Vehicular Patents (Class 348/148)
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Patent number: 12149868Abstract: Example implementations are provided for an arrangement of co-aligned rotating sensors. One example device includes a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) transmitter that emits light pulses toward a scene according to a pointing direction of the device. The device also includes a LIDAR receiver that detects reflections of the emitted light pulses reflecting from the scene. The device also includes an image sensor that captures an image of the scene based on at least external light originating from one or more external light sources. The device also includes a platform that supports the LIDAR transmitter, the LIDAR receiver, and the image sensor in a particular relative arrangement. The device also includes an actuator that rotates the platform about an axis to adjust the pointing direction of the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Pierre-Yves Droz, Simon Verghese, Brendan Hermalyn
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Patent number: 12148272Abstract: A method of retrieving a lost item from a compartment to an owner of the lost item is provided. The method comprises detecting the lost item in the compartment to define an item image of the lost item relative to the compartment, updating an inventory list of lost objects, and identifying at least one potential user of the lost item. The method further comprises providing notification to the at least one potential user and providing viewable access of the item image. The method further comprises verifying ownership of the lost item to define the owner of the lost item, determining a preferred pickup location for the owner, storing the lost item at the preferred location defining a stored item, and confirming identity of the owner for retrieval of the stored item at the preferred location. The method further comprises allowing access to the stored item from the preferred location.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Ke Liu, Jingyan Wan, Ron Hecht, Omer Tsimhoni
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Patent number: 12146755Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving locating favorable entrances. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring sensor data about a parking facility entrance from at least one vehicle sensor, processing the sensor data into characteristics about the parking facility entrance, storing the characteristics about the parking facility entrance in a map that includes a location of the parking facility entrance, and providing a recommendation for a parking facility based, at least in part, on the map.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi
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Patent number: 12148292Abstract: A traffic monitoring assembly includes a roof rack that is mountable to a roof of a vehicle. A global positioning system transceiver is attached to the roof rack to receive global positioning system coordinates of the vehicle. A laser sensor is attached to the roof rack for detecting the distance between the vehicle and adjacent traffic vehicles traveling on the same roadway as the vehicle. An ultrasonic sensor is attached to the roof rack to capture ultrasonic sound waves reflected from objects near the vehicle. A camera is attached to the roof rack to capture imagery of the environment surrounding the vehicle. A radar sensor is coupled to the roof rack to emit a radar signal for detecting the speed of adjacent traffic vehicles travelling on the same roadway as the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Inventor: Carlos Silva
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Patent number: 12148297Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle includes receiving circuitry, which, in operation, receives, from a roadside apparatus providing a distribution service of a road video, an advertisement message indicating that the distribution service is provided; control circuitry, which, in operation, generates, based on reception of the advertisement message, a message regarding transmission of the road video to the roadside apparatus; and transmitting circuitry, which, in operation, transmits the message to the roadside apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management CO., Ltd.Inventors: Takenori Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Motozuka, Kosei Nakano, Akihiro Egami, Masataka Irie
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Patent number: 12146746Abstract: A control unit 15 of an in-vehicle device 1 configured to acquire, from landmark data LD that is map data including position information of one or more features, plural pieces of position information of a feature which is drawn on a road surface and which exists at or around a vehicle. Then, the control unit 15 is configured to calculate a normal vector of an approximate plane calculated based on the acquired plural pieces of the position information. Then, the control unit 15 is configured to calculate at least one of a pitch angle or a roll angle of the vehicle based on the orientation of the vehicle and the normal vector.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Kato
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Patent number: 12145535Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes a controller unit configured to control a displaying operation of a video by a camera on a display and a communicator unit as an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle state signal indicating a vehicle state. The controller unit is configured to perform a preparation for displaying the video by the camera on the display in response to the communicator unit acquiring the vehicle state signal indicating the vehicle state where the video by the camera is required.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kouji Ueno, Shunsuke Yokoyama
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Patent number: 12146273Abstract: A paving machine includes a plurality of sensor(s) for generating sensor data associated with a paving operation. Criteria associated with paving mat defects are compared against the sensor data to determine whether the criteria is satisfied and whether paving mat defects are predicted. For example, criteria may include whether a hopper of the paving machine is activated, whether a screed assembly of the paving machine is floating, a speed of the paving machine, and whether heat is applied to the screed assembly. In instances where defects are predicted, notifications of such may be provided, or displayed, on a control interface of the paving machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.Inventors: Craig M. Steffen, Toby A. Frelich, John L. Marsolek
