Employing Position Determining Equipment Patents (Class 701/408)
  • Patent number: 12387284
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an active public transit itinerary system that that utilize digital signals and public transit data to accurately, flexibly, and efficiently monitor client device transit progress across public transit vehicles and generate dynamic public transit interfaces. For example, based on comparing digital signals corresponding to the client device and public transit data, the active public transit itinerary system can determine when a client device is traveling on a public transit vehicle. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can actively generate (and provide for display via public transit graphical user interfaces) alternative public transit itineraries. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a public transit graphical user interface that includes updates to the public transit itinerary (e.g., based on downstream changes to public transit segments) or provides more efficient alternative travel paths to the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventor: Mayank Gulati
  • Patent number: 12387470
    Abstract: A method for processing three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data based on incremental sparse 3D convolution is provided. A computer device obtains 3D point cloud data and forms a training set by processing the 3D point cloud data. The computer device constructs and trains a sparse 3D convolutional network model by inputting the training set. The computer device constructs an incremental sparse 3D convolutional network model by performing incremental replacement of sparse convolutional layers of the trained sparse 3D convolutional network model. The computer device inputs real-time 3D point cloud data into the incremental sparse 3D convolutional network model, and determines an output result as a result of processing the real-time 3D point cloud data. Processing of the 3D point cloud data at least includes 3D semantic segmentation, target detection, 3D classification and video processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lu Fang, Leyao Liu, Tian Zheng
  • Patent number: 12382280
    Abstract: A location information transmitter transmits location information within a prescribed area. An IoT terminal receives the location information and transmits the location information and a device identifier. An address setting management device receives the location information and the device identifier and sets an IP address to be assigned to the IoT terminal on the basis of the location information and the device identifier and transmits the IP address to the IoT terminal. The IoT terminal sets the IP address received from the address setting management device for itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Sei Kou, Tomoya Hatano, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka Kimura, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Shinya Tamaki
  • Patent number: 12371064
    Abstract: A perception engine incorporating place information for a vehicular sensor. The system uses place information to trigger responses in a perception engine. In some examples the system implements a mirroring process in response to other vehicle actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventors: Sandra Lynn Godsey, Matthew Paul Harrison
  • Patent number: 12374223
    Abstract: Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which a mobile body has merged onto a road on which a mobile vehicle as a host vehicle is traveling and is approaching the host vehicle. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle acts as an oncoming vehicle and a first travel path of a four-wheeled automobile and a second travel path of the motorcycle join, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within an analogue notification actuation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Akihito Kimata, Shigeru Inoue, Yuji Takagi, Yoshitaka Mimura, Takahiro Kurehashi, Hideo Kadowaki, Masaki Okumoto
  • Patent number: 12352576
    Abstract: It discloses an atmospheric polarized light orientation method using a solar azimuth region, provides an angle of polarization (AOP) vision-modulated model in a pixel frame, and gives an orientation strategy utilizing the solar azimuth region; a horizontal attitude angle is introduced into the AOP in the pixel frame, and orientation is implemented by utilizing a separation point and a principal point of photograph; specifically, a seed line extraction algorithm is given to update the solar azimuth in real time, a morphological expression and an AOP expression of the solar azimuth are fused for an optimum estimation to the solar azimuth, and ultimately the orientation is achieved by using an external sensor such as an inertial navigation system to input the horizontal attitude angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Xindong Wu, Chong Shen, Huiliang Cao, Jun Tang, Chenguang Wang
  • Patent number: 12347312
    Abstract: A cooperative vehicle-infrastructure processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed in embodiments of this application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Yunfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12332349
    Abstract: In various examples, techniques for sensor-fusion based object detection and/or free-space detection using ultrasonic sensors are described. Systems may receive sensor data generated using one or more types of sensors of a machine. In some examples, the systems may then process at least a portion of the sensor data to generate input data, where the input data represents one or more locations of one or more objects within an environment. The systems may then input at least a portion of the sensor data and/or at least a portion of the input data into one or more neural networks that are trained to output one or more maps or other output representations associated with the environment. In some examples, the map(s) may include a height, an occupancy, and/or height/occupancy map generated, e.g., from a birds-eye-view perspective. The machine may use these outputs to perform one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: David Weikersdorfer, Qian Lin, Aman Jhunjhunwala, Emilie Lucie Eloïse Wirbel, Sangmin Oh, Minwoo Park, Gyeong Woo Cheon, Arthur Henry Rajala, Bor-Jeng Chen
  • Patent number: 12326737
    Abstract: According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment may include utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array systems respectively mounted on the materials handling vehicles to send mutually received information to determine the relative pose between the vehicles, determining one or more fields of each materials handling vehicle, and determining one or more overlapping fields between the materials handling vehicles based on the determined one or more fields and the relative pose. A vehicle control may be implemented based on the determined relative pose and the overlapping fields as a field enforcement, such as a control action to avoid collision between the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Estep, Justin Bennett, Mike Etienne Ciholas, Ben Morelli, Chad Lefeld, Trisha Marie Luthman
  • Patent number: 12321964
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improved and efficient campaign message management are disclosed. Via an automated process, the system can generate, classify and sort a browsable collection of diverse, high-performing campaign messages, e.g., emails and SMS messages. Such messages can prompt a prospective campaign generator to create quality content for his/her own campaigns. Furthermore, varied and relevant exemplary campaigns can be shown to different users in response to his/her unique needs or expressed interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Klaviyo Inc.
