Patents Examined by Madison R Hughes
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Patent number: 11951937Abstract: Upon identifying an authorized user approaching a vehicle, vehicle locks are controlled to permit the authorized user to access an authorized area based on a user authorization. Permitted vehicle features within the authorized area for the authorized user are identified based on the user authorization. Upon receiving a user input selecting one permitted vehicle feature, the selected permitted vehicle feature is actuated based on determining that a state of charge of a battery is above a charge threshold. Upon determining that the state of charge of the battery decreases below the charge threshold, actuation of the selected permitted vehicle feature is stopped. Then an engine is controlled to charge the battery based on the user authorization.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Zeljko Deljevic, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Sam Harris, Tarik Safir, Donald Paul Bilger
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Patent number: 11941555Abstract: A method for fulfilling a work task request using a modular autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes transmitting a work task request specifying a work request to be performed by the modular autonomous vehicle, and identifying equipment required for performing the work task request. Once the work task request is stored at a server, the method further includes identifying information of the equipment required for performing the work task request, and determining whether equipment of the modular autonomous vehicle corresponds to the equipment required for assigning the work task to the modular autonomous vehicle. Method also includes, upon receiving in-cabin sensing data, assigning or denying the work task to the modular autonomous vehicle for performance of the work task.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: David Michael Duffy, Matthew John Lawrenson, Jan Jasper van den BERG, Kenji Sugihara, Sadako Yamagata, Akihisa Kawasaki, Koichi Nakahara
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Patent number: 11935405Abstract: An Improved Roadway Guidance System provides guidance elements in a roadway as means to guide a vehicle along the roadway, as well as supply important information to the vehicle to enhance the autonomous operation of the vehicle in a safe and efficient manner. The system comprises at least three parts: (1) the use of overlaid roadway “emitter strips” that provide an extended excitation/emission field simultaneous with direct guidance instructions to passing vehicles; (2) the use of a linearly-arranged antenna array system provided on the vehicle and adapted for interaction with the emitter strips for positionally locating the vehicle within a travel lane and providing additional informative data for operation of the vehicle; and (3) the use of a multi-port Receiver Unit that works with the antenna array and the host vehicle's guidance system to optimize autonomous operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Arnold Chase, William Chase
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Patent number: 11904867Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller capable of improving safety of a motorcycle. The controller that controls vehicle body behavior of the motorcycle includes: an acquisition section that acquires trigger information generated in accordance with peripheral environment of the motorcycle; and an execution section that initiates a control mode making the motorcycle execute an automatic brake operation in accordance with the trigger information acquired by the acquisition section and makes the motorcycle generate a braking force. The acquisition section further acquires deceleration resistance information that is information related to a driver's driving posture on the motorcycle, and the execution section changes a control command that is output in the control mode in accordance with the deceleration resistance information acquired by the acquisition section.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Jun Ohtaka
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Patent number: 11899448Abstract: An autonomous vehicle is described herein. The autonomous vehicle is configured to determine that a person is proximate the autonomous vehicle at a location that is external to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is further configured to determine that the person is attempting to hail the autonomous vehicle through use of a gesture. The autonomous vehicle identifies the gesture being performed by the person, and responsive to identifying the gesture, identifies a travel intent that the person is imparting to the autonomous vehicle by way of the gesture. The autonomous vehicle then operates based upon the travel intent.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas Scott, Peter Ming Gao
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Patent number: 11869366Abstract: A method of displaying an electronic report on a GUI that includes receiving a user identifier and an authentication identifier associated with a user gaining access to a first application; displaying, on the GUI, a first window associated with the first application; displaying, via the first window, a listing of monitored flights; receiving, via the first window, a request; accessing, using the first application, a second application and a third application that are different from each other and the first application; updating the displayed listing of monitored flights using information accessed from the second and third applications; wherein a flight has a delay greater than two hours; and receiving, via the first window, a request for the electronic report for the flight; displaying, on the GUI and via a second window, the electronic report for the flight that includes information from each of the second and third applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.Inventors: Arman Rezaee, Michael Finn, Christopher S. Roush, Rocco Bova
