Patents Examined by Sang Kim
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Patent number: 12083890Abstract: An operation device for an autonomous vehicle includes a touch panel configured to display at least one of a start button and a deceleration button, and a notification button on the same screen. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously drivable. The start button is a button for starting driving of the autonomous vehicle in an autonomous drive mode. The deceleration button is a button for decelerating the autonomous vehicle during the autonomous drive mode. The notification button is a button for performing notification to an outside of the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuchi Yamanouchi, Masaharu Kinoshita
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Patent number: 12086724Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may collect, in real-time and via an edge-computing device located in a vehicle, vehicle driving event data including data indicative of driving characteristics associated with an operation of the vehicle. The edge-computing device may analyze, based on a machine learning model, characteristics of the vehicle driving event data. The edge-computing device may, based on the machine learning model, determine at least one of: a driving behavior, a driver rating, occurrence of a collision, and vehicle diagnostics, and the information may be displayed via a graphical user interface to a user in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventor: Emad S. Isaac
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Patent number: 12085397Abstract: A system and method include providing a list of children to be picked up by a vehicle at a particular stop along a route to a driver device. The provided list is displayed as part of a graphical user interface which includes a plurality of pick up options for each child in the list of children. The options include a picked up interface button, a no show interface button and a canceled button. The graphical user interface provides a picture and identification of each child. The server device transmits a message to a user device with confirmation that a child has been picked up. The server device also provides a list of children to be dropped off by the vehicle via a graphical user interface that also provides drop off options for each child in the list of children including a dropped off button or an on hold button.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Zum Services, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Garg, Alexey Kononov, Shiva Nagabushanaswamy, Sidi Liu, Andrew Mormysh, Sreejith Nair, Kanstantsin Gerasimovich, Rashmi Choudhary, Rohit Jain, Melissa Shiu, Niket Sanghvi, Lipi Sanghi
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Patent number: 12071166Abstract: A method for transferring a motor vehicle from an autonomous driving mode, in which the motor vehicle is guided autonomously, into a manual driving mode, in which the motor vehicle is guided by a vehicle driver. In the method, pieces of information for supporting the transfer are ascertained with the aid of a cognitive model of the vehicle driver, the cognitive model describing at least one perception process of the vehicle driver with respect to a driving situation and at least one decision-making process of the driver with respect to an action option. A device configured for executing the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Marlene Susanne Lisa Scharfe-Scherf
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Patent number: 12065036Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a cabin, a first seat and a second seat arranged in the cabin, a planar transparent member placed on a side surface of the cabin, and that separates an interior of the cabin and a vehicle exterior from each other, and a display device placed on the side surface of the cabin and arranged along the planar transparent member, the display device having a plurality of pixels. At least a part of the display device is placed on the side surface and between the first seat and the second seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishio, Naoki Usui, Takuma Masuda
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Patent number: 12059956Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to perform a vehicle function. A vehicle function command is detected and it is determined if an event moved is active. In response to a determination that the event mode is active, an event mode parameter is retrieved. Otherwise, in response to a determination that the event mode is not active, a normal mode parameter is retrieved. The vehicle function is performed based on the retrieved event mode parameter or normal mode parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Wassym Bensaid, Benjamin Noah Drobiz, Adam Jarrett Smith, Erik Robert Glaser, Gyeong Sik Choi, Emily Joan Wilson, David McKerron Anderson
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Patent number: 12060072Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus providing drive guide information of a construction equipment includes: an information acquisition unit acquiring information generated according to a motion of the construction equipment; a storage unit storing an item defined for calculating a score for worker driving of the construction equipment and an equation for calculating the score for the item, and storing a guide phrase for each item and information on equipment setting change for each item; a control unit calculating the score for each item according to the information provided, and selecting an item which needs to be improved based on the calculated score for each item; and a display unit displaying a guide phrase matching an item selected according to an instruction of the control unit and information on equipment setting change matching the selected item at a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: HD HYUNDAI INFRACORE CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwangseok Park, Jinhyuk Oh, Sookyung Heo
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Patent number: 12049238Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to altering vehicle paths. In particular, a computing system can access map data for a geographic area. The computing system can obtain target zone data describing a target zone within the geographic area. The computing system can determine an altered nominal path to traverse the target zone. The computing system can designate a portion of the altered nominal path as a designated action region associated with the target zone. The computing system can generate a longitudinal plan for an autonomous vehicle through the geographic area based on the altered nominal path. The computing system can generate a target velocity for one or more portions of the nominal path within the designated action region. The computing system can generate a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle based on the target velocity and the altered nominal path.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Chenggang Liu, David Mcallister Bradley, Nitish Thatte, Colin Jeffrey Green
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Patent number: 12043273Abstract: A method includes generating, while a vehicle is operating in an autonomous-driving mode, a planned trajectory associated with a computing system of the vehicle based on first sensor data capturing an environment of the vehicle. The method further includes, while the vehicle is operating according to the planned trajectory, receiving a disengagement instruction associated that causes the vehicle to disengage from operating in the autonomous-driving mode and switch to operating in a disengagement mode. Subsequent to the vehicle operating in the disengagement mode, the method further includes capturing second sensor data and generating a simulation of the environment. The simulation is based on sensor data associated with the environment and the planned trajectory. Additionally, subsequent to the vehicle operating in the disengagement mode, the method concludes with evaluating a performance of an autonomy system based on the simulation, and providing feedback based on the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.Inventors: David Tse-Zhou Lu, Sameer Qureshi, Shaojing Li, Luc Vincent
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Patent number: 12017533Abstract: A method for a situation-controlled display of an actuation element for a function in a vehicle on a touch-sensitive display surface operable by a person using the vehicle involves the actuation element as a blocking element for a window lifter of the vehicle. The actuation element is always displayed if a child is detected on a seat in the vehicle, and a window lifter associated with the seat is actuated, if a contradicting actuation of window lifters for the same window is carried out, the window lifters being accessible to different people in the vehicle, and/or if the occurring actuation of the window lifters deviates from the conventional actuation type.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AGInventors: Christoph Gäng, Marko Goller, Alice Stockmann
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Patent number: 12005925Abstract: A teleoperations system that collaboratively works with an autonomous vehicle planning component to generate a path for controlling the autonomous vehicle to pass a situation where the vehicle is unable to identify a vehicle option to proceed and may comprise presenting one or more paths to a teleoperator (e.g., a human user, machine-learned model, and/or artificial intelligence component), such paths being generated either at the vehicle or remote system. The teleoperations system may receive input from the teleoperator indicating a vehicle option to select for the vehicle to proceed in the environment. The teleoperations system may generate a guidance path based on the vehicle options and the input and transmit the guidance path to the autonomous vehicle. Based at least in part on the guidance path, the autonomous vehicle may generate a control trajectory to use to navigate around the obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Ravi Gogna, Arian Houshmand, Paul Orecchio
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Patent number: 12005913Abstract: A method of controlling vehicle driving, when a plurality of occupants is in the vehicle, by implementing components required for vehicle driving control as holographic images to ensure a maximum space in an autonomous vehicle, may include steps of requesting, by a first occupant currently having no driving control authority, a transfer of the authority by use of a holographic image, accepting, by a second occupant currently having the driving control authority, the transfer of the authority by use of the holographic image, selecting, by the first occupant, a mode by use of the holographic image based on the acceptance by the second occupant, and performing vehicle control in accordance with the mode selected by the first occupant, and the holographic images in the respective steps are displayed to the occupants wearing an HMD device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Myung-Ki Yeom, In-Su Kim
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Patent number: 11993293Abstract: Evacuation control such as deceleration or stop of a vehicle is executed in response to an application from a driver of the vehicle for refusal of switching to manual driving.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Eiji Oba
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Patent number: 11987258Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
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Patent number: 11981546Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle with which it is difficult for an operator to lose a sense of directionality even when the operator performs an operation while seeing an image of a remote control terminal. In a work vehicle (crane 1) which is provided with: a traveling body (2); a boom (7) supported by the traveling body (2); and a camera (61) supported by the boom (7), and which can guide a pivot operation of the boom (7) by means of a remote control terminal (70), an image display device (73) is provided in the remote control terminal (70) and a control device (20) is provided which is capable of recognizing the support direction of the camera (61) by the boom (7) and an angle ? of a location direction of the remote control terminal (70) with respect to the camera (61), whereby an image rotated on the basis of the angle (?) and cut in a circular shape is displayed on the image display device (73).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11964668Abstract: A travel control method for a vehicle for executing autonomous travel control includes, prior to executing the autonomous travel control, presenting a driver with travel control information as to whether or not to accept execution of the autonomous travel control and detecting, in response to a presentation of the travel control information, an acceptance input made by the driver indicating that the driver accepts the execution of the autonomous travel control. The travel control method also includes: setting an input form of a present acceptance input by the driver to an input form different from an input form of a previous acceptance input.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhisa Hayakawa, Takahiko Oki
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Patent number: 11958506Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a position of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to control one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle and to cause the vehicle to travel in one of a plurality of driving modes in which tasks imposed on an occupant of the vehicle are different, and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode which is to be performed by the driving controller. The recognizer recognizes first road information including road marking objects near the vehicle with respect to a position of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result from an external sensor, recognizes second road information including road marking objects near the vehicle from map information on the basis of position information of the vehicle, and performs a process of recognizing the position of the vehicle through matching between the first road information and the second road information.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Koichiro Wada, Yudai Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11958495Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Ryo Ogata, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita
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Patent number: 11945455Abstract: A control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of vehicle subsystems associated with respective different dynamic vehicle control functions and a plurality of subsystem controllers associated with respective ones of the vehicle subsystems. The subsystem controllers may be configured to control actuators associated with the respective different dynamic vehicle control functions to change an operational state of components of the vehicle subsystems based on respective configuration settings. The system further includes an attribute configuration module operably coupled to the subsystem controllers. The attribute configuration module may include processing circuitry configured to save current configuration settings as a saved configuration responsive to a first actuation of a configuration mode actuator and, after an on/off cycle of the vehicle, instruct the subsystem controllers to implement the saved configuration responsive to a second actuation of the configuration mode actuator.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Craig Edward Esler, Ehab Aleid, Ahmed Awadi, Matheus Bianchi Dambros, Helmuth Bosch, Thomas Richard Wroblewski
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Patent number: 11926334Abstract: Described is a system for human-machine teaching for vehicle operation. The system determines currently enabled status reporting modes on a vehicle interface of a vehicle. The currently enabled status reporting modes are compared to a set of preferred status reporting modes of previous users. Based on the comparison, a status reporting mode is selected. A current operational status of the vehicle is reported to a current user, via the vehicle interface, using the selected status reporting mode. The system then determines preferred solutions of previous users to address the current operational status of the vehicle. Suggestions to address the current operational status of the vehicle based on the preferred solutions are reported to the user via the vehicle interface. A vehicle action corresponding to a solution selected by the current user is implemented via a vehicle component.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLCInventors: Tiffany Hwu, David J. Huber, Steven W. Skorheim, Jaehoon Choe