Patents by Inventor Ji TAO

Ji TAO 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: 20210024095
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle, a medium and a system. The method for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle includes: acquiring an environment sensing result related to an environment around the vehicle, the environment sensing result being based on sensing information collected by at least one sensor arranged in the environment and independent of the vehicle, and the environment sensing result being configured to indicate relevant information of a plurality of objects in the environment; determining an external sensing result of the vehicle by excluding a self-vehicle sensing result corresponding to the vehicle from the environment sensing result; and controlling a driving behavior of the vehicle based at least on the external sensing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ji TAO, Tian XIA, Xing HU
  • Patent number: 10829058
    Abstract: The present application discloses a combinatory sensor apparatus. The apparatus includes a sensor mounting frame and at least one sensor; the sensor mounting frame includes a sensor mounting base plate and at least one sensor support component, the sensor mounting base plate is mounted on a top of a driverless vehicle, and the at least one sensor support component is mounted on the sensor mounting base plate for supporting the at least one sensor; and the at least one sensor includes a global positioning system antenna and/or a laser radar. This implementation guarantees the consistency of sensor installation locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongtao Fan, Lintao Li, Jing Zhang, Junping Wang, Bolei Wang, Guangzhong Liu, Lei Zhu, Ji Tao
  • Patent number: 10745028
    Abstract: Provided are a method, an apparatus and a device for obstacle in lane warning. The method includes receiving information of an obstacle in a front lane of a first vehicle, where the first vehicle is in front of a second vehicle; and performing an obstacle warning on the second vehicle according to the information of the obstacle. The second vehicle receives the information of the obstacle, and performs the obstacle warning on the second vehicle according to the information of the obstacle to prevent the second vehicle from failing to detect the obstacle in a blind area when the sight of the second vehicle is blocked by the first vehicle; the front vehicle notifies the subsequent vehicle of the obstacle in the lane immediately, which facilitates the driver to handle the situation in advance, improves the vehicle's ability to sense the obstacle and prevents the collision from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Tao, Huo Cao, Zeshu Shen, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao, Dewang Song
  • Publication number: 20200133261
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle, a device and a storage medium. The method is implemented at a portable electronic device, including: establishing a communication connection with a driving control system of the vehicle; receiving information related to a driving control of the vehicle from an external device of the vehicle, the information including at least one of perceptual information related to an environment where the vehicle is located, a path planning of the vehicle and a behavior prediction of at least one object in the environment; determining, based on the received information, a control instruction for a driving behavior of the vehicle; and transmitting, via the communication connection, the control instruction to the driving control system of the vehicle for executing the control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ji Tao, Xing Hu, Yaling Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200090511
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle, a medium, and a system. The method for assisting in controlling automatic driving of a vehicle may include: acquiring sensing information related to environment collected by a sensor, the sensor being disposed in the environment and independent of the vehicle; determining an environment sensing result related to the environment by processing the acquired sensing information, the environment sensing result indicating relevant information about a plurality of objects including the vehicle in the environment; and providing the environment sensing result to a vehicle-side control device associated with the vehicle for assisting in controlling a driving behavior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ji TAO, Tian XIA, Xing HU
  • Publication number: 20200081701
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information upgrading method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for an automatic driving vehicle, where the method includes: determining a target in-vehicle client to be upgraded and acquiring target upgrade information; and further, transmitting an upgrade indication message carrying the target upgrade information to the target in-vehicle client by an over-the-air (OTA) technology, so that the target in-vehicle client performs an upgrade according to the target upgrade information. It can be seen that the effective information upgrading of the in-vehicle client in the automatic driving vehicle is achieved, and the user experience of the in-vehicle client and/or the automatic driving vehicle is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue CUI, Yaling ZHANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200081822
    Abstract: The application provides a method and an apparatus for testing an autonomous vehicle, and a storage medium, where the method includes: obtaining detection information of the autonomous vehicle, where the detection information is configured to indicate the test result obtained when the detecting apparatus in the autonomous vehicle tests the autonomous vehicle; further, generating a test interface according to the obtained detection information, and displaying the test interface, so that the tester can visually check various test information of the autonomous vehicle during the road running test, thereby not only saving a labor cost, but also improving a test efficiency of the road running test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao, Hongshun Shen
