Remote Control System Patents (Class 701/2)
  • Patent number: 11828616
    Abstract: To provide a user with more appropriate information on the spot around the route. A search system includes an acquisition unit, a determining unit, a search unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a current position of a moving body and information on a route from the current position to a position of a destination. The determining unit determines a width of a search range dynamically changed along the route, based on the current position and the information on the route. The search unit searches for a spot present within the search range. The output unit outputs information on a searched spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MICWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumito Yoshikawa, Michihiro Nishida
  • Patent number: 11829670
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile semiconductor storage configured to store image data and a processor configured to generate a command to be executed by the semiconductor storage. The information processing apparatus further includes a volatile memory configured to store the command generated by the processor in one queue of a plurality of queues that includes at least a first queue and a second queue. The semiconductor storage confirms the presence of a command stored in the first queue before confirming the presence of a command stored in the second queue. A command to be stored in the first queue is a first type of command related to image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keigo Goda
  • Patent number: 11827503
    Abstract: Operating a materials handling vehicle includes monitoring, by a controller, a first vehicle drive parameter during a first manual operation of the vehicle by an operator; monitoring, by the controller, the first vehicle drive parameter during a second manual operation of the vehicle by the operator; receiving, by the controller after the first manual operation of the vehicle and the second manual operation of the vehicle, a request to implement a semi-automated driving operation; calculating, by the controller, a first weighted average based on the monitored first vehicle drive parameter during the first manual operation of the vehicle and the monitored first vehicle parameter during the second manual operation of the vehicle; and based at least in part on the calculated first weighted average, controlling, by the controller, implementation of the semi-automated driving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Theos, Johannes Nachtigal, Andreas Simon
  • Patent number: 11827351
    Abstract: A navigation program for an autonomous vehicle, the navigation program configured to: receive an initial model of an object to be inspected by the autonomous vehicle; identify an inspection target associated with the initial model of the object; and determine an inspection location for the autonomous vehicle from which inspection target is inspectable by an inspection system of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the initial model includes one or more convex shapes representing the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PERCEPTUAL ROBOTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Konstantinos Karachalios, Dimitrios Nikolaidis, Kevin Driscoll-Lind, Colin Greatwood
  • Patent number: 11828732
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for diagnosing faults in a vehicle using multiple audio sensors. The audio sensors are placed in predetermined locations within the vehicle. The audio sensors continually detect sound signals being originated from components of the vehicle. The audio sensors process detected sound signals to remove unwanted noise from the detected sound signals. The audio sensors compare processed sounds signals with reference sound signals to identify one or more faulty components. Each reference sound signal is associated with a particular fault. The audio sensors transmit information associated with the one or more faulty components to an analyst computer. An interactive graphical user interface of the analyst computer may present the information to an analyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Damon Ryan Depaolo, Payton A. Shubrick, Jiby John
  • Patent number: 11822332
    Abstract: A control apparatus is for controlling notification data presented to an occupant of a movable object having an automated driving function, including an outside world information obtaining unit for obtaining outside world information of the movable object, a failure detection unit for detecting a failure of the movable object, a setting unit for setting a point associated with the failure based on the outside world information, and setting a scheduled time instant at which the point is reached, and a notification plan generation unit for generating a notification plan for setting an order for presenting predetermined notification data to the occupant according to the point and the scheduled time instant, wherein the notification plan generation unit is for estimating an information intensity of the notification data, and deciding an order for presenting detection information of the failure and the notification data in a predetermined period according to the information intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Rei Sakai
  • Patent number: 11820329
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of vehicle key fobs. More specifically, the present invention relates to a vehicle key fob device comprised of a vehicle key fob that has a housing, a flashlight, a biometric scanner, a plurality of LED-illuminated buttons/emblems and a button that allows the color of the LED-illuminated buttons to change. The fob may have a plurality of buttons in differing embodiments, which are preferably illuminated via at least one LED that is positioned below each button. However, in one embodiment a singular large LED may sit below all buttons to illuminate the buttons simultaneously. The at least one LED can also produce any color known in the art, which can be changed by a user by pressing a color change button located on the side surface of the fob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Buss
  • Patent number: 11820405
    Abstract: An integrated control apparatus for an autonomous vehicle includes a mobile control device 10, which is a portable device manipulated by a user, configured to perform steering, speed change, acceleration and braking of the vehicle, and a touch-type stationary display device 20 manipulated in a touch manner by the user and configured to perform functions other than the steering, the speed change, the acceleration and the braking of the vehicle when the vehicle is shifted from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode. A steering dial switch and a speed change slide switch of the mobile control device are manipulated in a manner different from that in which an acceleration button switch and a braking button switch of the mobile control device are manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, SL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eun Sik Kim, Seok Woo Ye, Jae Hoon Jung, Ji Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 11813996
