Patents Issued in January 9, 2024
  • Patent number: 11867478
    Abstract: A sighting device, such as a gunsight, includes a support. The support includes a surface. The surface has a surface first section and a surface second section. The surface second section forms a curve. A hollow is delimited by the support surface. An access into the hollow is delimited by the support surface. An elongate light collector has a first section connected to a curved second section. The collector further includes a terminal connected to the second section. Also an illuminating surface of the collector resides at the first section. The light collector first section lies on and along the surface first section. The light collector second section lies on and along said curve of the second section. A light generating source resides in the hollow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HiViz, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11867479
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: John C. McNeil, Earl Clyde Cox, Makoto Ueno, Jon Andrew Ross
  • Patent number: 11867480
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting a magnitude of a voltage at a face of a conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”). The magnitude of the voltage may be used to determine whether a pulse of a stimulus signal was delivered to a target. Structures for detecting the magnitude of the voltage may include structures that provide a stimulus voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Magne Nerheim, Steven N. D. Brundula
  • Patent number: 11867481
    Abstract: A conducted electrical weapon may interchangeably receive a plurality of magazines. A magazine may be releasably engaged with a magazine bay of the conducted electrical weapon. Engagement of a magazine with the magazine bay may expose a bottom surface of the magazine. Each magazine may comprise a plurality of firing tubes. A magazine may be configured to launch at least one electrode from at least one firing tube of the plurality of firing tubes. A control circuit may be configured to provide an ignition signal to less than all of the plurality of firing tubes. A first pair of firing tubes may be oriented to achieve a minimum electrode spread at a first range. A second pair of firing tubes may be oriented to achieve a minimum electrode spread at a second range. The plurality of firing tubes may be arranged in an array comprising a column of firing tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Smith, Magne Nerheim, Oleg Nemtyshkin, Dubravko Zekanovic
  • Patent number: 11867482
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a position of an impact point of a directed-energy weapon which has an effective beam optical system and an imaging optical system. An emission of primary radiation of the directed-energy weapon is triggered as an effective beam, and radiation exiting from an irradiated object is received by the imaging optical system and directed onto a camera of a screen. A beam bundle cross section of an effective beam is covered with a reflective optical auxiliary element, the effective beam or the auxiliary beam is triggered with the beam bundle cross section covered, and primary radiation of the effective beam or of the auxiliary beam which is reflected by the reflective optical auxiliary element is received by the imaging optical system and directed onto a spot of the camera as the impact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Ludewigt
  • Patent number: 11867483
    Abstract: A wearable container containing a composite which has an alternating pattern containing groupings of woven fabric and groupings of biaxially oriented thermoplastic films. The composite has a thickness of less than about 5 mm. Each grouping of woven fabric contains at least one woven fabric layer, each woven fabric layer containing tape elements having a base layer of a strain oriented olefin polymer disposed between covering layers of a heat fusible olefin polymer. Each grouping of biaxially oriented thermoplastic films contain at least one biaxially oriented thermoplastic film which has a core layer of thermoplastic disposed between covering layers of a thermoplastic able to bond to polypropylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventor: Howell B. Eleazer
  • Patent number: 11867484
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a vitals target may include a processor, an output device, and a non-transitory storage medium. The output device is communicatively connected to the processor. The non-transitory storage medium may include a number of module. The number of modules may include a target distance identify module, a target animal identify module, a vital zone determine module, a first distance identify module, and a target calculate module. The target distance identify module that identifies a target set distance for a target configuration. The target animal identify module identifies an animal being simulated. The first distance identify module identifying a first distance being simulated at the target set distance. The target calculate module rendering the vital zone for a target distance. The output generate module causing the output device to generate a vitals target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: JMA Outdoors, Inc.
