Drive Capability Patents (Class 340/576)
  • Patent number: 12269482
    Abstract: A system for monitoring an alertness level of an occupant of a vehicle includes a first sensor operable to detect an event exterior to the vehicle. A second imager is operable to capture an image of the occupant. A controller is in electrical communication with the first sensor and the second sensor. The controller is configured to determine a target direction aligning with a region of the event. The controller is further configured to determine a viewing direction of the occupant based on the image. The controller is further configured to compare the target direction to the viewing direction. The controller is further configured to determine the alertness level of the driver based on the comparison of the target direction to the viewing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guy Raz, Robert Steel
  • Patent number: 12271200
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence system is enabled for an autonomous vehicle to calculate a plurality of trajectory paths. The system is enabled to identify and recognize objects. The autonomous vehicle is enabled using a convolutional neural network to determine various paths associated with the autonomous vehicle and also of other moveable objects in the environment. The autonomous vehicle is further enabled to use a cloud based server or edge computing device to pre calculate environments including predictions of environments. Upon an threshold of paths available an aggressive driving move may be authorized to proceed by the autonomous vehicle. The system is enabled to identify and recognize objects using a plurality of sensors including vision-based sensors, image sensors, video sensors, camera sensors, LIDAR, and sensor fusion. Data from various sensors may be combined and fused together to provide enhanced input to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Sanjay Kaliputnam Rao
  • Patent number: 12269494
    Abstract: Systems and methods for maintaining autonomous vehicle operator awareness are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, an awareness challenge for an operator of a vehicle. The awareness challenge can be based on object data. The awareness challenge can have one or more criteria. The criteria can include a challenge response interval, a response time, and an action for satisfying the awareness challenge. The method can include initiating, by the computing system, a timer measuring elapsed time from a start time of the challenge response interval. The method can include communicating to the operator, by the computing system, a soft notification indicative of the awareness challenge during the challenge response interval. The method can include determining, by the computing system, whether the operator provides a user input after the response time interval and whether the user input corresponds to the action for satisfying the awareness challenge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Aurora Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Brian Donnelly, Philipp Haban, Christopher Matthew D'Eramo, Chad Jonathan Staller, Clifford Shaun Webb, Douglas Dallesandro
  • Patent number: 12272447
    Abstract: The present invention connects patients with nearby health care providers by receiving patient information such as name, address, phone number and email. The information is then transmitted to a medical facility that can provide care. The medical facility information is then sent to the processing device for analyzation. The patient is then matched with a primary medical facility and receives a notification. The notification provides the patient with the location directions to the primary medical facility and the estimated wait time before the patient will be seen by a medical professional. For low-income patients a convenient and low-priced form of transportation will be provided picking the patient up and transporting the patient to the primary medical facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Aneetrai Latoya Rowland
  • Patent number: 12262655
    Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a vehicle body, an obstacle detector to detect obstacles, an autonomous travel controller to perform autonomous travel of the vehicle body, the autonomous travel controller being configured or programmed to, when performing the autonomous travel, stop the vehicle body based on detection information about an obstacle detected by the obstacle detector, and a mode switch to switch a mode during the autonomous travel in an agricultural field between an effective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is allowed and an ineffective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is not allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Shintani, Takanori Morimoto, Tomohiro Kinoshita, Ken Sakuta, Fumiya Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi Harada, Sho Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12263847
    Abstract: A driver abnormality determination apparatus includes circuitry configured to detect a driver state of a driver of a vehicle, detect a driving operation of the driver, detect an exertion level of an involuntary function of the driver based on the driver state, detect an exertion level of a driving function of the driver based on the driving operation; and determine driver abnormality based on the execution level of the involuntary function and the execution level of the driving function. On condition that a function level of one of the execution level of the involuntary function and the execution level of the driving function is equal to or lower than a specified determination criterion, the circuitry is configured to relax a determination criterion for the other function level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Iwase, Makoto Yoshida, Junichiro Kuwahara, Yohei Iwashita
  • Patent number: 12265199
