Patents by Inventor Jingjing Xue

Jingjing Xue 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: 20220390083
    Abstract: A lighting module for a vehicle includes a light source and a lens including an input dioptre oriented towards the light source and an output dioptre. The output dioptre includes at least one section through a horizontal plane having two convex portions separated by a concave portion, viewed from a side opposite the light source. The input dioptre includes a section through a vertical median plane having a lower convex portion and an upper concave portion, viewed from a side opposite the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Kostadin BEEV, Jean Luc MEYRENAUD, Jingjing XUE, Stephane ANDRE, Marie PELLARIN
  • Patent number: 11511774
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous driving vehicle are provided. The method includes: receiving environment information sent by an autonomous driving vehicle, the environment information including vehicle exterior environment information; determining whether the autonomous driving vehicle is in an abnormal operation status, based on the vehicle exterior environment information and operation information of an operation executed by the autonomous driving vehicle; and sending a braking control instruction and a data acquisition instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle, in response to determining that the autonomous driving vehicle is in the abnormal operation status, the braking control instruction being used for controlling braking of the autonomous driving vehicle, and the data acquisition instruction being used for acquiring data of a driving recorder in the autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11417114
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: identifying at least one obstacle from a point cloud collected by a lidar during a traveling process of a vehicle; for an obstacle in the at least one obstacle, determining an appearance rate of the obstacle within a life cycle corresponding to the obstacle; determining a confidence degree of a grid region of at least one grid region based on appearance rates of obstacles in the at least one obstacle; determining a target grid region from the at least one grid region based on the confidence degree, and determining whether an obstacle detected in the target grid region is an obstacle detected for a first time; and if yes, filtering out a point cloud corresponding to the obstacle detected in the target grid region for the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuang Zhang, Xiang Liu, Bin Gao, Xiaoxing Zhu, Jingjing Xue
  • Patent number: 11416005
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an unmanned vehicle to perform route verification are disclosed. A method may include: receiving to-be-verified route information sent by a cloud server in communication connection, the to-be-verified route information including road information and expected traveling state information corresponding to a road section on a road characterized by the road information, and the expected traveling state information being used to characterize an expected traveling state of the unmanned vehicle on the corresponding road section; and performing following verification according to a set period during driving of the unmanned vehicle along the road: detecting a traveling state of the unmanned vehicle; and determining a verification result of the to-be-verified route information, based on a matching relationship between the detected traveling state and an expected traveling state corresponding to a road section of a current location in the to-be-verified route information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
  • Patent number: 11392139
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a control system for controlling a mobile robot are provided. The method includes: receiving a motion mode change request sent by a target mobile robot, the motion mode change request including motion mode information, and the motion mode information being information of a motion mode to be obtained by change requested by the target mobile robot; determining whether the target mobile robot has a permission to move in the motion mode; and sending motion confirmation information for the motion mode change request to the target mobile robot to control the target mobile robot to move in the motion mode, in response to determining that the target mobile robot has the permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
  • Patent number: 11383735
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a vehicle fault processing method, a device and a medium, and relate to the field of autonomous driving technologies. The vehicle fault processing method includes: obtaining operating index data of a target vehicle and driving environment information of the target vehicle, the operating index data being configured to determine an operating condition of the target vehicle; determining whether a fault occurs in the target vehicle based on the operating index data; and when a fault occurs in the target vehicle, controlling the target vehicle to place a warning sign at a preset position based on the driving environment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ning Yu, Fan Zhu, Jingjing Xue, Chengfa Wang
  • Publication number: 20220153296
    Abstract: A computer-implement method for operating an ADV is disclosed. A first trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned. The ADV is to autonomously drive along the first trajectory. An obstacle in an affected region of the ADV is detected based on sensor data obtained from a plurality of sensors mounted on the ADV. An expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region is determined. Whether to plan a second trajectory or to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region is determined based on the expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region. A second trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned and the ADV is to autonomously drive along the second trajectory, or the ADV is to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region and to autonomously drive along the first trajectory afterwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Ning YU, Fan ZHU, Jingjing XUE
