Having Audio Or Visual Route Guidance Patents (Class 701/431)
  • Patent number: 12139131
    Abstract: An autonomous valet parking method includes: activating an automated valet parking procedure; determining, by a parking infrastructure, a plurality of guide route candidates leading from a pickup zone to a target position; determining, by the parking infrastructure, weighting factors for the plurality of guide route candidates; selecting, by the parking infrastructure, one guide route candidates among the plurality of guide route candidates as a guide route to the target position; transmitting the target position and the guide route to the vehicle; performing, by the vehicle, autonomous driving to the target position along the guide route; performing, by the vehicle, autonomous parking at the target position, and finishing the automated valet parking procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tae Dong Oh
  • Patent number: 12123732
    Abstract: A guidance information processing device includes a first specifying unit that refers to a first storage unit storing position information of individual facilities, and specifies one or more of the facilities present on a route based on a designation of a user, and a second specifying unit that refers to a second storage unit storing, for each facility, information indicating a sensation capable of being experienced regarding the facility, and specifies a candidate for a sensation to be experienced by the user regarding the one or more of the facilities specified by the first specifying unit at a time of performing guidance on the route, thereby contributing to generation of guidance information suitable for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka Miyake, Misa Hirao, Hiroya Minami
  • Patent number: 12117308
    Abstract: To present a navigation directions preview, a server device receives a request for navigation directions from a starting location to a destination location and generates a set of navigation directions in response to the request. The set of navigation directions includes a set of route segments for traversing from the starting location to the destination location. The server device selects a subset of the route segments based on characteristics of each route segment in the set of route segments. For each selected route segment, the server device provides a preview of the route segment to be displayed on a client device. The preview of the route segment includes panoramic street level imagery depicting the route segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 12099113
    Abstract: A semantic access control system includes a computer system having an associated memory, the memory storing a semantic network model comprising a plurality of endpoints and oriented links between the endpoints and a semantic attribute. The computer system is configured to receive a primary signal having identification data associated with a user and to process an access attempt by the user to a secured endpoint by identifying the user based on the primary signal, sending an authorization message comprising a secondary access code, receiving a secondary signal containing the secondary access code as part of an email or cell phone transmission, allowing a computer-controlled access to the secured endpoint, and inferring the semantic attribute to the user when the computer-controlled access to the secured endpoint is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Lucomm Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Lucian Cristache
  • Patent number: 12098930
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device present navigation routes from various perspectives. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of representations of (e.g., physical) objects in the vicinity of a navigation route while presenting navigation directions. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of portions of a navigation route that are occluded by representations of (e.g., physical) objects in a map. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps in response to requests to search for (e.g., physical) objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. Apuy, Brian J. Andrich, Jaime Chen, Leo Emile Jean Pierre Vallet, David Lam, Giovanni S. Luis, Sebastian A. Araya, Sofia Boutahar, Daniel A. Palm, Sarah A. Bergquist, Linghao Li, Kirill Negoda, Brian R. Frick
  • Patent number: 12095715
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selectively analyzing content of electronic communications and enabling a sender to modify content to comply with one or more accessibility preferences. For example, systems disclosed herein may enable a client device to selectively analyze portions of an electronic communication and provide an accessibility alert indicator that one or more accessibility violations exist for a corresponding set of recipients. In addition, systems disclosed herein involve selectively applying a dynamic set of accessibility rules to content of the electronic document based on recipients that are added or removed as well as content of the electronic communication as it is composed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Dee Elvoid Walker, Peter Frem, Vandana Gummuluru
  • Patent number: 12087155
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada
  • Patent number: 12073705
    Abstract: Methods to provide separation notifications are described. In an embodiment, movement is detected beyond a threshold distance from a trusted location, in response to the detecting, receiving an indication that at least one accessory device is nearby the electronic device and storing information on a status of a wireless connection with the at least one accessory device, receiving an indication that the electronic device is in transit, monitoring the wireless connection for the at least one accessory device, and upon detection of a lost wireless connection for the at least one accessory device, send a separation notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Detwiler, Siva Ganesh Movva, Katherine K. Ernst, Richard Akira Heru, Johan O. Bergerengen, Langford M. Wasada, Ernst Thomas Erdmann, IV
  • Patent number: 12038299
