Patents by Inventor Jeremy Chambers
Jeremy Chambers 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).
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Patent number: 9776630Abstract: Operating a host vehicle is described as including receiving remote vehicle information indicating a geospatial state and a kinematic state for a remote vehicle, identifying host vehicle information indicating a geospatial state and a kinematic state for the host vehicle, determining a converging time to a converging location within a vehicle transportation network based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, identifying a first threshold at which a fixed deceleration of the host vehicle to the converging location is achieved using a reaction delay of an operator of the host vehicle, wherein the first threshold is a step-wise function based on the kinematic state of the host vehicle, and modifying operation of the host vehicle responsive to the converging time reaching the first threshold. A method, vehicle, and apparatus are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9778349Abstract: A method of monitoring emergency vehicles includes generating host vehicle information with a navigation unit, the host vehicle information including a host vehicle location and a host vehicle heading, receiving emergency vehicle information with a receiver, the emergency vehicle information including an emergency vehicle emergency status, an emergency vehicle location and an emergency vehicle heading, determining with a controller a distance between the host vehicle location and the emergency vehicle location, determining with the controller whether the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and performing a mitigation operation, when the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is a threshold distance or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Neal Probert, Roy Goudy, Jeremy Chambers, Andy Christensen
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Publication number: 20170274820Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include a host vehicle receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information, identifying host vehicle information, determining a relative position code indicating whether an expected path for the remote vehicle and an expected path for the host vehicle are convergent based, determining a remote vehicle dynamic state code based on the remote vehicle information, determining a host vehicle dynamic state code based on the host vehicle information, identifying an expected forward collision condition based on the relative position code, the remote vehicle dynamic state code, and the host vehicle dynamic state code, identifying a deceleration rate for safely traversing the vehicle transportation network in response to identifying the expected forward collision condition, identifying a vehicle control action based on the deceleration rate, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance wType: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen, Jeremy Chambers
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Publication number: 20170278401Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include a host vehicle receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information, identifying host vehicle information, determining a relative position code indicating whether an expected path for the remote vehicle and an expected path for the host vehicle are convergent, determining a remote vehicle dynamic state code based on the remote vehicle information, determining a host vehicle dynamic state code based on the host vehicle information, identifying an expected passing lane collision condition based on the relative position code, the remote vehicle dynamic state code, the host vehicle dynamic state code, and a current acceleration rate for the host vehicle, in response to identifying the expected passing lane collision condition, identifying a vehicle control action, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the vehicle control action.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Neal Probert, Roy Goudy, Jeremy Chambers, Andrew Christensen
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Publication number: 20170274856Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include a host vehicle receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information, identifying host vehicle information, determining a relative position code indicating whether an expected path for the remote vehicle and an expected path for the host vehicle are convergent based, determining a remote vehicle dynamic state code based on the remote vehicle information, determining a host vehicle dynamic state code based on the host vehicle information, identifying an expected rear-end collision condition based on the relative position code, the remote vehicle dynamic state code, and the host vehicle dynamic state code, in response to identifying the expected rear-end collision condition, identifying a vehicle control action based on the host vehicle dynamic state code, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the vehicle control action.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Heather Konet, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers, Andrew Christensen
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Publication number: 20170274821Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include a host vehicle receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information, identifying host vehicle information, determining a relative position code indicating whether an expected path for the remote vehicle and an expected path for the host vehicle are convergent based, determining a remote vehicle dynamic state code based on the remote vehicle information, determining a host vehicle dynamic state code based on the host vehicle information, identifying an expected blind spot collision condition based on the relative position code, the remote vehicle dynamic state code, and the host vehicle dynamic state code, in response to identifying the expected blind spot collision condition, identifying a vehicle control action based on the host vehicle dynamic state code, and traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network in accordance with the vehicle control action.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9725037Abstract: A method for providing information to a driver of a vehicle includes receiving, at a host vehicle via a wireless electronic communication link, messages that each include remote vehicle information for a respective one of the one or more remote vehicles; identifying host vehicle information for the host vehicle; determining that a potential message occlusion exists based at least in part on the remote vehicle information for the one or more remote vehicles and the host vehicle information; and in response to determining that a potential message occlusion exists, causing a message occlusion alert to be output.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers, Andrew Christensen
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Patent number: 9694737Abstract: A vehicle headlight control system includes a headlight, a positioning system, a receiver, and a controller. The positioning system is configured to generate host vehicle information including a host vehicle location and a host vehicle trajectory. The receiver is configured to receive remote vehicle information including a remote vehicle location and a remote vehicle trajectory. The controller is configured to calculate a remote vehicle distance from the host vehicle location based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, determine whether the remote vehicle distance is less than a predetermined distance, and automatically operate the headlight in a first setting while the remote vehicle distance is determined to be less than the predetermined distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andy Christensen
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Publication number: 20170182940Abstract: A method for providing information to a driver of a vehicle includes obtaining host vehicle information that describes a first path to be traversed by a host vehicle, obtaining conflicting vehicle information that describes a second path to be traversed by a potentially conflicting vehicle, wherein the second path crosses the first path, determining a queue length representing a number of queued vehicles that are queued ahead of the host vehicle, determining a time-to-contact based on the host vehicle information and the conflicting vehicle information, and causing a warning alert to be output if the time-to-contact is less than a warning alert time value and the queue length is equal to or less than a warning alert length value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Andrew Christensen, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers
