Having Accuracy Improvement Of Position Or Location Patents (Class 701/469)
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Patent number: 12259481Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for enabling seamlessly tracking a location of a water vessel by supplementing satellite data with mobile data location based on proximity of a water vessel to shore. The system receives a Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the water vessel, the GPS location of the water vessel based on using the satellite data of the water vessel. The system determines that the GPS location is within a threshold distance of a boundary. Responsive to determining that the GPS location is within the threshold distance of the boundary, the system initiates monitoring for a mobile signal emanating from a trajectory path of the water vessel. The system detects, during the monitoring, the mobile signal, the tracking the location of the water vessel based on mobile data of the mobile signal. The system provides the tracked location to a monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: i911 International, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Ryan Bennett
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Patent number: 12250061Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing ephemeris for non-terrestrial networks. For example, UEs of different orbit propagation capabilities (e.g., computing orbit propagation models of different accuracy levels) may receive additional ephemeris parameters. In one aspect, a network entity may determine at least one additional set of ephemeris parameters that includes different ephemeris parameters than one or more basic sets of ephemeris parameters associated with a satellite that provides a coverage for the network entity. The network entity may transmit broadcast signaling indicating the at least one additional set of ephemeris parameters. The UE may receive and use the at least one additional set of ephemeris parameters in an orbit propagation model to compute a state of motion of the satellite.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Liangping Ma, Xiao Feng Wang, Ayan Sengupta, Bharat Shrestha, Umesh Phuyal, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Changhwan Park
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Patent number: 12243418Abstract: Provided herein is technology relating to automated driving and, more particularly, to an automated driving system comprising a Connected Automated Vehicle Subsystem that interacts in real-time with a Connected Automated Highway Subsystem to provide coordinated sensing; coordinated prediction and decision-making; and coordinated control for transportation management and operations and control of connected automated vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: CAVH LLCInventors: Bin Ran, Hanchu Li, Jin Guo, Yang Cheng, Shen Li
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Patent number: 12236727Abstract: A vehicle behavior evaluation device: sets multiple possible behaviors of an own vehicle when the own vehicle travels along a planned route; generates, using a function device, traveling situation related reward data by learning; calculates, using the function device, a reward to each possible behavior of the own vehicle by considering a traveling state of different vehicle; and evaluates each possible behavior of the own vehicle based on the calculated reward. The traveling situation related reward data is generated by: simulating multiple combinations of situations of the own vehicle and the different vehicle under different environments; assigning a first reward to a first situation of the own vehicle when the own vehicle avoids a contact with the different vehicle; and assigning a second reward that is lower than the first reward to a second situation of the own vehicle when the own vehicle contacts with the different vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Osawa
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Patent number: 12232076Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for performing positioning in a cellular-vehicle to everything (C-V2X) system, and a device therefor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jongseob Baek, Hanbyul Seo, Woosuk Ko
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Patent number: 12222205Abstract: A device may receive an architectural floor plan of an interior of a building, and may process the architectural floor plan, with a vectorization model, to generate a vectorized floor plan of polygons. The device may process the vectorized floor plan, with a convex hull model, to create convex hull polygons around the polygons of the vectorized floor plan, and may reduce a quantity of vertices associated with the convex hull polygons to generate simplified convex hull polygons. The device may generate, based on the simplified convex hull polygons, one of a visibility graph that identifies potential paths through the interior of the building, or a walking path network through the interior. The device may process the one of the visibility graph or the walking path network, with a pathfinding model, to identify paths through the interior of the building, and may perform actions based on the identified paths.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Hannah Nicole Aldeborgh, Florin Alexandrescu
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Patent number: 12223446Abstract: The disclosure provides an Internet of Things system and a method for managing a people flow of a public place in a smart city. The method may comprise obtaining pedestrian distribution information in a preset area during a current time period via network from a storage device; determining, by processing the pedestrian distribution information through an area location prediction model, at least one area location in the preset area for a future time period, a population flow load of the area location being greater than a first threshold, wherein the area location prediction model includes a graph neural network model, a graph input into the graph neural network model includes at least two nodes and at least one edge; generating, based on the area location, prompt information; and feedbacking the prompt information to a user terminal of a user platform through a service platform via the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Bin Liu, Haitang Xiang, Yaqiang Quan, Xiaojun Wei
