Vehicle Parking Indicators Patents (Class 340/932.2)
  • Patent number: 12260759
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are presented regarding utilizing technology onboard a vehicle to identify and annotate a vehicle parking spot. The parking spot is identified in a digital image captured by an onboard camera and imaging system, wherein an image including the parking spot can be annotated with a shape identifying the parking spot and further annotated with information regarding the parking spot, e.g., dimensions of the parking spot, an entrance to the parking spot, whether the parking spot is occupied, a location of the parking spot, and suchlike. The parking spot information can be transmitted to a remotely located vehicle and/or a remotely located computer system configured to compile information regarding the parking spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Yecheng Lyu, Sihao Ding
  • Patent number: 12260764
    Abstract: A parking support device includes: an acquisition circuit configured to acquire first detection points related to obstacles around a vehicle before setting a parking direction, and acquire second detection points related to the obstacles after setting the parking direction; an analysis circuit configured to calculate first approximate straight lines and first variations for first detection point groups related to the first detection points, and calculate second approximate straight lines and second variations for second detection point groups related to the second detection points; a setting circuit configured to set a parking point based on the first detection points, and set the parking direction based on the first approximate straight lines and the first variations; and a correction circuit configured to correct the parking direction using a correction amount calculated using the second approximate straight lines weighted based on the second variations after setting the parking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Okabe, Hiroto Sankoda
  • Patent number: 12254771
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining placement location(s) in a public space for a shared micro-mobility vehicle. The approach involves identifying a candidate placement location in the sidewalk area. The approach also involves determining factor(s) associated with the location and/or nearby location(s) in the sidewalk area. The approach further involves making a determination of whether the location is suitable for temporary placement of a shared micro-mobility vehicle based on whether the location enables: (i) avoiding interference between the vehicle and a current/predicted people flow, a bicycle lane, and/or one or more objects, (ii) preventing the vehicle from hindering usage of a point of interest, a vehicle parking area, and/or a transit station, or (iii) accommodating the vehicle to a sidewalk configuration. The approach further involves based on the determination, outputting an indication of whether the location is suitable for temporary placement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventor: Jerome Beaurepaire
  • Patent number: 12248107
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying parking spaces, including emitting an ultrasonic signal and receiving a reflected signal; and providing a grid which of a region having a plurality of cells. Each cell is assigned to a partial region of the region surrounding the vehicle and an occupancy value is assigned to each cell. The reflected signal is assigned to a set of cells of the grid based on a transit time of the ultrasonic signal between emission and reception. The occupancy values of the cells to which the reflected signal is allocated are increased by a specific value. An occupancy information item is determined based on the occupancy values of the cells. The signal emitting/receiving and the reflected signal assigning are repeated multiple times. Parking space identification is performed based on an occupancy status of the cells specified using the occupancy information item determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Wassim Suleiman, Abhishek Kekud, Christopher Brown
  • Patent number: 12236784
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a feeder lane direction warning system. Entering of an own vehicle into a feeder lane in a parking facility is detected. First data of a first parked vehicle parked in a first row of parking spaces adjacent the feeder lane is received from an external sensor mounted on the own vehicle. A traffic direction of the feeder lane is determined based at least on the received first data of the first parked vehicle. An alert is output via an output device of the own vehicle based on determining that the determined traffic direction of the feeder lane is different from a traveling direction of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jia Hwan Hoo
  • Patent number: 12233719
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to a motor vehicle, including: a battery pack electrically connected to an electric machine and a plurality of electrical loads, wherein the motor vehicle is operable in a full power mode in which power can flow from the battery pack to the electric machine and each of the plurality of electrical loads, and a battery save mode in which a flow of power is prevented between the battery pack and either or both of the electric machine or at least some of the plurality of electrical loads; and a controller configured to command the motor vehicle to operate in the battery save mode if the motor vehicle has been parked in a known extended parking location for a first time period, or if the motor vehicle has been parked in a location other than a known extended parking location for a second time period longer than the first time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cesar Espinosa, Ruben Mendoza, Martin Lara, Luis Osorio
  • Patent number: 12228934
