Patents Examined by Renee Larose
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Patent number: 11970088Abstract: A seat control system for a vehicle includes a seat, a seat position changer, a door sensor, and a controller. When an occupant performs registration operation after an ignition switch is turned on, the controller is configured to: if the door sensor senses a closed state, store a current seat position of the seat as a driving position, in association with the information of the occupant; and, if the door sensor senses an open state, store the current seat position as a get-out position at a time when the occupant gets off the vehicle, in association with the information. After the registration operation is performed, the controller is configured to: change the seat position to the driving position by controlling the seat position changer before the vehicle travels; and change the seat position to the get-out position by controlling the seat position changer when the occupant gets off the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Otsuka, Osamu Okada
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Patent number: 11965751Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicular electronic device including a power supply configured to supply power, a memory, an interface configured to receive HD map data on a specific area from a server through a communication device and to receive a turn-off signal and a turn-on signal, and at least one processor configured to store first electronic horizon data on an area around a vehicle, generated based on HD map data, in the memory upon receiving the turn-off signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Jinsang Lee
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Patent number: 11944401Abstract: A virtual reality system providing a virtual robotic surgical environment, and methods for using the virtual reality system, are described herein. The virtual reality system may be used to expedite the R&D cycle during development of a robotic surgical system, such as by allowing simulation of potential design without the time and significant expense of physical prototypes. The virtual reality system may also be used to test a control algorithm or a control mode for a robotic surgical component.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.Inventors: Haoran Yu, Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy, Bernard Fai Kin Siu, Eric Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 11938925Abstract: A vehicle movement assist system includes: an external environment sensor unmovably fixed to a vehicle; and a control device configured to acquire the position of an obstacle relative to the vehicle based on a result of detection performed by the external environment sensor and to execute an automatic moving process to autonomously move the vehicle. During execution of the automatic moving process, if the obstacle is detected in a recognition range set by the control device, the control device performs a notification to the driver and/or executes a process including deceleration or stopping of the vehicle. The control device is configured to change the recognition range in accordance with the travel state of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hara, Syoichi Kobayashi, Yasushi Shoda
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Patent number: 11938629Abstract: A micro-robot magnetic drive device and a control method based on double closed loop three-dimensional path tracking are disclosed. The method includes: inputting a desired tracking path, obtaining current pose information of a magnetic micro-robot through a camera, and then calculating a position of a center of mass, an actual axial direction, coordinates of a desired position point with the shortest distance from the center of mass on a desired tracking path, and a tangent direction of this point; calculating a horizontal distance, a vertical distance, a direction angle error, and a pitch angle error of the two points according to the actual axial direction, the tangent direction, and disturbance compensation; and obtaining a required rotating magnetic field according to a designed position closed loop controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Qigao Fan, Wei Chen, Linbai Xie, Yixin Zhu, Guofeng Yang, Yueyang Li, Kaitao Bi, Wentao Huang, Haichi Luo, Zhengqing Zhao
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Patent number: 11932267Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a vehicle platform including a first computer that controls traveling of a vehicle; an automated-driving platform including a second computer that controls automated-driving of the vehicle; a first network connecting the vehicle platform and the automated-driving platform; a second network connecting the vehicle platform and the automated-driving platform; a main power supply that supplies electricity required for communication in the first network; a sub-power supply that supplies electricity required for communication in the second network; and a communication interface that allows communication between the vehicle platform and the automated-driving platform to be performed by using any one of the first network and the second network.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Eisuke Ando
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Patent number: 11926062Abstract: A continuum robot having at least two independently manipulateable bendable section for advancing the robot through a passage, without contacting fragile elements within the passage, wherein the robot incorporates control algorithms that enable the continuum robot to operate and advance into the passage, as well as the systems and procedures associated with the continuum robot and said functionality.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: Canon U.S.A., Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Fumitaro Masaki, Franklin King, Nobuhiko Hata, Takahisa Kato
