Patents by Inventor Carrie Bobier-Tiu

Carrie Bobier-Tiu 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).

  • Publication number: 20210009109
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve ride comfort for users within a vehicle during operation of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals; determine the current operational information regarding the vehicle; determine a current set of forces operating on one or more of the vehicle and one or more of the users within the vehicle; compare a characteristic of the current set of forces to a comfort threshold level; and responsive to the characteristic breaching the comfort threshold level, effectuate a modification in the operation of the vehicle such that a subsequent change in the characteristic that corresponds to the modification reduces and/or remedies the breach of the comfort threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Selina PAN, Carrie BOBIER-TIU, Avinash BALACHANDRAN
  • Patent number: 10821969
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve ride comfort for users within a vehicle during operation of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals; determine the current operational information regarding the vehicle; determine a current set of forces operating on one or more of the vehicle and one or more of the users within the vehicle; compare a characteristic of the current set of forces to a comfort threshold level; and responsive to the characteristic breaching the comfort threshold level, effectuate a modification in the operation of the vehicle such that a subsequent change in the characteristic that corresponds to the modification reduces and/or remedies the breach of the comfort threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Selina Pan, Carrie Bobier-Tiu, Avinash Balachandran
  • Publication number: 20200216085
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a vehicle for partially controlling operation of a vehicle based on operational constraints of the vehicle and/or contextual constraints of the vehicle are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: CARRIE BOBIER-TIU, AVINASH BALACHANDRAN
  • Publication number: 20200216090
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to selectively intervening in manual control of a vehicle by a driver. In one embodiment, a method includes predicting a future state of the vehicle according to at least a current state and a control input. The current state defines at least one attribute of a current trajectory of the vehicle, and the control input defines at least one driver input for controlling the vehicle. The method includes comparing the future state with a state constraint indicating a range within which a target path of the vehicle is acceptable. The target path defines a subsequent trajectory for the vehicle. The method includes selectively modifying the target path according to whether the future state violates the state constraint. The method includes controlling the vehicle according to the target path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin M. Zaseck, Carrie Bobier-Tiu
  • Publication number: 20200216084
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the prediction efficiency of autonomous/semi-autonomous vehicles. In one embodiment, the system generates a provisional prediction according to sensor data from at least one sensor of a subject vehicle. The prediction can be associated with an aspect relating to operating the subject vehicle along a path. The system analyzes the provisional prediction in relation to a subsequent prediction about the aspect to determine a correspondence between the provisional prediction and the subsequent prediction. In response to determining that the correspondence satisfies an inaccuracy threshold, the system can store the provisional prediction and the sensor data associated with the provisional prediction to log potential inaccuracies in generating predictions based, at least in part, on the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Avinash Balachandran, Carrie Bobier-Tiu
  • Publication number: 20200211298
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a vehicle for visually displaying a current state of a vehicle in regards to operational constraints of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals conveying operational information regarding the vehicle; visually present information; determine, based on the output signals, the operational information; determine, based on the operational information, a current vehicle state of the vehicle; determine, based on the operational information, predicted boundaries of the current vehicle state; determine a metric value of a metric representing a difference between the current vehicle state and the predicted boundaries of the current vehicle state; and effectuate display of the metric upon the visual display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Selina Pan, Carrie Bobier-Tiu, Avinash Balachandran
  • Publication number: 20200189568
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve ride comfort for users within a vehicle during operation of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals; determine the current operational information regarding the vehicle; determine a current set of forces operating on one or more of the vehicle and one or more of the users within the vehicle; compare a characteristic of the current set of forces to a comfort threshold level; and responsive to the characteristic breaching the comfort threshold level, effectuate a modification in the operation of the vehicle such that a subsequent change in the characteristic that corresponds to the modification reduces and/or remedies the breach of the comfort threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Selina Pan, Carrie Bobier-Tiu, Avinash Balachandran