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Patent number: 12224046Abstract: A charting system is provided for use in a healthcare facility having a network. The charting system includes a microphone to receive voice inputs from a caregiver. A vital sign monitor obtains a vital sign from a patient and displays it. The system includes a communication device having a voice-to-text module that includes a processor coupled to the microphone. The processor operates a voice-to-text algorithm that converts the vital sign into text in response to the caregiver dictating the vital sign into the microphone. The processor initiates transmission of the vital sign to an EMR computer via the network after conversion of the at least one vital sign to text.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Embree, Douglas A. Seim, Frederick Collin Davidson, Britten J. Pipher, Kenzi Mudge, Bradley T. Smith, Steven D. Baker, Eric Agdeppa, Pamela Wells, Laura A. Hassey, Andrew S. Robinson, Thomas A. Myers
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Patent number: 12208827Abstract: A system and method generate a trip plan for a trip of a vehicle system along a route. The usage of an engine during the trip is determined based on engine operational parameters, energy storage device operational parameters, and one or more objectives of the trip desired to be achieved. The usage of the energy storage device during the trip is also determined based on the engine operational parameters, the energy storage device operational parameters, and the one or more objective, including when to charge or discharge the energy storage device during the trip.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: James D. Brooks, Gayathri Seenumani, Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Jason M. Nichols
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Patent number: 12204038Abstract: An assistance system modifies an operation of a vehicle component based on a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. A method includes receiving, by a remote vehicle, a request message inquiring what additional identifying information of an ego vehicle the remote vehicle requests so that the remote vehicle has a capacity to identify the ego vehicle as a transmitter of a V2X message. The method includes transmitting a response message including response data that describes the additional identifying information of the ego vehicle that provides the remote vehicle with the capacity to identify the ego vehicle as the transmitter of the V2X message when the ego vehicle is among a plurality of vehicles. The method includes receiving the V2X message that includes assistance data describing the additional identifying information. The method includes modifying the operation of the vehicle component of the remote vehicle based on the assistance data.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Inventors: Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Zhihao Jiang, Roger Melen
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Patent number: 12194994Abstract: To provide a traveling route generation apparatus and a traveling route generation method which can suppress generation of the traveling route with bad interpolation accuracy, and can generates the traveling route with good interpolation accuracy, when generating the traveling route of the vehicle. To provide a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method which can control the traveling of vehicle based on the traveling route generated above. A traveling route generation apparatus and a traveling route generation method compares the two traveling positions and the two traveling directions which are temporally before and after relation, and determines whether to interpolate between the two traveling positions, and generates the traveling route which interpolates between the two traveling positions determined to interpolate, when it is determined to interpolate.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Fumiaki Kadoya, Junichi Okada, Yuki Yoshida, Akihiko Hiraoka
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Patent number: 12190155Abstract: A method and device for operating a Self-Driving Car (SDC) are disclosed. The device executes in real-time a first processing pipeline including generating static attributes for a plurality of potential positions of the SDC on the road segment, and caching the static attributes in association with the respective ones of the plurality of potential positions. The device executes in real-time a second processing pipeline in parallel with the first processing pipeline including generating a graph-structure for operating the SDC on the road segment. The generating the graph-structure includes generating dynamic attributes for a given edge of the graph-structure, acquiring from the cache memory static attributes for the given edge of the graph-structure, such that the given edge in the graph-structure is associated with the static attributes generated by the first processing pipeline and with the dynamic attributes generated by the second processing pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Y.E. Hub Armenia LLCInventors: Aleksandr Usikov, Andrei Valchok
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Patent number: 12181587Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting spoofing attempts are disclosed. In one embodiment, a ground station system for detecting a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) spoof signal includes a receiver configured to receive data collected by a detection satellite that (1) is on a first orbit that is lower than a second orbit used by a GNSS satellite and (2) includes: a first antenna positioned to receive signals originating from a planetary surface, and a second antenna positioned to receive signals originating from the GNSS satellite on a higher orbit than the first orbit of the detection satellite. The ground station further includes one or more processors configured to calculate, using the time of arrival of the signal received at the first antenna and the position of the detection satellite determined based on the signal received at the second antenna, a geolocation of a source of the signal originating from a planetary surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Horizon Technologies Space LimitedInventors: David Saunders, Gary Goodrum, John Beckner
