Route Determination And Display On Map Patents (Class 340/995.19)
  • Patent number: 11961399
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NORCOM
    Inventors: Nathan Way, Ron Tiedeman
  • Patent number: 11924710
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti
  • Patent number: 11856890
    Abstract: An agricultural system automatically detects a turn pattern and automatically identifies a next path that will be taken through the field. The agricultural system automatically controls the machine through the next turn that navigates the machine from a current path to the identified next path. This continues until a land size has been completed at which point the agricultural system identifies a next land in a field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Ryan C. Burnley, Michael A. Torzewski, Ajit K. Thankappan Pillai
  • Patent number: 11837082
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of initially determining, via one or more sensors on a transport, that the transport is approaching a one-way road in a wrong direction based on a slowing down of the transport and a movement of the transport toward the one-way road, notifying, via the one or more sensors, one or more occupants of the transport about the approaching, and in response to the transport continuing to approach in the wrong direction, slowing the transport, by a computer associated with the transport, to not permit entry into the one-way road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11823332
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable the creation and use of one or more interest meshes that may comprise interest values associated with points of interest in a virtual environment. The virtual environment may use a mesh to guide a user toward points of interest. Guiding may comprise haptic, visual, and/or audio cues and may also comprise moving the virtual environment around the user. Further, events may be triggered in the virtual environment that may change one or more meshes and/or create a new point of interest for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Arpit Mathur, Michael Chen, Mark Francisco
  • Patent number: 11788843
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of determining a location of a mobile device is provided. The method can include receiving inertial data generated at the mobile device, the inertial data including a plurality of samples taken at different times, segmenting the inertial data into pseudo-independent windows, wherein each pseudo-independent window can include a plurality of the samples and wherein one or more initial states for each pseudo-independent window are treated as unknown, estimating a change in navigation state over each pseudo-independent window using the samples of inertial data, and summing the changes in the navigation states over the pseudo-independent windows so as to determine the location of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Changhao Chen, Ronald Clark, Andrew Markham, Agathoniki Trigoni
  • Patent number: 11772490
    Abstract: An onboard equipment operating device includes a memory, a processor, a display unit, an operation unit, and an in-cabin camera. The display unit displays information regarding onboard equipment, instruction to the onboard equipment displayed at the display unit is configured to be received as a result of manual operation of the operation unit. The in-cabin camera captures images of a vehicle occupant. The processor is configured to: detect a predetermined action from actions of a face or a body of the vehicle occupant, the actions of the face or the body of the vehicle occupant being imaged by the in-cabin camera; input an instruction corresponding to the predetermined action to the onboard equipment; and display the information regarding the onboard equipment in an operatable state at the display unit, in a case in which the instruction corresponding to the predetermined action has been input to the onboard equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Inada
  • Patent number: 11765465
    Abstract: The portable device is provided with a photograph unit to acquire, at a first time interval, images with a super wide angle of which a maximum value reaches all peripheral directions around the portable device; a traveling direction calculation unit to calculate a traveling direction of the portable device at a second time interval; an image segmentation unit to segment, as a traveling direction image, an image of a predetermined range where the traveling direction is positioned at a center thereof, from a latest acquired image every time the traveling direction calculation unit calculates the traveling direction; and a display control unit to display the traveling direction image on a predetermined traveling direction display region of a display of the portable device. The display control unit displays a video image designated by a user on a first display region, which is different from the traveling direction display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Ikuya Arai
  • Patent number: 11727801
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicular electronic device including a power supply configured to supply power, an interface configured to receive HD map data on a specific area and data on the location of a vehicle from a server through a communication device, and at least one processor configured to continuously generate electronic horizon data on a specific area based on the high-definition (HD) map data in the state of receiving the power, wherein, upon determining, based on the data on the location of the vehicle, that the traveling lane of the vehicle located at an intersection is different from a lane corresponding to a main path included in the electronic horizon data, the at least one processor changes the electronic horizon data based on the traveling lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jinsang Lee
