Vehicular Patents (Class 348/148)
  • Patent number: 11928388
    Abstract: A vehicle sound service system and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle sound service system includes a service server including a communication device that may be configured to transmit and receive data with a mobile terminal loaded with a camera and a processing device electrically connected with the communication device. The processing device may be configured to receive an image transmitted from the mobile terminal using the communication device, when the mobile terminal captures the image around a vehicle using the camera and transmits the image, to analyze the received image to estimate a driving place, and to select a sound that matches the estimated driving place and transmits the selected sound to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Kyoung Jin Chang
  • Patent number: 11926320
    Abstract: An autonomous speed control function for autonomously controlling a traveling speed of the vehicle and an autonomous steering control function for autonomously controlling steering of the vehicle include executing first autonomous control where, when an external situation of the vehicle is recognizable from a captured image by a camera on the vehicle, the vehicle is autonomously controlled using information recognized from the captured image; executing second autonomous control in which information indicating the external situation of the vehicle is acquired from stored map information provided in the vehicle and the vehicle is autonomously controlled using the acquired information; specifying an unrecognizable area in which the external situation of the vehicle is unrecognizable from the captured image; and when the unrecognizable area is present on a travel route of the vehicle, switching from the first autonomous control to the second autonomous control before the vehicle enters the unrecognizable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohei Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11927668
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for employing deep learning to analyze radar signals. In an aspect, an on-board computer of a host vehicle receives, from a radar sensor of the vehicle, a plurality of radar frames, executes a neural network on a subset of the plurality of radar frames, and detects one or more objects in the subset of the plurality of radar frames based on execution of the neural network on the subset of the plurality of radar frames. Further, techniques for transforming polar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates in a neural network are disclosed. In an aspect, a neural network receives a plurality of radar frames in polar coordinate space, a polar-to-Cartesian transformation layer of the neural network transforms the plurality of radar frames to Cartesian coordinate space, and the neural network outputs the plurality of radar frames in the Cartesian coordinate space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Hendricus Franciscus Fontijne, Amin Ansari, Bence Major, Ravi Teja Sukhavasi, Radhika Dilip Gowaikar, Xinzhou Wu, Sundar Subramanian, Michael John Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11928406
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for creating and building a model of a unique infrastructure, such as a parking structure. The model may be created through the identification of various triggers by a vehicle traversing the infrastructure. The triggers may include, for example, sensors or other devices capable of sensing the vehicle within the infrastructure. The triggers may also be information received from the vehicle itself. Based on the triggers, it may be inferred that various places exist throughout the infrastructure. For example, it may be inferred through two subsequent triggers that a place exists between the two triggers. The place may be added to the model of the infrastructure in between the two triggers. The model may continue to grow in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Makke, Oleg Gusikhin, Andrew Gliesman, Bardia Madani, Sina Fakhraee, David Kramer, Melinda Kaye Hunsaker
  • Patent number: 11927456
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for providing dynamic in-vehicle content. A path of a vehicle is predicted, and an intersection is identified along the predicted path. Based on vehicle status data, a determination is made as to whether the vehicle is decelerating along the predicted path within a threshold distance of the intersection. In response to determining that the vehicle is decelerating along the predicted path within the threshold distance of the intersection, a further determination is made as to whether a geographical location of the intersection is associated with a content item. In response to determining that the geographical location of the intersection is associated with the content item, the content item is presented via an entertainment device of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Chetan Shah, Padmassri Chandrashekar, Daina Emmanuel
  • Patent number: 11928868
    Abstract: A vehicle position and velocity estimation system based on camera and LIDAR data is disclosed. An embodiment includes: receiving input object data from a subsystem of a vehicle, the input object data including image data from an image generating device and distance data from a distance measuring device, the distance measuring device comprising one or more LIDAR sensors; determining a first position of a proximate object near the vehicle from the image data; determining a second position of the proximate object from the distance data; correlating the first position and the second position by matching the first position of the proximate object detected in the image data with the second position of the same proximate object detected in the distance data; determining a three-dimensional (3D) position of the proximate object using the correlated first and second positions; and using the 3D position of the proximate object to navigate the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Chenyang Li, Xiaodi Hou, Siyuan Liu
