Patents Issued in July 30, 2019
  • Patent number: 10365607
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hologram display device including a spatial light modulator, a lens assembly, and a plurality of backlights. The plurality of backlights are provided at a light incident side of the spatial light modulator, and the lens assembly is provided between the plurality of backlights and the spatial light modulator. The plurality of backlights are configured to emit light having different directions towards the lens assembly, respectively, the lens assembly is configured to guide received light having different directions to the spatial light modulator, and the spatial light modulator is configured to form images at different positions at a light emergent side of the spatial light modulator according to the light having different directions from the lens assembly, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pan Li
  • Patent number: 10365608
    Abstract: A timepiece wheel set, including an arbor including a housing for reception of a plate and including, on either side of the housing, an axial abutment surface maintained in abutment on the plate, which includes a radially resilient arm and a second arm forming together a clamp clamping a radial bearing surface of the arbor in proximity to the axial abutment surface. The arbor further includes an entry ramp arranged to push back radially the first resilient arm and the second resilient arm, to allow the plate to be placed on the arbor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Olivier Mertenat
  • Patent number: 10365609
    Abstract: A mechanical isotropic harmonic oscillator including a two translational degrees of freedom linkage supporting an orbiting mass with respect to a fixed base with springs having isotropic and linear restoring force properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
    Inventors: Simon Henein, Lennart Rubbert, Ilan Vardi
  • Patent number: 10365610
    Abstract: A timepiece display mechanism for a watch includes a roller pivoting about a main axis and including flaps, each pivoting about a secondary axis parallel to the main axis and having two faces, a first driver for pivoting the roller about the main axis, and a second driver for pivoting a flap about its secondary axis, in a determined position of this secondary axis relative to the main axis, and which include, at each flap, a drive pinion cooperating with a controller to modify, in sequence or continuously, the position of the successive flaps of the same roller or to modify, on demand, the position of a specific flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Zaugg, Eric Goeller
  • Patent number: 10365611
    Abstract: A moon phase indicator mechanism, for a timepiece provided with a movement and a dial, the moon phase indicator mechanism including at least one moon disc, and at least one moon phase train driven by the timepiece movement, the moon phase train meshing with a moon phase wheel which carries the moon disc at least indirectly and in a fixed manner, the moon phase wheel taking the form of a toothed ring in order to move the moon disc with the moon phase train about an axis A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Blancpain SA
    Inventors: Marco Rochat, Clement Barberat
  • Patent number: 10365612
    Abstract: The mechanical timepiece movement with running reserve indication comprises at least one barrel system with a winding output connected to a winding wheel of a differential gear, and with an unwinding output connected to an unwinding wheel of the differential gear. It includes a locking wheel set driven in rotation by an intermediate wheel of the differential gear. The locking wheel set is connected to a running reserve indicator to display the running reserve. The locking wheel set includes a locking element for coming into contact with the unwinding wheel of the differential gear when the running reserve is at zero, in order to lock the timepiece movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Julien Saglini
  • Patent number: 10365613
    Abstract: A positioning mechanism for a toothed wheel mounted on a rotatable staff in a watch movement, the positioning mechanism including a positioning lever exhibiting a flat lateral edge configured to cooperate with at least one flat provided on the staff of the toothed wheel. The positioning lever includes a pivot arm mounted in a pivotable manner about a pivot pin provided in the watch movement, a positioning element exhibiting the flat lateral edge and mounted in an articulated manner on the pivot arm, and a mechanism adjusting and locking the position of the positioning element on the pivot arm in relation to the staff of the toothed wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Harry Winston SA
    Inventors: Franck Orny, Johnny Girardin
  • Patent number: 10365614
    Abstract: Watch or item of jewelry including a case or setting including main and secondary slots that enable the fixture of interchangeable removable wristbands including an end link with an end piece with studs arranged to cooperate in a complementary manner with the secondary slots. The link includes a lock with a slide catch arranged to cooperate in a complementary manner and with minimal play with the main slot in a locking position, and the lock further includes a pushbutton operable by a user to move the slide catch away from the main slot and control an unlocking of the lock by retraction of the slide catch by an application of pressure to the pushbutton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventor: Jean-Marc Von Allmen
  • Patent number: 10365615
