Patents Issued in March 19, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200086850
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for park-assist based on vehicle door open positions. An example vehicle includes a door, a door sensor, a range-detection sensor, and a controller. The controller is to determine, via the door sensor, a preferred angle of an occupant for opening the door and detect, via the range-detection sensor, a spot that is unoccupied. The controller also is to predict a maximum angle for opening the door within the spot. The example vehicle also includes an autonomy unit to perform park-assist into the spot responsive to the maximum angle equaling or exceeding the preferred angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Krekel, Ahmed Benmimoun
  • Publication number: 20200086851
    Abstract: Vehicles and methods are disclosed for enabling vehicle occupants to minimize their time outside a vehicle during a remote park-out operation, so as to limit exposure to adverse weather. An example vehicle includes a communication system, doors, sensors, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a selected door via the communication system, determine a vehicle path for a remote park-out operation, and, during execution of the remote park-out operation, determine using the sensors that the selected door transitioned from being inaccessible to being accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Krekel, Ahmed Benmimoun, Mike Mould
  • Publication number: 20200086852
    Abstract: Vehicles and methods are disclosed for enabling vehicle occupants to maximize their time inside a vehicle during a remote parking operation, so as to limit exposure to adverse weather. An example vehicle includes a door, a sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a minimum open door angle for an occupant to exit, determine a vehicle path for execution of a remote parking operation, and, responsive to determining via the sensor during execution of the remote parking operation that the door is prevented from opening to the minimum door angle, pause execution of the remote parking operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Krekel, Ahmed Benmimoun
  • Publication number: 20200086853
    Abstract: An incoming autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may initiate/receive parking assist by providing a credit offer to parked vehicles to autonomously move or relocate so that the incoming vehicle has space to park. The incoming vehicle may send a park assist request to a parking control server or parked vehicles, including a credit offer to provide an incentive to parked vehicles to move. In response, a parking location for the incoming vehicle along with target vehicles near the parking location that may be moved may be provided to the incoming vehicle. The target vehicles may accept or reject a request to move, along with the credit offer, e.g., in a park assist negotiation with the incoming vehicle or the parking control server. Upon acceptance of the credit offer, one or more target vehicles may move or relocate to provide room for the incoming vehicle to park.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Akash KUMAR, Ankita, Amit JAIN
  • Publication number: 20200086854
    Abstract: In a host vehicle a threat number is determined for a target vehicle based on respective dimensions of the target and host vehicles, and a heading angle of the host vehicle. A host vehicle subsystem is actuated based on the threat number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: NANJUN LIU, ALEX MAURICE MILLER, YUHAO LIU, CHRISTOPHER PONTISAKOS
  • Publication number: 20200086855
    Abstract: A vehicle computing system may implement techniques to control a vehicle to avoid collisions between the vehicle and agents (e.g., dynamic objects) in an environment. The techniques may include generating a representation of a path of the vehicle through an environment as a polygon. The vehicle computing system may compare the two-dimensional path with a trajectory of an agent determined using sensor data to determine a collision zone between the vehicle and the agent. The vehicle computing system may determine a risk of collision based on predicted velocities and probable accelerations of the vehicle and the agent approaching and traveling through the collision zone. Based at least in part on the risk of collision, the vehicle computing system may cause the vehicle to perform an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jefferson Bradfield Packer, Zhenqi Huang, William Anthony Silva
  • Publication number: 20200086856
    Abstract: A method for emergency steering control may include system cooperation control in which secondary collision avoidance is performed after forward collision avoidance by cooperatively controlling Emergency Steering Assist System (ESA) control through intervention in control of a Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) against excessive steering that causes lane departure in the ESA control when emergency steering is detected by an emergency steering controller in a forward collision situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: JAE-II PARK, SUNG-WOOK HWANG
  • Publication number: 20200086857
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device is used for controlling a mobile object. The device includes one or more hardware processors configured to: generate risk information indicating a level of a risk that is caused when the mobile object moves, based at least in part on a position of an obstacle with respect to the mobile object, the risk being indicated for each of a plurality of areas; and generate condition information indicating a condition for performing a countermeasure operation for a risk in accordance with the risk information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki SUGIURA, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200086858
