Vehicular Patents (Class 348/148)
  • Patent number: 11708041
    Abstract: A vehicle is configured to transport a passenger through autonomous travel. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle camera configured to image the passenger to generate an image, a camera controller configured to control the in-vehicle camera, and a passenger information detection unit configured to detect information about the passenger. The passenger information detection unit measures the number of passengers and the camera controller stops an operation of the in-vehicle camera in a case where the number of passengers is one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Sakai, Makoto Kawaharada, Akihide Tachibana, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11709282
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes image-based systems and methods for object tracking within an asset area. Some exemplary methods include receiving an indication of a first object entering an asset area and receiving data indicative of a plurality of captured images. The methods also include performing, by at least one processor, object classification of the first object based on one or more of the plurality of captured images. The methods further include determining a first object location of the first object based at least in part on the object classification, and outputting an indication of the first object location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Wylie, Jason Richard Hoover, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price, Qiaochu Tang
  • Patent number: 11702007
    Abstract: The present document describes a vehicle-side image capturing system and method that is capable of improving qualities of images captured at vehicle-side. The system includes: a controller, a plurality of cameras, a light sensor and an encoder each connected to the controller. The controller is configured to: receive an illumination intensity of a current environment from the light sensor, select one of the plurality of cameras that is adapted to the illumination intensity as a target camera, activate when the target camera is different from a currently operating camera, deactivate the currently operating camera then configure the target camera as an operating camera for image capturing, and receive images captured by the operating camera and transmit the received images to the encoder. The encoder is configured to encode the received images and transmit the encoded images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Yan, Ming Wang, Jie Sun
  • Patent number: 11702073
    Abstract: A system for control of a steering system of a vehicle. The system including an actuator for applying a force or a torque to the steering system. A force or torque can be superimposed on a force or torque originating from the wheels. The system includes a detection unit disposed on the vehicle and configured for anticipatorily detecting at least one surface condition of a surface section located ahead of the vehicle in the direction of vehicle travel and subsequently driven on by the vehicle. The system including a data processing unit disposed on the vehicle and connected to and communicating with the detection unit. The data processing unit configured for generating control signals for controlling an actuator of the steering system based on the detected surface condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Adeel Awan, Frank Peter Engels, Mohsen Lakehal-ayat, Uwe Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11701967
    Abstract: A display control device includes a display that is configured to display information, a detector that is configured to detect a partition line for partitioning a lane on a road on which a vehicle is present, and a display controller that is configured to cause the display to display the partition line detected by the detector variably, and the display controller is configured to change a length of the partition line which is displayed by the display on the basis of a detection distance of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Ikeda, Yasuharu Hashimoto, Taichi Sogo, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11703879
    Abstract: Autonomously driven vehicles operate in rain, snow and other adverse weather conditions. An on-board vehicle sensor has a beam with a diameter that is only intermittently blocked by rain, snow, dust or other obscurant particles. This allows an obstacle detection processor is to tell the difference between obstacles, terrain variations and obscurant particles, thereby enabling the vehicle driving control unit to disregard the presence of obscurant particles along the route taken by the vehicle. The sensor may form part of a LADAR or RADAR system or a video camera. The obstacle detection processor may receive time-spaced frames divided into cells or pixels, whereby groups of connected cells or pixels and/or cells or pixels that persist over longer periods of time are interpreted to be obstacles or terrain variations. The system may further including an input for receiving weather-specific configuration parameters to adjust the operation of the obstacle detection processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Cybernet Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Charles J. Jacobus, Douglas Haanpaa, Charles J. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11702008
    Abstract: A vehicle outer mirror device includes a housing, a mirror main body, a mirror drive unit, and an imaging unit. The housing is attached to a door of a vehicle and includes an opening facing rear of the vehicle. The mirror main body is disposed in the opening of the housing and has a light reflection region reflecting light entering from outside of the housing and a light transmission region capable of transmitting the light to inside of the housing. The mirror drive unit is disposed inside the housing and adjusts an orientation of the mirror main body. The imaging unit is fixed inside the housing, images the rear of the vehicle through the light transmission region, and is disposed in a state in which an imaging optical axis is inclined toward the outside of the vehicle with respect to a reflection optical axis of the light reflection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MISATO INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nagashima, Takahiro Tsuzuki, Katsushi Oseki
