Patents Examined by Yazan A Soofi
  • Patent number: 11341859
    Abstract: A station for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned aircraft includes a data radio for receiving status data from one or more unmanned aircraft currently under the control of that station (and for sending command and control messages thereto). Each controlled aircraft is assigned processing resources including a high assurance router for identifying flight-critical status data (FCSD) and forwarding said FCSD to the aircraft manager dedicated to that aircraft. The aircraft manager generates status updates for its assigned aircraft based on the FCSD. Each station has a display manager for synchronizing status updates from the aircraft managers of all controlled aircraft and managing a priority queue of the controlled aircraft such that selected aircraft, e.g., early-connecting or warning-condition, are given highest priority. A display unit updates the synchronized status of each controlled aircraft; flight displays of a high priority aircraft may be shown, with summary windows for secondary aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl L. Shepherd, Jason A. Myren
  • Patent number: 11332152
    Abstract: A vehicle including a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) is described. Operating the vehicle includes determining, via the GPS sensor, first parameters associated with a velocity, a position, and a course, and determining, via the IMU, second parameters associated with acceleration and angular velocity. Roll and pitch parameters are determined based upon the first and second parameters. A first vehicle velocity vector is determined based upon the roll and pitch parameters, the first parameters, and the second parameters; and a second vehicle velocity vector is determined based upon the roll and pitch parameters, road surface friction coefficient, angular velocity, road wheel angles and the first vehicle velocity vector. A final vehicle velocity vector is determined based upon fusion of the first and second vehicle velocity vectors. The vehicle is controlled based upon the final vehicle velocity vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Nikolai K. Moshchuk, David Andres PĂ©rez Chaparro, Kausalya Singuru, Hualin Tan, James H. Holbrook, Curtis L. Hay
  • Patent number: 11327495
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a terminal including an input/output unit and configured to be carried by a user; and a control device configured to perform wireless communication with the terminal and to execute autonomous parking processing to move a vehicle to a parking position and to park the vehicle at the parking position, wherein the control device includes a vehicle position identifying unit configured to detect a position of the vehicle, and an action plan unit configured to set a reference position where the user is deemed to hold the terminal outside the vehicle without moving and to compute a traveling route of the vehicle from an alighting position where the user alights from the vehicle to the parking position such that a condition that a distance from the reference position to the vehicle does not exceed a prescribed value is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Katsuyasu Yamane, Miki Tsujino, Masahiro Kowada
  • Patent number: 11320819
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein may provide a method for generating a local hazard warning polygon and establishing a quality score thereof. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of probe data points from a plurality of probes within a mapped region, where each probe data point includes location information and weather condition information; generating, based on a plurality of probe data points indicating an adverse weather condition, a local hazard warning condition polygon including a plurality of local hazard warning condition vertices; receiving weather conditions at each of a plurality of map points within the mapped region; correlating each local hazard warning condition vertex with a respective map point within the mapped region; and establishing a quality score of the local hazard warning condition polygon based on a proportion of the local hazard warning condition vertices indicating an adverse weather condition agreeing with a weather condition at a respective correlated map point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventor: Leon Stenneth
  • Patent number: 11312390
    Abstract: A vehicle control system and method display a map within a designated viewing area of a display device. The map provides information on a location of a vehicle and restrictions on vehicle movement. Prompts for response from a vehicle operator are displayed with the map. The prompts are based on the vehicle location and/or the movement restrictions. The are displayed on the vehicle display device but outside of the designated viewing area of the vehicle display device. Operator input is received in response to the one or more prompts to verify that the vehicle is moving according to the one or more restrictions on the movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: westinghouse air brake technologies corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Vrba, Ann Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phil Burgart, Jim Oswald
  • Patent number: 11307037
    Abstract: A system for use in a facility area including reservable spaces and common spaces and comprising a database storing space information, space map data and space scheduling information and including a user interface display screen mounted in a common space, a user location sensor and a processor linked to the databases and programmed to receive sensor signals and determine when a user is located within the sensing zone, the processor further programmed to generate and present a graphical facility area map representation of the facility area on the display screen and, upon detecting a user within the sensing zone, automatically identifying a destination space within the zone that the user likely intends to travel to and presenting an indication of the space on the graphical map indicating the location of the destination space within the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Scheper, Darrin Sculley
