Vehicle Control, Guidance, Operation, Or Indication Patents (Class 701/1)
  • Patent number: 12293587
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: acquire a first image that is obtained by capturing an external appearance of a first vehicle that is operated as an on-demand bus; and provide the first image to a first user who is to get on board the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryogo Nonaka, Hirona Ota, Yuki Tatsumoto, Tsunehiro Yokomori
  • Patent number: 12292735
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling wireless communication performed by a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprises a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform, when detecting a predetermined access point, establish wireless connection with the predetermined access point, wherein the controller prevents wireless connection to the predetermined access point at least during a first period from when the vehicle stops until a predetermined timing comes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Noriaki Ito, Hiroki Kawasaki, Hiroto Nakagawa, Satoru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12293285
    Abstract: A device may receive target user category data identifying a target user, daily user data associated with the target user, real-time user data associated with the target user, and content data. The device may convert the target user category data, the daily user data, the real-time user data, and the content data into embedded target user category data, embedded daily user data, embedded real-time user data, and embedded content data. The device may process the embedded target user category data, the embedded daily user data, and the embedded real-time user data, with a neural network model, to determine a real-time user state and may determine a real-time user memory score. The device may process the embedded content data, the real-time user state, and the real-time user memory score, with the neural network model, to determine a memorability score and may perform one or more actions based on the memorability score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Edouard Mathon, Christian Souche, Ji Tang
  • Patent number: 12293418
    Abstract: A system for accident reconstruction can include and/or be configured to interface with any or all of: a set of models, a set of modules, a processing system, client application, a user device (equivalently referred to herein as a mobile device), a set of sensors, a vehicle, and/or any other suitable components. A method for accident reconstruction includes collecting a set of inputs; detecting a collision and/or one or more features of the collision; reconstructing the collision; and producing an output based on the reconstruction. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include training a set of models and/or modules, and/or any other suitable processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Credit Karma, LLC
    Inventors: Nitin Dileep Salodkar, Nikhil Mudaliar, Jayanta Kumar Pal, Pankaj Risbood, Jonathan Matus
  • Patent number: 12293613
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for vehicular computation management. The system includes, onboard a vehicle, electric control units (ECUs), a battery, a communication system, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor energy consumption, operate the vehicle as a computational hub when the energy consumption is less than a threshold, including providing computational resources to an external node, determine whether the vehicle has excess energy and computational capacity when the energy consumption is equal to or greater than the threshold, including determining a usage of each of the ECUs and determining an energy consumption of tasks executing thereon, and operate the vehicle as a hybrid computational hub when the vehicle has excess energy and computational capacity, including providing excess computational capacity of the ECUs to the external node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri, Chandra S Namuduri, Andrew J MacDonald, Omer Tsimhoni, Ashhad Mohammed
  • Patent number: 12291840
    Abstract: An auto-benching grade control system and method are provided for work machines such as excavators. Movements of at least one implement relative to a machine frame are actuated based on user inputs via a first user interface tool. Manual/automatic control modes are selected based on user inputs via a second user interface tool. Responsive to further user input via at least one of the first and second user interface tools, a target elevation is automatically specified based on a current elevation of at least one implement component corresponding to the further user input. During the automatic control mode, movement of at least the implement is controlled based at least in part on a specified target mainfall and a specified target cross-slope for at least a portion of the terrain to be worked, and the specified target elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Deere &Company
    Inventors: Alex R. Vandegrift, Bryan D. Sulzer, Bryan J. Rausch
  • Patent number: 12286108
    Abstract: A travel controller generates routes respectively leading from a current lane being traveled by a vehicle to lanes except the current lane. The lanes are demarcated by lane lines and located forward in a travel direction beyond a lack-of-lane zone having no lane line. The travel controller further identifies one of the routes corresponding to a path along which the vehicle is traveling the lack-of-lane zone as a route being traveled. The path is calculated with data outputted from a sensor mounted on the vehicle. Then the travel controller controls travel of the vehicle to keep one of the lanes to which the route being traveled leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Okada, Shota Fujii, Eiki Kitagawa, Suzuka Kondo, Soichi Yoshino, Takuo Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12287220
