Patents by Inventor Gregory Stewart Aist

Gregory Stewart Aist 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).

  • Patent number: 11933626
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a communication unit configured to receive vehicle environment information of a user vehicle, the vehicle environment information including proximate vehicle information representing proximately located vehicles relative to the user vehicle; and a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: determine lane reference vehicles from the proximately located vehicles based on a vehicle type of the proximately located vehicles; monitor the relative location of the lane reference vehicles; generate a road lane model including a lane delineation estimation based on the relative location of the lane reference vehicles; and calculate a lane position of the user vehicle according to the lane delineation estimation based on a lateral position shift of the user vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander G. Glebov, Manuj Shinkar, Kok Wei Koh, Gregory Stewart Aist, HaiPing Jin, Sarvesh Bansilal Devi, Shalu Grover, Jinghai Ren, Yi-Chung Chao
  • Patent number: 11609100
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: determining a geographic limitation with a control unit based on the geographic limitation associated with a traveler information included in a traveler restriction information; generating a provisional route based on a path between a start point and a destination point; determining a provisional POI based on a POI of the provisional route; determining a POI restriction based on the POI restriction associated with the provisional POI included in a rule information; determining a navigation restriction based on matching the geographic limitation and the POI restriction for presenting on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Thomas Carter, Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist
  • Publication number: 20220388507
    Abstract: A method of operation of a vehicle system including capturing a current image from a current location towards a travel direction along a travel path; generating an image category for the current image based on a weather condition, the current location, or a combination thereof; determining a clear path towards the travel direction of the travel path based on the image category, the current image, and a previous image; and communicating the clear path for assisting in operation of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Casey Thomas Carter, Shalu Grover, Michele Santamaria
  • Patent number: 11104353
    Abstract: A computing system includes: a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: monitor a current vehicle operation measure for an essential vehicle control function of a user vehicle in an autonomous vehicle operation state; calculate an operation measure modification factor based on a vehicle operation profile of the user vehicle; calculate a modified model input from the current vehicle operation measure based on the operation measure modification factor; generate a vehicle operation instruction, with the modified model input, for the essential vehicle control function according to a vehicle operation model to operate the essential vehicle control function of the user vehicle in the autonomous vehicle operation state; and a communication unit configured to provide the vehicle operation instruction to an autonomous vehicle operation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander G. Glebov, Kok Wei Koh, Manuj Shinkar, Gregory Stewart Aist, HaiPing Jin, Sarvesh Bansilal Devi, Shalu Grover, Jinghai Ren, Yi-Chung Chao
  • Patent number: 11092458
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a control unit configured to: identify a route obstacle in a travel environment of a user vehicle during operation of the user vehicle in an autonomous operation mode; generate an obstacle handling assessment of whether the user vehicle is capable of navigation beyond the route obstacle in the autonomous operation mode; generate an obstacle orientation alert based on the obstacle handling assessment and an engagement state of a system user of the user vehicle; a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to present the obstacle orientation alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Casey Thomas Carter, Shalu Grover
  • Patent number: 11002554
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a start guidance area excluding a current location; determining an end guidance area excluding a destination; and generating a navigation guidance with a control unit for traversing from the start guidance area to the end guidance area to reach the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaochuan Niu, Gregory Stewart Aist, Rajeev Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10955259
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a communication unit configured to receive vehicle environment information of a user vehicle for identifying a proximately located vehicle relative to the user vehicle during operation of the user vehicle; a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: determine proximate vehicle information of the proximately located vehicle, including a relative location and a relative distance from the user vehicle, from the vehicle environment information; and generate a navigation interface including a proximate vehicle representation of the proximately located vehicle and a user vehicle representation of the user vehicle on an interface map based on the relative location and the relative distance of the proximately located vehicle, wherein the proximate vehicle representation and the user vehicle representation are presented based on an interface scaled distance for displaying on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuj Shinkar, Kok Wei Koh, Alexander G. Glebov, Gregory Stewart Aist, HaiPing Jin, Sarvesh Bansilal Devi, Shalu Grover, Jinghai Ren, Yi-Chung Chao
  • Patent number: 10831932
    Abstract: A computing system comprising: a first control unit or a second control unit configured to: receive a request to send or to receive a content; determine whether to send or to receive the content based on a threshold; monitor an environmental characteristic; control a presentation of the content based on the environmental characteristic; a first communication unit or a second communication unit, coupled to the first control unit or the second control unit, configured to send or to receive a first device transmission or a second device transmission of the content based on the threshold; and a first user interface or a second user interface, coupled to the first control unit or the second control unit, configured to present the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Carter, Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist
  • Patent number: 10809722
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a control unit configured to: determine an autonomous operation capability of an autonomous vehicle operation system to operate in an autonomous operation state; generate a planned travel route including an autonomous state prediction of the autonomous operation state for portions of the planned travel route; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit, configured to provide operation instructions to the autonomous vehicle operation system for autonomous operation of a user vehicle along the planned travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander G. Glebov, Kok Wei Koh, Manuj Shinkar, Gregory Stewart Aist, HaiPing Jin, Sarvesh Bansilal Devi, Shalu Grover, Jinghai Ren, Yi-Chung Chao
  • Patent number: 10762306