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus, including: a mounting component, configured to hold a relationship between relative positions of the wearable apparatus and its user; a folding panel mounted on the mounting component, the folding panel including at least two display screens interconnected at a joint where sensors are disposed; and a controller signal connected with individual display screens and the sensors respectively, the controller being configured to control corresponding display screens to turn on or turn off based on the state of the folding panel detected by the sensors. The state of the folding panel in the wearable apparatus can be adjusted according to the needs of a user and thereby the usage needs of the user can be satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kairan Liu, Wenbo Li
  • Patent number: 10365616
    Abstract: A portable switching device to remotely operate a high voltage circuit breaker, the portable switching device is locally temporarily electrically connected to the controlling circuit of the high voltage circuit breaker and comprises: a voltage input (206); a voltage output (208, 210) for connecting to the external circuit; a ground input (212); an overvoltage protection circuit (201) connected between the voltage input (206) and the ground input (212); and a switching unit (203, 205) comprising a first switching circuit having an input connected to the voltage input and an output connected to the voltage output, the first switching circuit comprising a relay (2032), a relay contact protection circuit (2034), and an overload protection circuit (2036); wherein the first switching circuit is remotely controllable to switch the external circuit from a first operating state to a second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Eoin Caldwell
  • Patent number: 10365617
    Abstract: A system for auto defect screening using adaptive machine learning includes an adaptive model controller, a defect/nuisance library and a module for executing data modeling analytics. The adaptive model controller has a feed-forward path for receiving a plurality of defect candidates in wafer inspection, and a feedback path for receiving defects of interest already screened by one or more existing defect screening models after wafer inspection. The adaptive model controller selects data samples from the received data, interfaces with scanning electron microscope (SEM) review/inspection to acquire corresponding SEM results that validate if each data sample is a real defect or nuisance, and compiles model training and validation data. The module of executing data modeling analytics is adaptively controlled by the adaptive model controller to generate and validate one or more updated defect screening models using the model training and validation data according to a target specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: DMO Systems Limited
    Inventors: Jason Zse-Cherng Lin, Shauh-Teh Juang
  • Patent number: 10365618
    Abstract: A method with which one subsystem of a redundant automation system that is provided with a first subsystem and a second subsystem is operated as a master and another subsystem is operated as a slave, where the subsystems are provided with transmission and reception tasks to transmit and receive messages, and where messages are also interchanged with program path synchronization during a temporally asynchronous run through a program path in the master and the slave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Grosch, Juergen Laforsch, Albert Renschler
  • Patent number: 10365619
    Abstract: Technologies for individualized building automation include a building automation application server, a building controller, and several mobile computing devices. Each mobile computing device generates individualized sensor data based on the time and location of the mobile computing device and sensor data indicative of a building system control parameter. The sensor data may include temperature data, humidity data, or other environmental data, and may be received by the mobile computing device from one or more external sensors. The building automation application server receives the individualized sensor data from the mobile computing devices and generates a building system configuration based on the individualized sensor data. The building automation application server may optimize the building system configuration for cost, efficiency, or user comfort based on the individualized sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Mirrasoul J. Mousavi, James Stoupis, Shakeel M. Mahate
  • Patent number: 10365620
    Abstract: Traditional home-automation systems utilize a single hub for controlling secondary devices within a home. The techniques described herein, meanwhile, utilize multiple hubs within the environment and/or located remotely from the environment. For instance, an environment may include multiple electronic devices, each configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. In addition, a remote service may be configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. As such, each controlling device stores and executes an instance of a control engine, rather than relying on a single instance of a control engine located at a single controlling hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Peter Raeber, Robert Franklin Ebert, Adam Barry Fineberg, Mark Sander Urbanus, Miroslav Ristic, Maxim Spivak
  • Patent number: 10365621
