Patents Examined by Nicholas Kiswanto
  • Patent number: 11926038
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a controller that, when an autonomous mobile object estimates a self-position, determines which of a first estimation method using a result of sensing by a first sensor unit configured to sense internal world information in relation to the autonomous mobile object and a second estimation method using a result of sensing by a second sensor unit configured to sense external world information in relation to the autonomous mobile object is used by the autonomous mobile object based on whether a state of the autonomous mobile object is a stopped state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Watanabe, Shin Yoshimura, Toshihisa Sanbommatsu
  • Patent number: 11926436
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fusing and analyzing multiple sources of data from a plurality of aircraft-related data sources for fault determination and other integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) diagnostics are provided. More particularly, one or more portions of data from a plurality of aircraft-related data sources for one or more aircraft are accessed. One or more alerts indicative of a data anomaly within the one or more portions of aircraft-related data sources can be detected, wherein a type of alert and originating data source associated with each alert as well as optional related confidence scores can be identified. One or more aircraft faults can be determined based at least in part on a correlation of identified types and data sources for detected alerts. An output indicative of the determined one or more aircraft faults can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Taleris Limited
    Inventors: Frank Beaven, Maria Louise Watson
  • Patent number: 11923096
    Abstract: An inspection system for inspecting a machine includes an inspection vehicle constructed for wireless operation while submersed in a dielectric liquid medium. The inspection vehicle is self-propelled. A controller is operative to direct the activities of the inspection vehicle. A plurality of status interrogation systems is disposed on the inspection vehicle. The status interrogation systems are operative to capture inspection data regarding a plurality of inspection procedures performed on the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Gregory Cole, William Eakins, Daniel Lasko, Harshang Shah, Thomas Fuhlbrigge, Carlos W. Morato, Biao Zhang, Luiz Cheim, Poorvi Patel, Stefan Rakuff, Saumya Sharma, Nolan W. Nicholas, Gregory F. Rossano, Sanguen Choi
  • Patent number: 11904907
    Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle includes a first reference straight steering angle acquisition unit configured to acquire a first reference straight steering angle which is a steering angle of the autonomous driving vehicle in a straight travelling state, a second reference straight steering angle acquisition unit configured to acquire a second reference straight steering angle which is the steering angle when a magnitude of a difference between an estimated yaw rate estimated from the steering angle of the autonomous driving vehicle and the yaw rate of the autonomous driving vehicle detected from the yaw rate sensor is less than a yaw rate threshold value, and an autonomous driving permission unit configured to permits an autonomous driving of the autonomous driving vehicle when both the first reference straight steering angle and the second reference straight steering angle are acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shun Maruyama, Mitsutaka Tanimoto, Yutaka Aoki
  • Patent number: 11906311
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Shreyans Kushwaha, Xiaoyu Zhou, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11898865
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine learning methods for customized output generation. A computing platform may train a model (using historical data) by classifying the historical data by a trip context, a device interaction context, and physical condition context, or a personality context, and training models using the classified historical data. The computing platform may monitor a data source system to collect new data, which may include information about multiple drivers. The computing platform may generate, by inputting the new data into the model, a customized driving output for a first driver, where the customized driving output is based at least in part on information about a second driver. The computing platform may send, to a computing device, the customized driving output and commands directing the computing device to display the customized driving output, which may cause the computing device to display the customized driving output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Chanakykumar Bhavsar, Surender Kumar, Matei Stroila
  • Patent number: 11897490
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for isolating commercial components from a harsh vehicle operating environment to increase the longevity of such components and to decrease their failure rate. Also described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for monitoring the operational health status of vehicle components for failure, and upon detecting failure of a component, initiating a processing task reassignment and fault recovery process. In this manner, processing load handled by the component prior to failure can be offloaded to one or more other vehicle components while a fault recovery process is initiated for the component. When the failed component is operational again, the vehicle may revert back to the task assignment in place prior to the component failure, may continue with the current task assignment, or may transition to another different task reassignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Pingfan Meng
  • Patent number: 11897506
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an active ride comfort tuning system that reactively and/or proactively alters a parameter of a system of the autonomous vehicle to mitigate or avoid interruptions to ride smoothness. For example, the comfort tuning system may alter a parameter of a drive system, suspension, and/or a trajectory cost function. The comfort tuning system may alter the parameter based at least in part on detecting and/or receiving a comfort indication, determined based on sensor data, user input, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ZOOX, INC.