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical weather pattern recognition system includes: at least one movement sensor, of a MEMS type, which generates a movement signal, in the presence and as a function of at least one weather pattern to be recognized; and a recognition circuitry, which is coupled to the movement sensor and which receives the movement signal; extracts given features of the movement signal; and perform processing operations, based on the given features of the movement signal, in order to recognize the weather pattern by executing at least one, appropriately trained, machine-learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Paolo Rivolta, Lorenzo Bracco, Roberto Mura, Federico Rizzardini
  • Patent number: 12263852
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for preventing drunk driving of a vehicle, the system including: an input unit through which a transfer intention to transfer a control privilege of a vehicle from a registered driver to a passenger is input; a sobriety determination unit configured to determine a current driver's inebriation state through a breathalyzer provided in the vehicle when the transfer intention is input through the input unit; a driver verification unit configured to identify personal information of the current driver seated on a driver's seat; and a control unit configured to transfer the control privilege of the vehicle to the passenger when the passenger is measured as being able to drive by the sobriety determination unit and the passenger and the current driver are identified to be the same by the driver verification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Jin Jung, Yeon Su Kim, June Seung Lee, Chang Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12265389
    Abstract: Technologies for providing a cognitive capacity test for autonomous driving include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry that is configured to display content to a user, prompt a message to the user to turn user's attention to another activity that needs situational awareness, receive a user response, and analyze the user response to determine an accuracy of the user response and a response time, wherein the accuracy and response time are indicative of a cognitive capacity of the user to assume control of an autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle encounters a situation that the vehicle is unable to navigate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Johanna Swan, Shahrnaz Azizi, Rajashree Baskaran, Melissa Ortiz, Fatema Adenwala, Mengjie Yu
  • Patent number: 12246728
    Abstract: A safe driving determination apparatus includes an angle value calculation part that calculates an angle value indicating a face direction angle of a driver with respect to the traveling direction, and a determination part that determines whether or not the driver is in a state of being inattentive to the road ahead on the basis of whether or not an integrated value of angle values during a past predetermined first determination period is equal to or greater than a threshold value, wherein the determination part does not determine that the driver is in a state of being inattentive to the road ahead if the angle value of the driver is less than a second threshold value at the present moment, even if an integrated value of angle values during a past predetermined first determination period is equal to or greater than a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12245816
    Abstract: A device for non-invasive monitoring and measuring of intraocular pressure (IOP) of a subject includes a flexible lens that fits on the eye and changes curvature in response to a change in curvature of the eye. A microchannel disposed in or on the lens has one or more ends that are open to the atmosphere and an indicator solution is disposed in a portion of the 5 microchannel. The microchannel exhibits a change in volume in response to a change in curvature of the lens, which results in a change in position of the indicator solution in the microchannel. The change in position of the indicator solution in the microchannel is indicative of a change in IOP. The change in position of the indicator solution may be detected in digital images of the lens taken with a camera of a mobile electronic device such 0 as a smartphone or a camera worn by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston Health Sciences Centre
    Inventors: Angelica Campigotto, Yong Jun Lai, Robert J. Campbell, Stephane Leahy
  • Patent number: 12248316
    Abstract: A system for transportation includes a vehicle configured to have a rider located therein or thereon, and an expert system to produce a recommendation for a configuration of the vehicle, wherein the recommendation includes at least one recommended parameter of configuration for the expert system that controls a parameter selected from the group consisting of a vehicle parameter, a rider experience parameter, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 12246750
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for the utilization of vehicle control systems to cause a vehicle to take preventative action responsive to the detection of a near short term adverse driving scenario. A vehicle control system may receive information corresponding to vehicle operation data and ancillary data. Based on the received vehicle operation data and the received ancillary data, a multi-dimension risk score module may calculate risk scores associated with the received vehicle operation data and the received ancillary data. Subsequently, the vehicle control systems may cause the vehicle to perform at least one of a close call detection action and a close call detection alert to lessen the risk associated with the received vehicle operation data and the received ancillary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventor: Sunil Chintakindi
  • Patent number: 12248317