  • Patent number: 11928871
    Abstract: A vehicle position estimation device is configured to acquire a distance from a road edge to a subject vehicle using at least one of an imaging device or a distance measuring sensor, acquire position information of lane boundary lines detected by analyzing the images captured by the imaging device; acquire map information including a lane quantity of a traveling road of the subject vehicle from a map storage, calculate, as a roadside area width, a lateral direction distance between an outermost detection line, which is an outermost boundary line among the detected boundary lines, and the road edge, and specify a traveling lane of the subject vehicle based on (i) the distance from the road edge to the subject vehicle, (ii) the roadside area width, and (iii) the lane quantity included in the acquired map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Ishimaru, Shunya Kumano, Yuusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11921232
    Abstract: A vehicle service system comprising a calibration apparatus, which is designed to calibrate an ADAS sensor of a vehicle, a calibration device and a position detection system, which comprises, in turn, two optical apparatuses, which are arranged on opposite sides of the vehicle and are configured to capture first images containing images of the vehicle. The optical apparatuses have respective positioning targets, which are oriented so as to face the calibration apparatus. The position detection system further comprises two cameras, which are mounted on the calibration apparatus so as to be arranged in lateral positions on opposite sides with respect to the calibration device. The two cameras are optically oriented towards the optical apparatuses so as to capture the images of the positioning targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TEXA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Bruno Vianello, Leonardo Polito
  • Patent number: 11921281
    Abstract: The invention relates to an attachment device for at least one objective lens and/or at least one eyepiece of a long-range optical device, in particular in the form of a riflescope, a telescope or a binocular, wherein the attachment device comprises at least one window, which is transparent at least in a visible spectral range, as well as at least one electrical heating device for the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG.
    Inventors: Alois Zangerl, Martin Kuhn, Michael Socher, Philipp Gimpl
  • Patent number: 11919523
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using machine learning classifiers to identify anomalous driving behavior in vehicle driver data obtained from vehicle telematics devices are provided. In one example, a vehicle telematics device receives vehicle driver data from sensors, identifies anomalies in the vehicle driver data by using an unsupervised machine learning process, calculates a driver risk score by using the anomalies identified in the vehicle driver data, and transmits the risk score to a remote server system. In another example, a server system receives vehicle driver data from a plurality of vehicle telematics devices, identifies anomalies in the vehicle driver data by using an unsupervised machine learning process, and calculates a driver risk score by using the anomalies identified in the vehicle driver data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CalAmp Corp.
    Inventor: Amrit Rau
  • Patent number: 11922787
    Abstract: An embodiment related to a system, comprising: a processor; a sensor; an image sensor; a display; and a communication module; wherein the processor is configured to measure a physiological characteristic of a passenger of a vehicle; capture an image of the passenger of a vehicle; process the physiological characteristic of the passenger and determine whether the physiological characteristic is outside a predefined threshold; process the image, via the processor comprising an image processing algorithm and artificial intelligence, for extracting a feature; detect the health emergency and a severity of the health emergency based on the feature extracted; generate an alert signal; display the alert signal and at least one of a detail of the health emergency of the passenger; and an action based on the health emergency and a severity of the health emergency. In an embodiment, the system is configured to be a component of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Barcia, Anthony Raimondi, Ronald J Roselli, Kyle Caroncino, Derek Boesch, Giovanni Spiritoso
  • Patent number: 11912207
    Abstract: A telematics camera includes a housing, including a plurality of sensors; a camera configured to capture an image of a scene; a communication input-output; and an input port configured to be connected in communication with an electronic engine control module of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SmartWitness Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Nick Mirchef, Chris Pflanz
  • Patent number: 11912099
    Abstract: An automatic driving vehicle, that is automatically movable, includes a front window, a LIDAR disposed at an inner side of the front window and configured to acquire external world information on an automatic movement, a display device disposed at the inner side of the front window, a cover member covering the LIDAR and the display device, and a blowout port configured to discharge air toward the LIDAR and the display device along the inner side of the front window. The cover member includes a first introduction port formed by a gap between a portion overlapping the LIDAR in a width direction of the moving body and the front window, and a second introduction port formed by a gap between a portion overlapping the display device in the width direction and the front window. The gap of the first introduction port is larger than the gap of the second introduction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakayama, Akinori Myoi
