Patents by Inventor Hao Howard Yang
Hao Howard Yang 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: 11932280Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) system includes an AV control system that resolves unique situations encountered while operating as a ride hail provider. The AV control system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) agent programmed to receive a situation data set as an input from vehicle sensors or from another AI agent. The situation data set can include a generic representation of information describing and characterizing the circumstances and details of the current situation. The system may access a knowledge library having catalogued prior situation data sets describing situations encountered by the AV or other vehicles in a fleet. The AV control system may search the knowledge library for similar situations encountered by a fleet vehicle. Once a similar situation is identified, the AV control system may identify one or more remedies that were executed to handle the prior situation, and execute the remedy to address the current situation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hao Howard Yang, Tavan Eftekhar, Yiming Duan, Roy Hwang
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Patent number: 11422679Abstract: Systems and methods navigating a digital map are provided herein. A method includes displaying a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of page icons and each page icon linking to a page. The method includes receiving a control input to move a page icon from a first one of the clusters to a second one of the clusters.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Shan Chy Chueh, Yifan Chen, Hao Howard Yang, John Vincent
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Publication number: 20220229522Abstract: Systems and methods navigating a digital map are provided herein. A method includes displaying a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of page icons and each page icon linking to a page. The method includes receiving a control input to move a page icon from a first one of the clusters to a second one of the clusters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Shan Chy Chueh, Yifan Chen, Hao Howard Yang, John Vincent
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Publication number: 20220153311Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) system includes an AV control system that resolves unique situations encountered while operating as a ride hail provider. The AV control system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) agent programmed to receive a situation data set as an input from vehicle sensors or from another AI agent. The situation data set can include a generic representation of information describing and characterizing the circumstances and details of the current situation. The system may access a knowledge library having catalogued prior situation data sets that describe situations encountered by the AV or other vehicles in a fleet. The AV control system may search the knowledge library for a similar situation encountered by a fleet vehicle. Once a similar situation is identified, the AV control system may identify one or more remedies that were executed to handle the prior situation, and execute the remedy to address the current situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hao Howard Yang, Tavan Eftekhar, Yiming Duan, Roy Hwang
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Patent number: 10824146Abstract: The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for handling rider service at autonomous vehicles. Aspects of the disclosure use a task planning artificial intelligence (AI) framework to improve rider services provided at autonomous vehicles (AV). The AI framework uses tasking priorities and historical data-based machine learning to provide improved services, such as, passenger pickup, passenger drop off, etc. at an autonomous vehicle. A vehicle service is modeled as a Virtual Chauffer Agent (VCA) that acts independently and reacts in an environment to pursue delegated goals. The VCA can interoperate with a Virtual Driving System (VDS) to control an autonomous vehicle and transport a rider between locations. The VCA can interact with other agents (e.g., weather, traffic, map, etc.) to address rider service issues.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nestor Rychtyckyj, Hao Howard Yang
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Patent number: 10591387Abstract: A computing device receives a first digital signal from a data acquisition system. It is determined that a first value includes in the first signal indicates an event. A second digital signal is received from the data acquisition system. It is determined that a second value included in the second signal includes a value that indicates the event, and that the event has occurred based at least in part on the first value, the second value, and a passage of a predetermined duration of time between a time of the first digital signal and a time of the second digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hao Howard Yang, Qun Xu, Barth Rex Dalrymple
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Publication number: 20200004245Abstract: The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for handling rider service at autonomous vehicles. Aspects of the disclosure use a task planning artificial intelligence (AI) framework to improve rider services provided at autonomous vehicles (AV). The AI framework uses tasking priorities and historical data-based machine learning to provide improved services, such as, passenger pickup, passenger drop off, etc. at an autonomous vehicle. A vehicle service is modeled as a Virtual Chauffer Agent (VCA) that acts independently and reacts in an environment to pursue delegated goals. The VCA can interoperate with a Virtual Driving System (VDS) to control an autonomous vehicle and transport a rider between locations. The VCA can interact with other agents (e.g., weather, traffic, map, etc.) to address rider service issues.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nestor Rychtyckyj, Hao Howard Yang
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Publication number: 20150057976Abstract: A computing device receives a first digital signal from a data acquisition system. It is determined that a first value includes in the first signal indicates an event. A second digital signal is received from the data acquisition system. It is determined that a second value included in the second signal includes a value that indicates the event, and that the event has occurred based at least in part on the first value, the second value, and a passage of a predetermined duration of time between a time of the first digital signal and a time of the second digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hao Howard Yang, Qun Xu, Barth Rex Dalrymple