    Abstract: An enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit, power control system, and method for R/C vehicles is provided. The system may include a power input from a vehicle battery and a converted power output to vehicle electronics. The system may also include an enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit (BEC) electrically coupled to the power input and providing the converted power output and including a linear regulator and a switching regulator connected in parallel to the linear regulator between the power input and the converted power output. The enhanced hybrid BEC further includes a linear electrical decoupler provided between the linear regulator and the converted power output and a switching electrical decoupler provided between the switching regulator and the converted power output. Wherein the switching regulator and the linear regulator are either electrically coupled or decoupled from the output power and/or the input power based upon a monitored voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TRAXXAS, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott Rollin Michael Schmitz, William Huang
  • Patent number: 11818630
    Abstract: A vehicle system may include a plurality of wireless transmitters carried by a vehicle and configured to transmit wireless signals, at least one indicator carried by the vehicle, and a portable device moveable relative to the vehicle and configured to receive the wireless signals from the plurality of wireless transmitters. The system may further include a controller carried by the vehicle and configured to wirelessly communicate with the portable device, and determine a predicted zone the portable device is located in adjacent to the vehicle based upon the received wireless signals, with the predicted zone being one of a plurality of different zones adjacent the vehicle having respective vehicle functions associated therewith. The controller may be further configured to cause the at least one indicator to provide an indication that the portable device has entered the predicted zone, and enable the respective vehicle function associated with the predicted zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: VOXX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph A. Santavicca, Robert Mahrle, Tristen Kyle Pierson
  • Patent number: 11810473
    Abstract: A system and method of training how to use a medical device using an instrument such as a mock ultrasound probe or syringe to be tracked in 3D space with six degrees of freedom using an internal optical camera, a light source (e.g. infrared LEDs), and a display of markers arranged on a surface. By extracting corner information for each marker, a 3D transformation can be established, allowing the system to know the instrument's position and orientation in 3D space relative to that marker. Each marker also encodes a numerical value corresponding to its predetermined position and orientation on the surface, allowing the instrument to determine its own position and orientation relative to the surface. Thus, as long as the instrument is able to see at least one marker on an optical surface, the system will know its full 3D position and orientation relative to the whole optical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Matthew Wang, Kresimir Petrinec, Gabriele Nataneli, Eric Savitsky
  • Patent number: 11811798
    Abstract: A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a fraud-sensing electronic control unit connected to the network between a first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed and a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed. Moreover, in the second mode, a second type of detecting process having a different degree to which a fraudulent message is detectible than the first type of detecting process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Manabu Maeda, Hideki Matsushima, Tomoyuki Haga, Yuji Unagami, Yoshihiro Ujiie, Takeshi Kishikawa
  • Patent number: 11802025
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a remote control workstation for controlling more than one type of load handling equipment. The remote control workstation is configured for communications with a plurality of types of load handling equipment and configured to cause connecting to one of said load handling equipment, determining a type of the connected load handling equipment, and in response to establishing a connection between the remote control workstation and said load handling equipment, displaying on a user interface of the remote control workstation a load handling equipment type specific control view from a plurality of load handling equipment type specific control views in accordance with a load handling equipment type of said load handling equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Cargotec Finland Oy
    Inventors: Ville-Pekka Kärki, Marko Lehto, Timo Lehto, Tapio Piipari, Antti Sutela, Tomi Tuulkari, Tomi Uusitalo
  • Patent number: 11801872
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a driving-assist control unit and a remote control unit. The driving-assist control unit is configured to perform an automatic driving control of stopping a vehicle in accordance with detection of an abnormal state of a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The remote control unit is configured to perform a control of transmitting remote control permission notification after the vehicle is stopped by the automatic driving control. The remote control permission notification permits a remote control of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Moriya, Hirofumi Yabe
  • Patent number: 11803494
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present application are a method, master device and system for data communication. The method comprises: initiating a communication signal to an interface in an interface module; when response information from a slave device connected in the interface is received, adding physical ID information of the interface into an online queue, wherein the probability that interfaces in the online queue is subsequently initiated by the communication signal is higher than that of interfaces in an idle queue; and receiving data information transmitted by the slave device in the interface. The data communication master device of the present application comprises a communication signal initiation unit, an online interface identification unit and a data information receiving unit corresponding to the implementation of steps of the described method. Therefore, the communication network for multiple slave devices and a master device has high communication efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FRSKY ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Shao, Huijie Zhang, Zhongmin Shang, Nan Li
  • Patent number: 11803195
