Traffic Monitoring Patents (Class 348/149)
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Patent number: 11792514Abstract: A method and an apparatus for stabilizing an image, a roadside device, and a cloud control platform are provided. The method may include: calculating, for a current image in an image sequence, a first offset between each image stabilization box of the current image and a corresponding image stabilization box of a template image; adding a first offset meeting a first preset condition to an observation list of a corresponding image stabilization box of the template image until there is an observation list meeting a second preset condition; and determining a position of the signal light of the current image, based on a first offset in an observation list of at least one image stabilization box and a position of the signal light of the template image.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT CONNECTIVITY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Liu, Jinrang Jia
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Patent number: 11783701Abstract: A communication control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (11) communicating information to and from a moving body, a violation time predicting unit (12) predicting a violation time at which the moving body violates a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and another object or a constraint condition relating to a relative relationship between the moving body and a path on which the moving body should run by using positional information of the moving body, a deadline calculating unit (13) calculating an execution deadline of an avoidance operation for avoiding a violation of the constraint condition by using the violation time, and a communication control unit (14) increasing a priority level of a communication with the moving body as a time difference between a current time and the execution deadline decreases.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Sweety Suman, Takanori Iwai, Hiroshi Yoshida
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Patent number: 11762617Abstract: A display apparatus includes circuitry to receive an input of hand drafted data, display, on a display, an object corresponding to the hand drafted data and an external image that is externally input, perform character recognition on the hand drafted data to convert the hand drafted data into text data, and display, on the display, a search result obtained using at least a part of the external image and at least a part of the text data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Masato Takahashi
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Patent number: 11765339Abstract: Methods and devices for estimating position of a device within a 3D environment are described. Embodiments of the methods include sequentially receiving multiple image segments forming an image representing a field of view (FOV) comprising a portion of the environment. The image includes multiple sparse points that are identifiable based in part on a corresponding subset of image segments of the multiple image segments. The method also includes sequentially identifying one or more sparse points of the multiple sparse points when each subset of image segments corresponding to the one or more sparse points is received and estimating a position of the device in the environment based on the identified the one or more sparse points.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, Gary Bradski
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Patent number: 11748702Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of determining a status of a position on a shelf, a shelf and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring current detection data of the shelf in a current detection period; determining first status information of respective positions from the current detection data, in response to determining that the current detection data satisfies a preset condition; in response to the current detection data indicating that a target position whose first status information indicates the second status exists, acquiring first status information of the target position from previous detection data in a previous detection period; and determining second status information of the target position based on the first status information of the target position in the current detection data and the previous detection data respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tong Liu, Xiaojun Tang
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Patent number: 11727684Abstract: One or more computing devices perform a method for placing a virtual tripwire onto grid points of a geocoordinate grid. A device processor directs a camera to capture a series of images within the camera's field of view. The processor identifies objects of interest within the images and determines movements of the objects through the images. The processor identifies directions of travel of the objects and determines variances in those directions of travel. The processor further determines vectors of median direction of travel for vector points corresponding to the objects on the grid. The processor then determines multiple candidate locations for placement of the tripwire across grid points of the grid in a direction approximately orthogonal to the direction of travel of at least one object of interest and automatically selects one of the candidate locations based on the vectors of median direction of travel and the travel direction variances.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Ubicquia IQ LLCInventors: Samuel Leonard Holden, Morné Neser
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Patent number: 11726472Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for determining efficient utilization of drones. In some aspects, a drone may be performing a task, and a new task may be identified. Whether the drone should be diverted from the existing task to the new task, in some embodiments, is based on a number of factors. These factors include, for example, a value associated with the existing task and a value associated with the new task. The values are based on, for example, a potential delay introduced in completing the existing task if the drone is diverted to the new task.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Joby Aero, IncInventor: Ian Andreas Villa
