Patents Examined by Tuan C To
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Patent number: 10926984Abstract: A method for providing driver assistance for an industrial truck and an industrial truck, particularly a forklift, including capturing steering movement of a steering device of the industrial truck, capturing images of at least part of a surrounding area of the industrial truck using at least one camera, superimposing both a travel path of contours of the industrial truck and a travel path of contours of a load transported on the industrial truck corresponding to the captured steering movement on the captured images, and displaying the captured images having the superimposed travel paths of contours of the industrial truck and the load transported on the industrial truck on a display device disposed in a region of a driver's position of the industrial truck. The contours of the load are obtained from a measurement system of the industrial truck or from virtual models of loads stored in an image processing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Jungheinrich AGInventors: Hennes Fischbach, Lars Dohrmann, Sebastian Rockel
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Patent number: 10928821Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle-based systems and related methods for aerial vehicle-based systems and methods for generating landscape models are disclosed herein. An example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a communicator to receive an instruction for the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over an area of interest. The example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a camera to generate sensor data for the area of interest. The example unmanned aerial vehicle includes data generator to generate a three-dimensional model of the area of interest based on the sensor data. The communicator is to communicate the three-dimensional model to a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Markus Achtelik, Jan Stumpf, Daniel Gurdan, Bastian Jaeger
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Patent number: 10928213Abstract: An in-vehicle device that is connected to an image pickup device and that is utilized by a first user, the in-vehicle device includes: a location information transmission unit configured to transmit first location information indicating a location of the in-vehicle device to an information processing device; a visit history receiving unit configured to receive visit history information of a second user, the visit history information being acquired by the information processing device based on preference information of the first user indicating a preference of the first user; and an image pickup control unit configured to cause the image pickup device to acquire an image based on a result of comparison between a first location indicated by the first location information and a second location indicated by second location information about a visited place which is visited by the second user included in the visit history information.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Xin Jin, Miharu Hanai
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Patent number: 10919517Abstract: In a method for controlling engine power during charge depleting (CD) mode heating of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), the engine power is controlled according to an amount of heat of an engine required for heating determined using a level of an air-conditioning blower at a point in time at which an operation of the engine starts, an outdoor air temperature, and a coolant temperature, if a full automatic temperature controller (FATC) operates the engine for heating when the vehicle is driven in a CD mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Yong-Hoon Lee, Dong-Jin Sohn, Chun-Hyuk Lee, Jee-Wook Huh
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Patent number: 10922151Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for detecting and managing events from data of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network, and actions can include receiving a first call from a first application, the first call including timeseries data from one or more IoT devices in a first IoT network, retrieving a rule set for processing the timeseries data, and determining that an anomaly is represented in the timeseries data based on the rule set, and in response, generating an event, the event having a configuration that is customized by an enterprise associated with the first application, executing an event workflow to transition the event between states, and transmitting an event response to the first application.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Harry Lube, Ritwik Chatterjee, Aparajita
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Patent number: 10924902Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a notification unit. The acquiring unit acquires riding position information related to a position of a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtual set. The notification unit notifies, when a user satisfies condition information that indicates a condition related to behavior of the user approaching the virtual riding point, the user of the information related to the position indicated by the riding position information.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATIONInventors: Ikuo Kitagishi, Taro Watanabe, Yuki Taguchi, Takanori Hirohashi
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Patent number: 10921138Abstract: The virtual reality navigation system can display the position of an autonomous vehicle at a predetermined amount of time in the future via virtual reality. A virtual reality display can display a virtual reality autonomous vehicle, as if the virtual reality autonomous vehicle is the autonomous vehicle operating at the predetermined amount of time in the future. Additionally, a virtual reality interface can provide an interface for an operator to interact with the environment of the autonomous vehicle. The virtual reality interface can receive an alternate route selection, and display in virtual reality the one or more maneuvers that would be required to reach the selection.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Kristofer D. Kusano, Yi Li, Hideki Hada, Miles J. Johnson