  • Patent number: 11702088
    Abstract: A driver assistance system of a vehicle includes a forward viewing camera, a forward sensing non-vision sensor, and an ECU having at least one data processor. The ECU, responsive to processing of image data captured by the camera and to processing of sensor data captured by the non-vision sensor, provides a driving assistance function for the vehicle. The ECU detects presence of objects forward of the vehicle via processing of captured image data and captured sensor data. The ECU determines an error in object detection by determining difference between object detection based on processing of captured image data and object detection based on processing of captured sensor data. The ECU disables at least part of the driving assist function at least in part responsive to the determined error in object detection being greater than a threshold error level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Chundrlik, Jr., Dominik Raudszus
  • Patent number: 11697408
    Abstract: An automatic parking control unit comprises a recognizing section recognizing an outer world outside a vehicle, a vehicle operation control section performing an operation control on the vehicle, an automatic parking control section performing a parking operation to park the vehicle at a target parking position and a display control section synthesizing images taken by a camera group into an image of a surrounding area of the vehicle and displaying the image on an output device group. The display control section displays an image of the surrounding area of the vehicle and a vehicle body image of the vehicle with a portion of the vehicle made translucent, the portion of the vehicle making a blind area to a driver in the surrounding area of the vehicle and the portion of the vehicle is changed according to a direction in which the vehicle is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Yasushi Shoda
  • Patent number: 11697466
    Abstract: A motorcycle integrated safety system comprises a taillight and headlight each having a camera and at least one sensor in electrical communication with a motorcycle's radio screen. The motorcycle integrated safety system also has plurality of heat, proximity, capacitive sensors, infrared sensors, or an ultrasonic sensors. Each sensor provides feedback to the motorcycle operator regarding the condition of the motorcycle and the environment in which the motorcycle is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Shelton
  • Patent number: 11700439
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a lens holder accommodating a lens and an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB). The lens holder includes a plurality of posts protruding from an attaching portion of the lens holder. The imager PCB includes an imager disposed at a first side of the imager PCB, and includes a plurality of apertures therethrough. The attaching portion of the lens holder is positioned at the imager PCB such that the posts protrude through the apertures of the imager PCB. The posts are movable within the apertures while the lens is adjusted relative to the imager to align the lens relative to the imager. With the lens aligned relative to the imager, the posts are heated to deform within the apertures, whereby the deformed posts harden upon cooling to secure the lens holder relative to the imager PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin E. Skrocki, Robert A. Devota, Matthew C. Sesti, Donald W. Mersino
  • Patent number: 11699245
    Abstract: One aspect relates to a computer-implemented method for determining a skeleton of point cloud data in an automotive system for monitoring the environment of a vehicle. In order to determine the skeleton, a method of determining a central point of a point cloud data is performed multiple times, each time using different values for one or more starting parameters. The method may yield different central points depending on the selected values for the one or more starting parameters. The resulting plurality of central points is interpreted as the skeleton of the point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Piotr Bogacki, Rafal Dlugosz, Marzena Banach
  • Patent number: 11691619
    Abstract: An automatic parking system is provided. The automatic parking system includes a camera processor that acquires images around a subject vehicle, converts the acquired images into external images and synthesizes the external images. A sensor processor measured spaced distances between the subject vehicle and surrounding vehicles. A parking space recognizing unit periodically receives the spaced distances and the external images and comparing the consecutive external images with the spaced distances using an image recognition technology to recognize parking areas. A controller calculates a moving path between a current position of the subject vehicle and an optimal parking area and operates the subject vehicle based on the moving path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yoon Soo Kim, Joo Woong Yang, Dae Joong Yoon, Seung Wook Park, Jae Seob Choi, Kyung Soo Ha, Min Byeong Lee, Jin Ho Park, In Yong Jung
  • Patent number: 11693422