    Abstract: A system for operating a vehicle based on a state of a rider includes an artificial intelligence system, a vehicle control system, and a feedback loop. The artificial intelligence system processes a sensory input from a wearable device in a vehicle to determine a state of a rider and optimizes an operating parameter of the vehicle to improve the state of the rider. The artificial intelligence system includes a neural net with a perceptron to mimic human senses to facilitate determining a state of a rider based on an extent to which at least one of the senses of the rider is stimulated. The vehicle control system adjusts vehicle operating parameters and the feedback loop indicates the change in the state of the rider, where the vehicle control system adjusts at least one of the plurality of vehicle operating parameters responsive to the indication of the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 12243244
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a foreground extraction unit extracts each foreground from input images, and generates a foreground extraction result. A movement trajectory feature extraction unit tracks each foreground based on the foreground extraction result, and extracts a movement trajectory feature of the foreground. The area variation feature extraction unit extracts an area variation feature representing a temporal area variation of each foreground. A foreground center estimation unit estimates a center of each foreground using the movement trajectory feature and the area variation feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Sato, Kyota Higa
  • Patent number: 12240467
    Abstract: A driver monitor includes a processor configured to: detect the posture of a driver of a vehicle from an image of the interior of the vehicle generated by a camera provided on the vehicle, determine that the driver's condition is abnormal, when the detected posture satisfies an abnormality determining condition, detect an unusual sound made by the driver of the vehicle, based on a voice signal of the interior of the vehicle obtained by a microphone provided on the vehicle, and make the abnormality determining condition for the case where the unusual sound is detected less strict than an abnormality determining condition for the case where the unusual sound is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenichiroh Hara
  • Patent number: 12243343
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a hand region includes a processor configured to: calculate a confidence score indicating a probability that a hand is represented for each pixel of a target image, determine, for each of predetermined points on an edge of the image, a probability that a hand extends outside the image at the predetermined point, set a lower hand region detection threshold at a predetermined point having a higher probability that a hand extends outside the image, set a hand region detection threshold of each pixel of the image at a value calculated by averaging hand region detection thresholds of the predetermined points respectively weighted by the distances from the pixel to the predetermined points, and detect a set of pixels in which the confidence score of each pixel is higher than the hand region detection threshold set for the pixel, as a hand region representing a hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12233714
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls scenery display according to a current position of a mobile body is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a region where a predetermined object outside the mobile body appears within a window of the mobile body, a display unit that displays a transmissive region and a non-transmissive region within the window, and a control unit that controls the display unit based on the detected region. The detection unit detects an appearance place where the object appears in the window, based on a current position of the mobile body, a moving speed and a traveling direction of the mobile body, and position information associated with the object. Thereafter, a transmissive region is displayed in the region where the object appears, or a non-transmissive region that masks a region where the object is absent is displayed in the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Shoji, Toshiyuki Kimura, Naoto Shimizu, Kentaro Shibukawa, Tetsu Sumii, Teruyoshi Masuda, Osamu Sakurai, So Morimoto
  • Patent number: 12236615
    Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring an image frame; tracking a face region of a user based on first prior information obtained from at least one previous frame of the image frame; based on a determination that tracking of the face region based on the first prior information has failed, setting a scan region in the image frame based on second prior information obtained from the at least one previous frame; and detecting the face region in the image frame based on the scan region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwoo Kang, Jingu Heo, Byong Min Kang, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Patent number: 12235651
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining obstacle data based on sensor data such as greyscale data and depth data. Based on the obstacle data navigation data may be determined and used by an autonomous vehicle to navigate an environment such as a warehouse or storage facility. The obstacle data may be determined by determining three-dimensional representations of the greyscale data and the depth data and segmented and combining or fusing the three-dimensional representations of the greyscale data and the depth data. The system used to determine the obstacle data may be trained to avoid false obstructions and omitted obstructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lionel Gueguen, Ben James Kadlec, Denver H. Dash, Drew Steedly
  • Patent number: 12228467
