Patents by Inventor Kent Lyon

Kent Lyon 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).

  • Patent number: 11864897
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining one or more properties of the task based on information regarding the task received from a database storing information regarding the task, determining one or more properties of the user with respect to the task, determining a state of the user based on one or more physiological sensors configured to sense one or more characteristics of the user, and determining that the user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in the task based on the determined one or more properties of the task, the determined one or more properties of the user, and the determined state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20230177114
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a manner of determining an interpretable model from experimental data using tokenization in a prediction model. In one embodiment, a method includes outputting a bit pattern of probable tokens generated from raw data using a model. The method also includes converting, using the model, the bit pattern into output tokens and parsing the output tokens into a symbolic expression. The method also includes fitting symbolic parameters from the symbolic expression into an interpretable model for accuracy. The method also includes estimating an operational behavior and signal output of a vehicle system according to the interpretable model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nikos Arechiga Gonzalez, Rumen Iliev, Francine Chen, Yin-ying Chen, Kent Lyons, Yanxia Zhang, Heishiro Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20230055329
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically filtering choices include identifying, with an indecisiveness detector module, a state of a user, determining, with the indecisiveness detector module, whether the state of the user includes an indecisive behavior, identifying, with a choice identifier module, a state of an environment of the user, identifying, with the choice identifier module, a set of available choices from the state of the environment, receiving, with a processor, a set of past choices and a set of past user decisions relating to the set of past choices, and generating, with a decision making model, a predicted choice from the set of available choices based on the set of past choices and the set of past user decisions in response to determining that the state of the user includes an indecisive behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Sumner, Nayeli S. Bravo, Alex Filipowicz, Kent Lyons, Yanxia Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230004859
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a device includes using a machine learning model to generate a user behavior model based on user behavior data. The user behavior data may include time series data collected from user interactions with a first device, and the machine learning model may include a classification model configured to classify the user behavior data into the one or more classifications. A mapping may be created by training a machine learning model, using user behavior models from a plurality of users and device settings from the plurality of users, to identify one or more relationships between device settings and classifications of the user behavior data. The system and method configures one or more settings of a second device based on the user behavior model and the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220366187
    Abstract: A method includes fitting a ML trained model to data features, the fitting generates complete data feature-set outputs that are associated with a first set of accuracy values, iteratively fitting, after an iterative removal of each data feature from the data feature-set, the ML trained model to subsets of the plurality of data features to determine respective reduced feature-set outputs, each subset lacks a different data feature of the plurality of data features, determining one or more of the reduced feature-set outputs as corresponding to a second set of accuracy values, designating the iteratively removed data features as accuracy-modifying data features, generating a first linear model, generating a second linear model based on one of the accuracy-modifying data features having a weight that is highest relative to respective different weights of the remaining ones of the accuracy-modifying data features, and identifying the second linear model as a generative model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Totte Harinen, Alexandre L.S. Filipowicz, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Yin-Ying Chen, Yue Weng, Abishek Komma
  • Publication number: 20220358383
    Abstract: A method implemented by a processor of a device, the method including determining one or more user values, determining a prompt requiring a decision, and receiving a user selection to one or more choice options related to the one or more user values and pertaining to the prompt requiring a decision. The method further includes comparing the user selection to a risk-neutral utility function and assessing a risk of a potential decision based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons
  • Publication number: 20220332189
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for displaying information on electronic displays of electronic devices based on learned user behavior are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes an electronic display, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to cause for display on the electronic display a selected representation of information among a plurality of representations based at least in part on learned behavior of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220326770
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting a channel of communication based on a type of thinking employed by a user for a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining that a user is employing System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking for the task based on one or more properties of the task, one or more properties of the user, and a state of the user based on physiological response data from one or more physiological sensors monitoring the user, and implementing a channel of communication to utilize for the task that corresponds to a determined type of thinking the user is employing for the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220322986
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining one or more properties of the task based on information regarding the task received from a database storing information regarding the task, determining one or more properties of the user with respect to the task, determining a state of the user based on one or more physiological sensors configured to sense one or more characteristics of the user, and determining that the user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in the task based on the determined one or more properties of the task, the determined one or more properties of the user, and the determined state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220318763
    Abstract: A method for generating and outputting a prompt for performing a task in a designated time segment is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a plurality of sensors, context data associated of the user related to time segments, categorizing each of the time segments into one of a plurality of thought states based on the context data, mapping a task from a task dataset associated with the user into one of the plurality of thought states, and generating a prompt for performing the task during a designated time segment of the time segments, the designated time segment corresponding to the one of the plurality of thought states to which the task is mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220318511
