Vehicle Control, Guidance, Operation, Or Indication Patents (Class 701/1)
  • Patent number: 11601772
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using auditorily-induced vection (AIV) to enhance a person's attitude awareness are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an auditory object is projected based on the orientation of the person or a vehicle and the projected auditory is provided to the person. By projecting the auditory object, the attitude of the person or the vehicle can be conveyed to the person to enhance the person's attitude awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Scott E. Ritter
  • Patent number: 11598548
    Abstract: A camera (26) takes an image of at least one user (U1, U2, U3). A room environment information sensor (13) senses room environment information relating to an environment of a room (r1) in which the at least one user (U1, U2, U3) is present. The estimator (66) estimates a drowsiness condition of the at least one user (U1, U2, U3) based on the image of the at least one user (U1, U2, U3) taken by the camera (26) and the room environment information sensed by the room environment information sensor (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Kitagawa, Takuya Kazusa, Youichi Handa
  • Patent number: 11593535
    Abstract: A server system is provided that includes a platform server system configured to store platform map data that is geospatially referenced and includes building outline data for one or more buildings, and provide the platform map data to client computer devices. The server system further includes a tenant bounded server system including one or more processors configured to store building floorplan data for a tenant entity, and provide building floorplan data to client computer devices that are authenticated for the tenant entity. The one or more processors of the tenant bounded server system are further configured to receive a set of building floorplan data for a target building included in the platform map data, determine geospatial reference data for the set of building floorplan data by aligning the set of building floorplan data with building outline data of the target building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Simon Levi Shapiro, David Ross Buerer, Peiwei Cao, Florin Sabau, Jiangbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11590930
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a detection device structurally configured to capture an image, a door lock, where the door lock is positionable between a locked position and an unlocked position, a controller communicatively coupled to the detection device and the door lock, the controller including a processor and a non-transitory computer readable and executable instruction set, which when executed, causes the processor to receive a captured image of a user from the detection device, determine whether the captured image of includes protective equipment worn by the user, and direct the door lock to move into the unlocked position in response to determining that the protective equipment in the captured image meets a configurable protective equipment baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Bracken, Joshua Batie, Michael D. Dorazio, Randy Kaushek
  • Patent number: 11592834
    Abstract: A method for replacing a first module (30, 40) of a vehicle (1) with a new module (30, 30?, 40). The vehicle (1) includes: at least one drive module (30); and at least one functional module (40). The vehicle (1) has a unique vehicle identity. The method includes: setting (s101) the vehicle (1) into a maintenance mode indicating that the vehicle (1) is not available for operation; and preparing (s102) the vehicle (1) for physical disconnection of the first module (30, 40); when the first module (30, 40) has been physically disconnected from the vehicle (1) and the new module (30, 30?, 40) has been physically connected to the vehicle (1): establishing (s103) an electrical connection between the new module (30, 30?, 40) and the vehicle (1); assigning (s104) the new module (30, 30?, 40) the unique vehicle identity of the vehicle (1); setting (s105) the vehicle (1) into an operational mode; and verifying s106) the electrical connection of the new module (30, 30?, 40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Scania CV AB
    Inventors: André Claesson, Robert Sjödin, Linus Ährlig, Sami Teppola, Mikko Kallio, Tomas Skeppström, Morgan Colling
  • Patent number: 11592306
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, for a wireless device, to determine one or more preferred routes for an electric vehicle powered by a battery. Such methods include determining multiple candidate routes from a starting point to a destination. Each candidate route includes one or more segments, each segment associated with a slope and a distance. Such methods include, for each candidate route, estimating a route battery discharge amount and a route duration of travel based on a discharge profile for the battery and the slopes and distances associated with the segments of the candidate route. Such methods include selecting one or more preferred routes, from the candidate routes, based on a current state of charge for the battery, the route battery discharge amounts, and the route durations of travel. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to perform such methods, and electric vehicles operably coupled to such wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TWS Technology(Guangzhou) Limited
    Inventor: Charles Liu
  • Patent number: 11592345