    Abstract: A seat belt sensor assembly comprises a force sensor coupled to a seat belt webbing. The seat belt sensor assembly utilizes force readings from the force sensor indicating a force level above or below a predetermined threshold to determine if an action needs to be taken to control a vehicle system. Such vehicle systems could include, but are not limited to, an autonomous driving control system, an occupant health system, and a motorized seat belt retractor system. Controlling the vehicle systems could include, but is not limited to, sending audio, visual, and/or haptic warnings to vehicle occupants, including, in one embodiment, that the occupant's respiration rate is indicative of a dangerous health condition. The seat belt sensor assembly may be used in combination with a camera-based occupant monitoring system. In one embodiment, the occupant monitoring system can be used to selectively activate/deactivate discrete activation zones of the force sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: JOYSON SAFETY SYSTEMS ACQUISITION LLC
    Inventors: Len Cech, Lukas Scholz, Darren Goudeau, Joshua Ramaglia
  • Patent number: 12208737
    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a driver monitoring camera disposed at an interior rearview mirror assembly of a vehicle. The driver monitoring camera views a driver of the vehicle when the driver is driving the vehicle. The driver monitoring camera captures image data. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the driver monitoring camera. The vehicular driver monitoring system determines driver performance based at least in part on (i) image processing by the image processor of image data captured by the driver monitoring camera, (ii) a vehicle characteristic and (iii) a condition exterior of the equipped vehicle. The vehicle characteristic includes at least one selected from the group consisting of (a) vehicle speed, (b) vehicle acceleration and (c) vehicle orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Baur, Ian A. McCabe, Hamid Habibi, Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 12208806
    Abstract: A method for determining driving parameters includes: acquiring driving data of a driver; extracting driving features of the driver based on the driving data, where the driving features include first operation frequency of a first component of a vehicle and second operation frequency of a second component of the vehicle; determining, based on the driving features, a first probability that the driver has a first driving style and a second probability that the driver has a second driving style; and determining the driving parameters based on the first probability and the second probability, where the driving parameters include at least longitudinal acceleration and longitudinal deceleration. The method can dynamically adjust automated driving parameters to meet the driving style of the driver, thereby effectively improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ping Zhou
  • Patent number: 12204817
    Abstract: A machine is configured to identify a media file that, when played to a user, is likely to modify an emotional or physical state of the user to or towards a target emotional or physical state. The machine accesses play counts that quantify playbacks of media files for the user. The playbacks may be locally performed or detected by the machine from ambient sound. The machine accesses arousal scores of the media files and determines a distribution of the play counts over the arousal scores. The machine uses one or more relative maxima in the distribution in selecting a target arousal score for the user based on contextual data that describes an activity of the user. The machine selects one or more media files based on the target arousal score. The machine may then cause the selected media file to be played to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Aneesh Vartakavi, Peter C. DiMaria, Michael Gubman, Markus K. Cremer, Cameron Aubrey Summers, Gregoire Tronel
  • Patent number: 12202335
    Abstract: A system for man-machine interaction for a vehicle is disclosed. The proposed system includes an interactive reflected display on a windscreen of the vehicle; an eye tracking module including an eye gaze tracker for tracking eye gaze direction of a user, and a training unit to train the tracking module using a neural network to predict a real-time set of coordinates for eye gaze direction of the user based on a created reference data set of coordinates of the display; a finger tracking module to detect presence of a finger of the user and track movement of the finger; a cursor module configured to, on the basis of a received input, move a cursor on the display to an area of interest on the display; and a wireless switch module operatively coupled to the display for selecting a target in the area of interest on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, FAURECIA INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Pradipta Biswas, Sachin Deshmukh, Gowdham Prabhakar, Modiksha Madan, Aparna Ramakrishnan, Vinay Krishna Sharma
  • Patent number: 12193836
    Abstract: A system for determining a blood alcohol level of a subject may include a single light-emitting diode (LED) or, in some embodiments, two LEDs that may be operated in a pulsed mode and may illuminate a target location on a subject (e.g., a portion of a distal phalanx of a finger) with multiple illuminated light pulses. The system may include a photosensor that may sense multiple light pulses received from (e.g., reflected from, or transmitted through) the target location and generate multiple output signals. The system may include a controller that may determine a blood alcohol level of the subject based on the multiple output signals. Utilization of a single LED/two LEDs and operation thereof in a pulsed mode may prevent (or significantly reduce) heating of the LED(s) and/or the photosensor, thus eliminating a need in cooling units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: DYM SENSE LTD.