    Inventors: Sofiane Hadji, Gal Korcia, Charlie Natoli, Vinicius Aurichio, Andrew Piliero, Devin Patel
  • Patent number: 12295276
    Abstract: This autonomous travel system is provided with a farm field acquisition unit, a reference auxiliary line creation unit, an adjacent auxiliary line creation unit, and a travel control unit. The farm field acquisition unit acquires information regarding a farm field that includes a work area and a headland area. The reference auxiliary line creation unit creates first reference auxiliary lines within the headland area at positions spaced apart from the farm field peripheral edge on the inner side thereof by a first reference interval. The adjacent auxiliary line creation unit creates, at each of auxiliary line intervals, first adjacent auxiliary lines at positions spaced apart from the first reference auxiliary lines on the inner sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Ogura, Yasuto Nishii, Taiki Shirafuji
  • Patent number: 12248086
    Abstract: A distance data between the portable device and the vehicle-side transmission and reception device is acquired. A movement speed of the portable device is calculated based on a change between a current distance data and a previous distance data. A position estimation distance for estimating the position of the portable device with respect to the vehicle is updated when the movement speed is less than a first speed. The position estimation distance is not updated when the movement speed is equal to or larger than the first speed. The position of the portable device is estimated according to the position estimation distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakashima, Kenichirou Sanji
  • Patent number: 12243003
    Abstract: An automated computerized parcel locker system is provided, which includes multiple lockers in a common housing, each having one or more sensors that indicate whether an item is present in the locker, the status of the locker door, and the like. Systems and processes for efficient delivery of multiple parcels in a single package manifest are provided, which allow the system to instruct a courier to deliver each parcel to a specific locker in the system. The package manifest may allow for the set of parcels to be treated as a single delivery, while still using individual package recipient information to properly route parcels to intended recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Quadient Technologies France
    Inventor: Vaughn Rhodes
  • Patent number: 12238608
    Abstract: A definition of a boundary corresponding to a geographic area in which an autonomous off-road vehicle (AOV) operates is accessed. The boundary definition includes a classification of each of a plurality of portions of the boundary as being of one or more boundary types, each boundary type associated with one or more vehicle behavior limitations. The AOV navigates to a target portion of the boundary corresponding to the geographic area. The target portion of the boundary is classified as being one or more target boundary types. In response to being within a threshold distance of the target portion of the boundary, the AOV modifies a behavior of the AOV based on the one or more vehicle behavior limitations associated with the one or more target boundary types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Todd A. Kreykes, Tyler D. Schleicher
  • Patent number: 12228424
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing one or more map segments to one or more vehicles are disclosed. In one implementation at least one processor is programmed to receive navigational information from a vehicle, the navigational information including an indicator of a location of the vehicle, an indicator of a speed of the vehicle, and an indicator of a direction of travel of the vehicle; analyze the received navigational information and determine a potential travel envelope for the vehicle; and send to the vehicle one or more map segments including map information for a geographical region at least partially overlapping with the potential travel envelope of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuval Aviel, Nimrod Nehushtan, Yehonatan Goldman, Eli Harel, Amiel Fisher
  • Patent number: 12217606
    Abstract: A system for timing or zone alert determination from vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a location of a translating object. The processor is configured to trigger a warning to the translating object based at least in part on its location and the existence of an associated hazard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Cheng, Daniel Witriol
  • Patent number: 12209873
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for unmanned vehicle dispatching management, a device, a storage medium and a program, which relates to autonomous driving and intelligent transportation technology in artificial intelligence. The specific implementation solution includes: receiving an unmanned vehicle dispatching request; determining, according to the unmanned vehicle dispatching request, a first task type corresponding to a first unmanned vehicle to be dispatched; generating a first order corresponding to the first unmanned vehicle, where the first order is used to indicate a driving task to be performed by the first unmanned vehicle, and a type of the driving task is the first task type; and sending the first order to the first unmanned vehicle. Through the above process, a dispatching management of unmanned vehicles is realized from the task dimension, so that there is no need to distinguish the types of unmanned vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Cong, Yaling Zhang, Xiangyang Liu, Ming Li, Hao Zhou, Weinan Ma, Zhenxi Weng, Lili Liu
  • Patent number: 12189505
    Abstract: A system includes a memory device with microbumps and a processing device. The processing device is operatively coupled with the memory device to perform operations. The operations include receiving information indicating a current condition of the machine learning operation while data for the machine learning operation is being transmitted using a first set of microbumps of the plurality of microbumps. Furthermore, the operations include, in response to a change in the condition of the machine learning operation, transmitting subsequent data using a second set of microbumps of the plurality of microbumps, wherein a number of microbumps included in the second set of microbumps is based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Poorna Kale
  • Patent number: 12174038