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Patent number: 11683576Abstract: A camera module includes a lens barrel configured to receive a lens, a substrate on which an image sensor is disposed, a housing configured to receive the lens barrel and to contact the substrate, a heat transfer member configured to contact the housing, and a heat dissipation member configured to contact the heat transfer member and dissipate heat from the heat transfer member in different lateral directions about the lens.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Jong Won Song, Young An Choi, Tae Young Choi
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Patent number: 11557154Abstract: System and method for verification and/or reconciliation of electronic transactions, such as for example, toll transactions or other purchase transactions. A vehicle utilizes an onboard communication device, such as a mobile phone, to locate virtual tolling points using GPS location, and then to communicate to an electronic tolling service provider that the vehicle has passed through the virtual tolling point. In addition, roadside equipment may be used to capture photo/video of the vehicle as it passes the virtual tolling point. The GPS-based toll transaction data is used in conjunction with the photo-based toll transaction data to verify a proper toll transaction, and optionally to reconcile between missing and/or inconsistent GPS-based and photo-based toll transaction data.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AGInventors: Thomas Siegl, Gerald König
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Patent number: 11526711Abstract: Techniques for collecting, synchronizing, and displaying various types of data relating to a road segment enable, via one or more local or remote processors, servers, transceivers, and/or sensors, (i) enhanced and contextualized analysis of vehicle events by way of synchronizing different data types, relating to a monitored road segment, collected via various different types of data sources; (ii) enhanced and contextualized analysis of filed insurance claims pertaining to a vehicle incident at a road segment; (iii) advantageous machine learning techniques for predicting a level of risk assumed for a given vehicle event or a given road segment; (iv) techniques for accounting for region-specific driver profiles when controlling autonomous vehicles; and/or (v) improved techniques for providing a GUI to display collected data in a meaningful and contextualized manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Alexander Cardona, Kip Wilson, David Frank, Phillip Michael Wilkowski, Nolan White
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Patent number: 11518380Abstract: An in-vehicle data collection and processing device receives real-time data from a plurality of sensors relating to at least one of a current vehicle condition and a current driver condition. The device then predicts, by processing at least a portion of the real-time data through a pre-trained pattern recognition algorithm, a likelihood of occurrence of at least one of a plurality of incidents involving the vehicle. In response, the device outputs one or more types of warnings and/or conducts a vehicle evasive maneuver if the likelihood is predicted to be above one or more thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLCInventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Shaun Michael Howard
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Patent number: 11522280Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device includes a main body having a display, an outer box in which a control board configured to control the display is embedded, the outer box being separated from the main body, a first antenna provided in the main body, a second antenna configured to wirelessly communicate with the first antenna, the second antenna being provided in the outer box, an antenna bracket to which the second antenna is coupled, and an antenna mount to which the antenna bracket is coupled, the antenna mount being configured to cover an opening defined in the outer box. The antenna bracket includes an antenna cover configured to cover the second antenna and made of a transparent or translucent plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Joonsub Bae, Dongwoo Kim, Sangmoon Hwang, Yonghan Kim
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Patent number: 11516392Abstract: An implantable system includes an implanted camera that captures images. An analytics engine analyzes the images to determine whether any objects or aspects of the captured image is considered an unviewable element. Upon determining that an unviewable element is present, the analytics engine causes an occlusion device to occlude the unviewable element from the user's view. The occlusion can also affect the ability of the camera to continue to see the unviewable element.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Strathspey Crown, LLCInventor: Robert Edward Grant
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Patent number: 11495021Abstract: A picture annotation method, includes: converting, into a video image, multiple pictures in a set of pictures to be annotated; performing video annotation on the video image to obtain an annotation result; and using the obtained annotation result as an annotation result of each picture in the set of pictures to be annotated according to a correspondence between a video frame in the video image and a picture in the set of pictures to be annotated.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xi Zhou