    Inventors: Dor Zarbel, Rahav Raviv, Shiri Carmielli
  • Patent number: 12190399
    Abstract: Embodiments provide probation officers with a recidivism probability score that is to be considered in conjunction with, or as a component of, compliance-based removal decisions. The recidivism score is computed based on a weighted combination of evidence-based factors that have been shown, through machine learning and other statistical analytics, to have a strong correlation with long-term recidivism rates. Examples of such evidence-based factors include the offender's Projected Date of IID Removal, Date of IID Install, Date of last Calibration, Violation Hour, Low BAC Non-Violation, BAC Violations, IID Violations, IID Service Lockout, IID Early Morning Violations, Violation Lockouts, and Circumvention Attempts Skipped Tests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: 1A Smart Start LLC
    Inventor: Matt Strausz
  • Patent number: 12190644
    Abstract: A smart tolling system employs computer vision and machine learning techniques to automatically track and monitor vehicles across multiple video streams captured by a networked camera assembly. The system derives comprehensive vehicle trajectories by stitching together detections of each vehicle from the various video feeds using multi-object tracking algorithms. These trajectories enable correlating different events triggered by the vehicles at multiple roadside devices like cameras and radars. By mapping the trajectories in space and time, the system can associate seemingly fragmented events and synthesize complete vehicle profiles even when certain events may have missed capturing some vehicle information due to obstructions or other factors. This trajectory-based event correlation enhances tolling accuracy by minimizing revenue leakage from missed or incomplete vehicle data in congested traffic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Ignacio Halley, Ignacio Halley, Michael Anthony Halley, Alejandro Andres Halley, Alexander Medina Monteagudo, Robert F. Hugues, Raciel Leiva
  • Patent number: 12187120
    Abstract: Provided are a control system and method using an in-vehicle gesture input, and more particularly, a system for receiving an occupant's gesture and controlling the execution of vehicle functions. The control system using an in-vehicle gesture input includes an input unit configured to receive a user's gesture, a memory configured to store a control program using an in-vehicle gesture input therein, and a processor configured to execute the control program. The processor transmits a command for executing a function corresponding to a gesture according to a usage pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Joon Ahn, Myung Bin Choi, Kyung Hoon Kim, Seung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 12174309
    Abstract: A system and method for classifying a type of interaction between a human user and a mobile communication device within a defined volume, based on multiple sensors. The method may include: determining a position of the mobile communication device relative to a frame of reference of the defined volume, based on: angle of arrival, time of flight, or received intensity of radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by the mobile communication device and received by a phone location unit located within the defined volume configured to wirelessly communicate with the mobile communication device; obtaining at least one sensor measurement related to the mobile communication device from various non-RF sensors; repeating the obtaining, to yield a time series of sensor readings; and using a computer processor to classify the type of interaction into one of many predefined types of interactions, based on the position and the time series of sensor readings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAVERONE 2014 LTD.