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing a pedestrian-oriented navigation app for a mobile device. Destination information is received from a pedestrian using a mobile device. The mobile device retrieves pedestrian-oriented mapping data and routing for the navigation of the pedestrian to the destination, determines a current location and direction of the pedestrian based upon GPS data and compass data retrieved from the device, and displays the current location and direction of the pedestrian along with a route for the pedestrian to the destination on the user interface of the mobile device based on the pedestrian-oriented mapping data and routing. If the mobile device detects that the pedestrian has deviated from the route, the mobile device alters the display on the user interface to alert the pedestrian to the deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventor: Joe Cummings
  • Patent number: 12286136
    Abstract: Proceed-or-stop determination apparatus, includes: camera mounted on self-driving vehicle and configured to acquire image in traveling direction of the vehicle; speed acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling speed of the vehicle; position acquisition unit configured to acquire position of the vehicle with respect to stop position corresponding to traffic light in the traveling direction; and controller. The controller is configured to perform: recognizing the traffic light at predetermined cycle based on the image; recognizing lighting state of the traffic light; and determining whether the vehicle should proceed or stop at the predetermined cycle based on the lighting state, traveling speed, and position, when the traffic light is recognized. The controller determines whether the vehicle should proceed or stop further based on previous determination result in previous cycle and the lighting state recognized in the previous cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Murahashi, Yohei Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12287693
    Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a processor configured to: control a device of a first type, which has a function of switching an operation mode between a normal mode and a mode in which power consumption is limited compared to the normal mode in accordance with an instruction via communication and a device of a second type, which does not have the function; specify a limited device that is a device of which power consumption is to be limited, based on information acquired from outside; transmit to the limited device via a communication line an instruction to shift the operation mode to the mode in which power consumption is limited compared to the normal mode, when the limited device is the device of the first type; and stop power supply to the limited device when the limited device is the device of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naofumi Ota, Jiro Ito, Ryota Misumi, Kazuichi Fujisaka, Sadahisa Yamada
  • Patent number: 12282977
    Abstract: A method for using a processor unit of an autonomously movable vehicle involves making a computing power of the processor unit available to at least one external computer network and/or to a computer cluster during a process of charging an electrical energy storage unit of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventor: Thomas Weber
  • Patent number: 12282943
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for utilizing a vehicle to determine an identity of a user. A user may establish a vehicle as associated with the user, such as a vehicle owned by the user or used by the user. The vehicle may include a vehicle device that may be configured to establish connections with other devices using short range and network communications. In various embodiments, the other devices may be devices at merchant locations. Thus, a merchant at the merchant location may be informed about settings, preferences, and/or parameters for use of the vehicle established by the user. The merchant may receive these parameters even if another user is utilizing the vehicle, thus, establishing rules for use of the vehicle by the other user. In other embodiments, the other devices may be devices in other vehicles, allowing the users to communicate and set waypoints during trips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Driscoll, Michael Charles Todasco
  • Patent number: 12280851
    Abstract: Provided is an off-road vehicle including: a travel mechanism that includes a travel motor, wheels including a front wheel and a rear wheel, and a power transmission mechanism transmitting rotation from the travel motor to the wheels, the power transmission mechanism including a CVT belt and a transfer box switchable between a front and rear wheel drive mode and a rear wheel drive mode; a sensor that detects a travel condition caused by the travel mechanism; and processing circuitry that determines whether the travel condition caused by the travel mechanism has become a predetermined belt check request condition based on an output of the sensor, and performs, when determining that the travel condition has become the belt check request condition, travel function limitation processing of limiting a travel function performed by the travel mechanism more than that before determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
    Inventor: Taisuke Morita
  • Patent number: 12277472
    Abstract: This application discloses a tag quantity estimation system and method of RFID. A processor-readable medium was disclosed at the same time. This estimation method applies a spatial diversity gain existing in a multi-antenna system. Separated and sequentially stacked the real parts and the imaginary parts of the multiple signals received by multiple antennas. Then, a tag quantity estimation problem is converted into a data clustering problem in high-dimensional space. In this way, the overlapped cluster data in low-dimensional space can be separated in the high-dimensional space, thereby improving the accuracy of tag quantity estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhe Li, Wei Deng
  • Patent number: 12275303
    Abstract: A smart safe console system is provided herein. The smart safe console system includes a smart safe console assembly for mounting in a vehicle, having a safe body suitable for securing an electronic device, a button configured for controlling input and output to and from the electronic device when a vehicle hosting the smart safe console system is in use, and a wireless charging apparatus. Such smart safe console system is useful for improving the safety of a user when traveling in a vehicle with an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Smartsafe Console, LLC
    Inventor: Tarkan Bastiyali
  • Patent number: 12275427
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for evaluating manual driving data using an AV control system based on differences between data generated using the AV control system and the manual driving data. In many implementations, manual driving data captures action(s) of a vehicle controlled by a manual driver. Additionally or alternatively, an additional AV control system can be trained using the evaluated manual driving data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Arun Venkatraman, James Andrew Bagnell, Haoyang Fan
  • Patent number: 12276985
    Abstract: An obstruction avoidance system may include a agronomy vehicle, at least one sensor configured to output signals serving as a basis for a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud and to output signals corresponding to a two-dimensional (2D) image, and instructions to direct a processor to capture a particular 2D image and to obtain signals serving as a basis for a particular 3D point cloud; identify an obstruction candidate in the particular 2d image; correlate the obstruction candidate to a portion of the particular 3D point cloud to determine a value for a parameter of the obstruction candidate; classify the obstruction candidate as an obstruction based upon the parameter; and output control signals to alter a state of the agronomy vehicle in response to the obstruction candidate being classified as an obstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Zimeno Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Rajasekhar Karishetti, Sanket Goyal
  • Patent number: 12275304
    Abstract: In a display control device, in a case in which a total number of image pages displayable at a meter display is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the display control device displays a same number of dots as the total number of image pages, and displays a page indicator that specifies a dot corresponding to the displayed image page. Further, in a case in which the total number of image pages exceeds the predetermined value, a page indicator is displayed in which a cursor is arranged at a position corresponding to the displayed image page together with a scroll bar. As a result, even if the total number of image pages is large, the display of the page indicator is not complicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Hamabe, Keigo Hori, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 12278823
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a communication module capable of using two telecommunication identifier cards, one relating to a subscription between a constructor of the vehicle and a telecommunications operator, the other relating to a subscription between a user of the vehicle and a telecommunications operator. The vehicle includes a trusted execution environment hosting security functions of the vehicle and a multimedia system execution environment hosting at least a part of the communication module. The trusted execution environment includes a supervision module monitoring the connection between the vehicle and a remote management server of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: AMPERE S.A.S., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: David Myara
  • Patent number: 12275417
    Abstract: A system for implementing an automobile electronic control function includes a plurality of automobile parts and an integrated unit VIU, and the VIU is configured to obtain control information of the plurality of automobile parts. The VIU is configured to control the plurality of automobile parts based on the control information. The plurality of automobile parts include automobile parts having only an execution function, and/or automobile parts having a part of an electronic control function and an execution function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yalin Liu, Xiaohua Chen, Jianyong Cai, Xiaoqing Liu
  • Patent number: 12269344
    Abstract: A vehicular display control device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: detect when an operation region including plural switches provided to a steering wheel has been operated; and in a case in which operation of the operation region has been detected, display, at a display region set in front of a driving seat, an operation region image corresponding to the operation region and a status image indicating a current status of a function allocated to the switch that is being operated among the plural switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keigo Hori, Ryota Hamabe, Takahiro Hirota, Yoshinori Murata
  • Patent number: 12273218
    Abstract: A control unit for a vehicle, having an interface for the exchange of data with a sensor, an actuator, and/or a processing unit, including a data memory, in which a first list with multiple first reference numbers (port) is stored. At least one datum of a sensor or an actuator is allocated to a first reference number, and a second list with second reference numbers is stored in the data memory. At least one parameter of a data transmission is stored for each second reference number, a first reference number being allocated via a modifiable allocation to a second reference number, and the control unit being developed to receive and/or transmit the data of a first reference number in accordance with the parameter of the data transmission of the second reference number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Peters, Richard Heidemann, Roman Walther
  • Patent number: 12269497
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle driving assistance apparatus including a camera which is installed in a vehicle, has a front field of view of the vehicle, and acquires image data, and a controller configured to process the image data, wherein the controller may detect a vehicle parked and stopped to face a driving direction of the vehicle based on the processed image data, and upon detecting the parked vehicle, the controller may generate a control signal to provide a notification to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventor: Taesik Yoon
  • Patent number: 12271841