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Patent number: 11479260Abstract: A method includes collecting sensor data from a sensor associated with a vehicle, storing the sensor data in a buffer associated with the sensor, wherein the buffer stores an amount of buffer data, analyzing the sensor data for a proximate event trigger. When the proximate event trigger is not detected, the method includes purging a portion of the sensor data exceeding the amount of buffer data. When the proximate event trigger is detected, the method includes stopping the purging of any of the sensor data and storing the sensor data of the buffer and the sensor data associated with the proximate event trigger and sending the sensor data of the buffer and the sensor data associated with the proximate event trigger to a server.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Kevin K. Fiedler, Don M. Livesay, Amanda S. Danko, Michael J. Szentes
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Patent number: 11443531Abstract: In some embodiments, a method can include executing a first machine learning model to detect at least one lane in each image from a first set of images. The method can further include determining an estimate location of a vehicle for each image, based on localization data captured using at least one localization sensor disposed at the vehicle. The method can further include selecting lane geometry data for each image, from a map and based on the estimate location of the vehicle. The method can further include executing a localization model to generate a set of offset values for the first set of images based on the lane geometry data and the at least one lane in each image. The method can further include selecting a second set of images from the first set of images based on the set of offset values and a previously-determined offset threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.Inventors: Inderjot Saggu, Mianwei Zhou, Ankur Agarwal, Anurag Ganguli
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Patent number: 11407424Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for testing an ability of an automated vehicle to pass a traffic circle without traffic lights. The system includes an automated vehicle, a traffic circle, a control center, an attitude sensor and a panorama camera. In the method, the control center receives a test request and then sends a driving command to drive the automated vehicle to enter the traffic circle to start the test. The attitude sensor obtains a tilt angle and sends it to the control center in real time. The panorama camera is configured to obtain a driving trajectory, a driving speed and a state of turn signals of the automated vehicle. The obtained information is compared to a standard by the control center to evaluate the ability of the automated vehicle to pass the traffic circle without traffic lights.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: CHANG'AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiangmo Zhao, Runmin Wang, Zhigang Xu, Yu Zhu, Wenshuai Zhou, Zhanwen Liu, Pengpeng Sun, Ying Guo, Lan Yang
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Patent number: 11390296Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a communication unit, a display, and a processor. The communication unit can establish communication with an external apparatus. The processor can control the display to activate a graphic object of a content on the basis of communication reliability between the external apparatus and the communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Heedong Choi, Duckgee Park
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Patent number: 11343163Abstract: Each of multiple vehicle data collection devices are configured to collect data streams associated with operation of a vehicle. The data streams include time-stamped speed data. A transmitter is configured to transmit the data streams. An analytics server is configured to receive the data streams transmitted by the transmitter and to process the data. In connection with the processing, data streams with at least one common time stamp are identified. The time-stamped speed for one of the data streams at a first time interval is compared to the time-stamped speed for another of the identified plurality of data streams at a second time interval, where the second time interval comprises the first time interval plus an additional time increment. Based on the comparison, it is determined whether the two of the plurality of data streams are associated with a same trip or a different trip.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Nationwide Mutual Insurance CompanyInventor: David E. Fawcett
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Patent number: 11321970Abstract: A mobile telecommunications device configured to log driving information associated with a vehicle is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: AUTO TELEMATICS LTD.Inventor: Andrew William Wright
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Patent number: 11318957Abstract: A method for measuring an inter-vehicle distance using a processor is provided. The method includes acquiring a driving image photographed by a photographing device of a first vehicle; detecting a second vehicle from the driving image and calculating a ratio between an image width of the detected second vehicle and an image width of a lane in which the second vehicle is located; determining a size class of the second vehicle among a plurality of size classes based on the calculated ratio; determining a width of the second vehicle based on the determined size class of the second vehicle; and calculating a distance from the photographing device to the second vehicle based on the determined width of the second vehicle, a focal length of the photographing device, and the image width of the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: THINKWARE CORPORATIONInventor: Shin Hyoung Kim
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Patent number: 11301685Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically tracking and analyzing imagery data of at least one vehicle on a racetrack comprising. A video event management system with a plurality of video cameras positioned around a racetrack determines the presence of the at least one vehicle and based on a weighted event score corresponding to dynamics for the at least one vehicle and other objects captures video imagery and stills and generates at least one subframe. Excess video imagery data and excess stills data are discarded based on metadata of linked subframes.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Jeroen B. Floor, Paulus Weemaes