  • Patent number: 11915499
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for automated license plate recognition and methods for training a machine learning model to undertake automated license plate recognition. For example, a method can comprise dividing an image or video frame comprising a license plate into a plurality of image patches, determining a positional vector for each of the image patches, adding the positional vector to each of the image patches and inputting the image patches and their associated positional vectors to a text-adapted vision transformer. The text-adapted vision transformer can be configured to output a prediction concerning the license plate number of the license plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hayden AI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Morgan Kohler, Bo Shen
  • Patent number: 11912267
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a computer-implemented method comprising receiving, from at least one sensor, sensor data associated with an environment, generating, based on the sensor data, a set of lane change data values associated with positions of at least two vehicles relative to a first lane position in the environment, determining, based on the set of lane change data values, a collision risk value associated with the at least two vehicles attempting to occupy the first lane position, and generating, based on the collision risk value, an output signal to a first vehicle included in the at least two vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Priya Seshadri, Stefan Marti, Joseph Verbeke, Evgeny Burmistrov
  • Patent number: 11912265
    Abstract: Aspects relate to methods and systems for parking a vehicle. An exemplary system includes a first plurality of sensors located on the vehicle and configured to detect first sensor data as a function of objects over a first height range, a second plurality of sensors located on the vehicle and configured to detect second sensor data as a function of objects over a second height range at least partially greater than the first height range, and a computing device configured to receive the first sensor data from the first plurality of sensors and the second sensor data from the second plurality of sensors, and determine the space proximal the vehicle is suitable for parking the vehicle as a function of the first sensor data, the second sensor data, and a height of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Anuja Sonalker, Bohan Wang, Jonathon Ridge
  • Patent number: 11910092
    Abstract: The current disclosure relates to a panoramic look-around view generation method, an in-vehicle device and an in-vehicle system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Wenxue Li
  • Patent number: 11910123
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a first camera and a second camera. The system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and a video display operable to display video images derived from frames of first image data captured by the first camera and frames of second image data captured by the second camera. Responsive to a view selection input selecting a view for the video display, the system (i) determines a first subset of pixels based on tracing rays from pixels of the video display the pixels of the first camera, and (ii) determines a second subset of pixels based on tracing rays from pixels of the video display to pixels of the second camera. The system buffers the first and second subset of pixels and generates display frames of image data using the buffered pixels. The system displays video images derived from the display frames of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sebastian Fluegel
  • Patent number: 11904845
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling autonomous parking and method thereof are provided. The apparatus for controlling autonomous parking according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure a sensor unit for acquiring information around a host vehicle, a storage for storing driver's tendency information upon autonomous parking, and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventor: Tae Bong Noh
  • Patent number: 11904843
    Abstract: A method and system for autonomous parking are disclosed. The system employs Homography guided motion segmentation (HGMS) to determine the availability of a parking slot. A free parking slot is determined based on an occupancy status check and identified structures of parking lines. For example, motion analysis is performed on successive images captured by a camera unit to determine the occupancy status of a parking slot. Information of the free parking slot, for example, the dimensions and orientation, may be determined from identifying the structure of parking lines. This information is used by the system to guide a vehicle from its current location to the detected free parking slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MOOVITA PTE LTD
    Inventors: Upendra Suddamalla, Ravichandiran Balaji, Anthony Wong, Dilip Kumar Limbu
  • Patent number: 11908164
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for auto calibrating a vehicle using a calibration target that is generated from the vehicle's sensor data. In one example, the method may include receiving sensor data associated with a road captured by one or more sensors of a vehicle, identifying lane line data points within the sensor data, generating a representation which includes positions of a plurality of lane lines of the road based on the identified lane line data points, and adjusting a calibration parameter of a sensor from among the one or more sensors of the vehicle based on the representation of the plurality of lane lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EMBARK TRUCKS INC.