    Inventor: David Gene Howard
  • Patent number: 11867485
    Abstract: A shooting stall includes a first wall, a second wall, and an air permeable barrier. The first wall includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and a side surface that extends between the upstream end and the downstream end. The second wall is disposed substantially parallel to the first wall, and the second wall includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and a side surface facing the first wall that extends between the upstream end and the downstream end. The air permeable member is disposed between the first wall and the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RATAS Investments, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Rushing, Jose Quintanilla
  • Patent number: 11867486
    Abstract: An electronic stun grenade (10) comprising a casing (11) and a means for generating light (13), wherein the means for generating light (13) is mounted onto an exterior surface of the casing (11). This allows the interior volume defined by the casing (11) to be more effectively used for containing a means for powering the means for generating light (13). Particularly suited to applications requiring compact stun grenades, such as man portable or weapon launched devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventor: Ross Colbourne
  • Patent number: 11867487
    Abstract: Launching an aeronautical system can comprise applying force or energy to the system in connection with accelerating the system. Responsive to the force or energy, an element of the system can move along a defined path within the system. The system can comprise a drive that converts motion along the defined path into rotational motion. The drive can rotate a mass within the system, which can be supported by a gas bearing. The rotating mass can comprise the moving element, a different system element, or the entire system. The rotating mass can produce angular momentum and can support gyroscopic stabilization of the aeronautical system. Rotational energy can be selectively imparted to and transferred between system elements in connection with stabilization management. System elements can moderate the system's response to impulsive stimuli associated with rotation and acceleration. A gas bearing can support an external surface of the system during launch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael L. Wach, Michael L. Wach, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11867488
    Abstract: From a plurality of sabots, a sabot is provided for shrouding a sub-caliber projectile to form a launch package in a gun bore for acceleration by an actuator behind the projectile. The sabot includes a forecastle, an aft bulkhead and a waist. The forecastle separates the projectile from the gun bore. The aft bulkhead abuts against the actuator. The waist connects the forecastle and the bulkhead by a radial spar that supports inner and outer flanges. The inner flange mechanically engages the projectile, and in preferred embodiments is concave. The gun bore is optimized as a pair of electromagnetic rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Seth L. Williamson
  • Patent number: 11867489
    Abstract: This invention relates to a improvements relating to munitions, specifically to coating small arms ammunition with decoppering agents, as a replacement in lead free ammunition. There is a method of manufacturing a coated metallic projectile for a rifled barrel, comprising; providing a metallic projectile cup with a coating of a decoppering agent located thereon, to provide a coated metallic projectile cup; causing the coated metallic projectile cup to be drawn through a plurality of dies to form a drawn coated metallic projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Beswick, Ian John Pennell
  • Patent number: 11867490
    Abstract: A machine for attaching ammunitions intended to form a chain or strip with links of ammunitions or cartridges, including an ogive, a cartridge casing, and a cup that are essentially cylindrical, attached by links articulated to one another, each link having a first part attached to a second part, the first and second parts being offset relative to one another, the second part including a central loop or handle relative to a height of the link, defining an approximately semi-cylindrical opening, sized to be adjusted on the cartridge casing of a cartridge of given caliber, the first part including two central loops or handles but located, heightwise, respectively on either side of the central loop, the machine including: a first guideway for successively introducing the links detached from one another and guiding the links under an effect of gravity; a second guideway for successively introducing and guiding the cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: JOHN COCKERILL DEFENSE SA
    Inventors: Innokenty Gritskevitch, Anthony Colomine, Nicolas Leonnard
  • Patent number: 11867491
    Abstract: Ammunition cartridge comprising a rigid casing including a tubular sleeve and a base closing an end of the casing, a projectile mounted at another end of the casing, a propellant charge contained inside the casing, and an ignition device. The ignition device comprises an ignition charge arranged to ignite the propellant charge at a point of ignition distal from the base and proximal the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Albert Gaide
  • Patent number: 11867492
    Abstract: A compound shell casing comprising: a generally tubular outer member having an open forward end, an open rearward end, and a central passage extending therebetween, with a circumferentially extending, forwardly and inwardly facing seat in the rearward portion of the central passage; an inner member disposed in the rearward end of the central passageway of the outer member, the inner member comprising a first forwardly facing cup-shaped portion, and a second, rearwardly facing cup-shaped portion opening to the open rearward end of the outer member, and a circumferentially extending downwardly and rearwardly facing shoulder on the exterior of inner member engaging the seat in the central passage of the outer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Gerald Todd Eberhart