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Patent number: 12145575Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems for selecting a parking space using a probabilistic approach. An example system includes a processor that can determine whether multiple parking spaces are available in proximity to a host vehicle using sensor data. Parking-space characteristics (e.g., a width, entry turning radius, and longitudinal distance to the parking space) of each available parking space are determined using the sensor data. The processor can then choose a selected parking space among the multiple parking spaces based on the parking-space characteristics. The processor or another processor can then control the host vehicle to park in the selected parking space using an assisted-driving or autonomous-driving system. In this way, the described system can select and navigate to a parking space using a probabilistic approach. The processor can choose the parking space and parking maneuver based on programmable and customizable parking-space characteristics in some implementations.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AGInventors: Qian Wang, Guoguang Zhang
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Patent number: 12145510Abstract: A device for a vehicle may have a fixed support, a sensor unit, which can be moved between a rest position and an operating position, and a protective element for the sensor unit and a decorative element, which can each be moved between a closed position and an open position. The sensor unit may be placed in its operating position when the protective element and the decorative element are in the open position. The sensor unit, the protective element, and the decorative element may be movably coupled to one another by a lever mechanism, and the protective element and the decorative element may be mounted rotatably and coaxially to one another on the support, and the sensor unit may be articulated on the lever mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Witte Automotive GmbHInventor: Manuel Scholer
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Patent number: 12145513Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera module mounted at a mounting structure that is disposed at a windshield of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular vision system. The camera module views through a light transmitting portion of the mounting structure and forward of the vehicle. The camera module includes a camera and circuitry including an image processor, with the image processor processing image data captured by the camera. With the windshield mounted at the vehicle and the camera module mounted at the mounting structure, the windshield is separable from the mounting structure so that the windshield is removable from the vehicle without removing the mounting structure from the vehicle and without affecting mounting of the camera module at the mounting structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventor: Nagender Reddy Kasarla
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Patent number: 12139076Abstract: A vehicular camera includes an imager, a housing having front and rear housing members, a lens member, and a circuit board. A female electrical connector assembly is disposed at the circuit board and includes a set of female electrical connectors. The rear housing member includes a male electrical connector having a set of electrically conductive pins. Each electrically conductive pin includes an inward-extending pin portion and an outward-extending pin portion. The outward-extending pin portions pass outward through a wall portion of the rear housing member into a socket connection portion of the rear housing member and the inward-extending pin portions extend inward from an inner surface of the wall portion of the rear housing member and plug into and electrically connect with respective female electrical connectors of the set of female electrical connectors when the rear housing member is mated with the front housing member.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Matthew C Sesti, Steven V. Byrne
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Patent number: 12141982Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a image capturing unit configured to capture an image including a region corresponding to an inside of a vehicle and a region corresponding to an outside of the vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images captured by the image capturing unit at predetermined time intervals; a generation unit configured to generate a mask filter for masking the region corresponding to the inside of the vehicle in the image captured by the image capturing unit based on an amount of change in the plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit; and a storage unit configured to store the mask filter generated by the generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Yasui
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Patent number: 12142020Abstract: Systems and methods herein provide for improving visibility in a scene. In one embodiment, a system includes a first camera device operable to capture images of a scene at a first band of wavelengths, and a second camera device operable to capture images of the scene at a second band of wavelengths. The first and second bands are different. The system also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the first and second camera devices, the processor being operable to detect an object in the scene based on a first of the images from the first camera device and based on a first of the images from the second camera device that was captured at substantially a same time as the first image from the first camera device, to estimate an obscurant in the scene based on the first images, and to estimate a visibility parameter of the scene based on the object and the estimated obscurant.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Arete AssociatesInventors: Timothy M. Klein, Peter J. Rusello, Benjamin E. K. Sugerman, Amanda M. Steck