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Patent number: 10913533Abstract: A control target device 30 is, for example, an agricultural machine for performing various processes such as watering, additional fertilization, agrochemical spreading, and harvesting on a plant grown in a field. A moving image-capturing device 20 is a device that is movable and has an image-capturing function, and is, for example, a rotary-wing aircraft called a drone or a multicopter. A remote control device 10 analyzes an image of the field captured by the moving image-capturing device 30, determines what process should be performed on the plant according to the analysis result, and instructs the control target device 30 to perform the determined process.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATIONInventor: Shunji Sugaya
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Patent number: 10915115Abstract: A semi-public blockchain maintained on one or more nodes in a map cloud platform comprises data for maintaining a global map of a predetermined geographic area. The blockchain also comprises a plurality of data records, where each data record is associated with an update to a global map. When a message associated with a map update to the global map is received, the nodes of the blockchain determine a consensus by evaluating the map update, where the evaluating comprises performing a plurality of proofs including a proof of location, a proof of iterations, a proof of physical delivery and a proof of safety. When consensus is attained and the map update is validated, a data record associated with the map update is generated and added to the blockchain with a timestamp and a link to prior data records in the blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATIONInventor: Justyna Zander
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Patent number: 10908961Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes implementing a virtual remote direct memory access (RDMA) component in a virtualization layer on the computer system, the virtual RDMA component having an interface implementing RDMA semantics. An RDMA send request from a send queue associated with a first application running on the first VM is read using the virtual RDMA component, the RDMA send request referencing a send buffer in an application memory space for the first application. The virtual RDMA component then copies or transfers a message in the send buffer to a receive buffer in the second VM. A host computing system configured to implement the method and instructions configured to be executed on a host computing system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: William R. Magro, Robert J. Woodruff, Jianxin Xiong
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Patent number: 10908959Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system or product, the method comprising receiving, by a memory management system, a first memory request from a first thread in a multi-threaded computing environment, the memory request including a target value associated with a size of memory requested by the first thread; in response to receiving the first memory request, retrieving a header referencing a first node in a linked list data structure having a plurality of connected nodes, the header comprising a first pointer value, referring to a free first memory block, and a first size value associated with a size of the first memory block; reading, by way of an atomic operation, the first pointer value and the first size value from the linked list data structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Daniel Booss, Robert Kettler
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Patent number: 10906551Abstract: A traveling work vehicle includes: a vehicle speed control portion configured to control the vehicle speed; a number-of-revolutions calculation portion configured to calculate, as an actual number of revolutions, a number of revolutions of a single rotary power source per unit time; a number-of-revolutions command generation portion configured to generate a number-of-revolutions command using a requested number of revolutions; a requested vehicle speed input portion configured to input a requested vehicle speed that is based on a user operation; a requested vehicle speed calculation portion configured to calculate a computed requested vehicle speed using a deviation between the requested number of revolutions and the actual number of revolutions, and the requested vehicle speed; and a vehicle speed command generation portion configured to give the vehicle speed control portion a vehicle speed command that is generated using the computed requested vehicle speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventor: David Spitz
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Patent number: 10908893Abstract: A new page file of a progressive web application (PWA) page is obtained. A current page file of the PWA page is compared with the new page file. It is determined if there is a difference between the current page file and the new page file. In response to determining that there is a difference between the current page file and the new page file, a file version in the new page file is updated, and the new page file is used as the current page file.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chuanjie Lin
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Patent number: 10906541Abstract: A method for braking a vehicle to a stop on a sloping section of a roadway wherein a slope inclination of the roadway section, a vehicle speed, an acceleration, and a vehicle brake operation status of the vehicle are continuously ascertained. The slope inclination of the roadway section and the vehicle brake operation status are compared with predetermined threshold values. The method includes activating a braking torque, continuously determined based on the slope inclination, the driving speed, and the acceleration when the instantaneous slope inclination of the roadway section reaches or exceeds the predetermined threshold value for a sloping section and the vehicle brake operation status lies within a predetermined range or value. The braking torque being independent of the vehicle brake operation status.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Erik Alpman, Kai Skolik, George Neugebauer, Stephan Strahl