  • Patent number: 11687080
    Abstract: A blacklist-based re-navigation method and apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The blacklist-based re-navigation method includes: detecting whether an obstacle is in a front area of a driverless vehicle in a driving process of the driverless vehicle; if an obstacle is detected in the front area, generating a blacklist associated with the obstacle, wherein the blacklist includes a road on which the obstacle is located; and reporting the blacklist to a navigation system, wherein the navigation system re-plans a navigation route according to the road on which the obstacle is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongye Li, Xiaoxin Fu, Zhenguang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11676498
    Abstract: A system and method for enhanced vehicle efficiency through smart automation for an onboard weather update is provided. The system comprises a processor, and a non-transitory processor readable medium including instructions, executable by the processor, to perform a method comprising: receiving vehicle data from an onboard vehicle data source; receiving real-time weather data from one or more weather data sources; detecting when onboard forecast weather data is out-of-date or irrelevant based on the vehicle data and the real-time weather data; estimating one or more potential benefits from an update of the onboard forecast weather data; and activating the update of the onboard forecast weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Dorthee De Villele, Marek Batelka, Slavomira Bartovicova, Erwan Paricaud
  • Patent number: 11650074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of creating a map of a navigation region of a vehicle, the method comprising: traveling along a path, predefined by a track guidance marking present in the navigation region, with the vehicle; determining distances of the vehicle from objects possibly present in an environment of the path; and creating the map based on the track guidance marking and on the distances. The invention further relates to a method of determining a pose of a vehicle in a navigation region, the method comprising: determining a position of the vehicle relative to a track guidance marking present in the navigation region; determining distances of the vehicle from objects possibly present in an environment of the vehicle; and determining the pose based on the position, on the distances, and on a map. The invention further relates to a corresponding mapping apparatus and to a corresponding localization apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Bastian Steder, Fabian Fischer, Patrick Schopp, Christoph Hansen
  • Patent number: 11625038
    Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes a first map including a first content and a second content associated with positions respectively, a second map including the first content associated with the position and in which the second content is not a recording target, and a control unit performing the autonomous driving. When the autonomous driving is performed using the first map, the control unit determines information necessary for the autonomous driving using a first method based on the first content and the second content. When the autonomous driving is performed using the second map, the control unit determines the information necessary for the autonomous driving using a method same as the first method based on the first content corresponding to a second position recorded in the second map and information indicating that the second content corresponding to the second position recorded in the second map is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11578985
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a route score including a travel cost and a coefficient for each of a plurality of driving route candidates. The information processing apparatus acquires a user score including an individual rate that is a time-cost conversion rate particular to a mobile user and a weight application rate particular to the mobile user. Based on the respective route scores of the plurality of driving route candidates and the user score of the mobile user, the information processing apparatus converts the travel cost of each of the plurality of driving route candidates into a corresponding cost that is a cost obtained by reflection of the time-cost conversion rate and the weight application rate of the mobile user in the travel cost. The information processing apparatus determines a recommendation order of the plurality of driving route candidates based on the corresponding costs of the plurality of driving route candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Nakamura, Jin Xin, Ai Yashiro, Toshinori Takayama
  • Patent number: 11527154
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of initially determining, via one or more sensors on a transport, that the transport is approaching a one-way road in a wrong direction based on a slowing down of the transport and a movement of the transport toward the one-way road, notifying, via the one or more sensors, one or more occupants of the transport about the approaching, and in response to the transport continuing to approach in the wrong direction, slowing the transport, by a computer associated with the transport, to not permit entry into the one-way road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11519747