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Patent number: 11904876Abstract: In a vehicle control system, a sampling period change unit changes a sampling period such that the sampling period is made shorter, when a driving state of the vehicle becomes to have a higher possibility of accident as a result of driving control of the vehicle than when the driving state of the vehicle becomes to have a lower possibility of accident. A data storage control unit stores in an eMMC control instruction data stored in a temporary storage buffer in a non-volatile memory by sampling at the sampling period set by the sampling period change unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuuto Hirashima
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Patent number: 11897518Abstract: The present disclosure relates to navigational systems for vehicles. In one implementation, such a navigational system may a first output from a first sensor and a second output from a second sensor; identify a target object in the first output; and determine, based on the first output, a detected driving condition associated with the target object and whether the condition triggers a navigational constraint. If the navigational constraint is triggered, the system may cause a first navigational adjustment. If the navigational constraint is not triggered, the system may determine whether a representation of the target object is included in the second output. If the representation of the target object is included in the second output, the system may cause a second navigational adjustment. If the representation of the target object is not included in the second output, the system may forego any navigational adjustments.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shaked Shammah, Amnon Shashua
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Patent number: 11866059Abstract: A route information storage function having decreased data storage requirements is provided in a vehicle controller that includes a processor, a first storage unit, and a second storage unit and that stores route information indicating a route to a target point. The vehicle controller includes a traveling state acquiring unit that acquires route information on a vehicle, a short-term storage information processing unit that stores the route information in the first storage unit, as short-term storage information, the route information being acquired by the traveling state acquiring unit while the vehicle is traveling, and a long-term storage information processing unit that after the vehicle has reached the target point, determines long-term storage information from short-term storage information stored in the first storage unit, the long-term storage information processing unit storing the determined long-term storage information in the second storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Takaya Ishii, Masashi Seimiya
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Patent number: 11855799Abstract: In embodiments of an autonomous vehicle platform and safety architecture, safety managers of a safety-critical system monitor outputs of linked components of the safety-critical system. The linked components comprise at least three components, each of which is configured to produce output indicative of a same event independent from the other linked components by using different input information than the other linked components. The safety managers also compare the outputs of the linked components to determine whether each output indicates the occurrence of a same event. When the output of one linked component does not indicate the occurrence of an event that is indicated by the outputs of the other linked components, the safety managers identify the one linked component as having failed. Based on this, the outputs of the other linked components are used to carry out operations of the safety-critical system without using the output of the failed component.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: VAY TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Joshua John Hartung, Peter Brink, Jonathan Lamb, David Paul Miller
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Patent number: 11840160Abstract: Automatically adjusting ergonomic factors of a vehicle seat, including: receiving first video data capturing a person outside of a vehicle; identifying, based on the first video data, one or more physical attributes of the person; and modifying vehicle seat configuration based on the one or more physical attributes.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.Inventors: Mario Delgado, Volkmar Uhlig, Par Botes, John Hayes
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Patent number: 11827240Abstract: Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle motion planning are provided. Sensor data describing an environment of an autonomous vehicle and an initial travel path for the autonomous vehicle through the environment can be obtained. A number of trajectories for the autonomous vehicle are generated based on the sensor data and the initial travel path. The trajectories can be evaluated by generating a number of costs for each trajectory. The costs can include a safety cost and a total cost. Each cost is generated by a cost function created in accordance with a number of relational propositions defining desired relationships between the number of costs. A subset of trajectories can be determined from the trajectories based on the safety cost and an optimal trajectory can be determined from the subset of trajectories based on the total cost. The autonomous vehicle can control its motion in accordance with the optimal trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Vijay Subramanian, Moslem Kazemi, David Mcallister Bradley, Michael Lee Phillips
