Remote Control System Patents (Class 701/2)
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Patent number: 12291199Abstract: A system includes a first device that controls a moving body and a second device that remotely controls the moving body. The first device obtains information around the moving body, movement information of the moving body, and remote control information. The first device calculates a control amount for controlling movement of the moving body based on one of the information and the movement information, switches autonomous movement and remote control of the moving body based on the remote-control information, and transmits one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount to the second device. The second device receives one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount, transmits the remote-control information to the first device, determines autonomous mobility of the moving body based on second information stored remotely, and generates the remote-control information including a determination result.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Maeda, Junya Takahashi
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Patent number: 12280661Abstract: A vehicle control system includes at least one processor and a storage medium configured to store a program to be executed by the at least one processor. The program includes at least one command. The at least one command causes the at least one processor to execute a key lock-out prevention process of controlling a lock mechanism of a door of a vehicle into an unlocked state in a case where a key that operates the lock mechanism is positioned inside the vehicle, and a vehicle protection process of controlling the lock mechanism into a locked state without executing the key lock-out prevention process in a case where, after automatic stop of the vehicle, an occupant present inside the vehicle is not detected and the key is positioned inside the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Homma
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Patent number: 12282888Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for autonomous delivery to a dynamic location. A user requests delivery of an item. An autonomous vehicle carrying the item navigates to a delivery location associated with the request. While navigating the autonomous vehicle toward the delivery location, the autonomous vehicle receives one or more estimates of a current location of a wireless device of the user. In response to receiving a respective estimate, the autonomous vehicle updates the delivery location to match the respective estimate of the current location of the wireless device. In this way, the delivery location can be dynamically updated as the user changes location. Once the autonomous vehicle reaches the delivery location, the item can be delivered to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Dharmendra Adsule, Sathyaraj Kolandasamy
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Patent number: 12280899Abstract: The invention provides an aircraft attitude tracking control method, system and computer equipment, which belongs to the field of aircraft attitude control, comprising: obtaining aircraft operating parameters and establishing a kinematic model of the attitude tracking error of the aircraft. A specified time performance constraint function and attitude error boundary based on the hyperbolic cosecant composite function are then constructed. A constrained attitude error conversion function and its inverse function are utilized to obtain an unconstrained attitude tracking conversion error. Virtual control instructions are solved in kinematics using a sigmoid tracking differentiator to obtain a numerical derivative. The control moment in the dynamics is solved and the complete form of the attitude tracking algorithm is given for the aircraft attitude tracking system. This method provides a computationally efficient means of controlling aircraft to ensure that error convergence is achieved within a preset time.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Inventors: Xuan Peng, Shan Lu, Zhijiang Lou, Sen Xie, Fengli Dai
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Patent number: 12280863Abstract: Methods and systems described herein can assist a user when loading a watercraft onto a trailer (e.g., at a boat ramp). For example, position data generated by sensor(s) coupled to the watercraft and/or trailer can cause one or more propulsion devices associated with the watercraft to automatically (e.g., without user intervention) position the watercraft onto the trailer, for example, by controlling the power and/or thrust direction of the propulsion device(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Navico, Inc.Inventors: Ryan R. Rezac, Kristopher C. Snyder, Jeremiah D. Clark
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Patent number: 12275410Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle control device and a center device. When inappropriate information is received, the vehicle control device is configured to set a second stop position for stopping an autonomous driving vehicle as a target vehicle. The vehicle control device is configured to transmit at least position information of the target vehicle to the center device and acquire a first stop position.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kosuke Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12273939Abstract: A method for pairing a robotic device with an application of a communication device, including: receiving, with the application, login information of a user; logging, with the application, into a user account using the login information; receiving, with the application, a password for a wireless network for connecting the robotic device to the wireless network; initiating, with the robotic device, pairing of the robotic device with the application upon the user pressing a button on a user interface of the robotic device; displaying, with the application, a map and a status of the robotic device; and transmitting, with the application, each of: an adjustment to the map; an instruction to perform a function; a cleaning setting; scheduling information; a cleaning intensity or a cleaning frequency setting; and an area within the map which the robotic device is to avoid to the robotic device.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: AI IncorporatedInventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Andrew Francis Fitzgerald, Chin Pang Alfred Kwan