    Abstract: Method for detecting the presence of a driver's hands on the steering wheel is described. By a mathematical model, at least one part of a steering system of the motor vehicle is modeled. In addition, a rotational angle of a lower end and/or an upper end of a torsion bar of the steering system is determined. A torque acting on the torsion bar is determined by a measuring device. A sum of a torque with which the driver acts on the steering wheel and a counter-torque generated by friction in the upper part of the steering system is estimated by a Kalman Filter. In addition, the counter-torque is estimated, and the estimated sum of the torque and the counter-torque are used to determine whether the driver's hands are on the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Automotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Emad Farshizadeh, Tobias Oesterwind, Amo Luengen, Dirk Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11592791
    Abstract: A system for flight control system using simulator data for an electric aircraft is presented. The system includes a computing device, the computing device configured to receive a plurality of measured flight data, simulate a plurality of aircraft performance model outputs as a function of a flight simulator and the plurality of measured flight data, determine a moment datum as a function of the plurality of measured flight data and the plurality of aircraft performance model outputs, generate an allocation command datum as a function of the moment datum and the plurality of aircraft performance model outputs, and perform a torque allocation on a flight component of a plurality of flight components as a function of the allocation command and the moment datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Herman Wiegman
  • Patent number: 11592839
    Abstract: The processor supplies flight commands to the flight control system by selectively blending pilot input with control signals from the autopilot. The processor generates a projected recovery trajectory through successive iterations, each beginning at the current aircraft location and using a recovery constraint selectable by the processor to influences a degree of flight aggressiveness. A detection system that identifies and invokes a state of threat existence if a threat exists along the projected recovery trajectory. The processor during threat existence in a first iteration commands an initial soft recovery, with permitted blended pilot input. If the threat exists on subsequent iteration, the processor commands a more aggressive recovery while attenuating blended pilot input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Prosser, Thomas Landers, Alborz Sakhaei, Abhishek Vaidya, Blake Finlayson
  • Patent number: 11594080
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-signal fault analysis are described. The system receives signal message information, over a network, from a collection device comprised of a plurality of mobile devices including a first mobile device and a second mobile device that are associated with a first user. The first signal message information includes a first maintenance message including characterization information that was received by the first mobile device from a component that includes a sensor that operates to sense a first part that is assembled into a vehicle. The second signal message information includes signal information that was received by the second mobile device including an audio signal that a microphone in the second mobile device sensed. The system analyzes the multi-signal information to diagnose a problem and communicate a message to the first user with a diagnosis of the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Leigh Cattone
  • Patent number: 11584321
    Abstract: A method and computing system for determining whether a DTC set in a vehicle involved in a collision is collision-related or non-collision-related. The method can include determining a vehicle model associated with the vehicle, determining a DTC set within an ECU in the vehicle, determining a damaged portion in the vehicle, determining the DTC is collision-related, and outputting a collision report that indicates the DTC is collision-related. The determined damaged portion indicates where the vehicle was damaged by the collision. Determining the DTC is collision-related can include determining the damaged portion in the vehicle matches a reference vehicle portion associated with both a component attributable to setting the DTC and the vehicle model associated with the damaged vehicle. The collision report can indicate that a different DTC set by the same or a different ECU in the vehicle is non-collision-related.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Roy S. Brozovich, Patrick S. Merg, Joshua C. Covington, Joshua D. Williamson, Oswaldo Neri
  • Patent number: 11587004
    Abstract: A system and method for placement optimization of public electric vehicle charging stations using telematics data that includes receiving vehicle telematics data from a plurality of vehicles. The system and method also includes analyzing the vehicle telematics data to determine clusters of candidate locations of the public electric vehicle charging stations and selecting a subset of nodes of a fully connected graph structure that are associated with the candidate locations as optimal locations of the public electric vehicle charging stations. The system and method further include controlling an electronic computing system to present a human machine interface to present a visualization of the optimal locations of public electric vehicle charging stations to at least one party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuf Khan
  • Patent number: 11584399
    Abstract: A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle is traveling by remote driving by a first driver from outside the vehicle or by occupant driving by the first driver in the vehicle, to a second state in which the vehicle travels by the remote driving or the occupant driving by a second driver who is different from the first driver, the processor is configured to cause transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle is caused to travel by automatic driving, and then cause transition from the third state to the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki Kindo, Yuji Suzuki, Mutsumi Matsuura, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Shunsuke Tanimori, Kuniaki Jinnai, Kohta Tarao, Yoshihiro Maekawa, Hiroki Awano, Tae Sugimura, Tomoyuki Kuriyama, Yusuke Yokota, Makoto Matsushita, Yasuki Nakagawa, Atsushi Hanawa
  • Patent number: 11584410
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for determining a communication status in a train consist operating in a distributed power system, the train consist including a lead locomotive and a plurality of remote locomotives. The method includes, for each remote locomotive of the plurality of remote locomotives that receives the command message directly from the lead locomotive, setting the message source indicator of the remote locomotive to a first state representative of a direct receipt of the command message, incrementing the message source counter for each response message received by the remote locomotive from other remote locomotives in which the respective message source indicator is set to the first state, generating a response message including a value of the message source indicator and a value of the message source counter, and transmitting the response message. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Gerard Bender, Charles L. Wolf, Richard S. Klemanski
  • Patent number: 11584231
    Abstract: A heads-up display device for a vehicle includes: a display component; a controller; and an execution component; wherein: the display component is configured to output a heads-up display image; the controller is configured to acquire a real-time vehicle speed of the vehicle, and generate an image distance control signal associated with the real-time vehicle speed of the vehicle; and the execution component is connected to the display component, and the execution component is configured to adjust a focal point of the display component according to the image distance control signal, and control an image distance of the heads-up display image displayed by the display component thus adjusting the focal point of the display component according to the change of the real-time vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Yu, Zhusong Yi
  • Patent number: 11584361
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve ride comfort for users within a vehicle during operation of the vehicle are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals; determine the current operational information regarding the vehicle; determine a current set of forces operating on one or more of the vehicle and one or more of the users within the vehicle; compare a characteristic of the current set of forces to a comfort threshold level; and responsive to the characteristic breaching the comfort threshold level, effectuate a modification in the operation of the vehicle such that a subsequent change in the characteristic that corresponds to the modification reduces and/or remedies the breach of the comfort threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Selina Pan, Carrie Bobier-Tiu, Avinash Balachandran
  • Patent number: 11584371
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to lane keeping in a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes determining lane boundaries according to at least the sensor data and a map. The method includes defining a reference system over a lane defined by the lane boundaries. The method includes evaluating vehicle boundary points within the reference system as a cost in optimizing a trajectory of the vehicle and using an R-function that defines geometric relationships between the vehicle boundary points and the reference system. The method includes providing an indicator about the trajectory to control the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Miroslav Baric, Jin Ge, Timothee Cazenave
  • Patent number: 11587377
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The first vehicle includes an information storage configured to store vehicle characteristic information representing a vehicle characteristic, and an information output unit configured to output the stored vehicle characteristic information to a predetermined storage medium. The second vehicle includes an information input unit configured to input vehicle characteristic information from the storage medium, and a vehicle characteristic setter configured to set a vehicle characteristic represented by the input vehicle characteristic information in the second vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Iwabuchi, Tatsuya Hayashi, Toshiya Godai, Kazuhiro Nagae, Katsuo Senmyo, Hiroyuki Tahara
  • Patent number: 11584373
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for an automated starting of a means of transport (80) at a light-signal system (70), comprising: recording an image of the light-signal system (70) by means of a first optical sensor (30) of the means of transport (80), determining a signaling state of the light-signal system (70) by means of the recorded image, executing an automated starting process of the means of transport (80) in response to a signaling state representing and/or announcing a travel clearance, determining a user action of a driver of the means of transport (80) for plausibility checking of the starting process, and depending on a result of the plausibility check, automatically continuing or terminating of the starting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Florian Kohlhuber
  • Patent number: 11585383
    Abstract: A sensing device for vehicle includes a first sensing part configured to sense first information related to a wheel to generate a first signal; a second sensing part configured to sense second information related to the wheel to generating a second signal; a first insert to which the first sensing part is fixed; a second insert to which the second sensing part is fixed, the second insert being coupled to the first insert; at least one first connection part connected to the first sensing part and configured to supply a first power to the first sensing part or to transmit the first signal; at least one second connection part connected to the second sensing part and configured to supply a second power to the second sensing part or to transmit the second signal; and a body configured to accommodate the first and second sensing parts therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ILJIN GLOBAL Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chan Goo Jeon, Young Tae Kim, Joung Woo Hur
  • Patent number: 11580207
    Abstract: Systems and methods to authenticate a vehicle operator for an autonomous vehicle on a vehicle service platform are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining authentication request data indicative of an authentication request, the authentication request data including at least an operator identifier associated with the vehicle operator and a vehicle identifier associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes providing a service code associated with the authentication request to the autonomous vehicle. The method includes obtaining from a user device in response to providing the service code to the autonomous vehicle, operator data associated with the authentication request, the operator data including the service code. The method includes determining an authentication result associated with the authentication request based at least in part on the service code and the operator data. The method includes providing the authentication result to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Yen, Joseph Maliksi, Roman Kuzmenko, Andrii Iasynetskyi, Matthew Charles Ellis Wood
  • Patent number: 11577747
    Abstract: A method for operating at least one automated vehicle, including the steps: detecting road users by sensors with the aid of the at least one automated vehicle and/or with the aid of sensor systems in an infrastructure; ascertaining predicted traffic routes for the road users with the aid of a computing device based on defined criteria; transmitting control data corresponding to the predicted traffic route to the automated vehicle; and operating the automated vehicle according to the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ingmar Berger, Jorge Sans Sangorrin
  • Patent number: 11577717
    Abstract: A parking control system for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The parking control system includes a parking control device configured to monitor a location and movement of an autonomous vehicle which enters a parking lot, based on a 3D electronic map, calculate a driving trajectory to a parking space selected by a driver of the autonomous vehicle based on sensor data collected from various sensor in the parking lot and vehicle information received from the autonomous vehicle, and provide information about the calculated driving trajectory to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle travels to the parking space based on the driving trajectory received from the parking control device and parks in the parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hye Rin Lim
  • Patent number: 11577750
    Abstract: A method for determining information related to a lane change of a target vehicle includes obtaining information related to an environment of the target vehicle. The information related to the environment relates to a plurality of features of the environment of the target vehicle. The plurality of features are partitioned into two or more groups of features. The method further determines two or more weighting factors for the two or more groups of features. An attention mechanism is used for determining the two or more weighting factors. The method further determines the information related to the lane change of the target vehicle based on the information related to the environment of the target vehicle using a machine-learning network. A weighting of the plurality of features of the environment of the target vehicle within the machine-learning network is based on the two or more weighting factors for the two or more groups of features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Naveen Shankar Nagaraja, Oliver Scheel, Loren Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11580270
