Patents by Inventor Junping Wang
Junping Wang 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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Publication number: 20210276597Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and storage medium for autonomous operation of an unmanned logistics vehicle. The method comprises: an unmanned logistics vehicle obtains a user's cargo transport task; the unmanned logistics vehicle plans a travel route according to the cargo transport task, and automatically travels to a destination according to the travel route; after reaching the destination, the unmanned logistics vehicle controls a cargo compartment door to open. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to save man power costs and improve the cargo transport efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Ning YU, Fan YANG, Leibing LV, Chengfa WANG, Junping WANG
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Publication number: 20210124054Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Shuang ZHANG, Xiang LIU, Bin GAO, Xiaoxing ZHU, Jingjing XUE, Fan YANG, Junping WANG, Chengfa WANG
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Publication number: 20210107531Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Xiang LIU, Bin GAO, Shuang ZHANG, Xiaoxing ZHU, Jingjing XUE, Junping WANG, Chengfa WANG
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Publication number: 20210099882Abstract: A method, apparatus, device, and medium for verifying vehicle information are provided. A specific implementation scheme is: determining a target coding precision and a target coding mode of a target data packet to be transmitted; coding the target data packet based on the target coding precision and the target coding mode, to determine target verification information of the target data packet; and transmitting the target data packet and the target verification information, to instruct a receiving-end vehicle to verify the target data packet based on the target verification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Guohao GONG, Junping WANG, Tiankun ZHAO, Dongchao GAO, Zelin WU, Chengfa WANG, Yongyi SUN
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Publication number: 20210099831Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring a sensing range of a vehicle, a device and a medium, and relates to a technical field of automatic driving. The method includes: determining a target road side unit to be measured according to a road side unit identifier; when it is detected that the vehicle receives a road-side message from the target road side unit, determining vehicle positioning information of the vehicle when the road-side message is received; and determining a sensing range of the vehicle to the target road side unit in a target lane in which the vehicle travels according to the vehicle positioning information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Guohao GONG, Junping WANG, Tiankun ZHAO, Dongchao GAO, Zelin WU, Chengfa WANG, Yongyi SUN
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Publication number: 20210089792Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Xiang LIU, Shuang ZHANG, Bin GAO, Xiaoxing ZHU, Jingjing XUE, Fan YANG, Junping WANG, Chengfa WANG
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Publication number: 20210090296Abstract: A method and apparatus for calibrating a camera are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring an image-point cloud sequence, the image-point cloud sequence including at least one group of an initial image and point cloud data collected at a same time, the initial image being collected by a camera provided on an autonomous vehicle and the point cloud data being collected by a radar provided on the autonomous vehicle; determining target point cloud data of initial images corresponding to groups of image-point cloud in the image-point cloud sequence; and matching the target point cloud data with the corresponding initial images in the image-point cloud sequence to determine a correction parameter of the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Shuang ZHANG, Xiang Liu, Bin Gao, Xiaoxing Zhu, Fan Yang, Junping Wang
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Publication number: 20210046952Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle and a system for the autonomous vehicle. The system may include a master computing unit configured to control operations of the autonomous vehicle; a slave computing unit communicatively coupled to the master computing unit and configured to control the operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting a failure of the master computing unit; at least one lidar configured to acquire environmental information around the autonomous vehicle; and a switch communicatively coupled to the at least one lidar, the master computing unit and the slave computing unit, and configured to provide the environmental information to the master computing unit and the slave computing unit for controlling the autonomous vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Lijun JU, Chengfa WANG, Junping WANG, Fan YANG
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Publication number: 20210046945Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle and a system for the autonomous vehicle. The system may include: a power supply including a first power output and a second power output; a master computing unit arranged to be powered by the first power output, configured to control operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting the second power output, and configured to provide a third power output by adjusting the first power output; and a slave computing unit arranged to be powered by the second power output, and configured to control the operations of the autonomous vehicle in response to detecting a failure of the master computing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Lijun JU, Chengfa WANG, Junping WANG, Fan YANG