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Patent number: 12174021Abstract: The own vehicle position estimation unit 17 of the in-vehicle device 1 acquires the point cloud data which is the measurement result of the landmark by the rider 2, and acquires the feature information associated with the landmark in the map DB10. Then, the own vehicle position estimation unit 17 calculates, on the basis of the difference between the size of the landmark specified based on the acquired point cloud data and the size of the landmark indicated by the feature information, calculates the reliability information indicative of the measurement accuracy of the landmark by the lidar 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiro Kato
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Patent number: 12169987Abstract: Transportation systems can represent a set of operating states of a vehicle to a user of the vehicle and generally include a system for representing a set of operating states of a vehicle to a user of the vehicle. The system includes a portion of the vehicle having a vehicle operating state; a digital twin system receiving vehicle parameter data from one or more inputs to determine the vehicle operating state; and an interface for the digital twin system to present the vehicle operating state to the user of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLCInventor: Charles Howard Cella
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Patent number: 12167465Abstract: Methods and apparatus for adjusting a random access response window in a non-terrestrial network are provided. A method comprises receiving information that includes a gNodeB type parameter and a random access response window length parameter. The method further comprises determining that a gNodeB is a non-terrestrial gNodeB. The method further comprises determining a minimum round trip time (RTT). The method further comprises determining a time offset for a random access response window. The method further comprises determining a length of the random access response window based on the received random access response window length parameter and a non-terrestrial network based table. The method further comprises setting the random access response window based on the time offset. The method further comprises monitoring a downlink control channel on monitoring occasions within the random access response window.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar, Ahmad Reza Hedayat, Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian
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Patent number: 12154391Abstract: A system for representing a set of operating states of a vehicle to a user of the vehicle includes a vehicle having a vehicle operating state, and a digital twin receiving vehicle parameter data from one or more inputs to determine the vehicle operating state. An interface for the digital twin presents the vehicle operating state to the user of the vehicle. An identity management system manages a set of identities and roles of the vehicle user and determines capabilities to view, modify, and configure the digital twin based on parsing of the set of identities and roles.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Jenna Lynn Parenti, Taylor D. Charon
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Patent number: 12112291Abstract: An environment history acquired from the environment in a container during transport of an article, ascertain a transport status including a transport route and the article, and execute quality control of the article in real time. An article management server memorized location data and a device code received from a GPS receiver in a second memory unit in association with each other, memorizes temperature data received from a delivery unit regularly and/or irregularly in a third memory unit associated with a unit number respectively, and memorizes a unit number and a serial number of an article in a fourth memory unit in association with each other. A transport-status-data generation unit uses a set of a certain unit number and a device code as a key, to generate transport status data representing a serial number, location data, and temperature data of the article during transport, based on the location data acquired from the second memory unit corresponding to the device code.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventor: Kazunori Nagasawa
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Patent number: 12099129Abstract: A method for determining a position of an Unmanned Vehicle (UV) is provided. The method includes receiving positioning signals from a plurality of satellites of a global navigation satellite system. Further, the method includes estimating the position of the UV based on (i) a three-dimensional model of the UV's environment and (ii) possible signal paths for each of the positioning signals. At least part of the possible signal paths include reflections of the positioning signals by one or more objects in the UV's environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Dürr
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Patent number: 12100040Abstract: A method for information processing and an electronic device are provided. At a server, a first vehicle-exchange request of a first user is received from a first electronic device, where the first vehicle-exchange request includes first exchange-target-vehicle-type-information. A second vehicle-exchange request of a second user is received at the server from a second electronic device, where the second vehicle-exchange request includes second exchange-target-vehicle-type-information. When a first vehicle of the first user matches the second exchange-target-vehicle-type-information, and a second vehicle of the second user matches the first exchange-target-vehicle-type-information, information of the second user and the second vehicle is transmitted to the first electronic device, and information of the first user and the first vehicle is transmitted to the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: PATEO CONNECT + Technology (Shanghai) CorporationInventors: Hongren Shi, Xiaotong Li
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Patent number: 12078491Abstract: According to a method for self-localization of a vehicle, a first pose of the vehicle is determined. Environment sensor data are generated by means of an environment sensor device and on the basis of this a landmark is detected in the environment. A position of the landmark is determined and in dependence on this a second pose of the vehicle is determined. A memorized assignment instruction is consulted, matching up the first pose with at last one preferred sensor type or at least one dominant landmark type, and depending on this a first portion of the environment sensor data is selected that was generated by means of a first environment sensor system of the environment sensor device configured according to a first sensor type. For the detecting of the landmark, a first landmark detection algorithm is applied to the first portion of the environment sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Cariad SEInventors: Michael Holicki, Ralph Hänsel, Timo Iken, Christian Jördens, Roland Kube, Carolin Last, Stefan Wappler