  • Patent number: 11308815
    Abstract: A base module may be used to receive and house one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) via one or more cavities. The base module receives commands from a manager device and identifies a flight plan that allows a UAV to execute the received commands. The base module transfers the flight plan to the UAV and frees the UAV. Once the UAV returns, the base module once again receives it. The base module then receives sensor data from the UAV from one or more sensors onboard the UAV, and optionally receives additional information describing its flight and identifying success or failure of the flight plan. The base module transmits the sensor data and optionally the additional information to a storage medium locally or remotely accessible by the manager device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ImageKeeper LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Speasl, Mike Patterson, Marc Roberts
  • Patent number: 11307040
    Abstract: A map information provision system includes: a road map information database configured to store road map information; a vehicle position determination unit configured to detect and determine a position of a vehicle on a road; a road map information extraction unit configured to extract the road map information around the vehicle from the road map information database, based on the position of the vehicle; and a waypoint map constructor unit configured to determine positions of waypoints and configure a waypoint map that is made up of the plurality of the waypoints, wherein the waypoint map is supplied to a driving support device for the vehicle or a driving control device for the vehicle and is utilized as map information on the planned driving route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, National University Corporation Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, SCHOOL JUDICIAL PERSON IKUTOKU GAKUEN
    Inventors: Kyoichi Tohriyama, Takuma Ito, Satoshi Nakamura, Minoru Kamata, Pongsathorn Raksincharoensak, Tsukasa Shimizu, Hideo Inoue
  • Patent number: 11300960
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for navigating an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle generates a first trajectory based on a path of navigation and determines a current velocity and present load of the autonomous vehicle. Further, the autonomous vehicle measures a curvature of a curved segment in the first trajectory and matches the measured curvature of the curved segment with a plurality of curvatures of a second trajectory from a trajectory performance profile of the autonomous vehicle. The second trajectory is obtained by applying a plurality of linear and angular velocities to the autonomous vehicle on a test track. Further, the autonomous vehicle selects an optimal trajectory from the trajectory performance profile based on the matching and the current velocity and the present load of the autonomous vehicle. Further, the autonomous vehicle navigates along the optimal trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Balaji Sunil Kumar, Manas Sarkar
  • Patent number: 11300970
    Abstract: A weather guidance system is configured to guide a weather event having occurred around a user during moving, and includes: a guided event acquiring unit configured to acquire a guided event being a weather event previously guided to the user; and a guidance control unit configured to determine that when a new event being a new weather event having occurred around the user is acquired, the new event that is identical in weather type to the guided event and that has an occurrence region without overlapping with that of the guided event is guided, and the new event that is identical in weather type to the guided event and that has an occurrence region overlapping with that of the guided event is not to be guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Xin Jin, Taiki Nakamura, Shota Kishino, Kazuki Minamiyama
  • Patent number: 11292449
    Abstract: An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) includes one or more motors configured to drive one or more wheels of the UGV, a memory storing instructions, and a processor coupled to the one or more motors and the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to cause the UGV to determine location information of a movable target; calculate a direction and a speed for the unmanned ground vehicle based on the determined location information; and drive the one or more motors to move the unmanned ground vehicle in the calculated direction at the calculated speed to follow the movable target when the movable target moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: GEOSAT Aerospace & Technology
    Inventors: Hsin-Yuan Chen, Chien-Hung Liu, Wei-Hao Wang, Yi-Bin Lin, Yi-Chiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11288936
    Abstract: A system may be configured to detect an emergency condition at a premises; dispatch one or more autonomous drones to a location associated with the emergency condition; receive from the one or more autonomous drones, sensor data associated with the emergency condition; generate, based on the sensor data, a plan identifying an evacuation route for safely evacuating the premises; and transmit an instruction that causes the one or more autonomous drones to indicate, to one or more persons in a vicinity of the emergency condition, the evacuation route. The system may further detect, based on the sensor data, one or more safe areas in the premises, and the evacuation route may pass through at least one of the one or more safe areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Surender Kumar, Mark V. Slusar, Howard Hayes
  • Patent number: 11285935
