Patents by Inventor Zhaobo K. ZHENG

Zhaobo K. ZHENG 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: 20240190481
    Abstract: According to one aspect, systems and techniques for adaptive trust calibration may include usage of a driving style predictor, including a memory and a processor. The memory may store one or more instructions and the processor may execute one or more of the instructions stored on the memory to perform one or more acts, actions, or steps, such as receiving a current automated vehicle (AV) driving style, receiving an indication of an event and an associated event type, receiving an indication of a driver takeover, concatenating the current AV driving style and one or more of the event type or the driver takeover to generate an input, and passing the input through a neural network, which may include a gated recurrent unit (GRU), to generate a preference change associated with the AV driving style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kumar AKASH, Teruhisa MISU, Zhaobo K. ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20240043027
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an adaptive driving style system may include a set of two or more sensors, a memory, and a processor. The set of two or more sensors may receive two or more sensor signals. The memory may store one or more instructions. The processor may execute one or more of the instructions stored on the memory to perform one or more acts, actions, or steps, including training a trust model using two or more of the sensor signals as input, training a preference model using the trust model and two or more of the sensor signals as input, and generating a driving style preference based on an adaptive driving style model including the trust model and the preference model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Zhaobo K. ZHENG, Teruhisa MISU, Kumar AKASH
  • Publication number: 20230391366
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting a perceived level of driver discomfort in an automated vehicle that include receiving image data associated with a driving scene of an ego vehicle, dynamic data associated with an operation of the ego vehicle, and driver data associated with a driver of the ego vehicle during autonomous operation of the ego vehicle. The system and method also include analyzing the image data, the dynamic data, and the driver data and extracting features associated with a plurality of modalities. The system and method additionally include analyzing the extracted features and detecting the perceived level of driver discomfort. The system and method further include analyzing the perceived level of driver discomfort and detecting a probable driver takeover intent of the driver of the ego vehicle to takeover manual operation of the ego vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zhaobo K. ZHENG, Kumar AKASH, Teruhisa MISU