Patents by Inventor Joshua SHARPE
Joshua SHARPE 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: 11922641Abstract: A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brian Gabel, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston, Andrew Brown
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Publication number: 20230356724Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one drive wheel, a powerplant, a clutch, and a controller. The powerplant is configured to generate and deliver power to the at least one drive wheel. The clutch is disposed between the at least one drive wheel and the powerplant. The controller is programmed to, in response to detecting the at least one drive wheel disengaging the ground during a vehicle jump, open the clutch to disconnect the at least one drive wheel from the powerplant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe, Brendan F. Diamond, James Trent, David Michael Russell
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Publication number: 20230347886Abstract: A system receives confirmation that a vehicle has accepted automatic control imposition for a drive within a geo-fenced boundary. The system tracks travel of a plurality of vehicles, including the vehicle, within the geo-fenced boundary. The system may determine that the vehicle has a threshold likelihood of encountering at least one of another vehicle or a boundary of the geo-fence at a threshold speed or above and responsive to the determination, impose automatic control on the vehicle, including at least one of controlled braking or speed limiting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Andrew Brown, Brendan F. Diamond, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston
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Patent number: 11708073Abstract: A system receives confirmation that a vehicle has accepted automatic control imposition for a drive within a geo-fenced boundary. The system tracks travel of a plurality of vehicles, including the vehicle, within the geo-fenced boundary. The system may determine that the vehicle has a threshold likelihood of encountering at least one of another vehicle or a boundary of the geo-fence at a threshold speed or above and responsive to the determination, impose automatic control on the vehicle, including at least one of controlled braking or speed limiting.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Brown, Brendan F. Diamond, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston
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Patent number: 11608027Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle key and display a key identification on a vehicle display. The processor is also configured to receive a request to export vehicle system and state settings to a key memory. The processor is further configured to access a plurality of predefined settings, designated as key-storable settings, from a vehicle CAN bus, responsive to the request, and transmit the predefined settings to the key, including instructions to store the settings to the key memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Keith Weston, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Joshua Sharpe, Charles Richard Drake
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Publication number: 20220340173Abstract: A system receives confirmation that a vehicle has accepted automatic control imposition for a drive within a geo-fenced boundary. The system tracks travel of a plurality of vehicles, including the vehicle, within the geo-fenced boundary. The system may determine that the vehicle has a threshold likelihood of encountering at least one of another vehicle or a boundary of the geo-fence at a threshold speed or above and responsive to the determination, impose automatic control on the vehicle, including at least one of controlled braking or speed limiting.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Andrew Brown, Brendan F. Diamond, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston
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Patent number: 11238497Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen; responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion; and responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Brown, Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe
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Publication number: 20210312643Abstract: A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Brian Gabel, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston, Andrew Brown
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Patent number: 11062463Abstract: A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brian Gabel, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston, Andrew Brown
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Patent number: 10882524Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for launching a vehicle from rest in order to maximize performance for the vehicle launch event. In one example, a method comprises, in preparation of a launch of the vehicle driven by an engine from a resting state, rotating a set of vehicle tires via a controller by adjusting a torque of the engine while vehicle brakes are applied for a duration that is a function of real-time pressure sensor readings of the set of tires. In this way, tire temperature may be determined based on the real-time pressure sensor readings in order to control tire temperature to an optimal tire temperature for the launch event, where the optimal tire temperature is based on a coefficient of friction of the road surface the vehicle is launching from, and where the optimal tire temperature provides for optimal grip for the vehicle launch.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew Cunningham, Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe
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Publication number: 20200279377Abstract: A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Brian Gabel, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston, Andrew Brown
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Publication number: 20200265474Abstract: A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen; responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion; and responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Andrew BROWN, Keith WESTON, Joshua SHARPE
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Publication number: 20200172052Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle key and display a key identification on a vehicle display. The processor is also configured to receive a request to export vehicle system and state settings to a key memory. The processor is further configured to access a plurality of predefined settings, designated as key-storable settings, from a vehicle CAN bus, responsive to the request, and transmit the predefined settings to the key, including instructions to store the settings to the key memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Keith WESTON, Andrew Thomas CUNNINGHAM, Joshua SHARPE, Charles Richard DRAKE
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Patent number: 10555113Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive, via a vehicle-related interface, an object to be geo-fenced. The processor is also configured to receive adaptive parameters defining how a geo-fence should adapt to data types included with the parameters. The processor is further configured to find an instance of the object and create a geo-fence around the found object. The processor is also configured to track data corresponding to the adaptive parameters while a vehicle travels and adapt the created geo-fence based on the tracked data as guided by the parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe, Andrew Thomas Cunningham
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Publication number: 20190364381Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive, via a vehicle-related interface, an object to be geo-fenced. The processor is also configured to receive adaptive parameters defining how a geo-fence should adapt to data types included with the parameters. The processor is further configured to find an instance of the object and create a geo-fence around the found object. The processor is also configured to track data corresponding to the adaptive parameters while a vehicle travels and adapt the created geo-fence based on the tracked data as guided by the parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Keith WESTON, Joshua SHARPE, Andrew Thomas CUNNINGHAM
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Publication number: 20190248370Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for launching a vehicle from rest in order to maximize performance for the vehicle launch event. In one example, a method comprises, in preparation of a launch of the vehicle driven by an engine from a resting state, rotating a set of vehicle tires via a controller by adjusting a torque of the engine while vehicle brakes are applied for a duration that is a function of real-time pressure sensor readings of the set of tires. In this way, tire temperature may be determined based on the real-time pressure sensor readings in order to control tire temperature to an optimal tire temperature for the launch event, where the optimal tire temperature is based on a coefficient of friction of the road surface the vehicle is launching from, and where the optimal tire temperature provides for optimal grip for the vehicle launch.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Andrew Cunningham, Keith Weston, Joshua Sharpe
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Patent number: 9459217Abstract: An x-ray imaging system (10), such as a X-ray computerized tomographic system, may acquire a series of radiographs at different detector positions along a first translation axis or a second translation axis parallel to orientation directions of detector pixels of a radiation detector (14). In a first embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a linear size of the radiation detector (14) along the first translation axis or the second translation axis, respectively. The radiographs may be assembled into a radiograph larger than each radiograph in the series of radiographs, resulting in image stitching. In a second embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a pixel size of the radiation detector (14), also referred as sub-pixel shifting of the detector. The radiographs may be assembled to form a radiograph with a higher resolution than the acquired radiographs, resulting in superresolution.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.Inventors: Yuxin Wang, Joshua A. Sharpe, Joseph Schlecht, Eric Ferley, Julien Noel
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Publication number: 20160047759Abstract: An x-ray imaging system (10), such as a X-ray computerised tomographic system, may acquire a series of radiographs at different detector positions along a first translation axis or a second translation axis parallel to orientation directions of detector pixels of a radiation detector (14). In a first embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a linear size of the radiation detector (14) along the first translation axis or the second translation axis, respectively. The radiographs may be assembled into a radiograph larger than each radiograph in the series of radiographs, resulting in image stitching. In a second embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a pixel size of the radiation detector (14), also referred as sub-pixel shifting of the detector. The radiographs may be assembled to form a radiograph with a higher resolution than the acquired radiographs, resulting in superresolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Yuxin Wang, Joshua A. Sharpe, Joseph Schlecht, Eric Ferley, Julien Noel
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Publication number: 20090046869Abstract: An audio system uses two frequencies to transmit a left and right audio signal to a pair of wireless earphones. Mono receivers in each of the earphones respectively receive the right or left audio signals and produce an audio output. The system includes a base that docks to the earphones such that they can be charged and configured to receive an audio output at the selected transmission frequency. The audio signal can be produced by the base or received from a portable electronic device to which the base is coupled. The base can also function as an FM transmitter for the device and utilize the device's controls and display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Paul P. Griffin, JR., Joshua A. Sharpe-Stirewalt