    Abstract: Disclosed are a collision avoidance method for a moving device, a collision avoidance apparatus for a moving device, and a computer-readable storage medium. This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies. According to the method, a parking direction of a moving device in an avoidance area is adjusted, so that a startup time used by the moving device after avoidance completes may be reduced. The method includes: determining a target path direction of a moving device; determining a first candidate parking direction and a second candidate parking direction; determining, based on the target path direction, a target parking direction of the moving device from the first candidate parking direction and the second candidate parking direction; and controlling, based on the target parking direction, the moving device to be parked in the avoidance area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Keenon Robotics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuhao Liu, Meihua Zhang, Shiteng Wang
  • Patent number: 12217607
    Abstract: Provided are a parking area recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a medium. The parking area recommendation method includes: determining parking space occupancy data of a target parking lot; and selecting a target parking area from a plurality of candidate parking areas of the target parking lot according to the parking space occupancy data, where each candidate parking area includes at least two parking spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yiming Zhang, Xiongfei Tan, Tingting Ge
  • Patent number: 12217514
    Abstract: A method controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes determining, via a flow model of a parked vehicle recognition system, a flow between a first representation of the environment and a second representation of the environment. The method also includes determining, via a velocity model of the parked vehicle recognition system, a velocity of a vehicle in the environment based on the flow. The method further includes determining, via a parked vehicle classification model of the parked vehicle recognition system, the vehicle is parked based on the velocity of the vehicle and one or more of features associated with the vehicle and/or the environment. The method still further includes planning a trajectory of the ego vehicle based on determining the vehicle is parked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuan-Hui Lee, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang
  • Patent number: 12211011
    Abstract: A controller is provided that determines, in response to an order for a sticker indicating that a predetermined part of a vehicle has been upgraded, the number of issues of the sticker according the predetermined part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Emoto, Masakazu Shinkai, Yusuke Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 12211320
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining user information of a vehicle driver user, the vehicle driver user being a user of a computer based system for managing a parking area; processing information of the user information; and outputting a communication to control an indicator system based on the processing, wherein the indicator system is provided as a fixture of the parking area and wherein the indicator system is configured to provide indications viewable by vehicle drivers driving within the parking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edwin J. Bruce, Romelia H. Flores
  • Patent number: 12194924
    Abstract: Proposed are a device provided in a vehicle and a method for controlling same. A device provided in a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a first module which executes a first application and outputs first video data corresponding to the first application; and a second module which is wired or wirelessly connected to the first module and outputs video data, which is the same as the first video data, at a first timing. The second module is designed to output second video data which is different from the first video data in response to, for example, an event which has occurred at a second timing after the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Junbum Park, Hyoungkyu Choi, Seongmin Kim, Jaeho Choi
  • Patent number: 12198439
    Abstract: A system for generating a pixel map of a yard or facility in substantially real-time. The pixel map may be generated on-the-fly with virtual slots based on various vehicles and containers entering and exiting the yard or facility. In some cases, the pixel map may be utilized to track assets within the facility even if the physical identifier of the asset is unknown or the asset transitions between field of view of various image devices associated with the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KoiReader Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Prasad, Vivek Prasad
  • Patent number: 12187266
    Abstract: An autonomous driving method, an autonomous driving apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product are provided. The method includes: receiving first driving-related information of a first road section ahead of a road on which a first vehicle currently drives and information about a parking waiting area that are sent by a network side device, where the parking waiting area is used to park the first vehicle before the first vehicle drives into the first road section (S304); then determining, based on the first driving-related information, that the first road section does not meet an autonomous driving condition requirement of the first vehicle (S305); finally, controlling the first vehicle to drive into the parking waiting area (S306).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Zhou, Mingchao Li
  • Patent number: 12183201
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products for machine learning parking determination. A method includes receiving an image of a parking spot taken by an image sensor. A method includes processing an image of a parking spot using a machine learning model to determine a likelihood that the parking spot is occupied. A method includes communicating to a user, on an electronic display screen of a hardware computing device, whether a parking spot is occupied or available based on a determined likelihood that the parking spot is occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Krish Arora