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Patent number: 11869369Abstract: A moving body has a control unit that determines priority relating to movement on the basis of prescribed rules, the control unit comparing, on the basis of the prescribed rules, a first determination value that is the determination value for the moving body, and a second determination value that is the determination value for another moving body, whereby the priority of the moving body is determined in relation to the other moving body.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Nagai, Yo Ito, Takahiro Iijima
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Patent number: 11860644Abstract: A flying device is provided, which includes: an acquisition unit that acquires communication quality information with which position information indicating a position and the communication quality at a position indicated by the position information are associated; a flight position identification unit that identifies a flight position, which is an in-flight position; a path determination unit that determines a flight path on the basis of the communication quality associated with the position information corresponding to the flight position in the communication quality information; and a flight control unit that controls a flying mechanism on the basis of the flight path determined by the path determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Matsuki, Masafumi Hirono
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Patent number: 11854386Abstract: A vehicle right-of-way management method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: determining a used right-of-way level of a first vehicle according to function information of the first vehicle, where the used right-of-way level of the first vehicle includes a right-of-way level that the management device allows the first vehicle to use; and scheduling a road resource for the first vehicle according to the used right-of-way level of the first vehicle. In technical solutions provided in embodiments of this application, the management device can allocate different used right-of-way levels to vehicles with different functions according to function information of the vehicles, and schedule and allocate road resources by means of overall planning for the vehicles in a transportation system according to the used right-of-way levels of the vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yangbo Lin
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Patent number: 11841437Abstract: In one embodiment, a set of LIDAR images are received representing the LIDAR point cloud data captured by a LIDAR device of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) at different point in times. Each of the LIDAR imagers is transformed or translated from a local coordinate system (e.g., LIDAR coordinate space) to a global coordinate system (e.g., GPS coordinate space) using a coordinate converter configured with a set of parameters. A first LIDAR reflection map is generated based on the transformed LIDAR images, for example, by merging the transformed LIDAR images together. The coordinate converter is optimized by adjusting one or more parameters of the coordinate converter based on the difference between the first LIDAR reflection map and a second LIDAR reflection map that serves as a reference LIDAR reflection map. The optimized coordinate converter can then be utilized to process LIDAR data for autonomous driving at real-time.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventor: Fan Zhu
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Patent number: 11810462Abstract: A specifying unit 51 of a flying body operation management device 50 specifies an airspace in which a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value occurs in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a wireless communication terminal 30 and a wireless base station 41 to which wireless communication terminal 30 is wirelessly connected. Next, an assigning unit 52 of flying body operation management device 50 performs a process of assigning, with respect to each airspace, a flying body 10 having a wireless communication terminal 20. At this time, with respect to an airspace specified by specifying unit 51, assigning unit 52 limits the assigning of flying body 10 on which wireless communication terminal 20 is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa, Shinya Hanano, Takashi Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11794919Abstract: A system for transmitting and storing data based on a connection for a vehicle is presented. The system includes a computing device, the computing device configured to receive a vehicle data, communicatively connect the computing device to a second device as a function of a mesh network, authenticate a second device as a function of an authentication module, generate a vehicle collection datum as a function of the vehicle data, communicate the vehicle collection datum to the second device as a function of the mesh network, and store the vehicle collection datum in a recorder database as a function of a lack of identification of the mesh network.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventor: Herman Wiegman
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Patent number: 11796657Abstract: A control device 6 acquires an output signal front a lidar unit 7 that can detect a feature existing around a vehicle, and calculates a reference angle ?tag, indicating a tilt angle of a feature to be recognized based on an output signal from the lidar unit 7, with respect to a detection area of the lidar unit 7. The control device 6 then controls the detection area of the lidar unit 7 according to the reference angle ?tag and the tilt information stored in the storage unit 2 and indicating an angle of the feature with respect to a road surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiya Nonaka
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Patent number: 11787386Abstract: A driving support device that controls a steering unit such that a hitch angle between a tow vehicle, which tows a towed vehicle, and the towed vehicle becomes a target angle set as a target includes: an image control unit that causes a display unit to perform display of a captured image obtained by an imaging unit provided in the tow vehicle or the towed vehicle in a mirror image state and display of a setting image including a slider indicating the target angle input through an input unit; an acquisition unit that acquires input of the target angle at the time of backward movement of the tow vehicle from the input unit, in a state where the setting image is displayed; and a setting unit that sets the target angle based on the input.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Maruoka, Kinji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11788852Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a transport, a request for a service from a transport occupant, determining, by the transport, a profile of the transport occupant, identifying, by the transport, at least one profile shared with the transport occupant based on the profile of the transport occupant, and providing the service to the transport occupant based on the at least one profile shared with the transport occupant.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Anil Nagpal, Randall M. Harris
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Patent number: 11780503Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a target position recognition unit configured to recognize a target position, a parking route generation unit configured to generate a parking route, and an automatic steering unit configured to automatically operate a steering device. The parking route generation unit generates a first route and a second route. The first route is a parking route to a temporary target position that is obtained by laterally moving the target position toward inside of the parking route in a turning direction. The second route is a parking route to the target position from a designated position in the middle of the first route. The automatic steering unit automatically operates the steering device to cause the subject vehicle to follow the first route until the subject vehicle reaches the designated position and to follow the second route from the designated position until the subject vehicle reaches the target position.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsutomu Mochida, Motokatsu Tomozawa, Masaya Kato
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Patent number: 11760357Abstract: Provided is a travel evaluation method of making an evaluation related to travel of a vehicle capable of traveling in a leaning position, the method including: obtaining a tire force which is an external force exerted on a wheel of the vehicle from a ground surface; and deriving an evaluation index related to travel of the vehicle. The evaluation index includes a positive evaluation index as a rating of a positive evaluation related to travel of the vehicle. In deriving the evaluation index, the positive evaluation index is set higher as the tire force increases, and the evaluation index is corrected based on an influential parameter other than the tire force.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Hisato Tokunaga, Kazuhiro Ichikawa
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Patent number: 11749127Abstract: A flight deck system for providing progressive taxiing guidance is provided. The flight deck system comprises a controller configured to: generate a graphical insert to overlay a small portion of an active navigation display, the graphical insert providing a progressive depiction of upcoming travel surfaces on a cleared taxi route. The graphical insert comprises a non-linear map with non-linear scaling, a current travel surface alphanumeric indicator, and a current travel surface stick character representative of a current travel surface. The controller is further configured to position, on the graphical insert, a crossing travel surface sign, a first-turn travel surface stick character, and a second-turn travel surface stick character; update the position of the crossing travel surface sign, the first-turn travel surface stick character, and/or the second-turn travel surface stick character as the aircraft travels; and cause the graphical insert to be displayed as an overlay on the active navigation display.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Ratan Khatwa, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohideen, Vineetha Chandran, Dhivagar Palanisamy, Niranjan Kalyandurg
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Patent number: 11720120Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of sending, by a transport, a drop off request to a plurality of nodes at a target location, receiving, by the transport, permissions from the plurality of the nodes, responsive to the permissions, acquiring, by the transport, an agreement for the drop off request from at least one node from the plurality of the nodes, and recording the drop off request on a remote storage.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Aghyad Saleh, Joshua C. Batie
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Patent number: 11682310Abstract: A method of verifying aircraft position information based on ADS-B messages includes receiving an ADS-B message indicating an identifier of an aircraft and indicating a position of the aircraft. The method includes accessing a tamper-resistant distributed public ledger of authenticated flight plan data to determine whether flight plan data associated with the identifier is stored in the tamper-resistant distributed public ledger. The method includes, conditioned upon a determination that the flight plan data is stored in the tamper-resistant distributed public ledger, comparing the position to a flight path indicated by the flight plan data. The method includes selecting a characteristic of an icon corresponding to the aircraft based on a determination whether the position corresponds to the flight path. The method further includes displaying, on a display device and based on the characteristic, the icon at a location corresponding to the position.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Swathi Pennapareddy