Employing Map Database System Patents (Class 701/532)
  • Patent number: 12259249
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively adding or forgoing adding shortcut links to a node map using contraction hierarchy techniques based on turn costs. “Useful” turn pairs for a given path through a shortcut link may include a turn into a first node of the shortcut link and a turn out of a second node of the shortcut link, where no alternative lower cost paths (including such “useful” turn pairs) from the first node to the second node are available. The useful turn pairs for a shortcut link may be used to evaluate super shortcut links that includes the shortcut link with identified useful turn pairs. For example, a search for alternative lower cost paths may need not be performed for paths, associated with the super shortcut link, which do not include a turn from the useful turn pairs of the component shortcut link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jefferson Ray Tan Hidayat, Nathan M. Robinson
  • Patent number: 12258013
    Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for partitioning a widened area of a limited traffic lane bounded by two edges, and through which a vehicle can be driven by a driver in an automated manner along a reference path, said vehicle comprising a lateral positioning aid with respect to the reference path. The method comprises detecting a lane split, determining a widened area (204), determining a plurality of reference paths, and partitions the widened area into a plurality of sub-areas according to the determined reference paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: PSA AUTOMOBILES SA
    Inventors: Matthieu Varnier, David Giraud, Zoubida Lahlou
  • Patent number: 12259248
    Abstract: An information processing device that determines a route by which a circuit of a plurality of points is made includes an acquisition unit that acquires point information regarding the points, a determination unit that determines a circuit route that satisfies a first condition for the points based on the point information acquired by the acquisition unit and traffic information, and a transmission unit that transmits the circuit route determined by the determination unit to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi Kono, Yuuichi Kohara, Yuki Hirooka, Osamu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12253471
    Abstract: A system for taking high-resolution photographs from a vehicle-mounted camera, forming orthomosaics from video and/or multiple high-resolution photographs, and using artificial intelligence to detect and classify pavement flaws and defects in the imagery. Detection also includes the ability to capture quantifiable metrics for the defects and/or a region of interest. Three-dimensional imagery is produced from the same images as the orthomosaics. Surface and terrain map products made from the same source images capture additional details such as depth and volume. The highlighted orthomosaics and three-dimensional imagery can then be used as a basis to determine the pavement surface condition and subsequently support maintenance orders and manage pavement repairs. Further, metadata such as latitude, longitude, and altitude geo-location coordinates and sampling time can also be transferred to the output products to create a digital time history and enable analysis for preventative maintenance planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Terracon Consultants, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Steffan, Constantine Papageorgiou, Amit Mehra
  • Patent number: 12248741
    Abstract: A device may receive simulation information associated with iteratively simulating movement of a geolocation unit. The device may generate simulated true paths for simulations of the movement of the geolocation unit. The device may configure, based on the simulation information, noise parameters associated with simulating distortion of a signal received by the geolocation unit during the simulations to generate simulated measured paths. The device may execute the simulations to correspondingly generate sets of simulation data, training, using the sets of simulation data, a geolocation correction model based on differences between true location data of the simulated true paths and simulated measured data of the simulated measured paths. The device may configure the geolocation correction model to process a geolocation signal of an active geolocation unit to determine a location of the active geolocation unit based on the differences between the true location data and the simulated measured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Jerry Gamble, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12240468
    Abstract: One or more driving analysis computing devices in a driving analysis system may be configured to analyze driving data, determine driving behaviors, and calculate driver scores based on driving data transmitted using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Driving data from multiple vehicles may be collected by vehicle sensors or other vehicle-based systems, transmitted using V2V communications, and then analyzed and compared to determine various driving behaviors by the drivers of the vehicles. Driver scores may be calculated or adjusted based on the determined driving behaviors of vehicle drivers, and also may be calculated or adjusted based on other the driver scores of nearby vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventor: Mark V. Slusar
  • Patent number: 12233792
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device that provides a predetermined function to a passenger of a vehicle, the in-vehicle device comprises an operation element that is a hardware interface; and a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform output a signal for supplying power to an accessory power supply system of the vehicle, in a case where operation is performed on the operation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Hatori, Takuma Katoh
  • Patent number: 12235127
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating map data are disclosed. A system can include a mobile delivery device that is configured to be transported to a plurality of delivery locations by a parcel carrier. The system may further include a computer readable storage medium and one or more processors. The system may store map data associated with a geographic data. Using the mobile delivery device, the system can receive a plurality of positions during delivery of parcels to a plurality of delivery locations associated with the geographic region. Based on the plurality of positions, the system may determine a delivery route of a parcel carrier, and, based on the delivery route, the system can generate updated map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Fharon M. Hicks, Kosar N. Saeed, Eric B. Michel, Seth Lee Johnson