    Abstract: To provide content-aware audio navigation instructions, a client device executing a mapping application obtains one or more audio navigation directions for traversing from a starting location to a destination location along a route. The client device also identifies electronic media content playing from a source different from the mapping application which is executing at the client device or in proximity to the client device. The client device determines characteristics of the electronic media content and adjusts the audio navigation directions in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic media content. Then the client device presents the adjusted audio navigation directions to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 12037770
    Abstract: A system controls a work machine that loads materials onto a conveyance vehicle. The system includes a controller and a detection device. The controller controls the work machine in an automatic control mode in which work is performed automatically. The detection device detects an approach of the conveyance vehicle toward the work machine. The automatic control mode includes a loading mode in which the work machine is caused to move to perform loading work for loading onto the conveyance vehicle, and an other mode other than the loading mode. The other mode includes at least one of a mode for gathering fallen materials and a digging mode for further increasing the materials by digging. The controller causes the automatic control mode to transition from the other mode to the loading mode when the approach of the conveyance vehicle is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Aizawa, Kenjiro Shimada, Tomoki Konda
  • Patent number: 12030577
    Abstract: A method of controlling a personal mobility system includes displaying a virtual object on an augmented reality wearable device, the virtual object being located in a position in the field of view of the augmented reality device corresponding to a position in the real world. Proximity of the personal mobility system or a user of the personal mobility system with the position in the real world is detected. In response to the detection of proximity, a performance characteristic of the personal mobility system is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund Graves Brown, Benjamin Lucas, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Richard Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11996018
    Abstract: A display control device mounted on a vehicle: determines whether a caution point exists in front of a vehicle; determines whether the caution point is included in an angle of view of a head-up display mounted on the vehicle; displays a caution content as a superimposed content with the caution point as a superimposition target in response to the caution point being determined to be included in the angle of view; displays the caution content as a non-superimposed content with no superimposition target in response to the caution point being determined to be not included in the angle of view; determines a type of the caution point; displays the caution content associated with the determined type of the caution point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamiya, Takamitsu Suzuki, Takashi Ichida, Takeshi Hatoh, Kazuki Kojima, Daisuke Takemori
  • Patent number: 11983459
    Abstract: A mobile device has a memory storing a name of a user of the mobile device, an audio output interface for outputting an audio signal to earphones worn by the user of the mobile device and a microphone configured to receive a sound signal external to the earphones. A processor is communicatively connected to the microphone to process the sound signal to recognize speech in response to the processor detecting that the audio output interface is outputting the audio signal to the earphones. The processor is configured to determine if the speech includes the name of the user stored in the memory of the mobile device. The processor is configured to generate and provide a volume control signal to the audio output interface to lower a volume of the earphones in response to determining that the speech includes the name of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew MacGregor Roy
  • Patent number: 11975715
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes an estimator and a controller. The estimator estimates a first estimated vehicle speed and a second estimated vehicle speed when there are a first deceleration target and a second deceleration target in a course ahead of a vehicle, and when a driver of the vehicle releases an accelerator pedal. Wherein the first estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a first target position corresponding to the first deceleration target, and the second estimated vehicle speed is an estimated vehicle speed of the vehicle at a second target position corresponding to the second deceleration target. The controller controls the vehicle to automatically decelerate toward the second target position when the first estimated vehicle speed is greater than a first predetermined value, and when the second estimated vehicle speed is less than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shogo Ito, Kohei Tochigi, Kumiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 11973923
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a camera to record an image; memory to store instructions; and a processor in circuit with the memory, the processor to execute the instructions to: determine a depth based on: (a) the image and (b) a calibration parameter of the camera; and adjust the calibration parameter based on a temperature of the camera and the depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aviad Zabatani, Sagy Bareket, Ohad Menashe, Erez Sperling, Alex Bronstein, Michael Bronstein, Ron Kimmel, Vitaly Surazhsky
  • Patent number: 11959766
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select at least one candidate camera from plural cameras based on position information of each of the plural cameras; a reception unit configured to establish communication connection with the candidate camera selected by the selection unit and to start to receive video captured by the candidate camera; and a display control unit configured to display the video received by the reception unit in response to a predetermined display condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Shiotsu, Tomoe Ohtsuki, Toshiyuki Moribayashi, Motoki Kojima, Hiroshi Yanagi
