent number: 11836987Abstract: A fusion system for a motor vehicle includes at least two environment sensors, a neural network coupled to the environment sensors for fusing environment information from the environment sensors, a fusion apparatus for fusing environment information from the environment sensors, and a control device coupled to the neural network and the fusion apparatus. The control device is set up to adapt the environment information fused via the neural network, depending on the environment information fused by the fusion apparatus, and to provide the adapted environment information to a driver assistance system of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rainer Faller, Jelena Frtunikj, Hans-Ulrich Michel
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Patent number: 11835643Abstract: A work machine control method includes: acquiring a detection position of a landmark detected by a non-contact sensor provided in a work machine in traveling of the work machine traveling on a traveling path; calculating a first relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of the detection position of the landmark; calculating a second relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of a registration position of the landmark; calculating a correction value relating to a relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark on a basis of the first relative distance and the second relative distance; correcting the first relative distance on a basis of the correction value to calculate a corrected relative distance between the non-contact sensor and the landmark; and controlling a traveling state of the work machine on a basis of the corrected relative distance.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Shiga
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Patent number: 11835646Abstract: A system and method for aligning a target to an equipped vehicle for calibration of a sensor on the equipped vehicle includes a vehicle support stand upon which an equipped vehicle is disposed in an established known position for calibration of the sensor, and a target adjustment stand configured to moveably hold a target. The target adjustment stand is configured to position the target into a calibration position relative to the sensor on the equipped vehicle based on the established known position of the equipped vehicle on the vehicle support stand whereby the sensor is able to be calibrated using the target.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: BPG Sales and Technology Investments, LLCInventors: Ryan M. Jefferies, David M. DeBoer, Jon D. Lawrence
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Patent number: 11828883Abstract: A sensor controller, which controls a first optical sensor and a second optical sensor respectively having beam irradiation ranges, shifted from each other, for scanning a substantially front direction and a substantially side direction of a vehicle. The sensor controller: determines when an abnormality occurs in either the first optical sensor or the second optical sensor; identifies an abnormal sensor in which abnormality has occurred and a normal sensor that maintains normality; and controls a beam pattern in a beam irradiation range of the normal sensor to have a degeneration pattern with a high density in a region overlapping a beam irradiation range of the abnormal sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Tsuchimoto, Ryusuke Ohata
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Patent number: 11827274Abstract: Sensor data and data from V2V messages are used to detect obstacles. Additional obstacles are identified in map data according to a vehicle's position. In response to detecting a turn intent, a controller calculates a turn path according to the detected obstacles and properties of the vehicle. The turn path is presented to a user, such as by display on a HUD or superimposing the turn path on an image from a forward facing camera. A desired steering angle to traverse the turn path may be displayed, such as relative to the current steering angle of the vehicle. Notifications regarding the path and turning intent of other vehicle may be displayed along with the turn path.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John Michael Ferrer, Jayanthi Rao, Victoria Schein
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Patent number: 11823577Abstract: An apparatus for controlling platooning includes a recognizing device to recognize front information of a vehicle by using at least one sensor, a communication device to support vehicle to vehicle communication, and a processor connected with the recognizing device and the communication device. The processor acquires information on a first line in front of the vehicle, through the recognizing device, receives information on a second line, which is transmitted from a preceding vehicle, through the communication device, generates information on a third line by using the information on the first line and the information on the second line, based on information on the preceding vehicle, generates information on a final line by using the information on the first line, the information on the second line, and the information on the third line, and plans a path for the platooning by utilizing the information on the final line.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Chanhwa Lee
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Patent number: 11823572Abstract: A method of detecting overspeeding for a vehicle, including obtaining historical trajectory data of a fleet, of geographical areas from an electronic database; determining, by a microprocessor of a server, a distribution of speed of the historical trajectory data; calculating, on an electronic device associated with the vehicle, a determined probability of future overspeeding; wherein obtaining includes communicating, by the server an electronic request to the electronic database for the historical trajectory data, and the historical trajectory data from the electronic database to the server. An electronic device including a trajectory data acquisition circuit; a communication circuit to receive pre-trained weights for a trained classifier from a server; a processor to use a classifier configured with the pre-trained weights to calculate, based on trajectory data, a probability of future overspeeding being higher than a pre-determined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.Inventors: Muhammad Rameez Chatni, Munirul Abedin, Laiyi Lin, Miaojun Li
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Patent number: 11815608Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises selecting at least one set of line of sight (LOS) vectors oriented in one or more directions outward from a vehicle; determining at least one air data solution based on the at least one set of LOS vectors; adjusting at least one value of an air vector equation based on a predetermined quantity; upon adjusting the at least one value, then determining at least one modified air data solution, wherein the at least one modified air data solution is determined based on the at least one set of LOS vectors and the at least one value; and comparing a difference between the at least one air data solution and the at least one modified air data solution to a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is indicative of error with respect to the at least one set of LOS vectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Timothy A. Peterson, Xiao Zhu Fan, Matthew Wiebold
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Patent number: 11808855Abstract: An optical device includes a light source provided with a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements to emit a laser beam, a scanner to scan the laser beam emitted from the light source, and an optical system disposed in an optical path between the light source and the scanner and to guide the laser beam to the scanner. The optical system includes a first optical element to control a divergence angle of the laser beam emitted from the light source and a second optical element to concentrate the laser beam that has passed through the first optical element onto a to-be-scanned surface of the scanner.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Ikeoh, Yasufumi Yamada, Atsushi Sakai, Naoto Jikutani, Tsuyoshi Ueno, Nobunari Tsukamoto, Tadashi Nakamura, Kazuma Izumiya, Shuichi Suzuki