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for optimizing the shipping of wall panels, comprising: analyzing a building model, wherein a set of wall panels are isolated; processing a first set of data associated each of the set of wall panels, wherein the first set of data is related to members of the wall panel and the interface between these members; grouping a first group of the set of wall panels into a bundle, wherein the first group of wall panels is based on the processed first set of data; analyzing the bundle relative to the volume of a shipping vessel, wherein it is determined if the shipping vessel can container the vessel; manipulating, by at least one processor the bundle of wall panels based on limitations of the shipping vessel; and generating a graphical representation of the bundle and the position of the bundle within the shipping vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Maharaj Jalla
  • Patent number: 11581899
    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converting device includes: a main analog-to-digital converter configured to convert an analog signal output from a sensor to a digital signal; and a monitoring unit configured to monitor the digital signal converted by the main analog-to-digital converter. The main analog-to-digital converter is provided by a special purpose IC arranged separately from a microcomputer for controlling the main analog-to-digital converter. The monitoring unit includes multiple sub analog-to-digital converters each of which having a conversion accuracy lower than that of the main analog-to-digital converter and converting the analog signal output from the sensor to a digital signal. The monitoring unit sets a predetermined threshold based on conversion values of the digital signals converted by the multiple sub analog-to-digital converters, and compares a conversion value of the digital signal converted by the main analog-to-digital converter with the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Endo
  • Patent number: 11577643
    Abstract: This system for detecting the surrounding conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit state to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body, if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11574257
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing an accommodation of a canceled booking for a guest user. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives, from a homestay application, an indication that a booking for the accommodation in a region by the guest user over a time period has been canceled. The system retrieves a homestay listing associated with the booking and retrieves attributes of the homestay listing. The system maps each attribute to a set of similar attributes in an equivalence table. The system retrieves a set of available hotel listings in the region for the same time period and determines attributes of each available hotel listing. The system determines a set of comparable hotel listings that each include similar attributes to the homestay listing and sends a command to book a comparable hotel listing the guest user during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley
  • Patent number: 11571972
    Abstract: A method and associated system for determining a maintenance status for a pantograph arranged on a vehicle and/or a contact wire intended to be in electrical contact with the pantograph. Monitoring at least longitudinal, vertical or lateral accelerations of the pantograph. Detecting an acceleration pattern based on the monitored accelerations of the pantograph. Determining accelerations in a direction above a predetermined value in the detected acceleration pattern. Determining a maintenance status for the pantograph and/or the contact wire based on the detected acceleration pattern, and wherein the maintenance status indicates a level of wear on the pantograph and/or the contact wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: RAILWAY METRICS AND DYNAMICS SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Jan Lindqvist
  • Patent number: 11574511
    Abstract: A vehicle performance evaluation method, device and terminal are provided. The method includes: acquiring a labeled ADE score of an ADE item within a time period in which the ADE item occurs, and recording labeled data of an ADE index for indicating a vehicle state; acquiring a correlation between the ADE item and the vehicle state, according to the labeled ADE score and the labeled data of the ADE index; acquiring data of a target ADE index within a preset time period, and acquiring a target ADE score according to the data of the target ADE index and a correlation between the ADE item and the vehicle state; and acquiring a vehicle performance evaluation result according to the target ADE score. The passenger participation is not necessary, costs can be reduced and a vehicle evaluation efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lizhi Zhang, Yunyan Hu, Yifeng Pan, Rui Liu, Ya Wang, Qihao Huang
  • Patent number: 11572054
    Abstract: A driving support apparatus (12) has: a setting device (122) for setting a first target position (31) on the basis of a first sign object (21), if the first sign object requesting a vehicle (1) to stop is detected; and a supporting device (123) for performing a first deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle to a first target speed before the vehicle reaches the first target position, if a second sign object (22) representing a stop position is detected during a period when the first decelerating control is performed, the setting device sets a second target position (32) on the basis of the second sign object and the supporting device performs a second decelerating control for decelerating the vehicle to a second target speed before the vehicle reaches the second target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko Adachi
  • Patent number: 11573093
