Patents Examined by Omeed Alizada
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Patent number: 11263890Abstract: The vehicle occupancy reminder is configured for use with a vehicle that is further defined with a vehicle engine control unit (VECU) that generates an ignition off signal and a door open signal. The vehicle occupancy reminder monitors the vehicle for a passenger in a child safety seat. The vehicle occupancy reminder generates a plurality of alarms when: a) a passenger is detected in the child safety seat after the VECU has transmitted an ignition off signal to the vehicle occupancy reminder; or, b) a passenger is detected in the child safety seat after the VECU has transmitted a door open signal to the vehicle occupancy reminder. When the vehicle occupancy reminder detects a selected alarm condition alarm condition, the vehicle occupancy reminder generates a plurality of visual, audible, and tactile alarms that alert an appropriate authority that a selected alarm condition has occured.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Carol Garwood
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Patent number: 11247636Abstract: A vehicle electronic key system acquires a vehicle vibration, which is a vibration generated in a vehicle, at a time of a driver's door of the vehicle being closed after a driver is presumed to get in the vehicle, and a key vibration, which is a vibration generated in an electronic key, at the time of the driver's door being closed after the driver is presumed to get in the vehicle. The system determines whether or not the vehicle vibration and the key vibration at the time of the driver's door being closed match each other, and permits an operation of a predetermined operation target device mounted in the vehicle on the condition that the vehicle vibration and the key vibration match each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hidenori Wada
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Patent number: 11247699Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products that facilitate driver assist interface in a vehicle. A system can include a memory and a processor that executes computer executable components. The computer executable components can include: a monitoring component that monitors driver operation of a vehicle, an analysis component that analyzes the driver operation of the vehicle, a recommendation component that generates real-time recommendations regarding improving at least one of driver turning, accelerating or braking of the vehicle, and an interactive display component that generates a real-time graphical user interface that visually represents the real-time recommendations relative to the driver's current operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: VOLVO CAR CORPORATIONInventors: Tomas Omasta, Mikael Gordh, Hanna Gerdeskans, Andrea Slaattelia Larsson
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Patent number: 11238721Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for efficiently monitoring hand hygiene is provided. The system comprises one or more sensors configured to determine presence of one or more individuals in vicinity. The system further comprises one or more controllers configured to ascertain identity of the one or more individuals. The one or more controllers are further configured to send one or more alerts to the one or more identified individuals to wash their hands. Furthermore, the one or more controllers are configured to monitor one or more handwashing instances by the one or more identified individuals and generate one or more compliance results for each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances. The one or more controllers are also configured to initiate one or more actions corresponding to each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances based on the generated one or more compliance results.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.Inventors: Nitesh Dattu Waghode, Vivek Vasant Diwanji, Amit Bindumadhav Pingle, Himanshu Pradhan, Mandar Pandurang Patil, Aman Singhal, Ashish Sharma
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Patent number: 11238709Abstract: A system includes a sequencer that divides a reference waveform into reference sequences, a sequence adjuster, and a model that models non-linearities of a haptic rendering signal chain that includes a haptic transducer load and a driver to the load. For each reference sequence: the sequence adjuster transforms the reference sequence into a test sequence using one or more parameters (e.g., changes reference sequence amplitude and/or period), the model generates an output in response to the test sequence, an error signal is generated that measures a difference between the output and the reference sequence, and if the error signal is above a threshold the parameters are adjusted based on the error signal. These operations are repeated until the error signal is below the threshold in which case the test sequence becomes a selected sequence, which is then sent to the haptic rendering signal chain.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: Emmanuel Marchais, Eric Lindemann, Carl L. Stahl
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Patent number: 11238737Abstract: A motor vehicle including a lighting module that generates a set of symbols on the ground in the surroundings of the motor vehicle and a control device that controls the operation of the lighting module. The control device is designed such that it predicts the movement of a road user present in the surroundings of the motor vehicle based on information relating to the road user, and that it automatically adapts the set of symbols depending on the predicted movement of the road user.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Abdelmalek Hanafi, Lenja Sorokin
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Patent number: 11232693Abstract: A help-seeking method and system for indoor care are provided. A presentation information code is obtained through the acquired human body presentation information in each preset height section, and a help-seeking message is generated when a duration in which the presentation information code matches a target code is greater than a time threshold corresponding to the target code. All possible behavioral postures of a human body in daily activities are converted into and represented by respective target codes, and the target codes are associated with time and preset in the system. By recording duration in which the human body presentation information code for an elder during indoor activities matches the corresponding target code, a help-seeking message can be generated for an abnormal situation in which the duration of a behavioral posture is greater than the time threshold for the matched target code.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: GUANGZHOU SAFENC ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhiyong Chen
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Patent number: 11222542Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for operating a first device. The first device obtains environment information in proximity to the first device and receives one or more communication messages from a second device and the message(s) includes relevance criteria, wherein the relevance criteria indicates one or more devices, one or more sets of device characteristics, one or more lanes, one or more intersections or areas, one or more pedestrian paths or bicycle paths, one or more signal characteristics from the second device or any combination thereof. The first device determines whether the one or more communication messages are relevant to the first device based on the relevance criteria and the environment information and performs an operation in response to the determination of whether the one or more communication messages are relevant.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Benjamin Lund, Edwin Chongwoo Park, Anthony Blow, Garrett Shriver