  • Patent number: 11867493
    Abstract: A wireless detonation system having a dongle for removable connection with a computer system and for wirelessly communicating with and controlling one or more trigger devices and a trigger device for wirelessly communicating with the dongle. The dongle includes a dongle processor programmed to communicate with the computer system via the communication interface to operate the radio transceiver to wirelessly communicate with one or more trigger devices, a radio transceiver coupled to the dongle processor, a communication interface coupled to the dongle processor and one or more contact communication terminals in communication with the dongle processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOYAGER INNOVATIONS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Nicholas Peter Day, Jeffrey Paul Owen
  • Patent number: 11867494
    Abstract: Provided is an optical displacement sensor that allows a housing serving as a head to be downsized. A relay cable extending from the head is integrated with a body. The head is primarily responsible for projecting and receiving light to and from a to-be-detected object, while the body is made up of a power supply circuit, a display, and an operation part. The head includes a green laser light source and emits the green laser light to form a spot on a surface of the to-be-detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiki Matsumoto, Choryon Oh
  • Patent number: 11867495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a control method for same. The electronic device of the present disclosure includes a sensor, a display, a camera, and a processor. The processor determines a boundary area between a wall surface and an area other than the wall surface area from an image frame acquired by the camera, determines the distance between the electronic device and a wall surface corresponding to the wall surface area on the basis of the position of the electronic device and the determined boundary area, the position of the electronic device being determined by the sensor, and controls the display so that an object is displayed on the walls surface area in a size corresponding to the determined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youngchun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11867496
    Abstract: A measurement system includes: an optical measurement instrument that measures a surface of a specimen; and a control apparatus that controls the measurement instrument. The control apparatus includes: one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that include an instruction; and one or more processors that execute the instruction. The instruction is configured to cause the one or more processors to execute an operation. The operation includes: causing the measurement instrument to repetitively measure the surface of the specimen without changing the setting; and evaluating appropriateness of the setting for measuring surface texture of the specimen, based on comparison between a measurement value of the surface texture of the specimen calculated from a measurement data item output from the measurement instrument, and a degree of variation in measurement by the measurement instrument calculated from a plurality of measurement data items output from the measurement instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Evident Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Tani, Hirofumi Hori, Takahiro Furukawa, Tsukasa Nittono, Takayuki Komiya
  • Patent number: 11867497
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for measuring the film thickness of a semiconductor device. The measuring method includes: providing a reference spectrogram of a main storage region of a reference semiconductor device; obtaining a first measured spectrogram of a main storage region of a semiconductor device to be measured; adjusting a thickness parameter of a target film in the main storage region of the reference semiconductor device within a preset range based on the reference spectrogram, obtaining an adjusted reference spectrogram, and comparing the first measured spectrogram with the adjusted reference spectrogram; if the similarity between the first measured spectrogram and the adjusted reference spectrogram is greater than a first preset value, using the thickness parameter corresponding to the adjusted reference spectrogram as the thickness of the target film in the main storage region of the semiconductor device to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yongshang Sheng
  • Patent number: 11867498
    Abstract: A sprayer includes: a container arranged to contain liquid; a passage including a transparent window, a first opening, a second opening and a resonator, wherein when the liquid in the container is passed through the resonator via the first opening, the liquid is emitted as a gas via the second opening; and a detection unit disposed outside of the passage. The detection unit includes: a light source disposed to emit light through the light transparent window for illuminating the gas in the passage such that the gas will reflect the emitted light; an optical sensor disposed to detect a parameter of the reflected light through the transparent window; and a processor coupled to the optical sensor for stopping the resonator from generating the gas when the parameter of the reflected light is below a first threshold corresponding to a specific level of liquid within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Wang, Yang-Ming Chou, Chien-Yi Kao, Shih-Jen Lu, Chih-Ming Sun, Hsin-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 11867499