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a terminal-side receiver for receiving, via a first network, information including appliance information that identifies an electric appliance, from a terminal apparatus operable by a user, an appliance-side receiver for receiving, via a second network, information including an identifier of the electric appliance and information about a state of the electric appliance, and a storage unit that stores the appliance information received by the terminal-side receiver and the identifier of the electric appliance, for which it is judged, from the information about the state of the electric appliance received by the appliance-side receiver, that the appliance state has been changed, in association with each other, upon reception of trigger information by the terminal-side receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhsuke Yamada, Misuzu Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10365622
    Abstract: For controlling an appliance setting based on user position, systems, apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor monitors user position data for at least one registered user. In another embodiment, the processor identifies a travel scenario based on the user position data. In a further embodiment, the processor controls a setting of an appliance based on an identity of a registered user corresponding to the travel scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: James Anthony Hunt, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 10365623
    Abstract: A server comprises a notification unit that sends a power reduction request to a user terminal of a consumer; and a controller that acquires smart meter information sent from the user terminal when the consumer accepts the power reduction request. The smart meter information is information regarding a smart meter of a consumer facility that is a target for power reduction. The controller determines actual reduced power of the consumer facility based on the smart meter information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Kitaji
  • Patent number: 10365624
    Abstract: In order to reduce the labor required in order for a user to manually input and register the identification information of a device scheduled to be connected to a slave device, a device communication management unit (10) generates configuration settings information that includes the identification information of a device (20) scheduled to be connected to a device communication port (110), on the basis of the identification information of the device (20) connected to the device communication port (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ozaki, Yasuhiro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10365625
    Abstract: The system generally includes a crosspoint switch in the local data collection system having multiple inputs and multiple outputs including a first input connected to the first sensor and a second input connected to the second sensor. The multiple outputs include a first and second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output is configured to switch between delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal from the first output and the second sensor signal from the second output. Each of multiple inputs is configured to be individually assigned to any of the multiple outputs. Unassigned outputs are configured to be switched off producing a high-impedance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Strong Force IOT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin
  • Patent number: 10365626
    Abstract: A programmable logic controller comprises a processor, a PLC operating environment, a device memory, and an app container. The PLC operating environment is configured to execute a controller automation program providing a plurality of skill functions. The device memory comprises a plurality of apps which are configured to perform a discrete set of automation functions using the plurality of skill functions. The app container is logically separate from the PLC operating environment and configured to provide a runtime environment for the apps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: George Lo, Thomas Gruenewald, Phani Ram Kumar Kuruganty, Kurt Dirk Bettenhausen
  • Patent number: 10365627
    Abstract: A numerical controller of a processing machine determines corresponding setpoint axis values based on setpoint position values for position-regulated axes operating on machine elements. Before controlling the position-regulated axes, volumes to be occupied by protection bodies associated with the machine elements, a workpiece and a tool are defined and it is checked whether the protection bodies remain disjoint while controlling the position-regulated axes. Depending on the result of the checks, the controller either controls the position-regulated axes in accordance with the setpoint position values or merely executes an error response without control. The controller contains a position error field which specifies for any given setpoint axis value an actual position the tool relative to the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jochen Bretschneider
  • Patent number: 10365628
    Abstract: A positioning control device of an actuator provided with a strain wave gearing has a full-closed control system for feeding back a position of a load shaft, and driving and controlling a motor so as to position the load shaft at a target position. The full-closed control system has an H? compensator designed so that, when a generalized plant having angular transmission error in the strain wave gearing as a disturbance input is assumed, an H? norm of a transfer function from the disturbance input of the generalized plant to an evaluation output is a predetermined value or less. Mechanical vibration during positioning response caused by angular transmission error in the strain wave gearing can be reliably suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc., Nagoya Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Okitsu, Makoto Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10365629