  • Patent number: 12183199
    Abstract: A system and method for management of parking spaces is provided. The system including a server configured to receive the geolocation of a motorist and generate a live interactive map depicting available parking spaces configured to be occupied by the motorist either immediately or within an upcoming period of time. The server further configured to establish a secure connection between computing devices associated with the motorist and a current occupier of an applicable parking space allowing an opportunity for the occupier to preserve the applicable parking space until arrival of the motorist at the applicable parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: STREET SPOT ME, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Munger, Roy McDonald
  • Patent number: 12183202
    Abstract: A parking availability predictor system provides a prediction of parking availability that meets a user's specified needs. When the user submits a query for parking availability, he can include desired parking criteria such as location, handicapped status, and desired time to begin parking. The system consults a parking occupancy model which gathers current and historical information about parking occupancy, including parking durations and durations of vacancies between occupancies. The model processes the gathered information into a statistical predictor of parking occupancy and vacancy. The system uses the predictor to predict when parking that meets the user's needs will become available. That prediction, including user-suitable parking locations along with the expected start of their vacancies, is then sent to the user in answer to his query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Nikhil Dama, Laura Frisbie Evans, Christopher Ryan Haberland, Ting Lu, Simon Phillip Stolarczyk, Kristopher Thomas Williams
  • Patent number: 12183197
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods associated with free lock detection of a micromobility vehicle. Data from one or more sensors of the micromobility vehicle may be received and compared to a threshold stored or determined for the micromobility vehicle. Based on the comparing, an indication of free locking the micromobility vehicle may be determined and one or more notifications of the indication may be generated and sent for display on a mobile device. A parking condition of the micromobility vehicle may also be determined, such as utilizing image data of the micromobility vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine whether the micromobility vehicle is parked within a designated parking area distinguished through distinct coloring, patterns, signs, placards, markers, or images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Korda Drayna, Gary Shambat, Jacqueline Benesch Tandler, Griffin Samuel Valentine Thomson, Jens Paul Windau
  • Patent number: 12174031
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a processor. The processor generates a map recording the position of an obstacle around a vehicle and the positions of parking areas available for the vehicle to park. The processor determines a parking area to park the vehicle, out of the parking areas recorded on the map, based on the generated map and the obtained position information. The processor performs a simulation on the map where the vehicle is turned until the vehicle has approximately the same orientation as the parking area and detects a contact position at which the vehicle comes into contact with the obstacle recorded on the map. The processor determines a movement direction in which the vehicle is to be moved from a position indicated by the position information, based on the contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishinoda, Koki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12168409
    Abstract: A method of providing a warning about a vehicle in violation of a traffic signal, including: transmitting, by a rear vehicle driving behind a front vehicle entering an intersection in a first direction, signal violation information to a nearby vehicle entering the intersection in a second direction different from the first direction through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication when the rear vehicle determines whether the front vehicle is in violation of a traffic signal at the intersection using sensing information obtained by sensing the front vehicle and determines that the front vehicle is in violation of the traffic signal; and generating, by the nearby vehicle, a warning about a risk of collision with the front vehicle using the signal violation information transmitted from the rear vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong keon Lee
  • Patent number: 12165512
    Abstract: A vehicle presence detection system for determining whether a parking space is vacant or occupied and utilizing this information to guide vehicles to available parking spaces. generally includes a LIDAR device, a cloud-based processing unit, a database, and a guidance light. The LIDAR device generally includes a light emitter, a light sensor, a CPU, a memory unit, and a communications device. The LIDAR device determines the distance between itself and a parking spot or a vehicle parked in that parking spot using an algorithm that accounts for variances in the ambient conditions. This status information can be communicated to a cloud-based processing unit, which can store this information in a database and/or use this information to send parking status indications to an autonomous vehicle dynamic sign, mobile device, or guidance light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Frogparking Limited
    Inventor: Donald H. Sandbrook
  • Patent number: 12165514