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Patent number: 10905520Abstract: An autonomous accessory support and system for transporting a medical accessory for delivering therapy that is coupled to a patient via a medical line. The autonomous accessory support comprises an accessory post for supporting the medical accessory. A movement module supports the accessory post for moving the accessory post relative to the patient. A tracking module is configured to track movement of the patient or a patient support apparatus relative to the autonomous accessory support and provide a tracking input signal. A controller is in electronic communication with the movement module and the tracking module. The controller controls the movement module to reduce actual patient proximity to a target patient proximity being a distance between the accessory support and the patient or the patient support apparatus sufficient to prevent tensioning of the medical line beyond a tension threshold. The distance may be a selectable preset distance maintained by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Annie Désaulniers, William D. Childs, Michael Lau, Connor F. St. John, Krishna Bhimavarapu, Christopher R. Sweeney, Joshua E. Mix
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Patent number: 10901789Abstract: A system and method of registering one or more objects in a container of a multi-threaded computing system. A method includes prefixing, to each object of the one or more objects, an object header having a version counter with an initial version count of zero. The method further includes for each object to be allocated to a thread of the multi-threaded computing system, allocating an object frame associated with each allocated object to the thread while maintaining the object header. The method further includes constructing each allocated object in the object frame after the object header, and initializing the object header of each allocated object by executing a store/store memory barrier and incrementing the version counter by a count of one to mark the associated allocated object as valid.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventor: Ivan Schreter
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Patent number: 10899331Abstract: A hydraulic actuator for supplying a hydraulic brake pressure to service brakes of a vehicle includes an actuator cylinder including a piston. A hydraulic working pressure of a brake fluid can be set in accordance with a position of the piston. The brake fluid is supplied from a hydraulic reservoir assigned to the hydraulic cylinder, and the hydraulic working pressure prevails in a working space of the actuator cylinder and can be output via an actuator output port on the actuator cylinder in order to supply a hydraulic brake pressure in accordance with the hydraulic working pressure. The hydraulic actuator further includes an electrically controllable motor. A rotary motion brought about by the electrically controllable motor can be converted by a conversion mechanism into a translational motion of the piston parallel to a longitudinal direction thus enabling a hydraulic brake pressure to be supplied by electric control of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: WABCO GMBHInventor: Thomas Dieckmann
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Patent number: 10902728Abstract: An identified destination roadway lane from a plurality of roadway lanes that is separated from a current roadway lane of a vehicle by at least one roadway lane is received. Upon determining that a blind spot of the vehicle extending across the destination roadway lane and a roadway lane between the destination lane and a current roadway lane is free of objects, a means for providing an alert is actuated.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John Michael Galan Ferrer, Jayanthi Rao, Victoria Leigh Schein
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Patent number: 10901810Abstract: Technologies are presented that allow application events to be recorded and replayed in a reliable and deterministic manner. A computing system may include a memory and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory. The processor may execute application logic of an application, record events associated with the application based on invocation of functions associated with the events, and store the recorded events in the memory for future playback. Recorded events may include, for example, user interactions, timing events, network downloads, callbacks, web worker tasks, etc. The recording of the events may include recording top-level functions of each event according to their order, and recording associated data including function parameters and/or return values. The recorded events may be replayed in order using the recorded associated data while suppressing non-recorded events.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Junchao Han, Junyong Ding, Yongnian Le, Kangyuan Shu
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Patent number: 10884814Abstract: System and techniques for multifactor intelligent agent control are described herein. A workload request may be received from a user device via a network. The workload may be instantiated in an isolated environment on an edge computing platform. Here, the isolated environment may be a container or a virtual machine. The instantiation of the workload may include using a hardware security component (SEC) of the mobile edge computing platform to prevent access to data or code of the workload from other environments hosted by the mobile edge computing platform. The workload may then be executed in the isolated environment and a result of the workload returned to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kapil Sood, Patrick L. Connor, Scott P. Dubal, James Robert Hearn, Andrew J. Herdrich