    Abstract: A numerical controller includes: a program analyzing unit to obtain a first movement end point position of the tool; a direction calculating unit to calculate a synthetic movement direction that maximizes a synthetic velocity, based on an upper limit movement velocity of the tool in each of the two axis directions; an end point position calculating unit to calculate an intersection position of a circle and the synthetic movement direction as a second movement end point position, wherein the circle has as a radius a distance from a rotation center position of the table to the first movement end point position; a rotation angle calculating unit to calculate a rotation angle of the table based on the first movement end point position and the second movement end point position; and a rotation control unit to control rotation of the table based on the rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Sekimoto, Kazuo Sato, Hideaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10365630
    Abstract: A probe displacement command in a scanning measurement is generated according to a composite speed vector V: V=Gf·Vf+Ge·Ve+sp(p)·Gc·Vc2 wherein Vf is a vector along which a probe is displaced along a scanning path, Ve is a vector maintaining a deflection amount of the probe toward a work piece at a standard deflection amount. Vc2 is represented by (Vc1·q)q, Vc1 is a vector in a direction correcting a probe position such that a stylus tip is oriented along a scanning course, q is a vector given by a vector product of the normal line of a surface of the work piece and Vf, The normal direction of a measured surface is designated as Nw, p is a scalar product of Vc2 and Nw, and sg(p) is a function returning +1 or ?1 in accordance with a value of p.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Noda, Hiromi Deguchi, Norihiko Murata
  • Patent number: 10365631
    Abstract: A desired position instruction of a user is generated even if a plurality of position instructions satisfying a vibration control condition exist. An instruction generator includes a conditional expression selector configured to select a conditional expression that should generate the position instruction from a plurality of conditional expressions based on a control performance condition, a parameter calculator configured to calculate a parameter based on a machine performance index and the selected vibration control conditional expression, and a position instruction generator configured to calculate the position instruction based on the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Nakanishi, Junji Shimamura, Yosuke Iwai, Hiroshi Sawaragi, Nobuhiro Harada
  • Patent number: 10365632
    Abstract: A method of controlling an aircraft electrical taxiing system, the method comprising the steps of: defining a target value (Ld_nmax) for an electrical parameter; generating a nominal force command (Cmd_nom) for the electrical taxiing system; in parallel with generating the nominal force command (Cmd_nom), using a processing system (2) to produce a maximum command force (Force_max) for the electrical taxiing system so that a real value of the electrical parameter reaches the target value (Ld_nmax), the processing system (2) comprising a regulator loop (4); and generating an optimized force command (Cmd_opt) for the electrical taxiing system equal to the smaller of the nominal force command and the maximum command force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Clement Gorce
  • Patent number: 10365633
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally describes a method for processing a workpiece in a machine, where the method determines an offset of the machine and adjusts for the offset during production operation. In one form, the method includes logging offset data of the machine over a period of operational time having varying thermal conditions, and comparing the logged offset data against a thermal model, where the thermal model is generated based on a probing routine and dry cycling for a plurality of test cycles on a calibration artifact. Based on the comparing, the method estimates offsets for the machine and adjusts offsets of the machine during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Jalluri, Himanshu Rajoria, Jon Guske, Michael Allen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10365634
    Abstract: To have a setting and adjusting function of setting and adjusting a control parameter that is set to one servo amplifier for a multiaxial control system that includes a plurality of axes, each of which is a combination of the servo amplifier with one servo motor, and that synchronizes and controls the axes according to a command from a motion controller, to group some of the axes, which constitute mechanical axes in which the axes are mechanically coupled, as one group, to perform adjustment of the control parameter on the axes that constitute the group, and to display an average value of adjustment results of a control parameter of all the axes that constitute the group as a control parameter value of the mechanical axes in each item of the control parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Wakana
  • Patent number: 10365635
    Abstract: A production module for implementing a production function on a product, wherein the production module is configured couple to a second production module which is configured implement a second production function on the product, where self-description information relating to properties of the production module is stored on a storage device of the production module, and the second production module comprises second self-description information relating to properties of the second production module, where the production module is further configured to transmit the self-description information to the second production module and to receive second self-description information from the second production module, and where port information relating to the coupling process with the second production module is stored on the storage device, or the production module is configured to store port information relating to the coupling process with the second production module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Vladimir Zahorcak
