Vehicle Parking Indicators Patents (Class 340/932.2)
  • Patent number: 11688277
    Abstract: A parking meter detects an object in proximity, based on a change in a proximity measurement at the meter, activates a directional sensor in response to detecting the object, receives sensor data at a meter processor from the directional sensor, wherein the received sensor data indicates a predetermined direction to the detected object relative to the meter. The parking meter determines a presence of the object, or lack thereof, in the predetermined direction based on the sensor data, and upon a positive determination of the presence of the object, stores an indication of the presence of the object along with a time of the positive determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IPS GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Schwarz, Stephen John Hunter
  • Patent number: 11685312
    Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Mayuko Maeda, Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Takuya Nakagawa, Yuki Minase
  • Patent number: 11682303
    Abstract: A vehicle parking management system includes one or more processors configured to receive data indicative of one or more characteristics of one or more parking locations. The one or more processors is also configured to determine one or more recommended parking locations of the one or more parking locations based on the data and based on an input related to a vehicle. The one or more processors is further configured to output a recommendation of the one or more recommended parking locations via a display screen to a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Emily Margaret Gray, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Qunying Kou, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Manfred Amann, Donnette Moncrief Brown, Eric David Schroeder, Meredith Beveridge Lecocke, Michael J. Maciolek, Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Brian F. Shipley, Justin Dax Haslam, Ashley Raine Philbrick
  • Patent number: 11667284
    Abstract: A control ECU (10) executes left-side preliminary control for preventing an occupant from performing an operation of opening a left door when an object is predicted to reach a left virtual line segment (LVL) based on a position of the object. The control ECU executes right-side preliminary control for preventing the occupant from performing an operation of opening a right door when the object is predicted to reach a right virtual line segment (RVL) based on the position of the object. Further, the control ECU executes both-side preliminary control for preventing the occupant from performing an operation of opening both of the left door and the right door when the object is predicted to reach a central virtual line segment (CVL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Saito, Takuya Kaminade, Iwao Izumikawa
  • Patent number: 11661087
    Abstract: Method, control unit, and target arrangement of a leading vehicle for triggering a follower vehicle, which is situated at a lateral distance from the leading vehicle, to coordinate its movements with the leading vehicle. The target arrangement comprises a target configured to be placed at a lateral distance from to the leading vehicle. The target is also configured to be recognized by at least one forwardly directed sensor of the follower vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: Marcello Cirillo, Magnus Granström, Mattias Nilsson, Julien Bidot, Jiwung Choi, Rui Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11656616
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus is provided with: a holding device configured to hold the target parking position associated with the parking process operation; an automatic parking device configured to perform an automatic parking control of automatically controlling the vehicle such that the vehicle is parked in the target parking position, as a part of the parking process operation; and a transition device configured to change the automatic parking control into a standby state while allowing the holding device to hold the target parking position, on condition that a door of the vehicle is opened before the vehicle arrives at the target parking position. The transition device is configured to allow the automatic parking device to restart the automatic parking control, on condition that there is an execution request for the automatic parking control, when the automatic parking control is in the standby state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 11656084
    Abstract: Methods for determining routes for routing vehicle include computing, in a digital map a route from route source to route destination. Such methods further include determining sub-route of the computed route, which ends at the destination and along which the vehicle could be parked. And such methods still further include extending the computed route beyond the route destination in area around the route destination until route parking probability of parking route, including links of the determined sub-route and/or of the extension of the computed route, is equal to or greater than predetermined threshold whilst total expected travel time, associated with the extended computed route and comprising driving and walking times, is minimized. The route parking probability is the probability that parking at some point along the extended computed route will be possible and wherein one or more links of the parking route are suitable for parking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefaan Duym, Dominik Jain
  • Patent number: 11648941