    Abstract: A method for storing and providing pavement data related to a paved road area that includes paved roads formed by paved road portions that are each paved by a separate asphalt lot. The method includes providing a computer-based system that receives and presents pavement data related to pavement used in constructing the road. An as-built model provides a digital map of a location where the paved road area is located and is overlaid by a digital road model overlays that replicates the paved roads and includes user-selectable digital road segments for each of the paved roads. Each digital road segment corresponds to and is based on only one of road portions. A pavement data set is associated with each digital road segment and includes pavement data related to the asphalt lot used in forming the road portion. When a digital road segments is selected, corresponding pavement data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Astec, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Chambers, Kris Robertson, Albert Covington, Chuck Simpson, Lien Gangte, Naaga Kodiboyana, Mike Bass
  • Patent number: 11514645
    Abstract: Electronic devices and/or operating methods of the electronic device to provide visual localization based on outdoor three-dimensional (3D) map information may be provided. Such electronic devices may be configured to acquire two-dimensional (2D) image information about an outdoor environment, generate 3D map information about the outdoor environment based on the 2D image information, and determine a position of a point in the 3D map information corresponding to a query image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: NAVER CORPORATION, NAVER LABS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deokhwa Kim, Donghwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11495193
    Abstract: A vehicle display system includes a vehicle detection device detecting at least one other vehicle present in surroundings of a host vehicle, a vehicle speed detection device detecting a speed of the host vehicle, a display device displaying the host vehicle and the at least one other vehicle respectively as vehicle icons, and a display control part configured to control a content of display of the display device. When the speed of the host vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the display control part is configured to blank out the display of or display transparently at least a part of a vehicle icon of a following vehicle detected by the vehicle detection device and positioned at a rear of the host vehicle in a driving lane of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 11429918
    Abstract: In example implementations, a robot that makes deliveries based on personal data and a method for performing the same is provided. The method includes receiving, by a processor of the robot, a request to deliver an item to a recipient. Personal data associated with the recipient is checked and a location to deliver the item to the recipient is determined based on the personal data. The location for delivery of the item is then transmitted to an endpoint device of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Stacie Taylor, Will Allen
  • Patent number: 11412205
    Abstract: In a vehicle display device, in a case of displaying an outside information virtual image in a right monocular viewing region and a left monocular viewing region, a controller performs a display image control for a display image displayed by an image projection unit by using a viewability display form with a more excellent viewability than in a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in a binocular viewing region. In a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in the binocular viewing region, the controller performs a display image control by using the identifiability display form that provides a more excellent recognizability of the outside information virtual image for the driver than in a case of displaying the outside information virtual image in the right monocular viewing region and the left monocular viewing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11400828
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information of an electric vehicle equipped with a removable and replaceable battery, and acquire the status of the battery installed in the electric vehicle; and a specifying unit configured to specify a place where two or more electric vehicles can meet, on the basis of the location information of each of the electric vehicles and the status of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Nasu
  • Patent number: 11385064
    Abstract: A method and platform for improving one or more commutes comprises gathering data about one or more metrics of at least one user's commute; analyzing one or more alternate types of commutes available to the at least one user; generating, based on the data about one or more metrics and the analysis of the one or more alternate types of commutes available, one or more recommendations to the at least one user comprising at least one of the one or more alternate types of commutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Rich Schmelzer, Esteban Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11366480