  • Publication number: 20200082648
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an automatic driving system, a vehicle control method and a device. The automatic driving system includes a main monitoring equipment, a secondary monitoring equipment, at least one equipment to be detected, and a standby equipment corresponding to each equipment to be detected; the primary monitoring equipment and the secondary monitoring equipment are connected to each equipment to be detected and the standby equipment corresponding to each equipment to be detected; the primary monitoring equipment is connected to the secondary monitoring equipment. The above system and control method ensure that an equipment of the vehicle is is abnormal, the vehicle can be switched to a standby equipment of the equipment in time, which greatly reduces an incidence of a safety accident caused by a failure of the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue CUI, Yaling ZHANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200079392
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automatic driving system, fault alarm method and device, the system includes a primary monitoring device, an auxiliary monitoring device, at least one device to be detected and a fault alarm device; where the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device are respectively connected to each device to be detected and the fault alarm device; the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device are connected, the primary monitoring device and the auxiliary monitoring device respectively perform a fault detection on the each device to be detected; and if it is detected that any device to be detected is abnormal, the primary monitoring device or the auxiliary monitoring device sends an alarm instruction to the fault alarm device, so that the fault alarm device performs an alarm operation according to the alarm instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Yaling Zhang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20200076530
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and a data transmission device for an intelligent driving vehicle, and a device. The method includes: acquiring data to be transmitted; encoding the data to be transmitted to generate encoded data; generating a check digit according to the data to be transmitted; adding the encoded data to a data packet, wherein a trailer of the data packet comprises the check digit; and transmitting the data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yifeng SHI, Xing HU, Haisong WANG, Lei FANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200072968
    Abstract: Provided are a method for indicating at least one obstacle by a smart roadside unit, a system and a non-temporary computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: detecting the at least one obstacle via a radar to generate an obstacle set; acquiring status information reported by an autonomous vehicle; filtering the obstacle set according to the status information reported by the autonomous vehicle, to remove the autonomous vehicle object from the obstacle set; and sending a filtered obstacle set to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: YIFENG SHI, Xing Hu, Huo Cao, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20200074852
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a roadside sensing system based on vehicle infrastructure cooperation and a method for controlling a vehicle thereof. The system includes a target vehicle and an intelligent roadside device provided on a road segment divided by a preset distance. The intelligent roadside device comprises a roadside sensing module, a roadside processing module, and a roadside communication module. The roadside sensing module comprises a sensor configured to acquire surrounding environment information of the target vehicle. The roadside processing module is configured to perform fusion processing on the surrounding environment information acquired to form road environment information. The roadside communication module is configured to send the road environment information to the target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Xing HU, Tian XIA, Chongchong LI, Cheng TAN, Sheng TAO, Huo CAO, Yifeng SHI, Lei FANG, Haisong WANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200073404
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method and an apparatus for upgrading a map of a self-driving vehicle. The method includes: obtaining a target position and a current position of the self-driving vehicle; obtaining a navigation path of the self-driving vehicle according to the target position and the current position; obtaining information of a map required by the navigation path, the information comprising a serial number of the map required and a version number of the map required; determining whether the map required is stored locally in the self-driving vehicle according to the serial number of the map required; determining whether a version number of the stored map is consistent with the version number of the map required if yes; and downloading a corresponding map from a server if not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yifeng SHI, Sheng TAO, Haisong WANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200074681
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for calibrating an intelligent roadside unit. The method includes: obtaining an intelligent driving vehicle within a preset range of the intelligent roadside unit; obtaining a first point cloud detected by a first radar in the intelligent driving vehicle, and obtaining location information of the intelligent driving vehicle; obtaining a second point cloud detected by a second radar in the intelligent roadside unit; and obtaining location information of the second radar based on the first point cloud, the second point cloud, and the location information of the intelligent driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Tian Xia, Xing Hu, Haisong Wang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20200077242
