Patents by Inventor Dimitar Petrov Filev

Dimitar Petrov Filev 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).

  • VEHICULAR CONNECTIVITY MAP
    Publication number: 20170215165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connectivity system with: (a) a vehicle including an accelerator, brakes, steering, a cellular network antenna, a processor, and memory; (b) a connectivity program operatively coupled with the vehicle antenna and configured to: receive a connectivity map, sample connectivity, transmit the samples, anticipate connectivity based on the connectivity map, and generate an instruction for another program based on the anticipated connectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Imad Hassan Makki
  • Vehicle with identification system
    Patent number: 9707974
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an identification system configured to acquire information from a token in a vicinity of the vehicle and to classify a driver of the vehicle based on the information. The vehicle may also include at least one controller in communication with the identification system and configured to characterize a driver's control of the vehicle and to record a history of the characterization if the driver classification is of a particular type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fling Tseng
  • Vehicle and method for advising driver of same
    Patent number: 9707975
    Abstract: A method for advising a driver of a vehicle including a haptic driver interface may include determining a speed of the vehicle, determining a distance between the vehicle and another vehicle, and activating the haptic driver interface based on the speed and distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Fling Tseng
  • VEHICLE MODE DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20170174215
    Abstract: An operating mode is determined for a vehicle according to respective control states of each of a plurality of vehicle subsystems that include braking, steering, and propulsion. The operating mode is one of manual control, partial manual control, and no manual control. A route for the vehicle is determined based in part on the operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Joseph Wisniewski, Shiqi Qiu, Imad Hassan Makki
  • System and method for determining effective road grade characteristic
    Patent number: 9616898
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a computer in a vehicle, and the computer includes a processor and a memory. The computer is configured to determine an operational state of a vehicle, calculate a road grade value from data from a first sensor, calculate an effective road grade value from a torque demand value, update modeling variables to map the road grade value substantially to the effective grade value when the operation state is determined to be a steady-state condition, and calculate a road grade characteristic with the road grade value and the modeling variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Mario D'Amato, Jonathan Thomas Mullen, John Ottavio Michelini, Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SHIFTING OF A VEHICLE IN CRUISE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20170080931
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for improving performance of a vehicle operating in a cruise control mode where a controller adjusts torque output from a vehicle to maintain vehicle speed within a desired range while preventing the unnecessary downshifts. The methods and systems include adapting a vehicle dynamics model and a vehicle fuel consumption model that provide input to nonlinear model predictive controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony Mario D'Amato, Dimitar Petrov Filev, John Ottavio Michelini, Jaroslav Pekar, Ondrej Santin, Jonathan Thomas Mullen
  • ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSION
    Publication number: 20170072763
    Abstract: A user device is identified as being operated by a vehicle occupant. An operation being performed by the user device is identified. A road condition is determined. A vehicle suspension is adjusted based at least in part on the identified user device operation and the road condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Davor David Hrovat, Hongtei Eric Tseng, Li Xu, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Vehicle and method for advising driver of same
    Patent number: 9586599
    Abstract: A method for advising a driver of a vehicle may include measuring a plurality of parameters representing the vehicle's current handling condition and the vehicle's limit handling condition, determining a margin between the vehicle's current handling condition and limit handling condition, and initiating an alert for the driver before the vehicle achieves the limit handling condition if the margin exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fling Tseng
  • Crowd enhanced connectivity map for data transfer intermittency mitigation
    Patent number: 9549291
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication interface, a memory device, and a processing device. The communication interface is configured to communicate over a communication network. The memory device is configured to store a connectivity map associated with a geographic area. The connectivity map defines a communication quality at a plurality of locations in the geographic area. The processing device is configured to initiate a remote data transfer over the communication network in accordance with the connectivity map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Imad Hassan Makki, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Hsin-hsiang Yang
  • RAPID TRAFFIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION
    Publication number: 20160379126
    Abstract: Data about vehicle movement at a stoplight are collected. A stoplight cycle time is predicted with a probability model. The data are compared to the predicted stoplight cycle time. A noise function is applied to the data to generate noise-applied data. The probability model for the predicted stoplight cycle time is updated by scaling the probability model with the noise-applied data to generate a new probability model. A recommended vehicle operation is provided via a network to at least one vehicle computer based on the predicted stoplight cycle time determined by the new probability model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Engin Ozatay, Dimitar Petrov Filev, John Ottavio Michelini
  • Method and apparatus for crowd-sourced traffic reporting based on projected traffic volume of road segments
    Patent number: 9530312
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to project monitoring needs for a road segment. The processor is further configured to contact one or more vehicles traveling on the road segment during a time of monitoring need. The processor is additionally configured to instruct a first number, determined based on a projected monitoring need, of contacted vehicles to being monitoring and reporting traffic data for the road segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Shane Elwart, Jianbo Lu