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for checking detected changes to an environmental model of a digital area map. According to the method, a first vehicle with one or more sensors detects an environmental change from an environmental model of a digital area map. Data are transferred from the first vehicle to a central server, wherein the data include information on the detected environmental change, position data of the detected environmental change, as well as information using which the sensor quality of the one or more sensors can be detected. Depending on the sensor quality of the one or more sensors, the central server performs a plausibility check of the detected environmental change using data that are detected by one or more sensors of an additional vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Romy Pohl, Kai Bröhmer
  • Patent number: 12168591
    Abstract: There is provided an elevator guidance device 40 including an identification information acquisition unit 41 configured to acquire identification information for a user heading for an elevator hall, a selected elevator information acquisition unit 42 configured to acquire information on a selected elevator selected from a plurality of elevators as an elevator for the user identified to take, and a guidance indication unit 43 configured to indicate, in an indication mode associated with the user, a leading guidance sign on a route starting from a leading start position, at which leading of the user identified is started, to a landing entrance of the selected elevator, the leading guidance sign leading the user to the landing entrance of the selected elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Hori, Kenta Kuze, Mitsutoshi Iio, Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 12162403
    Abstract: A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes a turn signal drive unit, an environment information obtainer, and a controller. The controller includes a blinking cycle adjuster configured to cause the turn signal drive unit to drive with drive signals indicating blinking cycles different from each other. The blinking cycles include a first blinking cycle and a second blinking cycle shorter than the first blinking cycle. The blinking cycle adjuster is configured to set the first blinking cycle for the vehicle that travels at a first position, and set the second blinking cycle for the vehicle that travels at a second position closer to the intersection than the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Harunobu Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 12140663
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for a ground-penetrating tailgate sensor system. An example method may include transmitting, using an ultra-wideband transceiver disposed of in a tailgate of a vehicle, a signal towards an underground location below the tailgate. The example method may also include receiving, based on the tailgate being in a closed position and using the ultra-wideband transceiver, a return signal from an object located above the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Terry Lobsinger, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Ryan Edwin Hanson, John Van Wiemeersch, Vivekanandh Elangovan
  • Patent number: 12137144
    Abstract: A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventors: Yehuda Binder, Benjamin Maytal
  • Patent number: 12110199
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for track creation are provided. A computer receives a notification of at least one object to be moved. The at least one object is disposed at a first position. The computer receives a determination of a second position for the at least one object. The computer generates a track plan for a first track for transporting the at least one object from the first position to the second position. The computer transmits a first instruction message to a first robot. The instruction message instructs the first robot to build a track according to the track plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Partho Ghosh, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Ramalingeswara Naidu Saragadam
  • Patent number: 12112387
    Abstract: A personalized insurance (“PI”) computing device for determining an optimal insurance product for a driver operating a vehicle for a transportation network company (“TNC”) during a period of increased demand includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory. The processor is configured to: (i) receive, from a TNC, data indicating increased demand for transportation services, (ii) retrieve driver data that includes the driver history, (iii) generate an optimal pricing model for the driver based upon the increased demand and the driver data, (iv) execute the model to determine an optimal insurance product having characteristics reflecting at least one risk factor associated with the increased demand for transportation services and a risk profile determined from analyzing the driver data, and (v) transmit an offer to the driver to provide transportation services at an increased earnings rate and with the determined optimal insurance product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Gross, Joseph Robert Brannan, Brian N. Harvey
  • Patent number: 12094155
    Abstract: A shooting score identifying method and device, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the steps of capturing a picture of a shooting operation on target paper to acquire a shooting image formed on the target paper; forming a thermal imaging image of the target paper after the shooting image is acquired; performing target identification on the shooting image to obtain a target image related to a shooting point, and performing direction correction on the shooting point present in the target image to obtain a correction image; and performing interference removal processing on the correction image through the thermal imaging image to obtain an identification image, thereby identifying a shooting score based on the identification image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Huntercraft Limited
    Inventors: Danyang Li, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 12066841
    Abstract: According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment may include utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array systems respectively mounted on the materials handling vehicles to send mutually received information to determine the relative pose between the vehicles, determining one or more fields of each materials handling vehicle, and determining one or more overlapping fields between the materials handling vehicles based on the determined one or more fields and the relative pose. A vehicle control may be implemented based on the determined relative pose and the overlapping fields as a field enforcement, such as a control action to avoid collision between the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Estep, Justin Bennett, Mike Etienne Ciholas, Ben Morelli, Chad Lefeld, Trisha Marie Luthman
  • Patent number: 12059626