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus for an autonomously operated commercial vehicle to allow panoramic capture of surroundings of the commercial vehicle, including: radar units mountable in front corner areas of the vehicle; downwardly directed cameras having a fisheye objective, mountable on front upper corner areas of the vehicle; at least one rearwardly directed sensor mounted on a section of the vehicle to allow rearward image capture; and an evaluation module to evaluate image data from the radar units, the downwardly directed cameras and the at least one rearwardly directed sensor to achieve the panoramic capture of the surroundings of the vehicle; in which the radar units and the at least one rearwardly directed sensor capture all points in a surrounding area of the vehicle, and wherein the downwardly directed cameras capture all points in the surrounding area of the vehicle. Also described are a related commercial vehicle, method and computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Levente Balogh, Huba Nemeth, Csaba Horvath, Viktor Tihanyi
  • Patent number: 11696005
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus is mounted on a moving object and configured to capture an image while moving along a moving direction of the moving object. The imaging apparatus includes a sensor unit including a sensor substrate on which an image sensor is mounted, and a main unit including a main substrate on which an electronic component configured to process an output signal from the sensor substrate is mounted. The imaging apparatus further includes a heat dissipation fin configured to dissipate heat generated in at least one of the sensor unit and the main unit. The heat dissipation fin is provided in a direction substantially parallel to the moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoko Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11691671
    Abstract: The inventive concepts determines a threshold road slope based on camera information and lateral acceleration of a vehicle, estimates the road slope, compensates the estimated road slope to an ADAS driving convenience system, and thus prevents the vehicle from being inclined to the road slope in a section where a threshold road slope is present, thereby securing the driving stability of the vehicle by driving the vehicle in the middle of the lane on a road having the threshold road slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwang Il Choi
  • Patent number: 11688155
    Abstract: A method for detecting boundaries of lanes on a road is presented. The method comprises receiving, by one or more processors from an imaging system, a set of pixels associated with lane markings. The method further includes partitioning, by the one or more processors, the set of pixels into a plurality of groups. Each of the plurality of groups is associated with one or more control points. The method further includes generating, by the one or more processors, a spline that traverses the control points of the plurality of groups. The spline traversing the control points describes a boundary of a lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Luminar, LLC
    Inventors: Pranav Maheshwari, Vahid R. Ramezani, Ismail El Houcheimi, Benjamin Englard
  • Patent number: 11685320
    Abstract: Included are: a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire video data acquired by a plurality of image capturing units that capture images of surroundings of a vehicle; an event detector configured to detect an event concerning the vehicle; a parking detector configured to detect whether the vehicle is in a parked state; an object detector configured to detect a surrounding object present at a distance less than a certain distance from the vehicle while the vehicle is parked, and a recording function controller configured to, when the object detector detects a surrounding object present at a distance less than the certain distance from the vehicle while the vehicle is parked, perform recording due to the event detected by the event detector, using video data captured by a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyofumi Tabata
  • Patent number: 11688180
    Abstract: A lane departure warning system which uses at least one detection device, such as a stereo camera, to map the surrounding environment in three-dimensions, which provides for a determination of the distance of various objects in a given image obtained by the camera. With the information obtained by the camera, or cameras, additional data, such as the color of each pixel in an image, it is possible to identify which pixels in the image correspond to the road. Once the pixels that correspond to the road are identified, the width of the road is determined, as well as the position of the vehicle on the road. With the width of the road being known, the road is “virtually” divided into virtual lanes, and it is determined which of the virtual lanes the vehicle is travelling, and the vehicle is monitored to ensure that the vehicle remains within one of the virtual lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
    Inventor: Roberto Guzman Galan
  • Patent number: 11685321
    Abstract: An integrated housing assembly can be mounted on a roof of a vehicle, such as a semi-trailer truck. The integrated housing assembly includes a main enclosure that includes four sides, a top panel, and a bottom panel. One of the four sides is a front panel that is inclined towards the ground. The main enclosure includes one or more cavities. A front panel of the integrated housing assembly includes one or more openings to allow cameras or sensors to be placed within the one or more cavities and behind the one or more opening. The cameras or sensors cameras can be clamped at a downward angle within multiple lock apparatus. The angled front panel and the inclined cameras or sensors within the lock apparatus allow the cameras or sensors to obtain images or sensor data from one or more regions of interest at some distance from the front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Qiwei Li, Todd Skinner, Yishi Liu
  • Patent number: 11689710