  • Patent number: 11933629
    Abstract: A map data updating device comprises a communication unit, a memory, and a processor configured to store map data, received from a server through the communication unit before the vehicle has begun to travel, in the memory as initial map data, and to send a request to the server through the communication unit for update information representing information updated from the initial map data for each of a plurality of road zones within the scheduled route, from among the information associated with the road zones in the map data updated at the server, and to use the update information received through the communication unit to update the initial map data, after the vehicle has begun to travel along the scheduled route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11926258
    Abstract: Vehicle ambient lighting may be provided utilizing a touchscreen, a lighting system, a memory, and a processor. The lighting system may include a direct lighting system and an indirect lighting system. The memory may store one or more instructions and the processor may execute one or more of the instructions stored on the memory to perform one or more acts or actions, such as rendering a vehicle ambient lighting interface via the touchscreen or implementing a currently selected vehicle ambient lighting mode via the lighting system. The vehicle ambient lighting interface may include two or more vehicle ambient lighting modes and the currently selected vehicle ambient lighting mode from the two or more vehicle ambient lighting modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cody D. Grebe, Cooper Koo Shin, Tony Da-Tung Wang, Ross Cameron Miller
  • Patent number: 11928958
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for users localization and guidance of the movements of the users through a building adapted in relation to an event, along paths leading to one or more given target places, with connected objects (T, T?) in communication link with a remote resource server which is a control server (S) accessible by a communication network, comprising the following steps: on the basis of a digital model of the building (BIM, CIM), nodes (N) and edges (A) are computed; a user waiting list is assigned to each passage node; a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of movement toward the target places (“E”, “S”, “W”) is automatically computed with the nodes and the edges (A); the actual location of an event is detected; the actual position of each user located in the building is computed; as a function of the profile of the user, of the user's location in real time in the building causing the inaccessibility of certain nodes of the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), the so-called ‘updated’ Directed Acyclic Gra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Universite Paris Est Creteil val de Marne, Universite Gustave Eiffel
    Inventors: Abderrezak Rachedi, Ahmed Mebarki
  • Patent number: 11914380
    Abstract: A system includes a conveyance vehicle, and a work machine that loads materials onto the conveyance vehicle. A first processor of a work machine determines a target stop position of a conveyance vehicle based on a position of the work machine, a target offset distance, and the direction of the loading position. A second processor of the conveyance vehicle acquires data indicative of the target stop position of the conveyance vehicle from the work machine. The second processor controls the conveyance vehicle to move the conveyance vehicle to the target stop position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Aizawa, Kenjiro Shimada
  • Patent number: 11874120
    Abstract: Traversing, by an autonomous vehicle, a vehicle transportation network, may include identifying a distinct vehicle operational scenario, wherein traversing the vehicle transportation network includes traversing a portion of the vehicle transportation network that includes the distinct vehicle operational scenario, communicating shared scenario-specific operational control management data associated with the distinct vehicle operational scenario with an external shared scenario-specific operational control management system, operating a scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance including an instance of a scenario-specific operational control evaluation model of the distinct vehicle operational scenario, and wherein operating the scenario-specific operational control evaluation module instance includes identifying a policy for the scenario-specific operational control evaluation model, receiving a candidate vehicle control action from the policy for the scenario-specific operational contr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Nissan North America, Inc., The University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Kyle Hollins Wray, Stefan Witwicki, Shlomo Zilberstein
  • Patent number: 11837121
    Abstract: A display correction system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a third obtainer, a predictor, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains travel route information on a travel route ahead of a moving body. The second obtainer obtains speed information on a speed of the moving body. The third obtainer obtains orientation information on an orientation of the moving body. The predictor predicts, based on the travel route information and the speed information, a time period during which the moving body travels through a specific section in the travel route. The corrector performs correction of a displacement of a display position of a content on a display image based on the orientation information. Based on prediction result of the predictor, the corrector executes first control when the moving body is traveling in a normal section, and executes second control when the moving body is traveling in the specific section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanaga Tsuji, Toshiya Mori, Fumihito Inukai, Tadashi Shibata
  • Patent number: 11835354
    Abstract: To provide personalized data for display on a map, a server device obtains location data for a user and identifies locations that are familiar to the user based on the frequency and recency in which the user visits the locations. The server device then provides the familiar locations in search results/suggestions and annotates the familiar locations with a description of a relationship between the familiar location and the user. The server device also includes the familiar locations as landmarks for performing maneuvers in a set of navigation instructions. Furthermore, the server device provides a familiar location as a frame of reference on a map display when a user selects another location nearby the familiar location. Moreover, the server device includes a familiar location as an intermediate destination when the user request navigation directions to a final destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Haroon Baig, Ankit Gupta
  • Patent number: 11828612
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for a displaying a route in a first electronic device. A message is received from a second electronic device. Based on analyzing the received message, first location information including address information inputted from a user of the second electronic device is identified in the received message. The first location information is obtained from the received message. Second location information of the first electronic device is obtained. A start location is set to the obtained second location information and the destination location is set to the selected address information. Based on obtaining route information between the start location and the destination location, a route representing the obtained route information between the start location and the destination location is displayed on a display of the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Dong-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11821736
    Abstract: The on-board apparatus 50 calculates an automated driving route of the vehicle 55 from the parking space of the vehicle 55 to the destination and an estimated time required to reach the destination in the case in which the vehicle 55 drives by automated driving by following the automated driving route. The server apparatus 30 calculates a walking travel route in the case of traveling by walk from the position of the terminal apparatus 10 to the parking space of the vehicle 55 and an estimated time required to reach the parking space of the vehicle 55 in the case of walking by following the walking travel route. The terminal apparatus 10 displays at the display unit 140 the automated driving route, the estimated time required for the automated driving route, the walking travel route, and the estimated time required for the walking travel route; and when a selection of the automated driving route is accepted, the terminal apparatus 10 starts the drive of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11807169
    Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a side of a vehicle so as to view at least sideward and forward of the vehicle including a forward blind zone ahead of the vehicle that is caused by a leading vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle and in the same traffic lane along which the equipped vehicle is traveling. The camera captures image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes electronic circuitry and associated software, with the electronic circuitry including an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. A display screen is disposed in the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. The display screen, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, displays video images derived from image data captured by the camera to provide displayed images of the forward blind zone ahead of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Baur
  • Patent number: 11810453
    Abstract: A route control device includes a control unit that sets an angle of a guideway for guiding a wheelchair user with respect to a roadway in accordance with a length of a waiting time for which a vehicle traveling on the roadway is kept waiting, when the wheelchair user who is about to cross the roadway is detected, and performs a control of displaying a pedestrian crossing including the guideway on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Yuko Mizuno, Shin Sakurada
  • Patent number: 11788861
    Abstract: An end-to-end system for data generation, map creation using the generated data, and localization to the created map is disclosed. Mapstreams—or streams of sensor data, perception outputs from deep neural networks (DNNs), and/or relative trajectory data—corresponding to any number of drives by any number of vehicles may be generated and uploaded to the cloud. The mapstreams may be used to generate map data—and ultimately a fused high definition (HD) map—that represents data generated over a plurality of drives. When localizing to the fused HD map, individual localization results may be generated based on comparisons of real-time data from a sensor modality to map data corresponding to the same sensor modality. This process may be repeated for any number of sensor modalities and the results may be fused together to determine a final fused localization result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: David Nister, Ruchi Bhargava, Vaibhav Thukral, Michael Grabner, Ibrahim Eden, Jeffrey Liu
  • Patent number: 11761173
    Abstract: A method for building a pad at a construction site using a geography-altering machine, the method comprising: receiving a design for the pad at the geography-altering machine, receiving a terrain surface model of the construction site at the geography-altering machine, wherein the terrain surface model is generated using an imaging device located on the geography-altering machine, generating a cut-and-fill map at the geography-altering machine based on the design for the pad and the terrain surface model, generating guidance for building the pad at the geography-altering machine, wherein the guidance includes a starting location and moving directions for the geography-altering machine, monitoring process of building the pad using the imaging device on the geography-altering machine; and updating the cut-and-fill map and the guidance based on the monitored process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Tony Metzger
  • Patent number: 11755714
    Abstract: Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of an authentication system. The system may receive a request from a user device to authenticate a user. The system may determine a route travelled by the user. The route can be determined based at least on data retrieved from the user device of the user. The system may determine one or more objects viewable along the route. At least one image of the one or more objects can be selected. The system may communicate the at least one image and at least one other image to the user device to be displayed on the user device. The system may receive a selection of the at least one image by the user through a display of the user device. The authentication of the user can be based, at least in part, on the user selection of the at least one image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Sumeet Ahuja, Prashanthi Ravanavarapu, Geetha Kuppuswamy, Dushyanth Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11747811
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle having one or more computing devices that may receive instructions to pick up a passenger at a pickup location and determine when the vehicle is within a first distance of the pickup location. When the vehicle is within the first distance, the computing devices may make a first attempt to find a spot to park the vehicle and wait for the passenger. When the vehicle is unable to find a spot to park the vehicle on the first attempt, the computing devices may maneuvering the vehicle in order to make a second attempt to find a spot to park the vehicle and wait for the passenger. When the vehicle is unable to find a spot to park the vehicle on the second attempt, the computing devices may stop the vehicle in a current lane to wait for the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Brian Douglas Cullinane, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Anne Kristiina Aula, Jennifer Arden, Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Calvin Karl Johnson, Renaud-Roland Hubert
  • Patent number: 11725957
    Abstract: To provide context-aware audio navigation instructions, a server device obtains sets of audio navigation instructions previously provided to users along with sensor data descriptive of a context in which the audio navigation instructions were provided and an indication of whether a driver correctly responded to the audio navigation instructions. The server device trains a machine learning model using this data, where the machine learning model identifies audio navigation instruction parameters for a particular context. In response to a request for navigation directions, the server device receives sensor data from the client computing device generating the request that is indicative of the environment surrounding the client computing device. The server device then applies the sensor data and navigation instructions to the machine learning model to generate a set of audio navigation instructions responsive to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Migle Padegimaite, Sammy El Ghazzal
  • Patent number: 11662214
    Abstract: A dynamic navigation coach system is programmed to monitor and assist drivers while keeping them engaged en route to the destination. The system may provide driver navigation assistance and training that monitors user navigational skills, driving habits, and environmental factors, and provides dynamically adjustable tools to provide varying levels of navigation assistance in a game play format. The system may selectively provide navigational directions or corrections to the driver when the driver deviates from a scheduled travel route, instead of providing instructions at every driving event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cynthia Neubecker, Pietro Buttolo, Ali Hassani, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 11662221
    Abstract: A change point detection device includes a memory 170 that stores map information representing a structure associated with a traveling condition on and around a road, an object detection unit 162 that detects a shielding object 20 hiding the structure from an image acquired by an in-vehicle camera 110 mounted on a vehicle 100 and representing an environment around the vehicle 100, a collation unit 163 that eliminates the structure hidden by the shielding object 20 in the map information, collates the image with the map information, and calculates a coincidence degree between the image and the map information, and a change point detection unit 164 that determines, when the coincidence degree is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, that the structure represented in the image has a change point different from the corresponding structure represented in the map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Uno
  • Patent number: 11656091
    Abstract: Provided is a content visualizing method and apparatus. The content visualizing apparatus generates an object disposition space based on a road surface and an obstacle and determines a display position at which a graphic representation corresponding to route guidance content is visualized in the object disposition space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hee Sae Lee
  • Patent number: 11650069
    Abstract: Provided are a content visualizing device and method that changes positions and shapes of route guidance content and driving related content based on a distance to an adjacent object, a current driving state, and an occurrence of a driving related event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: HeeSae Lee, KeeChang Lee
  • Patent number: 11645908
    Abstract: A road tunnel security system includes a road security server system in communication with respective tunnel security client systems arranged and associated with respective cars. A specific tunnel security client system is configured to download a computer coded road map from the road security server system, including at least one tunnel. A first virtual gate is located in front of a first tunnel opening, and a second virtual gate is located In front of a second tunnel opening. When a car enters the tunnel, the first virtual gate submits the license number plate to the road security system, and when the car leaves the tunnel the registered license number plate is deleted on request from the second virtual gate. In this manner the road security server keep track of all cars and their license plate numbers that are inside the tunnel at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Roger Andre Eilertsen
  • Patent number: 11635526
    Abstract: A method for locating an object of interest using offset. The object may be a mobile platform, or portion of same, associated with a vehicle, or a pavement segment or feature of or on a pavement segment on which the mobile platform is located. The vehicle includes first and second fixed points having a known offset from each other. An image sensor whose field of view includes the second fixed point and a portion of the mobile platform provides image data which is used with the known offset to calculate the precise location of the object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Macvittie, Brian Kausler, John S. McNeely, George S. Smith, II
  • Patent number: 11629966
    Abstract: Technologies for sharing route navigation data in a community cloud include a mobile navigation device of a vehicle and a remote mobile navigation device of a remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device generates sensor data associated with a current route of the vehicle and determines whether a reference traffic event occurs within a segment of the current route of the vehicle. In response to a determination that a reference traffic event occurs, the mobile navigation devices transmits route update data to the remote mobile navigation device. Based on the route update data, the remote mobile navigation device updates a current route of the remote vehicle to avoid the reference traffic event within a corresponding segment of the current route of the remote vehicle. The mobile navigation device may also transmit the sensor data to a community compute device, which may transmit route update data to the remote mobile navigation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sunil K. Cheruvu
  • Patent number: 11604071
    Abstract: Using a planning circuit of a vehicle, a map is accessed that includes information identifying at least one lane on which vehicles can travel. Using the planning circuit and from the map, a graph representing a driving environment of the vehicle is generated. The graph includes multiple trajectories. At least one trajectory includes a lane change. Each trajectory is a path for the vehicle to move from a first spatiotemporal location to a second spatiotemporal location. The trajectory includes at least one lane alone which the vehicle can move. Using the planning circuit, a trajectory of the multiple trajectories for the vehicle to travel is selected based on an initial vehicle trajectory of the vehicle. The selected trajectory includes a stem. The stem is a portion of the selected trajectory to which the vehicle is configured to adhere. Using the control circuit, the vehicle is moved along the selected trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MOTIONAL AD LLC
    Inventor: Shih-Yuan Liu
  • Patent number: 11578990
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with aspects of this disclosure may be provided to determine and calculate an overall driving risk index value corresponding to a driver and scene configuration. The overall driving risk index value may provide driving risk modeling and estimation at a personalized driving level. In some cases, the overall driving risk index value may be determined using a risk-predictive modeling system with weighting and machine learning and may include one or more of: a driver score system, a driver-contextual risk score system, and a conflict index system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Sunil Chintakindi, Anuradha Kodali
  • Patent number: 11568751
    Abstract: A dynamic platoon formation method under a mixed autonomous vehicles flow is provided. The method implements dynamic platooning by taking into account a fact that a traffic flow is a mixture of HDVs and CAVs. The dynamic platoon formation method includes: selecting lanes as candidate lanes in turn; constructing a decision tree from a current moment to a moment of platoon formation according to the following process: constructing a decision space for each CAV, generating a compatible decision set, selecting and executing a compatible decision, and updating location and speed information of all vehicles; and selecting, according to a predetermined index (including TTP and DTP), an optimal decision sequence as a decision sequence corresponding to the candidate lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongsheng Qi, Yuyan Ying
  • Patent number: 11556135
    Abstract: A method of controlling movement of multi-vehicle includes acquiring a constraint condition under which vehicles move and a calculation cycle for calculating movement routes of the vehicles; acquiring a position of each vehicle; specifying a target position for each vehicle; calculating, based on the position of each vehicle, the target position, and the constraint condition, a movement route for prediction steps of each vehicle; determining, based on the movement routes of the vehicles, a driving condition of each vehicle from a current time to a unit time; and controlling movement of each vehicle. Calculating the movement route including performing optimization calculation based on an evaluation function, evaluation of which becomes higher as a deviation between the vehicle and the target position for each prediction step becomes smaller, and the constraint condition, to calculate the movement route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM
    Inventors: Kazushige Takaki, Yasuo Fujishima, Shunichi Azuma
  • Patent number: 11551684