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus (12) has: a setting device (122) for setting a first target position (31) on the basis of a first sign object (21), if the first sign object requesting a vehicle (1) to stop is detected; and a supporting device (123) for performing a first deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle to a first target speed before the vehicle reaches the first target position, if a second sign object (22) representing a stop position is detected during a period when the first decelerating control is performed, the setting device sets a second target position (32) on the basis of the second sign object and the supporting device performs a second decelerating control for decelerating the vehicle to a second target speed before the vehicle reaches the second target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11279282
    Abstract: Methods and systems for aligning a vehicle with a trailer. One system includes an image sensor configured to collect a plurality of images. The system also includes an electronic processor configured to receive the plurality of images from the image sensor. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a three-dimensional model of an area surrounding the vehicle using the plurality of images. The electronic processor is also configured to control the vehicle to automatically perform a vehicle maneuver to align the vehicle with the trailer based on the three-dimensional model of the area surrounding the vehicle. The electronic processor is also configured to determine when the vehicle is aligned with the trailer and stop the vehicle from automatically performing the vehicle maneuver when the vehicle is aligned with the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: James Stephen Miller
  • Patent number: 11280619
    Abstract: A system for use in a facility area including reservable spaces and common spaces and comprising a database storing space information, space map data and space scheduling information and including a user interface display screen mounted in a common space, a user location sensor and a processor linked to the databases and programmed to receive sensor signals and determine when a user is located within the sensing zone, the processor further programmed to generate and present a graphical facility area map representation of the facility area on the display screen and, upon detecting a user within the sensing zone, automatically identifying a destination space within the zone that the user likely intends to travel to and presenting an indication of the space on the graphical map indicating the location of the destination space within the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Scheper, Darrin Sculley
  • Patent number: 11272701
    Abstract: A method for remediating developmentally delayed plants within a field of crops using at least one work vehicle during a field operation. The method comprises identifying delayed plants within the field with a sensor on the work vehicle and generating, with a processor, location data associated with the location of the delayed plant with the field. Upon arriving at the location of the delayed plant with the work vehicle, the delayed plant is remediated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Noel W. Anderson, Larry L. Hendrickson
  • Patent number: 11275378
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control apparatus configured to set a target trajectory of a vehicle in autonomous driving, a manual driving database configured to contain manual driving trajectory information that indicates a manual driving trajectory that is a trajectory of the vehicle in manual driving, a weight acquisition device configured to acquire weight information that indicates weights of the target trajectory and manual driving trajectory, the weights being designated by a user of the vehicle, and a trajectory adjusting device configured to determine an integrated target trajectory by integrating the target trajectory and the manual driving trajectory based on the weights indicated by the weight information. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to control the autonomous driving of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows the integrated target trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Hokai, Kazuhiko Kamikado, Taichi Kawanai, Masahiro Harada, Nobuhide Kamata, Yasuhiro Takagi, Hideo Fukamachi, Eiji Sakaguchi, Hideyuki Matsui, Yusuke Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11268822
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented navigation method including transmitting, to a counterpart terminal, current location-based video data that is input to a video call screen of a terminal during a video call; receiving instruction information for a navigation based on the video data from the counterpart terminal that displays the video data on a video call screen of the counterpart terminal; generating navigation information by mapping the instruction information to the video data of the terminal; and providing the navigation information based on location information of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongwon Lee, Jungjun Park, Jongjin Cho, In Won Cho
  • Patent number: 11267470
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for recognizing braking performance of a preceding vehicle and controlling driving of a vehicle based on the recognized braking performance, and a vehicle terminal therefor. One or more of a vehicle, a vehicle terminal, and an autonomous vehicle in the present disclosure may work in conjunction with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a robot, an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeonju Bae, Sangyol Yoon, Taekyung Lee
  • Patent number: 11267401
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle including a communication system in communication with a computing system. The computing system runs computer-executable instructions that may examine a profile of a passenger. The computer-executable instructions may include detecting a safe opportunity for the passenger to exit the autonomous vehicle. In response to detecting the safe opportunity, and if the profile of the passenger requests so, the autonomous vehicle may cause a speaker on the autonomous vehicle to audibly notify and guide the passenger to exit the autonomous vehicle safely during the safe opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Govindarajan Krishnamurthi