Patents by Inventor Jacob Alan BOND

Jacob Alan BOND 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: 12272150
    Abstract: A system for displaying information to an occupant of a vehicle includes a microphone, a camera for capturing images of an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display, and a controller in electrical communication with the microphone, the camera, and the display. The controller is programmed to receive a voice command from the occupant using the microphone, determine at least one characteristic of the requested object based on the voice command, capture an image of the environment using the camera, where the environment includes a relevant object, and to identify a location of the relevant object in the environment based at least in part on the image and the at least one characteristic of the requested object. The controller is further programmed to display a graphic based at least in part on the location of the relevant object in the environment using the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Kai-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 12243295
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to: receive intermediate concept constraints at a neural network and train the neural network with training data, training labels, and the at least one of the data constraint, the feature constraint, or the intermediate concept constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Jacob Alan Bond, Siddhartha Gupta
  • Publication number: 20250034916
    Abstract: A door handle locator system for a vehicle includes one or more modalities that provide sensory feedback to a user indicating a location of a door handle that is part of a door of the vehicle. The door handle locator system also includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with the one or more modalities. The one or more controllers execute instructions to receive a wireless signal indicating a location of the user with respect to the vehicle. The one or more controllers determine the user is approaching the vehicle based on the location of the user with respect to the vehicle. In response to determining the user is approaching the vehicle, the one or more controllers instruct the one or more modalities to provide the sensory feedback to the user indicating the location of the door handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Hannah Elizabeth Wagner, Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan
  • Patent number: 12179784
    Abstract: A system for detecting a health condition of an occupant of a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle sensors and a controller in electrical communication with the plurality of vehicle sensors. The controller is programmed to perform a plurality of measurements using the plurality of vehicle sensors determine a health risk probability based at least in part on the plurality of measurements. The health risk probability is a probability that the occupant of the vehicle has the health condition. The controller is further programmed to notify the occupant of the vehicle in response to determining that the health risk probability is greater than or equal to a predetermined health risk threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Patent number: 12172675
    Abstract: A method for mitigating an adversarial attack includes receiving input data. The input data includes sensor data from a plurality of sensors and map data. The method further includes monitoring, in real time, an environment around an autonomous vehicle to identify a region that is possibly subject to an adversarial attack and determining a probability of the adversarial attack in the region. The method further includes determining whether the probability of the adversarial attack in the region that is possibly subject to the adversarial attack is greater than a predetermined threshold and, in response, planning a motion of the autonomous vehicle by taking into account the adversarial attack to generate a planned motion. The method further includes controlling a host vehicle to move in accordance with the planned motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti, Jacob Alan Bond
  • Patent number: 12136421
    Abstract: A speech recognition method includes receiving audible data and user data. The audible data includes information about an utterance by the user. The user data includes information about movements by the user. The method further includes fusing the audible data and the user data to obtain fused data and determining at least one spoken word of the utterance based on the fused data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Hannah Elizabeth Wagner, Joseph F. Szczerba, Alan D. Hejl
  • Patent number: 12136341
    Abstract: A system for displaying information for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle sensors, a display, and a controller in electrical communication with the plurality of vehicle sensors and the display. The controller is programmed to detect a relevant traffic signal in an environment surrounding the vehicle using the plurality of vehicle sensors, receive information about the relevant traffic signal using the plurality of vehicle sensors, determine a status of the relevant traffic signal based on the received information, and display a graphic based on the status of the relevant traffic signal using the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 12096317
    Abstract: A system for communicating fleet-specific features to one or more personal electronic devices includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a centralized computer system including one or more databases for storing the fleet-specific features. The one or more controllers execute instructions to undergo a passive wireless interaction with the one or more personal electronic devices. The passive wireless interaction involves determining the one or more personal electronic devices are located within a predefined proximity around a vehicle without human interaction. In response to undergoing the passive wireless interaction, the one or more controllers transmit one or more fleet-specific features to the one or more personal electronic devices, wherein the one or more fleet-specific features are shared by a fleet of vehicles, where the fleet of vehicles include an immediate vehicle and a group of vehicles that share one or more common attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Patent number: 12092816
    Abstract: A system for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle includes at least one vehicle sensor for determining information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display for providing information to the occupant, and a controller in electrical communication with the at least one vehicle sensor and the display. The controller is programmed to identify at least one driving rule associated with at least one portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle using the at least one vehicle sensor, determine an applicability state of the at least one driving rule, where the applicability state includes an applicable state and a non-applicable state, and display a graphic using the display in response to determining that the applicability state of the at least one driving rule is the applicable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 12080038
    Abstract: A system and method for selectively augmenting information in a vehicle includes receiving a scene information from at least one sensor. identifying a region of interest from the scene information, analyzing the scene information to determine whether the region of interest is occluded, and augmenting the region of interest using a display system when the region of interest is occluded. The region of interest includes an object identified within the scene information that is classified as related to vehicle safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Publication number: 20240262375
    Abstract: A system for detecting a health condition of an occupant of a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle sensors and a controller in electrical communication with the plurality of vehicle sensors. The controller is programmed to perform a plurality of measurements using the plurality of vehicle sensors determine a health risk probability based at least in part on the plurality of measurements. The health risk probability is a probability that the occupant of the vehicle has the health condition. The controller is further programmed to notify the occupant of the vehicle in response to determining that the health risk probability is greater than or equal to a predetermined health risk threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Publication number: 20240243901
