Patents by Inventor Vivek Vijaya Kumar

Vivek Vijaya Kumar 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).

  • Publication number: 20190234750
    Abstract: A system and method for routing based on a predicted connectivity quality is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a controller, map information corresponding to a geographical area. The method also includes receiving, by the controller, wireless connectivity information corresponding to the geographical area. The method also includes generating output data of at least one route between a starting location and a destination location within the geographical area. The generating is based on the wireless connectivity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Steven E. Muldoon, Yiran Hu, Junfeng Zhao, Vivek Vijaya Kumar
  • Patent number: 10363944
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for generating a pedestrian detection warning in a vehicle. An example method includes constructing, by a vehicle controller, a pedestrian zone based on pedestrian information that is received from a traffic controller. The method further includes computing, by the vehicle controller, a vehicle trajectory that predicts a path for the vehicle. The method further includes determining, by the vehicle controller, a minimal distance between the pedestrian zone and the vehicle trajectory. The method further includes predicting, by the vehicle controller, a time to collision by computing a time for the vehicle to reach a location corresponding to the minimal distance along the vehicle trajectory. The method further includes in response to the time to collision being below a threshold, generating, by the vehicle controller, a warning for an operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Bo Yu, Robert A. Bordo, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20190213879
    Abstract: A vehicle sensor training system includes a first computing device configured to receive dynamics data from a host vehicle. A receiving device is configured to receive real time object identification data from a reference target. A second computing device is configured to compile the dynamics data from the first computing device and the real-time object identification data from the receiving device. The second computing device is configured to train a vehicle sensor with the real-time object identification data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20190161007
    Abstract: A system and method to perform unilluminated vehicle indication based on communication from a vehicle include communicating with one or more other vehicles within a communication range of the vehicle to obtain information from each of the one or more other vehicles. The method also includes obtaining images of one or more of the one or more other vehicles with one or more cameras of the vehicle, and matching the images with the information. A display is provided to a driver of the vehicle of some or all of the one or more of the one or more other vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan, Mohammad Naserian, Allan K. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20190160998
    Abstract: A system and method to control headlights of a vehicle includes receiving a broadcast that indicates a location of a sending device of the broadcast. The method also includes obtaining other information that indicates at least one of a weather condition or an ambient lighting condition, and analyzing the broadcast and the other information to determine whether the headlights should be enabled or whether high beams of the headlights should be enabled. The method further includes generating a signal to control the headlights according to the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Mohammad Naserian, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan, Donald K. Grimm, Allan K. Lewis
  • Patent number: 10276043
    Abstract: A method includes approaching, with a vehicle, first stretch of road having a reference target. Next, data is obtained regarding the first stretch of road from both an onboard vehicle sensor and an infrastructure signal provided about the reference target. The information from the vehicle sensor is compared to the information from the infrastructure signal. Finally, the vehicle sensor is calibrated based on the infrastructure signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20190066502
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting vehicle parking is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by an electronic controller of a vehicle, a parking space request. The parking space request is transmitted to a reservation system. The reservation system determines whether a parking space is available to fulfill the parking space request. The determining is based on availability information that is received from a parking infrastructure. The method also includes receiving an indication. The indication indicates whether a parking spot has been reserved to fulfill the parking space request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Xinyu Du, Praveen Palanisamy, Bo Yu, Prathap Venugopal, Tian Ni, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Paul E. Krajewski
  • Publication number: 20190058963
    Abstract: A system and method of wirelessly communicating data originating at a central facility between a plurality of vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle short-range wireless communications includes wirelessly receiving, at a seed vehicle, one or more data files that have been encoded into data chunks from a central facility; storing the data chunks included in the received data file(s) at the vehicle; receiving interest messages for the data file(s) at the seed vehicle from each of a plurality of other vehicles via a short-range wireless broadcast, wherein the interest messages include one or more data file names and, for each data file name, the identity of the data chunks requested; identifying data files and data chunks existing in more than one received interest message; and transmitting the data chunks to the plurality of vehicles via the short-range wireless broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Bo Yu, Hariharan Krishnan, Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Robert Bordo
  • Patent number: 10094906
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a reference target with both a vehicle sensor and an infrastructure position signal. A position of a host vehicle with respect to the reference target is then determined. A localized position error between the host vehicle position and the determined position with respect to the object is then calculated with a vehicle controller. Finally, a vehicle positioning system is compensated to account for the localized position error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20180182242
    Abstract: A method includes approaching, with a vehicle, first stretch of road having a reference target. Next, data is obtained regarding the first stretch of road from both an onboard vehicle sensor and an infrastructure signal provided about the reference target. The information from the vehicle sensor is compared to the information from the infrastructure signal. Finally, the vehicle sensor is calibrated based on the infrastructure signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20180180708
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a reference target with both a vehicle sensor and an infrastructure position signal. A position of a host vehicle with respect to the reference target is then determined. A localized position error between the host vehicle position and the determined position with respect to the object is then calculated with a vehicle controller. Finally, a vehicle positioning system is compensated to account for the localized position error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Hariharan Krishnan
  • Patent number: 9956963
    Abstract: A system for analyzing driver fitness to drive with consideration given to any of various conditions such as driver drowsiness, fatigue, and anxiety. The system includes a processing hardware unit, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising various modules to determine if the driver is impaired. The modules include an input interface module that, when executed by the processing unit, receives sensor data indicating a present driver health factor. A database module includes pre-established driver-profile data particular to a driver. And the modules include an activity module that, when executed by the processing unit, obtains the driver-profile data and the sensor data, and determines, based on the present health factor and the pre-established driver-profile data, fitness of the driver to drive. The disclosure relates in various embodiments to a computer-readable storage device, separately, and processes performed by the system and device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Donald K. Grimm, Raymond J. Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20170355377
    Abstract: A system for analyzing driver fitness to drive with consideration given to any of various conditions such as driver drowsiness, fatigue, and anxiety. The system includes a processing hardware unit, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising various modules to determine if the driver is impaired. The modules include an input interface module that, when executed by the processing unit, receives sensor data indicating a present driver health factor. A database module includes pre-established driver-profile data particular to a driver. And the modules include an activity module that, when executed by the processing unit, obtains the driver-profile data and the sensor data, and determines based on the present health factor and the pre-established driver-profile data, fitness of the driver to drive. The disclosure relates various embodiments to a computer-readable storage device, separately, and processes performed by the system and device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Vivek Vijaya Kumar, Donald K. Grimm, Raymond J. Kiefer