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Publication number: 20170186316Abstract: A vehicle may traverse a portion of a vehicle transportation network, which may include a processor of the vehicle executing instructions to identify a first vehicle operation assistance information item, and, on a condition that an immanency for the first vehicle operation assistance information item is within a maximum relevant immanence and a utility metric for the first vehicle operation assistance information item indicates high utility, present a representation of the first vehicle operation assistance information item by, on a condition that a first urgency identified based on the immanency indicates a warning urgency or an advisory urgency, controlling a primary graphical display portion to present a first portion of a graphical representation of the first vehicle operation assistance information item, and controlling a secondary graphical display portion to present a second portion of the graphical representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Heather Konet, Adrian Tan, Roy Goudy, Andrew Christensen, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9630498Abstract: A method and apparatus for vehicle operation assistance information management may include a vehicle, which may include a primary graphical display portion and a secondary graphical display portion. Vehicle operation assistance information management may include identifying vehicle operation assistance information, identifying an immanency, an urgency, and a utility for the vehicle operation assistance information. The urgency may indicate an advance urgency, and a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the secondary graphical display portion. The urgency may indicate an advisory urgency or a warning urgency, a first portion of a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the primary graphical display portion, and, subsequently, and a second portion of a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the secondary graphical display portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Heather Konet, Adrian Tan, Roy Goudy, Andrew Christensen, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9633559Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating projected vehicle transportation network information for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and traversing a part of the portion of the vehicle transportation network represented by the projected vehicle transportation network information using the projected vehicle transportation network information.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen
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Patent number: 9620015Abstract: A host vehicle receives a remote vehicle message via a wireless electronic communication link. The remote vehicle message includes remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information that includes at least a remote heading angle for a remote vehicle. Host vehicle information is identified that includes host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information that includes at least a host heading angle for the host vehicle. Projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network is generated based on the remote and host vehicle information, the portion including a curved path having a substantially constant radius.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Neal Probert, Roy Goudy, Andrew Christensen, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9620014Abstract: A vehicle intersection monitoring method includes exchanging host vehicle information and remote vehicle information between a host vehicle and a remote vehicle, identifying a road intersection based on at least one of the host vehicle information and the remote vehicle information, and selecting an intersection scenario from a plurality of intersection scenarios based on the host vehicle information and the remote vehicle information. The method further includes monitoring, by operation of a processor, a location relationship between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle according to an algorithm that is determined based on the selected intersection scenario, to determine whether a possibility of contact between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle exists proximate to the intersection, and performing a threat mitigation operation while the possibility of contact exists.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Roy W. Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen, Jeremy Chambers
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Patent number: 9618347Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing an intersection for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network including an intersection based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and traversing the intersection represented by the projected vehicle transportation network information using the projected vehicle transportation network information.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen
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Patent number: 9598009Abstract: A method for providing information to a driver of a vehicle includes receiving remote vehicle information indicating geospatial state and kinematic state for each of the one or more remote vehicles. The method also includes identifying host vehicle information indicating geospatial state and kinematic state for the host vehicle, identifying a queue length representing a number of vehicles queued ahead of the host vehicle, and identifying at least one of the one or more remote vehicles as a conflicting vehicle. The method also includes determining a time-to-contact based on the remote vehicle information corresponding to the conflicting vehicle and the host vehicle information. The method also includes causing a warning alert to be output if the time-to-contact is less than a warning alert threshold and only if the queue length is zero vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Christensen, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers
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Publication number: 20170039853Abstract: A method and apparatus for projected vehicle transportation network information notification for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and traversing the intersection represented by the projected vehicle transportation network information using the projected vehicle transportation network information by outputting at least a portion of the projected vehicle transportation network information representing the vehicle transportation network intersection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen
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Publication number: 20170039846Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating projected vehicle transportation network information for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geospatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and traversing a part of the portion of the vehicle transportation network represented by the projected vehicle transportation network information using the projected vehicle transportation network information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen
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Publication number: 20170038217Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing an intersection for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network may include receiving a remote vehicle message including remote vehicle information indicating remote vehicle geospatial state information and remote vehicle kinematic state information, identifying host vehicle information including host vehicle geo spatial state information and host vehicle kinematic state information, generating projected vehicle transportation network information representing a portion of the vehicle transportation network including an intersection based on the remote vehicle information and the host vehicle information, and traversing the intersection represented by the projected vehicle transportation network information using the projected vehicle transportation network information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Jeremy Chambers, Roy Goudy, Neal Probert, Andrew Christensen
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Publication number: 20160375766Abstract: A method and apparatus for vehicle operation assistance information management may include a vehicle, which may include a primary graphical display portion and a secondary graphical display portion. Vehicle operation assistance information management may include identifying vehicle operation assistance information, identifying an immanency, an urgency, and a utility for the vehicle operation assistance information. The urgency may indicate an advance urgency, and a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the secondary graphical display portion. The urgency may indicate an advisory urgency or a warning urgency, a first portion of a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the primary graphical display portion, and, subsequently, and a second portion of a graphical representation of the vehicle operation assistance information may be presented via the secondary graphical display portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Heather Konet, Adrian Tan, Roy Goudy, Andrew Christensen, Neal Probert, Jeremy Chambers