    Abstract: Aspects relate to methods and systems for reversionary flight control for an electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. An exemplary system includes a pilot control, a sensor configured to sense and transmit analog control data associated with a pilot interaction with the pilot control, a pilot interface module configured to receive the analog control data, convert the analog control data to digital control data, and transmit digital control, an actuator, and a flight controller. The flight controller may be configured to receive the digital control data, determine a primary command datum as a function of the digital control data, transmit the primary command datum to the actuator, determine that the digital control signal is non-functional, receive the analog control data, determine a reversionary command datum as a function of the analog control data, and transmit the reversionary command datum to the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua E. Auerbach, Andrew Giroux, Chris Townsend, Timothy Gerard Richter
  • Patent number: 11797028
    Abstract: A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) includes obtaining depth data of one or more obstacles in a flight space. The method also includes determining information of an obstacle that triggers an obstacle avoidance operation based on the depth data. The method further includes transmitting the information of the obstacle to a control terminal of the UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Ang Liu
  • Patent number: 11796316
    Abstract: A method determines location and orientation of a machine in a worksite. The worksite is equipped with at least one reference point. The method comprises setting a tracking apparatus on the machine, tracking the machine with the tracking apparatus by determining location of at least one reference point in the worksite with respect to the tracking apparatus, transmitting data from the tracking apparatus to a position determination unit regarding the tracking, and determining by the position determination unit based at least in part on the data received from the tracking apparatus the location and orientation of the machine in the worksite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Novatron Oy
    Inventors: Tuomas Kovanen, Antti Kolu, Petri Moisio, Mikko Vesanen, Arto Anttila
  • Patent number: 11796053
    Abstract: Methods for controlling a transmission of a vehicle are provided. Such methods include establishing a desired speed profile for the vehicle when travelling along a road segment, performing a plurality of simulations, each of a vehicle response, in the road segment, to a respective gear control action, wherein the gear control action differs from one simulation to another, wherein the simulations include an aim to keep the speed on the speed profile, or within one or more established limits of deviations from the speed profile, determining costs for the simulated vehicle responses, selecting, in dependence on the determined costs, one of the gear control actions, controlling the transmission with the selected gear control action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teodoro Bora, Johan Fries, Viktor Lägnert
  • Patent number: 11799806
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for automatic environmental data collection and analysis are provided, including a server comprising: a processor and a communication interface, the processor configured to: receive, using the communication interface, a geographic survey request from a first computing device; translate the geographic survey request into mission data for collecting geographic survey data; transmit, using the communication interface, the mission data to a second computing device associated with a geographic survey entity; receive, using the communication interface, the geographic survey data collected by the geographic survey entity using the mission data; analyze the geographic survey data to generate processed geographic survey data; and, transmit, using the communication interface, the processed geographic survey data to the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CLEARPATH ROBOTICS INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Christopher Gariepy, Matthew Allen Rendall, Andrew Clifford Blakey
  • Patent number: 11787507
    Abstract: A bicycle system includes controller devices. Each controller device includes at least oe respective input element configured to receive input from a user. The system includes operation-enacting devices. Each operation-enacting device is configured to enact at least one respective operation on the bicycle. The system includes a network coordinator device configured to (i) establish a wireless network for communications between the network coordinator device, the controller devices, and the operation-enacting devices, and (ii) reset the controller devices and operation-enacting device before pairing the controller devices and operation-enacting devices to the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SRAM, LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Kon-I Ho
  • Patent number: 11787444
    Abstract: A management device is configured to manage an operation of a luggage transporting vehicle, the luggage transporting vehicle being configured to autonomously travel a road without a driver being aboard and including a luggage containment part which is shielded by a door part that is able to be opened and closed, the management device including: an acquisition part configured to acquire a first image obtained by imaging a user who unloads luggage from the containment part; and a determination part configured to determine whether delivery of the luggage contained in the containment part has been completed normally on the basis of a result obtained by monitoring a behavior of the user based on the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yurie Kondo, Kensaku Yamamoto, Ryohei Iwaki, Yusuke Kawada
  • Patent number: 11792622
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radio access interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiments, a vehicle telematics device includes a processor, a communications device, and a memory, wherein the vehicle telematics device communicates with a mobile communications device using the communications device, wherein the mobile communications device is in communication with a remote server system via a mobile network connection, and wherein the vehicle telematics device provides data to the mobile communications device, where the data is to be transmitted to the remote server system, provides command data to the mobile communications device, where the command data instructs the mobile communication device to transmit the data to the remote server system using at least one communication protocol, and causes the mobile communications device to transmit the data to the remote server system using the at least one communication protocol based on the command data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CalAmp Corp.