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Patent number: 12272247Abstract: An embodiment method for allocating a moving object for a fleet system includes receiving a use request for the moving object from a user device belonging to a user group, presenting an available moving object list in compliance with the use request, among moving objects belonging to a moving object level corresponding to the user group, and allocating the moving object to the user device according to information of the moving object that is selected by the user device from the available moving object list.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Jae Jun Ha, Young Jun Moon
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Patent number: 12270515Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for safety monitoring of durability of a gas pipeline corridor based on a monitoring Internet of Things system, comprising obtaining durability monitoring data and traffic vibration data of the pipeline corridor through a gas company sensor network platform, and obtaining road traffic data through a government safety monitoring management platform via a government safety monitoring sensor network platform; determining a traffic correlation based on at least one of the durability monitoring data, the traffic vibration data, or the road traffic data; determining a traffic-affected pipeline corridor based on at least one of the traffic vibration data or the traffic correlation, and reporting the traffic-affected pipeline corridor to a government safety monitoring service platform via the government safety monitoring sensor network platform and the government safety monitoring management platform, and determining whether to carry out traffic control via the government safeType: GrantFiled: June 6, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yaqiang Quan, Lei He, Xiaojun Wei
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Patent number: 12262659Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a crop processor, a grain tank, an unload conveyor, and an electromagnetic detecting and ranging module positioned at or above a top of the grain tank for detecting a fill level of the grain tank and the location of a receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester. One or more computing devices receive data from the electromagnetic detecting and ranging module, the data indicating the fill level of the grain tank and the location of the receiving vehicle relative to the combine harvester, and use the data to generate graphic data defining a graphical representation illustrating the relative positions of the unload conveyor and a grain bin of the receiving vehicle. An electronic device including a graphical user interface presents the graphical representation on the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Martin Peter Christiansen, Ramon Buchaca Tarragona
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Patent number: 12263970Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands. The agricultural machine includes a protector to protect an operator's seat. The takeoff/landing station is provided on the protector. The takeoff/landing station is attached to the protector and includes an arm extending in a horizontal direction when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Kinoshita, Takanori Morimoto, Susumu Umemoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12260371Abstract: The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Dana Geislinger, Travis Gaddie, Margaret Alden Tinsley, Muneeb Alam, Steven Chad Richardson, Akaash Sanyal, Raquel Crossman, Tianfang Ni, Cory A. Demieville, Luke Gerdes, Robyn Freeman, Oleksandr Klesov, Luciano Kiniti Issoe
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Patent number: 12257897Abstract: A vehicle access system is disclosed having the plurality of system nodes for localizing a target portable device. In addition to Passive Entry/Passive Start (PEPS) features, the vehicle access system is configured to provide a variety of additional intelligent features depending on which zone of the vehicle the target portable device is located, depending on an identity of the person carrying the target portable device, and depending on other parameters or conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Tucci, Christopher Cundiff, Paul Edward Tunnecliffe, Julien Fritz, David Coleman, Aimee Williams, Christopher Prediger, Srikanth Basa, Jack Murfett
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Patent number: 12258023Abstract: A method for autonomous path planning triggered by freeway rubbernecking includes obtaining gaze directions of drivers of a plurality of connected vehicles in a region of a road. The method also includes determining whether an average speed of the plurality of connected vehicles in the region is less than a predetermined speed. The method further includes controlling mobility of one or more of the plurality of connected vehicles in response to determining that the gaze directions of one or more drivers of the plurality of connected vehicles deviate from the moving direction of the connected vehicles and determining that the average speed of the connected vehicles is less than the predetermined speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., MCMASTER UNIVERSITYInventors: Baik Hoh, Seyhan Ucar, Kentaro Oguchi, Hao Yang
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Patent number: 12252171Abstract: A portable information terminal for a user of a moving object includes: a display configured to perform a position instruction operation on a display image, and a controller configured to perform movement control of the moving object based on a specific operation from the user on the display. The controller is configured to cause the display to display a guidance image that prompts the specific operation when waiting for receiving the specific operation, store position information of the specific operation performed by the user based on the guidance image, and display the guidance image that prompts the specific operation based on the position information on the display in a case of storing the position information when waiting for receiving the specific operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Jumpei Noguchi, Gaku Shimamoto
