Patents by Inventor Ignacio J. Alvarez

Ignacio J. Alvarez 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: 20210402898
    Abstract: Devices and methods for a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for controlling an active seat of a vehicle may include a processor and a memory. The memory may be configured to store a transfer function. The processor may be configured to predict an acceleration of the active seat of the vehicle based on a first sensor data and the transfer function. The first sensor data may include information indicating an acceleration of a vibration source for the vehicle. The processor may be further configured to generate a control signal to control a movement of the active seat at a first instance of time based on the predicted acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. ALVAREZ, Nese ALYUZ CIVITCI, Maria Soledad ELLI, Javier FELIP LEON, Florian GEISSLER, David Israel GONZALEZ AGUIRRE, Neslihan KOSE CIHANGIR, Michael PAULITSCH, Rafael ROSALES, Javier S. TUREK
  • Publication number: 20210403031
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) system may include a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon. The AV system may include a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to read and execute the computer-readable instructions to perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include receive an instruction text vector representative of a command for an AV provided by a user. The operations may include receive an environment text vector representative of a spatio-temporal feature of an environment of the AV. The operations may include generate a sense set that includes words based on the instruction text vector and the environment text vector. The operations may include compare the words of the sense set to navigational instructions (NIs) within a corpus and identify a NI that corresponds to the words based on the comparison. The operations may also include update a trajectory of the AV based on the NI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. ALVAREZ, Javier S. TUREK, Maria Soledad ELLI, Javier FELIP LEON, David Israel GONZALEZ AGUIRRE
  • Publication number: 20210403004
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to address issues related to the use of personalized training data to supplement machine learning trained models for Driver Monitoring System (DMS), and the accompanying mechanisms to maintain confidentiality of this personalized training data. The techniques disclosed herein also address issues related to maintaining transparency with respect to collected sensor data used in a DMS. Additionally, the techniques disclosed herein facilitate the generation of a digital representation of a driver for use as supplemental training data for the DMS machine learning trained models, which allow for DMS algorithms to be tailored to individual users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. Alvarez, Marcos Carranza, Ralf Graefe, Francesc Guim bernat, Cesar Martinez-spessot, Dario Oliver, Selvakumar Panneer, Michael Paulitsch, Rafael Rosales
  • Publication number: 20210397863
    Abstract: Devices and methods for an occupant of a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for identifying an occupant of a vehicle may include a processor. The processor may be configured to determine an identity for the occupant based on a first sensor data including information indicating a detection of a facial attribute of the occupant. The processor may further be configured to estimate a behavior for the occupant based on a second sensor data including information indicating a detection of a body attribute of the occupant. The processor may further be configured to determine a spoofing attempt result indicating whether the occupant attempts a spoofing based on the determined identity and the estimated behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Neslihan KOSE CIHANGIR, Nese ALYUZ CIVITCI, Rafael ROSALES, Ignacio J. ALVAREZ
  • Publication number: 20210397858
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting and mitigating inappropriate behavior. The systems and methods may include receiving data. Using the data a harassment score and/or classification for a behavior may be determined. Using the harassment score and/or classification, a determination may be made as to when the harassment score and/or classification for the behavior exceeds a threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, a protection system and/or action engine may be activated to mitigate the inappropriate behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Cornelius Buerkle, Fabian Oboril, Frederik Pasch, Yin Wei Liew, Say Chuan Tan, Chien Chern Yew, Ralf Graefe, Florian Geissler, Ignacio J. Alvarez
  • Publication number: 20210380143
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle handover system that monitors an environment of a vehicle. The vehicle handover system receives a transition request to change control of the vehicle from an automated driving mode to a passenger of the vehicle. The vehicle handover system detects a key event that may be relevant to the transition request and the detection of the key event is based on the monitored environment. The vehicle handover system may generate a handover scene that includes images associated with the key event, and the images include an image sequence over a time-period of the key event. Before the vehicle handover system changes control of the vehicle from the automated driving mode to the passenger, the handover scene is displayed to the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. ALVAREZ, Michael PAULITSCH, Rafael ROSALES, Cornelius BUERKLE, Florian GEISSLER, Fabian OBORIL, Frederik PASCH, Yang PENG
  • Patent number: 11192495
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to realize a self-adaptive multiresolution digital plate (SAMDP) system that facilitates sharing of vehicle state information via a dynamically generated binary two-dimensional multispectral pattern. The binary 2D multispectral pattern adjusts its resolution to adapt to the visual perception process while communicating vehicle state information without relying on wireless communications (i.e. V2V, V2X, etc.). The techniques as described herein leverage the use of a multichannel spectral means that helps lower the error present in sensing and representation models used by automated driving systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maria Soledad Elli, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Javier Felip Leon, David I. Gonzalez Aguirre, Javier Turek