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a sensing device disposed at the vehicle so as to have an external field of view of the vehicle, configured to detect a target vehicle moving from the external field of view to a parking space and a plurality of stationary parked vehicles; a controller configured to obtain a first distance that is a width between the plurality of parked vehicles and a second distance that is a width between one parked vehicle of the plurality of parked vehicles and the target vehicle adjacent to the one parked vehicle; and a warner configured to output a warning signal based on a control command of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sungmin Ji
  • Patent number: 11650549
    Abstract: Provided is a method for deploying multiple solar power units to a location. The method comprises determining a location to which a solar power unit is deploying. The method further comprises determining that a second solar power unit is deploying to a same location as the solar power unit. A redeployment plan for the second solar power unit is generated. The redeployment plan is provided to the second solar power unit. The method further comprising deploying the solar power unit to the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Igor S. Ramos, Angelo Danducci, II, Hilary Ricky, Denny Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11636630
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: a locus determination unit determining a predicted locus of a wheel of a subject vehicle according to a steering angle of the subject vehicle; and a display processing unit displaying an image of a field view of the subject vehicle including a vehicle body of the subject vehicle on a display device, and the display processing unit superimposes the guide line indicating the predicted locus determined by the locus determination unit on the image of the field view regardless of the steering angle of the subject vehicle, while semi-transparently displaying a portion of the guide line which overlaps with the vehicle body, thereby allowing visibility of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miki Murasumi, Shogo Kida, Tomoki Miyata, Jun Kamishima, Yamato Yorifuji, Kohei Maejima
  • Patent number: 11634125
    Abstract: In a drive assistance device, a required space estimation unit estimates a required space which is a space required for a subject vehicle to complete a starting. A required time estimation unit calculates an estimated required time which is an estimate value of a time required to complete the starting at a time of starting the subject vehicle. A collision time estimation unit calculates an estimated collision time which is an estimate value of a time until when an obstacle reaches the required space. A start margin calculation unit calculates a start margin indicating a temporal margin for the subject vehicle to complete the starting until the obstacle reaches the required space based on the estimated required time and the estimated collision time. The notification processing unit notifies a driver of the subject vehicle of the start margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Yata, Takuya Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11634119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a parking position for a motor vehicle, wherein a perpendicular parking space is detected by means of a sensor system of the motor vehicle, and a parking space data set characterizing the perpendicular parking space is provided to a control unit of the motor vehicle, and the parking position is determined by the control unit by using the parking space data set, as well as by using an access parameter of the motor vehicle that characterizes a possible opening of at least one folding element of the motor vehicle. The invention provides that the parking position is established using an additional access parameter of an additional motor vehicle that is parked adjacent to the parking position. Moreover the invention relates to a driver assistance system and a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Philipp Hüger, Sebastian Busch, Daniel Thomanek
  • Patent number: 11631328
    Abstract: A determination device that determines a tendency of a driver who selects a parking space includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding an attribute of the parking space in a parking lot, information regarding behavior of a vehicle driven by the driver in the parking lot, and information regarding behavior of the driver when the driver is driving the vehicle in the parking lot, and a determination unit configured to determine the tendency of the driver when the driver selects the parking space, based on the information regarding the behavior of the vehicle or the information regarding the behavior of the driver and the information regarding the attribute of the parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeyama, Motohiro Nakamura, Norihiro Nakamura, Hideki Kasezawa, Kensuke Takeuchi, Hajime Morikawa, Yoko Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11631327
    Abstract: A method for automatically learning parking preferences for a driver and generating parking recommendations includes generating training data based at least in part on: 1) trajectory data indicating a trajectory of a vehicle during a plurality of parking events, each in which a driver of the vehicle selected a parking candidate from among a plurality of parking candidates, and 2) attribute data indicating attributes of each of the plurality of parking candidates, removing, from the training data, data associated with at least one available parking candidate based on one or more conditions that indicate the driver did not consider the at least one available parking candidate, and training a decision model, based on remaining training data, to estimate a preferred parking candidate for the driver from among a set of available parking candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Takamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 11613273