    Abstract: A computing system comprising: a control unit configured to: receive an input request for a point of interest; determine a first linguistic context for the input request based on one or more input request characteristics, a user profile, a location, and a first connotation database; translate the input request to a second linguistic context based on a translation flag and a second connotation database, wherein the second connotation database is mapped to the first connotation database; and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to display a translation result for the input request based on the first linguistic context or the second linguistic context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Carter, Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist, Jinghai Ren, Michele Santamaria
  • Patent number: 10762777
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a communication unit configured to receive a vehicle external environment information of a user vehicle; and a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: identify a sonic event from the vehicle external environment information; calculate an event position information of the sonic event relative to the user vehicle; and generate a vehicle operation instruction based on the sonic event and the event position information for operating the user vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Shalu Grover, Casey Carter, Jinghai Ren, Michele Santamaria
  • Patent number: 10755312
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a geocache at a geocache-location; determining an external association for representing the geocache associated with an entity, an event, or a combination thereof; determining an external status for identifying the external status of the entity, the event, or a combination thereof; and generating a cache status based on the external status for displaying on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Stewart Aist
  • Patent number: 10701180
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a travel context with a control unit based on a context factor; generating a content metadata based on extracting a corresponding instance of the context factor from a media content; generating a delivery content based on the travel context, the content metadata, or a combination thereof for selecting the media content relevant to the travel context; and generating multiple instances of a delivery sequence wherein each of the delivery sequence different from one another by including a different instance of the delivery content for tailoring the delivery sequence for each of a user profile traveling together within the travel context for presenting on each of a device of the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain, Casey Carter, Shalu Grover, Naveen Kumar Vandanapu
  • Publication number: 20200166359
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: determining a geographic limitation with a control unit based on the geographic limitation associated with a traveler information included in a traveler restriction information; generating a provisional route based on a path between a start point and a destination point; determining a provisional POI based on a POI of the provisional route; determining a POI restriction based on the POI restriction associated with the provisional POI included in a rule information; determining a navigation restriction based on matching the geographic limitation and the POI restriction for presenting on a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Casey Thomas Carter, Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist
  • Patent number: 10655977
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: determining a geographic limitation with a control unit based on the geographic limitation associated with a traveler information included in a traveler restriction information; generating a provisional route based on a path between a start point and a destination point; determining a provisional POI based on a POI of the provisional route; determining a POI restriction based on the POI restriction associated with the provisional POI included in a rule information; determining a navigation restriction based on matching the geographic limitation and the POI restriction for presenting on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Carter, Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist
  • Publication number: 20200132497
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a communication unit configured to receive vehicle environment information of a user vehicle, the vehicle environment information including proximate vehicle information representing proximately located vehicles relative to the user vehicle; and a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: determine lane reference vehicles from the proximately located vehicles based on a vehicle type of the proximately located vehicles; monitor the relative location of the lane reference vehicles; generate a road lane model including a lane delineation estimation based on the relative location of the lane reference vehicles; and calculate a lane position of the user vehicle according to the lane delineation estimation based on a lateral position shift of the user vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander G. Glebov, Manuj Shinkar, Kok Wei Koh, Gregory Stewart Aist, HaiPing Jin, Sarvesh Bansilal Devi, Shalu Grover, Jinghai Ren, Yi-Chung Chao
  • Publication number: 20200132503
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a control unit configured to: identify a route obstacle in a travel environment of a user vehicle during operation of the user vehicle in an autonomous operation mode; generate an obstacle handling assessment of whether the user vehicle is capable of navigation beyond the route obstacle in the autonomous operation mode; generate an obstacle orientation alert based on the obstacle handling assessment and an engagement state of a system user of the user vehicle; a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to present the obstacle orientation alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Casey Thomas Carter, Shalu Grover
  • Patent number: 10593201
    Abstract: A method of operation of a computer system includes: generating a pace maker including an illumination configuration with a control unit for actuating a pace maker device based on an actuation pattern; presenting the pace maker based on a pace maker type for controlling a travel pace; and determining a pace match level based on comparing the travel pace and the pace maker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Shalu Grover, Gregory Stewart Aist, Casey Carter
  • Patent number: 10545025
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a trigger event based on a context information being free of an operation input satisfying a cue condition; selecting an operation mode representing a listen mode based on detecting the trigger event; identifying a message template linked to the cue condition; and generating a system initiated inquiry with a control unit based on the message template and the selection of the listen mode for presenting on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain, Casey Carter, Shalu Grover, Naveen Kumar Vandanapu
  • Publication number: 20190355247
    Abstract: A navigation system includes: a communication unit configured to receive a vehicle external environment information of a user vehicle; and a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: identify a sonic event from the vehicle external environment information; calculate an event position information of the sonic event relative to the user vehicle; and generate a vehicle operation instruction based on the sonic event and the event position information for operating the user vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Stewart Aist, Shalu Grover, Casey Carter, Jinghai Ren, Michele Santamaria