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Patent number: 12252036Abstract: A system for heating a battery in a vehicle supplying driving power by a motor as a vehicle-driving source is provided. The system includes a big-data server configured to receive driving information of the vehicle and to determine an estimated driving start time of the vehicle and required output required at an initial driving stage of the vehicle based on the received driving information, and a controller, installed in the vehicle and configured to provide the driving information to the big-data server, to receive the estimated driving start time and the required output provided from the big-data server, and to derive a heating time of the battery, required to ensure the required output, based on the a temperature and an SoC of the battery installed in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hyun Soo Park
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Patent number: 12252867Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and apparatus for controlling a wheel loader, and a wheel loader and a storage medium, wherein an original trigger condition for KickDown is preset in the wheel loader. The method for controlling a wheel loader comprises: acquiring a way for releasing KickDown of a wheel loader; determining the current state of the wheel loader on the basis of the way for releasing KickDown; and when the current state of the wheel loader is working state, adjusting an original trigger condition to a first trigger condition, wherein the first trigger condition is easier to trigger than the original trigger condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: SUOTE TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Huang, Fuwen Li, Zhenbei Zhang
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Patent number: 12256172Abstract: A vehicle can be configured to include a body having a body bottom conjoined with a body sidewall and a body top forming a body cavity. The body top includes a body top opening and the body sidewall includes a body sidewall opening. The vehicle can include a payload housing having a payload bottom conjoined with a payload housing sidewall and a payload housing top forming a payload housing cavity, wherein the payload housing cavity is configured to hold at least one operating module for the vehicle. The vehicle can include at least one arm. The vehicle can include at least one interlocking arrangement of the body top opening or body side wall configured to removably secure the payload housing and the at least one arm to the body. Each of the body, the payload housing, and the at least one arm can be structured with additive manufactured material.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.Inventors: Jason Sebastian, Robyn Kincade, Catherine Henderson, Bradley Evans, Jacques Davignon, Ryan Fernandez, Jeff Dowell
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Patent number: 12253853Abstract: A method for remotely controlled driving of a motor vehicle, characterized in that by the motor vehicle a transport travel with at least one passenger in the motor vehicle is performed. The driving of the motor vehicle during the transport drive, at least in phases, is performed in teleoperated manner by an external teleoperator from an operator location. During the teleoperated driving environmental information of the motor vehicle is transmitted to the operator location and displayed at least on one display unit for the teleoperator. During the teleoperated driving a viewing direction of the teleoperator on the display unit is determined, and is displayed on the display unit where the teleoperator gazes. This image region, at which the teleoperator gazes, is visually marked on a display unit in the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventor: Antonyo Musabini
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Patent number: 12253859Abstract: Disclosed is a disinfection robot capable of autonomous driving and recognition of a disinfection target. The disinfection robot includes: a recognition unit configured to generate recognition information by recognizing a surrounding environment of the disinfection robot; a movement unit configured to move a position of the disinfection robot; a light source unit configured to emit a light of a predetermined wavelength area for disinfection; an injection unit configured to inject a fluid for disinfection; and a control unit configured to move the disinfection robot through the movement unit based on the recognition information, wherein the control unit is configured to identify a disinfection target from the recognition information and control at least one of the light source unit and the injection unit to perform disinfection to at least one of the surrounding environment of the disinfection robot and the disinfection target.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Kanggeon Kim, Jongsuk Choi, Woosub Lee, Jun-Sik Kim, Soonkyum Kim, Sona Kwak
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Patent number: 12248318Abstract: Disclosed herein is a remotely situated vehicle control device in data communication with a vehicle and operable by a user situated outside of the vehicle to enable the user to remotely control the vehicle. The remotely situated vehicle control device includes a device data transceiver for receiving first-person view (FPV) image data from an FPV camera carried by the vehicle, a device display to display FPV images to the user based on the FPV image data received from the FPV camera while also displaying virtual reality or augmented reality representations of vehicle controls to enable the user to remotely control the vehicle by interacting with the virtual reality or augmented reality representations of the vehicle controls, and a user input device configured to receive user input to interact with the virtual reality or augmented reality representations of the vehicle controls.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventor: Matthew Roy
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Patent number: 12248314Abstract: A method for activating an automated parking maneuver to be carried out via a parking assistance system with a motor vehicle is provided. The parking assistance system can be operated remotely from outside the motor vehicle by way of a mobile communications device. The method includes outputting an instruction via the mobile communications device for the user-side execution of a predefined activation movement of the mobile communications device; determining first sensor information relating to the activation movement of the communications device by way of a communications-device-side sensor system; detecting an activation movement of the mobile communications device carried out by the mobile communications device based on the first sensor information; and activating the parking maneuver according to the detection of the activation movement of the mobile communications device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sophie Boehm, Rolf Brenndoerfer, Patrick Heinrich, Yordan Mihaylov, Jordi Sabater, Konstantin Zhukov, Andreas Von Eichhorn
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Patent number: 12242266Abstract: According to the remote assistance method of the present disclosure, first, a positional relationship between the vehicle having an autonomous traveling function and an object present around the vehicle at a future time beyond a current time is displayed spatially on a display device, the positional relationship being predicted based on a path plan for autonomous traveling created by the vehicle and information on the object. Next, assistance content input from a remote operator is transmitted to the vehicle. Then, remote assistance corresponding to the assistance content is executed in the vehicle in response to confirmation that the positional relationship between the vehicle and the object displayed on the display device when the assistance content is input is realized after the vehicle receives the assistance content.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Maiko Hirano, Yoshitaka Adachi, Kentaro Ichikawa, Koji Taguchi, Narihito Yamazato
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Patent number: 12243187Abstract: Eyewear configured to capture a video image of an object, and to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to capture a video image of the object to produce stitched video images. The eyewear has an eyewear camera generating the eyewear video image, and the UAV has a UAV camera generating the UAV video image, wherein a processor timestamps frames of each of the video images. When the eyewear begins recording of the object, the eyewear controls the UAV camera to also begin recording the object. The stitched video images are synchronized to each other using the timestamps, wherein the stitched video images can be displayed on an eyewear display or a remote display. The processor compensates for any latency between when the eyewear begins recording and when the UAV begins recording.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Terek Judi, Rajan Vaish
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Patent number: 12240602Abstract: A logistics system includes an energy remaining amount identifying unit configured to obtain or estimate an energy remaining amount of an unmanned vehicle subsequent to delivery of an item to a delivery address, the unmanned vehicle being driven by energy supplied from an energy source, a range setting unit configured to set a pickup possible range according to the energy remaining amount, the pickup possible range being used to select pickup location candidates where the unmanned vehicle is able to pick up an item and return to a station of the unmanned vehicle on a return path, the return path including the delivery address as a start point and including the station as an end point, and a pickup location determining unit configured to determine a pickup location from the pickup location candidates located in the pickup possible range.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.Inventors: Daiki Tanaka, Toshiaki Tazume, Takayoshi Inuma
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Patent number: 12235643Abstract: A system of determining a flight path for an aerial vehicle, includes a memory storing a program code, and a processor configured to execute the program code to identify, during a flight, an abnormal state occurring at a first location, in response to the abnormal state, control the aerial vehicle to fly along a first flight path from the first location to a first destination, after the aerial vehicle arrives at the first destination, evaluate a status of the aerial vehicle at the first destination to obtain an evaluation result, and based on the evaluation result, determine a second flight path of the aerial vehicle to a second destination. The first flight path is a reverse of a last flight path of the aerial vehicle before the aerial vehicle reaches the first location.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Litian Zhang, Xiao Hu, Ang Liu
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Patent number: 12235639Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle flight for performing an inspection of land, property, structures or other objects. Automated aerial surveys allow a UAV to obtain aerial data without human manual control of a UAV. For certain aerial surveys, a UAV is not capable of completing the survey without refueling, or exchanging out used batteries for fresh batteries. For such aerial surveys, a method and system is needed to allow an operator to automatically perform an aerial survey while determining battery usage and replacement. Also, in circumstances where manual control of the UAV is needed, contingency-based software controls may be needed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Downey, Mark Patrick Bauer, Edward Dale Steakley, Brian Richman, Bernard J. Michini
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Patent number: 12236789Abstract: A method for controlling rights of an autonomous vehicle includes acquiring, via a network, identification information for identifying a user or a terminal of the user, and dispatching request information that indicates a dispatch request for the autonomous vehicle issued by the user. The method further includes selecting the autonomous vehicle to be dispatched to the user from among multiple autonomous vehicles based on the dispatch request information, and assigning a control right for the selected autonomous vehicle, to the user or the terminal, based on the identification information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Shunsuke Kuhara