    Inventors: Aviram Meidan, Yiftach Richter, Daniel Aljadeff
  • Patent number: 12172674
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a circuitry capable of controlling a vehicle. The circuitry is configured to estimate a traffic risk score, a travel risk score, and a driving ability score. The circuitry is configured to change a first threshold, with which automated vehicle attitude stability control is initiated, so as to promptly execute the automated vehicle attitude stability control when a travel risk is not avoided by the driving ability, change a second threshold, with which automatic entry avoidance control is initiated, so as to promptly execute the automatic entry avoidance control when the traffic risk is not avoided by the driving ability, and control the vehicle to travel on a target travel route when the traffic risk and the travel risk are not avoided by the driving ability or when the driving ability is lower than a specified level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Hoshino, Shimpei Kusumoto, Junichiro Kuwahara, Megumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 12175795
    Abstract: A device, a computer implemented method, and a computer program product, the device including a capture device configured for capturing an image, and a processor configured to: receiving at least a part of an image captured by the capture device, analyzing the at least part of the image to determine a looking direction of a subject at an object, based on the looking direction, determining an engagement level of a subject with the object, and outputting the engagement level or whether the engagement level is in compliance with a required engagement level, while disabling transmission of information that enables reconstruction of the at least part of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: DSP Group Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomer Kimhi, Elad Baram, Yoram Zylberberg
  • Patent number: 12174641
    Abstract: This document describes methods and systems for vehicle localization based on radar detections. Radar localization starts with building a radar reference map. The radar reference map may be generated and updated using different techniques as described herein. Once a radar reference map is available, real-time localization may be achieved with inexpensive radar sensors and navigation systems. Using the techniques described in this document, the data from the radar sensors and the navigation systems may be processed to identify stationary localization objects, or landmarks, in the vicinity of the vehicle. Comparing the landmark data originating from the onboard sensors and systems of the vehicle with landmark data detailed in the radar reference map may generate an accurate pose of the vehicle in its environment. By using inexpensive radar systems and lower quality navigation systems, a highly accurate vehicle pose may be obtained in a cost-effective manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Mohamed A. Moawad, Aniello Sorrentino, Nanhu Chen, Michael H. Laur, Jakub Porebski, Amith Somanath, Aron Sommer, Kai Zhang, Uri Iurgel, Alexander Ioffe, Krzysztof Kogut, Ceyhan Karabulut, Damjan Karanovic
  • Patent number: 12171559
    Abstract: An adjustment device is configured to collect estimation results of the estimated state of the occupant; determine whether or not it is necessary to check the state of the occupant on the basis of the estimation results; determine a behavior of the occupant on the basis of behavior determination information and set the state of the occupant when it is determined that it is necessary to check the state of the occupant; and output adjustment information for causing an occupant state estimating device to adjust a state estimation condition used for estimating the state of the occupant so that the estimation result of the state of the occupant becomes the set state of the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kento Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12168445
    Abstract: A vehicle device may execute one or more neural networks (and/or other artificial intelligence), such as based on input from one or more of the cameras and/or other sensors associated with the dash cam, to intelligently detect safety events in real-time. The vehicle device may further pass the input to a backend server for further analysis and the backend server can detect safety events based on the input. The vehicle device may analyze the output of the vehicle device and the output of the backend server to determine whether the output of the vehicle device is correct. If the output of the vehicle device is incorrect, the vehicle device can adjust how the vehicle device identifies safety events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsara Inc.