    Abstract: An image processing device, including an image generation circuit and a multifocal length processing circuit, is provided. The image generation circuit generates multiple depth plane images with depth information and multiple corresponding zoom control information, and merges the multiple depth plane images and the multiple zoom control information according to an arrangement rule, to be a merged image data. The multifocal length processing circuit is configured to decompose the merged image data to restore the multiple depth plane images and the corresponding multiple zoom control information according to the arrangement rule, and to determine a time at which the restored multiple depth plane images are transmitted to a display device and a time at which the restored multiple zoom control information are transmitted to a zoom lens according to a frame rate of the display device. The disclosure also provides an image processing method and a 3D image generation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Hsin-Yueh Chang, Li-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11685377
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle includes a processor to control autonomous driving, and a storage to store data and an algorithm to control the autonomous driving. The processor determines whether a target vehicle in front of a host vehicle in a travelling lane of the host vehicle is stopped, and performs a passing control when the target vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yon Jun Jang
  • Patent number: 11688162
    Abstract: A method and device is provided for detecting a state change in an environment around a vehicle, and providing a notification in response to detecting a state change, wherein the detection involves determining a portion of the environment to capture, capturing a portion of the environment, detecting a state change in the captured portion, and the production of a notification in response to the change in the captured environment. Certain embodiments include traffic signal detection, vehicle detection, vehicle speed detection, and user adjustment of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Ichikawa, Toshiki Kindo, Katsuhiro Sakai, Masahiro Harada, Hiromitsu Urano
  • Patent number: 11685392
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image feature data to previously classified image features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11688212
    Abstract: A system and method for classifying driving behavior. The method includes training, via a supervised machine learning process, a classifier using a labeled training data set including at least one set of training features and corresponding training labels, wherein the classifier is trained to classify driving behavior, wherein the training features include training vehicle telemetries, wherein the training labels include at least one of driver labels and vehicle labels; and applying the classifier to an application data set including a plurality of application features to output a classification of driving behavior based on the application features, wherein the application features are extracted from application data including application vehicle telemetries for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: UPSTREAM SECURITY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yonatan Appel, Yoav Levy
  • Patent number: 11689795
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a front housing portion, a first circuit board having an imager, a second circuit board in board-to-board electrical connection with the first circuit board, and a rear housing portion having a connector for electrically connecting to an electrical connection of a wire harness of a vehicle. The rear housing portion when joined with the front housing portion forms a camera housing. The connector of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector having at least three terminals that, with the rear housing portion joined with the front housing portion, electrically connect to respective terminals of the electrical connector at the second circuit board. The connector includes an electrically conductive metallic clamping element that engages a metallic shield element at the electrical connector at the second circuit board to establish a ground path from the connector of the rear housing portion to the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Conger
  • Patent number: 11688182
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for detecting traffic lane violations. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a potential traffic violation is disclosed comprising bounding a vehicle detected from one or more video frames of a video in a vehicle bounding box. The vehicle can be detected and bounded using a first convolutional neural network. The method can also comprise bounding, using the one or more processors of the edge device, a plurality of lanes of a roadway detected from the one or more video frames in a plurality of polygons. The plurality of lanes can be detected and bounded using multiple heads of a multi-headed second convolutional neural network. The method can further comprise detecting a potential traffic violation based in part on an overlap of at least part of the vehicle bounding box and at least part of one of the polygons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hayden AI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vaibhav Ghadiok, Christopher Carson, Bo Shen
  • Patent number: 11689701
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for detecting traffic violations using one or more mobile detection devices. Videos captured by one or more mobile detection devices can be processed on the mobile detection devices to extract data and information concerning a potential traffic violation involving a vehicle and a restricted road area. The mobile detection devices can transmit such data and information to a server configured to make a determination as to whether a traffic violation has occurred by comparing the data and information received from the mobile detection devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Hayden AI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vaibhav Ghadiok, Christopher Carson, Bo Shen