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Patent number: 12236726Abstract: An incident management system for managing an incident response may be provided. The incident management system may include an incident management (IM) computing device and a vehicle. The IM computing device may include a processor and memory, the processor may be programmed to receive a notification that an incident has occurred, the notification including sensor data and sub-system data. The processor may analyze the data to determine an incident response, the determination including categorizing the incident based on damage determined from the data. The processor may also identify a responding party based on the incident response and the category of the incident. The processor may further parse the data to generate a set of critical data. The critical data may be based on the responding party. The processor may transmit a message to the responding party including the critical data and the location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Jennifer Criswell Kellett, An Ho, Jerome Scott Trayer, Jacob Thomas Simonson, Jeremy Myers, Kip Wilson
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Patent number: 12235640Abstract: A resource comparison unit compares a resource list to be used by a control center to remotely operate a remotely driven vehicle with a resource list to be used by a vehicle control unit to control the remotely driven vehicle in accordance with the remote operation from the control center. An alternative resource storage unit stores information on an alternative resource for a resource of the remotely driven vehicle. A resource switching unit switches a resource which is not a commonality and is detected by the resource comparison unit to an alternative resource stored in the alternative resource storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuaki Takimoto, Takuya Kono, Ryo Mizobe
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Patent number: 12226914Abstract: A robot control system includes circuitry configured to: generate a command to a robot; receive a frame image in which a capture position changes according to a motion of the robot based on the command; extract a partial region from the frame image according to the command; superimpose a delay mark on the partial region to generate an operation image; and display the operation image on a display device, so as to represent a delay of the motion of the robot with respect to the command.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Inventors: Keita Shimamoto, Koji Sokabe, Ryokichi Hirata, Masaru Adachi
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Patent number: 12228933Abstract: An autonomous work machine that works in a work area, the autonomous work machine comprising: a storage unit that stores past captured images including one or more markers arranged to define the work area; a specifying unit that specifies a past captured image stored in the storage unit and similar to a current captured image captured by an image capturing unit; and a control unit that controls the autonomous work machine based on the past captured image specified by the specifying unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Udagawa, Makoto Yamamura, Hiroto Takahashi, Masaya Honji
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Patent number: 12230070Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: detect that shutdown operation that is operation of stopping a traveling system is performed for a predetermined vehicle; and determine an operation mode after the shutdown operation for at least one of a plurality of electronic control units provided at the vehicle based on a first location that is a location at which the shutdown operation is performed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaya Hizaki
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Patent number: 12228406Abstract: Example computer-implemented methods and systems for anomaly-sensing based multi-agent navigation are disclosed. One example computer-implemented method includes: receiving relative distance data specifying distance between at least one pair of agents of a plurality of agents, each of a subset of the plurality of agents having an anomaly sensor subsystem; receiving anomaly data from at least one anomaly sensor subsystem of one of the plurality of agents; obtaining pre-surveyed map data; and determining global pose data of the plurality of agents based on the relative distance data and based on comparing the anomaly data to the pre-surveyed map data.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SB Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Jesse Pratt, Kyle Austin Palko
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Patent number: 12229938Abstract: A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Ryan Knuffman, Bradley A. Sliz, Lucas Allen
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Patent number: 12226067Abstract: A robot cleaner includes a driving device, a sensor, a memory, and a processor. The processor controls the driving device to drive the robot cleaner at a space and generates generate a map of a space based on sensor data obtained while the robot cleaner driving in the space. The map is stored in the memory. The processor divides the space on the generated map into a plurality of rooms and recognizes an object and a position of the recognized object in the space on the generated map based on the information obtained through the sensor. The processor stores information about the recognized object and the position of the recognized object on the map, and generates a name of each of the plurality of rooms based on information about the recognized object positioned in each of the plurality of rooms.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ahhyun Kim, Nooree Na, Miyoung Lee, Hyeokjin Choi