    Inventor: Prateek Chandresh Shah
  • Patent number: 11899471
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to guide an unmanned aerial vehicle for recovery thereof are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to recover an aircraft or a payload thereof includes a tether line, and markers supported by the tether line at different positions of the tether line, the markers to be detected by the aircraft, the aircraft to be guided to engage the tether line by determining positions of the markers and calculating a position of at least a portion of the tether line based on the determined position of the markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Insitu, Inc. (a subsidiary of The Boeing Company)
    Inventor: Matthew J. Bartow
  • Patent number: 11898322
    Abstract: A master-side device is provided outside a working machine and transmits, to a slave-side device, a command for controlling activation of an actuator. The master-side device is provided with a master-side lever and an operation pattern switching unit. The operation pattern switching unit switches a master-side operation pattern in which a first command according to an operation of the master-side lever is combined with a second command for an operation of a machine-side lever. The slave-side device transmits, to the master-side device, information of a machine-side operation pattern selected by an operation pattern switching valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sasaki, Seiji Saiki
  • Patent number: 11897481
    Abstract: The driver assistance system comprises a detector, a navigator, a stimulator, and a voice interactor. The detector detects wakefulness reduction of a driver or absent-minded driving by the driver. The navigator navigates a vehicle based on map information. The stimulator continuously or intermittently applies stimulation to the driver. The voice interactor interacts with the driver by voice. The navigator searches for a resting facility on a route from the map information in response to a detection of the wakefulness reduction or the absent-minded driving. The voice interactor executes a first interaction of proposing navigation to the resting facility by the navigator in response to the detection of the wakefulness reduction or the absent-minded driving, and executes a second interaction of proposing application of stimulation by the stimulator after an execution of the first interaction and during a period until the vehicle arrives at the resting facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masataka Sano, Koichiro Yamauchi, Takuya Sakata
  • Patent number: 11891078
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying a constraint to apply to an operation of a vehicle are described herein. A vehicle computing system receives diagnostics and constraints associated with components of the vehicle. The vehicle computing system identifies constraints to apply to vehicular operation based on the received diagnostics and constraints. The vehicle computing system may determine whether a received constraint is valid, based on associated diagnostics. Based on a determination that the constraint is valid, the vehicle computing system may include the constraint in vehicle control considerations. Based on a determination that the constraint is invalid, the vehicle computing system may withhold the constraint from vehicle control considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZOOX, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Daniel Lopez, Collin MacGregor, Darrin Sammons Willis, Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar, Lilith Rogue Automata
  • Patent number: 11890246
    Abstract: A motor teaching system is provided with a force presentation robot for teaching motion in accordance with a predetermined motor pattern by guiding movement of a movable part of the body of a test subject, a brainwave sensor, and a computer that classifies a cerebral activity pattern into one of a plurality of classes that include motor imagery, based on a brainwave signal. The computer guides evoking contents of the test subject prior to teaching of the motor pattern, such that a classification result obtained in the period of teaching the motor pattern will be the motor imagery class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
    Inventors: Asuka Takai, Tomoyuki Noda, Giuseppe Lisi, Tatsuya Teramae, Jun Morimoto, Hiroshi Imamizu
  • Patent number: 11892846
    Abstract: A prediction-based system and method for trajectory planning of autonomous vehicles are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Zhang, Yilun Chen, Guangyu Li, Xing Sun, Wutu Lin, Liu Liu, Kai-Chieh Ma, Zijie Xuan, Yufei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11890067
    Abstract: A motion-assisted positioning arm for a medical procedure. The positioning arm includes a base, an arm coupled to the base, and an end effector coupled to the arm. The arm includes a plurality of arm segments. The arm includes a plurality of joints for connecting the arm segments. The end effector may be manipulable with six degrees of freedom in a task-coordinate space based on motion by at least one joint in the plurality of joints. The positioning arm includes a processor to: detect manipulation of and determine forces or torques acting on the end effector; determine a surgical mode for constraining movement of the end effector in the task-coordinate space; determine an end effector velocity based on the determined forces or torques and the surgical mode for moving end effector; and apply at least one joint space movement based on the end effector velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Brent Andrew Bailey, Trevor James Dell, Bart Verzijlenberg, Adam Philip, Sean Dowling, Robert Lucas
  • Patent number: 11884295
    Abstract: A method of controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle includes: selecting a target object ahead of the vehicle based on driving information, generating a velocity profile for maintaining a desired distance to the target object, calculating a desired acceleration based on the velocity profile and a delay time of the vehicle, and controlling an actuator of the vehicle based on the desired acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Cheol Shin, Hyun Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11878434
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a visual-tactile perception apparatus and a small-sized robot. The apparatus includes a visual perception module, a tactile perception module, a control module, and a signal transmission module. The signal transmission module is separately connected to the visual perception module, the tactile perception module, and the control module. The visual perception module is configured to obtain image information of a surrounding environment of the apparatus; the tactile perception module is configured to obtain tactile information of the surrounding environment of the apparatus; the signal transmission module is configured to transmit the image information and the tactile information to the control module; and the control module is configured to generate a control instruction based on the image information and the tactile information, and transmit the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEUING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qing Shi, Guanglu Jia, Tao Sun, Chen Chen, Yi Xu, Shurui Yan, Qiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11872995
    Abstract: A method for predicting a driving maneuver in a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle. Based on dynamic data of the vehicle detected with the aid of sensors, a history of a driving maneuver, which is not yet completed, is recorded and, based on the history, a future course of the driving maneuver is predicted. Multiple hypotheses for potentially occurring driving maneuvers are represented by respective associated sets of parameters. A theoretical history of the driving maneuver is calculated based on the parameters for each hypothesis. The recorded history is compared to at least one of the theoretical histories. Based on a similarity degree, the hypothesis which describes the presently occurring driving maneuver with the highest probability is determined and output as the prediction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Adrien Desies, Lorenz Quack, Markus Maier, Michael Baumann, Mostafa Alavi
  • Patent number: 11867529
    Abstract: The invention discloses an altitude initialization and monitoring system (AIMS) for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The altitude initialization and monitoring system is adapted to function as part of an airborne wireless sensing system (AWSS) associated with a UAS, transmitting flight data in support of remote identification (Remote ID) for UAS operating in the National Airspace System (NAS). The invention relates to a system, method, and software code executing the altitude initialization and monitoring functions. The invention may be implemented solely using a primary altitude sensor or may be implemented with one or more secondary (monitor) sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RUMFERT, LLC
    Inventor: David Dale Jensen
  • Patent number: 11866904
    Abstract: A digging machine such as a face shovel is controlled in an automated dumping sequence in which the bucket is pivoted to a first angular orientation before opening and, optionally, re-orienting to a second, slightly more forwardly inclined angular orientation. The first orientation may relieve the front part of the bucket from the load while the second orientation is selected to discharge the load at an optimal trajectory. The bucket may move to a third angular orientation before closing the front part against gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining LLC
    Inventor: Marcus Bitter