Patents by Inventor William Junbo Qi

William Junbo Qi 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: 11794731
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining trajectories of an actor in an environment in which a vehicle is operating are provided. The method includes, by an object detection system of a vehicle in an environment, detecting an actor that may move within a scene in the environment. The method further includes using context of the scene to determine a reference polyline for the actor and determining a kinematic history of the actor. The method additionally includes using the kinematic history to predict a waypoint, which is a predicted position of the actor at a conclusion of a waypoint time period, and identifying a segment of the reference polyline, the segment extending from a current location to a point along the reference polyline that is closest to the waypoint and determining a trajectory for the actor conditioned by the segment of the reference polyline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Siddhesh Shyam Khandelwal, William Junbo Qi, Jagjeet Singh, Andrew T. Hartnett, Deva Ramanan
  • Publication number: 20220048498
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining trajectories of an actor in an environment in which a vehicle is operating are provided. The method includes, by an object detection system of a vehicle in an environment, detecting an actor that may move within a scene in the environment. The method further includes using context of the scene to determine a reference polyline for the actor and determining a kinematic history of the actor. The method additionally includes using the kinematic history to predict a waypoint, which is a predicted position of the actor at a conclusion of a waypoint time period, and identifying a segment of the reference polyline, the segment extending from a current location to a point along the reference polyline that is closest to the waypoint and determining a trajectory for the actor conditioned by the segment of the reference polyline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Siddhesh Shyam Khandelwal, William Junbo Qi, Jagjeet Singh, Andrew T. Hartnett, Deva Ramanan
  • Publication number: 20220048503
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining trajectories of an actor in an environment in which a vehicle is operating are provided. The method includes detecting an actor that may move within a scene in the environment by an object detection system of a vehicle in the environment, determining a kinematic history of the actor, and using context of the scene and the kinematic history of the actor to determine a plurality of reference polylines for the actor. The method further includes generating a contextual embedding of the kinematic history of the actor to generate a plurality of predicted trajectories of the actor, in which the generating conditions each of the predicted trajectories to correspond to one of the reference polylines. The method additionally includes using, by the vehicle, the plurality of predicted trajectories to plan movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Siddhesh Shyam Khandelwal, William Junbo Qi, Jagjeet Singh, Andrew T. Hartnett, Deva Ramanan