  • Patent number: 11680712
    Abstract: The method for dirty camera detection including: detecting a first predetermined state change event; sampling a set of cavity measurements; optionally determining a set of features of the set of cavity measurements; determining a class label based on the cavity measurements; optionally verifying the classification; and facilitating use of the appliance based on the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: June Life, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Bhogal, Nishit Kumar, Robert Cottrell, Jithendra Paruchuri, Ryan Perry, Matthew Van Horn, Christopher Russell Clark, Eugenia Kuo
  • Patent number: 11681422
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method provides a display device. The method senses the presence of the user or scene change within the field of view of the system's image sensor with a built-in image signal processor. The method automatically and concurrently powers on the image sensor. The method lights one or more lights around the display device in response to sense the presence of the user or scene change. The method captures one or more frames of images of a user or scene change with the image sensor. Each frame includes an M by N array of pixel data. The M by N array of pixel data comprises a data structure consisting of a collection of pixel elements enumerated as pixel P11 to pixel Pm1. The method stores the M by N array of pixel data as a frame of data written into a frame buffer memory of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: John W. Rowles
  • Patent number: 11681534
    Abstract: An embedded multiprocessor system is provided that includes a multiprocessor system on a chip (SOC), a memory coupled to the multiprocessor SOC, the memory storing application software partitioned into an initial boot stage and at least one additional boot stage, and a secondary boot loader configured to boot load the initial boot stage on at least one processor of the multiprocessor SOC, wherein the initial boot stage begins executing and flow of data from the initial boot stage to the at least one additional boot stage is disabled, wherein the application software is configured to boot load a second boot stage of the at least one additional boot stage on at least one other processor of the multiprocessor SOC and to enable flow of data between the initial boot stage and the second boot stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yogesh Vikram Marathe, Kedar Satish Chitnis, Rishabh Garg
  • Patent number: 11682239
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal characterized by comprising: a display unit which outputs visual information; a depth camera which captures a subject and acquires a depth image; a memory which stores a vein pattern of a user's hand; and a control unit connected to the display unit, the depth camera, and the memory. The control unit identifies the shape of the user's hand from the depth image, authenticates the user using a pre-stored user vein pattern, and when the user is authenticated, executes a specific application in response to a three-dimensional gesture of the user's hand, and omits an authentication procedure required by the specific application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sunhyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 11679742
    Abstract: A vehicular system includes a first in-vehicle sensor having a first cleaning target surface which is provided on a design part forming an appearance of a vehicle and arranged so as to face an exterior of the vehicle. The first cleaning target surface is arranged at an inner side of the vehicle than an immediate upper portion of the first cleaning target surface. The immediate upper portion is constituted by a protrusion provided in a rear bumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Sakai, Masaaki Sato
  • Patent number: 11673532
    Abstract: A vehicle camera washing system includes a controller configured to control a pump and valve according to a selected mode of operation and a detected blockage of the lens. The selected mode of operation tailors operation of the camera washing system to current vehicle operating conditions to conserve washing fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew E. Letizio, Jason W. Fegan, Raymond S. Walters
  • Patent number: 11676404
    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an electronic control unit (ECU), memory that stores driver information, and a driver monitoring camera viewing a head of a driver present in the vehicle. When the driver is present in the vehicle, and via processing at the ECU of image data captured by the driver monitoring camera and provided to the ECU, the system recognizes the driver present in the vehicle as being one of the at least one potential driver of the vehicle having driver information stored in the memory, and the vehicular driver monitoring system accesses the driver information that is associated with the driver. Responsive to determination by the vehicular driver monitoring system that a geographical location of the accessed stored driver information corresponds to a current geographical location of the vehicle, the system generates an output for the driver that corresponds to the current geographical location of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Harjeet Singh
  • Patent number: 11673583
    Abstract: Using a read sensor to sense wrong-way driving. A method may include sensing, by a rear sensor of a vehicle, an environment of the vehicle to provide rear sensed information; processing the rear sensed information to provide at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications; generating or receiving at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications; wherein the at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications is generated by processing front-sensed information acquired during right-way progress; comparing at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications to the at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications to determine whether the vehicle is wrong-way driving; and responding to the finding of the wrong-way driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Karina Odinaev
