Patents by Inventor Wenlong Rao
Wenlong Rao 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: 11873009Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a mobile robot, and a control system are provided. The method includes: in response to receiving a start request sent by a mobile robot, obtaining at least one of the position information or condition information of the mobile robot; determining a speed limit value of the mobile robot according to the obtained information; and sending a start instruction including the speed limit value to the mobile robot, so as to control the mobile robot to move at a speed smaller than or equal to the speed limit value. The implementation improves the motion safety of a mobile robot.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
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Patent number: 11855752Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for pushing information, a method and an apparatus for controlling presentation of content. The method for pushing information includes: determining vehicle information of a communicatively connected autonomous vehicle, the vehicle information including autonomous vehicle driving route information; selecting to-be-played content matching the vehicle information from a pre-stored set of to-be-played contents according to the vehicle information, and storing the elected to-be-played content to the sub-set of to-be-played contents; and transmitting the sub-set of to-be-played contents to the autonomous vehicle so that the autonomous vehicle plays the to-be-played content in the sub-set of to-be-played contents. According to the embodiment, targeted to-be-played content can be sent to the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
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Publication number: 20230118195Abstract: A method for generating a running log for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes: generating running log information based on task recognition information and at least one running event of each autonomous vehicle of at least one autonomous vehicle; and displaying a graphical interface corresponding to the running log information, where for each autonomous vehicle of the at least one autonomous vehicle. The graphical interface includes a task element and at least one event element that are configured for the autonomous vehicle, where the task element includes the task recognition information of the autonomous vehicle. The at least one event element corresponds to the at least one running event of the autonomous vehicle, respectively, and the at least one event element is associated with the task element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Wei GONG, Wenlong RAO, Lin QIAO, Yingnan LIU, Yongbo WANG
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Patent number: 11621952Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a remote login processing method, apparatus, device and storage medium for an unmanned vehicle, and relates to the technical field of remote control. The implementation method of the specific method includes: sending a login request to an unmanned vehicle terminal through a first communication channel in response to a the login request received from an operator, and waiting to receive a reply instruction returned by the unmanned vehicle terminal; returning the reply instruction to the operator through the second communication channel in response to the reply instruction received from the unmanned vehicle terminal, so that the operator logs in the unmanned vehicle terminal according to the reply instruction, where there is a persistent connection state that unidirectionally authenticated between the second communication channel and the unmanned vehicle terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventors: Wenlong Rao, Yan Feng, Xuan Huang, Wei Gong, Gaifan Li, Yingnan Liu, Yue Wang, Jingjing Xue
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Patent number: 11619936Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for remotely controlling a self-driving vehicle, including: a control device receives operation state information of the vehicle to be controlled transmitted by the vehicle, and video data and/or audio data of a passenger in the vehicle; determines a first abnormal parameter of the vehicle according to the operation state information of the vehicle; determines a second abnormal parameter of an emotion of the passenger in the vehicle according to the video data and/or audio data of the passenger in the vehicle; and controls the vehicle remotely according to the first abnormal parameter and the second abnormal parameter. It is possible to avoid the situation that the passenger in the vehicle performs a wrong manipulation on the vehicle due to a large emotional fluctuation in an emergency, thus making the control of the vehicle more safe and reliable in the emergency.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zijie Wang, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Jingjing Xue, Hailong Sun, Shi Hu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11562307Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle passenger flow statistical method, including: acquiring, by a server, door opening time and door closing time of a vehicle during any one door opening and closing process of door opening and closing processes in a pending statistical period; acquiring, by the server, a first set of images and a second set of images in a carriage of the vehicle according to the door opening time and the door closing time; and acquiring, by the server, the number of on-board people and the number of off-board people during the door opening and closing process according to the first set of images and the second set of images. The present disclosure can improve efficiency and accuracy of passenger flow statistics according to which an operation plan of the vehicle may be optimized timely and effectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zijie Wang, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Jingjing Xue, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11511774Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous driving vehicle are provided. The method includes: receiving environment information sent by an autonomous driving vehicle, the environment information including vehicle exterior environment information; determining whether the autonomous driving vehicle is in an abnormal operation status, based on the vehicle exterior environment information and operation information of an operation executed by the autonomous driving vehicle; and sending a braking control instruction and a data acquisition instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle, in response to determining that the autonomous driving vehicle is in the abnormal operation status, the braking control instruction being used for controlling braking of the autonomous driving vehicle, and the data acquisition instruction being used for acquiring data of a driving recorder in the autonomous driving vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Wei Gong
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Patent number: 11416005Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an unmanned vehicle to perform route verification are disclosed. A method may include: receiving to-be-verified route information sent by a cloud server in communication connection, the to-be-verified route information including road information and expected traveling state information corresponding to a road section on a road characterized by the road information, and the expected traveling state information being used to characterize an expected traveling state of the unmanned vehicle on the corresponding road section; and performing following verification according to a set period during driving of the unmanned vehicle along the road: detecting a traveling state of the unmanned vehicle; and determining a verification result of the to-be-verified route information, based on a matching relationship between the detected traveling state and an expected traveling state corresponding to a road section of a current location in the to-be-verified route information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
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Patent number: 11392139Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a control system for controlling a mobile robot are provided. The method includes: receiving a motion mode change request sent by a target mobile robot, the motion mode change request including motion mode information, and the motion mode information being information of a motion mode to be obtained by change requested by the target mobile robot; determining whether the target mobile robot has a permission to move in the motion mode; and sending motion confirmation information for the motion mode change request to the target mobile robot to control the target mobile robot to move in the motion mode, in response to determining that the target mobile robot has the permission.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
