Patents Examined by Preston Jay Miller
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Patent number: 12366750Abstract: The appearance of content that guides a traveling path of a vehicle is improved. When a display control ECU shifts a path line, which is expressed by path line information included in map information for navigation, in a vehicle transverse direction in accordance with a distance along the vehicle transverse direction between a position of a vehicle and the path line, the display control ECU causes content to be displayed on a HUD at a corresponding position on the shifted path line.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasushi Sakuma
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Patent number: 12358528Abstract: A system for producing a trajectory from a diverse set of possible movements can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a possible movement production module and a trajectory production module. The possible movement production module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) produce a set of possible movements of a mobile robot with respect to a challenge, (2) determine a measure of diversity between a first possible movement and a second possible movement, and (3) produce a subset. Measures of diversity associated with possible movements included in the subset can be larger than measures of diversity associated with possible movements excluded from the subset. The trajectory production module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) produce trajectories associated with the possible movements included in the subset and (2) cause the mobile robot to move according to one of the trajectories.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignees: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daniele Molinari, Ryan J. Marcotte, Harsh Virendra Pandya, Constantin Franziskus Dominik Hubmann
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Patent number: 12358522Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vibration generating apparatus for a vehicle including a state analysis device that generates analysis information based on the state information, a vibration signal modeling information generation device that generates vibration signal modeling information for the vibration of the vehicle based on the generated analysis information, and a vibration signal generation device that generates a vibration signal based on the generated vibration signal modeling information and driving information of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Kyoung Jin Chang
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Patent number: 12322188Abstract: A system and a method of capturing and processing exterior environment of a structure via an autonomous vehicle are disclosed. The system receives location details, an elevation plan and a floor plan of a structure. The system prepares an image mapping plan for collecting images of the structure at each level. The system identifies a direction orientation for setting a Ground Control Point (GCP) at a base of the structure for operating an autonomous vehicle. The system employs the autonomous vehicle for capturing images of interior and exterior of the structure at each level by an image sensor of the autonomous vehicle. The system places icons mapping the images captured with the image mapping plan. The system accesses the images of the interior and exterior of the structure upon selecting the icons placed on the image mapping plan.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Inventor: Nadeem Alam Shah
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Patent number: 12319433Abstract: A method of determining the steering angle of a landing gear assembly of an aircraft is disclosed including scanning the landing gear assembly with a lidar system to generate a set of three-dimensional position data points, each position data point including a set of three orthogonal position values. A two-dimensional image from the set of three-dimensional position data points, by converting a position value of each of the three-dimensional position data points to an image property value of a set of image property values. A boundary of an area of the two-dimensional image of which each position data point has the same image property value is identified, where the area corresponds to a component of the landing gear assembly. The steering angle of the landing gear assembly is then determined from the shape and/or orientation of the identified boundary.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventor: Ting Yu Au
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Patent number: 12291212Abstract: In a driving force control device, a driving force is controlled based on an override driving force characteristic specifying a target acceleration according to a vehicle speed, an accelerator pedal position, and a traveling resistance to a vehicle, a longitudinal acceleration at a fully closed accelerator pedal position is higher in an override driving force characteristic than in a manual-driving-mode driving force characteristic, and a graph representing a relation between the accelerator pedal position and the longitudinal acceleration in the override driving force characteristic and a graph representing a relation between the accelerator pedal position and the longitudinal acceleration in the manual-driving-mode driving force characteristic intersect at a specific accelerator pedal position different from a fully closed position and a fully opened position.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Dobashi, Yasushi Dohnoue, Satoshi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 12140969Abstract: A watercraft running system includes a propulsion device, a steering device, a course changing operator, a port-side attitude control plate and a starboard-side attitude control plate, a port-side actuator and a starboard-side actuator, and a controller. The controller is operable in a first control mode in which the steering device is controlled according to the operation of the course changing operator and a second control mode in which the port-side actuator and the starboard-side actuator are controlled according to the operation of the course changing operator. The controller is configured or programmed to prohibit shifting from the first control mode to the second control mode if the steering position of the steering device is not a neutral position, and to permit the shift from the first control mode to the second control mode if the steering position is the neutral position.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroshi Inoue