    Abstract: A machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI) system includes one or more controllers storing one or more neural networks in memory. The one or more neural networks include a plurality of layers including an input layer, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer, and one or more nodes provided for each of the plurality of layers of the one or more neural networks. Each of the plurality of layers are connected to a subsequent layer of the one or more neural networks by a connection. The connection connects a first node of an earlier layer with a second node of a later layer. The one or more neural networks also include plurality of weights, where each weight is associated with a connection and only a portion of the plurality of weights of the one or more neural networks are encrypted or protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas M. Forest, Di Jin, Jacob Alan Bond
  • Publication number: 20240203084
    Abstract: A system and method for selectively augmenting information in a vehicle includes receiving a scene information from at least one sensor. identifying a region of interest from the scene information, analyzing the scene information to determine whether the region of interest is occluded, and augmenting the region of interest using a display system when the region of interest is occluded. The region of interest includes an object identified within the scene information that is classified as related to vehicle safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Manoj Sharma, Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Publication number: 20240182071
    Abstract: A method for mitigating an adversarial attack includes receiving input data. The input data includes sensor data from a plurality of sensors and map data. The method further includes monitoring, in real time, an environment around an autonomous vehicle to identify a region that is possibly subject to an adversarial attack and determining a probability of the adversarial attack in the region. The method further includes determining whether the probability of the adversarial attack in the region that is possibly subject to the adversarial attack is greater than a predetermined threshold and, in response, planning a motion of the autonomous vehicle by taking into account the adversarial attack to generate a planned motion. The method further includes controlling a host vehicle to move in accordance with the planned motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti, Jacob Alan Bond
  • Patent number: 11981279
    Abstract: A system for notifying an occupant of a vehicle of unauthorized interaction with his or her possessions includes one or more cameras that collect image data of a surrounding environment of the occupant. The surrounding environment of the occupant is an interior cabin of the vehicle. The system also includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with the one or more cameras, the one or more controllers execute instructions to monitor, by the one or more cameras, the image data of the surrounding environment of the occupant. In response to detecting the unauthorized interaction with the one or more possessions associated with the occupant, the one or more controllers generate a notification informing the occupant of the unauthorized interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Patent number: 11954916
    Abstract: An automated driving system includes an object detection system. A neural network image encoder generates image embeddings associated with an image including an object. A neural network text encoder generates concept embeddings associated with each of a plurality of concepts. Each of the plurality of concepts is associated with one of at least two object classes. A confidence score module generates a confidence score for each of the plurality of concepts based on the image embeddings and the concept embeddings associated with the concept. An object class prediction module generates a predicted object class of the object based on an association between a set of concepts of the plurality of concepts having at least two of the highest values of the generated confidence scores and the one of the at least two object classes associated with a majority of the set of concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wei Tong, Siddhartha Gupta, Jacob Alan Bond, Zhuoning Yuan
  • Publication number: 20240094530
    Abstract: A system for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle includes at least one vehicle sensor for determining information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display for providing information to the occupant, and a controller in electrical communication with the at least one vehicle sensor and the display. The controller is programmed to identify at least one driving rule associated with at least one portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle using the at least one vehicle sensor, determine an applicability state of the at least one driving rule, where the applicability state includes an applicable state and a non-applicable state, and display a graphic using the display in response to determining that the applicability state of the at least one driving rule is the applicable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 11935414
    Abstract: A system for determining when additional information is needed by a passenger with color deficient vision within a vehicle includes a plurality of perception sensors within the vehicle adapted to collect data related to a physical identity of a primary object and to communicate the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, via a communication bus, to a data processor within the vehicle, the data processor adapted to determine that the physical identity of the primary object may be unclear to a passenger with color deficient vision based on the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, and that assistance should be provided to the passenger with color deficient vision to aid the passenger with color deficient vision in identifying the primary object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20240071228
    Abstract: A system for determining when additional information is needed by a passenger with color deficient vision within a vehicle includes a plurality of perception sensors within the vehicle adapted to collect data related to a physical identity of a primary object and to communicate the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, via a communication bus, to a data processor within the vehicle, the data processor adapted to determine that the physical identity of the primary object may be unclear to a passenger with color deficient vision based on the data related to the physical identity of the primary object, and that assistance should be provided to the passenger with color deficient vision to aid the passenger with color deficient vision in identifying the primary object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20240042954
    Abstract: A system for displaying information to an occupant of a vehicle includes a microphone, a camera for capturing images of an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display, and a controller in electrical communication with the microphone, the camera, and the display. The controller is programmed to receive a voice command from the occupant using the microphone, determine at least one characteristic of the requested object based on the voice command, capture an image of the environment using the camera, where the environment includes a relevant object, and to identify a location of the relevant object in the environment based at least in part on the image and the at least one characteristic of the requested object. The controller is further programmed to display a graphic based at least in part on the location of the relevant object in the environment using the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Kai-Han Chang