    Abstract: A method is described and includes acquiring sensor data produced by sensors of a plurality of vehicles traversing an area including a location of a user, wherein the vehicles traversing the area comprise a subset of a fleet of vehicles for providing rideshare services; processing the acquired sensor data to determine a category of the user; selecting a vehicle from the fleet of vehicles based on the category of the user, wherein the selected vehicle comprises at least one accommodation corresponding to the category of the user; and dispatching the selected vehicle to a pick-up location designated by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kunal Mehta, Nikola Noxon, Devina Jain, Curt Patrick Harrington, Kelan Fitzgerald Stoy, Edward Henry Forscher, Michael John Mehallow
  • Patent number: 12272160
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to implementing and calibrating a learning model for inferring operator intent by estimating grip intensity. In one embodiment, a method includes estimating, using a learning model during a driving scenario, first grip intensity on a steering device for a vehicle according to initial image data depicting a hand of an operator gripping outside the set areas that have pressure sensors. The method also includes calibrating the learning model for the operator and the steering device using grip measurements and additional image data acquired from gripping inside the set areas. The method also includes computing, using the learning model during the driving scenario, second grip intensity outside the set areas on the steering device according to hand images acquired about the operator. The method also includes adapting a vehicle parameter of the vehicle according to the second grip intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Woven by Toyota, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Hiroshi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12269469
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus to be applied to a vehicle executes at least emergency braking control for avoiding collision of the vehicle with a recognized object. The vehicle drive assist apparatus includes a surrounding environment recognition device and a traveling control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment around the vehicle, and a feature information acquirer that acquires feature information of a target object in the recognized surrounding environment. The traveling control unit centrally controls the entire vehicle. The traveling control unit includes a determiner that determines, based on the acquired feature information, whether the target object has a possibility of hindering traveling of the vehicle. The traveling control unit continues normal traveling control for the vehicle when the target object is determined to have no possibility of hindering the traveling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya Sato, Shota Yasuda, Shigeki Mukai, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Wataru Munemura, Hiroaki Kuramochi, Hiroki Maniwa
  • Patent number: 12263785
    Abstract: A media module may include a module gear unit rotatably installed in a vehicle body; a reflection plate connected to the module gear unit; a light-emitting device disposed to face a reflection surface of the reflection plate; and a speaker disposed to face the reflection surface of the reflection plate, wherein light generated by the light-emitting device is incident toward the reflection plate, and a sound generated by the speaker is incident toward the reflection plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ban Suk Choi, Hyoung Jin Choi, Jun Hyuk Cha
  • Patent number: 12267401
    Abstract: Disclosed is the technology for computer-based “Daily Brief” service, which includes methods and corresponding systems for proactively providing push notifications for users of chat information systems. The push notifications are dynamically generated and presented to the user based on identification of one or more triggering events, which may include predetermined time/date, current geographical location, activity of peers and friends in social media associated with the user, scheduled events, appointments, meetings, emails, instant messages, and many more. The described technology improves the interaction interface between the user and chat information system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Gennadyevich Gelfenbeyn, Artem Goncharuk, Ilya Andreevich Platonov, Pavel Aleksandrovich Sirotin, Olga Aleksandrovna Gelfenbeyn
  • Patent number: 12267333
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a telemetry hub, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a telemetry hub that obtains sensor data from a plurality of sources and that determines one or more first actions to take in response to receiving the first sensor data. In operation, a telemetry hub might receive first sensor data from one or more sensors. The telemetry hub may determine whether the first sensor data can be trusted and whether the first sensor data is valid. Based on a determination that the first sensor data can be trusted and is valid, the telemetry hub might analyze the first sensor data to determine one or more first actions to take. The telemetry hub might then implement the one or more first actions based at least in part on the analysis of the first sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property
    Inventors: Kevin M. McBride, Steven M. Casey, Stephen Opferman, Hunter Rudd, James E. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 12264052
    Abstract: A remote control system allows a forklift to be operated remotely in an intuitive and easy way even when an obstacle is present between the forklift and the object. The remote control system includes a guidance route display section that displays on a display unit a guidance route connecting the forklift and the object. The guidance route display section is configured to display a guidance route straightly connecting the forklift and the object if a judgement section judges that an obstacle is not present, or, if the judgement section judges that an obstacle is present, display a guidance route connecting the forklift and the object in a manner of avoiding the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Uro