  • Publication number: 20210370954
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a passenger monitoring system for monitoring an observed attribute of a passenger in a vehicle. The observed attribute may include a gaze of the passenger, a head track of the passenger, and other observations about the passenger in the vehicle. Based on the observed attribute(s), a field of view of the passenger may be determined. Based on the field of view, a focus point of the passenger may be determined, where the focus point is estimated to be within the field of view. If a sign (e.g., a road sign, a billboard, etc.) is within the field of view of the passenger, record an attention score for the sign based on a duration of time during which the sign is within the field of view and estimated to be the focus point of the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. ALVAREZ, Cornelius BUERKLE, Florian GEISSLER, Marcio JULIATO, Fabian OBORIL, Frederik PASCH, Ivan SIMOES GASPAR
  • Publication number: 20210309261
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to detect, inform, and automatically correct typical awareness-related human driver mistakes. This may include those that are caused by a misunderstanding of the current situation, a lack of focus or attention, and/or overconfidence in any currently-engaged assistance features. The disclosure is directed to the prediction of vehicle maneuvers using driver and external environment modeling. The consequence of executing a predicted maneuver is categorized based upon its risk or danger posed to the driving environment, and the vehicle may execute various actions based upon the categorization of a predicted riving maneuver to mitigate or eliminate that risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Rafael Rosales, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Florian Geissler, Neslihan Kose Cihangir, Michael Paulitsch
  • Publication number: 20210302168
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to real-time localization error correction of an autonomous vehicle (AV). A processor for real-time localization error correction of the AV is provided. The processor is configured to retrieve a reference landmark around the AV from a map aggregating server (MAS), wherein the AV is configured to interact with the MAS for real-time localization; detect, in real time, a ground truth landmark corresponding to the reference landmark, according to image data captured by one or more image capture devices installed on the AV; and determine a deviation between the ground truth landmark and the reference landmark as a real-time correction value for the real-time localization of the AV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaolong LIU, Zhigang WANG, Dawei WANG, Haitao JI, Qianying ZHU, Fei LI, Ignacio J ALVAREZ
  • Patent number: 11088912
    Abstract: Data is received describing a local model of a first device generated by the first device based on sensor readings at the first device and a global model is updated that is hosted remote from the first device based on the local model and modeling devices in a plurality of different asset taxonomies. A particular operating state affecting one or more of a set of devices deployed in a particular machine-to-machine network is detected and the particular machine-to-machine network is automatically reconfigured based on the global model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shao-Wen Yang, Michael J. Nolan, Ignacio J. Alvarez Martinez, Robert Adams, John Brady, Mark Kelly, Yen-Kuang Chen
  • Publication number: 20210150323
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement a neural network. An apparatus to implement a neural network, the apparatus comprising memory formed on a substrate, neural network inference logic formed on the same substrate as the memory, the neural network inference logic to load a plurality of neural network parameters in a multiply-accumulate register, and perform a sample-multiply-add operation on the neural network parameter values and input data to generate a neural network inference result, and a memory controller to transfer the neural network inference result to at least one of a host memory external to the substrate or a host processor external to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Javier Sebastian Turek, Ignacio J. Alvarez, David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre, Javier Felip Leon, Maria Soledad Elli
  • Patent number: 10990570
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve spatial-temporal data management. An example apparatus includes a hypervoxel data structure generator to generate a root hexatree data structure having sixteen hypernodes, an octree manager to improve a spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a first degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the octree manager to assign a first portion of the hypernodes to a positive temporal subspace and to assign a second portion of the hypernodes to a negative temporal subspace, and a quadtree manager to improve the spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a second degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the quadtree manager to assign respective hypernodes of the positive temporal subspace and the negative temporal subspace to respective positive and negative spatial subspaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: David I. Gonzalez Aguirre, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Javier Felip Leon
  • Publication number: 20210117649
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for privacy-preserving facemask-compliance-level measurement. In an embodiment, a mask-compliance measurement system includes a processor that is configured to generate, from an image of a person, a facial depth image of a region of a face of the person, and to generate facial wavelet descriptors from the facial depth image. The processor is also configured to determine spectral-density values of the wavelet descriptors, and to analyze the spectral-density values to generate a mask-wearing-compliance result for the person. In an embodiment, the analyzing includes using a classification model that is trained to classify sets of spectral-density values with respect to facemask wearing in images from which the spectral-density values were derived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: David Gonzalez Aguirre, Julio Zamora Esquivel, Javier Felip Leon, Ignacio J. Alvarez
