Patents Examined by Isaac G Smith
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Patent number: 11970166Abstract: Cautious driving and cautious driving speed determination for an autonomous vehicle is responsive to receiving a non-yield backup prediction for the vehicle regarding a traffic participant in a region of interest in a road network surrounding the vehicle, the non-yield backup prediction including a non-yield probability value for the traffic participant not yielding to the vehicle. Driving information, including speed, for other traffic participants within the region of interest is obtained from a sensor system, and an average speed of the other traffic participants is determined. A driving system determines a cautious driving speed for the vehicle by calculating a reverse probability value, which is a reverse percentage of the non-yield probability value relative to a maximum value for it, and multiplying the average speed of the other traffic participants by the reverse probability value. The driving system controls the vehicle to reduce its speed to the cautious driving speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Yue Liu
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Patent number: 11971273Abstract: Devices, methods, nd machine-read le media to facilitate intuitive comparison and selection of calculated navigation routes are disclosed. An electronic device for navigation includes a touch-sensitive screen and a processing module for displaying a map, calculating a number or navigation routes simultaneously on the touch-sensitive screen, and receiving a selection of a route. Callouts, or markers for presenting key information about each route, are also displayed discretely on the map. Navigation tiles including key route information and route pictorials can also be created and displayed for each calculated route.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bradford Moore, Christopher Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Graham Gyatt
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Patent number: 11967188Abstract: A vehicle-mounted update apparatus obtains update information and an update program transmitted from an outer-vehicle external server, and processes updating a program of a vehicle-mounted ECU. The vehicle-mounted update apparatus includes a control unit communicably connected to the vehicle-mounted ECU and controlling transmission of the update program to the vehicle-mounted ECU. The control unit determines, based on the update information, a transmission order for which the update programs are to be transmitted to the vehicle-mounted ECU, transmits the update program corresponding to a single update of the plurality of updates to the vehicle-mounted ECU, based on the determined transmission order, determines success or failure of the single update of the vehicle-mounted ECU, and transmits the update program next in the transmission order to the update program corresponding to the single update to the vehicle-mounted ECU, if the single update is determined as having succeeded.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11961093Abstract: A method for regulating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving a UAV identifier and one or more types of contextual information broadcasted by the UAV. The UAV identifier uniquely identifies the UAV from other UAVs. The one or more types of contextual information includes at least geographical information of the UAV. The method further includes authenticating, via an authentication device, an identity of the UAV based on the UAV identifier to determine whether the UAV is authorized for operation, and transmitting a signal to a remote device in response to determining whether the UAV is authorized for operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming Gong, Jin Dai, Hao Cui, Xiaodong Wang, Han Huang, Jun Wu, Wei Fan, Ning Ma, Xinhua Rong, Xingsen Lin
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Patent number: 11948466Abstract: A system and method for automation of flight functions across an aircraft cockpit provides an open systems architecture to meet next generation mission capabilities for increased aircrew effectiveness. A mission reasoner (MR) receives inputs from a vehicle health system, mission phase analysis, and external assets (wingmen) to build a decision network based on a knowledge database providing a decision aid to automate flight functions across the cockpit. The MR reduces crew workload by providing an automated decision aid and increased situational awareness of own ship aircraft and cooperating nearby vehicle health status relating to a phase of mission success. The MR provides predictive decisions and alternative actions to complete one or more desired mission objectives and determines predictive maintenance and future failures to optimize condition-based maintenance and reduce cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Angela N. Dunlay, Matthew M. Lorch, Subhashish Chakravarty, Jaclyn A Hoke, Bernard Dion
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Patent number: 11943040Abstract: Drone base stations (DBSs) create a radio access network (DRAN) that provides a quick on-demand coverage in areas either for lost coverage due to disasters (providing an emergency communications network (ECN)) or for specific military, governmental and IoT application needs. DRAN Control Functions may be modeled as Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) to operate and control a flying DRAN that comprises a plurality of DBSs, providing near real-time configuration control functions. These unique functions apply to the combined drone and base station sub-components of each DBS. Unique configuration control actions are determining the number of drones, optimal 3D drone positioning, and the inter-drone graph topology by maximizing served cellular user clusters, while factoring in user slices, remaining drone flight times and RF interference.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NETSIA, INC.Inventors: Koksal Boyali, Can Altay, Erhan Lokman, Seyhan Civanlar