  • Patent number: 12266035
    Abstract: A sensor image generated based on data obtained from a remote sensor is displayed on a display of a terminal communicating with the remote sensor. The remote sensor includes a sensor mounted on a moving body. The sensor image includes a moving body image representing an image generated based on data obtained from the sensor mounted on the moving body. In the moving body image, right and left regions are set with respect to front of the moving body. Right and left recognition assistances are superimposed respectively on the right and left regions. A color of the right recognition assistance is different from a color of the left recognition assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Urano, Sho Otaki, Hojung Jung
  • Patent number: 12259476
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a presence of water along a surface and adjusting a speed of a vehicle are provided. The method comprises generating one or more data points from one or more sensors coupled to a vehicle, and, using a processor, determining, based on the one or more data points, whether water is present along a surface, when water is present along the surface, determining a speed adjustment of the vehicle based on the water present along the surface, and generating a control signal configured to cause the vehicle to adjust a speed of the vehicle according to the speed adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Kodiak Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Suzanne L. Woll, Laura W. Shane
  • Patent number: 12258034
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a host vehicle includes processing circuitry configured to: recognize partition lines marking off left and right sides of a travel path on which the host vehicle travels; estimate a possibility of the host vehicle to depart from the travel path based on a position and a posture of the host vehicle with respect to the recognized partition lines; and control the notification based on the estimated possibility of departing from the travel path, the driving status information, and a state of the travel path in a traveling direction of the host vehicle. The processing circuitry executes the notification when there is a curve with a curvature radius less than a predetermined value in the traveling direction, and there is a high possibility of departing from the travel path, and the driving status of the driver is not suitable for traveling on the travel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Komori, Shohei Noai
  • Patent number: 12258028
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to set a second required value of a second state quantity to request an operation to a controlled object by using a first required value of a first state quantity on an operation of a vehicle from an in-vehicle system configured to set the first required value. The one or more processors are configured to set a feedback term of the second required value in feedback control by using a difference between the first required value and an actually measured value of the first state quantity. The one or more processors are configured to determine whether a component of the vehicle is degraded by using at least any one of a change history of the difference and a change history of the feedback term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 12260472
    Abstract: Telematics systems and methods are described for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs). A telematics cloud platform is configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle. A GUI value compression component determines, based on the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values. A geospatial animation app receives the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values. The geospatial animation app implements an interactive animated GUI that renders a plurality of geospatial graphics or graphical routes on a geographic area map via a display device. The geospatial graphics or graphical routes are rendered to have different visual forms based on differences between respective GUI position values and corresponding GUI time values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventors: Micah Wind Russo, Theobolt N. Leung, Gareth Finucane, Kenneth Jason Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12260745
    Abstract: A method for communication between an at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle and a pedestrian by a system includes detecting a presence of the pedestrian by detecting a presence of a mobile receiving device of the system on the pedestrian by the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle by a communication device of the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle. Depending on the detecting of the presence of the pedestrian, a first communication signal is transmitted from the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle to the mobile receiving device. A second communication signal is transmitted from the mobile receiving device to the communication device of the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle. The second communication signal is taken into account by the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle during an autonomous driving operation of the at least partially autonomously driving motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Daimler Truck AG
    Inventors: Janine Guenther, Nicolai Spohrer, Lucas Volkert, Florian Flerlage
  • Patent number: 12258039
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining a continuous driving path for a vehicle include: (i) automatically controlling movement of the vehicle along a path while prioritizing the movement so as to minimize vehicle maneuvers, via a processor; (ii) obtaining data including location information as to a location of the vehicle and map information pertaining to the location as the vehicle is travelling autonomously via by the processor; (iii) determining, via the processor, when a decision is needed with respect to further travel of the vehicle, based on the location information and the map information; (iv) requesting, via the processor, driver input as to a driver preference of a driver for movement of the vehicle with regard to the decision; (v) receiving, via one or more sensors, the driver input including the driver preference; and (vi) determining, via the processor, the continuous driving path based on the driver preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ryan D. Martini, Constandi John Shami, Benjamin L. Williams, Crystal J. Nassouri, Nolan Foster, Morgan Douglas Dykshorn