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Patent number: 11302438Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of time-series medical images. The processing circuitry calculates, for each of image pairs each formed of two medical images included in the medical images, a first index value indicating similarity between image signals in the two medical images. The processing circuitry also calculates, on the basis of a plurality of the first index values calculated for the respective image pairs, a second index value corresponding to a statistical value in a time direction of the first index values.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori Honjo, Tetsuya Kawagishi, Masaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11292464Abstract: A driver assistance apparatus being configured to determine an object position sequence for each of a plurality of objects and generate an object track to approximate each respective object position sequence. The apparatus also sorts the object tracks in to at least one object group according to the value of at least one parameter of each of the object tracks. For each object group, a swarm function is generated to approximate the object position sequences of the object tracks that are members of the respective object group. A swarm lane is generated according to each the swarm function, the swarm lane portion representing a portion of a lane. A corresponding method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN ABInventors: Sylvia Pietzsch, Eugen Schaefer
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Patent number: 11257364Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems disclosed herein that improve the safety and enhance the quality of interactions between law enforcement officers and drivers. In one example embodiment, a method is provided in which, during a traffic stop, a first device associated with an officer's vehicle obtains information about a driver's vehicle, queries a database for network address information associated with a driver device associated with the driver's vehicle, and receives the network address information from the database. The first device may then transmit a connection request to the second device using the received network address information; and a connection may be established between the two devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, IncorporatedInventors: Juan Eugene Gilbert, Jessica N. Jones, Isabel Laurenceau, Michelle Emamdie, DeKita Moon
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Patent number: 11217091Abstract: Provided is a smart roadside unit, including: a high-bright camera assembly configured to capture a high-bright image; a low-bright camera assembly configured to capture a low-bright image, in which the high-bright camera assembly and the low-bright camera assembly have a substantially same shooting view; and a controller configured to extract vehicle information from the high-bright image and the low-bright image.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lei Fang, Haisong Wang, Xing Hu, Sheng Tao
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Patent number: 11205078Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for selection of candidate video frames from traffic video comprising an imaging processor operatively connected to traffic video source. The imaging processor receives the traffic video from said source for selection of candidate video frames from the received traffic video for analysis of entire traffic video stream to extract vehicles details from therefrom including detection of situations of moving vehicles and non-moving vehicles. The traffic video is forwarded to the imaging processor from the source at an appropriate rate suitable for said candidate frames selection computation.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: VIDEONETICS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITEDInventors: Sudeb Das, Monotosh Das, Tuhin Bose
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Patent number: 11200420Abstract: Methods and devices for estimating position of a device within a 3D environment are described. Embodiments of the methods include sequentially receiving multiple image segments forming an image representing a field of view (FOV) comprising a portion of the environment. The image includes multiple sparse points that are identifiable based in part on a corresponding subset of image segments of the multiple image segments. The method also includes sequentially identifying one or more sparse points of the multiple sparse points when each subset of image segments corresponding to the one or more sparse points is received and estimating a position of the device in the environment based on the identified the one or more sparse points.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, Gary Bradski
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Patent number: 11190738Abstract: A method of determining “true” standstill in a vehicle. The method includes detecting an object outside of the vehicle via a camera, saving first data on the detected object in a memory, detecting the same object after a delay, saving, after the delay, second data on the detected object in a memory, analyzing, by a controller, the first and second data, and determining “true” standstill has occurred based on the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Christian Sperrle
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Patent number: 11178344Abstract: To provide HMD including an image display unit worn by a user on a head and configured to display an image, a camera provided in the image display unit and configured to capture an image in a predetermined direction relative to the image display unit, and a control unit configured to specify a non-display region in an imaging range of the camera, perform a process of lowering a clarity of the non-display region on captured image data of the camera, and output the processed captured image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Kobayashi, Masahide Takano