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Patent number: 12142059Abstract: A dimension calculation system in a host vehicle for dynamically calculating a vehicle dimension using solar shadow information is disclosed. The system is configured to: calculate solar position and an expected vehicle shadow based on geocode location, time and vehicle dynamics; detect an actual vehicle shadow in an image from a vehicle camera; compare the actual vehicle shadow to an expected vehicle shadow; determine a dimension profile and max height point for a vehicle plus vehicle cargo based on a comparison of the actual vehicle shadow to the expected vehicle shadow; calculate a confidence level for the dimension profile and max height point for the vehicle plus cargo; and use the dimension profile and max height point to provide one or more dimension notifications when the confidence level for the dimension profile and max height point for the vehicle plus cargo are above a first threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Utkarsh Saini, Steffen P Lindenthal, Sai Vishnu Aluru, Sravan Daruri, Norman J Weigert, Fred W Huntzicker
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Patent number: 12141949Abstract: An vehicle-mounted camera apparatus is an vehicle-mounted camera apparatus capable of imaging at least one of a front, a rear, and a side of a vehicle, and includes a lens, an image capture device unit that converts light imaged by the lens into an electrical signal to generate a captured image, and a light shielding unit that shields a light ray corresponding to a part of an image capture region of the image capture device unit on an incident surface side of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Nakayama, Yoshikazu Ohnami
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Patent number: 12134356Abstract: A camera for a vehicle includes an image sensor and processing logic. The image sensor captures event images based on one or more messages generated by the vehicle communication bus.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Firstech, LLCInventors: Jason Henry Kaminski, Namwoo Kim, Carmine Maraglio
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Patent number: 12134390Abstract: An embodiment sensor information fusion method includes estimating, by a host vehicle, reliability of shared sensor fusion information received from a neighboring vehicle, the shared sensor fusion information being generated by the neighboring vehicle, and generating, based on the estimated reliability, fusion track information of an object located near the host vehicle or the neighboring vehicle using host vehicle sensor fusion information generated by the host vehicle and the shared sensor fusion information.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Woo Young Lee, Su Min Jo, Su Min Kim
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Patent number: 12135391Abstract: The technology employs a contrasting color scheme on different surfaces for sensor housing assemblies mounted on exterior parts of a vehicle that is configured to operate in an autonomous driving mode. Lighter and darker colors may be chosen on different surfaces according to a thermal budget for a given sensor housing assembly, due to the different types of sensors arranged along particular surfaces, or to provide color contrast for different regions of the assembly. For instance, differing colors such as black/white or blue/white, and different finishes such as matte or glossy, may be selected to enhance certain attributes or to minimize issues associated with a sensor housing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Yi-Hui Bruce-Wen, YooJung Ahn, Jared Gross, Joshua Newby, Jerry Chen, Ralph Shepard, Adam Brown
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Patent number: 12136249Abstract: In various examples, contrast values corresponding to pixels of one or more images generated using one or more sensors of a vehicle may be computed to detect and identify objects that trigger glare mitigating operations. Pixel luminance values are determined and used to compute a contrast value based on comparing the pixel luminance values to a reference luminance value that is based on a set of the pixels and the corresponding luminance values. A contrast threshold may be applied to the computed contrast values to identify glare in the image data to trigger glare mitigating operations so that the vehicle may modify the configuration of one or more illumination sources so as to reduce glare experienced by occupants and/or sensors of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Igor Tryndin, Abhishek Bajpayee, Yu Wang, Hae-Jong Seo
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Patent number: 12128785Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of initiating, by a transport, a request to provide a first portion of stored energy to a charging station, determining, by the charging station, an actual amount of energy needed by the transport, wherein the determining is based on a first destination of the transport and on data received by the charging station based on a route associated with the first destination, wherein the actual amount of energy is not the same amount as the first portion of stored energy, and depositing, by the transport, the actual amount of energy in the charging station.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Norman Lu
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Patent number: 12131511Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a camera disposed at a mirror head of an interior rearview mirror of a vehicle and viewing at least the head of a driver of the vehicle. The camera moves together and in tandem with the mirror head when the mirror head is adjusted by the driver of the vehicle to adjust a rearward view of the driver. Responsive to the driver of the vehicle adjusting the orientation of the mirror head, and responsive to processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, the vehicular driver monitoring system maintains the camera's view of at least the head of the driver as it was before the driver adjusted the orientation of the mirror head. The vehicular driver monitoring system, at least in part via processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera, monitors the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2024Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Marc Rother, Jonathan D. Conger, Steven V. Byrne, Zhongyao Liu
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Patent number: 12131549Abstract: An image monitoring device includes a hardware processor. An image of the outside of a vehicle is captured by a camera. The hardware processor notifies that dirt adheres to a lens of the camera when a ratio of a smooth region in the image is more than a threshold. In the smooth region, differences in luminance value between pixels are small. The hardware processor does not notify that dirt adheres to the lens of the camera when: a ratio of the smooth region in a sky region in the image is more than a threshold, a ratio of the smooth region in a ground region in the image is more than a threshold, and a difference between an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the sky region and an average of luminance values of the smooth region in the ground region is more than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoyuki Tsurube
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Patent number: 12130860Abstract: This application provides a visual feature database construction method, including: obtaining a database creation image; performing feature extraction on the database creation image to obtain a feature point of the database creation image and a descriptor of the feature point of the database creation image; intersecting a ray corresponding to the feature point of the database creation image with a 3D model, to determine the 3D position of the intersection point at which the ray intersects with the 3D model as the 3D position of the feature point of the database creation image; and writing the descriptor of the feature point of the database creation image and the database creation image into a visual feature database, to construct the visual feature database.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Siliang Du, Zehui Kang, Wei Fang
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Patent number: 12131551Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to receive, at a processor associated with a vehicle and via one or more image sensors associated with the vehicle, image data associated with an environment surrounding the vehicle and corresponding to a first image captured at a first time, and additional image data associated with an environment surrounding the vehicle and corresponding to a second image captured by at a second time. The provided systems and methods may determine, based on the received additional image data and a machine learning model, that a tracked object identified in the first image is not detected in the second image, and may determine, based on vehicle data and tracking data of the tracked object, that the tracked object should be present in the second image and perform a remedial action on the additional image data to identify the tracked object in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Gary Fay, Krishna Prasad Varadarajan Srinivasan
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Patent number: 12128826Abstract: A multi-directional viewing camera system for a motor vehicle including a vehicle body defining an interior compartment and a body panel having an exterior surface and an interior surface facing the interior compartment. The camera system includes a mirror module for mounting to the body panel exterior surface. The mirror module is configured to capture and transmit incident light from at least one field of view (FOV) and has a polarizing beam splitter configured to reflect an s-polarized component and transmit a p-polarized component of the incident light in a visible spectral range. The camera system also includes a camera module having a video camera for mounting to the body panel interior surface. The camera module is configured to receive from the mirror module the s-polarized or the p-polarized component of the incident light and selectively display at least one FOV within the interior compartment.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Tzvi Philipp, Igal Kotzer
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Patent number: 12126897Abstract: A system for bandwidth saving for wireless cameras using motion vectors includes wireless cameras disposed within the vehicle, and capturing input image data. A control module, having a processor, memory, and input/output (I/O) ports, executes control logic stored in memory. A first control logic receives, real-time input image data from the cameras. A second control logic processes the input image data to maintain (Wi-Fi) bandwidth utilization within the vehicle below a predetermined threshold and maintains and maximizes real-time image data streaming quality through semantic segmentation and background memorization. A third control logic generates an output including background and foreground image portions. The output is transmitted to a human-machine interface (HMI) within the vehicle and periodically replaces the background portion with a cached background scene that is transmitted to the HMI.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Chuan Li, Jace C. Stokes, Sushama K. Mithapally, Fan Bai
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Patent number: 12122391Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing operator vigilance tests. In one embodiment, a method includes sending from a first vehicle a light activation request to a second vehicle; detecting a light activation by the second vehicle via the first vehicle; and determining a measure of operator vigilance in the first vehicle based on a vehicle operator response to the light activation.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Woven by Toyota, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Hiroshi Yasuda
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Patent number: 12125376Abstract: In an information processing device, a first acquisition part receives information regarding a first actual location of a vehicle on a road transmitted from the moving body. A second acquisition part receives an image transmitted from a camera. A memory stores information regarding a correspondence relationship between an image location on the image and a second actual location on a road corresponding to the image location. An identification part specifies a moving body image location on the image based on the first actual location and the information regarding the correspondence relationship. A display control part instructs a display device to display the image and information indicating the moving body image location together.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunobu Sugiura