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for predicting battery consumption of an electric vehicle and a device for the same. An electronic device includes an input unit which obtains destination information from a user, a memory, and at least one processor which is operatively connected to the input unit and the memory. The at least one processor may obtain a travel path of an electric vehicle, which is derived based on the destination information and may predict battery consumption when the electric vehicle travels along the travel path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Chae, Wonho Shin
  • Patent number: 11572034
    Abstract: A technology is provided that secures the straightness of an electromagnetic wave signal transmitted and received according to the fastening of a buckle. A wireless seatbelt reminder device includes a tunnel member that is disposed in parallel to a seat rail, and has a passage formed therein. A sub-transmission and reception unit transmits an electromagnetic wave signal in the longitudinal direction of the passage as a seatbelt is fastened to a buckle and a main transmission and reception unit receives the electromagnetic wave signal transmitted by the sub-transmission and reception unit inside the passage to transfer the electromagnetic wave signal to an integrated controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Kyu Bok, Hyun Kyu Moon, Young Rok Kim
  • Patent number: 11571967
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle (1)—preferably a tractor—with a trailer (2) operatively connected thereto with a cardan (3), said cardan (3) comprising a power take-off, said power take-off being switched off when said cardan (3) builds with said vehicle (1) and/or with said trailer (2) an angle (?) smaller than a first threshold value (a) and/or larger than a second threshold value (?) and being switched on when said angle (?) exceeds again said first threshold value (?) thanks to suitable actuators, including detection means of the angle formed between the cardan (3) and said vehicle and/or trailer. According to the present invention, said angle (?) is detected by a detector consisting of a magnetic device (4) placed on the trailer (2) or the vehicle (1) and an electronic compass (5) placed on the vehicle (1) or on the trailer (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: ETACARINAE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Pierangelo Vercellino, Valerio Raganelli
  • Patent number: 11565717
    Abstract: A system 100 for remote assistance of an autonomous agent can include and/or interface with any or all of: a sensor suite 110, a computing system 120, a communication interface 130, and/or any other suitable components. The system can further optionally include a set of infrastructure devices 140, a teleoperator platform 150, and/or any other suitable components. The system 100 functions to enable information to be exchanged between an autonomous agent and a tele-assist. Additionally or alternatively, the system 100 can function to operate the autonomous agent (e.g., based on remote inputs received from a teleoperator, indirectly, etc.) and/or can perform any other suitable functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: May Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Melinda Kothbauer, Jeff Sterniak, Edwin B. Olson
  • Patent number: 11565748
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus predicts an appropriate operation amount which is an operation amount performed by a driver in correspondence with the external environment, and sets the appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, an appropriate operation amount range including the appropriate operation amount, and changes the reaction force characteristics of the operation device when it is determined that the operation amount of the driver corresponding to the prediction time point of the appropriate operation amount is not included in the appropriate operation amount range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shusaku Sugamoto, Terumasa Endo, Satoshi Inoue, Takeshi Hamaguchi, Shuhei Manabe
  • Patent number: 11564347
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a cutter device for cutting plant in a field, a storage section for storing plant cut by the cutter device, an inclination angle sensor for detecting an inclination angle ((?d)) of the vehicle body, a display device for displaying the inclination angle detected by the inclination angle sensor, and a reporting device for reporting the inclination angle exceeding a permissible inclination angle ((?a)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kawamoto, Eiji Sato, Yuta Horibe, Takashi Kumashiro, Tomohisa Yamamoto, Akihito Mihara
  • Patent number: 11565751
    Abstract: Provided are a lane separation line detection correcting device/method and an automatic driving system for stabilizing the behavior of a vehicle by correcting overestimated curvature information resulting from an erroneous detection of a curvature of a lane separation line. A travel speed detecting circuit detects, for example, a target travel speed as vehicle sensor information. A maximum curvature estimating circuit estimates, based on the target travel speed, a maximum curvature of a road along which an own vehicle is traveling. A curvature correcting circuit corrects a curvature of a lane separation line input thereto based on the maximum curvature. A control unit controls steering of the own vehicle based on the lane separation line having a corrected curvature. As a result, vehicle steering can be automatically controlled so as to prevent the own vehicle while traveling from departing from a driving lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Cornoration