    Abstract: A system and method for egocentric-vision based future vehicle localization that include receiving at least one egocentric first person view image of a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The system and method also include encoding at least one past bounding box trajectory associated with at least one traffic participant that is captured within the at least one egocentric first person view image and encoding a dense optical flow of the egocentric first person view image associated with the at least one traffic participant. The system and method further include decoding at least one future bounding box associated with the at least one traffic participant based on a final hidden state of the at least one past bounding box trajectory encoding and the final hidden state of the dense optical flow encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yu Yao, Mingze Xu, Chiho Choi, Behzad Dariush
  • Publication number: 20200086859
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate to estimating risk associated with a vehicular maneuver. One embodiment acquires a geometric representation of an intersection including a lane in which a vehicle is traveling and at least one other lane; discretizes the at least one other lane into a plurality of segments; determines a trajectory along which the vehicle will travel; estimates a probability density function for whether a road agent external to the vehicle is present in the respective segments; estimates a traffic-conflict probability of a traffic conflict in the respective segments conditioned on whether an external road agent is present; estimates a risk associated with the vehicle following the trajectory by integrating a product of the probability density function and the traffic-conflict probability over the at least one other lane and the plurality of segments; and controls operation of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the estimated risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen G. McGill, JR., Guy Rosman, Moses Theodore Ort, Alyssa Pierson, Igor Gilitschenski, Minoru Brandon Araki, Luke S. Fletcher, Sertac Karaman, Daniela Rus, John Joseph Leonard
  • Publication number: 20200086860
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a detection unit configured to detect an obstacle in front of a vehicle; a risk determining unit configured to determine a degree of risk to a vehicle of the obstacle detected by the detection unit; and an action plan generating unit configured to search for a retreat destination candidate for the vehicle, determine a degree of safety of the retreat destination candidate, and generate a retreat action plan for the vehicle on the basis of a result of the determination of the degree of safety of the retreat destination candidate in a case in which the degree of risk determined by the risk determining unit is equal to or higher than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oguro, Katsuya Yashiro, Toshiyuki Kaji, Toru Kokaki, Masanori Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200086861
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein relate to predicting a trajectory of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen G. McGill, JR., Luke S. Fletcher, Guy Rosman, Xin Huang
  • Publication number: 20200086862
    Abstract: According to one aspect, uncertainty prediction based deep learning may include receiving, using a memory, a trained neural network policy ? trained based on a first dataset in a first environment, implementing, via a controller, the trained neural network policy ? in a second environment by receiving an input and generating an output y, calculating an uncertainty array U[T] for a time window T, wherein the uncertainty array is indicative of a level of uncertainty associated with an output sample distribution of the output across the time window T based on a temporal divergence, an entropy H, a variational ratio VR, and a standard deviation SD of the output y, and executing, via the controller and one or more systems, an action based on the uncertainty array U[T], such as discontinuing use of the trained neural network policy ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yuchen Cui, David Francis Isele, Kikuo Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20200086863
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to modeling dynamic agents in a surrounding environment of an ego vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving sensor data including present observations of a road agent of the dynamic agents in the surrounding environment, identifying previous observations of the road agent from an electronic data store. The method includes estimating a future state of the road agent using at least the present observations and the previous observations of the road agent to compute the future state according to a probabilistic model comprised of a transition model that accounts for dynamic behaviors of the road agent to characterize transitions between states, and an agent model that accounts for actions of the road agent. The method includes controlling one or more vehicle systems of the ego vehicle according to the future state of the road agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Guy Rosman, Jonathan DeCastro, Nikos Arechiga Gonzalez, John Joseph Leonard, Luke S. Fletcher, Daniel Stonier
  • Publication number: 20200086864
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling a vehicle based on neighboring vehicles is disclosed. The method includes identifying a fiduciary object associated with each of at least one neighboring vehicle based on at least one image captured for the at least one neighboring vehicle. The method further includes tracking a position of the fiduciary object associated with each of the at least one neighboring vehicle based on a bounding box surrounding the fiduciary object. The method includes determining a direction-speed vector for the vehicle and determining trajectory data associated with each of the one or more neighboring vehicles. The method further includes correlating the position of the fiduciary object and the trajectory data associated with each of the at least one neighboring vehicle. The method includes re-computing the direction-speed vector of the vehicle based on a result of correlating and controlling the vehicle thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Chaitanya Rajendra Zanpure, Shivam Mishra
  • Publication number: 20200086865
