Patents Examined by Elaine Gort
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Patent number: 11702089Abstract: Techniques for performing a sensor calibration using sequential data is disclosed. An example method includes receiving, from a first camera located on a vehicle, a first image comprising at least a portion of a road comprising lane markers, where the first image is obtained by the camera at a first time; obtaining a calculated value of a position of an inertial measurement (IM) device at the first time; obtaining an optimized first extrinsic matrix of the first camera by adjusting a function of a first actual pixel location of a location of a lane marker in the first image and an expected pixel location of the location of the lane marker; and performing autonomous operation of the vehicle using the optimized first extrinsic matrix of the first camera when the vehicle is operated on another road or at another time.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.Inventors: Shane David Griffith, Chenghao Gong, Chenzhe Qian
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Patent number: 11702203Abstract: A modular flat-packable drone kit includes a plurality of components that can be assembled into a drone. Components of the drone kit include elements that may be cut from a flat sheet of material, thereby enabling low cost manufacturing and compact packaging and may be assembled without specialized tools. A set of drones may operate in a standalone mode or may be coupled together and operated in a group configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Boy Scouts of AmericaInventors: David Williams McKeehan, Michael Dwight Gerard, Craig Alan Nehrkorn, Eric Alan Davis
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Patent number: 11698458Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) controller is disclosed. The LIDAR controller may determine, based on a position of an implement, a scan area of the LIDAR sensor, wherein the scan area has an increased point density relative to another area of a field of view, of the LIDAR sensor, that includes the implement. The LIDAR controller may cause the LIDAR sensor to capture, with the increased point density, LIDAR data associated with the scan area. The LIDAR controller may process the LIDAR data to determine whether an object of interest is in an environment of the machine that is associated with the scan area. The LIDAR controller may perform an action based on the environment of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Paul Russell Friend
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Patent number: 11697427Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for vehicle navigation. In one implementation, at least one processor may be programmed to receive, from a camera, a captured image representative of features in an environment of the vehicle. The processor may generate a warped image based on the received captured image, which may simulate a view of the features in the environment of the vehicle from a simulated viewpoint elevated relative to an actual position of the camera. The processor may further identify a road feature represented in the warped image, which may be transformed in one or more respects relative to a representation of the road feature in the captured image. The processor may then determine a navigational action for the vehicle based on the identified feature represented in the warped image and cause at least one actuator system of the vehicle to implement the determined navigational action.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Andras Ferencz, Ora Zackay
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Patent number: 11691651Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for a vehicle configured to perform driving support control when a driving support operation state is an on state, the control apparatus being further configured to, in a case where the driving support operation state is the on state and a driving operation switching request for changing the driving support operation state to an off state is issued, calculate a target speed at a driving operation switching time point at which the driving support operation state is changed from the on state to the off state, and perform deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle such that a speed of the vehicle matches the target speed at the driving operation switching time point.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taisuke Yasutomi, Yoji Kunihiro
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Patent number: 11685523Abstract: A rotorcraft including a pilot control having a sensor that generates pilot control position data, a flight control that controls a flight characteristic of the rotorcraft, a trim system connected to the pilot control and configured to move the pilot control, and a flight control computer (FCC) configured to receive the pilot control position data from the sensor. The FCC executes a first flight control process and generates, according to the first flight control commands, a trim signal indicating a target position for the pilot control and to send the trim signal to the trim system to cause the trim system to attempt to move the pilot control to the target position to reflect a position of the flight control, and to monitor a working state of the trim system and execute a retrim process in response to determining that the trim system has failed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.Inventor: Robert Earl Worsham, II
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Patent number: 11686817Abstract: An autonomous vehicle having a lidar sensor system is described. A computing system is configured to determine that the lidar sensor system is to update a code that is included in light signals emitted by the lidar sensor system. The computing system transmits a command signal to the lidar sensor system, wherein the command signal causes the lidar sensor system to transition from emitting light signals with a first code therein to emitting light signals with a second code therein, wherein the first code is different from the second code.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Matt Cox, Robert Vets, Peter Megson, Cornelis Jacob Lekkerkerker
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Patent number: 11685402Abstract: Disclosed are an autonomous driving apparatus and method for an ego vehicle that autonomously travels. The autonomous driving apparatus includes a first sensor to detect a nearby vehicle nearby an ego vehicle, a memory to store map information, and a processor including a driving trajectory generator to generate a first driving trajectory of the ego vehicle and a second driving trajectory of the nearby vehicle based on the map information stored in the memory and a control processor configured to control autonomous driving of the ego vehicle based on the first and second driving trajectories generated by the driving trajectory generator.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyuk Lee, Soon Jong Jin, Byeong Hwan Jeon, Jun Han Lee
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Patent number: 11679771Abstract: Biometric data are collected about a user in a vehicle. A user is prompted to provide an input on a wearable device to identify an object based on the biometric data.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Pramita Mitra, Yifan Chen, Jayanthi Rao
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Patent number: 11673461Abstract: Systems and methods described in this disclosure provide methods and systems for automatic deployment of a vehicle covering apparatus to protect the vehicle from environmental conditions such as severe weather.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)Inventors: Gregory David Hansen, Andre Rene Buentello, Manfred Amann
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Patent number: 11669094Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an MDPS system including: an autonomous driving cancellation determination unit configured to determine whether to cancel autonomous driving, using column torque passed through a band stop filter, under an autonomous driving condition; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate command steering angle acceleration information using command steering angle information outputted from an autonomous driving system. When the steering angle acceleration information is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value, the autonomous driving cancellation determination unit may determine that urgent steering is performed by the autonomous driving system, and forbid cancellation of the autonomous driving.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tae Hong Kim
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Patent number: 11670124Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus to collect sensor data generated in an autonomous vehicle. Sensors of the vehicle generate a sensor data stream that is buffered, in parallel and in a cyclic way, in a first cyclic buffer and a larger second cyclic buffer respectively. An advanced driver assistance system of the vehicle generates an accident signal when detecting or predicting an accident and provides a training signal when detecting a fault in object detection, recognition, identification or classification. The accident signal causes a sensor data stream segment to be copied from the first cyclic buffer into a slot of a non-volatile memory, selected from a plurality of slots in a round robin way. The training signal causes a sensor data stream segment to be copied from the second cyclic buffer into an area of the non-volatile memory outside of the slots reserved for the first cyclic buffer.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Gil Golov
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Patent number: 11667304Abstract: While operating a vehicle, a candidate marker is detected via first image data from a first image sensor. Upon failing to identify the candidate marker, vehicle exterior lighting is actuated to illuminate the candidate marker. Then the candidate marker is determined to be one of a real marker or a projected marker based on determining whether the candidate marker is detected via second image data from the first image sensor. Upon determining the candidate marker is the real marker, the vehicle is operated based on the real marker.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Xingping Chen, Jeremy Lerner, Mohammad Abouali, Scott Huggins, Navid Tafaghodi Khajavi
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Patent number: 11654934Abstract: A system and method for generating a predicted vehicle trajectory includes a generative adversarial network configured to receive a trajectory vector of a target vehicle and generate a set of latent state vectors using the received trajectory vector and an artificial neural network. The latent state vectors each comprise a high-level sub-vector, ZH. The GAN enforces ZH to be correlated to an annotation coding representing semantic categories of vehicle trajectories. The GAN selects a subset, from the set of latent state vectors, using farthest point sampling and generates a predicted vehicle trajectory based on the selected subset of latent state vectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xin Huang, Stephen G. McGill, Jonathan A. DeCastro, Brian C. Williams, Luke S. Fletcher, John J. Leonard, Guy Rosman
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Patent number: 11654918Abstract: System and methods for estimating a centerline of a road that separates traffic moving in opposite directions include aggregating a data set from each of a plurality of vehicles traversing the road over a period of time as telemetry data. Each data set of the telemetry data indicates a location and a heading. The method includes clustering the data sets of the telemetry data based on the heading indicated by each data set, and identifying a separator to separate the data sets indicating a first heading from the data sets indicating a second heading, opposite to the first heading. The centerline is estimated based on applying a spatial smoothing to the separator.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Orhan Bulan, Sheetal Mahesh, Yehenew G. Mengistu, Mason D. Gemar, David H. Clifford
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Patent number: 11648935Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a sensor set, a data storage device and an output device. The sensor set detects a set of road users and, for each road user, a current state including a current speed and a current position. The data storage device includes a finite plurality of behavioral models. The data processor assigns a behavioral model to each road user, probabilistically estimates, for each road user, a belief state comprising a set of alternative subsequent states and corresponding probabilities, each alternative subsequent state including a speed and a position, according to the behavioral model assigned to each road user, and determines a risk of collision of the road vehicle with a road user, based on the probabilistically estimated future state of each road user. The output device outputs a driver warning signal or executes an avoidance action if the risk of collision exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPEInventors: David Sierra Gonzalez, Christian Laugier, Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Alejandro Dizan Vasquez Govea, Nicolas Vignard
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Patent number: 11651630Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a failure detection unit configured to detect a failure of a vehicle, and a vehicle controller configured to control the vehicle. The vehicle controller changes the control of the vehicle depending on a failure level when the failure detection unit detects a failure of an on-vehicle component other than the vehicle control device.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiji Yamashita, Koichi Ikemoto, Koji Taguchi, Shin Sakurada, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
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Patent number: 11648941Abstract: A vehicle includes a sensing device disposed at the vehicle so as to have an external field of view of the vehicle, configured to detect a target vehicle moving from the external field of view to a parking space and a plurality of stationary parked vehicles; a controller configured to obtain a first distance that is a width between the plurality of parked vehicles and a second distance that is a width between one parked vehicle of the plurality of parked vehicles and the target vehicle adjacent to the one parked vehicle; and a warner configured to output a warning signal based on a control command of the controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Sungmin Ji
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Patent number: 11645518Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a simulation of an environment that is being interacted with by a plurality of agents over a plurality of time steps, wherein the simulation comprises a respective simulation state for each time step that specifies a respective state of each agent at the time step. In one aspect, a method comprises, for each time step: obtaining a current simulation state for the current time step; generating a plurality of candidate next simulation states for a next time step; determining, for each candidate next simulation state, a discriminative score characterizing a likelihood that the candidate next simulation state is a realistic simulation state; and selecting a candidate next simulation state as the simulation state for the next time step based on the discriminative scores for the candidate next simulation states.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventor: Brandyn Allen White
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Patent number: 11640178Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The object is to provide a device, a method and the like which, when a fault occurs, particularly when a fault occurs in an operation of some of rotary wings, can control a flight depending on the fault, or which can be at least used for control when a fault occurs, or which can detect the fault.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: ACSL Ltd.Inventors: Kenzo Nonami, Yi Yang