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for verifying the position of an edge of component on an object. The apparatus includes an optical sensor configured to receive light reflected from the component and the object. A contrast element disposed on or adjacent to the edge. One or more processors operably coupled to the optical sensor for determining the position of the edge at an inspection point. A system is also provided for cutting plies of a layup assembly and applying a contrast element to make the cut edge visible to position verification systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxime Thierry Isabelle, Benjamin Parkin
  • Patent number: 11867500
    Abstract: A method for computing a depth map of a scene in a structured light imaging system including a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and a projector is provided that includes capturing a plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images of the scene using a camera in the structured light imaging system, generating, concurrently with the capturing of the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images, a time-of-flight (TOF) depth image of the scene using the TOF sensor, and computing the depth map from the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images wherein the TOF depth image is used for phase unwrapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia
  • Patent number: 11867501
    Abstract: A system for calibrating an equipment, the system including a beam splitter; a first reticle configured to be removably attached to the equipment; and an image capture device including an image plane, wherein an image of the first reticle is configured to be received by way of the beam splitter at the image plane along an optical axis of the beam splitter, wherein the orientation as indicated by the first reticle is compared to an orientation of the image plane and if the orientation as indicated by the first reticle differs from the orientation of the image plane, the equipment is rotated about the optical axis of the beam splitter such that the orientation as indicated by the first reticle matches the orientation of the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Pengfei Wu, Wei Zhou, Jiang He, Siyuan Liang
  • Patent number: 11867502
    Abstract: By measuring a position of a spray gun relative to a physical surface to coat, using data on technical characteristics of the spray gun, like a spray cone the spray gun may produce and data on a coating fluid used, characteristics of a coating layer thus physically deposited may be reconstructed. With data being recording during the spray job, this is faster and more accurate than measuring layer thickness at various locations, either pre-determined or randomly. By determining flow characteristics in a spray cone and position of the spray cone relative to the surface over time and using a model of the spray cone, deposition of the layer of coating may be determined and the final layer, cured or uncured, may be reconstructed, including thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROXCONTROL IP B.V.
    Inventors: Remy Michel Serruijs, Ronnie Jacobus Samuel Nieuwenburg, Rob Keij
  • Patent number: 11867503
    Abstract: An anomaly detection system that outputs an anomaly detection signal before a safety valve of a secondary battery is opened is provided. The anomaly detection system includes a strain sensor, a memory, and a comparator. The memory has a function of retaining an analog potential, and the comparator has a function of comparing a potential output by the strain sensor and the analog potential retained by the memory. The strain sensor is attached to the secondary battery before use, and a predetermined potential is retained in the memory. When a housing of the secondary battery expands while the secondary battery is used, and the potential output by the strain sensor becomes higher (or lower) than the predetermined potential, an anomaly detection signal is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Ryota Tajima, Yuki Okamoto, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11867504
    Abstract: An angle sensor generates an angle detection value based on a first and a second detection signal. A correction apparatus performs correction processing for generating a first corrected detection signal by adding a first correction value to the first detection signal and generating a second corrected detection signal by adding a second correction value to the second detection signal. When an angle to be detected varies with a period T and if no correction processing is performed, the angle detection value contains an Nth-order angle error component varying with a period of T/N. Each of the first and second detection signals contains an (N+1)th-order signal error component. The order of the first and second correction values is N?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichirou Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11867505
    Abstract: Interferometric speckle visibility spectroscopy methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for recovering sample speckle field data or a speckle field pattern from an off-axis interferogram recorded by one or more sensors over an exposure time and determining sample dynamics of a sample being analyzed from speckle statistics of the speckle field data or the speckle field pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Joshua Brake, Jian Xu, Changhuei Yang
  • Patent number: 11867506
    Abstract: A scanning device applied to an optical coherence tomography system integrates a scanning lens group required by the coherence tomography system into a fundus imaging system, so that the coherence tomography system and the fundus imaging system can share the scanning lens group for focusing. The above-mentioned scanning device can shorten a response time of focusing and reduce the volume of the system. An optical coherence tomography system including the above-mentioned scanning device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIMAGING INTEGRATED SOLUTION, INC.