  • Patent number: 11328518
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for outputting information. The method may include: acquiring point cloud data and image data collected by a vehicle during a driving process; determining a plurality of time thresholds based on a preset time threshold value range; executing following processing for each time threshold: identifying obstacles included in each point cloud frame and each image frame respectively; determining a similarity between the obstacles; determining, in response to the similarity being greater than a preset similarity threshold, whether a time interval between the point cloud frame and the image frame corresponding to two similar obstacles is less than the time threshold; and processing recognized obstacles based on a determining result, to determine the number of obstacles; and determining, based on a plurality of numbers, and outputting a target time threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Liu, Shuang Zhang, Bin Gao, Xiaoxing Zhu, Jingjing Xue, Fan Yang, Junping Wang, Chengfa Wang
  • Patent number: 11300966
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle control method, including: acquiring current driving information of a vehicle; determining, according to the current driving information and a preset risk map, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment; and controlling a driving state of the vehicle accordingly when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment. By presetting a risk map, defining road and roadside risky areas in the map, defining risky road segments of roads according to the road and roadside risky areas, determining in real time, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment, and controlling a driving state of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment, so as to avoid risks that the risky areas cause to the driving of the vehicle, the driving safety of the vehicle can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Fan Yang, Xiaoxing Zhu, Xiang Liu, Shuang Zhang, Jingjing Xue
  • Publication number: 20210387631
    Abstract: According to various embodiment, described herein are methods and systems for reliably detecting malfunctions in a variety of software or hardware components in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). In one embodiment, a redundant system can be provided on an independent computing device in an ADV to check for malfunctions in a number of software or hardware components. When no malfunction occurs in the ADV, an autonomous driving system (ADS) in the ADV operates to drive the ADV, while the redundant system can monitor the ADS in a standby mode. In the event of a malfunction, the redundant system can take over the control of the ADV, and take appropriate actions based on a severity level of the malfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Guohao GONG, Fan ZHU, Yue WANG, Xin XU, Xiang LIU, Yongyi SUN, Yingnan LIU, Junping WANG, Jingjing XUE
  • Publication number: 20210341295
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle. An exemplary method includes: acquiring transportation demand information; acquiring driving status information of a vehicle in a vehicle formation; determining a target vehicle from the vehicle formation based on the transportation demand information and the driving status information; and sending a dispatch instruction to the target vehicle, to cause the target vehicle to execute a transportation task indicated by the transportation demand information according to the dispatch instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Ruihao Min, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Zelin Wu
  • Publication number: 20210325203
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a high-precision map-based human-machine interaction method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a pre-generated high-precision map; analyzing, in response to receiving an information addition request, the information addition request; and adding additional information indicated by the information addition request to the pre-generated high-precision map to generate an updated high-precision map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Wei Gong
  • Publication number: 20210291679
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an exemplary method of autonomously charging an autonomous driving vehicle includes receiving, from a sensor in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), indication that a batter level of the ADV falls below a threshold; and selecting a charging pile from a plurality of charging piles on a high definition map based on information received from a cloud server. The method further includes generating a first trajectory based on a current location of the ADV and a location of the selected charging pile, the first trajectory connecting a first point representing the current location of the ADV to a second point at the selected charging pile, and including a first segment and a second segment. The method further includes driving forward along the first segment of the first trajectory, and driving backward along the second segment of the first trajectory when the ADV drives towards the selected charging pile along the first trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ning YU, Fan ZHU, Jingjing XUE
  • Publication number: 20210262819
    Abstract: A computer-implement method for operating an ADV is disclosed. A starting point and an ending point of a route along which an ADV is to be driven is determined. Whether each of the starting point and the ending point is within a first driving area having a lane boundary or a second driving area as an open space is determined. The route is divided into a first route segment and a second route segment. Dependent upon whether the starting point or the ending point is within the first driving area or the second driving area, the method comprises operating in one of an on-lane mode or an open-space mode to plan a first trajectory for the first route segment and operating in one of the on-lane mode or the open-space mode to plan a second trajectory for the second route segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ning YU, Fan ZHU, Jingjing XUE