    Inventors: Takuya Taniguchi, Noritaka Kokido, Koji Iida
  • Patent number: 11565738
    Abstract: A heating and capacitive sensing device for a steering wheel of a motor vehicle. The device includes a support made from an electrically insulating flexible material to which at least an electrically conductive first track and at least an electrically conductive second track are fixed. An electronic control unit including a capacitance reading module is electrically connected to the at least one second track. The electronic control unit is configured to control the at least one first track and at least one second track, so that the at least one first track is suited to generate heat for heating the steering wheel, and at least one second track is configured to operate as a capacitive sensor means by sending capacitance values to the electronic control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: I.R.C.A. S.P.A. INDUSTRIA RESISTENZE CORAZZATE E AFFINI
    Inventors: Federico Zoppas, Mauro Berioli, Roberto Oboe, Michele Peterle, Paolo Magnone
  • Patent number: 11568743
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for managing a vehicle fleet based on compliance regulations, and, in some embodiments, involve blockchain or other distributed ledger technologies. Systems and methods for managing a vehicle fleet based on compliance regulations may include receiving a service request, wherein the service request is a request for a passenger ride or a request for a cargo transport, receiving first information for a first node, wherein the first information comprises a vehicle size, a vehicle weight, and/or a number of seats, receiving second information comprising a first threshold number of vehicle occupants and/or a first threshold vehicle occupant weight limit, determining that the first threshold number of vehicle occupants or the first threshold vehicle occupant weight limit are exceeded, and sending an indication that the first node has not accepted the service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Abraham Mezaael
  • Patent number: 11562474
    Abstract: A background scenery portion may be identified in each of a plurality of image sets of an object, where each image set includes images captured simultaneously from different cameras. A correspondence between the image sets may determined, where the correspondence tracks control points associated with the object and present in multiple images. A multi-view interactive digital media representation of the object that is navigable in one or more dimensions and that includes the image sets may be generated and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Abhishek Kar, Matteo Munaro, Pavel Hanchar, Radu Bogdan Rusu
  • Patent number: 11562206
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for providing personalized driving or navigation assistance. The method may include receiving sensory data with respect to a vehicle from a plurality of sensors and multi-channel input data with respect to one or more passengers inside the vehicle from a plurality of onboard monitoring devices, performing fusion of the sensory data and the multi-channel input data to generate multimodal fusion data, determining one or more contextual events based on the multi-modal fusion data using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model is trained using an incremental learning process and comprises a supervised machine learning model and an unsupervised machine learning model, analysing the one or more contextual events to generate a personalized driving recommendation, and providing the personalized driving recommendation to a driver passenger or a navigation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventor: Gopichand Agnihotram
  • Patent number: 11561545
    Abstract: A trajectory for an autonomous vehicle (AV) can be generated using curvature segments. A decision planner component can receive a reference trajectory for the AV to follow in an environment. A number of subdivisions (frames) of the reference trajectory may be associated with a curvature value and a tangent vector. Starting with an initial position of the AV, a candidate trajectory can be determined by continuously intersecting a segment with an origin at the initial position of the AV and a reference line associated with a particular frame. The reference line can be substantially perpendicular to the tangent vector of the particular frame. A location of the intersection between the segment and the reference line can be based on a curvature value of the segment. Optimizing a candidate trajectory can include varying curvature values associated with various segments and determining costs of the various candidate trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventor: Marin Kobilarov
  • Patent number: 11564019
    Abstract: An auxiliary wireless personal area network system installable in a vehicle includes a plurality of line replaceable units each associated with an avionics subsystem and installable in prescribed locations in the aircraft. At least a subset of the line replaceable units are interconnectable over a dedicated subsystem network. A plurality of network node devices are each associated with a respective one of the plurality of line replaceable units. Each of the network node devices has a microcontroller, an onboard power source independent of any aircraft power source, a local interface connectible the corresponding one of the plurality of line replaceable units, and a wireless network interface connectible to a personal area network independent of the dedicated subsystem network for relaying operational data from the line replaceable unit to the network node device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Samuel Jester
