Patents by Inventor Wantanee Viriyasitavat

Wantanee Viriyasitavat 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: 9761136
    Abstract: Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Ozan Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Publication number: 20170110011
    Abstract: Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Ozan Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Patent number: 9536427
    Abstract: Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Ozan Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Patent number: 9524642
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: receiving a notification message indicative of an occurrence of an event; determining that a position of a vehicular device that is associated with the one or more processors is located on a boundary of a reachability area surrounding a source of the event; determining that a direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source; responsive to determining that the position is on the boundary of the reachability area and that the direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source, entering a roadside unit state; detecting one or more vehicular devices that are uninformed of the occurrence of the event and that are located outside of the reachability area; and broadcasting the notification message to the one or more uninformed vehicular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Ozan K. Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Patent number: 8972159
    Abstract: Systems, methods, software, and apparatuses for coordinating traffic proximate to a potential conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, Universidade do Porto
    Inventors: Michel Celestino Paiva Ferreira, Ozan Tonguz, Ricardo Jorge Fernandes, Hugo Marcelo Fernandes DaConceicao, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Publication number: 20140354451
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: receiving a notification message indicative of an occurrence of an event; determining that a position of a vehicular device that is associated with the one or more processors is located on a boundary of a reachability area surrounding a source of the event; determining that a direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source; responsive to determining that the position is on the boundary of the reachability area and that the direction of movement of the vehicular device is towards the source, entering a roadside unit state; detecting one or more vehicular devices that are uninformed of the occurrence of the event and that are located outside of the reachability area; and broadcasting the notification message to the one or more uninformed vehicular devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Ozan K. Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Publication number: 20140278029
    Abstract: Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ozan Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
  • Publication number: 20130116915
    Abstract: Systems, methods, software, and apparatuses for coordinating traffic proximate to a potential conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michel Celestino Paiva Ferreira, Ozan Tonguz, Ricardo Jorge Fernandes, Hugo Marcelo Fernandes DaConceicao, Wantanee Viriyasitavat