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Patent number: 12125177Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a generating unit configured to generate an image of a virtual space that is superimposed on an image of a real space captured by an image sensor; and an adding unit configured to add noise to the image of the virtual space, wherein the image sensor includes a region for capturing an image of the real space and a light-shielding region, and the adding unit adds noise to the image of the virtual space, based on an image acquired in the light-shielding region.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yasushi Hozumi
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Patent number: 12115915Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a forward-viewing camera disposed at a windshield of a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at the vehicle remote from the forward-viewing camera. The forward-viewing camera is connected to the ECU via an image data transmission line, the image data transmission line includes a power-over-coaxial cable. The image data transmission line (i) transmits image data captured by the forward-viewing camera from the forward-viewing camera to the ECU for processing at the ECU and (ii) delivers electrical power from the ECU to said forward-viewing camera for powering the forward-viewing camera. Captured image data transmitted to the ECU from at least the forward-viewing camera is processed at the ECU for at least one driver assistance system of the vehicle. Filtering circuitry filters electrical noise arising at least from electrical power delivered via the image data transmission line from the ECU to the forward-viewing camera.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Marc-Andre Sigle
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Patent number: 12115984Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a first obtaining part obtaining gripping information indicating a driver of a vehicle is gripping a steering wheel; a second obtaining part obtaining operation information indicating the driver is performing a driving operation; a recognition part recognizing a road marking line of a lane traveled by the vehicle; and a support part providing a support so that the vehicle does not deviate from the road marking line when a deviation probability is greater than or equal to a predetermined degree. The support part delays an operation of the support when the gripping information is obtained and the operation information is not obtained, as compared with a case where the gripping information and the operation information are not obtained, and suppresses the operation of the support for a predetermined time when the operation information is obtained regardless of whether the gripping information is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Kakeda, Masashi Ogawa
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Patent number: 12115918Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of vehicle cameras disposed at a vehicle, a trailer camera disposed at a trailer, and a video display screen disposed at the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. When the trailer is hitched to the vehicle, the trailer camera captures image data and provides captured image data to an electronic control unit (ECU). The plurality of vehicle cameras capture image data and provide captured image data to the ECU. An auxiliary camera is detachably attached at an exterior side portion of the trailer. With the auxiliary camera detachably attached at the exterior side portion of the trailer and during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle with the trailer hitched to the vehicle, and responsive to a user input, video images derived from the image data captured by the auxiliary camera are displayed for viewing by the driver of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventor: Eric Peterson
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Patent number: 12110054Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling driving of a vehicle are provided and the apparatus includes a lamp that projects a lamp light onto one of a left floor surface or a right floor surface of the vehicle, a camera that obtains an image of an area onto which the lamp light is projected, and a controller that determines whether to output a warning based on the image of the area onto which the lamp light is projected when the lamp light is projected onto a boundary stone located around at least one of the left floor surface or the right floor surface of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Jae Won Jung
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Patent number: 12112550Abstract: This disclosure describes the use of optical sensors to detect and characterize the state of traffic lights to assist with the navigation of autonomous vehicles. In particular, a specific optical configuration is shown that includes both a fixed-exposure sensor and an auto-exposure sensor. Imagery from the two sensor types can be combined to more accurately characterize the state of traffic signals at any particular intersection. Systems and methods for analyzing only select regions of the imagery captured by the traffic light detection system are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Motional Ad LLCInventors: Lubing Zhou, Jiong Yang, Ankit Dhall
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Patent number: 12112534Abstract: A sticking determination device includes a CPU, a GPU, a memory, a bus, and an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image data from the camera and save the image data to the memory. The image acquiring unit transmits, to the CPU, a save completion notification indicative of completion of saving respective one of divided units of the image data. The CPU transmits a read instruction to the GPU to read, from the memory, a pixel value of at least one pixel at a sticking determination target position. The GPU reads the pixel value of the at least one pixel from the memory and transmits the read pixel value to the CPU. The CPU is configured to determine whether the image data is stuck by comparing the pixel value in a current frame with the pixel value in a previous frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuhiko Tanibata