  • Vehicle and method of advising a driver therein
    Patent number: 9493171
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a driver interface and at least one controller operatively arranged with the interface. The at least one controller may be configured to determine a speed and acceleration of the vehicle, to predict a time until a future speed of the vehicle exceeds a predefined speed based on the predefined speed and the speed and acceleration of the vehicle, and to issue an alert via the interface if the time is less than a predefined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Fling Tseng
  • Emotive text-to-speech system and method
    Patent number: 9495787
    Abstract: Information about a device may be emotively conveyed to a user of the device. Input indicative of an operating state of the device may be received. The input may be transformed into data representing a simulated emotional state. Data representing an avatar that expresses the simulated emotional state may be generated and displayed. A query from the user regarding the simulated emotional state expressed by the avatar may be received. The query may be responded to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Perry Robinson MacNeille, Erica Klampfl, Kacie Alane Theisen, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Yifan Chen, Basavaraj Tonshal
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE CRUISE CONTROL
    Publication number: 20160297435
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for improving performance of a vehicle operating in a cruise control mode where a controller adjusts torque output from a vehicle to maintain vehicle speed within a desired range. The methods and systems include adapting a vehicle dynamics model and a vehicle fuel consumption model that provide input to nonlinear model predictive controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Anthony Mario D'Amato, Dimitar Petrov Filev, John Ottavio Michelini, Jaroslav Pekar, Ondrej Santin, Jonathan Thomas Mullen
  • Crowdsourced weather data collection and provision
    Patent number: 9451030
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of gathering data includes querying, via a vehicle computing system, a plurality of weather sensors included with a vehicle and in communication with a vehicle network. The method also includes determining whether or not appropriate conditions exist for storage of data from the sensor, for each of the sensors. Additionally, the method includes storing the data from the sensor if appropriate conditions exist. Finally, the method includes sending, from the vehicle computing system to a remote network, data from one or more queried sensors and current GPS coordinates of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Schunder, Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Perry Robinson MacNeille
  • Method and Apparatus for Predictive Vehicle Preconditioning
    Publication number: 20160244010
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to access a schedule of vehicle start times. The processor is also configured to select a scheduled key-on time, when a current time is within a tunable proximity to the scheduled key-on time. Further, the processor is configured to determine if a present vehicle-related temperature warrants vehicle preconditioning and precondition the vehicle until preset preconditioning settings are established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Hsin-hsiang Yang, Aed M. Dudar, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Johannes Geir Kristinsson
  • Road characteristic prediction
    Patent number: 9421979
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes at least one sensor that collects infrastructure information in real time and outputs sensor signals representing the collected infrastructure information. A processing device processes the sensor signals, predicts a future road characteristic based on the infrastructure information, and controls at least one vehicle subsystem in accordance with the predicted future road characteristic. A method includes receiving infrastructure information collected in real time, processing the infrastructure information, predicting a future road characteristic based on the infrastructure information, and controlling at least one vehicle subsystem in accordance with the predicted future road characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Anthony Mario D'Amato, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Method and apparatus for vehicle process emulation and configuration on a mobile platform
    Patent number: 9420406
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes providing an interface on a wireless device corresponding to an interface for vehicle infotainment system control. The method also includes providing simulated functionality of controls on the interface, such that activation of a control informs a user of what would occur if the control were activated on a vehicle interface. Further, the method includes saving at least one user setting input into the interface. The method additionally includes transferring the saved setting to a vehicle computing system (VCS) for use in infotainment system control when the wireless device is in communication with the VCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Gary Steven Strumolo, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jeffrey Allen Greenberg, Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, Perry Robinson MacNeille, Basavaraj Tonshal, Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad, Paul Aldighieri
  • GPS based pitch sensing for an integrated stability control system
    Patent number: 9403415
    Abstract: A system and method for sensing vehicle global pitch angle and rate that uses global velocities measured from a single antenna global positioning system (GPS) receiver together with sensor fusion algorithms involving sensor signals and other computed signals. This constructed, or computed, vehicle body's pitch angle may replace the role of a pitch rate sensor in an integrated stability control system. Namely, it achieves enhanced vehicle state estimation without the need for a pitch rate sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies
    Inventors: Jianbo Lu, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, David M. Bevly, Jonathan Ryan
  • Reduced network flow and computational load using a spatial and temporal variable scheduler
    Patent number: 9377314
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a navigation system and a processing device. The navigation system is configured to identify a current location of the vehicle, a destination location, and a distance between the current location and the destination location. The processing device is configured to identify a task, associate the task to the destination location, and schedule the task according to the distance from the destination location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Hsin-hsiang Yang, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Imad Hassan Makki, William David Treharne, Dimitar Petrov Filev