Patents Examined by Yufeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12269721
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the inventive concepts, provided is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), comprising: a pair of forks coupled to a carriage that is height adjustable within a mast; an object sensor coupled to the carriage and passively movable between a first position above the forks when the forks are lowered and a second position below the forks when the forks are raised, wherein the object sensor is configured to detect objects under the forks when the forks are raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SEEGRID CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce Thompson, Jacob Seal, Elijah Richter, Matt Heisel, Thomas Stimmel, Ben Tylenda, Pat Braun
  • Patent number: 12272240
    Abstract: A Human Machine Interface (HMI) device for a vehicle includes a determination unit configured to determine whether to recommend an alternative type of transportation around a vehicle, a calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of an expected arrival time or an expected fare of the passenger to arrive at a destination on the navigation route using the alternative type of transportation, and an interface unit configured to provide the passenger with at least one of the expected arrival time or the expected fare for the passenger. The determination unit may determine whether to recommend an alternative type of transportation around the vehicle based on at least one of a traffic congestion degree in a navigation route of the vehicle, a discontent degree of the passenger, input from the passenger, or an update of an expected arrival time of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hong Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12270678
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a lane network includes a processor configured to calculate, for each of individual points in a predetermined region connecting an entry lane and an exit lane, a probability distribution indicating a probability that the point lies on a standard trajectory, based on trajectories of one or more vehicles that traveled through the region, generate two virtual borders each connecting the positions of respective edges of the entry lane and the exit lane, set, of the individual points in the predetermined region, at least two points that lie between the two virtual borders and at which the variance of the probability distribution is not greater than a predetermined variance threshold, as control points, and generate a Bézier curve, based on the at least two control points, as a line connecting two lanes in the predetermined region in a lane network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mamoru Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 12269470
    Abstract: To increase steering angle followability of automatic steering, provided is a driving assistance device for executing collision avoidance control of controlling a steering angle of an own vehicle such that the own vehicle travels along a target trajectory which enables the own vehicle to avoid a collision with an obstacle. The driving assistance device includes: a setting unit configured to set a target steering angle, and to set a target steering torque for matching the steering angle with the target steering angle; a cancellation unit configured to set a cancellation torque which cancels a total steering torque obtained by summing a driver steering torque and a steering assist torque set based on the driver steering torque; and a control unit configured to execute steering control of controlling the steering angle based on a torque control amount obtained by adding the target steering torque to the cancellation torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuaki Fukuchi, Daiki Yasui
  • Patent number: 12272256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for generating a weather map. The system comprises a mobile device configured to move to first locations within an environment and obtain first weather data indicative of a weather condition at the first locations by using a sensor. Further, the system comprises a data processing circuitry configured to generate a weather map including a probability distribution of weather conditions between the first locations by applying a predetermined weather model to the first weather data. The data processing circuitry is further configured to determine second locations through a threshold comparison of the probability distribution. The mobile device is further configured to move to the second locations and obtain second weather data indicative of a weather condition at the second locations, by using the sensor, for increasing a confidence of the weather map using the second weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthias Frey, Peter Dürr
  • Patent number: 12269492
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is configured to acquire a camera image obtained by capturing an image, control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, decide a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode with a heavier task when a task related to the decided driving mode is not executed by the driver, determine whether there is a deviation between a road division line shown in the camera image and a road division line shown in the map information, determine whether a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is determined that there is a deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Inoue, Sho Tamura
  • Patent number: 12272238
    Abstract: A near-field sensing information transmission and pairing system for air-land unmanned vehicles and a method thereof are disclosed. The unmanned aviation vehicle is driven to move along a forward route of an unmanned ground vehicle in advance, and continuously senses whether an obstacle or a traffic control appears in the forward route; when sensing the presence of the obstacle or the traffic control feature, the unmanned aviation vehicle generates and transmits a re-routing signal to the unmanned ground vehicle, an alternative route is calculated to replace the original forward route based on map information, a current coordinate, an obstacle coordinate and a destination coordinate, so as to increase a reaction time of the unmanned ground vehicle, thereby achieving the technical effect of improving immediacy of the unmanned ground vehicle to avoid a roadblock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: SQ Technology (Shanghai) Corporation, Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Chuan-Cheng Chiu, Hong-Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12269368
    Abstract: A method of operating an energy management system for a fleet of aircraft, can include receiving a desired flight plan database for the fleet of aircraft, defining at least a desired flight plan for each of the fleet of aircraft and a location of each of the fleet of aircraft, and generating a power source inventory distribution plan for the at least a subset of the desired flight plans for the fleet of aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: Frazer Pereira, Adam Llywelyn Rudkin, Aishwarya Kollon
  • Patent number: 12269365
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for coordinating and executing in-flight energy transfer events between vehicles. Energy may be transferred from a towing or leading vehicle to a towed or trailing vehicle, from the trailing vehicle to the leading vehicle, or both during the in-flight energy transfer events. The proposed systems may further be configured to coordinate the terms and conditions of a service agreement between the leading and trailing vehicles, coordinate the publication of a service experience rating from a user of the leading and/or trailing vehicle, and/or coordinate the termination of the in-flight charging event by either user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, James Baumbick, Ryan J. O'Gorman, Katherine Howard-Cone, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Peter Phung, Annette Lynn Huebner
  • Patent number: 12269504
    Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to access, from at least one memory device, sensor measurements generated by one or more sensors mounted in a vehicle and to generate an occupancy grid having grid cells that track occupancy, by static obstacles and dynamic obstacles, in an environment of the vehicle based on the accessed sensor measurements. An apparatus may additionally allocate (i) a first set of particles to estimate occupancy of grid cells by the static obstacles and states of the static obstacles and (ii) a second set of particles to estimate occupancy of grid cells by the dynamic obstacles and states of the dynamic obstacles. An apparatus may additionally execute one or more operations to plan motion of the vehicle based on the estimated occupancy of grid cells by the static obstacles and dynamic obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AG
    Inventors: Manuel Schier, Gunther Krehl, Jakob Siegel
  • Patent number: 12272251
    Abstract: An advisory module may include processing circuitry configured to receive data indicative of internal factors and external factors related to route optimization of a combined route of a subject. The combined route may include an air segment and a ground segment, and at least some of the external factors may include dynamic parameters that are changeable while the air segment or ground segment is being transited by the subject to a ground objective. The processing circuitry may be further configured to generate a guidance option to deliver the subject to the ground objective based on integration of the internal factors and the external factors to optimize a route to the ground objective, and provide a graphical representation of the guidance option along with comparative data or context information associated with the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Holmes
  • Patent number: 12271210
    Abstract: An aerial robot includes an image sensor for capturing images of an environment. The robot receives a first image captured at a first location. The robot identifies one or more first pixels in the first image. The first pixels correspond to one or more targeted features of an object identified in the first image. The robot receives a second image captured at the second location. The robot receives its distance data that estimates a movement of the robot from the first location to the second location. The robot identifies second pixels in the second image. The second pixels corresponding to the targeted features of the object as appeared in the second image. The robot determines an estimated distance between the robot and the object based on the changes of locations of the second pixels from the first pixels relative to the movement of the robot provided by the distance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Brookhurst Garage, Inc.