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Patent number: 11386788Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling interaction between a vehicle and a vehicle-mounted device are provided according to embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: determining whether the vehicle is in a parking state; acquiring input operation information of a user, in response to determining the vehicle being in the parking state; determining whether there is as operation matching the input operation information based on the input operation information; and sending control information for executing the operation to the vehicle-mounted device, in response to determining there being the operation matching the input operation information. The embodiment achieves controlling the vehicle-mounted device based on the vehicle state and the user input.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Mengmeng Tang, Wanqi Chai, Junping Wang, Fan Yang, Chen Chen, Wenlong Rao
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Patent number: 11269324Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided according to the embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: sending, in response to determining that a pedestrian is in a first target area, behavior prompt information representing prompting the pedestrian to make a corresponding behavior; determining whether a deceleration condition matching the behavior prompt information is satisfied based on acquired behavior information of the pedestrian; and sending control information for reducing a moving speed of the autonomous vehicle, in response to determining that the deceleration condition is satisfied and determining that a speed of the autonomous vehicle is greater than a preset deceleration threshold. According to the embodiments, deceleration control of the autonomous vehicle is achieved based on the response of the pedestrian to the behavior prompt information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mengmeng Tang, Wanqi Chai, Junping Wang, Fan Yang, Xiaohua Yang, Jing Li, Chen Chen, Shi Hu, Xuan Huang, Yan Feng, Wenlong Rao, Haifeng Li, Gao Yu, Ning Yu, Shuang Zhang
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Publication number: 20210341295Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle. An exemplary method includes: acquiring transportation demand information; acquiring driving status information of a vehicle in a vehicle formation; determining a target vehicle from the vehicle formation based on the transportation demand information and the driving status information; and sending a dispatch instruction to the target vehicle, to cause the target vehicle to execute a transportation task indicated by the transportation demand information according to the dispatch instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Ruihao Min, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Zelin Wu
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Publication number: 20210325203Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a high-precision map-based human-machine interaction method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a pre-generated high-precision map; analyzing, in response to receiving an information addition request, the information addition request; and adding additional information indicated by the information addition request to the pre-generated high-precision map to generate an updated high-precision map.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Wei Gong
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Publication number: 20210119988Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a remote login processing method, apparatus, device and storage medium for an unmanned vehicle, and relates to the technical field of remote control. The implementation method of the specific method includes: sending a login request to an unmanned vehicle terminal through a first communication channel in response to a the login request received from an operator, and waiting to receive a reply instruction returned by the unmanned vehicle terminal; returning the reply instruction to the operator through the second communication channel in response to the reply instruction received from the unmanned vehicle terminal, so that the operator logs in the unmanned vehicle terminal according to the reply instruction, where there is a persistent connection state that unidirectionally authenticated between the second communication channel and the unmanned vehicle terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Wenlong Rao, Yan Feng, Xuan Huang, Wei Gong, Gaifan Li, Yingnan Liu, Yue Wang, Jingjing Xue
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Publication number: 20210090441Abstract: A vehicle control method and device. The method may include: acquiring, by a vehicle, cooperative travel association information generated by an other vehicle, where the other vehicle travels in cooperation with the vehicle, and the cooperative travel association information is used to avoid the vehicle from performing an operation conflicted with an operation performed by the other vehicle; and performing, by the vehicle, an operation associated with the acquired cooperative travel association information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Zelin WU, Yue WANG, Yingnan LIU, Wenlong RAO, Zijie WANG
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Publication number: 20210088348Abstract: Method and apparatus for acquiring information are provided. The method may include: generating traveling effect preview information indicating a traveling effect when a vehicle travels according to a planned traveling route, the planned traveling route being determined based on a traveling route planning operation performed by a user using an electronic map; and presenting the traveling effect preview information to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Zelin WU, Yue WANG, Yingnan LIU, Wenlong RAO, Wei GONG
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Publication number: 20210004022Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a control system for controlling a mobile robot are provided. The method includes: receiving a motion mode change request sent by a target mobile robot, the motion mode change request including motion mode information, and the motion mode information being information of a motion mode to be obtained by change requested by the target mobile robot; determining whether the target mobile robot has a permission to move in the motion mode; and sending motion confirmation information for the motion mode change request to the target mobile robot to control the target mobile robot to move in the motion mode, in response to determining that the target mobile robot has the permission.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
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Publication number: 20210006343Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for pushing information, a method and an apparatus for controlling presentation of content. The method for pushing information includes: determining vehicle information of a communicatively connected autonomous vehicle, the vehicle information including autonomous vehicle driving route information; selecting to-be-played content matching the vehicle information from a pre-stored set of to-be-played contents according to the vehicle information, and storing the elected to-be-played content to the sub-set of to-be-played contents; and transmitting the sub-set of to-be-played contents to the autonomous vehicle so that the autonomous vehicle plays the to-be-played content in the sub-set of to-be-played contents. According to the embodiment, targeted to-be-played content can be sent to the autonomous vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
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Publication number: 20210004732Abstract: A method and apparatus for reserving a vehicle are provided. The method includes: receiving a vehicle reservation request submitted by a user, the vehicle reservation request including departure place information and destination information; and sending the vehicle reservation request to a server providing support to a reservation of the vehicle, the server being configured to determine, based on the vehicle reservation request, an autonomous driving vehicle for picking up and dropping off the user. According to the embodiments, the labor costs of user travel are reduced and the safety of user travel is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Ruihao Min, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Wei Gong
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Publication number: 20210001895Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a mobile robot, and a control system are provided. The method includes: in response to receiving a start request sent by a mobile robot, obtaining at least one of the position information or condition information of the mobile robot; determining a speed limit value of the mobile robot according to the obtained information; and sending a start instruction including the speed limit value to the mobile robot, so as to control the mobile robot to move at a speed smaller than or equal to the speed limit value. The implementation improves the motion safety of a mobile robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu