Patents by Inventor Brian Westphal
Brian Westphal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12525001Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for the management of lane-departure (LD) events. One method includes training a classifier for LD events and loading the classifier into a vehicle. LD events are detected based on outward images using the classifier, while the turn signal is monitored to prevent false triggers. If an LD event is detected, rules are checked for alerting the driver and deciding whether to alert the driver or not. Subsequently, additional rules are checked for reporting the event and deciding whether to report the event to a Behavior Monitoring System (BMS) or to discard it. The method also includes a solid line departure model that identifies crossing dashed, solid-white, and solid-yellow lanes, delaying alerts and event generation until a significant portion of the vehicle crosses over the lane. The model also outputs a confidence score reflecting the amount of vehicle deviation from the driving lane.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2024Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Akshay Raj Dhamija, Abner Ayala Acevedo, Rohit Annigeri, Cole Jurden, Douglas Boyle, Jason Liu, Kevin Lai, Jose Cazarin, Pang Wu, William Nathan Hurst, Brian Westphal, Lucas Doyle, Saurabh Tripathi, Shirish Nair
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Patent number: 12346712Abstract: An Applicant Assistant System may receive, from a user device, a user input indicating a query or task associated with information displayed in a user interface. The device may determine one or more components associated with the user interface and access component metadata of the determined one or more components, the component metadata for each of the one or more components indicating one or more of a fact, a data link, or an action. A prompt comprising at least some of the component metadata, at least some context information, and an indication of one or more available response elements may be provided to a large language model (LLM). The LLM may response with one or more response elements that may be processed by the System, such as to cause updates to the user interface on the user device.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Sven Eberhardt, Brian Westphal, Yangyong Zhang, Allen Lu, Nathan Hurst, Harry Lu, Evan Welbourne, John Bicket, Sanjit Biswas
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Patent number: 12327445Abstract: An inspection application may display, on a user device, a user interface including at least a portion of a vehicle inspection report including a plurality of inspection categories. The inspection application may configure the user device to obtain inspection information associated with a vehicle, the inspection information comprising photographs, videos, audio, and/or text. The inspection application and/or a network-accessible inspection assistant system may generate a prompt including at least a portion of the inspection information and information indicating potential vehicle defects. The prompt may be transmitted to a large language model that returns a response indicating any potential vehicle defects identified in the inspection information. The vehicle inspection report may then be updated to indicate the potential vehicle defects identified by the language model.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2024Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Sven Eberhardt, Brian Westphal, John Bicket
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Patent number: 12272138Abstract: Techniques are presented for the detection and management of collision warning (CW) events. A training dataset comprising videos of vehicle collisions and non-collisions, sensor readings, environmental conditions, and more is utilized to train a CW classification model for detecting potential collision events in vehicles. A backend CW classification model, with greater computational resources, employs a more complex neural network to review CW events received by the Behavioral Monitoring System (BMS) based on video data, achieving higher precision and reducing false positives. The CW model is installed in vehicles for real-time detection, while the backend model is deployed at the BMS. The BMS validates detected CW events, filters out false positives, and streamlines the review process for fleet administrators and customers. Additional BMS filtering operations include assessing non-proximity-related CW events and camera impairments, with the filtered CW events presented for review in the safety inbox.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Rohit Annigeri, Sharan Srinivasan, Kevin Lai, Jose Cazarin, Brian Westphal, Shiva Bala, Ivan Stoev, Douglas Boyle, Cole Jurden, Margaret Irene Finch, Rachel Demerly, Maya Krupa, Shirish Nair, Nathan Hurst, Yan Wang, Shaurye Aggarwal, Akshay Raj Dhamija
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Patent number: 12197610Abstract: A driver monitoring system includes internal and external cameras attached to a vehicle. The cameras capture video of the vehicle's driver and the area surrounding the vehicle for later review by a coach or supervisor. To ensure privacy of people who appear in video, portions of the video may be processed to blur faces, license plates, and/or other features. Furthermore, access control mechanisms exist so that only users in specific roles have access to review certain types of video.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Rudy Wen, Brian Westphal, Jevon Yeoh, Miranda Huey, Gerrit Steinbach, Young Guo, Ewelina Sieradzka, Robert Bales, Alexander Stevenson
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Patent number: 12165393Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for the management of lane-departure (LD) events. One method includes training a classifier for LD events and loading the classifier into a vehicle. LD events are detected based on outward images using the classifier, while the turn signal is monitored to prevent false triggers. If an LD event is detected, rules are checked for alerting the driver and deciding whether to alert the driver or not. Subsequently, additional rules are checked for reporting the event and deciding whether to report the event to a Behavior Monitoring System (BMS) or to discard it. The method also includes a solid line departure model that identifies crossing dashed, solid-white, and solid-yellow lanes, delaying alerts and event generation until a significant portion of the vehicle crosses over the lane. The model also outputs a confidence score reflecting the amount of vehicle deviation from the driving lane.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2024Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Samsara Inc.Inventors: Akshay Raj Dhamija, Abner Ayala, Rohit Annigeri, Cole Jurden, Douglas Boyle, Jason Liu, Kevin Lai, Jose Cazarin, Pang Wu, Nathan Hurst, Brian Westphal, Lucas Doyle, Saurabh Tripathi, Shirish Nair
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Publication number: 20240394389Abstract: A driver monitoring system includes internal and external cameras attached to a vehicle. The cameras capture video of the vehicle's driver and the area surrounding the vehicle for later review by a coach or supervisor. To ensure privacy of people who appear in video, portions of the video may be processed to blur faces, license plates, and/or other features. Furthermore, access control mechanisms exist so that only users in specific roles have access to review certain types of video.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Rudy Wen, Brian Westphal, Jevon Yeoh, Miranda Huey, Gerrit Steinbach, Young Guo, Ewelina Sieradzka, Robert Bales, Alexander Stevenson
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Patent number: 11693857Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to systems and methods to configure a data warehouse system.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Keebo Inc.Inventors: Alekh Jindal, Barzan Mozafari, Yongjoo Park, David Wolfgang Grömling, Brian Westphal, Alan D. Cabrera
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Patent number: 11567936Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to systems and methods to provide platform agnostic query acceleration. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at a processor associated with a query acceleration service, a request from an client/application, wherein the request conforms to a particular wire protocol of a plurality of supported wire protocols, and wherein the request includes header data and body content data, analyzing the request to identify at least one of a query and a command in the body content data, determining an optimal matched model of the one or more query acceleration models, rewriting the query based on the optimal matched model, transmitting the rewritten query to the query processing platform, receiving a response to the rewritten query or the query from the query processing platform, and transmitting the received response to the application, wherein the transmission is configured based on the particular wire protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Keebo Inc.Inventors: Alekh Jindal, Barzan Mozafari, Yongjoo Park, Brian Westphal, Shi Qiao, Matthew Larsen, Advait Abhay Dixit
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Patent number: 8897508Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Hartwig Adam, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Harmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
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Publication number: 20130251217Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Hartwig ADAM, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Harmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
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Patent number: 8358811Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Hartwig Adams, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Hartmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
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Publication number: 20090252383Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Hartwig ADAM, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Hartmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong