Patents by Inventor Zhuhua ZHANG

Zhuhua ZHANG 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: 11889341
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for managing a roadside device in vehicle road cooperation, a cloud control platform and a system. The method includes: acquiring, by a cloudside device, a data packet from a roadside device, the data packet including at least one of state information of the roadside device and dynamic traffic information associated with the roadside device; and adjusting a packet transmission policy for a data link associated with the roadside device based on the data packet, the data link comprising at least one of a first downlink from the roadside device to a vehicle, a first uplink from the vehicle to the roadside device, a second uplink from the roadside device to the cloudside device, and a second downlink from the cloudside device to the roadside device, so that personalized management for roadside devices is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuhua Zhang, Shipeng Song
  • Publication number: 20230150536
    Abstract: A method and system for vehicle-road collaboration, a vehicle intelligent terminal, and a cloud control platform are provided. The method includes: sending service information of a vehicle where the vehicle intelligent terminal is located to a non-central cloud control platform registered with the vehicle intelligent terminal; and receiving roadside information for aided driving or autonomous driving application services from the non-central cloud control platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Kun WANG, Zhuhua ZHANG, Nanke LIU
  • Publication number: 20220353728
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for managing a roadside device in vehicle road cooperation, a cloud control platform and a system. The method includes: acquiring, by a cloudside device, a data packet from a roadside device, the data packet including at least one of state information of the roadside device and dynamic traffic information associated with the roadside device; and adjusting a packet transmission policy for a data link associated with the roadside device based on the data packet, the data link comprising at least one of a first downlink from the roadside device to a vehicle, a first uplink from the vehicle to the roadside device, a second uplink from the roadside device to the cloudside device, and a second downlink from the cloudside device to the roadside device, so that personalized management for roadside devices is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Shipeng Song
  • Publication number: 20220139222
    Abstract: A driving control method, comprising: an external device on a vehicle (130) acquires perception information related to an environment (100) of the vehicle (130), and the perception information comprising at least information related to objects present in the environment (100); and according to the method, a driving-related messages for the vehicle (130) are generated based at least on the perception information, the driving-related messages comprising at least one of a perception message (202), a decision planning message (204), and a control message (206). The method also comprises providing the driving-related messages to the vehicle (130) for driving control of the vehicle (130). Thus, coordinated driving control is achieved by a roadside subsystem (112) of a remote device (120) and a vehicle-mounted subsystem (132) on the vehicle (130). The achievement of the driving control function of the vehicle (130) with the assistance of an external device can realize effective and safe automatic driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Zewen BAO, Zhuhua ZHANG, Xing HU
  • Patent number: 11308138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a danger warning method for a vehicle, a danger warning device for a vehicle, and medium. The method includes: receiving a plurality of sensing data sets from a plurality of environmental monitoring devices that monitor a plurality of geographical ranges; determining a danger degree of respective object in the plurality of geographical ranges with respect to the vehicle based on the plurality of sensing data sets; and providing a danger warning instruction to the vehicle in response to determining that the danger degree is greater than a degree threshold. Each of the plurality of sensing data sets includes relevant information about objects in the corresponding geographical range, and the plurality of environmental monitoring devices are arranged away from the vehicle. The danger degree is configured to indicate a possibility that the object will endanger safe driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhuhua Zhang, Xing Hu
  • Publication number: 20220105926
    Abstract: According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, provided are a method and apparatus for driving control, a device, a medium, and a system. A method for driving control comprises obtaining perception information related to the environment in which a vehicle is located, the perception information comprising at least perception information related to a target object in the environment. The method also comprises determining, on the basis of the perception information, whether the target object is in an abnormal motion state, and generating a driving-related message in response to the target object being in the abnormal motion state, the driving-related message indicating the abnormal motion state of the target object. The method also comprises providing the driving related message to the vehicle for controlling the vehicle to travel on a path that does not collide with the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Zewen BAO, Xing HU
  • Publication number: 20220044564
    Abstract: The present application discloses a vehicle control method, a vehicle-road coordination system, a roadside device and an automatic driving vehicle, and relates to the technical fields of artificial intelligence, automatic driving, intelligent transportation, and computer vision. The specific solution is: when an automatic driving vehicle is controlled to travel, road perception information acquired in a coverage area of a roadside device is firstly filtered; effective area information of an area to which target road perception information obtained by filtering belongs is determined; then the target road perception information, the effective area information and area information of the coverage area of the roadside device are sent to the vehicle together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Zhuhua ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220044553
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for monitoring a vehicle are provided. The method may include: first, acquiring status information of at least one traffic participant collected by each roadside system within a collection range, the roadside system corresponding to the collection range one by one; and then, performing an information fusion on the status information of the at least one traffic participant collected by the each roadside system within the collection range to respectively obtain a trajectory monitoring result of each traffic participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Fugui YANG
  • Publication number: 20220032934
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a device, a medium, and a system for controlling driving are provided. The method can include: providing, at a service node, an access to a functional node based on an access protocol supported by the functional node, the functional node being configured to provide a communication function with an on-board unit OBU of a transportation means or to provide a computing function for information associated with the transportation means. The method further includes: transmitting configuration information for the functional node to the functional node based on the access, and controlling a message interaction with the functional node based on the configuration information to facilitate a driving control of the transportation means via the OBU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Zewen BAO, Xing HU
  • Publication number: 20220013010
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for vehicle navigation and a device. The detailed implementation includes: receiving, by a remote control server, a plurality of pieces of first roadside related information encoded in a predetermined format, in which the first roadside related information at least includes position information of a road and driving related information related to the road; generating second roadside related information according to the plurality of pieces of first roadside related information; and sending the second roadside related information to a navigation function entity, in which the second roadside related information is configured for configuration of vehicle navigation information on the navigation function entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Nanke LIU
  • Publication number: 20220001882
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving control, a device, a medium and a system are provided. An embodiment of the method includes: receiving, at a conveyance located in a first geographic region, a first message from a device platform subsystem associated with the conveyance, the first message including information related to a first regional platform subsystem, and the first regional platform subsystem including a driving-related message related to the first geographic region; and sending a second message to the first regional platform subsystem, the second message including conveyance-related information of the conveyance. Then, receiving, from the first regional platform subsystem, a driving-related message associated with the conveyance in the first geographic region, where the driving-related message associated with the conveyance is determined based on the conveyance-related information and is used for a driving control on the conveyance in the first geographic region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Hao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210272452
    Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus for issuing traffic information, a device, a computer-readable storage media, and a system are provided for use in intelligent traffic. The method may include: receiving traffic information related to a first geographic range perceived by a first field device from the first field device served by a central device. The method may further include determining a target object based on the traffic information, the target object including at least one of: at least one second field device served by the central device, or at least one external server, where the at least one second field device perceives a second geographic range different from the first geographic range. The method may further include providing the traffic information to the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Zewen BAO
  • Publication number: 20200210461
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a danger warning method for a vehicle, a danger warning device for a vehicle, and medium. The method includes: receiving a plurality of sensing data sets from a plurality of environmental monitoring devices that monitor a plurality of geographical ranges; determining a danger degree of respective object in the plurality of geographical ranges with respect to the vehicle based on the plurality of sensing data sets; and providing a danger warning instruction to the vehicle in response to determining that the danger degree is greater than a degree threshold. Each of the plurality of sensing data sets includes relevant information about objects in the corresponding geographical range, and the plurality of environmental monitoring devices are arranged away from the vehicle. The danger degree is configured to indicate a possibility that the object will endanger safe driving of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Zhuhua ZHANG, Xing HU