    Inventors: Chu-Ming Cheng, Long-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 11867507
    Abstract: A system for providing a virtual distance of a device under test, the system including a light source, a wedge shear plate including a first surface, a second surface and a wedge angle, wherein the second surface is disposed at the wedge angle with respect to the first surface and the wedge shear plate is configured to be disposed between the device under test and the light source, a first detector configured for receiving a first interference pattern formed as a result of the light source being disposed through and reflected by the first surface and the second surface of the wedge shear plate and a second detector configured for receiving a second interference pattern formed as a result of the light source being disposed through and reflected by the first surface and the second surface of the wedge shear plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Pengfei Wu, Wei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11867508
    Abstract: The present invention is a specialized laser alignment tool for locating at least one roofing penetration point for a conduit installation. The specialized laser alignment tool is fixably mountable to and self-centering on an electrical hub and projects one or more roofing penetration points which are in vertical alignment with the electrical hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Keith Hendrick
  • Patent number: 11867509
    Abstract: A MEMS gyroscope includes a driven mass that moves in response to a drive force. A drive amplitude sense electrode is included as a feature of the drive mass and extends in a direction perpendicular to the drive direction. A change in capacitance is measured based on the relative location of the drive amplitude sense electrode to a known fixed position, which in turn is used to accurately determine a location of the driven mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: InvenSense, Inc.
    Inventors: Damiano Milani, Luca Coronato
  • Patent number: 11867510
    Abstract: A navigation system useful for providing speed and heading and other navigational data to a drive system of a moving body, e.g., a vehicle body or a mobile robot, to navigate through a space. The navigation system integrates an inertial navigation system, e.g., a unit or system based on an inertial measurement unit (IMU). with a vision-based navigation system unit or system such that the inertial navigation system can provide real time navigation data and the vision-based navigation can provide periodic, but more accurate, navigation data that is used to correct the inertial navigation system's output. The navigation system was designed with the goal in mind of providing low effort integration of inertial and video data. The methods and devices used in the new navigation system address problems associated with high accuracy dead reckoning systems (such as a typical vision-based navigation system) and enhance performance with low cost IMUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory C. Best, Peter Van Wyck Loomis
  • Patent number: 11867511
    Abstract: A method for creating a map navigable by human means through unmapped areas including footpaths, small alleyways, structural and geographical barriers is disclosed. Mobile position recording devices including for example global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, accelerometers, and magnetic orientation circuits plus monitoring software and means for data storage are provided to individuals who then travel to various destinations on foot and/or by mechanically assisted means. The position recording devices record route and location information with sufficient detail to provide a navigable map of the routes taken. The routes of various individuals are combined to provide an area wide map of navigable routes and repeated routes are identified and averaged over time to provide increased route detail and accuracy. The location and route data are separated into public and private data and the identity of the service recipient is protected from disclosure to service providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Bihama Vedaste, Greg Richmond
  • Patent number: 11867512
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for dataset simplification of N-dimensional signals captured for asset tracking are provided. An example method involves obtaining raw data from a data source onboard an asset and determining whether obtainment of the raw data results in satisfaction of a data logging trigger. The method further involves, when the data logging trigger is satisfied, performing a dataset simplification algorithm on a target set of data within the raw data to generate a simplified set of data, wherein the target set of data contains a time-variant N-dimensional signal, N>=1, and the dataset simplification algorithm is generalized for all N>=1. The method further involves transmitting the simplified set of data to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventor: Ulf Bjorkengren
  • Patent number: 11867513
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for determining a lane where a vehicle is located. In the method, the image lane information of the position where the vehicle is located is determined from a lane line image; actual lane information of a position where the vehicle is located is acquired from existing lane information according to the positioning information of the vehicle; and an actual lane where the vehicle is located is determined based on the image lane information and the actual lane information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yinghui Li
  • Patent number: 11867514
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a geographic location, of a vehicle, while a global positioning location is blocked by an obstruction and the geographic location is from an in-vehicle location sensor in the vehicle; extracting an image line from a surrounding image with an artificial intelligence model and the surrounding image is from an in-vehicle image sensor in the vehicle; transforming an image coordinate of the image line to a world coordinate of a HD map local storage based on the geographic location; extracting a map line from the HD map local storage based on the world coordinate; determining a pose relationship between the image line and the map line paired as either horizontal or vertical; generating a map-related location for the vehicle based the geographic location and the pose relationship; and communicating the map-related location for displaying on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Mengchao Mu, Hui Fang, Congmin Bai