    Inventor: Phillip Haeusler
  • Patent number: 11904884
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) maintenance system engages a user of an AV to assist in maintenance tasks. A sensor interface receives data captured by a sensor of the AV. An issue detector processes the sensor data to detect an issue in the AV. A user interface module instructs a user to perform a maintenance task addressing the detected issue. A verification module verifies that the user successfully completed the maintenance task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Yifei Zhang, Jeffrey Shaw, Alexander Willem Gerrese, Jeremy Stephen Juel
  • Patent number: 11904760
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp comprising a housing having a space opened in a forward direction, a bezel mounted on a front of the housing and having first and second through holes, a first optical module having a first light source device provided to irradiate light to a road surface through the first through hole, the first optical module is contained in the space, mounted in the housing, and installed to be inclined to allow an optical axis of the first light source device to be gradually inclined downward in the forward direction, and a second optical module including a second light source device provided to irradiate light forward through the second through hole, the second optical module being contained in the space and mounted on the bezel, an area in which the first optical module is positioned in the bezel is formed to gradually protrude upward in the forward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Ho Ryoo
  • Patent number: 11904756
    Abstract: A method for controlling a headlamp of a motor vehicle, the headlamp comprising a plurality of light sources. A projection symbol to be projected by the headlamp and a position and a size of the projection symbol are determined. A respective first luminous intensity for the light sources for the projection of the projection symbol at the position with the size and a first indicator, which contains an indication of how greatly the individual first luminous intensities differ from one another are determined. The position and/or the size of the projection symbol is changed. A respective second luminous intensity for the light sources for the projection of the projection symbol at the changed position and/or with the changed size and a second indicator, which contains an indication of how greatly the individual second luminous intensities differ from one another are determined. The projection symbol subsequently projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christian Huester, Boris Kubitza, Martin Pluempe, Udo Venker, Carsten Wilks
  • Patent number: 11904773
    Abstract: A method for assembling a mirror reflective element sub-assembly for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes assembling an indicator module by heat staking a printed circuit board at a receiving part of a housing to form a housing and printed circuit board assembly and dispensing potting material at the printed circuit board to seal the printed circuit board at the housing and aligning and taping a diffuser at the housing. A back plate is provided that has an indicator attaching portion for attaching the indicator module. The back plate is placed at a support fixture and a mirror reflective element is attached at the back plate. The indicator module is attached at the indicator attaching portion of the back plate. Light emitted by the indicator module, when electrically powered to emit light, passes through the mirror reflective element at an aperture of the back plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Peterson, Matthew S. Van Oeveren, Jeffrey R. Westbrook
  • Patent number: 11900663
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with traffic sign recognition, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an orchestrator, disposed in a CA/AD vehicle, to receive a classification and a location of a traffic sign, while the CA/AD vehicle is enroute to a destination. In response, the orchestrator query a remote sign locator service or a local database on the CA/AD vehicle for a reference description of the traffic sign, determine whether the classification is correct, and output a result of the determination. The classification of the traffic sign is generated based at least in part on computer vision, and the orchestrator includes an anomaly detector to detect anomalies between the classification and the reference description, and determine whether the classification is correct based at least in part on an amount of anomalies detected. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Oleg Pogorelik
  • Patent number: 11902648
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a lens assembly that includes at least one lens that defines an optical axis, a lens holder coupled to the lens assembly, a substrate, an image sensor disposed on the substrate, and an actuator coupled between the lens holder and the substrate and configured to adjust a position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly to reposition the image sensor along the optical axis. The apparatus also includes a position sensor that includes a magnet and a magnetic field sensor. The position sensor is coupled to the substrate and the lens holder. The magnetic field sensor is configured to generate magnetic field data indicating a position of the substrate relative to the lens holder. The apparatus additionally includes circuitry configured to control the actuator based on the magnetic field data to place the image sensor within a depth of focus of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11897458
    Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Kamiya, Yosuke Ito, Toru Takahashi, Shogo Matsunaga, Takaharu Oguri, Takahiro Baba, Ryo Takaki
  • Patent number: 11900685
    Abstract: A method for identifying potentially hazardous or at-risk objects in the surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes detecting an area of the surroundings using at least one event-based sensor, the event-based sensor including light-sensitive pixels, and a relative change of the light intensity incident upon a pixel by at least a predefined percentage prompting the sensor to output an event assigned to this pixel. The method also includes assigning events output by the sensor to objects in the area; analyzing, for at least one object to which events are assigned, the events assigned to the object with respect to present movements of the object; and ascertaining an impending movement of the object, and/or an impending change of state, of the object from the present movements. An associated computer program is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Pfeiffer, Jochen Marx, Oliver Lange