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Toshihiro Takagi, Satoshi Kozai, Masahiro Iino, Michihiro Takada, Yuusuke Nomura, Ryou Izumi, Mayuko Maeda
  • Patent number: 11610487
    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: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Frogparking Limited
    Inventor: Donald H. Sandbrook
  • Patent number: 11608053
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling autonomous parking and method thereof are provided. The apparatus for controlling autonomous parking according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor to detect surrounding information of a host vehicle; a transceiver to communicate with a control server to receive space information in a parking lot; a display to display a parking situation; and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor, the transceiver, and the display and configured to detect available parking spaces based on a detection result from the sensor and space information from the control server and perform autonomous parking by setting a position selected by a user's drag operation to a target parking space among the detected available parking spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Hyeong Min Woo, Jae Suk Kim
  • Patent number: 11603007
    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: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Cora Castle
  • Patent number: 11590966
    Abstract: A system and a method for supporting automated valet parking, and an infrastructure and a vehicle therefor are provided. The method for operating a vehicle which supports automated valet parking includes initializing automated valet parking and receiving, from an infrastructure, a target position which is related to the vehicle and a guide route which guides movement to the target position. Additionally, the method includes performing automated driving by the vehicle along the guide route, and measuring a position of the vehicle based on behavior information of the vehicle and environmental information, while the vehicle performs the automated driving. The environmental information includes at least one among parking lot slot information, road signs, walls, pillars, and floor markings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
    Inventors: Sung Won Yoon, Jae Kyu Suhr, Mi Jin Choi, Ho Gi Jung
  • Patent number: 11585895
    Abstract: A sensor signal processing unit (100) arranged to detect a configuration of parking slots (1a,1b,1c,1d) based on radar detections received from a radar-based sensor system (120). The unit includes a histogram unit arranged to generate a representation of a spatial distribution of a set of radar detection coordinates, and a detection unit arranged to detect the configuration of parking slots. The detection unit is arranged to detect the configuration of parking slots based on a Fourier transform of the representation of spatial distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Veoneer Sweden AB
    Inventors: Andreas Schmid, Christopher Unverdorben, Christian Pfaffenzeller
  • Patent number: 11577755
    Abstract: A method for steering a vehicle along a path in a driveway and around obstacles between a starting position into a target position, comprises the steps of determining the vehicle dimensions, steering and driving capabilities, carrying out a path optimization step to evaluate, based on a predetermined cost function, the least costly path between the starting position and the target position avoiding any collisions with obstacles. The method further comprises the further step of applying a path improver step, smoothening the trajectory obtained by the path optimization method by means of numerical optimization while fulfilling dynamical constraints on acceleration and steering rate of the vehicle through planning lateral and longitudinal movement of the vehicle in a joint optimization problem or by means of separate optimization problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: EMBOTECH AG
    Inventor: Alexander Domahidi
  • Patent number: 11570575
    Abstract: A parking system may include a number of parking locations, where the availability of each parking location may be tracked based on detection of whether a vehicle is in the parking location. Accordingly, a parking system may organize parking locations based on availability and unavailability. In some cases, mobile device sensors may be used to determine whether a mobile device has left the vehicle in the parking location (e.g., and thus the parking location is still unavailable) or whether the mobile device has left the parking location in the vehicle (e.g., and thus the parking location is now available). In some cases, the parking system may organize available and unavailable parking locations, facilitate user listing of parking locations, track of available and unavailable parking locations, and track different characteristics of different parking locations (e.g., such as location, size, cost, availability, etc.), among other examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Jason Ratzlaff
  • Patent number: 11568744
    Abstract: Provided herein is a system and method for a vehicle system on a vehicle. The system comprises a server comprising sensor data of stop points, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform: determining, from the stop points, one or more available stop points; selecting, from the one or more available stop points, a stop point based on a criteria; and stopping the vehicle at the selected stop point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Pony AI Inc.