    Abstract: An anti-collision system includes a truck cab defining a truck cab volume and a sensor positioned with respect to the truck cab. The truck cab is rotatable with respect to the truck chassis along a rotation path to define a truck cab rotation volume. The truck cab volume is entirely within the truck cab rotation volume along the entire rotation path, i.e., the truck cab rotation volume encompasses the truck cab volume at every position of the truck cab volume along the rotation path. The sensor has a field of view (FOV) that overlaps a portion of the truck cab rotation volume to detect an obstruction in the FOV that is within the truck cab rotation volume. The sensor may also cause the system to provide an alert or control rotation of the truck cab in response to detecting the obstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Victor Machay
  • Publication number: 20200086866
    Abstract: A traveling control system comprises: a detection unit that detects another vehicle traveling in the periphery and peripheral environmental information; an acquisition unit that acquires, based on detected information, a range of a lane on which a self-vehicle travels; a first determination unit that determines, based on the detected information, approach of the other vehicle traveling in the periphery to the acquired lane, on which the self-vehicle travels; and a control unit that performs traveling control to increase a distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle if it is determined by the first determination unit that the approach by the other vehicle is made, wherein as the traveling control, the control unit moves a traveling position of the self-vehicle in a lateral direction different from a side of the other vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIURA, Daisuke SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200086867
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus for supporting the driving of a vehicle includes: a boundary estimation part for outputting magnetic waves or ultrasonic waves to the periphery of a vehicle, and for estimating the boundary of a roadway based on reflected waves which are detected by a sensor for detecting the reflected waves; a detection part for detecting a mobile body based on the reflected waves which are detected by the sensor; and a region estimation part for estimating a progress region of the object vehicle which is moving in an adjacent lane when this detection part detects the mobile body generated by multiplexed reflections from an object vehicle which is actually moving in the adjacent lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Veoneer Sweden AB
    Inventor: Ashish MANOCHA
  • Publication number: 20200086868
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling driving of a vehicle include: a data collecting device configured to collect data for driving scenarios defined according to driving conditions; a pattern generating device configured to generate patterns corresponding to the driving scenarios by analyzing the data collected for the driving scenarios; a determination device configured to determine a current driving situation of the vehicle and to determine a control scenario corresponding to the current driving situation; and a controller configured to generate control data based on a pattern corresponding to at least one driving scenario matched with the control scenario and control driving of the vehicle based on the generated control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hai Jin Seo, Si Jun Kim
  • Publication number: 20200086869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for automatically controlling at least a part of the drive control of the host vehicle. If an external condition detecting unit detects a first other vehicle subject to following control and a second other vehicle which exhibits the traveling movements of cutting in between the first other vehicle and the host vehicle, a deceleration limiter sets limits that differ depending on whether or not the relative speed of the host vehicle vis-a-vis the second other vehicle exceeds a speed threshold having a positive value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi OGURO, Daichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20200086870
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is provided which is capable of properly satisfying an acceleration request from a driver even when the driver performs a step-on operation of an accelerator pedal in the implementation of an ACC mode. The vehicle control device is capable of: a front car follow-up travel mode, in which a driving force and a transmission ratio are controlled based on a first accelerator position (AP1) for an inter-vehicle distance to a preceding vehicle to be a target inter-vehicle distance; and an override mode, in which the driving force and the transmission ratio are controlled based on a second accelerator position (AP2) determined by an operation of an accelerator operator performed by a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro TAKEMORI
  • Publication number: 20200086871
    Abstract: A control device (100) can communicate with a first sensor (300) for detecting an object around a first vehicle and is equipped on the first vehicle (500). The control device (100) includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a sensing result being a result of detecting an object around the first vehicle (500) from the first sensor (300) equipped on the first vehicle (500). The second acquisition unit acquires positional information of a specified object being an object for performance measurement of the first sensor (300). The detection unit detects the specified object existing within a reference distance from the first vehicle (500), by use of positional information of the first vehicle (500) and positional information of the specified object. The determination unit determines performance of the first sensor (300), based on the sensing result of the specified object by the first sensor (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Akira GOTODA, Makoto KURAHASHI, Hiroshi NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20200086872
    Abstract: A powertrain system for a vehicle is described, and includes an internal combustion engine that is selectively coupled to a driveline. The engine is configured to operate in a coasting mode, wherein the coasting mode includes operating the powertrain system with the engine in an OFF state and decoupled from the driveline. Devices are configured to monitor an output torque request, vehicle speed, and vehicle operating conditions. An executable instruction set monitors the vehicle speed and the output torque request. The engine is controlled to operate in the coasting mode when the output torque request is within the predetermined torque region and the vehicle speed is greater than a minimum speed threshold. The engine is controlled to discontinue operating in the coasting mode in response to the output torque request being outside the torque region of the vehicle speed being less than a minimum speed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Goro Tamai, Birendra P Bhattarai, Daniel E Nicholson
  • Publication number: 20200086873
    Abstract: The systems and methods provided herein are directed to an automated driver assistance system that monitors the area around the pedals of a vehicle and modifies the automated operation of the vehicle based on detected motion of the driver near the pedals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Amin TAHMASBI-SARVESTANI
  • Publication number: 20200086874
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a torque converter bypass clutch, a wheel, a generator, and a controller. The torque converter bypass clutch is disposed between the wheel and the electric machine. The controller is programmed to, responsive to slip of the clutch exceeding a threshold during regenerative braking, energize the electric machine such that a torque being transferred from the wheel to the electric machine increases at a first rate and increase clutch pressure to decrease the slip. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to the slip decreasing to less than the threshold during the regenerative braking, adjust electric machine energization such the that torque being transferred from the wheel to the electric machine increases at a second rate that is greater than the first rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew E. BURT, Kendrick MORRISON
  • Publication number: 20200086875
    Abstract: A braking system for braking an electric vehicle is provided. The system includes a brake pedal having a regenerative-braking range of pedal displacement from an initial position of the brake pedal to a maximal-recuperation position of the brake pedal, and a mechanical-braking range of pedal displacement starting from the maximal-recuperation position of the brake pedal. A brake controller activates deceleration of the vehicle based on the pedal displacement. The brake controller activates deceleration of the electric vehicle based on regenerative braking within the regenerative-braking range and based on mechanical braking within the mechanical-braking range. The regenerative-braking range is adjusted based on a state of charge of a traction battery of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Stefan Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20200086876
    Abstract: A yield amount of a vehicle is given notice of more accurately before two vehicles pass each other. In a driving assistance system, a yield amount calculation unit calculates a yield amount of a first vehicle on the basis of the width of the first vehicle, the width of a second vehicle, the current position of the first vehicle in the width direction detected by a first position detection unit, the passing position predicted by a passing position prediction unit, the road width at the passing position specified by a road width specification unit. The notification unit gives notice of the yield amount of the first vehicle at least in the first vehicle on the basis of the calculation result from the yield amount calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yasunori
  • Publication number: 20200086877
    Abstract: An acceleration slip regulation method includes determining a current control phase of a vehicle in an acceleration slip regulation state, determining a current road surface adhesion coefficient of the vehicle, determining, based on the current control phase and the current road surface adhesion coefficient, maximum torque allowed by a road surface, obtaining demand torque received by a drive motor of the vehicle and a wheel slip rate of the vehicle, and outputting adaptive feedforward torque for acceleration slip regulation based on the maximum torque allowed by the road surface, the demand torque, and the wheel slip rate, where the adaptive feedforward torque is used to perform the acceleration slip regulation on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yongsheng Zhang, Wei Zhang, Biao Jin
  • Publication number: 20200086878
    Abstract: An idling stop control device includes an authenticator, a storage, a getting-off detector, and an engine restart permitter. The authenticator is installed in a vehicle, performs authentication via a wireless communication with a mobile device, and repeatedly performs, while the vehicle travels, an authentication operation at predetermined intervals. The storage stores result and time of authentication as the authentication history during travel. The engine restart permitter determines permission or prohibition of restart of the engine in accordance with the authentication history and getting-off information, permits restart of the engine when the authentication is successful and permits, in a case where the authentication fails, restart of the engine when a history of success of authentication has been stored in the storage during travel and the getting-off is not detected after the authentication has been successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Yosuke OHTOMO
  • Publication number: 20200086879
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for scene classification and prediction is provided herein. A first series of image frames of an environment from a moving vehicle may be captured. Traffic participants within the environment may be identified and masked based on a first convolutional neural network (CNN). Temporal classification may be performed to generate a series of image frames associated with temporal predictions based on a scene classification model based on CNNs and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. Additionally, scene classification may occur based on global average pooling. Feature vectors may be generated based on different series of image frames and a fusion feature vector may be obtained by performing data fusion based on a first feature vector, a second feature vector, a third feature vector, etc. In this way, a behavior predictor may generate a predicted driver behavior based on the fusion feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan, Isht Dwivedi, Behzad Dariush
  • Publication number: 20200086880
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating data indicative of a friction associated with a driving surface, and for using the friction data in association with one or more vehicles. In one example, a computing system can detect a stop associated with a vehicle and initiate a steering action of the vehicle during the stop. The steering action is associated with movement of at least one tire of the vehicle relative to a driving surface. The computing system can obtain operational data associated with the steering action during the stop of the vehicle. The computing system can determine a friction associated with the driving surface based at least in part on the operational data associated with the steering action. The computing system can generate data indicative of the friction associated with the driving surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Scott C. Poeppel, Mats Jonasson
  • Publication number: 20200086881
    Abstract: Hybrid user recognition methods systems for vehicle access and control are disclosed. For one example, a hybrid user recognition system can capture at least two types of biometric data of a user. The user is recognized if at least two types of captured biometric data match with at least two types of registered biometric signatures of the user. If the user is recognized, the user is allowed access or control of at least part of the electronic or driving controls of the otherwise the user is prevented from access or control of the vehicle. Examples of user biometrics include facial, voice, iris, fingerprint and behavioral biometrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Dirk Abendroth, Baharak Soltanian
  • Publication number: 20200086882
    Abstract: Exhaustive driving analytical methods, systems, are apparatuses are described. The methods, systems, are apparatuses relate to monitoring driver and/or driving behaviors in view of an exhaustive list of variables to determine safety factors, identify times to react to events, and contextual information regarding the events. The methods, systems, and apparatuses described herein may determine, based on a systematic model, reactions and reaction times, compare the vehicle behavior (or lack thereof) to the modeled reactions and reaction times, and determine safety factors and instructions based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Anuradha Kodali, Sunil Chintakindi, Regina Madigan
  • Publication number: 20200086883
    Abstract: A vehicle may have an emergency simulation mode, for pre-experiencing operating logic provided in the case of emergency to be caused while driving in a vehicle which is actually driven, and a driving method thereof. The vehicle having an emergency simulation mode may include an input unit for allowing a driver to input a command for selecting a simulation mode for emergency, a controller connected to the input unit and configured for storing a database for a plurality of emergencies to be caused in the vehicle, establishing operating logic of a simulation mode and a real mode for each emergency, and selecting operating logic for each emergency depending on the command received from input unit or a sensing value sensed by the vehicle, and an operation unit which is operated according to the operating logic selected by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Taeg Jo Kim, Ki Soo Lee, Jeong Hwan Park
  • Publication number: 20200086884
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for remote safe driving. One exemplary method includes detecting an emergency situation, and in response to the detecting the emergency situation, switching operation of the vehicle to a low-power operation mode that comprises shutting down a subset of vehicular components, and periodically transmitting a location of the vehicle to a remote monitoring center. Another exemplary method includes selecting at least one of a set of vehicular driving actions, and transmitting, over a secure connection, the at least one of the set of vehicular driving actions to the vehicle, wherein the set of vehicular driving actions is generated based on a classification of driver behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Lindong SUN, Liu LIU, Xiaoling HAN, Ruiliang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200086885
    Abstract: According to the present invention, even when information needed to calculate an acceleration command cannot be detected due to a sensor malfunction or the like, acceleration control can be continued by adding, in accordance with outside-world information, a correction to the result of calculating the acceleration command, which uses the result of an estimation made using alternative sensor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Naoki HIRAGA, Toshiyuki INNAMI, Junya TAKAHASHI, Yuki AKIYAMA, Seiichi SATOH
  • Publication number: 20200086886
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a movable object that make it possible to realize more appropriate switching of an operation mode. A vehicle control unit switches operation modes of driving mechanisms such as an engine or a driving motor relating to driving (travelling) of a vehicle, a braking device relating to braking of the vehicle, and a steering mechanism relating to steering of the vehicle at different timings in accordance with an operation mode switching trigger of the vehicle, on a basis of, for example, a state of an individually identified driver or a situation around the vehicle. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an ECU for controlling a vehicle that performs automatic driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Kaneko, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Itaru Shimizu, Shinnosuke Hayamizu, Yasuhiro Yukawa
