Patents by Inventor Yingnan Liu

Yingnan Liu 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: 11933604
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a detection method, apparatus for automatic driving sensor, and electronic device. The method includes: pre-establishing a standard association relationship, the sensor to-be-detected is used for capturing in a fixed scene, and a corresponding capturing result is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuan Huang, Nan Wu, Xun Zhou, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu
  • Patent number: 11873009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
  • Patent number: 11855752
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
  • Patent number: 11724708
    Abstract: According to various embodiment, described herein are methods and systems for reliably detecting malfunctions in a variety of software or hardware components in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). In one embodiment, a redundant system can be provided on an independent computing device in an ADV to check for malfunctions in a number of software or hardware components. When no malfunction occurs in the ADV, an autonomous driving system (ADS) in the ADV operates to drive the ADV, while the redundant system can monitor the ADS in a standby mode. In the event of a malfunction, the redundant system can take over the control of the ADV, and take appropriate actions based on a severity level of the malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guohao Gong, Fan Zhu, Yue Wang, Xin Xu, Xiang Liu, Yongyi Sun, Yingnan Liu, Junping Wang, Jingjing Xue
  • Publication number: 20230118195
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Wei GONG, Wenlong RAO, Lin QIAO, Yingnan LIU, Yongbo WANG
  • Patent number: 11621952
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Wenlong Rao, Yan Feng, Xuan Huang, Wei Gong, Gaifan Li, Yingnan Liu, Yue Wang, Jingjing Xue
  • Patent number: 11619936
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie Wang, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Jingjing Xue, Hailong Sun, Shi Hu, Yue Wang
  • Publication number: 20230030736
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an autonomous driving vehicle control method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to the field of artificial intelligence technologies such as intelligent transportation and autonomous driving technologies. A specific implementation solution involves: constructing a communication link between an autonomous driving vehicle and a cloud; reporting, based on the communication link, emergency information provided by a passenger of the autonomous driving vehicle to the cloud; receiving control information of the autonomous driving vehicle fed back by the cloud, the control information of the autonomous driving vehicle being sent by the cloud in response to a trigger operation of an agent of the cloud based on the emergency information; and controlling the driving of the autonomous driving vehicle according to the control information of the autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guohao GONG, Yingnan LIU, Ning YU, Jingjing XUE, Jing YAN, Yongchen LI, Shenglin QIN
  • Patent number: 11562307
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zijie Wang, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Jingjing Xue, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11511774
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11416005
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang
  • Patent number: 11392139
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Shi Hu
  • Publication number: 20210387631
    Abstract: According to various embodiment, described herein are methods and systems for reliably detecting malfunctions in a variety of software or hardware components in an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). In one embodiment, a redundant system can be provided on an independent computing device in an ADV to check for malfunctions in a number of software or hardware components. When no malfunction occurs in the ADV, an autonomous driving system (ADS) in the ADV operates to drive the ADV, while the redundant system can monitor the ADS in a standby mode. In the event of a malfunction, the redundant system can take over the control of the ADV, and take appropriate actions based on a severity level of the malfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Guohao GONG, Fan ZHU, Yue WANG, Xin XU, Xiang LIU, Yongyi SUN, Yingnan LIU, Junping WANG, Jingjing XUE
  • Publication number: 20210341295
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Ruihao Min, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Zijie Wang, Zelin Wu
  • Publication number: 20210325203
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Zelin Wu, Jingjing Xue, Yingnan Liu, Wenlong Rao, Wei Gong
  • Publication number: 20210132614
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling an autonomous vehicle. The method may include: acquiring vehicle traveling environment information; determining an intended traveling state of the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle traveling environment information; and in response to detecting an interactive operation of a target user for the intended traveling state, generating a traveling state adjustment instruction corresponding to the interactive operation to control the autonomous vehicle to adjust a traveling state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Yue WANG, Ruihao MIN, Jingjing XUE, Yingnan LIU, Donghui SHEN, Lie CHENG
  • Publication number: 20210119988
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Wenlong Rao, Yan Feng, Xuan Huang, Wei Gong, Gaifan Li, Yingnan Liu, Yue Wang, Jingjing Xue
  • Publication number: 20210103741
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a detection method, apparatus for automatic driving sensor, and electronic device. The method includes: pre-establishing a standard association relationship, the sensor to-be-detected is used for capturing in a fixed scene, and a corresponding capturing result is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Xuan HUANG, Nan WU, Xun ZHOU, Jingjing XUE, Yingnan LIU
  • Publication number: 20210090441
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Zelin WU, Yue WANG, Yingnan LIU, Wenlong RAO, Zijie WANG
  • Publication number: 20210088348
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Zelin WU, Yue WANG, Yingnan LIU, Wenlong RAO, Wei GONG