    Inventors: Peter G. Diehl, Robert Dingli
  • Patent number: 11560065
    Abstract: Electric vehicle charging stations are in high demand, as the number of electric vehicles on the road is rising. A novel method and apparatus invention effectively manages the charging station parking space by detecting and taking action on ineligible vehicles that are parked for a long time without charging so that others can use the spot. The invention employs multiple ultrasonic sensors to see if the parking space is occupied or not, and a current sensor to see if the parked vehicle is drawing current through the charging cable or not. Depending on those two outcomes, the invention adopts a monitoring process using audio-visual alarm devices and a communication device to notify parking authorities to take action if the parked vehicle is deemed ineligible. The invention also explains the calibration process of ultrasonic sensors for detecting the presence or absence of a vehicle in the parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Akshaya Annampedu
  • Patent number: 11562291
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system predicting parking availability. A computer identifies parking spaces and groups the parking spacing into parking locations. In addition, the computer distinguishes private parking spaces from public parking spaces, and trains a crowd forecast model for each of the parking locations. The computer further receives a destination and preferences, from which the computer creates a geofence based on the destination and preferences. The computer then predicts parking availability based on the crowd forecast models and refines the crowd forecast model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Pinel, Tova Roth
  • Patent number: 11561547
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to routing autonomous vehicles based upon spatiotemporal factors. A computing system receives an origin location and a destination location of an autonomous vehicle. The computing system identifies a route for the autonomous vehicle to follow from the origin location to the destination location based upon output of a spatiotemporal statistical model. The spatiotemporal statistical model is generated based upon historical data from autonomous vehicles when the autonomous vehicles undergo operation-influencing events. The spatiotemporal statistical model takes, as input, a location, a time, and a direction of travel of the autonomous vehicle. The spatiotemporal statistical model outputs a score that is indicative of a likelihood that the autonomous vehicle will undergo an operation-influencing event due to the autonomous vehicle encountering a spatiotemporal factor along a candidate route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Antony Joseph, Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston, Vishal Suresh Vaingankar, Laura Athena Freeman
  • Patent number: 11541879
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is configured to perform a stop control for stopping a vehicle at a target stop position. The vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a first executor configured to perform a first stop control as the stop control such that a first vehicle is stopped at a first target stop position, which is the target stop position; a second executor configured to perform a second stop control as the stop control such that a second vehicle is stopped at a second target stop position after obtaining a difference between the first target stop position and a first actual stop position at which the vehicle is stopped in the first stop control; and a corrector configured to correct control contents of the second stop control on the basis of the difference, before the second vehicle is stopped at the second target stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Issei Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11535152
    Abstract: In a tilt parking mode, “a target parking position” can be accurately determined without changing a camera tilt angle and an HMI display range, and can be notified to a driver, so that the usability can be improved. A parking support device includes an external field recognition unit such as a camera and a sonar, which recognizes an external field, an information holding unit which holds information of a parking frame line recognized by the external field recognition unit, a parking region extraction unit which extracts a parking region from information of the parking frame line, a parking position determination unit which determines a target parking position from the parking region, and a path calculation unit which calculates a parking path from a current position of an own vehicle up to the target parking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Okubo, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11538320
    Abstract: Provided is a parking space information system including at least one sensor set up for detecting vehicle data of vehicles in the parking space, an evaluation device set up for receiving the detected vehicle data and for determining a drive type of the vehicle depending on the detected vehicle data, and set up for outputting the determined drive type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FOGTEC Brandschutz GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk K. Sprakel
  • Patent number: 11524705
    Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1, 101), a control unit (15) is configured to execute a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop position located within a permitted distance when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and, in executing the stop process, the control unit computes an agreement between an object (X) contained in the map information based on an estimated position of the vehicle and an object (Y) on the road detected by an external environment recognition device (6), the permitted distance being smaller when the agreement is below a prescribed agreement threshold than when the agreement is equal to or above the agreement threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanta Tsuji, Daichi Kato
  • Patent number: 11511738
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer that is configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a driving controller that is configured to execute automated driving for controlling a speed and steering of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer. The recognizer is configured to recognize a real-time environment including a situation of a nearby vehicle or a situation of a nearby road on which the vehicle travels, and the driving controller is configured to shunt the vehicle to a shunt location to suspend the automated driving in a case where the real-time environment corresponds to a predetermined condition, and resume the automated driving in a case where the predetermined condition is resolved after the shunt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11514784
    Abstract: Vehicular movement detection systems and methods are disclosed. A computing device is configured to monitor sensor data and location data associated with a first user device including one or more sensors, and monitor traffic data associated with a location of the first user device based on the sensor data and location data. In response to the data, the computing device determines whether to provide a user-selectable message to the first user device based on a vehicle speed, proximity to a destination, and vehicle speed relative to traffic speed. The user-selectable message comprises a prompt configured to transmit a search request for a listing location. In response to the determination, the user-selectable message is provided to the first user device. In response to receiving a search request, the computing device is configured to transmit instructions to the first user device to direct the first user device to a first listing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Pied Parker, Inc.
    Inventors: Gianni Rosas-Maxemin, Robert Mazzola, Francisco Sandoval
  • Patent number: 11511804
    Abstract: A parking assistance apparatus obtains a target travelling route from a present position of a vehicle to a target parking position and controls the vehicle such that the vehicle moves along the target travelling route. The target travelling route is obtained such that the vehicle moves backward to reach the target parking position and the vehicle is moves in a region on the target parking position side of a travelling boundary line. The travelling boundary line is a straight line which is in front of the vehicle located at the target parking position and which is away from a reference position by a boundary distance. The reference position is a position at a front end and at a center in a lateral direction of the vehicle located at the target parking position. The boundary distance is a configurable value changed by a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Minase, Takuya Nakagawa, Junji Horiguchi, Norio Imai
  • Patent number: 11514781
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can allocate a dedicated traffic channel to a plurality of connected devices. Embodiments of the present invention can dynamically determine an appropriate visualization for one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices based on received information. Embodiments of the present invention render the dynamically determined appropriate visualization for the one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices using the dedicated traffic channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Craig M. Trim, Rashida A. Hodge, Gandhi Sivakumar, Kushal S. Patel, Sarvesh S. Patel
  • Patent number: 11498553
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes a control device configured to control screen display of a display device, to set a parking position candidate selected by an occupant as a target parking position, and to control an autonomous parking operation to autonomously move the vehicle to the target parking position. When a number of the parking position candidates detected by a parking position candidate detector exceeds a predetermined upper limit number, the control device selects, from among the detected parking position candidates, the upper limit number of parking position candidates to be displayed on the display device according to a predetermined rule and causes the display device to display the parking position candidates that have been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Miki Tsujino
  • Patent number: 11501540
    Abstract: An imaging system to be mounted in a vehicle is provided. The imaging system includes an optical wide-angle camera acquiring an image, and an object identifying apparatus. This object identifying apparatus executes a distortion correcting process with the acquired image and apply previously-prepared reference patterns to the image which has been subjected to the distortion correcting process such that objects in the acquired image are recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Akiba, Toshikazu Murao, Kazuhiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11495059
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for managing parking monitoring and enforcement. Parking at a meter or in a parking lot or ramp can be provided as a subscription. A registration and verification process for the subscription service can be provided as a multi-step process that combines the smart parking meter with a QR code, a mobile parking app for a smartphone, a central parking management system, and digital images of the parked vehicle(s). The registration process verifies that only vehicles owned by the subscriber are associated with the subscriber's account. Steps can also be employed to ensure that subscribers are not incorrectly issued parking citations by determining whether license plate data for a vehicle initially determined to be in violation matches an active subscription parker's roster of registered vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Municipal Parking Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark J. Moran, Richard W. Kelley, II, David E. Collins, Jr., Marcus N. Schmidt, Christopher W. Baldwin, Padmavathi Ramuni
  • Patent number: 11488471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to identifying vehicles using wireless device identifiers. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a system for identifying vehicles in a parking structure includes a camera configured to capture images of an area in the parking structure where the camera captures an image containing one or more vehicle(s), a detector configured to scan for wireless device identifiers in the area, and a processing system including an electronic storage. The processing system is configured to execute instructions to access the image containing the vehicle(s) in the area and access one or more wireless device identifier(s) scanned by the detector in the area, process the image containing the vehicle(s) to extract one or more license plate identifier(s) corresponding to the vehicle(s), and store in the electronic storage at least one record associating the license plate identifier(s) with the wireless device identifier(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TKH SECURITY LLC
    Inventors: Garett Neff, Joseph Ruggero, Scott Dubois, Anders Nelson, Geoffrey Gaetan Naudet, Pablo Rozanski, Aurelien Ramondou, Morgan Kesler, Mark Kudas, Chien Hsiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11479133
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for parking lot metering. The present invention allows multi-space meters to separately manage and control premium parking spaces, such as those for charging electric vehicles or those which supply electric power for engine block heaters in both pay-by-space and pay-and-display systems. Such premium spaces can be managed together over large areas (e.g., a city or region), or may be managed over smaller areas (e.g., the domain of an individual kiosk), or individually per parking space. Management includes pricing, time limits, hours, seasons of operation, and restrictions by vehicle type, and alternative pricing and restrictions for non-premium hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Liberty PlugIns, Inc.
