Patents by Inventor Suzhou Huang
Suzhou Huang 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: 11975736Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to calibrate utility functions that determine optimal vehicle actions based on an approximate Nash equilibrium solution for multiple agents by determining a difference between model-predicted future states for the multiple agents to observed states for the multiple agents. The instructions can include further instructions to determine a vehicle path for a vehicle based on the optimal vehicle actions.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Qi Dai, Jinhong Wang, Wen Guo, Xunnong Xu, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20230342512Abstract: Systems and methods for automotive shape design by combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). CFD simulations may be performed to determine aerodynamic properties and identify a set of candidate vehicle outline shapes. Vehicle shape outlines may be provided as input to a generative adversarial network (GAN) that is trained to learn aesthetic preferences for vehicle attributes. The GAN may be used to determine, by based on the vehicle outline shape, a set of vehicle attributes. The GAN may be used to generate photo-realistic images with the vehicle shape outline and filling in additional aesthetic styles for the given outline, such as different colors, lighting, visual appearance, wheel design, aspect ratio, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kaushik Balakrishnan, Devesh Upadhyay, Herbert Alexander Morriss-Andrews, Ryan Joseph Madden, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Patent number: 11465617Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine optimal vehicle actions based on a modified version of a Nash equilibrium solution to a multiple agent game, wherein the Nash equilibrium solution is modified by performing an adaptive grid search optimization technique based on calculating rewards and penalties for the agents to determine optimal vehicle actions, wherein the agents include one or more of autonomous vehicles, non-autonomous vehicles, stationary objects, and non-stationary objects including pedestrians and wherein the rewards and the penalties for the agents are determined by simulating behavior of the agents to determine possible future states for the agents to determine the optimal vehicle actions. The instructions can include further instructions to determine a vehicle path based on the optimal vehicle actions and download the vehicle path to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Xunnong Xu, Wen Guo, Qi Dai, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20220063651Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to calibrate utility functions that determine optimal vehicle actions based on an approximate Nash equilibrium solution for multiple agents by determining a difference between model-predicted future states for the multiple agents to observed states for the multiple agents. The instructions can include further instructions to determine a vehicle path for a vehicle based on the optimal vehicle actions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Qi Dai, Jinhong Wang, Wen Guo, Xunnong Xu, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Publication number: 20210146919Abstract: A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine optimal vehicle actions based on a modified version of a Nash equilibrium solution to a multiple agent game, wherein the Nash equilibrium solution is modified by performing an adaptive grid search optimization technique based on calculating rewards and penalties for the agents to determine optimal vehicle actions, wherein the agents include one or more of autonomous vehicles, non-autonomous vehicles, stationary objects, and non-stationary objects including pedestrians and wherein the rewards and the penalties for the agents are determined by simulating behavior of the agents to determine possible future states for the agents to determine the optimal vehicle actions. The instructions can include further instructions to determine a vehicle path based on the optimal vehicle actions and download the vehicle path to the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Xunnong Xu, Wen Guo, Qi Dai, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
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Patent number: 6067344Abstract: A method for modulating the intensity of an x-ray beam in an x-ray inspection system so as to maintain the highest penetration power and optimum image quality subject to keeping the ambient radiation generated by the x-rays below a specified standard.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1998Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Lee Grodzins, Suzhou Huang, William Wade Sapp, William Adams
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Patent number: 5940468Abstract: An X-ray imaging system which measures X-rays scattered by material concealed within an enveloping surface. A beam of X-ray radiation is incident on the enveloping surface and scattered onto one or more arrays of detectors. One or more masks of material opaque to X-ray transmission but for a series of apertures is interposed between the object and the detectors so as to cast shadows on different parts of the detector array. The image of the scattering material, as detected at the detector array, is modulated by the pattern of mask apertures. A controller reconstructs the image of the illuminated line. By scanning the illumination with respect to the object, an image of the entire object in scattered radiation is obtained, while use of multiple arrays or variation of geometrical settings allows reconstruction of the source of scattering in three dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Suzhou Huang, Michael V. Hynes