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Patent number: 12112626Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for a signal head processing system. A signal head detector can be mounted by or attached to an existing control light signal head and provide data indicating the state, i.e., on, off, blinking, of each light of the control light signal head. The signal head detector can communicate with a nearby gateway device. The gateway device, in turn, communicates with a back end server, and the back end server performs near real-time control light pattern analysis and provides near real-time light status. Alternatively, the signal head detector can communication directly with the based end server. The server analysis can include frequency of light change per canister, intersection geometry and lane flows, per-intersection control lighting patterns, seasonal, e.g., time of day, lighting patterns, anomaly detection and failure detection.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Cavnue Technology, LLCInventors: David Hahn Clifford, Christopher Edward Hoover
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Patent number: 12103525Abstract: A lane departure avoidance device includes a control unit that executes a lane departure prevention control by at least one of automatically turning a turning wheel and issuing an alarm, when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle crosses a lane border and a driver has no intention of performing a lane departure, and that suspends executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is a possibility that the vehicle crosses the lane border and the driver intentions to perform the lane departure. The control unit continues to suspend executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is another lane border on a side that the vehicle approaches and that a distance from the vehicle to the other lane border is a reference distance or more, in a situation where executing the lane departure prevention control is suspended.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuki Itazuri
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Patent number: 12105532Abstract: A method of providing trajectory planning for the driverless transfer of a vehicle within a closed area is proposed. In the method, an external data processing system performs trajectory planning for travelling a predetermined route from a starting point to a destination point within the closed area without a driver. Trajectory planning is based on data transmitted from components of a vehicle-external infrastructure to the external data processing system, including object data and at least one exact pose of the vehicle at predetermined points in time. The planned trajectory is then transmitted to the vehicle for execution.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Bayerische Motorenwerke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Andree, Matthias Maron, Bernhard Geiler
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Patent number: 12103412Abstract: Electrical charging station that includes the following: A first socket to deliver electrical power to an electric vehicle. A casing to be fastened to the ground or to a wall. A holder in which the first socket is fastened or integrated. The holder is movable with respect to the casing between a protected position and an exposed position, in which positions access to the first socket, from outside the casing, is prevented and permitted. Structure to drive the holder between the protected and exposed positions. A control module for controlling the driving structure. The casing includes an aperture that is blocked in the protected position and that defines an access to the first socket in the exposed position. The holder is movable in the casing between the protected and exposed positions. The holder is arranged so as to block the aperture in the exposed position.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: ALL IN FACTORYInventor: Marc Lepage
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Patent number: 12105186Abstract: An object tracking device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a detection unit, a prediction unit, a first region setting unit, an estimation unit, a registration unit, a prohibition region setting unit, and a registration prohibition unit. The registration prohibition unit prohibits observed values of at least one observed value detected by the detection unit and that are within a prohibition region set by the prohibition region setting unit from being registered as new targets by the registration unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Akamine, Akiyoshi Mizutani
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Patent number: 12106459Abstract: A system for quantitively determining quality for pavement markings disposed along pavement on a roadway includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a plurality of vehicles. The one or more controllers receive image data represents the pavement markings disposed along the pavement collected by the plurality of vehicles. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine at least one of a color distance measurement between a mean color space value of the pavement markings and an ideal marking color space value and a marking intensity contrast ratio between the pavement markings and the pavement.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Fahim Ahmed, Richard Gordon, Donald K. Grimm
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Patent number: 12103628Abstract: A camera housing device is provided in this disclose, including a base, a cover, a first electrical connection terminal, a first indicating light, and a second electrical connection terminal. A receiving space is defined on the base to receive a camera. The cover is positioned on the base and covers the receiving space. The first electrical connection terminal is positioned on the base. The first indicating light is positioned on the cover. The cover is capable of emitting a warning light according to a warning signal sent by the camera. The second electrical connection terminal is positioned on the cover and electronically coupled with the first electrical connection terminal. A camera equipment and a rear view system are also provided in this discloses.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen Apeman Innovations Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Hou, Yanli Huang
