Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Ling

Jeffrey Ling 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: 12030523
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for planning the future trajectory of an autonomous vehicle in an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: David Joseph Weiss, Jeffrey Ling
  • Publication number: 20230041501
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a policy neural network. In one aspect, a method for training a policy neural network configured to receive a scene data input and to generate a policy output to be followed by a target agent comprises: maintaining a set of training data, the set of training data comprising (i) training scene inputs and (ii) respective target policy outputs; at each training iteration: generating additional training scene inputs; generating a respective target policy output for each additional training scene input using a trained expert policy neural network that has been trained to receive an expert scene data input comprising (i) data characterizing the current scene and (ii) data characterizing a future state of the target agent; updating the set of training data; and training the policy neural network on the updated set of training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: David Joseph Weiss, Jeffrey Ling, Adam Edward Bloniarz, Cole Gulino
  • Publication number: 20230040006
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for planning the future trajectory of an autonomous vehicle in an environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: David Joseph Weiss, Jeffrey Ling
  • Publication number: 20220383076
    Abstract: A method for performing one or more tasks, wherein each of the one or more tasks includes predicting behavior of one or more agents in an environment, the method comprising: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) input tensor representing behaviors of the one or more agents in the environment across a plurality of time steps; generating an encoded representation of the 3D input tensor by processing the 3D input tensor using an encoder neural network, wherein 3D input tensor comprises a plurality of observed cells and a plurality of masked cells; and processing the encoded representation of the 3D input tensor using a decoder neural network to generate a 4D output tensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Zhifeng Chen, Hao-Tien Chiang, David Joseph Weiss, Jeffrey Ling, Ashish Venugopal