Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Parks

Jeffrey S. Parks 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: 10678263
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a route of a vehicle are provided. The method includes activating fail operative steering in response to detecting an electronic power steering (EPS) failure, determining a length of a lane map fusion ring, calculating a desired route based on a line of the lane map fusion ring if the determined length is greater than a first predetermined distance, and calculating desired route based on offset information and heading information of the lane map fusion ring and curvature information and curvature derivative information calculated from map data if the determined length is less than the first predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Parks, Loren J. Majersik
  • Publication number: 20200062252
    Abstract: The present application generally relates to vehicle control systems and an apparatus and methods to detect diagonal lane markers. In particular, the method detects a first and second lane marker, compares those lane markers against expected lane marker values. If one of the detected lane markers deviates from an expected value by an amount greater than a threshold, the method is operative to determine if a previous lane marker detection was within the threshold and to generate a vehicle trajectory in response to the non-deviating marker and an expected marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Parks, Loren J. Majersik, Chris C. Swoish
  • Publication number: 20190370564
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for controlling a vehicle using an anchor line are disclosed. In one example implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a lane line quality indicator from a camera associated with a vehicle. The method further includes determining a lane line weight. The method further includes comparing the lane line quality indicator to a quality threshold to determine whether the lane line is of sufficient quality to use as an anchor line. The method further includes comparing the lane line weight to a confidence threshold to determine whether the lane line is of sufficient confidence to use as the anchor line. The method further includes, responsive to determining that at least one of the lane line is not of sufficient quality and the lane line is not of sufficient weight, generating an alternate anchor line. The method further includes controlling the vehicle using the alternate anchor line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Parks, Loren J. Majersik, Chris C. Swoish
  • Publication number: 20190369614
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle includes at least one actuator configured to control vehicle steering, at least one sensor configured to detect a location of a lane boundary proximate the vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the at least one actuator according to an autonomous driving mode. The controller is also configured to determine a width of a lane occupied by the vehicle based on a sensor reading from the at least one sensor, and, in response to the determined lane width being below a predefined with threshold, discontinue autonomous control of the at least one actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Parks, Loren J. Majersik, Chris C. Swoish, Haley M. Dalzell
  • Publication number: 20190056750
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a route of a vehicle are provided. The method includes activating fail operative steering in response to detecting an electronic power steering (EPS) failure, determining a length of a lane map fusion ring, calculating a desired route based on a line of the lane map fusion ring if the determined length is greater than a first predetermined distance, and calculating desired route based on offset information and heading information of the lane map fusion ring and curvature information and curvature derivative information calculated from map data if the determined length is less than the first predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Parks, Loren J. Majersik