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Patent number: 11172564Abstract: A commissioning system and method that applies a design configuration, representative of a building automation and control system, to a mesh network of network-capable devices. A cloud-based server system works in concert with an installing device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to apply the relevant configuration of scenarios and spaces, as defined in the design configuration during a design phase, to each mesh node in the mesh network. The commissioning system first transforms the defined scenarios and spaces, which essentially represent a logical configuration of the building automation and control system, into a network-centric configuration. Then, the system decomposes the network-centric configuration into a physical configuration of each mesh node, resulting in a set of parameters for each mesh node. The commissioning system then transmits the set of parameters, including one or more group addresses, to the applicable mesh node, for each affected mesh node in the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Silvair Sp. z o.o.Inventors: Szymon Slupik, Adam Gembala, Maciej Witalinski, Piotr Hawranek, Pawel Smietanka, Michal Hobot
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Patent number: 11132896Abstract: A client terminal displays, on a display device, a visual feature of each of a plurality of vehicles passing through an intersection at a location where an incident occurred and map data indicating a passing direction of each of a plurality of vehicles passing through the intersection and sends, in response to a designation of any one of the plurality of vehicles, an instruction to set the designated vehicle as a tracking target vehicle to the server. When the instruction is received, a server specifies a camera of the intersection at which the tracking target vehicle is highly likely to enter next based on at least a current time and a passing direction of the tracking target vehicle at the intersection and sends camera information of the specified camera to the client terminal. When the camera information is received, the client terminal displays, on the display device, a position of a camera corresponding to the camera information to be superimposed on the map data identifiably.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co. Ltd.Inventors: Rie Sakito, Takeshi Wakako, Takahiro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11120282Abstract: A traffic violation vehicle identification system, a server and a non-transitory recording medium is provided. The traffic violation vehicle identification system includes a first vehicle and a server. The first vehicle is configured to generate a first picture by photographing a traffic light in an travel direction of the first vehicle and an oncoming vehicle or a crossing vehicle at an intersection, and send violation vehicle information including characteristic information about a traffic violation vehicle performing a traffic violation and a first sending picture, to the server, when the first vehicle detects the traffic violation vehicle in the first picture, the first sending picture being at least a part of the first picture including an evidence picture of the traffic violation, the characteristic information being extracted from the first picture.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuya Nishimura
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Patent number: 11094191Abstract: Systems and methods for assisting navigation of traffic participants are described herein. An exemplary method may commence with collecting street object data by at least one sensor mounted on one of a plurality of poles. The street object data may be associated with at least one street object within a range of the at least one sensor. The method may continue with analyzing the street object data and generating street object metadata corresponding to the at least one street object. The method may continue with broadcasting the street object metadata to at least one traffic participant within the range. The street object metadata may be used to provide at least one warning to the at least one traffic participant of traffic conditions to allow the at least one traffic participant to take at least one proactive action.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Inventors: Iurii V. Iuzifovich, Anzhelina Iuzifovich, Natalia Yuzifovich
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Patent number: 11087154Abstract: A traffic violation vehicle identification system, a server and a non-transitory recording medium is provided. The traffic violation vehicle identification system includes a first vehicle and a server. The first vehicle is configured to generate a first picture by photographing a traffic light in an travel direction of the first vehicle and an oncoming vehicle or a crossing vehicle at an intersection, and send violation vehicle information including characteristic information about a traffic violation vehicle performing a traffic violation and a first sending picture, to the server, when the first vehicle detects the traffic violation vehicle in the first picture, the first sending picture being at least a part of the first picture including an evidence picture of the traffic violation, the characteristic information being extracted from the first picture.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuya Nishimura