    Abstract: A vehicle parking management method, comprising: on at least one of a vehicle and a mobile device, acquiring current parking place information and a plurality of additional information of a parking lot, the current parking place information at least comprising a location of an unoccupied parking place, each additional information in the plurality of additional information being configured for identifying associated data; on the basis of the current parking place information and the additional information, generating a parking place distribution image, the parking place distribution image at least indicating the unoccupied parking place and the additional information; presenting the parking place distribution image; and in response to that an operation targeting the unoccupied parking place or the additional information is detected, generating a navigation indication related to a target unoccupied parking place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PATEO CONNECT+ TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongren Shi, Huan Li, Peixin Lu
  • Patent number: 12154432
    Abstract: A method for generating garage parking notifications includes receiving current parked-vehicle data indicating that a vehicle has been parked inside a garage. The current parked-vehicle data includes the current location of the vehicle parked inside the garage. The method further includes determining whether the current location of the vehicle inside the garage is within a warning zone. The warning zone is an area inside the garage where the vehicle has not been frequently parked. The warning zone area is determined using historical parked-vehicle data. The method further includes generating a notification to warn an operator of the vehicle that the vehicle should be moved in response to determining that the current location of the vehicle inside the garage is within the warning zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Bo Yu, Brent Navin Roger Bacchus, Jiabin Shen, Yuan Zhang, Wenyuan Qi
  • Patent number: 12154325
    Abstract: Properly parking personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) is an important for safety and public satisfaction. The large number of daily rides of ride-share PMVs makes it impossible to verify manually that each PMV is properly parked. Aspects of this disclosure include systems and methods for verifying that PMVs are properly parked. These systems and methods can include training a machine learning model on a server. The system can request that users submit images to the server, such that the server can verify that the user properly parked the PMV. The server can transmit a finished indication when it determines that the user properly parked the vehicle. The server can transmit instructions to the user to take various actions when it determines that the user improperly parked the vehicle or when the image is insufficient to determine whether the user properly parked the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Neutron Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinsong Tan, Yi Su, Andrew Hanlin Xia
  • Patent number: 12148229
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for providing first responders after a vehicle accident with useful information regarding the medical status and injuries of the vehicle's occupants. The system includes an in-cabin sensor comprising at least one or more of an image sensor, depth sensor and micro-vibration sensor for capturing sensory data of the vehicle cabin including pre-crash data, during-crash and post-crash. The system also includes at least one processor configured to analyze the sensory data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guy Raz, Tal Recanati
  • Patent number: 12145504
    Abstract: A laser pointer parking alignment system comprises a laser pointer parking alignment apparatus, a fixation means for attaching the apparatus to a vehicle dashboard, a stationary target configured for removable securement to a surface such as a garage wall; and instructions for installation, use and maintenance. The apparatus comprises a laser pointer device removably securable in a laser device mount removably mounted on a vehicle dashboard, configured to assist in parking a vehicle. The stationary target has a surface capable of reflecting a laser beam emitted by the laser pointer device, for positioning the vehicle in a parking space such as a garage or the like. A user may line the laser pointer device up with a midpoint of the middle portion of the garage wall; and align the vehicle with the midpoint. The system provides an unprecedented, simple, effective solution for aligning and positioning a vehicle in any garage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventor: David Zisow
  • Patent number: 12134330
    Abstract: This specification describes an electrically powered modular platform comprising a power module comprising a common power bus, the power module electrically connected to a power source; one or more service modules that provide a service; a termination module that is configured to cover an opening in the one or more service modules, wherein the power module, each of the one or more service modules, and the termination module are modular and stackable, and wherein the power module and each of the one or more service modules are electrically connected using the common power bus to provide power to each of the one or more service modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Cora Castle
  • Patent number: 12136344
    Abstract: A fleet management system is disclosed. The system may include a transceiver configured to receive parking facility attributes associated with a parking facility and vehicle information associated with each vehicle in a vehicle fleet. The parking facility attributes may include parking resource locations in the parking facility and a parking resource availability information. The vehicle information may include a vehicle operational status and a future expected vehicle usage information. The system may further include a processor configured to determine a parking resource for each vehicle based on the parking facility attributes and the vehicle information. The transceiver may transmit a notification to each vehicle including a location of the determined parking resource and associated time period for parking resource usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Diamond, Anthony Maraldo, Stuart C. Salter, Keith Weston, Ryan O'Gorman