  • Patent number: 12259350
    Abstract: A sensor assembly and method of sensing water in a fluid may include a sensor body having a first electrical connection, a second electrical connection, and a probe portion configured to be submerged in a fluid comprising a fuel, a signal input line supplying a signal voltage and power to the sensor from a voltage source to the first electrical connection of the sensor body, a ground line connected to the second electrical connection of the sensor body, and a controller configured to receive a signal output from the signal input line for determining a presence of water in the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Kevin J. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12258022
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first requested value of acceleration acting on a vehicle from a first system configured to request holding a stopped state of the vehicle. The processor is configured to receive a second requested value of the acceleration from a second system. The processor is configured to select one of the first requested value and the second requested value as an arbitration result. The processor is configured to set a priority for selecting the first requested value lower than a priority for selecting the second requested value when the processor acquires predetermined information from one of the first system and the second system while the vehicle is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Kanda, Kazuki Miyake, Shunsuke Arakawa
  • Patent number: 12252200
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining a sideslip vector for a vehicle that may have a direction that is different from that of a heading vector for the vehicle. The sideslip vector in a current vehicle state and sideslip vectors in predicted vehicles states may be used to determine paths for a vehicle through an environment and trajectories for controlling the vehicle through the environment. The sideslip vector may be based on a vehicle position that is the center point of the wheelbase of the vehicle and may include lateral velocity, facilitating the control of four-wheel steered vehicle while maintaining the ability to control two-wheel steered vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Funke, Liam Gallagher, Marin Kobilarov, Vincent Andreas Laurense, Mark Jonathon McClelland, Sriram Narayanan, Kazuhide Okamoto, Jack Riley, Jeremy Schwartz, Jacob Patrick Thalman, Olivier Amaury Toupet, David Evan Zlotnik
  • Patent number: 12252161
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a combined-propulsion system for high-speed vehicles, which includes a closed tubular guiding structure and a vehicle designed to move through the inside of the tubular structure. The system includes a vacuum system coupled to the tubular structure to provide a safe atmosphere at low pressure, always above the Armstrong limit; electric propulsion means arranged in an initial section of the structure, to accelerate the vehicle to a determined cruising speed; and compressed-air propulsion means arranged on the vehicle, to maintain the cruising speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZELEROS GLOBAL, S.L.
    Inventors: Federico Lluesma Rodríguez, Daniel Orient Martin, David Pistoni Pérez, Alberto Sánchez Jiménez, Juan Vicén Balaguer
  • Patent number: 12254424
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a connectivity model associated with a region of a road network, wherein the connectivity model was trained using vehicle traffic-pattern data comprising a first lane identifier and a second lane identifier indicating one or more lanes associated with a vehicle trajectory through the region and a traffic-light state corresponding to signal information of traffic lights in the region when a vehicle moved through the region, determining for at least one egress lane in the region based on the connectivity model a lane relationship indicating one or more ingress lanes in the region onto which a vehicle in the egress lane can move and one or more governing traffic lights selected from the traffic lights in the region that govern the egress lane, and encoding the lane relationship and the one or more governing traffic lights into a map of the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Sammy Omari, Sameer Qureshi
  • Patent number: 12252132
    Abstract: A road surface state determination device includes a tire-side device and a vehicle-body-side system. The tire-side device is attached to each of a plurality of tires included in a vehicle. The vehicle-body-side system is included in a body of the vehicle. The tire-side device may output a detection signal corresponding to a magnitude of vibration of the tire. The tire-side device may sense the detection signal and generate road surface data indicative of a road surface state appearing in a waveform of the detection signal. The tire-side device may transmit the road surface data. The vehicle-body-side system may perform bidirectional communication with the tire-side device and receive the road surface data. The vehicle-body-side system may determine the road surface state of a road surface on which the vehicle is traveling based on the road surface data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichiro Suzuki, Nobuya Watabe, Masashi Mori, Takatoshi Sekizawa
  • Patent number: 12252152
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a steering device, a steering control device, a surroundings monitoring device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a route calculating process of calculating a target route, a trajectory calculating process of calculating a target trajectory of an own vehicle in one or more roads of the target route; a steering-angle calculating process of calculating a target steering angle; a behavior detecting process of detecting information on a behavior of the own vehicle; a rut determining process of determining presence or absence of a rut on the target trajectory based on a detection result obtained by the surroundings monitoring device and/or a detection result obtained in the behavior detecting process, a drivable or non-drivable determining process of determining whether the own vehicle is drivable over the rut, and a correcting process of correcting the target trajectory and/or the target route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Toru Takashima, Shun Maruyama, Shun Mizoo