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Patent number: 11222525Abstract: Each first terminal mounted in advance on an item transmits first vibration data and a first terminal ID by radio wave in response to vibration detection, each beacon terminal disposed in advance at a place in a room intermittently transmits a beacon signal and a beacon ID by radio wave, a management device sequentially records each first terminal ID received together with the first vibration data and the beacon ID received together with the beacon signal to a detection list in a storage unit, acquires, from the storage unit, terminal information related to the first terminal ID recorded in the detection list and position information related to the beacon ID received concurrently with the first terminal ID, and displays the terminal information and the position information on a screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telepgraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Patent number: 11214236Abstract: A method (500) for protection of a vehicle (100), the method comprising: receiving information from a sensor (502); comparing the information with known signatures indicative of a likely attack (504); determining whether a known signature indicative of a likely attack is present (506); and if a known signature indicative of a likely attack is present, placing at least one system of the vehicle into a heightened state of alert (508).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tarik Safir, Gabriel Mitchell, Sam Harris, James Nicholas Murray, Aaron Abentheuer, Betsy Fields Smith
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Patent number: 11208301Abstract: A control switch for operating a crane. The control switch includes a first interface designed to transfer signals between the control switch and a control unit of the crane. In order to combine, in particular, the robustness and operating reliability of the control switch desired in industrial use with increased functional scope in a cost-effective way, the control switch is provided with a second interface designed to transfer signals between a mobile terminal and the control switch in order to add functions of the mobile terminal to the functional scope of the control switch.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Konecranes Global CorporationInventors: Wolfgang Krebs, Thomas Lindenau, Frederick Woidneck, Marco Woldt, Giuliano Persico, Holger Freitag, Stefan Elspass
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Patent number: 11203360Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control system including a driving assistance controller configured to execute driving assistance of a vehicle at a plurality of different degrees, an information output configured to output information, and an output controller configured to control the information output so that information indicating a target to be monitored or operated by an occupant required for the occupant is output on the basis of a change in a degree of driving assistance of the driving assistance controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura, Tatsuya Iwasa, Yoshihiro Oniwa, Mineyuki Yoshida, Yuko Ouchi, Fue Kubota, Toshiyuki Kaji, Naotaka Kumakiri, Naohiro Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11200806Abstract: A display device includes a display that displays an image, a display controller that causes the display to display a first image indicating at least one of route information and road information on a route to a destination of a vehicle, and a determiner that determines that a traveling lane in which the vehicle is present among one or a plurality of lanes included in the route is a branch lane which branches from the route or a merge lane which merges into another lane, wherein the display controller causes the display to display a second image indicating that a branch point or a merge point is present ahead in a travel direction of the vehicle without displaying the first image when the determiner has determined that the traveling lane is the branch or merge lane.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Jumpei Ichinokawa
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Patent number: 11186296Abstract: A method for decelerating a vehicle, a non-transitory computer-readable medium for performing the method, and reception apparatuses. The method includes monitoring a state of a driver of the vehicle, and causing a notification to be output based on the monitored state of the driver. The method further includes determining, by circuitry of an information processing apparatus and when operating in a manual operation mode, whether to cause the vehicle to decelerate after the notification is output. The vehicle is caused by the circuitry to decelerate based on the determination of whether to cause the vehicle to decelerate.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Eiji Oba
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Patent number: 11183054Abstract: In an information processing device, a determination unit determines whether a first distance from a position of a vehicle within a predetermined range of an intersection having a stop line to a road link of the intersection is shorter than a second distance from the position of the vehicle to a road link other than the road link of the intersection, based on vehicle information including information indicating the position of the vehicle and map information. An identification unit identifies whether the vehicle has stopped at the stop line, based on the vehicle information, when the first distance is determined to be shorter than the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHTKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Kitagawa
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Patent number: 11176807Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for an unmanned system (US) for smoke detector testing are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a test kit, a processor, and a memory having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a test procedure on a projected beam smoke detector in a facility using the test kit and communicate a result of the test procedure to a smoke detector network associated with the facility.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Scott Lang, Johan Vossen, Rich Lau, Donna Burns
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Patent number: 11167774Abstract: Methods and systems for providing Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) warnings and/or other types of information to an occupant of a motor vehicle are provided. Warning lights can be provided around the perimeter of a shape that represents the perimeter of the vehicle from a top-view perspective. Lights around the shape can be lit to convey a sense of the area of danger and/or the direction from which danger is approaching.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: INDIEV, INCInventor: Diego Furtado
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Patent number: 11161410Abstract: A pattern recognition system receives an image captured by an image capture device, of an operator and the operator is identified. Operator information is accessed, based upon the identified operator, and a control signal is generated to control a mobile machine, based upon the operator information.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Joshua C. Heitsman, Reginald M. Bindl, Keith N. Chaston, Michael G. Kean, John M. Hageman, Mark J. Cherney, Sean P. West
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Patent number: 11163901Abstract: The present invention is related to systems and methods for identifying and reporting a crisis status. In at least one embodiment, the system comprises a central server; an administrative work station communicably coupled to the central server, wherein the administrative work station is accessible only by an authorized administrator; a database communicably coupled to the central server, the database including a floor plan of the area, wherein the database is accessible and modifiable by the authorized administrator at the administrative work station; and a remote device at a particular location in the area, the remote device communicably coupled to the central server, the remote device capable of communicating securely to the database the particular location of the remote device and the crisis status of the particular location.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Sielox, LLCInventor: Karen Evans
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Patent number: 11158138Abstract: A method and system for preserving and processing vehicle crash data evidence for any motor vehicle collision. The method initiates with checking and selecting from list of vehicles that support internal recording of crash event data. The method includes a field user option for extracting the hexadecimal event data stored in memory on a vehicle's airbag module by communicating through the on-board diagnostic port with a universal wireless on-board diagnostic device communicatively coupled with a user-computing device. Data preservation is achieved by requesting and saving vehicle specific code responses; data is then transmitted through a communication network to a computer integrated remotely in a laboratory for interpretation into a readable report format, so that collision specific details can be understood and analyzed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Inventor: Jason Bayley