Patents by Inventor Stephen Sheldon

Stephen Sheldon 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).

  • Autonomous vehicle: object-level fusion
    Patent number: 10599150
    Abstract: Previous self-driving car systems can detect objects separately with either vision systems, RADAR systems or LIDAR systems. In an embodiment of the present invention, an object fusion module normalizes sensor output from vision, RADAR, and LIDAR systems into a common format. Then, the system fuses the object-level sensor data across all systems by associating all objects detected and predicting tracks for all objects. The present system improves over previous systems by using the data from all sensors combined to develop a single set of knowledge about the objects around the self-driving car, instead of each sensor operating separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: The Charles Stark Kraper Laboratory, Inc., VEONEER US INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Graham, Troy Jones, Kyra Horne, Scott Lennox, Jon D. Demerly, Stephen Sheldon Strong, Afrah Faiz Naik
  • AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE: OBJECT-LEVEL FUSION
    Publication number: 20180089538
    Abstract: Previous self-driving car systems can detect objects separately with either vision systems, RADAR systems or LIDAR systems. In an embodiment of the present invention, an object fusion module normalizes sensor output from vision, RADAR, and LIDAR systems into a common format. Then, the system fuses the object-level sensor data across all systems by associating all objects detected and predicting tracks for all objects. The present system improves over previous systems by using the data from all sensors combined to develop a single set of knowledge about the objects around the self-driving car, instead of each sensor operating separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Graham, Troy Jones, Kyra Horne, Scott Lennox, Jon D. Demerly, Stephen Sheldon Strong, Afrah Faiz Naik
  • Archiving method and system
    Patent number: 8452730
    Abstract: A method of archiving a set of source tables in a database system. Each source table has a plurality of rows. Initially, a consistency point for the set of source tables is established. The database system creates a log record for each change (insert, modify, or delete) effected to a row of the source tables subsequent to the consistency point. Substantially all source table rows are copied to an archive (a data storage object that is external to the database system). Then the accumulated log records for the affected source tables are distilled and appended to the archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventors: May Pederson, James Chapman, Cuong Nhan, Jeremy Davis, Donald Pederson, James Pierce, Sunanda Reddy, Stephen Sheldon
  • ARCHIVING METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090157775
    Abstract: A method of archiving a set of source tables in a database system. Each source table has a plurality of rows. Initially, a consistency point for the set of source tables is established. The database system creates a log record for each change (insert, modify, or delete) effected to a row of the source tables subsequent to the consistency point. Substantially all source table rows are copied to an archive (a data storage object that is external to the database system). Then the accumulated log records for the affected source tables are distilled and appended to the archive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: May Pederson, James Chapman, Cuong Nhan, Jeremy Davis, Donald Pederson, James Pierce, Sunanda Reddy, Stephen Sheldon