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Publication number: 20210001890Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for autonomous driving control, a vehicle, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining first actual position data of a first vehicle body; obtaining relative position data between a second vehicle body and the first vehicle body; determining second actual position data of the second vehicle body according to the first actual position data and the relative position data, so that the vehicle performs autonomous driving control according to the first and second actual position data. The method can obtain the relative position between two vehicle bodies connected in the non-rigid manner and the real-time positions of the two vehicle bodies under different driving conditions in real time during the driving, can accurately depict the dynamic characteristics of two vehicle bodies, so that the vehicle performs autonomous driving control according to the first and second actual position data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fan YANG, Junping WANG, Bei LIU
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Patent number: 10829058Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zongtao Fan, Lintao Li, Jing Zhang, Junping Wang, Bolei Wang, Guangzhong Liu, Lei Zhu, Ji Tao
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Publication number: 20200180659Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium for autonomous driving determination are proposed. The method includes: obtaining information about a driving scenario of an autonomous vehicle when a preset trigger condition is met; comparing the information about the driving scenario with an autonomous driving capability of the autonomous vehicle; determining, according to a comparison result, whether the autonomous vehicle is adapted to employ an autonomous driving mode in the driving scenario. The technical solution of the present disclosure may be applied to improve the safety of the vehicle and the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ning YU, Chengfa WANG, Fan YANG, Leibing LV, Junping WANG
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Publication number: 20200150651Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided according to the embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: sending, in response to determining that a pedestrian is in a first target area, behavior prompt information representing prompting the pedestrian to make a corresponding behavior; determining whether a deceleration condition matching the behavior prompt information is satisfied based on acquired behavior information of the pedestrian; and sending control information for reducing a moving speed of the autonomous vehicle, in response to determining that the deceleration condition is satisfied and determining that a speed of the autonomous vehicle is greater than a preset deceleration threshold. According to the embodiments, deceleration control of the autonomous vehicle is achieved based on the response of the pedestrian to the behavior prompt information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Mengmeng Tang, Wanqi Chai, Junping Wang, Fan Yang, Xiaohua Yang, Jing Li, Chen Chen, Shi Hu, Xuan Huang, Yan Feng, Wenlong Rao, Haifeng Li, Gao Yu, Ning Yu, Shuang Zhang
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Publication number: 20200152068Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling interaction between a vehicle and a vehicle-mounted device are provided according to embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: determining whether the vehicle is in a parking state; acquiring input operation information of a user, in response to determining the vehicle being in the parking state; determining whether there is as operation matching the input operation information based on the input operation information; and sending control information for executing the operation to the vehicle-mounted device, in response to determining there being the operation matching the input operation information. The embodiment achieves controlling the vehicle-mounted device based on the vehicle state and the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Mengmeng Tang, Wanqi Chai, Junping Wang, Fan Yang, Chen Chen, Wenlong Rao
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Publication number: 20180257582Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Zongtao Fan, Lintao Li, Jing Zhang, Junping Wang, Bolei Wang, Guangzhong Liu, Lei Zhu, Ji Tao
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Publication number: 20140294908Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is an implantable support material for culturing cells, wherein at least some of the cells substantially maintain at least one of (i) phenotype and (ii) genotype thereof after being cultured on the support material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Gonzalo Serafica, Constance Ace, Jessica Donlin, Junping Wang
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Publication number: 20110287079Abstract: Provided in one embodiment is an implantable support material for culturing cells, wherein at least some of the cells substantially maintain at least one of (i) phenotype and (ii) genotype thereof after being cultured on the support material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Gonzalo Serafica, Constance Ace, Jessica Donlin, Junping Wang
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Publication number: 20100310623Abstract: An integrated scaffold for bone tissue engineering has a tubular outer shell and a spiral scaffold made of a porous sheet. The spiral scaffold is formed such that the porous sheet defines a series of spiral coils with gaps of controlled width between the coils to provide an open geometry for enhanced cell growth. The spiral scaffold resides within the bore of the shell and is integrated with the shell to fix the geometry of the spiral scaffold. Nanofibers may be deposited on the porous sheet to enhance cell penetration into the spiral scaffold. The spiral scaffold may have alternating layers of polymer and ceramic on the porous sheet that have been built up using a layer-by-layer method. The spiral scaffold may be seeded with cells by growing a cell sheet and placing the cell sheet on the porous sheet before it is rolled.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Cato T. Laurencin, Xiaojun Yu, Chandra M. Valmikinathan, Junping Wang