  • Patent number: 11678065
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to method, system, and implementations for glare control. A sensor housing assembly is provided on an autonomous vehicle to house at least one sensor therein and protect the at least one sensor from negative impact from an environment including glare from the environment that prevents the at least one sensor from capturing accurate information regarding a field of view with respect to the environment to facilitate autonomous driving of the autonomous vehicle. The negative impact on the at least one sensor is determined by a controller, which then activates a glare blocking mechanism in response to the determined negative impact. The glare blocking mechanism being mounted on the sensor housing assembly and configured to assist in blocking glare with respect to the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinpeng Li, Greg Seyfarth, Qiaoyu Zhang, Amit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11673519
    Abstract: A hub rotation imaging control system, includes a power management unit, which can output required direct current for other units; a parameter monitoring unit, which can monitor surrounding environment data of the hub and vehicle driving data; a main control management unit, which can receive the environment data and vehicle driving data monitored by the parameter monitoring unit, and generate video data and control instructions according to the environment data and vehicle driving data; and a data processing unit, which can receive the video data and control instructions generated by the main control management unit, and output drive signals to drive hub imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiwen Xu, Minglei Li, Yao Dai, Shaoqian Wang, Weidong Liu, Xi Li
  • Patent number: 11678038
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus' parts are provided with an outer frame member, an enclosure section shielding body accommodated by the outer frame member and accommodating and achieving electrically continuous connection with an imaging part, a connection that connects a metal shield of a relay connector to the imaging apparatus by contacting with an interior of the enclosure section shielding body, a barrier wall between the relay connector and the enclosure section shielding body, and a connector terminal. The connector terminal includes an internal contact section exposed to an interior of the enclosure section shielding body, and an external contact section exposed to an interior of the connector. The enclosure section shielding body is formed of a box-shaped metal shell accommodating the internal contact section in the interior. The connector has a connector section shielding body formed of a tubular metal shell accommodating the external contact section in the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuma Sakamoto, Junya Sakaue, Takashi Sekine
  • Patent number: 11668833
    Abstract: Virtual bumpers for autonomous vehicles improve effectiveness and safety as such vehicles are operated. One or more sensor systems having a Lidar sensor and a camera sensor determine proximity of objects around the vehicle and facilitate identification of the environment around the vehicle. The sensor systems are placed at various locations around the vehicle. The vehicle identifies an object and one or more properties of the identified object using the sensor systems. Based on the identified object and the properties of the object, a virtual bumper may be created for that object. For example, if the object is identified as another vehicle moving with a certain velocity, the vehicle may determine a minimum space to avoid the other vehicle, either by changing direction or reducing the velocity of the vehicle, with the minimum space constituting a virtual bumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CYNGN, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Lowe, Ain McKendrick, Andrea Mariotti, Pranav Bajoria, Biao Ma
  • Patent number: 11667297
    Abstract: A mobility controlling method and apparatus based on error monitoring are provided. The mobility controlling method includes: collecting an Event-Related Potential (ERP) for at least one passenger in a mobility for a predetermined time, determining an error factor by analyzing the ERP that is collected for the predetermined time, and performing mobility feedback based on the error factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, SOOKMYUNG WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY—ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jeong Su Kang, Suh Yeon Dong
  • Patent number: 11669937
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for enhancing an image captured by an on-board camera, and a computing device. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of first original image captured by a camera of the sampling vehicle; when a discriminative model in a generative adversarial networks (GAN) model determines that a quality of an output image of a generative model is poorer than an expected quality, training the generative model by using the first original images to obtain an image enhancement model; and enhancing a second original image captured by an on-board camera of a running vehicle by using the image enhancement model to acquire an enhanced image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Huajie Zeng
  • Patent number: 11668799