    Inventors: Young Joon Kim, Kyuman Lee
  • Patent number: 12269722
    Abstract: A method for operating a conveying device (1), such as a truck or a forklift, which is equipped with a transport device (6) for transporting an object (2), includes the following steps: i) arranging an object (2) in an arrangement region (15) of the transport device (6); ii) contactless measurement (53) of the object (2) using a distance measurement apparatus (10); iii) determining a safety zone (30) at the conveying device (1) as a function of the measurement (53) according to step ii).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Schiller Automatisierungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Stoiber
  • Patent number: 12270677
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure discloses a map data processing method, apparatus, computer device and storage medium, the method including: outputting navigation route information associated with a navigation user in a navigation interface of a map client application, the navigation interface including map layer information, the navigation route information being superimposed and displayed on the map layer information, and map field information of the map layer information being first field information; obtaining location information of the navigation user on the navigation route information; and updating and displaying the map field information from the first field information to second field information in the navigation interface when the location information is monitored to be in an intersection area on the navigation route information. By the embodiments of this disclosure, the safety during navigation may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Hongyu Shi, Zhongzhen Pan, Yuanyuan Li, Bo Guo, Xiao Sun, Yitong Du
  • Patent number: 12270651
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a system that includes an array of sensors are described. In one example, output of sensors included in the array is characterized as being in one of a plurality of states. Diagnostics may be performed on sensors in the array of sensors based on sensors being in one of the plurality of states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: VOCIS LIMITED
    Inventors: James M. Richardson, Richard Barnbrook
  • Patent number: 12269461
    Abstract: A vehicle behavior control method includes: selecting a center of gravity point at which behavior control for a vehicle is to be performed; setting a target roll behavior value and a target pitch behavior value at the selected center of gravity point such that behavior of the selected center of gravity point is less than a predefined reference value; calculating a target roll moment corresponding to the target roll behavior value and a target pitch moment corresponding to the target pitch behavior value; generating a control signal to be transmitted to at least one actuator for following the target roll moment and the target pitch moment; and transmitting the control signal to the at least one actuator to perform control such that the behavior at the selected center of gravity point is less than the predefined reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, KOREA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jee Yoon Suh, Seung Han Yoo, Wan Ki Cho, Chang Jun Jeon
  • Patent number: 12258038
    Abstract: A road user identification system for identifying a road user is provided. The system includes a digital camera generating a digital image of a road with the road user on the road. The system further includes a computer operably coupled to the digital camera that receives the digital image. The computer has a digital image based classification model with a neural network machine learning algorithm that analyzes the digital image and determines a first probability value. The first probability value indicates a probability that the road user has a first wearable marker that is associated with a specific type of road user. The computer stores a road user identifier corresponding to the specific type of road user in a memory device when the first probability value is greater than a threshold probability value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Viveka Mishra
  • Patent number: 12175810
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer software for fault management for a vehicle having at least one camera unit configured to provide image data includes a step of, responsive to detection of a respective fault condition in relation to the vehicle, creating a respective fault entry which is representative of information relating to the respective detected fault condition. Respective image data of the at least one camera unit is requested depending on the respective detected fault condition in such a way that the respective image data has a temporal reference to the respective detected fault condition. The respective requested image data is assigned to the respective fault entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tomas Hejda, Peter Radojkovic, Johannes Waldthausen
  • Patent number: 12165506
    Abstract: A method for predicting traffic flow or a travel time, includes: obtaining navigation route data; obtaining, according to the navigation route data, navigation flow of a road within a prediction time period; obtaining real-time traffic flow, a real-time travel time, past traffic flow, and a past travel time of the road; and training a neural network with the real-time travel time, the past travel time, the real-time traffic flow, the past traffic flow, and the navigation flow of the road to obtain predicted traffic flow or a predicted travel time of the road within the prediction time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shenkun Xu, Rui Dai, Shuai Li, Chenguang Ji, Kaikui Liu
  • Patent number: 12145602
    Abstract: A vehicle control device including a motion condition detector detecting motion conditions including a rotational motion and a longitudinal acceleration of a vehicle on which a load is to be loaded, a wheel load acquisition unit acquiring wheel loads of wheels, a loading state acquisition unit acquiring a loading state of the load loaded on the vehicle, an inertia value calculator calculating an inertia value including principal axes of inertia about a center of gravity of the vehicle with the load included, based on the acquired loading state, and a controller performing overturning prevention control that suppresses an increase in difference between the wheel loads of front and rear wheels of the vehicle, using the acquired wheel loads of the wheels, the inertia value, and detection values of the motion conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hattori, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Hattori, Masateru Amano, Noriyoshi Suzuki