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Patent number: 12075350Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for non-terrestrial networks. In some example embodiment, there may be provided a method including determining, based on position information, a country where the apparatus is located; receiving, from a non-terrestrial base station, a system information broadcast including mapping information, the mapping information including a country area identifier or a random access radio network temporary identifier; mapping the determined country into the received country area identifier or the received random access radio network temporary identifier; and performing, based on the received country area identifier or the received random access radio network temporary identifier, a random access procedure with the non-terrestrial base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jeroen Wigard, Mads Lauridsen, Rafhael Amorim, István Z. Kovács
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Patent number: 12066579Abstract: Real-time monitoring of surroundings of a marine vessel. One or more observation sensor modules are configured and positioned to generate sensor data extending around the marine vessel. One or more data processors are configured to map and visualize the sensor data in relation to a virtual model of the marine vessel. A user interface is configured to display the virtual model together with the visualized sensor data from a user selectable point of view to a mariner of the marine vessel.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Santeri Vanhakartano, Kalevi Tervo, Eero Lehtovaara, Antti Pehkonen, Jari Saarinen
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Patent number: 12060085Abstract: The present disclosure provides a controller for controlling an ego vehicle in an uncertain environment. The controller is caused to acquire knowledge of the environment from measurements associated with sensors the ego. The measurements are based on a state of the ego vehicle and sensing instructions associated with controlling an operation of the sensors. The controller is further caused to estimate a state of the environment, including uncertainty of a state of the at least one moving object or obstacle in the environment. Further a sequence of control inputs is determined by solving a multivariable and a multistage stochastic constrained optimization of a model of the motion of the ego vehicle. The controller is then caused to control the ego vehicle and the sensors based on the sequence of control inputs and the sequence of sensing instructions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Stefano Di Cairano, Angelo Domenico Bonzanini, Ali Mesbah
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Patent number: 12052527Abstract: A method for dating images obtained by at least one camera equipping a vehicle includes acquiring a reference signal including time information and generating a modulated signal in response to the reference signal. The modulated signal has at least one retiming pulse with a retiming period which that is different from a base period of the modulated signal. The method further includes, for each camera, acquiring images at a frequency depending on the frequency of the modulated signal, each image being associated with a timestamp provided by the camera, and determining the time difference between the timestamps of two successive images of the camera. If the time difference determined between said timestamps is different from the base period of the modulated signal, the method assigns a reference date to said images depending on the time information of the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent Des Graviers, Alban Michelangeli, Thierry Planat
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Patent number: 12024124Abstract: A motor vehicle management system provides theft prevention based on contextual information. The motor vehicle management platform includes sensing equipment that can provide input data to determine a context of the vehicle and an operator of the vehicle. The context can include location information of the motor vehicle and an identity of the operator of the motor vehicle. Based on permissions for the operator, the system can determine if a context of the vehicle violates permissions for the identified operator.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Tamir D. Munafo, Lital Shiryan, Yuli Barcohen, Varada Tarun Rao, Suraj Sindia
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Patent number: 11953608Abstract: An object of the present invention is to continuously estimate the position with high accuracy while the moving body is traveling. A position estimation device is installed in a moving body, and includes a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a subject moving body being the moving body in which the position estimation device is installed using any of positioning means of satellite positioning using a positioning satellite or radio wave positioning using wireless communication, and a positioning means selection unit configured to switch the positioning means the position estimation unit uses for estimation of the position of the subject moving body based on a traveling environment or a peripheral environment of the subject moving body.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Hamada, Naoki Isozaki, Takuya Matsuda, Takuma Okamoto
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Patent number: 11940543Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for enabling seamlessly tracking a location of a water vessel by supplementing satellite data with mobile data location based on proximity of a water vessel to shore. The system receives a Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the water vessel, the GPS location of the water vessel based on using the satellite data of the water vessel. The system determines that the GPS location is within a threshold distance of a boundary. Responsive to determining that the GPS location is within the threshold distance of the boundary, the system initiates monitoring for a mobile signal emanating from a trajectory path of the water vessel. The system detects, during the monitoring, the mobile signal, the tracking the location of the water vessel based on mobile data of the mobile signal. The system provides the tracked location to a monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: i911 International, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Ryan Bennett