  • Patent number: 10365636
    Abstract: Computer (or computerized) numerical control (CNC) tools are employed globally. While these may be purchased with an initial set of configurations users must establish any other configurations themselves leading to potentially every CNC tool being configured slightly differently for the same process requirement even before considering new materials, tool elements etc. Accordingly, users and manufacturers would benefit from access to updated process parameters for machine tools that reflect scenarios encountered in manufacturing operations that are new or lead to improved tolerances, yields, reducing process time etc. However, users are not going to employ just any set of parameters given to them as these may damage their CNC tool or tool elements. Embodiments of the invention provide a subscription service providing access to verified settings where the verification is performed by the machine tool manufacturer or machine tool element manufacturer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Inovatech Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel Clement, Stephane Menard, Dominique Bruneau, David Gabriels
  • Patent number: 10365637
    Abstract: The invention concerns a workpiece carrier (4) for a production unit (1) with at least one conveying section (2). The workpiece carrier (4) comprises a workpiece carrier body (13), a workpiece receptacle (16) arranged on the workpiece carrier body (13), a guide device (14) which is arranged on the workpiece carrier body (13) by means of which the workpiece carrier (4) can be received and displaced in the production unit (1), in particular in the conveying section (2), and a code element (20) which is arranged on the workpiece carrier body (13) which is designed to identify the workpiece carrier (4) by means of a detection means (11) arranged in the production unit (1). For identification, the code element (20) has inhomogeneous material properties in its longitudinal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: STIWA Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Mersnik, Michael Pauditz
  • Patent number: 10365638
    Abstract: Disclosed herein methods for scheduling the automated manufacturing of mattresses. Aspects include receiving a plurality of customer orders for mattresses, wherein each of the plurality of customer orders includes a due date and organizing the plurality of customer orders into production batches based on the due dates. Aspects also include analyzing a first production batch of the daily production schedule and responsively creating an optimized hour production batch and based on a determination that the optimized first production batch exceeds a performance threshold 1, dispatching the first hourly production batch to an automated manufacturing system for production. Based on a determination that the optimized first hour production batch does not exceed the performance threshold, aspects further include analyzing a second production batch and modifying the optimized first production batch and the second production batch to create an optimized second production batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: DREAMWELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Francis G. Jan
  • Patent number: 10365639
    Abstract: Feature extraction and classification is used for process window monitoring. A classifier, based on combinations of metrics of masked die images and including a set of significant combinations of one or more segment masks, metrics, and wafer images, is capable of detecting a process non-compliance. A process status can be determined using a classifier based on calculated metrics. The classifier may learn from nominal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Shabnam Ghadar, Sina Jahanbin, Himanshu Vajaria, Bradley Ries
  • Patent number: 10365640
    Abstract: Controlling product production in multi-stage manufacturing process automatically generates by machine learning causal relationships between the processing conditions and the product quality based on product genealogy data and product quality data. Real time sensor data from sensors coupled to processing units in a manufacturing facility implementing the multi-stage manufacturing process are received, and control rules are instantiated based on the real time sensor data. An instantiated control rule firing causes an actuator to automatically set a processing variable to a set point specified in the control rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Baseman, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Young M. Lee, Jie Ma, Jian Wang, Guan Qun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10365641
    Abstract: Techniques for synchronizing configuration changes in a process plant allow for intelligent and efficient updates to objects and related dependent objects. Additionally, techniques for synchronizing minor configuration changes in a process plant enable real-time updates to objects during run-time. Such techniques reduce the amount of downtime for online operation of the process plant and reduce the amount of information transmitted over the process control network. Each object may correspond to a process entity and dependent objects may be referenced by or may reference the object. In some cases, when an engineer modifies an object, dependent objects with respect to the modified object that have pending modifications are identified and displayed to the engineer. The engineer then selects the dependent objects to sync with the modified object and the dependent objects and modified object are synced and executed by a corresponding device in the run-time system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Julian K Naidoo, Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy, Daniel R. Strinden, Prashant Joshi
  • Patent number: 10365642
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for probing alarm functionality at a premises. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in response to activation of an audible alarm, obtaining audio information captured by a first communication device of a plurality of communication devices positioned throughout the premises. The method further provides determining whether the audio information indicates that the alarm is functioning properly and determining a first position of the premises where the first communication device is located. When the audio information indicates that the alarm is not functioning properly, the method provides indicating that the alarm is not functioning properly at the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: John Lynch, Chris McArthur, Mark Fletcher, Tracy Monk
  • Patent number: 10365643
    Abstract: A system includes an input/output module (IOM) configured to interface with a field device. The IOM includes a terminal block including a plurality of inputs or outputs, each of the inputs or outputs configured to send and receive signals to and from the field device. The IOM also includes a plurality of temperature sensors, each of the plurality of temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature in a vicinity of the temperature sensor. The IOM also includes a connector configured to transmit the temperature of each of the plurality of temperature sensors to a processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Balakrishna G. Gudi, Shripad Pande, Nagaraja Sundaresh, Michael D. Carney
  • Patent number: 10365644
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an application, a smart device, a drone, a server, a method, and a program for automatically controlling drone flight that improves safety and convenience. The application for automatically controlling drone flight that runs on a smart device 100 connected with a drone 200 drives a camera provided in the smart device 100, acquires an image taken by the camera, analyzes the acquired image, and controls the drone flight based on a result of the image analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10365645
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle system is configured to receive vehicle commands from one or more parties and to execute those vehicle commands in a way that prevents the execution of stale commands. The autonomous vehicle system includes a finite state machine and a command counter or stored vehicle timestamp, which are used to help reject invalid or stale vehicle commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Chambers, Keenan Wyrobek, Keller Rinaudo, Ryan Oksenhorn, William Hetzler
  • Patent number: 10365646
    Abstract: Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may analyze information about the property and based on the information mitigate damage to the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Anthony Scott Farnsworth, Justin Dax Haslam, Kathleen L. Swain, Teddy Joseph Edmond Voutour, Jess W. Gingrich, Michael J. Allen, Anthony G. Castiglione, Jordan A. Newmark
  • Patent number: 10365647
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for ensuring occupant awareness in vehicles. A device comprising a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to determine an event which will change an operating characteristic of the vehicle, and determine an extent of time remaining until an estimated occurrence of the expected event. The processor may also be configured to determine a process by which to inform the occupant of an operating context of the vehicle based on the determined extent of time remaining until the estimated occurrence the expected event, and perform the process by which to inform the occupant of the operating context of the vehicle. The device may also include a memory configured to store the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ziad Asghar, Regan Blythe Towal
  • Patent number: 10365648
    Abstract: Methods for customizing the operation of a self-driving motor vehicle are disclosed that improve the applicability and performance of a self-driving motor vehicle by acquiring and applying user specific data sets in operation to realize user desired driving behaviors in different scenarios reflecting user preferred driving styles, and moral or ethics traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Xiaoning Huai
  • Patent number: 10365649
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a lane departure detection system detects at a first point in time that a wheel of an ADV rolls onto a lane curb disposed on an edge of a lane in which the ADV is moving. The system detects at a second point in time that the wheel of the ADV rolls off the lane curb of the lane. The system calculates an angle between a moving direction of the ADV and a lane direction of the lane based on the time difference between the first point in time and the second point in time in view of a current speed of the ADV. The system then generates a control command based on the angle to adjust the moving direction of the ADV in order to prevent the ADV from further drifting off the lane direction of the lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fan Zhu, Qi Kong, Qi Luo, Xiang Yu, Sen Hu, Zhenguang Zhu, Xiaoxin Fu, Jiarui He, Hongye Li, Yuchang Pan, Zhongpu Xia, Chunming Zhao, Guang Yang, Jingao Wang
  • Patent number: 10365650