  • Patent number: 11867515
    Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise accessing a set of vehicle poses of one or more vehicles; for each of the set of vehicle poses, accessing a high definition (HD) map of a geographical region surrounding the vehicle pose, with the HD map comprising a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the geographical region, determining a measure of constrainedness for the vehicle pose, with the measure of constrainedness representing a confidence for performing localization for the vehicle pose based on 3D structures surrounding the vehicle pose, and storing the measure of constrainedness for the vehicle pose; and for each of the geographical regions surrounding each of the set of vehicle poses, determining a measure of constrainedness for the geographical region based on measures of constrainedness of vehicle poses within the geographical region, and storing the measure of constrainedness for the geographical region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Di Zeng, Mengxi Wu, Derik Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11867516
    Abstract: A system for providing manual guidance of a vehicle includes a first inertial measurement unit (IMU) attached to a steering wheel, a second IMU attached to a fixed part of the vehicle, a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver, a data storage device for storing a pre-planned path, and a feedback module. The feedback module is configured to determine a current angle of the steering wheel, determine a deviation of the current position of the vehicle from the pre-planned path, determine a current heading of the vehicle, determine a current velocity of the vehicle, and determine a desired angle of the steering wheel relative to the vehicle. The system further includes a user interface configured to provide a visual indication of the desired angle of the steering wheel or a deviation of the current angle of the steering wheel from the desired angle of the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Cash, Shannon Smith
  • Patent number: 11867517
    Abstract: A moving target service receives path of locations of a moving target monitored by a navigation device. The moving target service calculates at least one optimized course for at least one user to follow to intersect with the moving target at one or more future locations predicted based on the path of the locations and based on at least one context record. The moving target service outputs the at least one optimized course to a display interface accessible to the at least one user for directing the user to navigate from a starting point to at least one of the one or more future locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Gordon, James R. Kozloski, Jonathan Lenchner, Clifford A. Pickover
  • Patent number: 11867518
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a public transport route, where the method includes: obtaining a request for route planning; identifying a plurality of road segments included in a first area in a map, and acquiring an identifier of an existing public transport vehicle corresponding to each road segment; determining a first route among the plurality of road segments based on the identifier of the existing public transport vehicle corresponding to each road segment; determining a plurality of stopping locations in the first route, generating a target public transport route based on the first route and the plurality of stopping locations, and outputting the target public transport route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qing Mu
  • Patent number: 11867519
    Abstract: To provide navigation directions according to road surface types of road segments, a request for navigation directions from a starting location to a destination location is received. A set of candidate routes for navigating from the starting location to the destination location is identified. Then for each road segment within each candidate route, a road surface type for the road segment is determined. A route is selected from the set of candidate routes based at least in part on the road surface types of the road segments within the route. A set of navigation directions is provided for presentation on a client device for navigating from the starting location to the destination location via the selected route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Yan Mayster
  • Patent number: 11867520
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems, vehicles, and methods for determining a quantity of energy expendable in charging a towed vehicle while it is towed. In an illustrative embodiment, a computing system transportable aboard at least one of a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle includes computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions configured to identify a quantity of charging energy to be supplied to at least one power cell of the towed vehicle by at least one rotating electromagnetic device of the towed vehicle generating and supplying electrical power to charge the at least one power cell of the towed vehicle while the towed vehicle is towed by the towing vehicle. The computer-executable instructions are also configured to determine a quantity of towing energy expendable by the towing vehicle in towing the towed vehicle to provide the quantity of charging energy to the at least one power cell of the towed vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Madineni, Gary Gloceri
  • Patent number: 11867521