  • Patent number: 12128925
    Abstract: For a vehicle at a first location, a blind zone is defined that is outside fields of view of available vehicle sensors. A path is determined that avoids the blind zone and moves the vehicle away from the first location. The path includes a straight portion having a first end at the first location, and a turning portion starting at a second end of the straight portion. The straight portion is defined such that, at the second end of the straight portion, the fields of view encompass the blind zone. The vehicle is determined to operate along the turning portion based on obtaining sensor data from the blind zone upon reaching the end of the straight portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Niewiadomski, Li Xu, Hamid M. Golgiri
  • Patent number: 12128878
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling a vehicle to select parking spaces are discussed herein. The vehicle may receive a request to travel to a destination and obtain information about a first set and a second set of parking spaces within a threshold distance of the destination. The vehicle may determine a first likelihood of availability associated with the first set of parking spaces and a second likelihood of availability associated with the second set of parking spaces. The vehicle may determine a first cost associated with a first route to the first set of parking spaces and a second cost associated with a second route to the second set of parking spaces by the cost function. Upon determining that the first cost is equal to or less than the second cost, the vehicle may navigate based on the first route and park within one of the first set of parking spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Funke, Steven Cheng Qian, Zheyuan Xie
  • Patent number: 12122300
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a sensor-information processing circuit that detects an empty parking space around a host vehicle; a surrounding-image generation circuit that generates a surrounding image that is a view of surroundings of the host vehicle from above; an image display circuit that displays a first assistance image at a position of the empty parking space in the surrounding image, the first assistance image indicating the empty parking space; and a stop determination circuit that determines whether the host vehicle has stopped. In a case where it is determined by the stop determination circuit that the host vehicle has stopped, the image display circuit displays the first assistance image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suzuki, Ko Sato, Daisuke Tanaka, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Ryota Yamanaka, Junya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12118883
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for analyzing a traffic infrastructure element, determining reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element based on the analyzing of the traffic infrastructure element, comparing the reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element with semantic map information of the traffic infrastructure element, and providing instructions to an autonomous vehicle based on the comparing of the reflectivity information of the traffic infrastructure element with the semantic map information of the traffic infrastructure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Nestor Grace, Dogan Gidon, Diego Plascencia-Vega, Srishti Iyer Koduvayur, Hooman Barekatain
  • Patent number: 12118886
    Abstract: A communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes: a camera that captures a still image used for generating a map; a positioning circuit that positions a captured position of the still image; a control circuit that associates position information indicating the captured position with image data of the still image; and a communication circuit that establishes a radio communication with a roadside unit and transmits the image data by radio to the roadside unit, in which the control circuit rearranges an transmission order of the image data to be transmitted by radio to the roadside unit, based on the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosei Nakano, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Masataka Irie, Yao Huang Gaius Wee
  • Patent number: 12118832
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a system for analyzing and predicting a vehicle stay behavior based on multi-task learning, and the method includes the following steps: acquiring vehicle GPS and OBD data including a vehicle ID, a travel start time, a start longitude, a start latitude, an end time, an end longitude, and an end latitude after desensitization; preprocessing vehicle GPS and OBD data to obtain vehicle stay behavior data including stay location and stay duration; extract a spatial-temporal characteristic of the preprocessed vehicle stay behavior data by a deep recurrent neural network; inputting the spatial-temporal characteristic into a multi-task learning and predicting network, and obtaining the correlation between a stay location prediction task and the stay duration prediction task based on the historical stay behavior of the vehicle through the multi-task learning and predicting network to predict the stay location and stay duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongyang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Zhu Xiao
  • Patent number: 12112631