    Abstract: Systems and methods for content framing monitoring and intervention are disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, first text conveying first information, performing natural language processing of the first text, determining a first framing of the first information based on the natural language processing of the first text, determining second text conveying the first information with a second framing, different from the first framing, and outputting the second text on an electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Patent number: 11452954
    Abstract: A method for determining an airflow volume through an air filter is presented. A negative pressure is created within a system housing of an air handling system. Particulate matter is filtered on a filter media of an air filter. A displaceable baffle is progressively moved baffle in proportion to an accumulation of particulate matter on the filter media, wherein the displaceable baffle is movably mounted within a bypass conduit of an airflow sensor device. An output voltage is identified from a magnetic field sensor, wherein the output voltage is proportional to a magnetic flux density of a magnetic field from an actuation magnet mounted on the displaceable baffle. A position of the displaceable baffle is determined based on the output voltage generated by the magnetic field sensor. An accumulation of particulate matter on the filter media is determined based on the position of the displaceable baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventor: Kent Lyon
  • Patent number: 11323867
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for providing wireless signal coverage. The device includes a wireless signal transceiver and a displacement assembly for moving the wireless signal transceiver within a zone. The device is provided with a processor configured to control the displacement assembly to move the mobile device based on the wireless signal coverage within the zone and the location with respect to the zone of a wireless device operable to access the wireless signal coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Jean C. Bolot, Kent Lyons, Akshay Pushparaja, Ajith Pudhiyaveetil
  • Patent number: 11119567
    Abstract: A method of providing immersive reality content includes determining a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generating a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and providing the first immersive reality content. An apparatus for providing immersive reality content includes a processor and at least one memory coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to determine a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generate a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and provide the first immersive reality content. A computer-readable storage medium, computer program and a non-transitory article of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Shahab Hamidi-Rad, Kent Lyons, Alan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210258754
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for providing wireless signal coverage. The device includes a wireless signal transceiver and a displacement assembly for moving the wireless signal transceiver within a zone. The device is provided with a processor configured to control the displacement assembly to move the mobile device based on the wireless signal coverage within the zone and the location with respect to the zone of a wireless device operable to access the wireless signal coverage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Jean C. BOLOT, Kent LYONS, Akshay PUSHPARAJA, Ajith PUDHIYAVEETIL
  • Publication number: 20200319291
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for indoor localization involving sampling illumination in a location such as a room of a building, producing a frequency domain analysis of the illumination, comparing the frequency domain analysis to a reference frequency domain analysis associated with a reference location, and providing a notification indicating a result of the comparison such as whether the location of the sampling is the reference location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Jean Bolot, Naveen Goela, Shahab Hamidi-Rad
  • Publication number: 20200272222
    Abstract: A smart wearable apparatus (102) includes a processor and a memory having a set of instructions that when executed by the processor causes the smart wearable apparatus to receive activity sensor data of an activity performed by a user. Further, the smart wearable apparatus is caused to send the activity sensor data to a content selection device (103) that selects content that is matched to the activity performed by the user so that the content is played in synchronization with the activity. Further, a process receives activity sensor data performed by a user. The process also sends the activity sensor data to a content selection device (103) that selects content that is matched to the activity performed by the user so that the content is played in synchronization with the activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Naveen GOELA, Kent LYONS, Snigdha PANIGRAHI, Jean C. BOLOT, Amit DATTA, Caroline HANSSON, Wenling SHANG, Rashish TANDON
  • Publication number: 20200252691
    Abstract: The present principles generally relate to video processing and viewing, and particularly, to concurrent viewing of a video with other users and processing of user-added, real-time content. The present principles provide capabilities to create a shared video viewing experience which merge concurrent video watching with u user-provided real-time commenting and content. Users watching the same content at the same time may overlay graphical elements on the shared video to communicate with other concurrent viewers of the video. These graphical elements are annotations used to communicate with another viewer, or among a group of viewers, and are overlaid onto the video itself in real time during an interactive session as though the users are in concurrent conversations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kent LYONS, Jean C. BOLOT, Caroline HANSSON, Amit DATTA, Snigdha PANIGRAHI, Rashish TANDON, Wenling SHANG, Naveen GOELA
  • Publication number: 20200171414
    Abstract: A method for determining an airflow volume through an air filter is presented. A negative pressure is created within a system housing of an air handling system. Particulate matter is filtered on a filter media of an air filter. A displaceable baffle is progressively moved baffle in proportion to an accumulation of particulate matter on the filter media, wherein the displaceable baffle is movably mounted within a bypass conduit of an airflow sensor device. An output voltage is identified from a magnetic field sensor, wherein the output voltage is proportional to a magnetic flux density of a magnetic field from an actuation magnet mounted on the displaceable baffle. A position of the displaceable baffle is determined based on the output voltage generated by the magnetic field sensor. An accumulation of particulate matter on the filter media is determined based on the position of the displaceable baffle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Kent Lyon
  • Publication number: 20200097068
    Abstract: A method of providing immersive reality content includes determining a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generating a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and providing the first immersive reality content. An apparatus for providing immersive reality content includes a processor and at least one memory coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to determine a field of view intersection between a first field of view from a first device and a second field of view from a second device, generate a first immersive reality content based on the field of view intersection and provide the first immersive reality content. A computer-readable storage medium, computer program and a non-transitory article of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Shahab HAMIDI-RAD, Kent LYONS, Alan ZHANG