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Patent number: 12230135Abstract: A control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles automatically traveling to follow an operation schedule includes judging, by a server, whether a first vehicle is delayed relative to the operation schedule, judging, by the server, whether passing of the first vehicle by a second vehicle has occurred when the first vehicle is judged to be delayed relative to the operation schedule, and setting, by the server, a limit on a vehicle speed of the first vehicle when the passing is judged to have occurred.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Higashide, Keiichi Uno
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Patent number: 12228949Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods for redundant communication in an aircraft. The system may include a primary connection, a secondary connection, and a tertiary connection. The system may include a computing device configured to receive at least a state datum and transmit the at least a state datum using at least a data connection of the plurality of data connections. The at least a network switch may be communicatively connected to the plurality of data connections and configured to select the at least a data connection from the plurality of data connections as a function of the at least a state datum.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: BETA AIR LLCInventor: Vincent Moeykens
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Patent number: 12230018Abstract: One or more embodiments herein can enable identification of an obstacle free area about an object. An exemplary system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise an obtaining component that obtains raw data defining a physical state of an environment around an object from a vantage of the object, and a generation component that, based on the raw data, generates a dimension of a portion or more of a virtual polygon representing a boundary about the object, wherein the boundary bounds free space about the object. A sensing sub-system can comprise both an ultrasonic sensor and a camera that can separately sense the environment about the object from the vantage of the object to thereby generate separate polygon measurement sets.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Xinkai Zhang, Sihao Ding, Harshavardhan Reddy Dasari
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Patent number: 12225428Abstract: A vehicle control device including: a first terminal position recognition unit that recognizes a first position of a user terminal with respect to a vehicle by activating a first prescribed number of a plurality of second communication antennas and by performing second wireless communication between the vehicle and the user terminal; and a terminal distance recognition unit that: recognizes a distance between the vehicle and the user terminal by activating a second prescribed number, which is less than the first prescribed number, of the second communication antennas based on the first position and by performing the second wireless communication between the vehicle and the user terminal; and, thereafter, repeatedly executes terminal distance recognition processing for recognizing the distance between the vehicle and the user terminal by changing the number of the second communication antennas to be activated in accordance with the distance between the vehicle and the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 12221231Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for inspecting an aircraft. A computer system receives captured data associated with a flight path flown by an unmanned aircraft system to acquire the captured data for the aircraft. The computer system compares the captured data with reference data for the aircraft to form a comparison. The computer system determines whether the captured data is within a set of tolerances for valid captured data using a result of the comparison. Prior to detecting anomalies for the aircraft using the captured data, the computer system determines a set of corrective actions in response to the captured data being outside of the set of tolerances for the valid captured data in which the set of corrective actions is performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Walter J. Jarecki, James J. Troy, Gregory James Sweers, Charles T. Coccia
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Patent number: 12222733Abstract: An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control method and apparatus, a base station and a UAV relate to the technical field of wireless communication. The method can include receiving an access message from a UAV, the access message carrying a type identifier of the UAV, acquiring target supervision strategy information based on the access message, the target supervision strategy information indicating a flight criterion of the UAV, and sending a control instruction to the UAV based on the target supervision strategy information, the UAV being configured to control flight based on the control instruction. A base station, when receiving the access message of the UAV, acquires the target supervision strategy information of the UAV based on the access message and controls flight of the UAV based on the target supervision strategy information, so that it is ensured that flight of the UAV meets a supervision requirement.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Wei Hong
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Patent number: 12219302Abstract: A customer premise equipment (CPE), a control method for the CPE, and a computer-readable storage medium. The CPE may include a WiFi access module (110), a rotating body (120), a base (130), and a control processing module (140), where the rotating body (120) is provided with a millimeter wave access module (121), the base (130) is provided with a rotary driving device (131) and a rotary shaft (132), and the rotary driving device (131) is connected to the rotating body (120) by means of the rotary shaft (132).Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventor: Yongliang Zhang