    Abstract: A method for navigating a vehicle through a predefined path in an environment. The predefined path includes a plurality of predefined points. The method includes generating a distance database, enabling the predefined path by enabling each of the plurality of predefined points, navigating the vehicle to a first point, and navigating the vehicle from the first point to a second point. The distance database is associated with the predefined path. The first point and the second point are located on the predefined path. Navigating the vehicle from the first point to the second point includes repeating an iterative navigation process until a termination condition is satisfied. The termination condition includes a total traveled distance of the vehicle obtained from odometer data of the vehicle exceeding a termination threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Mazdak Hooshang
  • Patent number: 11340085
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selecting alternate routes with fewer directions during vehicle navigation. The disclosed techniques herein determine directions from route data and direction timestamps for each of the directions. For each direction, a corresponding media asset from media assets in a playlist having a media asset duration that matches a direction duration is determined. The direction duration is the time difference between the direction timestamp and a subsequent direction timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Nishchit Mahajan, Ankur Aher
  • Patent number: 11293769
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for route selection to a destination may include receiving a starting point and the one or more destinations and transmitting a request to a server for routes associated with the starting point and the one or more destinations. Additionally, the method may include receiving, from the server, a plurality of routes to the one or more destinations. Furthermore, the method may include selecting a route to use from the plurality of routes based on an estimated localization uncertainty of each route and/or localization reliability of each route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Meghna Agrawal, Weihua Gao
  • Patent number: 11137257
    Abstract: A method and system for providing improved navigation through interactive suggestion of improve solutions along a path of waypoints includes receiving in a user device a destination for a user. Data associated with the destination is transmitted to a network as well as information correlated to a location of the user. Data associated with at least one modified waypoint for an improved navigation solution is received from the network. The modified waypoints are determined in accordance with a set of parameters. Task and notification information are received from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Donald Perciful, James Pratt, Robert Dailey, Yupeng Jia
  • Patent number: 11091708
    Abstract: A process for treatment of PFO from a steam cracking zone includes selectively hydrogenating PFO or a portion thereof for conversion of polyaromatics compounds contained in the PFO into aromatic compounds with one benzene ring to produce a selectively hydrogenated stream. The selectively hydrogenated stream is reacted in the absence of added hydrogen for selective ring opening and dealkylation to produce a dealkylated BTX+ stream. The dealkylated BTX+ stream is separated into BTX compounds. Optionally the PFO is separated into a first stream containing C9+ aromatics compounds with one benzene ring, and a second stream containing C10+ aromatic compounds, whereby the first stream containing C9+ aromatics compounds with one benzene ring is passed to the ring opening step, and the feed to the selective hydrogenation step comprises all or a portion of the second stream containing C10+ aromatic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Raed Abudawoud
  • Patent number: 11012816
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for selecting locations for transmitting emergency beacons. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device in a geographic area; configuring a transmitter of the mobile device for device-to-device (D2D) communication; determining one or more candidate transmit locations for D2D communication, wherein each candidate transmit location is determined based at least in part on its elevation, proximity to a D2D device density location that is within a maximum communication distance from the candidate transmit location, and an availability of a trail or path to the candidate transmit location; receiving input selecting a particular candidate transmit location from the one or more candidate transmit locations; in accordance with the input, determining a route from the current location of the mobile device to the particular candidate transmit location; and presenting the route through an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Dhruv Khati, Anjaneyulu Maganti
  • Patent number: 10963951
    Abstract: A system and method of an intelligent shopping infrastructure is provided. A data storage of current inventory from a plurality of merchants is maintained. User preferences that indicate an item affinity of a user are retrieved. Furthermore, a location of the user is detected. Using the detected location, available inventory, and item affinity, an available item from the current inventory of a merchant located within a predetermined distance to the location of the user that match the item affinity of the user is identified. The available item is presented on a user interface of a client device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Bret MacLaurin, James Ross Skorupski, Healey Cypher, Flynn Joffray, Hsin-Yi Chien
  • Patent number: 10930165