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Patent number: 11080530Abstract: A method for detecting an elevated object situated within a parking facility, using at least two video cameras that are spatially distributed within the parking facility and whose visual ranges overlap in an overlap area. The method encompasses the following: recording particular video images of the overlap area with the aid of the video cameras; analyzing the recorded video images in order to detect an elevated object in the recorded video images, and ascertaining, based on the recorded video images, whether in the detection of an elevated object the detected elevated object is real. A corresponding system, a parking facility, and a computer program are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Felix Hess, Andreas Lehn, Stefan Nordbruch
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Patent number: 11074770Abstract: The invention provides a system and method of monitoring a vehicle during commute. The system comprising of one or more camera modules in communication with one or more computation device. A camera module is configured to collect multiple data during the commute including video frames of one or more views, and location, position, direction, orientation, velocity and the combination thereof of the vehicle. The collected data is sent to a computation device where the data is analyzed to identify events and the same will be notified to one or more user device(s). In one embodiment, the communication between the computation device and the camera module may be carried out wirelessly via Wi-Fi where the camera module is configured to act in one or more modes of communication such as an access point (AP) mode or a station (STA) mode or Wi-Fi direct or the combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Lightmetrics Technologies PVT. LTD.Inventors: Mithun Uliyar, Ravi Shenoy, Soumik Ukil, Krishna A G, Gururaj Putraya, Pushkar Patwardhan
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Patent number: 11029689Abstract: A vehicle control system configured to maintain detection accuracy of an external sensor such as an on-board camera. The vehicle control system is applied to a vehicle that can be operated autonomously. A controller communicates with a database stored on the controller and a database stored on an external facility. The controller changes orientation of a headlamp toward an object detected by an on-board camera, in a case that the headlamp is turned on, and that information about the object detected by the on-board camera is not available in the database.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kensei Hata, Hiroaki Kodera, Takahito Endo, Naoki Harayama, Katsuya Iwazaki, Yushi Seki, Hideaki Komada
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Patent number: 10964348Abstract: A recording control apparatus includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data obtained by shooting an area around a vehicle, an event detection unit configured to detect an occurrence of a predetermined event in the vehicle, a changing-point determination unit configured to determine whether or not the vehicle has passed a changing point on a traveling road based on a current position information of the vehicle, and a recording control unit configured to, when the event detection unit detects the occurrence of the event, record the video data including a first period as an event recording file in a recording unit, the first period being from a passing time point of the changing point to a detecting time point of the event, the changing point being a point that the vehicle has passed at least a first time earlier than the detecting time point of the event.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CorporationInventors: Yasuo Yamada, Toshitaka Murata
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Patent number: 10949687Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for outputting information. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a driving video of a driving process of a vehicle shot within a preset time period, the driving video including at least one frame of driving image; selecting, from the driving video, a driving image including a face image area of a driver; extracting a facial feature of the driver from the driving image including the face image area of the driver; determining identity information of the driver based on the facial feature of the driver; and outputting the identity information of the driver. This embodiment can quickly determine the identity information of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zhaolai Zhong
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Patent number: 10930148Abstract: A method reminds a driver of a motor vehicle about an approach to a light signal apparatus. The method detects a plurality of light signal apparatuses, selects from the plurality of light signal apparatuses in order to select that one which is relevant to a direction of travel of the motor vehicle to determine an assignment of the detected light signal to the motor vehicle, and determines whether the detected light signal from the selected light signal apparatus is a stop light signal. The method generates a stop signal if a stop light signal is detected when the motor vehicle is at a standstill.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Vladimir Haltakov, Richard Rau, Artur Russ, Joeran Zeisler
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Patent number: 10901421Abstract: A method and a device for detecting a road boundary are provided. The method includes: sending, at a current detection moment, multiple detection beams to a road where a target vehicle is located by using a detection device installed on the target vehicle; obtaining echo signals of the detection beams reflected by the road; determining target coordinates of detection points on the road corresponding to the detection beams in the same coordinate system based on the echo signals of the detection beams; and determining a road boundary on the road based on the target coordinates of the detection points.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: NEUSOFT REACH AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Zuotao Ning, Wei Liu, Wei Liu