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating virtual elements in a fitness-based game. The method comprises hosting, by a game server, a fitness-based gaming module and receiving, by the game server, fitness data from one or more devices of a user. The method also comprises generating, by one or more processors, a plurality of battle options, within the fitness-based gaming module, based at least in part upon the fitness data. The method further comprises generating, by the one or more processors, a battle queue of one or more of the plurality of battle options and transmitting, by the game server, the battle queue to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventor: Meric Odabas
  • Patent number: 12050472
    Abstract: A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes: controlling, by a stationary control unit connected to a radio access network, an autonomous vehicle via a wireless connection of the autonomous vehicle to the radio access network, wherein the autonomous vehicle moves in a predefined path network; allocating, by the radio access network, spectral resources to the wireless connection while the autonomous vehicle is moving; and determining, by the stationary control unit, a path of the autonomous vehicle in the predefined path network depending on the spectral resources used by the wireless connection of the autonomous vehicle while moving along the determined path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Marc Geitz, Dominik Schnieders
  • Patent number: 12041512
    Abstract: A positioning method using images and radio waves may include: estimating a distance and an angle from the positioning reference node to a positioning target terminal; identifying an obstacle or reflective object in a vicinity of the positioning target terminal or on a path between the positioning target terminal and the positioning reference node by using image information on the positioning target terminal at a position estimated by the distance and the angle; estimating an incident angle or a reflection angle of a radio wave signal reflected by the reflective object identified based on the image information; and estimating a position of the positioning target terminal based on the reflection angle and the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Keun Young Kim, Seung Chan Bang, Young-Jo Ko, Kapseok Chang, Il Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 12038295
    Abstract: A method for providing a navigational instruction for a route from a current location of a mobile unit to a target position is disclosed. Location environmental data are detected in a first detection region by means of the mobile unit. Reference environmental data are detected in a second detection region. Based on the location environmental data and the reference environmental data, at least one common environmental feature is determined, wherein the common environmental feature is arranged both in the first detection region and in the second detection region. A relative arrangement of the mobile unit relative to the target position is determined and the navigational instruction is generated and output based on the relative arrangement. A system for providing a navigational instruction for a route from a current location of a mobile unit to a target position comprises a mobile detection unit, a reference detection unit, and a processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kai-Christen Rose, Florian Klanten
  • Patent number: 12027043
    Abstract: Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods, for detecting a missing traffic face, including: obtaining sensor data that includes a plurality of images associated with a geographic location including a roadway and associated with a plurality of image capture locations in the geographic location, determining in a subset of images of the plurality of images, a plurality of image areas associated with at least one predicted traffic face, determining a plurality of rays that project through 3-D spaces of the geographic location associated with the plurality of image areas from a subset of image capture locations of the plurality of image capture locations associated with the subset of images, and identifying at least one location of a traffic face in the geographic location based on a sum of unit vectors of the plurality of rays that project through the 3-D spaces of the geographic location at the at least one location of the traffic face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Aurora Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Vig, Shivali Chandra
  • Patent number: 12028784
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. For example, a subscriber may be identified with a level of prominence commensurate with the level at which he/she subscribers to a content creator to. Notifications and/or recommendations may be presented in an augmented reality experience along with augmented reality identifications of subscribers and/or content creators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: PATREON, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy Wood
  • Patent number: 12008354
    Abstract: In an update method of map data executed by a map information system provided in a vehicle, wherein the map data includes multiple pieces of block data separated corresponding to blocks on a map and stored in a storage device of the map information system, the map information system decides priority orders of pieces of block data to be updated based on at least one of a position of an own vehicle, a route to a destination, and a passage history, communicates with a map server having a latest version of the map data and downloads update data of the pieces of block data to be updated from the map server in accordance with the priority order, and updates the pieces of block data stored in the storage device based on the downloaded update data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11990110
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating diffraction effects during sound propagation in a scene, which include generating, for each distance value from distance values, a subpath between a first point of the scene and a second point of the scene passing through a third point of the scene which is at a distance from a path between the first point and the second point equal to the distance value. Furthermore, for each generated subpath, a transmission value related to a degree of occlusion of the subpath by objects in the scene is determined. Also, a diffraction amplitude response is determined using a first transmission value determined for a first subpath generated for a first distance value from the distance values and a second transmission value determined for a second subpath generated for a second distance value from the distance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Shahrokh Yadegari, Louis Pisha
  • Patent number: 11967059
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to identify headlands are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to identify a headland of a field includes an image analyzer to generate an image from data corresponding to path information of at least one field operation performed on the field, a mask generator to generate a mask of the image based on the image, and a headland identifier to identify the headland in the field based on the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Deere &Company
    Inventors: Scott W. Anderson, Mohammadkazem Fotouhi Ardakani
  • Patent number: 11959750
    Abstract: A method and mobile transceiver with adaptive monitoring are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver, comprising: waking up the mobile transceiver from a low power mode in response to a wakeup event; determining a waypoint in a travel itinerary corresponding to the wakeup event, the travel itinerary defining a number of waypoints including an origin endpoint and destination endpoint; and setting one or more subsequent wakeup events based one or a combination of a time of the wakeup event, sensor data at the time of the wakeup event, and the determined waypoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: José Eduardo Korneluk, Sandeep Chennakeshu, Siddharth Saxena, Sergio Javier Berriz
  • Patent number: 11954736
    Abstract: A personalized insurance (“PI”) computing device for determining an optimal insurance product for a driver operating a vehicle for a transportation network company (“TNC”) during a period of increased demand includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory. The processor is configured to: (i) receive, from a TNC, data indicating increased demand for transportation services, (ii) retrieve driver data that includes the driver history, (iii) generate an optimal pricing model for the driver based upon the increased demand and the driver data, (iv) execute the model to determine an optimal insurance product having characteristics reflecting at least one risk factor associated with the increased demand for transportation services and a risk profile determined from analyzing the driver data, and (v) transmit an offer to the driver to provide transportation services at an increased earnings rate and with the determined optimal insurance product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Gross, Joseph Robert Brannan, Brian N. Harvey
  • Patent number: 11945478
    Abstract: A method and system include receiving positioning and motion information from one or more positioning and motion devices on a vehicle on a guideway, based on the positioning and motion information, receiving information from a database on the vehicle, the information comprising track geometry information and infrastructure information corresponding to the guideway, using the track geometry information and positioning and motion information to determine a path of the guideway and a trajectory of the vehicle along the path, receiving data from one or more electromagnetic sensors on the vehicle, and detecting an object by using the trajectory, the infrastructure information, and the information from the one or more electromagnetic sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GROUND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: David Beach, Alon Green, Walter Kinio
  • Patent number: 11946746
    Abstract: A method for satellite-based detection of vehicle location uses a motion and location sensor. GNSS data is received as an input variable, at least one further input variable is also received. Weighting factors for the input variable and the at least one further input variable are determined. The input variable and the at least one further input variable are weighted by the weighing factors. The vehicle location is detected via the weighted input variable and the weighted at least one further input variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Marlon Ramon Ewert
  • Patent number: 11941518
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to cooperative learning neural networks are described. Cooperative learning neural networks may include neural networks which utilize sensor data received wirelessly from at least one other wireless communication device to train the neural network. For example, cooperative learning neural networks described herein may be used to develop weights which are associated with objects or conditions at one device and which may be transmitted to a second device, where they may be used to train the second device to react to such objects or conditions. The disclosed features may be used in various contexts, including machine-type communication, machine-to-machine communication, device-to-device communication, and the like. The disclosed techniques may be employed in a wireless (e.g., cellular) communication system, which may operate according to various standardized protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 11941516
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to cooperative learning neural networks are described. Cooperative learning neural networks may include neural networks which utilize sensor data received wirelessly from at least one other wireless communication device to train the neural network. For example, cooperative learning neural networks described herein may be used to develop weights which are associated with objects or conditions at one device and which may be transmitted to a second device, where they may be used to train the second device to react to such objects or conditions. The disclosed features may be used in various contexts, including machine-type communication, machine-to-machine communication, device-to-device communication, and the like. The disclosed techniques may be employed in a wireless (e.g., cellular) communication system, which may operate according to various standardized protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Tamara Schmitz, Jeremy Chritz, Jaime Cummins
  • Patent number: 11935104
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retail environments. In one implementation, a non transitory computer-readable medium may include instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method. The method may include receiving, from first sensors first sensed data indicating selection of a first product by a customer; determining, from the first sensed data, a first property associated with the first product; issuing a first query to the customer regarding the first property and, in response, receiving first information from the customer; comparing the first information with the first property; determining, based on the comparison, an integrity indicator associated with the customer; receiving, from second sensors second sensed data indicating a selection of a second product by the customer; determining, based on the integrity indicator, at least one action to determine a second property associated with the second product; and initiating the at least one action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd.