    Abstract: A system and method for enhanced vehicle efficiency through smart automation for an onboard weather update is provided. The system comprises a processor, and a non-transitory processor readable medium including instructions, executable by the processor, to perform a method comprising: receiving vehicle data from an onboard vehicle data source; receiving real-time weather data from one or more weather data sources; detecting when onboard forecast weather data is out-of-date or irrelevant based on the vehicle data and the real-time weather data; estimating one or more potential benefits from an update of the onboard forecast weather data; and activating the update of the onboard forecast weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Dorthee De Villele, Marek Batelka, Slavomira Bartovicova, Erwan Paricaud
  • Patent number: 10876848
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for generating a route in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable elements of a navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A selection of a profile is received, e.g. from a user, the profile including data identifying one or more segments of the electronic map. A route is generated between an origin and a destination in the electronic map using a routing process in which each of the one or more segments identified by the selected profile is penalised. Any segments in the generated route that are segments identified by the selected profile are detected, and data representative of the generated route and the detected segments are output, e.g. for provision to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Robert Fischer, Steffen Orlowsky
  • Patent number: 10809086
    Abstract: The present invention provides a navigation system, apparatus, and method. The navigation system includes a global navigation apparatus, a first roadside navigation apparatus, and a terminal navigation apparatus. The terminal navigation apparatus is configured to send, to the global navigation apparatus, a global path request used to request for a road-level global path. The global navigation apparatus is configured to: determine the global path according to the global path request, and send, to the terminal navigation apparatus, first indication information used to indicate the global path. The first roadside navigation apparatus is configured to: determine a lane-level local path according to the global path, and send, to the terminal navigation apparatus, second indication information used to indicate the local path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonggang Song, Hui Li, Zhihua Yang
  • Patent number: 10775184
    Abstract: A method includes of routing an autonomous vehicle includes receiving information obtained from a camera on a second vehicle distinct from the autonomous vehicle. The method includes automatically identifying a road condition using image analysis of the information received from the camera on the second vehicle. The method includes receiving a request to route the autonomous vehicle from a first location to a second location; and in response to the request: generating a cost model for routing the autonomous vehicle, wherein the cost model includes a cost of the road condition automatically identified from the information received from the camera on the second vehicle; selecting a route from the first location to the second location in accordance with the cost model; and routing an autonomous vehicle in accordance with the selected route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: rideOS, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Ho, Christopher Blumenberg, Billy Chen, Rohan Paranjpe, Thomas Kielbus
  • Patent number: 10775183
    Abstract: A method includes storing representations of a passengers and fleet vehicles. The method includes generating a graph representation of a geographic map that includes requested pick-up locations and drop-off locations for the passengers and generating a state graph representation of the passengers and the fleet vehicles. The state graph representation includes a plurality of nodes connected by edges. Each of the plurality of nodes represents a candidate state of the passengers and the fleet vehicles. A respective edge of the state graph representation represents an action of a respective vehicle picking up or dropping off a passenger. The respective edge has a cost that is based at least in part on traversal of the graph representation of the geographic map. The method further includes using the state graph representation to generate a set of routes and route the fleet vehicles in accordance with the generated set of routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: rideOS, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Ho, Christopher Blumenberg, Billy Chen, Rohan Paranjpe, Christopher Moore, Min Ji Lee, Erik Reed, Michel Tricot
  • Patent number: 10768690
    Abstract: Provided is a somatosensory control device (100), comprising an intelligent electronic device (20) and at least one somatosensory control device (10) wirelessly connected and paired. The at least one somatosensory control device (10) comprises a posture sensing module (12), a transmission module (14) and a power supply module (16). The posture sensing module (12) is configured to sense motion posture data. The intelligent electronic device (20) is configured to receive the motion posture data and recognize corresponding motion according to the motion posture data to perform corresponding operations. A somatosensory control method is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: META TECHOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Weixun Ma
  • Patent number: 10759343