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Patent number: 12099354Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a self-driving vehicle are presented. The system comprises a camera, a processor, a communications transceiver, a computer-readable medium, and a display device. The processor can be configured to receive an image of a self-driving vehicle from the camera, and vehicle information from the self-driving vehicle. A graphic comprising the image of the self-driving vehicle and a visual representation of the vehicle information is then displayed on the display device. The vehicle information may comprise any or all of vehicle-status information, vehicle-mission information, vehicle-metric information, and vehicle-environment information.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Anthony William Tod, Ryan Christopher Gariepy
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Patent number: 12101461Abstract: A mounting device for selectively positioning an optical element within a field-of-view of an optical sensor of a vehicle includes: a housing defining an opening sized to fit over an aperture of the optical sensor; a holder for the optical element connected to the housing and positioned such that, when the holder is in a first position, the optical element is at least partially within the field-of-view of the optical sensor; and a motorized actuator. The motorized actuator can be configured to move the holder to adjust the position of the optical element relative to the field-of-view of the optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Argo AI, LLCInventors: Thomas D. McMenamin, Jr., Timothy S. Riggs, Jack Work
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Patent number: 12099359Abstract: A vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode may operate a sensor to determine an environment of the vehicle. The sensor may be configured to obtain sensor data of a sensed portion of the environment. The sensed portion may be defined by a sensor parameter. Based on the environment of the vehicle, the vehicle may select at least one parameter value for the at least one sensor parameter such that the sensed portion of the environment corresponds to a region of interest. The vehicle may operate the sensor, using the selected at least one parameter value for the at least one sensor parameter, to obtain sensor data of the region of interest, and control the vehicle in the autonomous mode based on the sensor data of the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Urmson, David I. Ferguson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri Dolgov
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Patent number: 12097852Abstract: A controlled intersection employs video analytics to identify incoming vehicles coupled with autonomous driving capabilities in the vehicle to selectively provide intervention for collision avoidance. A camera image of an approaching vehicle is used to identify a range and speed, and to compute whether intervention is appropriate based on a detected distance and speed from the intersection. A vehicle approaching a stop signal (e.g. “red light”) at an unsafe rate of speed triggers an invocation of on-board autonomous systems in the vehicle that provide appropriate warnings and ultimately, forced braking if warnings go unheeded. A registration system maintains a local grouping of vehicles in proximity to an intersection for minimizing latency in vehicle identification for commencing intervention. In this manner, on-board vehicle collision avoidance systems collaborate with complementary traffic control logic at a controlled intersection for preventing inadvertent or intentional disregard of a red signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: Hany A. Heikal, Hossam H. Hmimy
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Patent number: 12098817Abstract: A method is provided for storing light distributions of a matrix headlight system. The method includes loading, from a memory, first control data for lighting means of a first matrix light module for generating a first light distribution; feeding the first control data to a comparison module; loading, from the memory, second control data for the lighting means of the first matrix light module or for lighting means of a second matrix light module for generating a second light distribution and feeding the second control data to a comparison module. The method compares the first and second control data; stores the first control data for the first light distribution if there is a similarity or equality between the first and second control data; and linking the second control data for the second light distribution by means of a link to the control data for the first light distribution.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AGInventors: Benjamin Hummel, Dominik Walter
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Patent number: 12101377Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a CI replication service that can replicate domain data from IDCS control plane to data plane and to all subscribed regions of a domain. For instance, the CI replication service can provide replication of required resources of a domain for AuthN and AuthZ from an IDCS local region to other regions for high availability (e.g., to improve latency). The CI replication service can replicate the resources from a domain's home region to all subscribed regions for local availability of data for workloads running in those regions. Further, when a new region is subscribed for a domain, then the service can bootstrap that domain's data from home region before enabling that region for the domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Arsalan Ahmad, Pradyumna Reddy Vajja, Ashwin Kumar Vajantri, Nikhil Yograj Vaishnavi, Girish Yashawant Mande, Girish Nagaraja, Gregg Alan Wilson
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Patent number: 12101578Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for generating surrounding views includes a controller. The controller may be programmed to perform operations including receiving a status information from a remote source, receiving a surround view system (SVS) request having a set of requirements from a vehicle, identifying one or more remote sources based on the status information of the one or more remote sources and the set of requirements of the SVS request, and directing the one or more remote sources to stream SVS data to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Baekgyu Kim, Haoxin Wang, Prashant Tiwari