    Abstract: A parking guidance system and a method for allocating a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space are provided. The system has a detection unit for detecting an occupancy state of a parking space and/or a parking area containing a plurality of parking spaces, at least one mobile terminal with which a request from at least one vehicle driver for a parking space for his vehicle to reach a destination can be transmitted to the parking guidance system, which request comprises instantaneous position data of the vehicle. The parking guidance system is designed to select an available parking space in accordance with the request and to transmit a selection suggestion for a parking space to the mobile terminal and comprises a navigation system designed to determine a route from the location of the vehicle at the time of the parking space request to the available parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Graphmasters SA
    Inventor: Sebastian Heise
  • Patent number: 12110055
    Abstract: Method for providing parallel parking assistance including generating an augmented video stream including an overhead view video stream, a graphical representation of a host vehicle, and a first arrow for indicating an initial position of the host vehicle, generating, by a processor, a first control signal indicative of a first steering angle in response to receiving a first confirmation signal from a user interface indicative of a confirmation of the initial position of the host vehicle, generating, by the processor, a second control signal indicative of a second steering angle in response to a change in yaw reaching a first desired yaw, generating, by the processor, a second arrow to be overlaid on the overhead view video stream indicative of a distance between the host vehicle and a curb, generating, by the processor, a third control signal indicative of a third steering angle in response to receiving a second confirmation signal from the user interface indicative of a confirmation of the distance between
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Magdalena M Parkila, Avesta Goodarzi, Norman J Weigert, Michael J Bliss
  • Patent number: 12111663
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating storage of an autonomous vehicle (“AV”) in a storage facility are disclosed. A server receives a storage request from an electronic device and retrieves a set of available storage facilities stored in a storage facilities database. The server obtains a current location of the AV and determines a preferred storage facility of the set of available storage facilities based in part on the current location of the AV and a set of storage preferences stored in a storage preference database. The server generates a set of vehicle control instructions based on a location of the preferred storage facility and the location of the AV, and transmits the set of vehicle control instructions to the AV causing the AV to navigate to the preferred storage facility from the current location of the AV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: William D. Nemedi
  • Patent number: 12106667
    Abstract: A method by which a terminal receives a signal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method can comprise: receiving first information about a parking space from the infrastructure of a parking lot; generating second information for parking in the parking lot, on the basis of the first information; and transmitting the second information to a vehicle having established a communication link with the terminal. In addition, the first information can include spatial coordinates and a virtual parking line of the parking space. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Myoungseob Kim, Jaeho Hwang
  • Patent number: 12106666
    Abstract: A system for communicating information about parking space availability can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a calculations module and a communications module. The calculations module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) obtain a current count of spaces available for parking in an area designated for parking and (2) calculate, based on the current count and information, a revised count of the spaces. The information can indicate that a second vehicle has moved into or out of the area. The communications module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) receive, from a first vehicle, the information and (2) cause the revised count to be communicated to a component of a vehicle, in a vicinity of the area, for an action to be performed. The first vehicle can be parked. The information can be received via a sensor of the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Takamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 12094262
    Abstract: A vehicle transmits vehicle data to an observer entity when the vehicle and the observer entity are in proximity. The vehicle data includes unique vehicle identification information; proximity is defined by an upper threshold for a distance between the vehicle and the observer entity. The observer entity adds data to the vehicle data, the added data including an indication of a position of the observer entity and a time stamp indicating a time of reception of the vehicle data to generate joint data. The joint data is transmitted to an external database and the aforementioned steps are repeated. From the added data a usage estimation value is calculated which is a measure for usage of the vehicle and which is compared with the vehicle usage data retrieved from the vehicle. Information on validity of the vehicle usage data based on the comparison result is generated and output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Nils Einecke, Sven Rebhan
  • Patent number: 12091052
    Abstract: A system for addressing failure in an autonomous agent includes a driving subsystem, a control subsystem, a central computing subsystem, and an autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor subsystem. The system can optionally additionally include a power subsystem, a vehicle chassis subsystem, a communication subsystem, a distributed computing and/or processing subsystem, a supplementary sensor subsystem, and/or any other components. A method for addressing failure can include any or all of: detecting and responding to a failure; and operating the vehicle. Additionally or alternatively, the method 200 can include any other processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Gatik AI Inc.