    Inventors: Peter Hergesheimer, Thomas M. Nornberg
  • Patent number: 11783300
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for optimizing execution of tasks for users. A processing system including a processor detects a triggering condition for a transport task for transporting a subject from a first location to a second location via usage of an autonomous vehicle, establishes a negotiated task coordination plan between a user and a third party provider for performing the transport task, and executes the negotiated task coordination plan, wherein the executing causes the autonomous vehicle to travel between the first location and the second location for transporting the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Naila Jaoude, Cristina Serban, Lalita V. Rao, Tony Hansen
  • Patent number: 11780454
    Abstract: A vehicle is operated in accordance with a second operation amount corresponding to a first operation amount of a remote operation member by an operator. A first maximum operation range is a maximum operation range of the remote operation member. A second maximum operation range is a maximum operation range of an operation member of the vehicle. When the first maximum operation range is smaller than the second maximum operation range, a correspondence relationship between the first and second operation amounts is adjusted such that the second operation amount becomes larger than the first operation amount. When the first maximum operation range is larger than the second maximum operation range, an operable range of the remote operation member is restricted or the correspondence relationship is adjusted such that the second operation amount becomes smaller than the first operation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takashima, Sho Otaki, Hiromitsu Urano, Hojung Jung, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Satoru Niwa, Kosuke Akatsuka
  • Patent number: 11782434
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of reducing the number of resident operators in a remote driving system. A driving plan generating apparatus includes: a section selector selecting, as a selected section, at least one incompletely automated driving section; a reservation unit sounding out on reservation of a remote operation of a vehicle in the selected section; and a drive planning unit generating, based on a result of the reservation, a driving plan specifying as a driving mode of the vehicle in the selected section one of a remote driving mode in which a driving control apparatus performs at least a part of driving tasks through the remote operation performed by an operator outside the vehicle and an incompletely automated driving mode in which the driving control apparatus performs at least the part of driving tasks through an operation of a passenger in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Shimotani, Tadashi Miyahara
  • Patent number: 11772587
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, one or more programmable connection ports electrically coupled to the battery, and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the one or more programmable connection ports. The electronic controller receives a user control signal from a user input device communicatively coupled to the electronic controller, wherein the user control signal indicates a threshold of operation, and selectively operates the one or more programmable connection ports in response to the threshold of operation indicated by the user control signal from the user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Clinton J. Williams, Aaron Weidenaar, John Charles Rafferty, Lou M. Pope
  • Patent number: 11776334
    Abstract: A system for includes master and sniffer devices. The master device includes: first antennas with different polarized axes; a transmitter transmitting a challenge signal via the first antennas from the vehicle to a slave device, where the slave device is a portable access device; and a receiver receiving a response signal in response to the challenge signal from the slave device. The sniffer device includes: second antennas with different polarized axes; and a receiver receiving, via the second antennas, the challenge signal from the transmitter and the response signal from the slave device. The sniffer device measures when the challenge signal and the response signal arrive at the sniffer device to provide arrival times. The master or sniffer device estimates at least one of a distance from the vehicle to the slave device or a location of the slave device relative to the vehicle based on the arrival times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raymond Michael Stitt, Yuki Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 11772658
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for applying machine learning to telematics data to generate a unique driver fingerprint for an individual by periodically receiving telematics data generated at a plurality of sensors of a vehicle; standardizing the telematics data; aggregating the standardized telematics data; applying a trained machine learning model to embed the aggregated telematics data into a low-dimensional state; and generating a unique driver fingerprint for the individual, the driver fingerprint comprising a static component, a dynamic component, or both a static component and a dynamic component; including iterative repetition to update the dynamic component of the driver fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: VIADUCT, INC.