    Inventors: Sharan Srinivasan, Brian Tuan, John Bicket, Jing Wang, Muhammad Ali Akhtar, Abner Ayala Acevedo, Bruce Kellerman, Vincent Shieh
  • Patent number: 12169127
    Abstract: A system includes an inertial navigation system module (INS module) that detects vehicle yaw rates and vehicle lateral speeds, a controller circuit communicatively coupled with the INS module. The controller circuit determines a tire cornering stiffness (Cf, Cr) based on vehicle physical parameters and vehicle dynamic parameters. The controller circuit determines a vehicle moment of inertia (Iz) based on the vehicle physical parameters, the vehicle dynamic parameters, and the tire cornering stiffness (Cf, Cr).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventor: Guoguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12168513
    Abstract: An in-flight risk management system includes an eye sensor, a seat sensor, and one or more in-flight risk management computers that perform operations including: obtaining history information for a flight crew member, obtaining flight information associated with a flight on which the flight crew member will be present, determining, based on the history information and the flight information, a predicted fatigue profile for the flight crew member, determining, based on the predicted fatigue profile for the crew member, one or more fatigue indicator profiles for the flight crew member, obtaining, from at least one of the eye sensor or seat sensor, one or more measured fatigue indicator values associated with the flight crew member, generating, based on the one or more measured fatigue indicator values, one or more updated fatigue indicator profiles, and generating, based on the one or more updated fatigue indicator profiles, an updated predicted fatigue profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventor: Suresh Rangan
  • Patent number: 12165486
    Abstract: The invention is a vehicular safety system that can detect the presence or absence of a child and a driver. Where it detects a child present/driver absent status, it concludes a child is unattended and initiates an escalating series of alarms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Brownstein
  • Patent number: 12162352
    Abstract: A display controller converts a detection target region contained within a detection range of an obstruction sensor group and extending from a vehicle to the periphery thereof into a virtual marker image and causes a virtual image to be displayed by superimposing the image over a scene in front of the vehicle. When the relative position of an obstruction is within the detection target region, the display controller causes an arc-shaped ripple spreading in a direction based on the relative position of the obstruction to be displayed in a region, of the virtual marker image, located in a direction based on the relative position of the obstruction. The display controller converts the important information into a notification image and causes the notification image to be displayed in a display medium. The display controller changes the display format of at least one of the virtual marker image or the notification image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Tanaka, Yasutoshi Yamamoto, Tomoka Ishibashi, Hiroyasu Makino
  • Patent number: 12165075
    Abstract: A server includes memory and a processor that obtains a log created by a first node monitored on a V2X network, selects predetermined information therefrom, and performs supervised machine learning using the selected predetermined information as training data to create a model for a monitoring node that monitors the first node. The log associatively includes a time, and at the time: first node status information as indicated by at least one of sensor or control data on the first node; first anomaly information indicating whether an anomaly occurred on the first node; and second anomaly information indicating whether an anomaly occurred on a second, surrounding node of the first node that communicates with the first node. When the first anomaly information indicates an anomaly, or when the first and second anomaly information indicate no anomaly and an anomaly, respectively, the associated status information is selected as the predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryota Takahashi, Takamitsu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12161467
    Abstract: The safety process covering a vehicle having driving apparatus and a station designed for a person and a person fitted with a medical device, in which: the medical device is designed to work in response to the physiological data of the person with a device and trigger an alarm signal in case of malfunctioning of the medical device per se and alarm signal for any actual or inferred problem regarding the medical condition of the person fitted with a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Inventor: Arnaud Chaumeil
  • Patent number: 12162509
    Abstract: Systems, methods, models, and training data for models are discussed, for determining vehicle positioning, and in particular identifying tailgating. Simulated training images showing vehicles following other vehicles, under various conditions, are generated using a virtual environment. Models are trained to determine following distance between two vehicles. Trained models are used in detection of tailgating, based on determined distance between two vehicles. Results of tailgating are output to warn a driver, or to provide a report on driver behavior. Following distance over time is determined, and simplified following distance data is generated for use at a management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Mazumder, Shashank Saurav, Javed Siddique, Mohammed Sohail Siddique, Donghao Qiao
  • Patent number: 12157498
    Abstract: An approach for assisting users with disabilities in an emergency situation relating to a vehicle is disclosed. The approach determines the profile of the passenger in a vehicle by noting preferences and disabilities associated with the passenger. After a vehicle accident, the approach determines the condition of the vehicle and the condition of the passenger. Based on various information received, the approach creates an action list of solutions for the passenger, wherein the action list has assigned dynamic risk scores. The approach determines the best solution based on the risk scores and selects the best solution from the action list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tanner Mark Preiss, Craig M. Trim, Jeremy R. Fox, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 12156750