  • Patent number: 11900801
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a speeding ticket. The method includes generating a first image of at least a part of a vehicle by a first camera, detecting a first set of the characters of the number plate of the vehicle dependent on the first image, and generating a secured file by a first camera using the first set of the characters and a first character code. The method further includes generating a second image of the part of the vehicle by a second camera and detecting a second set of the characters of the number plate dependent on the second image. The method further includes generating the speeding ticket, in response to determining that the vehicle violates a speed limit and in response to verifying that the first set of the characters is equal to the second set of the characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Anton Oberhofer, Florian Mentzel, Hien Pham The, Thishanth Thevarajah
  • Patent number: 11897398
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a lens holder, a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board. The first and second printed circuit boards are stacked and overlap one another. Circuitry disposed at the first printed circuit board is electrically connected with circuitry disposed at the second printed circuit board via board-to-board electrical connection. The circuitry disposed at the first printed circuit board includes an imaging sensor at a first side of the first printed circuit board. Thermally conductive material is disposed between the second printed circuit board and a second side of the first printed circuit board. The thermally conductive material is in thermally-conductive contact with the first and second printed circuit boards. The vehicular camera includes a rear housing, which includes an electrical connector portion. The electrical connector portion of the rear housing may include an electrical plug connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew C. Sesti, Robert A. Devota
  • Patent number: 11897507
    Abstract: A vehicle control device executes, when a driver is in an abnormal state, deceleration control for decelerating a vehicle to stop the vehicle, and the vehicle control device determines whether the vehicle is likely to stop at a specific spot based on an image acquired by an image sensor during the execution of the deceleration control. The specific spot is a spot at which another physical body moves in a direction intersecting with a travel direction of the vehicle. When the vehicle is likely to stop at the specific spot, the vehicle control device executes control for causing the vehicle to pass through the specific spot and stops the vehicle thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11893727
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems, devices, and methods for identifying, detecting, and/or tracking rail features. In some aspects, a system includes a camera and a computer having at least one memory, at least one processor configured to receive a plurality of images from the camera, and for each of the images: assigning a location identifier and identifying one or more rail features that correspond to one of a plurality of predetermined rail features. In some systems, the at least one processor is configured to determine a location of each of the one or more identified rail features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HARSCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Javier Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11893752
    Abstract: A moving body speed derivation method that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes deriving a reference point in a second moving body region that is an image of a second moving body, from one image capturing the second moving body among a plurality of time-series images captured by an imaging device installed in a first moving body; deriving a position of the second moving body based on a distance between the imaging device and a feature point in the second moving body corresponding to the reference point in the second moving body region; and deriving speed of the second moving body based on a change amount of the position of the second moving body corresponding to the second moving body region included in the plurality of time-series images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Kanetake, Rie Hasada, Haruyuki Ishida, Yasuto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11895432
    Abstract: In a recording control apparatus, an event detector detects that an event occurs, when a save-triggering event, which is defined to trigger saving of the video data, occurs or when an marking event, which is different from the save-triggering event and for which it is defined that a point of time of detection thereof should be recorded, occurs. A recording controller records, when the marking event is detected, the point of time of detection of thereof. When the save-triggering event is detected within a standby period defined in association with the marking event after detection of the marking event, it is defined that video data including a video at the point of time of detection of the marking event and a video at a point of time of detection of the save-triggering event should be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Kasuya
  • Patent number: 11890988
    Abstract: An method for automatically panning a view for a commercial vehicle includes analyzing a portion of a first view at a first time to determine a position of a vehicle feature within the first view, wherein the first view is a subset of a second view, estimating an expected position of the vehicle feature in the first view at a second time subsequent to the first time, defining a region of interest centered on the expected position of the vehicle feature in the second view and analyzing the region of interest to determine an exact position of the vehicle feature at the second time, and determining a current trailer angle based on a position of the vehicle feature within the second view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Stoneridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Gudarzi, Liang Ma, Troy Otis Cooprider
  • Patent number: 11891057