    Inventor: David Hallac
  • Patent number: 11772450
    Abstract: A vehicle has a thermal management system that comprises an electric power source loop comprising at least one battery. The thermal management system further comprises a heating component thermally coupled to the electric power source loop. When an ambient temperature is less than a first threshold, the heating component pre-heats the at least one battery. In exemplary embodiments, the heating component includes at least one brake resistor that is coupled to the electric power source loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nikola Corporation
    Inventors: Aiden Cohan, Rachel Cook, Akshit Markan, Derek McVay, Mitchell Shinn, Katherine Smith
  • Patent number: 11772654
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a future occupancy prediction for a region of an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving sensor data generated by a sensor system of a vehicle that characterizes an environment in a vicinity of the vehicle as of a current time point, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of sensor samples characterizing the environment that were each captured at different time points; processing a network input comprising the sensor data using a neural network to generate an occupancy prediction output for a region of the environment, wherein: the occupancy prediction output characterizes, for one or more future intervals of time after the current time point, a respective likelihood that the region of the environment will be occupied by an agent in the environment during the future interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Hyman Murveit, Abhijit Ogale, Yu-Han Chen, Alper Ayvaci
  • Patent number: 11774977
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, and apparatus to optimize autonomous vehicle workflows are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; instructions; and a processor to execute the instructions to determine an expected arrival time for an autonomous vehicle at a first location, the autonomous vehicle to deliver a first product to the first location in response to a first task assigned to the autonomous vehicle, the first product associated with a first order; perform a comparison between the expected arrival time for the autonomous vehicle and an expected arrival time associated with a second task; select a third task to be performed by the autonomous vehicle based on the comparison, the third task selected for having the autonomous vehicle arrive at the first location after performance of the third task within a threshold time of the expected arrival time; and instruct the autonomous vehicle to perform the third task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Catherine Jones
  • Patent number: 11771283
    Abstract: A system and method for selectively manually controlling an autonomous floor cleaner includes an autonomous floor cleaner and a remote control device, such as a smartphone. The smartphone can have a downloaded application for controlling one or more functions of the cleaning robot, including manually directing the movement of the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BISSELL , Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Eric D. Buehler, Derek E. Smith, David VanKampen
  • Patent number: 11774961
    Abstract: A mobile drive apparatus (1001) for use at a transport hub, having: a drive means configured to drive the apparatus (1001) from a first location (401) to a second location (402) within the hub; a wireless communication module configured to form a wireless communications link with a resource management system (301), and receive command instructions from the resource management system (301); and a control means coupled to the drive means and coupled to the wireless communication module. The control means is configured to control the drive means to move the apparatus (1001) from a first location (401) to a second location (402) within the transport hub, in response to receiving a command instruction from the resource management system (301) via the wireless communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin O'Sullivan, Stephane Cheikh, Rico Andreas Barandun, Andrew Eric Malinofsky
  • Patent number: 11760480
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for sending information, method for receiving information, apparatus, device, and storage medium. The method can include an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in a first operation mode when the UAV is in an inactive state. Further, the method can include the UAV switching from the first operation mode to a second operation mode different from the first operation mode, and sending, by the UAV, information to an access network device, where the information being used for indicating a change of operation mode of the UAV. The method can further include determining, by the access network device, a second operation mode to which the UAV is switched according to the information, and controlling, by the access network device, the UAV by applying a control strategy corresponding to the second operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Hong
  • Patent number: 11760307
    Abstract: An authentication device including: a processor; a first communication section installed at a vehicle and configured to perform first wireless communication with a terminal; and a plurality of second communication sections installed at the vehicle and configured to perform second wireless communication with the terminal, the processor being configured to: compute a distance and an angle of a position of the terminal with respect to the first communication section based on the first wireless communication of the first communication section with the terminal; cause a second communication section that, out of the plurality of second communication sections, corresponds to the computed angle, to execute the second wireless communication with the terminal; and determine, based on the executed second wireless communication and the computed distance, whether or not the terminal is present in an area corresponding to the second communication section executing the second wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Choji, Shigeki Nishiyama, Naoyuki Takada
  • Patent number: 11762094