    Abstract: A method of detecting L-shaped target objects within a point cloud includes rotating a target point cloud through a plurality of rotation angles and generating at least one weighted histogram for each of the plurality of rotation angles, wherein the weighted histogram includes a first plurality of bins, each bin having a width defined in a first axis, wherein each bin is weighted based on a number of points located within the bin and a distance between points in a direction perpendicular to a width of the bin. A score is generated for each of the plurality of rotation angles based on the at least one weighted histogram and determining whether a target point cloud is L-shaped based on the generated scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Mo Wu
  • Patent number: 11670096
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing a driving lane of a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes an information acquisition device that acquires forward information of a road on which the vehicle is driving, and a processor that recognizes an entrance section and an exit section on a front left side of the vehicle based on the forward information, and determines a driving lane of the vehicle by correcting a number of lanes of the road in the entrance section and the exit section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Min Han, Sung Yoon Yeo, Seo Hyeon Park, Seung Geon Moon
  • Patent number: 11663891
    Abstract: A work vehicle periphery monitoring system includes: an alarm range storage unit that stores an alarm range, in which an alarm output is required when an object is present, in a detection range of an object detection device that detects an object present in a periphery of a work vehicle; a work mode determination unit that determines a work mode of the work vehicle; an alarm range changing unit that changes the alarm range in the detection range when it is determined that the work mode is a specific work mode; and an alarm control unit that causes an alarm device to output an alarm when an object is present in the alarm range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Imaizumi, Masataka Ozaki, Takeshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11661037
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure which includes a bracket and a washer. The bracket is disposed between a part of a back surface of a license plate and a front grille. The bracket fastens the license plate to the front grille. The washer moves forward on the back side of the license plate in an area without the bracket in order to clean a sensing surface of a sensor which monitors the front of the vehicle. The bracket includes one or more of supporting portions which protrude on the washer side and support the license plate from the back side of the license plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11665801
    Abstract: A camera mirror system for a vehicle includes, among other things, a camera that has a field of view, a display in communication with the camera that is configured to depict the field of view, and an infrared light-emitting diode (IR LED) that is configured to illuminate the field of view. The IR LED is configured to operate at a temperature. The system further includes a controller that is configured to provide at least one of a warning or an IR LED shut down command in response to the temperature exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ORLACO PRODUCTS B.V.
    Inventors: Alfred van den Brink, Kent Palsson
  • Patent number: 11653587
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for displaying images of certain surroundings of an agricultural implement, for example one including a frame extending between opposing distal ends of a length transverse to a working direction of the agricultural implement. Individual image regions of the surroundings of the agricultural implement are captured using cameras arranged on the agricultural implement and directed toward a working area in the working direction, wherein a corresponding display is generated on a user interface. One or more traveling conditions (e.g., an edge of the working area and/or an edge of the frame, respectively corresponding to a first end and/or second end of the frame) may be automatically projected in the working direction, wherein respective indicia corresponding to the projected traveling conditions are superimposed on the generated display. The indicia may optionally be modified dynamically based on determined changes in a projected course of the working direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Timothy J. Kraus
  • Patent number: 11657688
    Abstract: A work vehicle periphery monitoring system includes: an alarm range storage unit that stores an alarm range, in which an alarm output is required when an object is present, in a detection range of an object detection device that detects an object present in a periphery of a work vehicle; a work mode determination unit that determines a work mode of the work vehicle; an alarm range changing unit that changes the alarm range in the detection range when it is determined that the work mode is a specific work mode; and an alarm control unit that causes an alarm device to output an alarm when an object is present in the alarm range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Imaizumi, Masataka Ozaki, Takeshi Kurihara
  • Patent number: 11659265
    Abstract: A dual camera module system includes a housing and a pair of camera modules (e.g., digital cameras) that are aligned with fields of view that overlap below the housing. The camera modules are mounted to a bench within the housing. The dual camera module system is configured for mounting above areas such as retail establishments or other materials handling facilities. The housing is formed from one or more sections of plastic or like materials, and includes inlets and outlets that enable air to flow past the camera modules and other components within the housing, and to maintain such components at a desired temperature. Images captured by the imaging devices of the camera module may be utilized for any purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuai Yue, Matthew Christopher Smith