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve safety and more efficient Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) systems for vehicular operation through the application of multiple thermal sensors arranged in systems where the resolution, Field Of View (FOV), and aiming angle of individual sensors are varied. In particular two configurations are discussed in detail, a three-sensor arrangement for forward and forward off angle data acquisition, and a two or three sensor arrangement for blind spot and pinch point awareness for towing applications. In some forward-looking three-sensor embodiments, the center sensor may provide a high-quality narrow field of view of radiometric data for use with tracking algorithms to identify pedestrian and large animal targets for long range driver identification. The side sensors may provide radiometric data for peripheral vision on short/medium range approaching targets for situational awareness at crosswalks and turning corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Seek Thermal, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim LeBeau
  • Patent number: 11893793
    Abstract: A plurality of on-road vehicles moving along streets of a city, while utilizing onboard cameras for autonomous driving functions, are bound to capture, over time, random images of various city objects such as pedestrians, vehicles, building and other structures. Images of a certain city object may be captured by many of the vehicles at various times while passing by that object, thereby resulting in a corpus of imagery data containing various random images and other representations of that certain object. Per each of at least some of the city objects appearing more than once in the corpus of imagery data, appearances are detected and linked, and then analyzed to reveal behavioral/descriptive models associated with that city object and with interactions of the object with other objects. The models are then used to detect a recent emerging pattern that is then used to determine an appropriate service action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Gal Zuckerman, Moshe Salhov
  • Patent number: 11892858
    Abstract: An example method includes identifying a degraded visual environment corresponding to a phase of a route followed by the vehicle. The method includes determining, based on the phase of the route, a first segment of a trajectory of the vehicle along which to search for a location with an improved navigation environment. The method includes causing the vehicle to follow the first segment until: (i) identifying the improved navigation environment, or (ii) reaching an end of the first segment without identifying the improved navigation environment. The method includes determining a second segment of the trajectory based on whether the improved navigation environment has been identified. The method includes causing the vehicle to follow the second segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffery Saunders
  • Patent number: 11891085
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of controlling a driverless vehicle and an electronic device are provided, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, such as computer vision and self-driving. The method includes: in a case that a stop instruction is received or a driverless vehicle arrives at a preset position, acquiring a first road surface image captured by a camera of the driverless vehicle that is on a same side of a door of the driverless vehicle; acquiring, based on the first road surface image, a target road surface state of road surface on one or two sides of the driverless vehicle that are provided with a door; in a case that the target road surface state is a first road surface state, controlling the driverless vehicle to stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiang Luo
  • Patent number: 11887338
    Abstract: Provided are methods for maintaining calibration of an IBIS camera, which can include receiving a first initial extrinsic calibration of a first camera having a first sensor; determining a first translation of the first sensor based on a second position thereof when the first camera captures a first image; determining a first extrinsic translation shift based at least upon the first translation; and updating the first initial extrinsic calibration to yield a first modified extrinsic calibration for the first camera. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Motional AD LLC
    Inventors: Peter Leeman, Nijumudheen Muhassin, Jayesh Dwivedi
  • Patent number: 11884350
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting an object (303, 304) in the vicinity of a road user. The method recognizes objects (303, 304) detected by the sensor unit (101) with the object recognition unit (102) of a device (100), stores detected objects (303, 304) in an object list with the memory unit (103), transfers the object list with the transfer unit (104) to a data cloud (306), determines a position of the first road user, transmits the position of the first road user to the data cloud (306), identifies an object (303, 304) near the first traffic participant in the data cloud (306) using the object list, transmits a position and an object type of the identified object (303, 304) from the data cloud (306) to a mobile device of the first road user and displays the object (303, 304) and its position on the mobile device of the first road user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Joynext GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Franke, Mathias Haberjahn
  • Patent number: 11889184
    Abstract: A method for providing a connected service of an image capturing apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The method includes connecting the image capturing apparatus for a vehicle to a server for providing a connected service using a wireless communication module; generating event data including event code information and operation mode information of the image capturing apparatus for a vehicle, when an event occurs in the image capturing apparatus for a vehicle; and transmitting the generated event data to the server for providing a connected service through the wireless communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Su Kang, Min Suk Kang, Seung Yo Jang
  • Patent number: 11884239