    Abstract: A system for adaptive in-drive updating, for a vehicle travelling on a route, includes a controller adapted to obtain a pre-drive energy consumption prediction for the route, via an energy consumption predictor. An in-drive updating module is selectively executable by the controller at a timepoint during the route at which a completed portion of the route has been traversed and a remaining portion remains untraversed. The controller is adapted to obtain an actual energy consumption for segments in the completed portion of the route. The controller is adapted to obtain at least one modification factor based on a comparison of the actual energy consumption and the pre-drive energy consumption prediction for the segments in the completed portion of the route. The pre-drive energy consumption prediction for the remaining portion of the route is adjusted based on the modification factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Klaus Trangbaek, Vladimir Suplin, Daniel Urieli
  • Patent number: 11867522
    Abstract: A map information-providing system, a map information-providing method, and a map information-providing program which can provide map information while suppressing incongruity a recipient feels are provided. A navigation system-(map information-providing system) includes a storage unit-storing map information for navigation (first map information) and map information for autonomous driving (second map information) an updating period thereof is different from the map information for navigation with respect to at least a portion of a period of time, and a map information-providing unit which performs driving guidance by providing at least a portion of items to be provided by the map information for navigation using the map information for autonomous driving in a case where the map information for autonomous driving bad been updated based on newer information than the map information for navigation at a time of performing driving guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Nambata, Reiji Matsumoto, Tetsuya Takahashi, Katsumi Amano, Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Oyama, Yuuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11867523
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to ways to resolve autonomous vehicle (AV) routes based on verbal descriptions of landmark features. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving speech instructions, wherein the speech instructions indicate an autonomous vehicle (AV) destination, analyzing the speech instructions to identify one or more landmarks associated with the AV destination, and determining location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. In some aspects, the process further includes calculating a route based on the location information corresponding with the one or more landmarks. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Govindarajan Krishnamurthi
  • Patent number: 11867524
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for predicting popularity metrics and/or visitation metrics that are used in the selection of a point of interest (POI) for placement of an electric vehicle charging station (EVCS). The techniques involve training a machine learning model based on information obtained about POIs at which EVCSs are already installed. The information used to train the machine learning model includes, for each existing installation location: (a) visitation data that describes visitation features, and (b) popularity metrics and/or visitation metrics that have been generated for the location. When the machine learning model has been trained, the trained machine learning model predicts popularity metrics and/or visitation metrics for a POI location at which no EVCS has been installed based on the visitation data of that POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VOLTA CHARGING, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Klein, Ionel-Alexandru Hosu, Silas M. Toms
  • Patent number: 11867525
    Abstract: A first computing device may implement a method for sharing a navigation session to minimize driver distraction. The method includes requesting access to a shared navigation session synchronized with a navigation session at a second computing device indicative of a navigation route, and the navigation session includes route data. In response to receiving access to the shared navigation session, the first computing device may receive synchronized route data indicative of the navigation route at the second computing device. The method further comprises obtaining one or more first navigation instructions corresponding to the synchronized route data including at least one navigation instruction that augments or is output in a different manner than one or more second navigation instructions output at the second computing device, and outputting the one or more first navigation instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11867526
    Abstract: A map generation apparatus generating a map for use in acquiring a position of a subject vehicle. The map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from a detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map with the feature points extracted from the detection data in the extracting; recognizing a landmark on the map generated in the generating; determining an importance of the landmark recognized in the recognizing; and correcting a number of the feature points included in the map generated in the generating, based on the importance determined in the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hayato Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11867527
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an imaging device, a map generating unit, and an own lane identifying unit. The own lane identifying unit is configured to identify one lane as an own lane on a map in a case where the one lane is an only lane present in a specific area on the map, compare a type of a delimiting line of a captured own lane with types of delimiting lines of a plurality of lanes on the map in a case where the plurality of lanes are present in the specific area on the map, and identify one of the plurality of lanes on the map as the own lane on the map in a case where the type of the delimiting line of the captured own lane matches only a type of a delimiting line of the one of the plurality of lanes on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Wada