    Abstract: Provided are a communication system and a communication method of an autonomous vehicle. The system includes: a plurality of application modules, and an in-vehicle terminal. The in-vehicle terminal includes: an external communication module configured to communicate with another autonomous vehicle or a server in a message mode, and an internal communication module configured to communicate with the plurality of application modules in a service mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yifeng Shi, Xing Hu, Haisong Wang, Lei Fang, Ji Tao
  • Publication number: 20200072616
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-precision map generation method, device, and computer device. The method includes: obtaining a local high-precision map in an autonomous vehicle and a destination of the autonomous vehicle, determining whether there is a high-precision map corresponding to a front road section according to the destination and the local high-precision map, and when there is no high-precision map corresponding to the front road section, prompting the driver to switch to a manual driving mode, and after the autonomous vehicle enters the front road section, collecting map information by a radar and a camera of the autonomous vehicle, and generating the high-precision map according to the map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yifeng SHI, Sheng TAO, Huo CAO, Haisong WANG, Ji TAO
  • Publication number: 20200065700
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a data processing method, apparatus and readable storage medium for evaluating ride comfortability, by receiving evaluation data input by a user through a data collection port, the evaluation data includes evaluation information of the user for each driving action of a vehicle on which the user rides, determining environmental information and/or vehicle driving parameters when the vehicle executes each driving action, according to the evaluation information corresponding to each driving action of the vehicle, as well as the environmental information and/or vehicle driving parameters, training a preset deep learning algorithm model, to obtain an evaluation model for outputting ride comfortability, the data processing flow for ride comfortability is simplified by establishing an evaluation model that can be configured to output ride comfortability, the processing efficiency is improved; it also makes the evaluation of the obtained ride comfortability more objective, with higher universal
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui LIU, Yaling ZHANG, Yunyan HU, Ji TAO, Ruixiang SHEN
  • Publication number: 20200039525
    Abstract: A method for detecting safety of a driving behavior, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring current driving data of a vehicle during a driving process of the vehicle; determining current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle according to the current driving data of the vehicle; inputting the current driving behavior feature data of the vehicle into a real-time safety detection model and calculating a security score corresponding to current driving behavior of the vehicle; and determining whether the current driving behavior of the vehicle is safe according to the security score corresponding to the current driving behavior of the vehicle. The method can assist an optimization of a vehicle driving system, reduce a safety risk of vehicle driving, and improve a riding experience of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunyan HU, Ya WANG, Yifeng PAN, Dayang HAO, Rui LIU, Lizhi ZHANG, Xiaojun LUO, Yaling ZHANG, Ji TAO, Ruixiang SHEN, Qihao HUANG
  • Publication number: 20190302275
    Abstract: Provided are a vehicle positioning method, an apparatus and a device. The method includes: sending an auxiliary positioning request to an auxiliary positioning device within a preset distance range; receiving an auxiliary positioning message returned by the auxiliary positioning device with respect to the auxiliary positioning request, where the auxiliary positioning message carries location information of the auxiliary positioning device; and determining a current location of a current vehicle according to the location information of the auxiliary positioning device and distance information between the current vehicle and the auxiliary positioning device. The method of the present disclosure can implement vehicle positioning without a satellite positioning signal. The vehicle positioning can be performed when the vehicle is blocked by an obstacle such as a tunnel, a building and the satellite positioning signal cannot be received, improving the accuracy of the vehicle positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: SHENG TAO, ZESHU SHEN, HUO CAO, YIFENG SHI, LEI FANG, HAISONG WANG, JI TAO
  • Publication number: 20190202466
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for assessing a comfort level of a driving system. A method for generating an assessment model for comfort level in a driving system comprises acquiring a first assessment from a user on a comfort level of at least one traveling operation of the driving system, and acquiring a measurement of a traveling indicator of the driving system when performing the at least one traveling operation. The method further comprises generating the assessment model for the comfort level in the driving system based on the first assessment, the measurement of the traveling indicator, and a second assessment from the user on an overall comfort level of the driving system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yunyan Hu, Yaling Zhang, Yue Cui, Simin Sui, Ji Tao, Hui Zhang