Patents Examined by Quang Pham
  • Patent number: 10721443
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provides a system and method of a smart door. The system includes a camera, a display interface, and an internal rechargeable battery. In some embodiments, a camera and a display interface are mounted on both sides of the door, thus allowing users to communicate through the door while the door forms a physical barrier between the communicating users. The system networks multiple doors together. At least one door can track occupants location and entrance/exit within a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Joie Aganze Assani
  • Patent number: 10720047
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus controlled by a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The y embodiments provide an electronic apparatus controlled by a selection of one button positioned in a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-hyuk Hong, Byung-seok Soh, Eun-seok Choi, Shin-a Kim, Sang-on Choi
  • Patent number: 10706303
    Abstract: A driver information determination apparatus includes a road shape acquisition unit configured to acquire a front section shape ahead of a vehicle; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether the front section shape is a determination target shape; a face direction acquisition unit configured to acquire a face direction of a driver; and a reference face direction determination unit configured to determine a reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. When it is determined that the front section shape is the determination target shape, the reference face direction determination unit determines the reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. The determination target shape is a shape of a road having a road curvature less than or equal to a preset upper curvature limit or a shape of the road having a road incline within a preset level range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Hara, Naruhisa Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tomosue, Hiroki Iida
  • Patent number: 10676331
    Abstract: A test unit (412) has an aerial drone (414) which deploys an NDE scanner (416) on a metal surface of the EUT (26) from an aerial drone (414). The test unit (412) has a winch (424) with a winch drive motor (504) and a drive pulley (520) for dispensing and retrieving a deployment tether (418). The winch (424) also includes a reel motor (502) and a reel (496) on which the deployment tether (418) is spooled. The winch drive motor (504) and the reel motor (502) are synchronized to provide a take-up loop (546) formed of the deployment tether (418) which extends between the drive pulley (520) and the reel (496). A take-up arm (512) is connected between the take-up loop (546) and a position sensor (514) for determining the length (544) of the take-up loop (546). The deployment tether (418) is preferably provided by a cogged drive belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ScanTech Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Harvey Alan Dorsey
  • Patent number: 10676024
    Abstract: A driving assist apparatus of a vehicle of the invention predicts, as a predicted minimum left turn radius, a curvature radius of a moving route of the vehicle at a point where a curvature radius of the moving route is predicted to become smallest when the vehicle turns left, and sets a route curved along an arc having the predicted minimum left turn radius as a predicted moving route predicted for the vehicle to move. The apparatus predicts, as a predetermined minimum right turn radius, the curvature radius of the moving route of the vehicle at the point where the curvature radius is predicted to become smallest when the vehicle turns right, and sets the route curved along the arc having the predicted minimum right turn radius as the predicted moving route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Ikedo, Tomonori Akiyama, Ryo Morishita
  • Patent number: 10672262
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus controlled by a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The y embodiments provide an electronic apparatus controlled by a selection of one button positioned in a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-hyuk Hong, Byung-seok Soh, Eun-seok Choi, Shin-a Kim, Sang-on Choi
  • Patent number: 10654537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bicycle security system (130). The system comprises an alarm circuit having an alarm mechanism; and a sensor for sensing the displacement of a bicycle. The sensor is in communication with the alarm mechanism for activating the alarm mechanism if the displacement of the bicycle is greater than a predetermined threshold. A power source for powering the alarm circuit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Patrick Johnson
  • Patent number: 10657968
    Abstract: Dynamically controlling output from a device, such as an automated assistant device. Control of the output can be based on, for example, a condition and/or physiological attribute(s) of a user of the device. Various implementations dynamically control the output to improve sleep quality for the user and/or mitigate waste of computational and/or network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Tiruvilwamalai Raman
  • Patent number: 10645908
    Abstract: A system is described herein that comprises a collar device including a sound masking component, the collar device including one or more collar device sensors for detecting physiological data of an animal. The system includes one or more environmental sensors configured to detect environmental data of the animal's environment and to transmit the environmental data to the collar device. The collar device comprises one or more applications running on at least one processor for detecting an occurrence of one or more events using at least one of the physiological data, the environmental data, and outcome data. The one or more applications are configured to use information of the one or more events to select a sound masking signal for delivery after the occurrence of the one or more events The system includes a sound masking component for delivering the sound masking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: RADIO SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Alan Seltzer, Jon Huber, Geoffrey Kyle Gift
  • Patent number: 10647201
    Abstract: A drive assist device includes a fatigue degree estimator and a display controller. The fatigue degree estimator estimates a fatigue degree of a driver of a vehicle. The display controller changes a display range of an optical flow to be presented to the driver, on a basis of the fatigue degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noeru Sato, Takeshi Torii, Hiroyuki Morikawa
  • Patent number: 10648326
    Abstract: An inground housing supports a transmitter for receiving electrical power from a battery. The transmitter transmits at least one signal using at least two different transmit power levels for at least one of locating the transmitter and characterizing an orientation of the transmitter. Based on detecting the battery voltage, the transmitter selects one of the transmit power levels. Transmitter output power can be controlled based on one or both of signal gain and duty cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Merlin Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert W. Chau, Jason Pothier