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Patent number: 12208757Abstract: An Internet-based vehicle start assist system and a method thereof are disclosed. The system includes: an onboard battery, an onboard charging system, an onboard SMS transceiver module, a microprocessor, a standby battery, a DO socket line, and a voltage step-down module I. When a vehicle is parked for a long time or onboard electrical equipment is forgotten to be turned off for a long time after parking, the system can automatically detect a voltage of the onboard battery, and if the onboard battery is undervoltage, the system notifies a driver through an SMS message; and when the onboard battery is out of power supply and the driver is in urgent need of the vehicle, the system can automatically switch to the standby battery to supply power to onboard equipment, thereby helping the driver start the vehicle smoothly and improving use experience of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Zhejiang Tiantong Electronic Information Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruibiao Zhang, Bingbing Xing, Zhanhua Ma, Yanyan Song, Kaisheng Zhang
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Patent number: 12213021Abstract: A communication apparatus according to the present disclosure is a communication apparatus included in a first vehicle, the communication apparatus including a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface communicates with a server. The controller detects a second vehicle located in a vicinity of the first vehicle. The controller generates positional information for the second vehicle based on a position of the first vehicle when the second vehicle is detected. The controller transmits the positional information for the second vehicle to the server via the communication interface, when the communication interface can communicate with the server.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Nakade, Miho Otsuka, Hirokazu Kano, Evan Vijithakumara
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Patent number: 12212644Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system that includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device includes: a first timer unit; a generation unit that generates time information indicating time counted by the first timer unit; and a first transmission unit that transmits the time information to the second electronic device, and also transmits, to the second electronic device, elapsed time information indicating elapsed time from the start of generation of the time information till transmission of the time information generated. The second electronic device includes: a second timer unit; a reception unit; and an adjustment unit that adjusts time counted by the second timer unit based on the time information and the elapsed time information received by the reception unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takumi Nomura, Tatsuroh Saitoh
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Patent number: 12202603Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for locating, identifying, and tracking a known criminal, fugitive, missing person, and/or any other person of interest. An embodiment operates by deploying an unmanned aerial vehicle, determining the mode of operation of the UAV, operating the UAV in accordance with the mode of operation of the UAV, determining whether a subject has been detected, capturing a first voice sample associated with the subject, authenticating the identity of the subject, and transmitting the GPS location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Global Tel*Link CorporationInventor: Mitch Volkart
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Patent number: 12205468Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for autonomous vehicle recovery. In particular, systems and methods are provided for vehicle recovery prioritization in a fleet of vehicles when multiple vehicles request recovery. Stranded vehicles in need of recovery assigned a risk profile and prioritized based on the risk profile. The risk profile can be based on a number of factors, such as a risk level for the vehicle due to the vehicle's situation, the presence of passengers in the vehicle, and congestion caused by the vehicle. Recovery response can be based on the recovery prioritization. Vehicle sensors and computing power can be used to inform onboard processors and/or central computers of a risk profile for the vehicle, and dispatch can trigger a response plan according to a recovery response framework.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Domenico Rusciano, Jeffrey Brandon
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Patent number: 12204330Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide improved user interfaces and mechanisms associated with controlling a vehicle. Some such embodiments provide a decluttered user interface that dynamically updates to provide detailed element(s) utilized to convey particular details of vehicle operation and/or adjust operation of the vehicle. Some embodiments cause rendering of an indicator associated with a value tape set to an invisible state, cause visibility of the value tape in response to interaction data, update the value tape upon second interaction data with the indicator, and set at least one value in response to third interaction data with the indicator and set the value tape back to an invisible state. In this regard, in some embodiments the user interface remains operable while simultaneously reducing the number of interface elements required to be rendered at a given time.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Roberto Gudino Montoya, Kelsey Marie Keberle, Steven Curtis Crouch
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Patent number: 12205072Abstract: When a customer places an order for a first item and a second item, delivery systems utilize an aerial vehicle to transport the first item from a first source of the first item to a second source of the second item. At the second source, the first item and the second item are transferred into a carrier vehicle and transported toward a destination of the order. Once the carrier vehicle arrives within a vicinity of the destination, an autonomous ground vehicle departs the carrier vehicle with the first item and the second item, and delivers the first item and the second item to the destination. The delivery systems effectively expand the capacity of sources of items, and simplify processes for delivering orders for items, by enabling items from multiple sources to be combined at a single source prior to delivery, and transported to a destination from the single source.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Raashid Mohammed, Darren Ernest Canavor, Ankit Pandey, Farouq Halawa, Erik Roy Veilleux