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Patent number: 10899374Abstract: A video analytic sensor system and methods for sensing an operating state of a railroad crossing gate processes images to detect and communicate railroad crossing gate position information to non-railroad systems such as vehicular traffic control systems. The sensor system may be retrofit to existing railroad crossing gates and does not require modification to or direct connection with existing railroad systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: THE ISLAND RADAR COMPANYInventor: Thomas N. Hilleary
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Patent number: 10895464Abstract: A navigation device that includes: a memory; and a processor that is configured to: acquire route information relating to a planned route to be traveled by a second vehicle of a user having a friendly relationship with a user of a first vehicle, search for a guided route based on a current position of the first vehicle and the route information, such that at least one of the first vehicle or the second vehicle heads toward a common location, and output route guidance information relating to the guided route to at least one of the first vehicle or the second vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinori Yamada, Takahiro Suzuki, Yosuke Tokuda, Taiki Nakamura, Miyu Tanaka, Kentaro Otokubo
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Patent number: 10872422Abstract: An information processing device that can accurately estimate the waiting time in a queue even if the queue is extended is provided. The information processing device includes a calculator that performs a first calculation process for calculating the waiting time of a subject person in the queue on the basis of the time when the subject person detected by a first detector passes through a first line and the time when the subject person detected by a second detector passes through a second line or a second calculation process for calculating the waiting time of a subject person in the queue on the basis of the time when the number of people lined up in the queue including the subject person is acquired by the acquirer and the time when the subject person detected by the second detector passes through the second line.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takashi Oya
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Patent number: 10872524Abstract: A method for operating a traffic monitoring device. A sensor signal is provided by a sensor device of the traffic monitoring device is first of all read in. An item of information is then generated using the sensor signal. Finally, the information is output to an interface to at least one vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: JENOPTIK Robot GmbHInventors: Stefan Kienitz, Katrin Wirz, Siegrun Reis, Martin Schroeder, Lars Ole Keller
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Patent number: 10855906Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle camera device comprising: a lens unit for inducing respective focal lengths of a plurality of image acquisition regions, divided in the horizontal direction, to be different from each other; an image sensor including a plurality of pixel arrays formed to correspond to the plurality of image acquisition regions, and converting, into an electrical signal, light introduced into each of the plurality of pixel arrays through the lens unit; and a processor for generating an image on the basis of the electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Manhyung Lee
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Patent number: 10839198Abstract: There are provided an object recognition unit of recognizing a target object in sequentially acquired images, a tracking unit of performing tracking on the sequentially acquired images for the recognized target object, and a storage controller of controlling so as to store in a first storage device the sequentially acquired images. The tracking unit further performs tracking for the target object on stored images, that are acquired before the target object is recognized by the object recognition unit in the sequentially acquired images, and are stored in the first storage device. The storage controller controls so as to store in a second storage device different from the first storage device, images in which the target object is tracked by the tracking unit of the sequentially acquired images, and images in which the target object is tracked by the tracking unit of the stored images.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Daisuke Gunji
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Patent number: 10832699Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of associating a transport with an impact in proximity to one or more other transports, transmitting, by a device in proximity to the impact, media related to the impact, receiving, by a server, the media, determining, by the server, one or more sounds based on the media, and associating, by the server, the one or more sounds with one or more of the transport and the one or more other transports.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Paul McFarland, Jr.
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Patent number: 10821975Abstract: The apparatus includes: a frontward imaging unit configured to capture an image ahead of the moving body; a frontward division line detection unit configured to detect a shape of a division line of a road surface, from the captured image, and calculate reliability of a frontward division line shape; a periphery imaging unit configured to capture an image of a periphery of the moving body; a periphery division line detection unit configured to detect a shape of the division line on the road surface, from the captured image, and calculate reliability of a periphery division line shape; and a division line shape determination unit configured to determine the shape of the division line on the road surface where the moving body moves, by selecting one from or combining the frontward division line shape and the periphery division line shape, based on first reliability and second reliability.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Noritaka Kokido, Takuya Taniguchi, Nariaki Takehara, Kunio Ueda