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Patent number: 11928972Abstract: A method may include detecting, during a flight of an aircraft system, a conflict with a planned route of the aircraft system, determining one or more alternate routes for the aircraft system to avoid the conflict, wherein each of the one or more alternate routes avoid secondary conflicts with active flight operations, transmitting first data to cause first visual information indicating the conflict and second visual information indicating the one or more alternate routes to be displayed to a user, receiving second data indicating one of the one or more alternate routes being selected by the user, and updating the planned route of the aircraft system to include the alternate route selected by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventor: Szabolcs A. Borgyos
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Patent number: 11912305Abstract: During a period from when an automated driving vehicle starts pulling over to a sidewalk side until the vehicle pulls over completely thereto, an operation control section causes the vehicle to immediately stop when an object that can be an obstacle exists in at least one of a middle front area, a sidewalk-side front area, and a sidewalk-side side area that are areas each within a predetermined distance at a middle front, at a sidewalk-side front, and on a sidewalk-side side of the vehicle, respectively. During the period, the operation control section does not cause the vehicle to stop when the object does not exist in any of the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area, even when the object exists in an area surrounding the vehicle other than the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirohito Ide
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Patent number: 11915602Abstract: The present disclosure describes various embodiments of systems and methods of detecting, classifying, and making a threat assessment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). One such method comprises detecting a radio frequency (RF) signal; determining that the RF signal is generated from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on the detected RF signal; classifying at least a make and model of the UAV based on the detected RF signal; sensing for a remote identification field data broadcasted by the UAV; receiving remote identification information of the UAV from a network database, if the network database is available; assessing a threat likelihood of the UAV based on joint processing of at least the RF signal based classification of the UAV and the received remote identification information of the UAV; and signaling an alert containing a description of the UAV and the threat if the UAV is assessed as a harmful threat.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Ender Ozturk, Fatih Erden, Haluk Celebi, Ismail Guvenc, Ozgur Ozdemir
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Patent number: 11904901Abstract: Systems and methods for creation of custom behavior zones for autonomous vehicles, providing a more tailored experience for passengers as well as businesses. Custom behavior zones allow passengers to request or select a specific pick-up/drop-off location on private property. In some examples, custom behavior zones are created in private gated communities, on residential properties with long driveways, on government property, and at businesses that have multiple entrances and/or offer different services at various locations on the business property.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Jeremy Stephen Juel, Alexander Willem Gerrese, Yifei Zhang, Aakanksha Mirdha
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Patent number: 11897559Abstract: A steering control device for controlling drive of a motor that drives a steering mechanism according to an operation amount of a steering wheel, includes a first torque command controller that instructs the motor on motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel, and a second torque command controller that instructs the motor on the motor torque according to the operation amount of the steering wheel in parallel with the first torque command controller. The second torque command controller suppresses a frequency region corresponding to disturbance added to the steering mechanism with respect to the operation amount of the steering wheel with a filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Ishimura, Shuji Endo, Hanyu Sun
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Patent number: 11887409Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for self-detection of fault conditions experienced by vehicle components, generation of device health codes indicative of the fault conditions, and broadcasting of the device health codes over mixed vehicle communication networks. The device health codes can be parsed to identify fault information, and the fault information can be assessed along with current vehicle operational data to determine a recommended vehicle response measure to one or more fault conditions experienced by one or more vehicle components.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Pony Al Inc.Inventors: Kai Chen, Pingfan Meng
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Patent number: 11887490Abstract: A method of presenting weather data, representing weather events, on a graphical user interface (GUI). The weather data is received. At least one of the weather events is present in at least one of several altitude zones for a physical area centered on a reference point. A corresponding intensity rank is assigned to each of the weather events. Each of the altitude zones is divided into a corresponding grid defined for the physical area. Each corresponding grid has corresponding sectors defined by corresponding lines and vertices. A corresponding highest intensity ranking weather event extant in the corresponding sectors is assigned to each of the corresponding sectors in the altitude zones. A selection of a selected altitude zone is received from among the altitude zones. A rendered image is generated by rendering the corresponding grid for the selected altitude zone. The rendered image is displayed on the GUI.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Gene Herrschaft, Malcolm Toon