    Abstract: A vehicle control device that operates in an autonomous driving mode, the vehicle control device can include a controller that is configured to obtain vehicle driving information of a vehicle, in a state in which (i) the vehicle moves within a first distance from a destination or (ii) the vehicle receives a stop request while the vehicle is travelling, search for at least one available stopping area based on the vehicle driving information, and display information about the at least one available stopping area on a display unit or transmit the information to a terminal, further the controller is further configured to determine a location of an occupant inside the vehicle, and display the information about the at least one available stopping area on any one selected display inside the vehicle according to which display corresponds to the location of the occupant inside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chaehwan Leem, Junyoung Yu, Taekyung Lee, Hyunseok Shin
  • Patent number: 10719946
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that causes a display to display an image captured by one or more image capturing apparatuses is provided. The information processing apparatus obtains one or more pieces of path information indicating a change in a position of an object captured by the one or more image capturing apparatuses, and causes the display to display map information overlapped with the one or more pieces of path information and at least one of information related to a time corresponding to the path information and information that can specify an image capturing apparatus corresponding to the path information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ichiko Mayuzumi
  • Patent number: 10677599
    Abstract: A method and system for providing improved navigation through interactive suggestion of improve solutions along a path of waypoints includes receiving in a user device a destination for a user. Data associated with the destination is transmitted to a network as well as information correlated to a location of the user. Data associated with at least one modified waypoint for an improved navigation solution is received from the network. The modified waypoints are determined in accordance with a set of parameters. Task and notification information are received from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Donald Perciful, James Pratt, Robert Dailey, Yupeng Jia
  • Patent number: 10670412
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a target path for a vehicle and controlling the movement of the vehicle includes a processor and a control system in communication with the processor. The control system is configured to control the movement of the vehicle. The processor is configured to determine a target path, determine a cost of the target path using a cost function, wherein the cost function utilizes a criteria that comprises a smoothness of the target path, determine a constraint that the target path is allowed to exist within, and optimize the target path for the vehicle by reducing the cost of the target path using the cost function and the constraint in which the target path is allowed to exist within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: VEONEER US, INC.
    Inventor: Takuro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 10618407
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus may include a display configured to display a driving route of a vehicle; a touch panel provided on the display and configured to detect a touch input; and a controller configured to, when a first tap input to the touch panel is detected and then at least one second tap input within a predetermined time is detected while the first tap is maintained, recognize a tap-tap interaction on the basis of input directions of the first tap and the at least one second tap, enlarge a driving route screen of the vehicle, which is displayed on the display, in a predetermined direction on the basis of the recognized tap-tap interaction, and display a driving route of the vehicle which is not visible before the enlargement of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors, Corporation
    Inventor: Jeong Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10593205
    Abstract: A GPS and warning system is a GPS monitoring and alarm system that would warn truckers, bus and RV drivers, approaching underpasses, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, and other structures of insufficient clearance for their vehicle. With the vehicle height entered into the GPS and warning system, as well as including the actual measurements of each and every structure along with GPS coordinates, the intent is to safely alert, and reroute the driver, should the vehicle be approaching a structure with low clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Timothy Jones
  • Patent number: 10573313
    Abstract: Audio analysis learning is performed using video data. Video data is obtained, on a first computing device, wherein the video data includes images of one or more people. Audio data is obtained, on a second computing device, which corresponds to the video data. A face within the video data is identified. A first voice, from the audio data, is associated with the face within the video data. The face within the video data is analyzed for cognitive content. Audio features corresponding to the cognitive content of the video data are extracted. The audio data is segmented to correspond to an analyzed cognitive state. An audio classifier is learned, on a third computing device, based on the analyzing of the face within the video data. Further audio data is analyzed using the audio classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Affectiva, Inc.
