Patents Examined by Chico A Foxx
  • Patent number: 11776397
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a transport, a notification when at least one of an emergency transport and the transport approach one another, wherein the notification includes a movement for the transport, wherein the movement includes a path, a speed and a time for the transport to maneuver, and displaying the notification in the transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Mackensie M. Monegan
  • Patent number: 11769405
    Abstract: An object is to share information of detected obstacles on a road among communication devices, using efficient communication. A communication device according to the present disclosure includes: a wireless receiving unit for receiving wireless information including first obstacle information of a first obstacle which is at least one obstacle, from outside; a first obstacle extraction unit for extracting the first obstacle information from the wireless information; a second obstacle detection unit for detecting second obstacle information of a second obstacle which is at least one obstacle present in an own surrounding area by a sensor; and an overlap information removing unit which, if there is overlap obstacle information between the first obstacle information and the second obstacle information, removes the overlap obstacle information from the second obstacle information, to generate difference obstacle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11767059
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes an imager that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, and a display that displays a guidance image for guiding the vehicle from a parking start position to a target parking position and displays a moving area in which the vehicle can move during a parking operation. An area and dimension of the moving area displayed on the display changes based on a change in a steering angle of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11760371
    Abstract: When a vehicle information acquisition unit continuously acquires an On signal of a blinker switch, when the absolute value of a steering angle of a handle is 90° or greater, and a vehicle speed is a threshold or greater, a dialogue confirmation unit of this vehicle communication device selects a dialogue that corresponds to the On signal, the steering angle, and the vehicle speed from dialogues of group A stored in a dialogue storage unit. Thereafter, when the steering angle or the vehicle speed changes, the dialogue confirmation unit selects the dialogue that corresponds to changes in the steering angle or the vehicle speed from among dialogues of group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Dwango Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Daisuke Muramatsu, Koji Hashimoto, Takafumi Inano, Takuto Miyazaki, Naomichi Kashima, Tatsuro Shiomi, Naoshi Gyoda
  • Patent number: 11760372
    Abstract: A control unit for displaying a traffic situation on a screen of an ego vehicle is designed to display a first traffic participant symbol for a first traffic participant in a first sub-region of the screen and a second traffic participant symbol for a second traffic participant in a second sub-region of the screen. The control unit is additionally designed to determine that the first traffic participant symbol and the second traffic participant symbol are approaching each other in a specified manner on the basis of a change in the position of the second traffic participant relative to the first traffic participant. In response thereto, the control unit is further designed to at least partly hide the first and/or the second traffic participant symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Behring, Rolf Brenndoerfer, Stefanie Einwang, Marc Mueller, Dominik Schmoelz
  • Patent number: 11753781
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes a roadway stud control system including a local stud control system positioned along a first section of a roadway, a plurality of roadway studs, each roadway stud disposed on a surface of the first section of the roadway and communicably coupled to the local stud control system, wherein the local stud control system is configured to communicate a control signal to control at least one aspect of the plurality of roadway studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MZC Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Harriet Anderson Langford, A. Philip Langford, Alan J. Anderson, John Picard, Allison Kelly Beaton, Glenn Le Faou, Laura Churcher, James Salisbury, Marie Buda, Edward Colby, Andy Milton
  • Patent number: 11757539
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling vibrations output by one or more computing devices. A computing device may determine an event, and may also determine, using a noise sensor, an ambient noise level around the computing device. Based on the ambient noise level, the computing device may then select a tactile vibration or an audible sound associated with the event. Also, an intensity level of the vibration or sound may be based on the determined ambient noise level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Gilson
  • Patent number: 11752871
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus including: a camera; a display unit; a processor configured to monitor a passenger, based on a vehicle internal image data generated by the camera; a printed circuit board configured to be electrically connected to the camera, the display unit, and the processor; a case configured to form an outer shape by being coupled to the display unit with the printed circuit board interposed therebetween; and a mounting portion configured to fix the case to a portion of a vehicle seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungil Cho, Jayoen Kim, Yujune Jang
  • Patent number: 11756415
    Abstract: An alert may be triggered to notify a pedestrian of the current operational mode of a nearby vehicle. For instance, a vehicle may operate in an autonomous or manual mode, and may occasionally switch from one mode to the other. A pedestrian who may be unaware of the current operational mode of a nearby vehicle may notice the alert and proceed accordingly. In one embodiment, an indication of the current operational mode of the nearby vehicle may be transmitted to an electronic device associated with the pedestrian. The device may generate a notification to the pedestrian based on the current operational mode. In an additional or alternative embodiment, the alert may be transmitted by the vehicle externally to be visible or audible to the pedestrian. In some embodiments, the alert may be triggered only for particular operational modes (e.g., only for autonomous or only for manual).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian M. Fields, Steve Roberson
  • Patent number: 11745753
    Abstract: An embodiment method for controlling a vehicle includes receiving state information of the vehicle and state information of a battery, identifying a present state of charge of the battery and calculating a preset reference value of the battery based on the state information of the vehicle and the state information of the battery, and displaying a message based on a difference between the present state of charge of the battery and the preset reference value of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sunho Choi, Sang Jae Han, Changseob Lim, Han Young Park, Sungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 11749098
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented herein for providing lower level physical-layer gateway functionalities and upper-level application functionalities; a system designed with flexible configurations in order to support a wide range of connected applications. The system includes a processor that executes machine instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise: receiving sensor data from a sensor device located in a building; converting the sensor data from a raw state to a physical measurement; and activating an abatement device situated in the building as a function of the physical measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTWINE CONNECT, LLC