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Patent number: 11941983Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a recording unit that records vehicle past traveling positions and related position estimation information, and a relative position estimation unit that estimates a vehicle relative position based on a sensor, adds a history of the relative position to the past traveling position, and uses the output of the sensor. The driving assistance device further includes a position estimation unit that estimates a vehicle position with respect to the past traveling positions and adds a history of the estimated position to the past traveling position, in addition to a deviation determination unit that determines deviation from the past traveling positions using a distribution of the past traveling positions, the vehicle position relative to the past traveling positions, and a reference value. The driving assistance device includes a control unit that controls the vehicle to cancel a warning or deviation when the deviation is determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Kume, Hidehiro Toyoda
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Patent number: 11926385Abstract: A cycling exercise system includes: a bicycle, a server which includes a plurality of predetermined cycling course representations, and a device, including a processor, memory, input/output, and exercise controller, which enables the user to select a cycling course representation from the plurality of predetermined cycling course representations, such that the cycling exercise device directs the user along the selected cycling course representation and provides exercise instructions specific to course segments. Also disclosed is a method for cycling exercise, including: calculating available courses, selecting course, directing cyclist to course, and directing cyclist around course.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Justin L. Wass
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Patent number: 11915259Abstract: A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Gasmart, LLCInventors: Joseph H. LeBlanc, Jr., Nick DiCosola, Sagy P. Mintz, Leo E. Murphy, Robert A. Miller, William K. Ward, William F. Kerins, Luis R. Luque, Parker P. Drew, James V. Blanton
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Patent number: 11895226Abstract: A processing device is configured to process an initial set of command types. A command extension module and a digital signature are received. The digital signature is generated based on the command extension module using a private key of a key pair. The command extension module, once installed by the processing device, enables the processing device to process a new command type that is not included in the initial set of command types. The digital signature is verified using a public key of the key pair. Based on a successful verification of the digital signature, the command extension module is temporarily installed by loading the command extension module in a volatile memory device.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Ruane, Robert W. Strong
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Patent number: 11874136Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a communication circuit, an internal sensor, and a controller connected to the communication circuit and the internal sensor. The controller is configured to detect an impact to a vehicle through the internal sensor, calculate an impulse for the detected impact, estimate a bump shape based on the calculated impulse, match first bump information that represents the estimated bump shape and second bump information acquired from a database by using the communication circuit, and update bump information of the database based on a matching result.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Hyun Kyu Kim
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Patent number: 11869359Abstract: GPS data is paired with planned travel routes for mobile objects including vehicles. A system obtains GPS data from a mobile object and compares the GPS data to planned travel routes. The comparison includes comparing GPS coordinates of the mobile object to the planned travel routes to determine if a specified level of GPS coordinates are within a specified distance or buffer distance from a planned travel route within a specified period of time, the mobile object is travelling in the same direction of a planned travel route, and the planned travel route is unique. If such conditions are met, the mobile object is assigned or matched to a planned travel route.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Transfinder CorporationInventors: Antonio Civitella, Joseph Messia
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Patent number: 11861546Abstract: A system can be configured to receive and analyze an image captured by a user device at a delivery location. The system can utilize local algorithms tailored to the delivery location to confirm that the delivery location is the intended delivery location for a package. The system can utilize global algorithms to generate three-dimensional models of the delivery environment and an augmented reality interface providing delivery instructions to the deliverer. The delivery instructions include indications of approved delivery locations and rejected delivery locations associated with the general delivery location of the customer. The delivery instructions and the user device can be utilized to ensure package placement for secure delivery to a customer.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Zheng Wang, Karthik Ram Srinivasan, Bettina Cornelia Sehorsch, Shao-Wen Yang