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle. The systems and methods obtain first and second time spaced point clouds based on three-dimensional position data, of a scene outside of the autonomous vehicle, from sensor of the autonomous vehicle. The systems and methods position align a static aspect of the scene in the first point cloud with a static aspect of the scene in the second point cloud to obtain position aligned first and second point clouds. The systems and methods determine, via a processor, a velocity of a moving object in the position aligned first and second point clouds. The systems and methods perform an autonomous vehicle control function using the velocity of the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Ian Rust
  • Patent number: 10365651
    Abstract: Particular embodiments may provide a device capable of autonomous locomotion comprising means for autonomous locomotion, a device controller for navigation of the device by controlling the means for autonomous locomotion, and a host machine running a hypervisor, one or more user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller, wherein the host machine is communicably coupled to the device controller, and wherein at least one of the UVMs provides navigation instructions to the device controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
    Inventors: Richard James Arsenian, Adam Michael Fried-Gintis
  • Patent number: 10365652
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. The systems and methods calculate lane plan data including a set of lane plans defining a route from a start location to a destination location, solve a motion planning algorithm to produce solved lane plan data defining a solved lane plan and a trajectory therefor, receive forthcoming distance data representing a forthcoming distance, determine a feasible lane based on the solved lane plan data within the forthcoming distance, remove a lane plan from the lane plan data to produce feasible lane plan data including a feasible lane plan defining a route from the start location to the destination location, and control motion of the vehicle based on the feasible lane plan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Allan, Shiva Ghose
  • Patent number: 10365653
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: obtaining ride preference information associated with a user, identifying a current vehicle pose, determining a motion plan for the vehicle along a route based at least in part on the ride preference information, the current vehicle pose, and vehicle kinematic and dynamic constraints associated with the route, and operating one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in accordance with the motion plan. The user-specific ride preference information influences a rate of vehicle movement resulting from the motion plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sohrab Haghighat, Gautier Minster, Kevin Chu, Kyle Vogt
  • Patent number: 10365654
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle based on a passenger-initiated action are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes detecting, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, a first status change of a vehicle door. The first status change is associated with a first user action associated with the vehicle door. The method includes detecting a second status change of the vehicle door. The second status change is associated with a second user action associated with the vehicle door. The method includes determining one or more vehicle actions based at least in part on at least one of the first status change or the second status change associated with the vehicle door. The method includes providing one or more control signals to one or more systems on-board the autonomous vehicle to implement the vehicle actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Shaw Wood, Scott C. Poeppel
  • Patent number: 10365655
    Abstract: A method of controlling lane change of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a type of a command for lane change by an autonomous driving logic of an electronic control unit (ECU) in response to the command for lane change being generated. When the command for lane change is not a specific command for lane change, attributes of each of at least one region included in a change target region is determined using information regarding the change target region. The attributes of each of the at least one region are corrected using information regarding a lane in which the autonomous vehicle is driven and a lane change region is determined from the at least one region based on the corrected attributes of each of the at least one region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seong Su Im, Tae Seok Lee, Seok Youl Yang
  • Patent number: 10365656
    Abstract: A method, system, and wheeled base for navigating a robot for docking with a charger docking station. The robot receives an initial pose associated with a robot charger docking station and a mating pose associated with the robot charger docking station. The robot first navigates from a location to an initial pose using scan matching to a first map. The robot performs a second navigation from the initial pose to the mating pose using scan matching to a second map, thereby causing an electrical charging port of the robot to mate with an electrical charging assembly of the robot charger docking station. Localization during charger docking may use a higher resolution map than when navigating to the docking station. Localizing against the robot charger docking station may be performed on a higher resolution map of the docking station alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Locus Robotics Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Moore, Bradley Powers, Michael Sussman, Aron K. Insinga