  • Publication number: 20200086887
    Abstract: The present application generally relates to a method and apparatus for autonomous vehicle driver confirmation in a motor vehicle. In particular, the system is operative to determine a situation wherein driver confirmation is desired, acoustically request driver confirmation via vehicle speakers, and receive verbal driver confirmation via vehicle microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Gohl, Kevin A. O'Dea, Michael Silvestri
  • Publication number: 20200086888
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to causing presentation on a user interface of an immediate portion of a navigation route of an autonomous vehicle. A computing system of the autonomous vehicle determines whether an object detected by sensor(s) of the autonomous vehicle proximate to the immediate portion of the navigation route are of a type and relative position defined as one of consequential and inconsequential for a human passenger. In response to determining that an object has both a type and relative position defined as consequential, the computing system causes presentation on the user interface a representation of the object relative to the immediate portion of the navigation route to provide a confidence engendering indication that the autonomous vehicle has detected the object. Otherwise if inconsequential, presentation on the user interface of any representation of the object is not caused by the computing system to avoid creating a confusing presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stephanie Olivia Engle, Mariya Jacobo, Jacqueline Mary Shannon, David Hyon Berrios, Tejeswara Reddy Pogula, John Logan Anderson, Divya Thakur
  • Publication number: 20200086889
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle control method, and a movable object that make it possible to realize travelling in a more appropriate operation mode. An acquisition unit acquires, as information regarding an operation mode of a different vehicle, operation mode information indicating the operation mode of the different vehicle or operation mode switching information indicating that the different vehicle has switched the operation mode, for example. A determination unit determines an operation mode of a host vehicle in accordance with the received information regarding the operation mode of the different vehicle (e.g., the operation mode information indicating the operation mode of the different vehicle or the operation mode switching information indicating that the different vehicle has switched the operation mode). The present technology is applicable to, for example, an ECU for controlling a vehicle that performs automatic driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Kaneko, Noriko Tanaka, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Yasuhiro Yukawa, Itaru Shimizu, Shinnosuke Hayamizu
  • Publication number: 20200086890
    Abstract: A display system includes a display that displays a first image simulating a road on which a host vehicle is traveling, and a display controller that causes the display to display a second image simulating a recommended lane given to a controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, and to display a third image simulating a target trajectory generated by the controller that performs driving control of the host vehicle at a position associated with the first image, wherein the display controller changes the third image to an image simulating the target trajectory for lane change without changing a display position of the second image when the controller executes driving control for causing the host vehicle to return to an original lane after causing the host vehicle to perform lane change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Kenji Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Mimura, Takashi Watanabe, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200086891
    Abstract: A vehicle control method and an intelligent computing device for controlling a vehicle are disclosed. An intelligent computing device for controlling a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure acquires a direction of a line of sight of a passenger of a vehicle through at least one sensor included in the vehicle and displays driving information of the vehicle through at least one of a plurality of displays included in the vehicle on the basis of the direction of the line of sight of the passenger, to thereby provide convenience to the passenger. One or more of the autonomous vehicle, the intelligent computing device and the server of the present disclosure can be associated with artificial intelligence (AI) modules, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, 5G service related devices, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Jichan MAENG
  • Publication number: 20200086892
    Abstract: A seat haptic system includes a seat comprising a plurality of actuators configured to generate a haptic output, and a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of actuators. The controller is configured to receive a first input signal associated with first audio content at a first volume level, and control the plurality of actuators to generate a first haptic output based on the first audio content, the first haptic output having a first magnitude associated with the first volume level of the first audio content. The controller is further configured to receive a second input signal associated with second audio content at a second volume level different from the first volume level, and control the plurality of actuators to generate a transitional haptic output based on a difference between the first volume level and the second volume level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph Anthony Alequin
  • Publication number: 20200086893