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Patent number: 11861547Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an environment history acquired from the environment in a container during transport of an article, ascertain a transport status including a transport route and the like of the article, and execute quality control of the article in real time. An article management server 9 memorizes location data and a device code received from a GPS receiver 37 in a second memory unit in association with each other, memorizes temperature data received from a delivery unit 17 regularly and/or irregularly in a third memory unit associated with a unit number respectively, and memorizes a unit number and a serial number of an article in a fourth memory unit in association with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATIONInventor: Kazunori Nagasawa
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Patent number: 11852735Abstract: The present application provides a navigation augmentation method and system, the method includes: broadcasting, by satellites of a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, navigation direct signals and navigation augmentation information; performing, by a user receiver, precise positioning, speed measurement and timing according to the navigation direct signals of navigation satellites, the navigation direct signals of the LEO satellites and the navigation augmentation information broadcasted by the LEO satellites.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Beijing Future Navigation Technology Co., LtdInventor: Xucheng Mu
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Patent number: 11852716Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for monitoring a surrounding environment of a vehicle, the apparatus including a sensor unit including a plurality of detection sensors for detecting an object outside a vehicle according to a frame at a predefined period, and a controller configured to extract a stationary object from among the outside objects detected by the sensor unit, to map the extracted stationary object to a grid map, to calculate an occupancy probability parameter, indicative of a probability that the stationary object will be located on a grid of the grid map, from the result of mapping, and to monitor the surrounding environment of the vehicle by specifying a grid on which the stationary object is located in the grid map, based on the occupancy probability parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
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Patent number: 11843943Abstract: Low power devices are able to utilize encryption in communication. Low power devices typically cannot send/receive large amounts of data since sending/receiving more data uses more power. Implementing a key exchange with a small encrypted payload enables secure communication between the devices. A one-way data stream is implemented. The one-way data stream is able to be encrypted. The dynamic key exchange is able to be used for a moving target.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Winkk, Inc.Inventor: Robert O. Keith, Jr.
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Patent number: 11842636Abstract: Systems and methods that allow use of simple priority VCUs (those that can only request an increased priority) to operate in a manner that simulates much more sophisticated schedule-adherence or ETA-type traffic control systems without the need to upgrade vehicle hardware. Instead, tracking of the vehicle, whether provided by other systems or by the VCU operating in conjunction with certain prepared points or zones is used to determine if the VCU equipped vehicle is ahead or behind schedule and operation of the VCU itself is altered to modify the expected arrival time of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: STC, Inc.Inventors: Brad Cross, Nick Freed
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Patent number: 11838991Abstract: A smart wearable includes one or more sensors and one or more processors. The one or more sensors are configured to generate sensing data. The one or more processors are configured to process the sensing data and determine whether one or more predetermined conditions are satisfied based on the processing of the sensing data. In response to determining that the one or more predetermined conditions are satisfied, the smart wearable is caused to communicate with a second smart wearable.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alemayehu Seyed, Stephen Edward Hodges
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Patent number: 11820536Abstract: A projection unit (12) of an interference power estimation device (1) projects an orbit of a satellite onto a map representing a ground surface. A range acquisition unit (13) determines a plurality of ranges on the map so that the projected orbit is included in the ranges. An altitude calculation unit (14) calculates an altitude of the orbit of the satellite in each of the ranges. A range interference calculation unit (16) calculates, for each of the ranges, an interference power between the satellite at a position determined by a latitude and a longitude of the range and the altitude calculated for the range and a radio station installed on the ground surface. An estimation result calculation unit (17) selects, as an estimation result, a maximum value among the interference powers calculated for each of the ranges.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Hideyuki Tsuboi, Yutaka Imaizumi, Kazuto Goto, Kota Ito, Naoki Kita, Hiroyuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11808864Abstract: In general, one aspect disclosed features a computer-implemented method comprising: determining whether Global Positioning System (GPS) location data are available; responsive to determining the GPS location data are available, causing transmission of a first message in National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) format, the first message comprising the GPS location data; and responsive to determining the GPS location data are not available: determining a location based on non-GPS location data, generating a second message in NMEA format, the second message representing the determined location, and transmitting the second message.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Piper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Robert Hanczor, David Garcia, Duane Maxwell