  • Patent number: 12254724
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing feedback to drivers of vehicles is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an image corresponding to a vehicle indicating driving behavior data associated with a user. The driving behavior data are indicative of wear and tear on the vehicle or fuel efficiency for the vehicle and the driving behavior data indicative of an impact associated with the user on longevity of the vehicle. Based at least in part upon analyzing the image and determining a driving performance metric associated with the user feedback associated with the user is generated and provided to a mobile device associated with the user for presentation at the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventors: Callum Brook, Theobolt N. Leung
  • Patent number: 12255963
    Abstract: A system and method for maintaining a computing process executable by a computing device is provided. The method involves: (a) receiving by a maintenance device a status indication associated with the computing process; (b) determining one or more proposed actions associated with the status indication; (c) selecting a maintenance action from among the proposed actions; and (d) executing the maintenance action at the computing device. Determining the proposed actions may involve retrieving known actions from a known-action database of the maintenance device. Determining the proposed actions may involve querying respective databases of a plurality of the maintenance devices to retrieve shareable actions. Selecting the maintenance action may involve emulating each proposed action and the computing process to produce a confidence indication, and selecting the proposed action with the highest confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ormuco Inc.
    Inventors: Orlando Bayter, Genevieve Nantel
  • Patent number: 12246700
    Abstract: A method of estimating a performance characteristic of a wheel of a vehicle, includes selecting relevant input features based on wheel dynamics and tire behavior, and collecting experimental data for each of the relevant input features at each of a plurality of vehicle operating conditions. The method further includes manually identifying and labeling wheel stability status over time from the experimental data and calculating tractive limit over time from the experimental data. The method also includes training a tractive limit model and training a wheel stability status model. The method further includes receiving a plurality of testing inputs, wherein each of the plurality of testing inputs is received from a sensor on-board the vehicle or from a controller on-board the vehicle and, processing the received testing inputs in a predetermined machine learning process to calculate in one or more data processors a prediction of the performance characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yubiao Zhang, Qingrong Zhao, Edward Joseph Ecclestone
  • Patent number: 12246595
    Abstract: Systems and methods of distracted driving reduction are provided which respond to vehicle display-related driver distraction by adjusting the viewing angle of the vehicle display so that the driver's visual perception of the vehicle display is reduced. In other words, the driver may no longer be able to view the vehicle display with acceptable visual performance. Accordingly, examples can reduce driver distraction, thus increasing roadway safety. In certain examples, the adjusted viewing angle may allow non-driver occupants of the vehicle to view the vehicle display with acceptable visual performance. In various examples, the vehicle display may be a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen and adjusting the viewing angle of the LCD screen may comprise utilizing an electrically controllable LCD diffuser to narrow the viewing angle of the LCD screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Michael R. Kushnerik
  • Patent number: 12248852
    Abstract: Various systems and methods implement a decision architecture for autonomous systems. An autonomous system framework includes a safety ring configured to interface with safety features of an autonomous system; a security ring configured to provide authentication and verification services to transactions passed through the security ring; a privacy ring configured to ensure privacy of a user of the autonomous system; a trustworthiness ring configured to log and provide transparency of transactions passed through the trustworthiness ring; and a well-being ring configured to interface with the user and provide feedback and information to the user on a state of the autonomous system, wherein: each of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings include at least one interface to at least one other of the safety, security, privacy, trustworthiness, and well-being rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Helen Adrienne Frances Gould, Ignacio Javier Alvarez Martinez, David W. Browning
  • Patent number: 12248663
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for identifying, tagging and reporting hazardous drivers in the vicinity of a host vehicle. A system comprises a sensor array on the host vehicle for detecting one or more adjacent vehicles in a vicinity of the host vehicle, a host display inside the host vehicle visible to the occupant of the host vehicle, and at least one adjacent vehicle display inside the one or more an adjacent vehicles visible to at least one adjacent vehicle occupant of the one or more adjacent vehicles. A server electronically coupled to the sensor array and the host display is configured to facilitate identification and tagging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Matthew T. Flachsbart, Ameer A. Noorani, Bradly Jay Billman, Snehal Desai, Cory Matheson, James Phillip Hillman, Andrew L. Anaruk