  • Patent number: 12228420
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include systems, vehicles, and computer-implemented methods for logging positional coordinates and additional data for an unmapped route. In an illustrative embodiment, a system includes a computing device including: a positioning system configured to determine positional coordinates of the positioning system; a processor; and computer-readable media configured to store computer-executable instructions configured to cause the processor to: responsive to determining that the positional coordinates indicate that the positioning system is operating on an unmapped route that is not included in existing map data accessible by the processor, log the positional coordinates for each of a plurality of points along the unmapped route in a new map data set; log additional data for at least a portion of the unmapped route in the new map data set; and communicate the new map data set to a remote data store from which another user can access the new map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar Ram Bharwani
  • Patent number: 12228950
    Abstract: There is provided a driver-support system for use with a human-operated material-transport vehicle, and methods for using the same. The system has at least one sensor, a human-vehicle interface, and a transceiver for communicating with a fleet-management system. The system also has a processor that is configured to provide a mapping application and a localization application based on information received from the sensor. The mapping application and localization application may be provided in a single localization-and-mapping (“SLAM”) application, which may obtain input from the sensor, for example, when the sensor is an optical sensor such as a LiDAR or video camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Christopher Gariepy, Matthew Allen Rendall, Simon Drexler, Roydyn Clayton, Shahab Kaynama
  • Patent number: 12227071
    Abstract: A video processing system (100) comprises at least one controller (102) configured to receive a plurality of video data from a respective plurality of video data sources (106, 208). The system can assign one of a plurality of hierarchical display layers to each of the plurality of video data, and generate an output video for display, the output video comprising at least a portion of each of the plurality of video data layered according to the assigned hierarchical display layers. The plurality of hierarchical display layers is based on a respective plurality of safety/security levels defined in a safety/security standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventor: John Giles Searle
  • Patent number: 12229331
    Abstract: A virtual reality or mixed reality system configured to preform object detection using a monocular camera. The system configured to make the user aware of the detected objects by showing edges or lines of the object within a virtual scene. Thus, the user the user is able to avoid injury or collision while immersed in the virtual scene. In some cases, the system may also detect and correct for drift in the six degree of freedom pose of the user using corrections based on the current motion of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: XRPro, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Powers, Vikas Reddy, Yuping Lin
  • Patent number: 12231785
    Abstract: Image acquisition and analysis systems for efficiently generating high resolution geo-referenced spectral imagery of a region of interest. In some examples, aerial spectral imaging systems for remote sensing of a geographic region, such as a vegetative landscape are disclosed for monitoring the development and health of the vegetative landscape. In some examples photogrammetry processes are applied to a first set of image frames captured with a first image sensor having a first field of view to generate external orientation data and surface elevation data and the generated external orientation data is translated into external orientation data for other image sensors co-located on the same apparatus for generating geo-referenced images of images captured by the one or more other image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: LandScan LLC
    Inventors: Jack F. Paris, Michael J. Unverferth, Mark Hull, Robert S. Horton, Stephen P. Farrington, Daniel James Rooney
  • Patent number: 12230142
    Abstract: An aircraft analysis application retrieves transponder data that is output by a transponder mounted on an aircraft. The transponder data is indicative of locations of the aircraft over a period of time. The aircraft analysis application maps the locations of the aircraft indicated by the transponder to a jurisdictional map identifying boundaries of a plurality of jurisdictions. The aircraft analysis application computes a fractional portion of time spent by the aircraft in a first jurisdiction in the plurality of jurisdictions based upon the locations of the aircraft indicated by the transponder and the jurisdictional map. The aircraft analysis application generates a jurisdictional status report that comprises a graphical indication of the fractional portion of time spent by the aircraft in the first jurisdiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: AVIATION CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventors: Neil Butara, Scott Beale, Lance Warren
  • Patent number: 12223004
    Abstract: A method including monitoring an amount of angular motion of an electronic device for a movement (e.g., casting motion) of the electronic device and determining that the amount of angular motion for the movement exceeds a threshold. A geographic location and a pointing direction of the electronic device may be determined for the movement. A geographic region may be determined based at least in part on the geographic location, the pointing direction of the electronic device, and a yaw component. In some implementations, the geographic region may be determined based on the amount of angular motion for the movement. The geographic region may be used as part of a search query. Places of interest corresponding to the geographic region may be determined and provided for display and selection via a user interface of the electronic device. Selectable transactions for the geographic region may also obtained and presented by the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Yellcast, Inc.