    Inventor: Youval Bronicki
  • Patent number: 11912298
    Abstract: An event scheduling system for collecting image data related to one or more events by one or more autonomous vehicles includes a centralized scheduling system in wireless communication with one or more autonomous vehicles. Each autonomous vehicle collects the image data related to the one or more events while following a unique travel schedule. The centralized scheduling system executes instructions to determine the unique travel schedule for a specific autonomous vehicle, where the unique travel schedule directs the specific autonomous vehicle to the specific location of the filtered event to collect the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chuan Li, Donald K. Grimm, Fan Bai
  • Patent number: 11904935
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle based on surrounding area information of the vehicle, comprising: a control unit capable of controlling the vehicle in a first state in which gripping of a steering apparatus by a driver of the vehicle is needed and a second state in which the gripping is not needed, based on the surrounding area information; and a warning output unit configured to output a deviation warning when the vehicle has approached a boundary of a travel path, wherein if the vehicle is in the second state, the control unit suppresses output of the deviation warning performed by the warning output unit compared to a case where the vehicle is in the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Kokaki
  • Patent number: 11885891
    Abstract: Provided are a cold start method and apparatus of a global positioning system (GPS) module of a terminal, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes acquiring (S110) target position information of the terminal; selecting (S120), according to the target position information, an ephemeris data record whose position information matches the target position information from a preset satellite visible window table to obtain a target record set; selecting (S130) N satellites according to the ephemeris data record in the target record set to form a visible satellite list, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 4; and positioning (S140) according to the satellites in the visible satellite list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chao Niu, Zhaoxin Wang
  • Patent number: 11864154
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for synthetic data point generation are provided. In an example, error bounds for generating synthetic data points from a set of data points collected from mobile devices may be determined. Paths associated with groups of data points of the set of data points may be determined. Error bounds may be applied to limit the paths to generate limited path data. Synthetic data points may be generated based upon the limited path data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Gamble, Jr., Corbin Pierce Moline
  • Patent number: 11852751
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a computer device and a computer-readable storage medium for positioning, and relates to the field of autonomous driving. The method obtains point cloud data collected by a LiDAR on a device at a current time; determines, based on the point cloud data and a global map built in a global coordinate system, global positioning information of the device in the global coordinate system at the current time; and determine, based on the point cloud data and a local map built in a local coordinate system, local positioning information of the device in the local coordinate system at the current time. A positioning result of the device at the current time is determined based on at least the global positioning information and the local positioning information. Techniques of the present disclosure can provide an effective and stable positioning service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shenhua Hou, Wendong Ding, Hang Gao, Guowei Wan, Shiyu Song
  • Patent number: 11843456
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Dorian Franklin Baldwin, Jacob Edward Blackstock, David James Kennedy, Shahan Panth, Timothy Jordan Garcia
  • Patent number: 11834060
    Abstract: A method includes determining a travel state of a subject vehicle based on vehicle data and selecting one or more desired topics from a set of subscriptions based on the travel state. The set of subscriptions include one or more topics stored in a database, and the one or more desired topics are selected from among the one or more topics. The method further includes subscribing to the one or more desired topics provided by a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Yamashiro