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting objects and predicting their motion are provided. In particular, a computing system can obtain a plurality of sensor sweeps. The computing system can determine movement data associated with movement of the autonomous vehicle. For each sensor sweep, the computing system can generate an image associated with the sensor sweep. The computing system can extract, using the respective image as input to one or more machine-learned models, feature data from the respective image. The computing system can transform the feature data into a coordinate frame associated with a next time step. The computing system can generate a fused image. The computing system can generate a final fused image. The computing system can predict, based, at least in part, on the final fused representation of the plurality of sensors sweeps from the plurality of sensor sweeps, movement associated with the feature data at one or more time steps in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Laddha, Gregory P. Meyer, Jake Scott Charland, Shivam Gautam, Shreyash Pandey, Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Carl Knox Wellington
  • Patent number: 11762397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an autonomous driving cart. More particularly, the present invention relates to an autonomous driving cart that stores information on a leading subject, detects the leading subject from sensed information, and follows the detected leading subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TWINNY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongseok Cheon, Taehyoung Kim, Yongjin Byeon, Jaihoon Lee, Ayoung Kwon, Chan Lee, Hanmin Jo, Yonghwi Kim, Jaesung Kim
  • Patent number: 11760320
    Abstract: A brake control system includes an interface controller configured to communicate with different control paths of sources for control of a brake system of a vehicle system. Each of the control paths is configured to communicate a control signal from a different source of the sources to control operation of the brake system. The interface controller is configured to arbitrate between the control signals concurrently received from the different sources via the control paths to dictate which of the different sources controls operation of the brake system at different times and prevent control by other sources of the different sources from concurrently controlling the operation of the brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Brian Meyer, Chris Wiesner, Matthew Paul Ensley, Patricia Sue Lacy
  • Patent number: 11755038
    Abstract: A system for scaling lag based on flight phase of an electric aircraft is presented. The system include a sensor connected to an electric aircraft configured to detect measured aircraft data, identify a flight phase of the electric aircraft, and generate a flight datum. The system further comprises a computing device communicatively connected to the sensor, wherein the computing device is configured to receive the flight datum and the flight phase, identify an input latency as a function of the flight datum, select a lag frame as a function of the input latency, wherein the lag frame further comprises a lag threshold, and transmit the flight datum to a user device as a function of the lag frame. The system further includes a remotely located user device configured to receive the flight datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Hoekje List, Vincent Moeykens
  • Patent number: 11756307
    Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil
  • Patent number: 11753074
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a trailer maneuvering assistant system onboard a vehicle to communicate with and receive control instructions from a mobile device app. In one example embodiment, the app interface presents the user with an engagement input area and a curvature command area. The user must provide two types of touch inputs to the user interface portions: a first touch input that includes a complex gesture input in the engagement interface portion. In one example embodiment the complex gesture may be user input of a closed geometric shape such as a circle, oval, rectangle, or some other shape. The input may be complex in that it matches a canonical model for the respective shape. Matching may include an input that is coterminous with the canonical model within a threshold amount of error, and/or meets another guideline or threshold such as being a closed shape, or some other predetermined requirement(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hamid M. Golgiri, Erick Michael Lavoie
  • Patent number: 11756004
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for autonomous vehicle scheduling are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes memory including machine readable instructions and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine that a calendar request for a vehicle is associated with a location or a route previously associated with the vehicle, the calendar request to be generated via a user interface application; generate a predicted request for the vehicle in response to the determination that the calendar request is associated with the location or the route previously associated with the vehicle; and generate a prompt to be presented via the user interface application, the prompt associated with the predicted request for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samer Abbas, Scott Lauffer
  • Patent number: 11755023
    Abstract: This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of determining a route between a start point and an end point in a site and navigating over the route. The sensors collect any or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data to detect an obstacle between two locations within the site. Based on the collected data and identified obstacles, the excavation vehicle generates unobstructed routes circumventing the obstacles, obstructed routes traveling through the obstacles, and instructions for removing certain modifiable obstacles. The excavation vehicle determines and selects the shortest route of the unobstructed and obstructed route and navigates over the selected path to move within the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BUILT ROBOTICS INC.