    Inventors: Taniya Mishra, Rana el Kaliouby
  • Patent number: 10563991
    Abstract: Aspects described herein provide a computer-implemented method and system of generating circular routes that start and end at the same geographical position, the route passing through a number of intermediate points along the way. The circular routes are generated in dependence on one or more route criterion, which may be pre-defined or input by the user. The route criterion may relate to a number of different route properties, for example, the length of time it takes to complete the route, the distance or area covered by the route, the direction the route takes, the type of terrain experienced during the route, whether the route passes through certain points more than once and/or whether the route passes any points of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ordnance Survey Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Radburn
  • Patent number: 10479362
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain lane information of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, and set a planned target section for which a lane change plan of the vehicle is to be created. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, for each lane, an obstructive factor present on the road on which the vehicle is traveling and that obstructs continuation of autonomous driving assistance executed on the vehicle, and set, for each obtained obstructive factor, an avoidance route that passes through a lane avoiding the obstructive factor. The systems, methods, and programs create a lane change route that defines the lane change plan of the vehicle in the planned target section and that is set so as to preferentially pass through the avoidance route set for each obtained obstructive factor, and execute the autonomous driving assistance of the vehicle based on the lane change route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10408631
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes accessing a user database, accessing a transport database, and generating a global recommended travel plan. The user database includes travel preferences and a metric preference for each user. The travel preferences include an origin, and a destination. The transport database includes transport data. The global recommended travel plan includes, for each user, a recommended route from the user's origin to the user's destination, a recommended mode, and a recommended start time. Generating the global recommended travel plan includes simultaneously optimizing each user's metric preference based on the transport data and the travel preferences. The computer-implemented method further includes returning each user's recommended route, recommended mode, and recommended start time. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John V. Delaney, Anthony M. Hunt, Philippe H. V. M. Spaas, Clea A. Zolotow
  • Patent number: 10394234
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guiding autonomous vehicles by monitoring the entire planned path and sending alert messages to a vehicle management system for delays, reroute, or emergency stop to avoid collision with an obstruction. The system initiates alternative paths when the primary path is blocked and is capable of reporting a vehicle identifier and the current positions of the vehicle and any obstruction along the planned path of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ali Salour, Gregory S. Highland, Lori S. Smith
  • Patent number: 10393542
    Abstract: Methods for calibrating a body-worn magnetic sensor by spinning the magnetic sensor 360 degrees to capture magnetic data; if the spin failed to produce a circle contained in an x-y plane fit a sphere to the captured data; determining offsets based on the center of the sphere; and removing the offsets that are in the z-direction. Computing a magnetic heading reliability of a magnetic sensor by determining an orientation of the sensor at one location; transforming the orientation between two reference frames; measuring a first vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the location; processing the first vector to generate a virtual vector when a second location is detected; measuring a second vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the second location; and calculating the magnetic heading reliability at the second location based on a comparison of the virtual vector and the second vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin E. Funk, Dan Hakim, John Karvounis, Travis Young, Carole Teolis
  • Patent number: 10393543
    Abstract: Methods for calibrating a body-worn magnetic sensor by spinning the magnetic sensor 360 degrees to capture magnetic data; if the spin failed to produce a circle contained in an x-y plane fit a sphere to the captured data; determining offsets based on the center of the sphere; and removing the offsets that are in the z-direction. Computing a magnetic heading reliability of a magnetic sensor by determining an orientation of the sensor at one location; transforming the orientation between two reference frames; measuring a first vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the location; processing the first vector to generate a virtual vector when a second location is detected; measuring a second vector associated with the magnetic field of Earth at the second location; and calculating the magnetic heading reliability at the second location based on a comparison of the virtual vector and the second vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin E. Funk, Dan Hakim, John Karvounis, Travis Young, Carole Teolis
  • Patent number: 10365114
    Abstract: Various embodiments pertain to techniques for proactively delivering navigation options to a user via a mobile device. In various embodiments, one or more navigation options can be determined for the user and delivered to the user's mobile device at a relevant time. Navigation options can be selected based on the user's current location, the user's future plans, the time, and other locally relevant information, such as friends nearby or a nearby favorite location of the user. The navigation options can be delivered to the user's mobile device at a time that the navigation options are relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Voronel, Donald Barnett, Timothy Wantland, Ran Mokady, Amid Moradganjeh
  • Patent number: 10341838
    Abstract: A method and system includes the ability for individuals to set up an ad hoc digital and voice network easily and rapidly to allow users to coordinate their activities by eliminating the need for pre-entry of data into a web or identifying others by name, phone numbers or email. This method is especially useful for police, fire fighters, military, first responders or other emergency situations for coordinating different organizations at the scene of a disaster to elevate conventional communication problems either up and down the chain of command or cross communication between different emergency units. The method and system provides that the users are only required to enter a specific Server IP address and an ad hoc event name, a password and perhaps the name of the particular unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AGIS Software Development LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm K. Beyer, Jr., Christopher R. Rice