    Abstract: A vehicle theft recording system, including a first exterior camera disposed on at least a portion of a front portion of a vehicle to record at least one first visual data of a surrounding area in a front of the vehicle thereon, a second exterior camera disposed on at least a portion of a rear portion of the vehicle opposite with respect to the front portion of the vehicle to record at least one second visual data of a surrounding area in a rear of the vehicle thereon, a first mirror camera disposed on at least a portion of a first mirror of the vehicle to record at least one third visual data of a surrounding area on a first side of the vehicle thereon, a second mirror camera disposed on at least a portion of a second mirror of the vehicle opposite with respect to the first side of the vehicle to record at least one fourth visual data of a surrounding area on a second side of the vehicle thereon, an interior camera disposed on at least a portion of a dashboard of the vehicle to record at least one fifth visu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Tomika Young
  • Patent number: 11887196
    Abstract: This application discloses methods, systems, and computer-implemented virtualization software applications and computer-implemented graphical user interface tools for remote virtual visualization of structures. Images are captured by an imaging vehicle of a structure and the captured images are transmitted to a remote server via a communication network. Using virtual 3D digital modeling software the server, using the images received from the imaging vehicle, generates a virtual 3D digital model of the structure and stores it in a database. This virtual 3D digital model can be accessed by remote users, using virtualization software applications, and used to view images of the structure. The user is able to manipulate the images and to view them from various perspectives and compare the before-the-damage images with images taken after damage have occurred. Based on all this the user is enabled to remotely communicate with an insurance agent and/or file an insurance claim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Bryan R. Nussbaum, An Ho, Nathan C. Summers, Kevin L Mitchell, Rebecca A. Little
  • Patent number: 11878694
    Abstract: A 360 safety system for automated verification of a 360 walk-around prior to vehicle engagement is described. The 360 safety system includes at least three sensors that receive a signal from a transmission fob, where one signal may be received by one of the at least three sensors at a time. The signals received by the at least three sensors are configured to be signal inputs to an operating system, where the operating system is in electrical communication with the at least three sensors. Each signal input received by one of the at least three sensors is processed by the operating system to generate a verification output displayed on a HMI of the operating system. When the CPU determines a valid signal input of each of the at least three sensors has been stored, the operating system processes the signal inputs and generates outputs that permit engagement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Andy Krejci
  • Patent number: 11878717
    Abstract: In an approach to mirage detection by autonomous vehicles, one or more computer processors monitor road conditions of a road on which an autonomous vehicle is traveling. One or more computer processors detect a visual indication of a water accumulation on the road. One or more computer processors determine whether one or more other vehicles are detected on the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle. Responsive to determining the one or more other vehicles are detected, one or more computer processors request information associated with road conditions of the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle from the one or more other vehicles. Based on a response to the request from the one or more other vehicles, one or more computer processors determine the one or more other vehicles did not detect the water accumulation. One or more computer processors determine the visual indication of the water accumulation is a mirage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Venkatrama Siva Kumar Vemuri, Ravi Sankar Parvathina
  • Patent number: 11878688
    Abstract: In a vehicle control apparatus, an entry determiner determines, while one of the following traveling mode and the constant-speed traveling mode is performed by the vehicle control apparatus, whether an entry condition is satisfied in response to determination that there is at least one other crossing vehicle. The entry condition enables the at least one other crossing vehicle to cross in front of the own vehicle to thereafter enter the enterable space without colliding with the own vehicle. An autonomous driving controller switches, upon the entry condition being determined to be satisfied, the performed one of the following traveling mode and the constant-speed traveling mode to a crossing mode that controls traveling of the own vehicle to ensure a predetermined space in front of the own vehicle. The predetermined space enables the at least one other crossing vehicle to cross in front of the own vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Uematsu, Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Michihiro Kuroki
  • Patent number: 11877430
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a front case, a rear case, and a shield member. The front case supports an imaging optical unit. The rear case includes an electrically conductive output mechanism configured to output a signal output from the imaging optical unit. The shield member electrically connects the front case and the output mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Matsumoto, Makoto Saito, Yoshihisa Shimazu, Keiichi Ujita
  • Patent number: 11874406
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes a piezoelectric element, a cell case configured to support the piezoelectric element bonded to a front portion of the cell case at an inside of the cell case, the cell case having an opening at a rear portion thereof, a PCB assembly electrically connected to the piezoelectric element, a housing coupled to the opening of the cell case while receiving the PCB assembly therein and configured to seal a space required for electrical connection between the piezoelectric element in the cell case and the PCB assembly, a filler filling the space required for electrical connection between the piezoelectric element and the PCB assembly, after completion of the electrical connection between the piezoelectric element and the PCB assembly, and a rear cover configured to seal a rear opening formed at the housing in order to allow insertion of the PCB assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Hee Bae