Patents by Inventor Harman Kumar

Harman Kumar 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: 11913791
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting crosswalk locations. Crosswalk locations can be detected by determining at least two painted lines on a road surface, and then combining the at least two painted lines on the road surface into a grouping of related elements. The grouping of related elements can be classified into a crosswalk (or in some embodiments a type of crosswalk) based on attributes of the grouping of related elements, where the attributes of the grouping of the elements includes a distance between the at least two painted lines, and an orientation of the grouping of related elements on the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Harman Kumar, Juan Fasola, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11906311
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Shreyans Kushwaha, Xiaoyu Zhou, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20230221127
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Shreyans Kushwaha, Xiaoyu Zhou, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20230213344
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting crosswalk locations. Crosswalk locations can be detected by determining at least two painted lines on a road surface, and then combining the at least two painted lines on the road surface into a grouping of related elements. The grouping of related elements can be classified into a crosswalk (or in some embodiments a type of crosswalk) based on attributes of the grouping of related elements, where the attributes of the grouping of the elements includes a distance between the at least two painted lines, and an orientation of the grouping of related elements on the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Harman Kumar, Juan Fasola, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11629961
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting crosswalk locations. Crosswalk locations can be detected by determining at least two painted lines on a road surface, and then combining the at least two painted lines on the road surface into a grouping of related elements. The grouping of related elements can be classified into a crosswalk (or in some embodiments a type of crosswalk) based on attributes of the grouping of related elements, where the attributes of the grouping of the elements includes a distance between the at least two painted lines, and an orientation of the grouping of related elements on the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Harman Kumar, Juan Fasola, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11624618
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Shreyans Kushwaha, Xiaoyu Zhou, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20230102802
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems, methods, and devices that can update aspects of a map as an autonomous vehicle navigates a route, and therefore avoids the need for dispatching a special purpose mapping vehicle for these updates. As the autonomous vehicle navigates the route, data captured by at least one sensor of an autonomous vehicle can indicate an inconsistency between pre-mapped from a high-resolution sensor system describing a location on a map, and current data describing a new feature of the location. The current data can be clustered together based on a threshold spatial closeness, where the clustering describes the new feature, and semantic labels of the pre-mapped data from the high-resolution sensor system can be updated based on the new feature described by the clustered current data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Yu-Cheng Lin, Xiaoyu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11566904
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems, methods, and devices that can update aspects of a map as an autonomous vehicle navigates a route, and therefore avoids the need for dispatching a special purpose mapping vehicle for these updates. As the autonomous vehicle navigates the route, data captured by at least one sensor of an autonomous vehicle can indicate an inconsistency between pre-mapped from a high-resolution sensor system describing a location on a map, and current data describing a new feature of the location. A type of the new feature can be classified in accordance with an analysis of a structure of the current data that has been clustered together based on a threshold spatial closeness, and semantic labels of the pre-mapped data from the high-resolution sensor system can be updated based on the new feature described by the clustered current data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Yu-Cheng Lin, Xiaoyu Zhou
  • Patent number: 11549815
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems, methods, and devices that can update aspects of a map as an autonomous vehicle navigates a route, and therefore avoids the need for dispatching a special purpose mapping vehicle for these updates. As the autonomous vehicle navigates the route, data captured by at least one sensor of an autonomous vehicle can indicate an inconsistency between pre-mapped from a high-resolution sensor system describing a location on a map, and current data describing a new feature of the location. The current data can be clustered together based on a threshold spatial closeness, where the clustering describes the new feature, and semantic labels of the pre-mapped data from the high-resolution sensor system can be updated based on the new feature described by the clustered current data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC.
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Yu-Cheng Lin, Xiaoyu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210404813
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Shreyans Kushwaha, Xiaoyu Zhou, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20210097308
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting crosswalk locations. Crosswalk locations can be detected by determining at least two painted lines on a road surface, and then combining the at least two painted lines on the road surface into a grouping of related elements. The grouping of related elements can be classified into a crosswalk (or in some embodiments a type of crosswalk) based on attributes of the grouping of related elements, where the attributes of the grouping of the elements includes a distance between the at least two painted lines, and an orientation of the grouping of related elements on the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Harman Kumar, Juan Fasola, Yu-Cheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20200408536
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems, methods, and devices that can update aspects of a map as an autonomous vehicle navigates a route, and therefore avoids the need for dispatching a special purpose mapping vehicle for these updates. As the autonomous vehicle navigates the route, data captured by at least one sensor of an autonomous vehicle can indicate an inconsistency between pre-mapped from a high-resolution sensor system describing a location on a map, and current data describing a new feature of the location. A type of the new feature can be classified in accordance with an analysis of a structure of the current data that has been clustered together based on a threshold spatial closeness, and semantic labels of the pre-mapped data from the high-resolution sensor system can be updated based on the new feature described by the clustered current data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Yu-Cheng Lin, Xiaoyu Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200408535
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems, methods, and devices that can update aspects of a map as an autonomous vehicle navigates a route, and therefore avoids the need for dispatching a special purpose mapping vehicle for these updates. As the autonomous vehicle navigates the route, data captured by at least one sensor of an autonomous vehicle can indicate an inconsistency between pre-mapped from a high-resolution sensor system describing a location on a map, and current data describing a new feature of the location. The current data can be clustered together based on a threshold spatial closeness, where the clustering describes the new feature, and semantic labels of the pre-mapped data from the high-resolution sensor system can be updated based on the new feature described by the clustered current data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Juan Fasola, Harman Kumar, Yu-Cheng Lin, Xiaoyu Zhou