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Patent number: 11822338Abstract: The transportation vehicle determines whether the calculated distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance (step S14). If the determination result of step S14 is positive, the transportation vehicle searches for the closest stoppable location to the current location (step S15). The transportation vehicle also performs the pause task at the closest stoppable location. The transportation vehicle performs visualization processing of the surrounding circumstances of the drop-off location, and displays the processed image on touch-screen. The user specifies the detailed drop-off location while looking at the touch-screen (step S16).Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Morita, Koji Taguchi
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Patent number: 11794762Abstract: A method for prioritizing occlusion information is presented. The method includes determining, at a first time period, a first sensor's view of a spatial area is occluded. The method also includes observing, at a second time period, the spatial area. The method further includes determining a level of risk associated with the spatial area based on the observation. The method still further includes prioritizing transmission of the occlusion information corresponding to the spatial area based on the determined level of risk and transmitting the occlusion information corresponding to the spatial area based on the priority.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Stephen G. McGill, Guy Rosman, Luke S. Fletcher
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Patent number: 11797013Abstract: Collision avoidance for a mobile machine having a plurality of sensors is disclosed. The mobile machine is avoided from colliding with a collision object by fusing sensor data received from the plurality of sensors to obtain a plurality of data points corresponding to the collision object, calculating a closed-form solution of a distance between the mobile machine and each of the plurality of data points, calculating a maximum allowed velocity of the mobile machine based on the shortest distance between the mobile machine and the plurality of data points and a current velocity of the mobile machine, and controlling the mobile machine to move according to the maximum allowed velocity.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: UBTECH NORTH AMERICA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORP, UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTDInventors: Dejun Guo, Kang-Hao Peng, Dan Shao, Yang Shen, Huan Tan
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Patent number: 11782434Abstract: The present invention has an object of reducing the number of resident operators in a remote driving system. A driving plan generating apparatus includes: a section selector selecting, as a selected section, at least one incompletely automated driving section; a reservation unit sounding out on reservation of a remote operation of a vehicle in the selected section; and a drive planning unit generating, based on a result of the reservation, a driving plan specifying as a driving mode of the vehicle in the selected section one of a remote driving mode in which a driving control apparatus performs at least a part of driving tasks through the remote operation performed by an operator outside the vehicle and an incompletely automated driving mode in which the driving control apparatus performs at least the part of driving tasks through an operation of a passenger in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Tadashi Miyahara
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Patent number: 11780432Abstract: A training method for a driver assistance method of a vehicle. The method includes: recording a sequence of camera images during a training run of the vehicle, guided by a user, along a desired trajectory; determining a driving corridor for the driver assistance method along the desired trajectory based on image processing of the recorded sequence of camera images; displaying the recorded sequence of camera images and/or a surrounding environment model determined based on the recorded sequence of camera images on a display, at least the determined driving corridor being displayed as an overlay superimposed on the display; and storing the driving corridor in an electronic memory of the vehicle, a recording of an input by the user for adapting a boundary of the determined driving corridor during the displaying and an adapting of the determined driving corridor based on the recorded input being carried out.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Peter Preissler
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Patent number: 11772669Abstract: Among other things, a vehicle drives autonomously on a trajectory through a road network to a goal location based on an automatic process for planning the trajectory without human intervention; and an automatic process alters the planning of the trajectory to reach a target location based on a request received from an occupant of the vehicle to engage in a speed-reducing maneuver.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Motional AD LLCInventors: Harshavardhan Ravichandran, Karl Iagnemma, Eric Wolff
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Patent number: 11747804Abstract: A remote monitoring device is provided for a fleet of autonomous motor vehicles. The monitoring device is able to receive at least one piece of information from at least a first sensor monitoring the environment of a vehicle of interest, the monitoring device being able to display the information on a display screen. The monitoring device comprises: a processing module configured to determine a measuring uncertainty of the information sent by the first sensor and/or to measure a lag between the sending of the information by the first sensor and the display of the information on the display screen; and a limiting module configured to limit the piloting of said vehicle of interest by the operator as a function of the determined uncertainty and/or the measured lag.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: TRANSDEV GROUP INNOVATIONInventor: Alexis Beauvillain