    Inventors: Apeksha Kumavat, Brian McLean, Siddharth Ram, Arjun Narang, Gautam Narang
  • Patent number: 12094339
    Abstract: A system and method for creating a parking database and providing parking suggestions to the driver. The system and method includes receiving parking data from a plurality of vehicles in a fleet of vehicles, creating a parking database based upon the parking data, wherein the parking database comprises a plurality of curated parking locations determined by analyzing the parking data, generating a plurality of parking clusters based upon the parking database, wherein each of the plurality of parking clusters comprises a plurality of parking locations selected from the plurality of curated parking locations in the parking database, and identifying at least one of the plurality of parking clusters as a parking suggestion for a driver based upon a determined break location for the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Schneider Enterprise Resources, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Roherty, Brendt Peeters
  • Patent number: 12091086
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes an imager that captures an image of a surrounding of a vehicle, and a display that displays a guidance image for guiding the vehicle from a parking start position to a target parking position and displays a moving area in which the vehicle can move during a parking operation. An area and dimension of the moving area displayed on the display changes based on a change in a steering angle of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 12084077
    Abstract: A curb management system for a host vehicle includes a sensor, an electronic controller, and a wireless communication system. The sensor is configured to detect information relating to a presence of a parked vehicle along a curb of a road. The electronic controller is configured to determine curb management information based on the information detected by the sensor. The wireless communication system is configured to transmit the curb management information to a remote server and to receive a predicted curb availability from the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddharth Thakur, Viju James, Mark Fischer, Simon Tien, Armelle Guerin
  • Patent number: 12088950
    Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus, a control method, and a program that make it possible to easily provide an image suitable for the operation of a vehicle. The controller controls reading of an image from an image sensor that captures the image, on the basis of vehicle information acquired by a vehicle, the image being displayed on a display section of the vehicle. Embodiments may be applicable to a viewing system that displays an image of a region behind a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Go Yamanaka, Yasuhiro Yukawa, Takuya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12080167
    Abstract: A parking management apparatus capable of starting management of a parking service without requiring use of ancillary facilities of a parking lot is provided. A parking management apparatus that manages a parking service, including: a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of a vehicle; a destination information acquisition unit that acquires destination information of the vehicle; a creation unit that creates vicinity parking lot information of a vicinity of a destination provided to the vehicle based on the position information of the vehicle, the destination information of the vehicle, and wide-area parking lot information; and a management unit that specifies a parking lot where the vehicle has entered based on the position information of the vehicle and the wide-area parking lot information or the vicinity parking lot information and starts the management of the parking service in the parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Itoh
  • Patent number: 12071173
    Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with registered entrance feature point information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired parking lot information and the registered parking lot information when the vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the non-determined parking lot is the registered parking lot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Hiei
  • Patent number: 12067787
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine contextual information describing at least one physical structure corresponding to a location based at least in part on data captured by one or more sensors of a vehicle. A set of candidate interaction points for the at least one physical structure can be determined based at least in part on the determined contextual information describing the at least one physical structure corresponding to the location. The set of candidate interaction points can be filtered to identify one or more interaction points. An interaction point can be selected from the one or more interaction points to use for stopping the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventor: Kris Richard Efland
  • Patent number: 12066827
    Abstract: A watercraft auto-docking system basically includes a user interface and a digital controller. The user interface includes a display monitor. The digital controller includes a processor, a computer memory and an I/O interface. The user interface is connected to the I/O interface. The digital controller is configured to select a target dock based on a user selection from at least one candidate dock displayed on the display monitor using the user interface for docking a watercraft in an auto-docking mode. The digital controller is configured to generate a docking path from a current location of the watercraft to a target location of the target dock. The digital controller is configured to autonomously navigate the watercraft using an autopilot system along the docking path until the watercraft reaches the target location of the target dock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Juan Pablo Afman, Thomas Gurriet
  • Patent number: 12060037
    Abstract: A method and system for creation and application of parked vehicle security rules is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, over at least one network to be received via a web-operative interface of an at least one remote system, the parking location and time duration information of a vehicle for enabling creation of a theft alert rule within the at least one remote system. The theft alert rule may be based on a combination of: the vehicle remaining at a parking location for the time duration (i.e. the time duration being a defined part of the parking location and time duration information); and identification data corresponding to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Hania A Yassin, Shanthi Ravindran, Daniel Hammond