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for utilizing global models to generate local models for electronic devices in an environment, and techniques for utilizing the global models and/or the local models to provide notifications that are based on anomalies detected within the environment. For instance, a remote system may receive an identifier associated with an electronic device and identify a global model using the identifier. The remote system may then receive data indicating state changes of the electronic device and use the data and the global model to generate a local model associated with the electronic device. Using the global model and/or local model, the remote system can identify anomalies associated with the electronic device and, in response to identifying an anomaly, notify the user. The remote system can further cause the electronic device to change states after receiving a request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinay Kotikalapudi Sriram, William Evan Welbourne, Jay Patel, Sven Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 11541868
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a storage portion in which map information is stored, the map information showing a position where a roadside machine configured to transmit a radio signal including predetermined information is provided; a route setting portion configured to set a route where an autonomous driving vehicle is to travel when a current position, of the autonomous driving vehicle, that is measured by a positioning portion provided in the autonomous driving vehicle is included within a predetermined distance from the position of the roadside machine on the map information and the autonomous driving vehicle approaches the position where the roadside machine is provided, the route being set so that a communication portion provided in the autonomous driving vehicle can receive the radio signal; and a vehicle controlling portion configured to control the autonomous driving vehicle so that the autonomous driving vehicle travels along the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Sakai, Makoto Kawaharada, Akihide Tachibana, Tomoyuki Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11507758
    Abstract: Vehicle-based sign language communication systems and methods are provided herein. An example device can be configured to determine a sign language protocol used by the first user, determine a target language used by a second user, obtain a translation library based on the sign language protocol and the target language, receive spoken word input from a second user through a microphone, convert the spoken word input into sign language output using the translation library, and provide the sign language output using a sign language output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Makke, Oleg Gusikhin, Ayush Shah
  • Patent number: 11485359
    Abstract: When two target objects cannot see each other and at least one of them is a moving object following lanes, the warning system identifies the couples of two predicted trajectories having at least one point in common or an inter-trajectory distance less than a distance threshold (dth), among all possible couples of two predicted trajectories for the two respective target objects, then calculates a probability of collision for each identified couple of trajectories, by determining a predicted collision time and calculating probability distribution functions for the positions of the two target objects at said predicted collision time, and checks whether or not the probability of collision calculated for at least one of the identified couples of trajectories is more than a collision probability threshold in order to trigger an alert towards at least one of the two target objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Dominik Sasin, Dariusz Borkowski
  • Patent number: 11472400
    Abstract: A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mountable in a vehicle and including an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of a frame line of a second parking frame from other vehicle stopped at the second parking frame adjacent to a first parking frame at which the vehicle automatically parks, and a calculator configured to calculate a position of a frame line of the first parking frame on the basis of the positional information of the frame line of the second parking frame acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junpei Noguchi, Chie Sugihara, Yuta Takada, Ryoma Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11467710
    Abstract: A system for generating a 360-degree viewing experience may receive a plurality of images of an object from an image capture device, wherein each of the plurality of images corresponds to a different rotational orientation of the object relative to the image capture device. The system may detect, using a first machine learning model, the object in each of the plurality of images. The system may detect, using a second machine learning model, regions associated with identifiable object features in one or more images of the plurality of images. The system may assign feature metadata to the one or more images, the features metadata associated with one or more detected regions of the detected regions of the object in the one or more images. The system may publish, with an application programming interface, the plurality of images and the feature metadata for the 360-degree viewing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CARMAX ENTERPRISE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Ahmed Ansari, Clark Barrett Jennings
  • Patent number: 11458841
    Abstract: A display control apparatus comprises: a detection unit configured to analyze a line of sight of a driver of a vehicle, and detect a viewpoint of the driver in a visual field region of the driver that is obtained as a result of the analysis; a display control unit configured to display an image such that the image is superimposed on the visual field region, based on a result of the detection by the detection unit; and a transmission control unit configured to, if a condition is satisfied, transmit related information that is related to information represented by the image to an external terminal, in addition to or instead of the display control unit displaying the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Higashiyama, Shinji Kawakami