    Inventors: William Gibbens Redmann, Chris Outwater
  • Patent number: 11465611
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for autonomous vehicle (AV) behavior synchronization. The AV driving pattern is adjusted to facilitate an occupant's satisfaction by receiving information as to person to form a driving history. The driving history is analyzed to identify preferences and patterns. Based on the driving history a driving preference model is formed for the person. AV driving algorithm(s) are adjusted based on the driving preference model for the person when the person is an occupant of the AV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Trudy L. Hewitt, Jeremy R. Fox, Shikhar Kwatra, Zachary A. Silverstein, Christian Compton
  • Patent number: 11458959
    Abstract: A parking assist system includes: a control device configured to control an autonomous parking operation to move a vehicle autonomously to a prescribed target parking position; and a vehicle state detecting device configured to detect a state of the vehicle. During control of the parking operation, when the control device determines that the state of the vehicle detected by the vehicle state detecting device is a prohibition state in which the parking operation should be prohibited, the control device executes a prohibition deceleration process to decelerate the vehicle so as to stop the vehicle. The control device is configured to set an upper limit on deceleration of the vehicle in the prohibition deceleration process to be larger than an upper limit on deceleration of the vehicle in a stop operation to stop the vehicle at the target parking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Hara, Yasushi Shoda, Yuki Nakada
  • Patent number: 11460315
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a shared vehicle parking search route. The approach involves determining that a vehicle is nearing a destination. The approach also involves determining a boundary of a service area in which the vehicle is to remain. The approach further involves generating a parking search route for the vehicle to locate a parking space in proximity to the destination based, at least in part, on the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, David Falla-Cepeda
  • Patent number: 11458960
    Abstract: The invention relates to a parking assistance device, comprising an autonomous vehicle detecting unit adapted to detect whether a parked vehicle is an autonomous vehicle (16) capable of moving autonomously, a parking space optimization area detecting unit adapted to detect at least one parking space optimization area (20), a distance measuring unit adapted to measure a distance (24) in front of or behind the at least one autonomous vehicle (16), a parking spot determining unit adapted to determine whether or not a subset of the distances (24) measured by the distance measuring unit is equal to or larger than a predetermined distance required for parking a host vehicle (26), and a communication unit (38) adapted to output a movement command to the at least one parked autonomous vehicle (16). The invention further relates to an according parking assistance method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jens Nessler, Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, Robert Kastner, Christoph Kerkeling
  • Patent number: 11461817
    Abstract: An accommodation area management device, which manages an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a desired environment regarding an accommodation position of the moving body when the moving body enters the accommodation area, an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine the accommodation position of the moving body based upon the information, and a use fee determination unit configured to determine a use fee of the accommodation area based upon at least one of the information and the accommodation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi, Shogo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11458961
    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: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Hiei
  • Patent number: 11460316
    Abstract: A system (100) and method for finding a likely available parking spot within a geographical area are disclosed. The system (100) may be configured to receive a request for directions for a first vehicle (702) to an open parking spot within a particular geographical area (210, 214), receive sensor information indicating potential open parking spots (346, 348), identify likely available parking spots (346, 348), and receive information regarding other vehicles searching for parking in the same geographical area. The system may use the identified likely available spots and the information regarding other vehicles searching for parking when computing a route (218, 220) to a likely available parking spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Omar Abdelaziz
  • Patent number: 11458890
    Abstract: A warning condition adjusting apparatus may include: a determination unit configured to determine whether a parking direction of an ego vehicle is a first direction or a second direction, using traveling information of a target vehicle; and a change unit configured to maintain a preset warning condition of a rear cross collision warning (RCCW) system when the parking direction of the ego vehicle is the first direction, and change the warning condition of the RCCW system when the parking direction of the ego vehicle is the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11462108
    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: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Frogparking Limited
    Inventor: Donald H. Sandbrook
  • Patent number: 11457181
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assisting drivers to maneuver a vehicle include a plurality of image sensors about a vehicle capture image data. At least one processor is programmed to display one or more types of overhead views on a vehicle display based on the image data. For example, an environment-fixed overhead composite image can be displayed on the vehicle display. In the environment-fixed overhead composite image, an environment about the vehicle is displayed spatially fixed as the vehicle is maneuvered, and a graphical image representing the vehicle moves within the environment-fixed overhead composite image as the vehicle maneuvered. This type of overhead view can be shown when, for example, distance between the vehicle and a target object is below a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Arata Itoh
  • Patent number: 11440538
    Abstract: A vehicle parking assist apparatus registers information on a parking lot as parking lot information and executes a parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparats allows a user of a vehicle to request a deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control without using the parking lot information and prevents the user of the vehicle from requesting the deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus deletes the parking lot information when the deletion of the parking lot information is requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsunaga, Yuusuke Nomura