    Inventor: David Martin
  • Patent number: 11745754
    Abstract: The attention calling system includes a detection unit for detecting an object around a moving body, and a attention calling unit for outputting a visual display in a horizontally extending belt-like range on an interior structure of the moving body using a light projection device. The attention calling unit outputs the visual display in the belt-like range at a position corresponding to a direction of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Toshiaki Seo, Yuya Kishimoto, Minoru Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11749089
    Abstract: A green zone exists in which traveling of a vehicle using an amount of electric power that has a greenhouse gas emission intensity greater than a regulatory limit is restricted. A server includes. I/O ports through which the emission intensity of the electric power supplied from an electric vehicle supply equipment is obtained; and a processor that associates the amount of electric power charged from the electric vehicle supply equipment to a battery with the emission intensity obtained through the I/O ports. The processor: determines, based on an amount of electric power having an emission intensity less than the regulatory limit within the amount of electric power stored in the battery, whether a vehicle should be permitted to travel in the green zone; and notifies a user of the vehicle of a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeki Kinomura
  • Patent number: 11741833
    Abstract: When vehicle forward information includes information on a construction site road sign which indicates the limit speed at a construction site, a vehicle driving assist apparatus acquires the limit speed indicated on the construction site road sign as a construction site sign limit speed, based on the vehicle forward information and displays the acquired construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device. When acquiring the database limit speed while displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device, and a distance that an own vehicle has moved since acquiring the construction site sign speed limit currently displayed on the displaying device is shorter than a predetermined distance, the vehicle driving assist apparatus continues displaying the construction site sign limit speed on the displaying device without displaying the database limit speed acquired this time on the displaying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamashita, Yosuke Wada
  • Patent number: 11735044
    Abstract: An information transmission system including a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the first vehicle being subjected to a traffic control by a traffic light, the second vehicle being subjected to the traffic control by the traffic light after the first vehicle, each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle including a communication unit capable of communicating with each other, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. Each of the microprocessor of the first vehicle and the microprocessor of the second vehicle is configured to perform acquiring a change information of the traffic light, and updating the change information acquired, and the microprocessor of the second vehicle is configured to perform the acquiring including acquiring the change information updated by the microprocessor of the first vehicle through the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuki Yamoto
  • Patent number: 11735024
    Abstract: A gas monitoring and alarm system comprises a master monitor and at least one remote monitor. The master monitor is coupled to a master sensor that senses a concentration of a gas in a first area and sends data to the master monitor. The at least one remote monitor is communicatively coupled to the master monitor. The least one remote monitor is coupled to a remote sensor, which senses a concentration of gas in a second area. The at least one remote monitor receives data about the concentration of the gas in the second area from the remote sensor, and sends the data to the master monitor. The master monitor receives the data and triggers a first alarm status when the concentration of gas in at least one of the first area and the second area exceeds a first predefined alarm threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Eleven Eleven Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ronald V. Longley
  • Patent number: 11727741
    Abstract: A method for controlling a reader communicating with a user terminal using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), comprising: transmitting a first advertising packet to the user terminal; performing a first authentication with the user terminal that has received the first advertising packet; discovering service of the user terminal by the reader that has transmitted the first advertising packet after the first authentication is performed; obtaining a first service data from the user terminal in response to the discovering service; discovering characteristic of the user terminal based on the first service data; and obtaining a first characteristic data from the user terminal in response to the discovering characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MOCA SYSTEM INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyun Kyung, Jong Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11728042
    Abstract: A triage system that determines whether a user is likely to have contracted a disease based on sensor data received from a user device (e.g., a smartphone or activity tracker). Each symptom is identified by comparing sensor data to a predetermined baseline and comparing the difference to a predetermined symptom threshold. Because direct measurement of symptoms using the sensors available to the user may not be feasible or sufficiently accurate, the triage system also uses surrogates the identify certain symptoms. For example, a fever may be identified using heart data, a cough or shortness of breath may be identified by analyzing recorded sound, fatigue may be identified by analyzing the movement of the user device, and loss of smell or taste may be identified by recording sound and using speech detection algorithms to identify phrases in the recorded sound indicative of loss of smell or taste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Georgetown University
    Inventors: Howard Federoff, Ophir Frieder
  • Patent number: 11718343
    Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with registered entrance feature point information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired parking lot information and the registered parking lot information when the vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the non-determined parking lot is the registered parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Hiei
  • Patent number: 11705007
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: a forward image acquiring section that acquires images of a region ahead of a vehicle; a vehicle information acquiring section that acquires vehicle information relating to traveling of the vehicle; a path predicting section that, based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquiring section, predicts an own vehicle traveling line that is a traveling path of the vehicle; an ideal path deriving section that, based on the images of the region ahead of the vehicle acquired by the forward image acquiring section, derives an ideal traveling line that is a proper traveling path; and a display control section that displays the own vehicle traveling line and the ideal traveling line so as to be superposed on a view in front of a driver's seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Mizobata