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Patent number: 11887492Abstract: To bring an aircraft in flight to a runway, an automatic trajectory generation system obtains a procedure, called STARI procedure, which provides a final trajectory flyable by the aircraft to land on the runway, such that from the entry point of the final trajectory or from any point above it, a holding loop pattern of a predefined shape is flyable in order to dissipate energy if necessary. The automatic trajectory generation system then computes a lateral trajectory, avoiding any terrain relief, meteorological obstacles and military zones, between the current position of the aircraft and the entry point or a point above it, based on performance adapted to an operational state of the aircraft. An overall trajectory is thus obtained, by linking the computed lateral trajectory and the final trajectory of the STARI procedure, including iterations of the holding loop pattern if necessary.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Thomas Pastre, Miguel Consiglieri Pedroso Mendes Dias
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Patent number: 11879278Abstract: A vehicle door control device includes a swipe operation portion provided on a vehicle interior side of a door, a detection unit provided at least in the swipe operation portion and configured to detect a swipe operation, a door lock device configured to hold the door in a closed state, and a controller configured to release a closed state of the door by the door lock device when it is determined that the swipe operation is detected based on a detection result of the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuo Nishizuka
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Patent number: 11878674Abstract: A vehicle includes an all-wheel-drive powertrain having an electric machine configured to power wheels. A controller is programmed to output a first calculated vehicle speed derived from integrating a measured longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle and output a second calculated vehicle speed based on the measured longitudinal acceleration and a speed of one of the wheels. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to a flag being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the first vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip, and responsive to a flag not being present, command a speed to the electric machine that is based on the second vehicle speed to reduce wheel slip.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jose Velazquez Alcantar, Joseph Jay Torres, Peter James Barrette, Richard David Bruns, Corwin Stout, Rajit Johri
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Patent number: 11873001Abstract: A radar controller for a vehicle and a method therefore are provided. The radar controller includes a radar that detects a passenger located inside the vehicle and an obstacle located outside the vehicle and a controller that determines sensitivity and a detection speed corresponding to an operation mode of the radar and controls the radar to operate at the determined sensitivity and the determined detection speed.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Eung Hwan Kim, Gyun Ha Kim, Sang Kyung Seo, Dae Yun An
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Patent number: 11866071Abstract: A predicting device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a state of a moving body; a predictor configured to predict a position of the moving body in the future on the basis of the recognition result of the recognizer; and a processor configured to determine whether to set a first risk region or a second risk region larger than the first risk region for the moving body on the deviation between a position of the moving body which has been recognized by the recognizer and a position of the moving body in the future which has been predicted previously by the predictor.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Misa Komuro
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Patent number: 11866167Abstract: A method for enhancing movement or autonomy, including movement or flight of vehicles or flight vehicles in communication and or GPS degraded and or denied and or non-optimal environments is presented, where 3D area maps and or area maps may be employed, and 3D area maps and or area maps employed may include embedded position, location or GPS date, where the location or GPS data may be used in the present invention to determine vehicle location through image recognition, and using the GPS coordinates or location from the 3D area map of the image recognized, or measuring distance to other know aspects of a 3D area map in the real world, and context or system level information may also be used to estimate obstacle shapes and optimal routes in a potential route of travel or for understanding an area.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: RHOMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Andrew Youmans, Thomas Bradford Doermer Callen
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Patent number: 11869371Abstract: A takeoff and landing facility management apparatus 4 transmits an information request for an unmanned aerial vehicle 1 to an unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus 3 in response to receiving a landing request from the unmanned aerial vehicle 1 that asks for an emergency landing. And then, the unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management apparatus 3 transmits at least position information of the unmanned aerial vehicle 1 to the takeoff and landing facility management apparatus 4 in response to the information request in a case where the unmanned aerial vehicle 1 that asks for the emergency landing is in an emergency state.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.Inventors: Jin Kusumi, Norihisa Miyake, Hayato Mizukami