    Abstract: A system and method of deploying a portable monitoring device. The method comprises inferring a rate of motion associated with the portable monitoring device; initiating, at a display screen of the portable monitoring device when the rate of motion is above a predetermined threshold, an image capture request; determining, responsive to the image capture request, a violation; and reporting the violation to a remote server communicatively coupled to the portable monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Consumer Safety Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Kimberly Dolan Williams
  • Patent number: 12158352
    Abstract: This application relates to a vehicle and method for generating a map corresponding to a three-dimensional space. In one aspect, the vehicle includes a sensor unit configured to sense a three-dimensional space by using at least one sensor and output spatial information in a plurality of frames and a memory storing computer executable instructions. The vehicle may also include a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to predict a position of an object corresponding to a current frame by using an object movement model based on the plurality of frames, remove the object from the current frame based on the predicted position of the object, update a map database, which includes a predetermined number of previous frames, with the current frame from which the object is removed, and generate a map corresponding to the three-dimensional space based on the updated map database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Seoul Robotics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeil Park, HanBin Lee, Dong Ha Chung, Hong Minh Truong
  • Patent number: 12157487
    Abstract: A monitoring device has a processor configured to detect surrounding objects of specified types present within a predetermined region around a vehicle, decide a level of monitoring of surroundings by a driver, set an inattention threshold to a first value as a reference for the level of monitoring of the surroundings by the driver when the number of surrounding objects is less than an object number threshold, and set the inattention threshold to a second value that is smaller than the first value when the number of surrounding objects is equal to or greater than the object number threshold, determine whether or not the level of monitoring of the surroundings has exceeded the inattention threshold, and give the driver a warning to direct the driver's attention to the vehicle surroundings when the level of monitoring of the surroundings has exceeded the inattention threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Egashira, Shunichiroh Sawai
  • Patent number: 12154434
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein provide a risk prediction system that uses trained machine learning models to make predictions that a VRU will take a particular action. The system first receives, in a video stream, an image depicting a VRU operating a micro-mobility vehicle and extract the depictions from the image. The extraction process may be determined by bounding box classifiers trained to identify various VRUs and micro-mobility vehicles. The system feeds the extracted depictions to machine learning models and receives, as an output, risk profiles for the VRU and the micro-mobility vehicle. The risk profile may include data associated with the VRU/micro-mobility vehicle determined based on classifications of the VRU and the micro-mobility vehicles. The system may then generate a prediction that the VRU operating the micro-mobility vehicle will take a particular action based on the risk profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Humanising Autonomy Limited
    Inventors: Raunaq Bose, Leslie Cees Nooteboom, Maya Audrey Lara Pindeus
  • Patent number: 12153418
    Abstract: A method for improving a state of a rider through optimization of operation of a vehicle includes capturing vehicle operation-related data with at least one Internet-of-things device, and analyzing the captured data with a first neural network that determines a state of the vehicle based at least in part on a portion of the captured vehicle operation-related data. The method further includes receiving data descriptive of a state of a rider occupying the operating vehicle, and using a neural network to determine at least one vehicle operating parameter that affects a state of a rider occupying the operating vehicle. The method still further includes using an artificial intelligence-based system to optimize the at least one vehicle operating parameter so that a result of the optimizing includes an improvement in the state of the rider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 12151823
    Abstract: A system is disclosed herein, including a cushion including a plurality of tactors and a plurality of air bladders disposed adjacent the plurality of tactors, a pump assembly operably connected to the plurality of bladders, a processor, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine an inflation sequence for the plurality of air bladders, determine a deflation sequence for the plurality of air bladders, output commands to the pump assembly corresponding to the inflation sequence and the deflation sequence, and output vibrate commands to the plurality of tactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.
    Inventors: Kassidy L. Carson, John L Hampton, Glen Shaw, Daniel R. Tribble, Larry Parker, Donald Borchelt, John R. Skola, James Donald Womack
  • Patent number: 12153421
    Abstract: A rider state modification system for improving a state of a rider in a vehicle includes a first neural network that operates to classify a state of the vehicle through analysis of information about the vehicle captured by an Internet-of-things device during operation of the vehicle. The rider state modification system further includes a second neural network that operates to optimize at least one operating parameter of the vehicle based on the classified state of the vehicle, information about a state of a rider occupying the vehicle, and information that correlates vehicle operation with an effect on rider state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella