Patents Examined by Sang Kim
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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
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Patent number: 11926315Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus for detecting risk factors around a vehicle. The present electronic apparatus comprises a communicator, a memory storing at least one computer-executable instruction, and a processor for executing the at least one computer-executable instruction, wherein the processor receives, through the communicator, an image obtained from a camera located to capture the outside of the vehicle, calculates a rollover index of an external vehicle on the basis of an image of the external vehicle included in the obtained image, and performs a preset operation according to the calculated rollover index.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dongwoo Park, Heejun Choi
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Patent number: 11919539Abstract: Among other things, techniques are described for screening and monitoring the health of a vehicle user including receiving sensor data produced by a sensor at the vehicle, processing the sensor data to determine at least one health condition of the user of the vehicle, and in response to determining the at least one health condition, executing a vehicle function selected from a plurality of vehicle functions based on the at least one health condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Motional AD LLCInventors: Eric Wolff, Abhimanyu Singh, Linh Pham
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Patent number: 11919536Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an evaluation method and system for steering comfort in a human machine cooperative take-over control process of an autonomous vehicle, and a storage medium, thereby avoiding a defect that most comfort evaluation methods are applicable only in laboratory conditions, and also solving a problem that most comfort evaluation methods do not consider non-traditional control characteristics of a driver in a take-over control process. The method of the present disclosure includes: acquiring vehicle data information in a current driving cycle, and preprocessing the vehicle data information to form preprocessed vehicle data information; and using the preprocessed vehicle data information as an input to a well-trained comfort model library, and performing log probability matching calculation on the basis of the comfort model library, to form a comfort recognition result corresponding to comfort.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Xuewu Ji, Yuan Chu
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Patent number: 11912291Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle and a system for the autonomous vehicle. The system may include: a power supply including a first power output and a second power output; a master computing unit arranged to be powered by the first power output, configured to control operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting the second power output, and configured to provide a third power output by adjusting the first power output; and a slave computing unit arranged to be powered by the second power output, and configured to control the operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting a failure of the master computing unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Lijun Ju, Chengfa Wang, Junping Wang, Fan Yang
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Patent number: 11912357Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for influential control over a driver's operation of a vehicle's steering wheel. Upon issuing an autonomous control signal to control motive operation of the vehicle, an autonomous control system of the vehicle may reinforce or influence the application of the autonomous control signal by inducing or cuing to induce the driver's hand(s) to turn the vehicle's steering wheel in a particular direction or by a particular amount/with a particular level of torque.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Nicholas Charles Fishwick
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Patent number: 11904896Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device that can ensure riding comfort or safety. A vehicle control device includes a driving plan calculation unit that calculates a drivable area, which is a space in which an own vehicle is safely drivable, based on a driving environment around the own vehicle and a destination of the own vehicle; and a vehicle motion control unit that calculates a target track including a route and a velocity satisfying a predetermined riding comfort condition in the drivable area calculated by the driving plan calculation unit and controls the own vehicle so as to follow the target track.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Ryoh Inaba, Toshiharu Sugawara, Hidehiro Toyoda
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Patent number: 11904908Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a driving controller configured to control one or both of steering and acceleration or deceleration of a vehicle; and a mode determiner configured to determine a driving mode of the vehicle to be one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mod, in which the second driving mode is a driving mode in which a task imposed on a driver of the vehicle is lighter than that of the first driving mode and one or both of the steering and the acceleration or deceleration are controlled by the driving controller, and to change the driving mode to the first driving mode on the basis of an operating state of a wiper mounted in the vehicle when the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuma Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11891093Abstract: A control device that comprises a processor that executes instructions to cause a mobile object to travel autonomously is provided. The processor controls the mobile object based on a conditions-varying travel path so that an automated control of the mobile object does not change even if travel conditions of the conditions-varying travel path vary. The processor also executes instructions to determine a route to a destination. The processor determines the route using automated-driving map information that comprises a travel path other than the conditions-varying travel path when the mobile object travels by automated driving. The processor also determines the route using manual-driving map information that comprises the conditions-varying travel path when the mobile object travels by manual driving.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Etsuo Watanabe, Ryoichi Inoue, Yuki Motegi
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Patent number: 11878588Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for activating a function subject to authorization in a vehicle comprising a system of digital rear-view mirrors with at least first and second touch screens, arranged on the driver's and passenger's side, respectively. The vehicle comprises members suitable for providing at least one function subject to authorization. The method comprises detection, by one of the members, of an action by a person that requires the activation of a function subject to authorization; —transmission, from the member to the system of digital rear-view mirrors, of information relating to the detection; —receipt, from the system of digital rear-view mirrors, of the information relating to the detection originating from the member, —display, on one of the touch screens, of a notification comprising the function subject to authorization, and; an interaction zone suitable for receiving either an agreement or a refusal from the driver and/or the front passenger.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: PSA AUTOMOBILES SAInventors: Charles Moreau, Loic Bayard, Pierre Quinio, Eric Eledut, Maxime Savignac
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Patent number: 11866035Abstract: A personalized safe driving assistance method and system includes personalized safe driving information by determining a dangerous situation differently according to personal preference. A method includes the operations of collecting, for each of a plurality of collection target vehicles, information on a first risk determination factor to an N-th risk determination factor corresponding to the collection target vehicle during a predetermined measurement period, by a personalized safe driving assistance system (here, N is an integer greater than or equal to 3), modeling a standard safety area in an N-dimensional space expressed in an N-axis coordinate system orthogonal to each other on the basis of the information collected from the plurality of collection target vehicles during the measurement period, wherein each coordinate axis of the N-dimensional space corresponds to any one among the first risk determination factor to the N-th risk determination factor, by the personalized safe driving assistance system.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INFOCAR CO., LTDInventors: Geo Seok Choi, Moon Kyu Choi, Geon Ho Pyo, Guk Bin Lim
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Patent number: 11866094Abstract: A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel by manual steering via the steering handle or automatic steering for the steering handle based on a scheduled traveling line, a setting switch to switch between valid and invalid, a setting mode to set at least the automatic steering before the automatic steering is started, and a display including a driving display portion to display driving information of the vehicle body during traveling. When the setting mode is switched to be valid, the display changes a displaying state of the driving display portion to another different displaying state different from the displaying state where the setting mode is invalid.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Misako Kawai, Kumiko Kobayashi, Yasuaki Morioka, Kunihiko Nishino, Shunsuke Miyashita, Shunsuke Edo, Manabu Togo
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Patent number: 11858494Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for processing vehicle driving mode switching, a vehicle and a server. The method includes: determining (S103) a target switching reason upon detecting that a driving mode of a vehicle is switched from unmanned driving to manned driving; acquiring (S104) status information and/or traveling environment information of the vehicle corresponding to the target switching reason; and sending the status information and/or the traveling environment information, and the target switching reason to a server, to enable the server to analyze the target switching reason, and improve the automatic driving system continuously according to the analysis result.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Gao Yu, Jingjing Xue, Gaifan Li, Donghui Shen, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Liang
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Patent number: 11840249Abstract: A method for supporting a driver of a motor vehicle in a manual parking procedure of the motor vehicle in a surroundings of the motor vehicle, is disclosed. At least one indicator characterizing the parking procedure is acquired and, depending on an evaluation of the indicator, a performance of a parking procedure is recognized and, depending thereon, at least one parking-procedure-specific function of the motor vehicle is activated to support the driver during the parking procedure, wherein a performance of the parking procedure is recognized when at least a first indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a surroundings-specific manner is acquired and if, after the acquisition of the first indicator, at least one second indicator that characterizes the parking procedure in a motor-vehicle-specific manner is acquired.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventors: Uwe Mischke, Fabian Thunert
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Patent number: 11820428Abstract: The autonomous LC control is started in response to receiving a start instruction of autonomous lane change. When the driver performs a steering intervention in a same direction as a direction of steering requested by the autonomous LC control, and establishment of a stop condition of lane change is not recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, the autonomous driving control is continued. When the steering intervention in the same direction is performed, and establishment of the stop condition is recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, termination of the autonomous driving control is announced.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichiro Aoki
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Patent number: 11807297Abstract: The autonomous LC control is started in response to receiving a start instruction of autonomous lane change. When the driver performs a steering intervention in a same direction as a direction of steering requested by the autonomous LC control, and establishment of a stop condition of lane change is not recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, the autonomous driving control is continued. When the steering intervention in the same direction is performed, and establishment of the stop condition is recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, termination of the autonomous driving control is announced.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichiro Aoki
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Methods and apparatus to provide accident avoidance information to passengers of autonomous vehicles
Patent number: 11807273Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide accident avoidance information to passengers of autonomous vehicles are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a safety analyzer to determine an autonomously controlled vehicle is in a safe situation at a first point in time and in a dangerous situation at a second point in time. The example apparatus also includes a user interface generator to: generate user interface data to define content for a user interface to be displayed via a screen, the user interface to include a graphical representation of the vehicle, the user interface to graphically indicate the vehicle is in the safe situation at the first point in time; and modify the user interface data so that the user interface graphically indicates the vehicle is in the dangerous situation at the second point in time.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technoloties Ltd.Inventors: Matt Yurdana, John Weast, Ignacio Alvarez -
Patent number: 11802032Abstract: A processing device includes: a calculation unit that is configured to detect a position of an object that is a possible obstacle to a vehicle; a first detection unit that is configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a decision unit that is configured to decide an aspect of an alarm on the basis of the position and the direction of the line of sight of the driver; and a control unit that is configured to control a speaker corresponding to the position such that a sound of the aspect is output.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naruhisa Kameo, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio, Koji Shiizaki, Shogo Minami
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Patent number: 11767056Abstract: The autonomous LC control is started in response to receiving a start instruction of autonomous lane change. When the driver performs a steering intervention in a same direction as a direction of steering requested by the autonomous LC control, and establishment of a stop condition of lane change is not recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, the autonomous driving control is continued. When the steering intervention in the same direction is performed, and establishment of the stop condition is recognized, during execution of the autonomous LC control, termination of the autonomous driving control is announced.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenichiro Aoki
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Patent number: 11760201Abstract: A vehicle display device, that includes: a first display device provided inside a vehicle cabin; a second display device provided inside the vehicle cabin and separately from the first display device; a memory; and a processor connecting to the memory and being configured to: set a running plan of a vehicle, to display a scheduled action of the vehicle on the first display device based on the running plan, and to display the scheduled action on the second display device in a case in which at least one of a distance to, or a time interval until, the scheduled action has reached a prescribed value or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Ogata, Satoaki Takabatake, Koji Kimura, Junji Miyazaki, Yuki Yoshida, Tadashi Morishita