  • Publication number: 20210116261
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for vehicle-occupancy-based and user-preference-based smart routing, and autonomous volumetric-occupancy measurement. In an embodiment, a system is configured to receive from a user device associated with a user, a routing-options request for routing options between two locations, and to responsively identify one or more routing options between the two locations based at least in part on occupancy data for a vehicle that would be utilized for at least a portion of at least one of the identified routing options. The occupancy data is based on an output of an automated occupancy-measurement system onboard the vehicle. The system is also configured to provide the one or more identified routing options to the user device. In some embodiments, the occupancy data is obtained using volumetric-occupancy measurement. Some embodiments relate to volumetric-occupancy measurement conducted by autonomous mesh nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Marcos E. Carranza, Satish Chandra Jha, Sindhu Pandian, Lakshmi Talluru, Cesar Martinez-Spessot, Mateo Guzman, Dario Nicolas Oliver, Ignacio J. Alvarez, David Gonzalez Aguirre, Javier Felip Leon, S M Iftekharul Alam
  • Publication number: 20210114606
    Abstract: A vehicle control system (VCS) for a vehicle may include an in-vehicle bus and an intrusion detection system (IDS). The IDS may: calculate a planned output of the vehicle based on a message of a message stream received from at least one electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the in-vehicle bus, calculate a reachable set based on an uncertainty metric, and identify an intrusion of the VCS based on a comparison of the planned output and the reachable set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Ignacio J. Alvarez, Maria Soledad Elli, Javier Felip Leon, Javier Sebastian Turek, David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre
  • Publication number: 20210110140
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments providing model data specific to particular object recognition client environments. Model data capable of performing well under all possible conditions can be large, slow, and less accurate, at least in some circumstances. The disclosed embodiments solve this problem by providing smaller, more precisely designed models that are adapted to specific conditions faced by an object recognition client. These smaller, more precise models are extracted, in response to a request for said model data, from a super-net trained via data matching one or more environmental conditions specified by the object recognition client. By providing the client with model data tailored to its specific needs, several technical benefits are achieved, such as higher object recognition accuracy with less processing overhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Juan Munoz, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Nilesh Jain, Chaunte W. Lacewell
  • Publication number: 20210110323
    Abstract: A system for managing a fleet of vehicles in a MaaS network includes a scheduling subsystem configured to retrieve vehicle parameters associated with the fleet of vehicles, the vehicle parameters including a range of travel estimate for each of the vehicles in the fleet. The subsystem retrieves infrastructure resource availability information associated with at least one infrastructure resource used by the fleet of vehicles, and historical usage information associated with the at least one infrastructure resource. The subsystem applies a machine learning technique using the vehicle parameters, the infrastructure resource availability information, and the historical usage information to generate a scheduling instruction. The scheduling instruction is communicated to the fleet of vehicles, the scheduling instruction for scheduling usage of the at least one infrastructure resource by one or more of the vehicles in the fleet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Juan Pablo Munoz, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Arvind Merwaday, Satish Chandra Jha, Ned M. Smith, Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade, S M Iftekharul Alam
  • Publication number: 20210108939
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for implementing Personalized Mobility as a Service (PMaaS) to improve transportation services delivery. One storage medium includes instructions for detecting, by a mobility as a service (MaaS) system, a request for a trip from a user device of a user. The storage medium further includes instructions for mapping, using a model executing on the machine, the user to a persona from a plurality of persona models. Each persona model has one or more characteristics associated with users of the MaaS system. Further yet, the storage medium includes instructions for determining trip parameters for the trip based on the persona mapped to the user, the trip parameters defining one or more trip segments for the trip, and instructions for providing trip parameters to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Nesreen K. Ahmed, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Hesham Mostafa, Giuseppe Raffa, Nageen Himayat
  • Publication number: 20210101619
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to derive local driving behaviors from naturalistic data, which are then incorporated as guidance into the behavioral layer of an Automated Vehicle (AV) for adaptation to local traffic. Moreover, the local driving behaviors are implemented in the AV performance validation process. The techniques facilitate scaling of this process via automatic crowdsourced behavioral data aggregation from human-driven vehicles, as well as ADAS vehicles and autonomous vehicles, and map information. The disclosed techniques also enable the creation of a spatial-behavioral relational database that provides interfaces for efficiently querying geo-bounded local driving information, enabling customization of automated vehicle driving policies to local norms, and enabling traffic behavior analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: John Weast, Ignacio J. Alvarez, Maria Soledad Elli, Tal Serphos