  • Patent number: 11560084
    Abstract: When a first driver setting mode indicates an “OFF mode” or an “AUTO mode,” a VP accepts a light operation mode request from an ADK. When an operation is performed by a user, the VP changes an operation mode of a headlight in accordance with the operation by the user. When the operation by the user has not been performed, the VP changes the operation mode of the headlight in accordance with the light operation mode request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eisuke Ando
  • Patent number: 11557202
    Abstract: The traffic flow control method includes: receiving, by a traffic flow control device, traffic control request signaling sent by an in-vehicle device of a first vehicle, where the traffic control request signaling includes travel information of the first vehicle and a travel intention of the first vehicle; determining, by the traffic flow control device, traffic command signaling based on the traffic control request signaling and traffic control phase information of a target intersection, where the target intersection is an intersection through which the first vehicle is to pass; and sending, by the traffic flow control device, the traffic command signaling to the in-vehicle device of the first vehicle. The traffic flow control method, the traffic flow control device, the in-vehicle device, and the computer-readable storage medium in the internet of vehicles can help a vehicle in the internet of vehicles travel safely and efficiently at an intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fuxiang Xiong, Hui Li, Jianli Zhou
  • Patent number: 11554734
    Abstract: A vehicle safety system includes an actuatable restraint for helping to protect a vehicle occupant and a controller for controlling actuation of the actuatable restraint in response to a vehicle rollover event. The controller is configured to execute a discrimination algorithm comprising at least one classification metric that utilizes at least one of vehicle pitch rate (P_RATE) and vehicle roll acceleration (D_RATE) to discriminate at least one of a ramp rollover event and a soil rollover event from an embankment rollover event. The discrimination algorithm determines a classification of the vehicle rollover event as one of a ramp rollover event, a soil rollover event, and an embankment rollover event. The controller is also configured to select a deployment threshold for deploying the actuatable restraint. The deployment threshold corresponds to the classification of the vehicle rollover event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Charles A. Bartlett, Huahn-Fern Yeh
  • Patent number: 11554810
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling a lane change using V2V communication information and an apparatus for calculating tendency information for the same. According to the apparatuses and the method, it is possible to improve safety when changing lanes by receiving diving information of drivers of other vehicles from communication modules of the other vehicles, generating tendency information of the drivers of the other vehicles on the basis of the driving information, and performing lane change control using the tendency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HL Klemove Corp.
    Inventor: Hojeong You
  • Patent number: RE49398
    Abstract: The invention comprises a wireless electrical interface system and method for establishing a non-intrusive interface with the vehicle's electrical subsystems required for the operation of an aftermarket electrical device, such as an Ignition Interlock Device (IID) or a GPS tracking device with integrated immobilizer technology. Said non-intrusive interface is established through utilizing engineered connectors for electrical connections to the vehicle's electrical system, and by incorporating wireless interface technology to establish a wireless electrical interface between the vehicle's electrical subsystems accessible only within the passenger compartment and the vehicle's electrical subsystems accessible only within the engine/trunk compartment, eliminating the conventional hardwired electrical interface between aftermarket electrical devices and the vehicle's electrical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: 1A Smart Start LLC
    Inventor: Jessie James Shafer
  • Patent number: RE49381
    Abstract: The invention comprises a wireless electrical interface system and method for establishing a non-intrusive interface with the vehicle's electrical subsystems required for the operation of an aftermarket electrical device, such as an Ignition Interlock Device (IID) or a GPS tracking device with integrated immobilizer technology. Said non-intrusive interface is established through utilizing engineered connectors for electrical connections to the vehicle's electrical system, and by incorporating wireless interface technology to establish a wireless electrical interface between the vehicle's electrical subsystems accessible only within the passenger compartment and the vehicle's electrical subsystems accessible only within the engine/trunk compartment, eliminating the conventional hardwired electrical interface between aftermarket electrical devices and the vehicle's electrical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: 1A Smart Start, LLC
    Inventor: Jessie James Shafer