  • Publication number: 20210132614
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle. The method may include: acquiring vehicle traveling environment information; determining an intended traveling state of the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle traveling environment information; and in response to detecting an interactive operation of a target user for the intended traveling state, generating a traveling state adjustment instruction corresponding to the interactive operation to control the autonomous vehicle to adjust a traveling state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Yue WANG, Ruihao MIN, Jingjing XUE, Yingnan LIU, Donghui SHEN, Lie CHENG
  • Publication number: 20210124054
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for detecting an obstacle. The method may include: acquiring first point cloud data collected by a first vehicle-mounted laser radar and second point cloud data collected by a second vehicle-mounted laser radar, where a height of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar from a ground is greater than a height of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar from the ground, and a number of wiring harnesses of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar is greater than a number of wiring harnesses of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar; performing ground estimation based on the first point cloud data; filtering out a ground point in the second point cloud data according to the ground estimation result of the first point cloud data; and performing obstacle detection based on the second point cloud data after the ground point is filtered out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Shuang ZHANG, Xiang LIU, Bin GAO, Xiaoxing ZHU, Jingjing XUE, Fan YANG, Junping WANG, Chengfa WANG
  • Publication number: 20210119988
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a remote login processing method, apparatus, device and storage medium for an unmanned vehicle, and relates to the technical field of remote control. The implementation method of the specific method includes: sending a login request to an unmanned vehicle terminal through a first communication channel in response to a the login request received from an operator, and waiting to receive a reply instruction returned by the unmanned vehicle terminal; returning the reply instruction to the operator through the second communication channel in response to the reply instruction received from the unmanned vehicle terminal, so that the operator logs in the unmanned vehicle terminal according to the reply instruction, where there is a persistent connection state that unidirectionally authenticated between the second communication channel and the unmanned vehicle terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Wenlong Rao, Yan Feng, Xuan Huang, Wei Gong, Gaifan Li, Yingnan Liu, Yue Wang, Jingjing Xue
  • Publication number: 20210114620
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for controlling an autonomous vehicle to pass through a curve, a device and a medium, and relate to the field of autonomous driving technologies. At least one implementation of the method for controlling an autonomous vehicle to pass through a curve includes: determining a curve boundary within a sensing area in a current driving direction of the autonomous vehicle based on a current position of the autonomous vehicle on the curve; determining a current safe stopping distance of the autonomous vehicle on the curve based on current driving parameters of the autonomous vehicle and the curve boundary; determining a speed threshold of the autonomous vehicle based on the current safe stopping distance, braking parameters of the autonomous vehicle and a curve curvature corresponding to the current position; and controlling a speed of the autonomous vehicle not to exceed the speed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Ning YU, Jingjing XUE, Dongchun YAO
  • Publication number: 20210107531
    Abstract: A method, including: acquiring a point cloud frame including point cloud data of a pedestrian; projecting the point cloud data of the pedestrian to a ground coordinate system to obtain projection point data of the pedestrian; determining a direction of a connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, based on a location distribution of the projection point data; extracting a point cloud of a stable region from the point cloud data of the pedestrian based on the direction of the connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, a form change range of the stable region when the pedestrian moves being smaller than form change ranges of other regions of the pedestrian; and determining movement information of the pedestrian based on a coordinate of a center point of the point cloud of the stable region in a plurality of consecutive point cloud frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Xiang LIU, Bin GAO, Shuang ZHANG, Xiaoxing ZHU, Jingjing XUE, Junping WANG, Chengfa WANG
  • Publication number: 20210103278
    Abstract: A remote control method for an autonomous vehicle includes: a central control device receives a remote control request message sent by a vehicle; detects a driving operation of a control person on the simulated cockpit; generates an instruction for simulating a driving operation according to the driving operation of a control person on the simulated cockpit, where the instruction for simulating a driving operation is used to simulate the driving operation of the control person on the simulated cockpit; and sends a remote control message to the vehicle. A remote control apparatus for an autonomous vehicle is also related.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Gao YU, Jingjing XUE, Shi HU