  • Patent number: 10625713
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes transmitting antennas, an in-vehicle device transmitter configured to transmit request signals from the respective transmitting antennas, an in-vehicle device receiver configured to receive, from a portable device, an answer signal that includes received signal strengths of the respective request signals, and an in-vehicle device controller configured to calculate a distance from the portable device to each of a plurality of areas, based on both the received signal strengths of the respective request signals included in the answer signal and reference values for the request signals, and to identify an area to which the portable device belongs based on the distance. In a case where there is a request signal whose received signal strength is not included in the answer signal, the in-vehicle device controller calculates the distance by utilizing a corresponding reference value for the request signal as the received signal strength of the request signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Satoshi Hayasaka, Satoshi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10623834
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system, includes a vehicle database, which includes information associated with a plurality of vehicles. The vehicle monitoring system also includes a sensor database, which includes information captured by a sensor of an observing vehicle, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may generate a request to determine information associated with a target vehicle and to transmit the request to the sensor in response to determining that the information captured by the sensor does not include the information associated with the target vehicle. The sensor captures the information associated with the target vehicle based at least in part on the request. The one or more processors may also receive and store the information associated with the target vehicle from the sensor. Further, the one or more processors may output the information associated with the target vehicle to a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Cory A. Matheson, Kade L. Scott
  • Patent number: 10593209
    Abstract: Tracking movements of mobile devices may provide insight into parking space availability for transports deemed to be associated with those mobile devices. One example method of operation may include tracking movements of mobile devices within a predefined geographical area, identifying a first movement of a first mobile device as being limited to a predetermined threshold distance, identifying a second movement of the first mobile device as having a movement speed that is greater than a movement speed of the first movement, and designating the mobile device as being inside a transport leaving a parking spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 10549689
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a vehicle-mounted communication device, a method for the same, and a vehicle. The vehicle-mounted communication device comprises: a first signal transmission module configured to transmit a turn-off alert signal for alerting to turn off a high beam on condition that it is determined that a particular region of the vehicle is illuminated by the high beam; a first signal reception module configured to receive a turn-off alert signal for alerting to turn off a high beam transmitted by another vehicle; a processor configured to perform one of the following operations on condition that the high beam of the vehicle is turned on and the first signal reception module receives the turn-off alert signal: switching the vehicle to low beam illumination; and generating a prompt signal for prompting to switch to low beam illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Yu Gu, Hongli Ding
  • Patent number: 10553098
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for allowing interaction between consumer appliance devices and security systems are provided herein. An exemplary method may include allowing various interactions of a user with a consumer appliance device to generate n signal, such as a panic signal, causing various forms of security systems to escalate the signal to obtain help. Another exemplary method involves allowing the device, when placing the panic signal, to involve back end systems related to the security system to provision access to an emergency service provider (i.e., 911 provider) “just in time,” eliminating the need for costly pre-provisioning. Another exemplary method involves various sensors of the security system to communicate with consumer appliance devices to improve the performance, usability, or efficiency of the consumer appliance device or related systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas E. Hart, Tobin E. Farrand, David A. Bryan
  • Patent number: 10543808
    Abstract: Method for preventing security breaches via the two-thief method of attack of passive remote keyless entry systems for vehicles. The method involves the transmission of a signal between a fob and the vehicle, where the level of the signal changes in a particular pattern. At the receiving side, anomalies in the pattern of the received signal (e.g., levels, timing) are detected and used to detect attempts to mimic the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TRW AUTOMOTIVE U.S. LLC
    Inventor: Xing Ping Lin
  • Patent number: 10523200
    Abstract: A proximity sensor is provided. The proximity sensor has an exposed exterior surface formed of a metal material to improve the aesthetics thereof. The proximity sensor mounted within a vehicle includes a frame formed of a nonconductive material and a metal layer that covers an exterior surface of the frame. A sensor electrode contacts the metal layer and a sensor integrated circuit (IC) connected to the sensor electrode to sense an approach or a contact of a user on the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Gideok Kwon, Seok Jun Oh, Moo Yong Kim, Donghee Seok, Jong Bok Lee, HeeJin Ro
  • Patent number: 10522028
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium for seeking help and a smart footwear. The method includes detecting a user operation with respect to the smart footwear, and executing a help seeking operation using the smart footwear when the user operation matches a predefined alarm operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiqi Cui, Yan Xie
  • Patent number: 10513277
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting the presence of a rolling stock on a railway track that is subdivided in successive track sections forming successive electrical circuits independently fed with electrical current for monitoring the presence of a rolling stock on a track section. A transmission device for providing electrical current is located at one end of the track section, and a reception device for detecting the electrical current is located at an opposite end of the track section. This method includes steps for continuously feeding the electrical circuit with electrical current and monitoring the presence of a rolling stock on the corresponding track section so that an electrical current can be applied to the electrical circuit if the reception device detects that no rolling stock is present on the track section. A system for detecting presence of a rolling stock on a railway track is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Pier-Alessandro Aisa