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Patent number: 11809198Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for navigating a mobile machine, such as an autonomous robot, in an environment that includes objects that may block, reflect, or distort satellite signals to be used for positioning. Satellite data may be captured from one or more satellites. An image may be captured using an imaging device that is at least partially oriented toward the one or more satellites. A set of sky scores may be calculated for a set of ground positions surrounding the mobile machine based on the satellite data and the image. Each of the set of sky scores may be indicative of an accuracy of a satellite-based position at one of the set of ground positions. The mobile machine's navigation may be modified using the set of sky scores.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Darren Martin Thomson, Aviad Almagor
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Patent number: 11808867Abstract: Systems, device configurations, and processes are provided for tracking and navigation using low-earth orbit satellite (LEO) signals. Embodiments are provided to track LEO satellites in the absence or during interrupted service by global position sources (e.g., GNSS). Operations and a framework are provided to use low-earth orbit (LEO) downlink transmissions as a source of positioning data. Operations can include performing a Doppler frequency measurement on received satellite downlink transmissions to determine a pseudorange rate measurement for a vehicle relative to at least one LEO satellite. Pseudorange rate measurements may be used to correct vehicle position data of a vehicles inertial navigation system (INS) and for control/navigation of the vehicle. Embodiments allow for simultaneous tracking of LEO satellites and navigation of a vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Zak Kassas, Josh Morales, Joe Khalife
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Patent number: 11745082Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing a system for determining the range to a target object and orienting a map. In implementations, GPS data is used to determine the location of the system and an approximate distance from that location to the target. Based on the approximate distance, one or more parameters of operation of the system may be set. Modes of operation may be entered to further adjust parameters of operation. An optical pulse may then be projected at the target and its reflections collected and analyzed to calculate a distance measurement. A visual display may be adjusted based on the calculated distance estimate to the target.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventors: Robert A. Lewis, Dennis O. Corey
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Patent number: 11740629Abstract: A control device for an autonomous operating machine includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first state information of a first autonomous operating machine and second state information of a second autonomous operating machine in a case where the first and the second autonomous operating machines that operate in cooperation with each other select and execute executable operations as needed in order to achieve an object; a generation unit that generates value information indicating a height of a value of execution for achievement of the object regarding each of the operations that can be executed by the first autonomous operating machine by using a value calculation criterion based on the first state information and the second state information; a selection unit that selects a specific operation from among the operations based on the value information; and a control that controls the first autonomous operating machine to execute the specific operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masatsugu Ogawa, Masumi Ichien, Masafumi Emura
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Patent number: 11726208Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, and devices for autonomous vehicle localization using a Lidar intensity map. A system is configured to generate a map embedding using a first neural network and to generate an online Lidar intensity embedding using a second neural network. The map embedding is based on input map data comprising a Lidar intensity map, and the Lidar sweep embedding is based on online Lidar sweep data. The system is further configured to generate multiple pose candidates based on the online Lidar intensity embedding and compute a three-dimensional (3D) score map comprising a match score for each pose candidate that indicates a similarity between the pose candidate and the map embedding. The system is further configured to determine a pose of a vehicle based on the 3D score map and to control one or more operations of the vehicle based on the determined pose.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Shenlong Wang, Andrei Pokrovsky, Raquel Urtasun Sotil, Ioan Andrei Bârsan
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Patent number: 11719546Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for probabilistic navigation planning. An exemplary probabilistic navigation method may comprise: obtaining a map of an environment comprising one or more first objects each associated with a probability model; obtaining one or more global factors and local factors to update the probability models, wherein the global factors apply to all of the first objects and the local factors apply to a portion of the first objects; and determining a navigation for a second object through at least a part of the environment based at least on minimizing a total collision probability with the first objects along the navigation according to the updated probability models.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Zafar Takhirov
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Patent number: 11709071Abstract: Various embodiments provide for annotating a geographic map. Display of a geographic map on a client device can be adjusted (e.g., pan over geographic map or adjust zoom level), and a first set of map annotations for the adjusted map is determined, where the first set of map annotations comprises at least one map annotation associated with a transport service opportunity. From the first set of map annotations, a second set of map annotations can be determined based on a map annotation visual hierarchy. For instance, at least a portion of the second set of map annotations can be determined by filtering the first set of map annotations based on a type of transport service opportunity. Subsequently, the second set of map annotations can be presented on the adjusted map on the display.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shailendra Ramineni Rao, Robin Carol Tolochko, Kamal Sharif Lukman, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Adam Jeremy Share, Jingyu Yan, Joshua Michael Bisch