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).

  • Patent number: 11975736
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Dai, Jinhong Wang, Wen Guo, Xunnong Xu, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Publication number: 20230342512
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kaushik Balakrishnan, Devesh Upadhyay, Herbert Alexander Morriss-Andrews, Ryan Joseph Madden, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Patent number: 11465617
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Xunnong Xu, Wen Guo, Qi Dai, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Publication number: 20220063651
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Dai, Jinhong Wang, Wen Guo, Xunnong Xu, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Publication number: 20210146919
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xunnong Xu, Wen Guo, Qi Dai, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Patent number: 6067344
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Grodzins, Suzhou Huang, William Wade Sapp, William Adams
  • Patent number: 5940468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzhou Huang, Michael V. Hynes