Patents by Inventor Timotei GHIURAU

Timotei GHIURAU 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: 11938819
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head-mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle or position and gaze direction of the occupant. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Casper Wickman, Mattias Wikenmalm, Timotei Ghiurau, Jon Seneger
  • Publication number: 20220134881
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head-mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle or position and gaze direction of the occupant. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Casper WICKMAN, Mattias WIKENMALM, Timotei GHIURAU, Jon SENEGER
  • Patent number: 11257390
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system (1) for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines (1001) in relation to a road-driven vehicle (2), with support from a tracking system (5), an orientation of a head-mounted display (4), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant (3) on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines (1002) a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides (1006) in real-time to a HMD display (41) of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation (7) of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing video stream (6) derived from real-world image data (211) captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached cameras (21) adapted to capture surroundings external of the road-driven vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Casper Wickman, Mattias Wikenmalm, Timotei Ghiurau, Jon Seneger
  • Patent number: 11113435
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system (1) for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle functionality feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines (1001) in relation to a road-driven vehicle (2), with support from a tracking system (5), an orientation of a head-mounted display (4), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant (3) on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines (1002) a simulated vehicle functionality feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides (1004) in real-time to a HMD display (42) of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation (7) of the simulated vehicle functionality feature superimposed on a real-time real-world video stream (6) derived from real-world image data captured with support from one or more forward-facing cameras (41) provided on the HMD in eye-position of the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Casper Wickman, Mattias Wikenmalm, Timotei Ghiurau, Jon Seneger
  • Publication number: 20200184841
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system (1) for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines (1001) in relation to a road-driven vehicle (2), with support from a tracking system (5), an orientation of a head-mounted display (4), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant (3) on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines (1002) a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides (1006) in real-time to a HMD display (41) of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation (7) of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing video stream (6) derived from real-world image data (211) captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached cameras (21) adapted to capture surroundings external of the road-driven vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Casper WICKMAN, Mattias WIKENMALM, Timotei GHIURAU, Jon SENEGER
  • Publication number: 20200184030
    Abstract: A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system (1) for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle functionality feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines (1001) in relation to a road-driven vehicle (2), with support from a tracking system (5), an orientation of a head-mounted display (4), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant (3) on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines (1002) a simulated vehicle functionality feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides (1004) in real-time to a HMD display (42) of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation (7) of the simulated vehicle functionality feature superimposed on a real-time real-world video stream (6) derived from real-world image data captured with support from one or more forward-facing cameras (41) provided on the HMD in eye-position of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Casper WICKMAN, Mattias WIKENMALM, Timotei GHIURAU, Jon SENEGER