    Abstract: A pivoting/sliding door for vehicles comprising a door leaf with a support mechanism, a stationary rotatable spindle, and a spindle nut which is connected to the door leaf via a connection element and comprising a stationary guiding rail which has a curved section for a guide element fixed to the door. The curved section is followed by a section which runs perpendicularly to the spindle axis, the connection element is connected to the spindle nut and to a console which is fixed to the door leaf in a pivotal manner about axes, and the door leaf has a closed final position upon reaching the guide element of the transition point between the curved section and the perpendicular section in the longitudinal direction but is preferably still spaced from the closed final position in an adjustment direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Reinhold JAROLIM
  • Publication number: 20200086894
    Abstract: An extraction device for discharging a mixed fluid, in particular containing feces, from a collecting tank of a rail vehicle comprises a housing having a mixed fluid inlet and a mixed fluid outlet, a flow passage which extends in the housing between the inlet and the outlet, a retaining latch mounted to the housing and adapted to cooperate with a corresponding recess on the collecting tank and is pivotably reciprocal between a locked position and an unlocked position, a shut-off member reciprocable between a release position and a blocking position, and a handling means or actuator mounted to the housing for actuation of the shut-off member. The handling means is operatively connected to the retaining latch in such a way that upon the movement of the retaining latch into the unlocked position the shut-off member is put into the blocking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: VOGELSANG GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Lucks, Michael Heitmann
  • Publication number: 20200086895
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic suspension for a rail vehicle comprising a body and a bogie, said pneumatic suspension extending between the body and a chassis of the bogie, comprising: at least one secondary pneumatic suspension element for vertically supporting the body on the chassis and capable of being supplied with compressed air at a supply pressure, and a pressure source, wherein it further comprises: a control unit, for each suspension element, a sensor connected to the command unit and able to measure a height between the chassis and the body at the level of said suspension element, and for each suspension element, a solenoid valve connecting said suspension element to the pressure source, said solenoid valve being commanded automatically by an electric command signal, generated by the command unit as a function of the measured height(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: SpeedInnov
    Inventors: Christophe SARTI, Michel MARTIN, Philippe DESSERTENNE, Luis MENDES FREDERICO, Romain GOUDE, Thierry THOMMERET
  • Publication number: 20200086896
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical connecting apparatus for supplying power to cars which are coupled to one another, including a first plug-in connector to which at least one cable is connected, and a corresponding second plug-in connector which is intended to be fastened to a car wall, in particular in a vertical lateral wall. The first plug-in connector and the second plug-in connector are each provided with one or more corresponding first contact elements or second contact elements which can be plug-connected in an insertion direction (A), and the cable of the first plug-in connector exits from the first plug-in connector in a first cable outlet direction (B) which is angled away in relation to the insertion direction (A). Also disclosed is a rail vehicle having at least two coupled cars, wherein each of the two coupled cars is provided with at least one electrical connecting apparatus as above described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jens HORSTMANN, Albert FERDERER, Frank QUAST
  • Publication number: 20200086897
    Abstract: A floating caliper brake device for a railroad vehicle 100 includes: a support frame 1 that has a cylindrical portion 1a; a support pin 2 that is supported by the cylindrical portion 1a in such a manner as to be slidable in a direction X; a caliper 3 that includes a first arm portion 3a and a second arm portion 3b; a first brake shoe 4; a second brake shoe 5 that is opposite to the first brake shoe 4; a pressurizing device 6 that moves the first brake shoe 4 back and forth; an elastic member 7 that is expandable and contractible in the direction X; a stopper member 8 that is immovable relatively to the cylindrical portion 1a in the direction X; and a moving member 9 that is frictionally engaged with the support pin 2 in such a manner as to be slidable in the direction X, wherein end portions on an L side of the elastic member 7 and the stopper member 8 are each supported by the cylindrical portion 1a, at least a portion of an end portion on an R side of the stopper member 8 overlaps the moving member 9 when v
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Kousuke SAKAGUCHI, Kazuaki FUJITA, Masanori SAWADA, Hironori YOKOTA, Tomohiro OTSUKA, Jun ASANO, Masashi SEKIYA, Seiji KANAMORI
  • Publication number: 20200086898
    Abstract: Various embodiments provided a railroad car brake beam wear guide for mounting in a brake beam guide bracket of a railroad car truck side frame and including a spacer that partially defines a slide-way for a brake beam lug of a brake beam and that limits lateral movement of the brake beam. In various embodiments, the wear guide can be employed for other uses besides for railroad cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald D. Golembiewski, Walter J. Peach
  • Publication number: 20200086899
    Abstract: A method of linking alarm data from physically disassociated wireless sensors to a train in motion. The sensor secured to a wheel axle-box of a rail carriage of a train to detect an over temperature alarm to enable a driver to stop the train. If the alarm condition is confirmed as belonging to the train, a Monitor/Relay immediately notes that there is a problem and warns an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventor: Alexander Pinkerton