    Inventors: Noah Austen Ready-Campbell, Andrew Xiao Liang, Christian John Wawrzonek, Cyrus Mcmann Ready-Campbell, Gaurav Jitendra Kikani
  • Patent number: 11756345
    Abstract: A method of partial sensor data sharing is described. The method includes detecting an occluded area relative to a receiver vehicle. The method also includes defining an area of interest (AoI) based on a traffic topology and state information of a selected sender vehicle. The method further includes transmitting the area of interest to the selected sender vehicle. The method also includes receiving a sensor data corresponding to the area of interest when the detected occluded area is within a sensor coverage area of the selected sender vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Ahmed Hamdi Sakr
  • Patent number: 11754696
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having at least one sensor for detecting the presence of a survivor in a search and rescue area. The at least one sensor is preferably an ultra-wide band (UWB) transceiver sensor. The UAV includes a UAV data link transceiver for wirelessly communicating information concerning the survivor to a command center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Melwyn F. Sequeira, Mohammad Mohiuddin
  • Patent number: 11745748
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for operating an automatically driving vehicle, wherein application instances are executed over several computational nodes, wherein recognized faults are reacted to by switching to redundant application instances and then reconfiguring the configuration to restore specified redundancy conditions and/or segregation conditions, wherein the vehicle is transitioned to a safe state using at least one failover apparatus when at least one specified redundancy condition and/or at least one segregation condition cannot be met by the reconfiguration, and/or a specified time for reconfiguration is exceeded, and/or an unrecoverable malfunction has been recognized, wherein the at least one failover apparatus plans an emergency trajectory using a trajectory planner, wherein sensor data are detected via separate signal lines and supplied to the at least one failover apparatus, and wherein control signals are generated and transmitted via separate control lines to an actuator system of the v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tobias Kain, Julian-Steffen Müller, Maximilian Wesche, Hendrik Decke, Fabian Plinke, Andreas Braasch, Johannes Heinrich, Timo Horeis
  • Patent number: 11747827
    Abstract: A vehicle platoon control system performs techniques for controlling a platoon of vehicles through an intersection. The platoon of vehicles is controlled through receiving location data for at least a first vehicle of the platoon of vehicles, map matching the location data for the first vehicle to a road network, identifying an intersection in the road network in response to the matched location data, determining a time period for the intersection, calculating a distance to the intersection for a second vehicle of the platoon of vehicles, calculating a travel time based on the distance to the intersection for the second vehicle of the platoon of vehicles, performing a comparison of the time period for the intersection to the travel time for the second vehicle, and generating a platoon command in response to the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jingwei Xu, Bruce Bernhardt
  • Patent number: 11747803
    Abstract: A remote control station includes an operator interface for remotely controlling at least one work operation. The operator interface includes at least one control device and an indication system having a first symbol associated with a plurality of control patterns of the at least one control device. The operator interface further includes a display device configured to display a plurality of control patterns thereon. Each of the plurality of control patterns includes a second symbol substantially similar to the first symbol. The remote control station also includes a controller configured to store the plurality of control patterns associated with the at least one control device. The controller is configured to receive an input signal from the operator interface for activation of one of the plurality of control patterns and transmit an output signal for performing the at least one work operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Granstrom, Justin Peters, Timothy J. Felty
  • Patent number: 11747432
    Abstract: A system for tracking at least one object configured to be transported by at least one vehicle may include at least one computer system. The at least one computer system may be configured to determine at least one location of the at least one vehicle and determine at least one location of the at least one object. The at least one computer system may be further configured to determine at least one location of at least one geofence adjacent the at least one vehicle based on the at least one location of the at least one vehicle. Also, the at least one computer system may be configured to determine whether the at least one object is located within the at least one geofence to determine whether a load of the at least one vehicle includes the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICS, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Hyatt, Stephen Witty, Kevin Henry