    Inventors: Ganesan Venkatakrishnan, William Foster, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby
  • Patent number: 12211383
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a spatial recommendation is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The processor is instructed to receive a user dataset comprising. The processor is instructed to receive a raw data from a plurality of sensors. The processor is instructed to identify a spatial dataset by organizing the raw data. The processor is instructed to store the spatial dataset in an index structure by implementing an indexing system as a function of the organized raw data, wherein the indexing system is further configured to dynamically adjust the index structure in response to additional raw data. The processor is instructed to determine a spatial recommendation by querying the index structure as a function of the user dataset. The processor is instructed to transmit the spatial recommendation to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Better Parking LLC
    Inventor: Neil Myers
  • Patent number: 12189400
    Abstract: An automated guided vehicle (AGV) management system including a battery recharge management module, a task management module, and an AGV path planning module is provided. The battery recharge management module manages the AGVs to be recharged by at least one wireless charging unit in a parking area. The AGV leaving the parking area has a battery charge higher than a charge threshold. The task management module receives tasks and assigns the tasks to the AGVs. The task includes information including at least one pick-up location, at least one drop-off location, and a due time. The AGV path planning module plans paths for the AGVs, respectively, according to the information of the assigned tasks. The task management module delays assigning the task to the AGV if the AGV is expected to complete the task earlier than the due time of the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics Int'l (Singapore) Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Simon Ware, Yajuan Sun, Bo Woon Jeffrey Soon, Liyong Lin, Rong Su
  • Patent number: 12183334
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for customizing an action. In some implementations, voice input is received from a user and a context is determined from the voice input. Potential contextual data is identified based on the context and the voice input. A level of confidence is determined for an association of the potential contextual data and the context. An action is performed based on the voice input, the potential contextual data, and the level of confidence. The potential contextual data is used to customize the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zoltan Stekkelpak, Gyula Simonyi
  • Patent number: 12170944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing distributed content to a mobile device (e.g., in a mobile vehicle) through multiple content access points along a particular route are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a selection of media content and a selection of a particular route from a plurality of routes to enable navigation of a mobile vehicle from a start point to an end point calculated based on at least a number of content access points along each route. A computing device may divide the media content into a plurality of segments and send each segment to a respective planned content access point of a plurality of planned content access points along the particular route. In some embodiments, a mobile computing device within a mobile vehicle may receive a segment from each planned content access point to enable continuous uninterrupted playback of the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: David O'Hare, Kenneth Grantham, Irma Torero, Robert John, Lisa Wright, Jeffrey Stoller, Michael Toole, Kristine Beach, Brent Vannier, Terry Mahnke, Sandra Driscoll
  • Patent number: 12169129
    Abstract: A route provision apparatus for providing a route to a vehicle including a transceiver; a sensor interface configured to receive sensing information from one or more sensors; and a processor configured to identify a lane of the vehicle, estimate, using map information received from a navigation system and not from the server based on a communication state with the server satisfying a preset condition, an optimal route for the vehicle in lane units, generate autonomous driving visibility information by fusing the sensing information with the optimal route, and fuse dynamic information related to a movable object with the autonomous driving visibility information to update the optimal path based on the dynamic information, and wherein the sensing information is fused with the map information to generate a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinsang Lee, Seunghwan Bang
  • Patent number: 12163802
    Abstract: A map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map using the extracted feature points; dividing an area on the map generated in the generating in a traveling direction of a subject vehicle and dividing the area in the vehicle width direction based on a division line information regarding a division line of a road to form a plurality of divided areas; and correcting a number of feature points for each of the divided areas formed in the dividing. The microprocessor is configured to perform the correcting including reducing the number of feature points based on a distribution of feature points included in each of the divided areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Konishi
  • Patent number: 12157400
    Abstract: A display control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to acquire a momentary power generation amount of a solar power generation device mounted at a vehicle and, in accordance with the acquired momentary power generation amount, change an area of a display region displayed at a display part of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ayaka Takezawa
  • Patent number: 12154674
    Abstract: A system for providing an interactive visualization of health resources comprises one or more databases and one or more controllers. The one or more databases may be configured to store geographic data associated with block groups, including geographic coordinates, resources, and population data. The one or more controllers may be configured to (i) receive user selections for simulating the placement of at least one new resource of a given capacity and type on a geographic region-of-interest of a geographic map, and (ii) determine the predicted health outcomes on block group populations affected by the placement of the new resource as well as the predicted costs v. benefit for the new resource at the selected location. The system may be configured to provide real-time simulation results by avoiding recalculation of all of the block groups and resources within the block groups in the United States.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
    Inventors: Trent Tyrone Haywood, Carlos Ricardo Villarreal, Theodore Andrew Lee, Jocelyn R. Wilder, Denise Guzzetta Schofield, Ashmit Pyakurel, Brian Bettenhausen
  • Patent number: 12148169
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for performing object detection and tracking. For example, a tracking object can obtain an image comprising a target object at least partially in contact with a surface. The tracking object can obtain a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) keypoints based on one or more features associated with one or more portions of the target object in contact with the surface in the image. The tracking object can obtain information associated with a contour of the surface. Based on the plurality of 2D keypoints and the information associated with the contour of the surface, the tracking object can determine a three-dimensional (3D) representation associated with the plurality of 2D keypoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Avdhut Joshi
  • Patent number: 12147034
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for interaction between a user and a machine. In one implementation, a system is provided that receives an input from a user of a mobile machine which indicates or describes an object in the world. In one example, the user may gesture to the object which is detected by a visual sensor. In another example, the user may verbally describe the object which is detected by an audio sensor. The system receiving the input may then determine which object near the location of the user that the user is indicating. Such a determination may include utilizing known objects near the geographic location of the user or the autonomous or mobile machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick S. Piemonte, Wolf Kienzle, Douglas Bowman, Shaun D. Budhram, Madhurani R. Sapre, Vyacheslav Leizerovich, Daniel De Rocha Rosario
  • Patent number: 12135218
    Abstract: Systems and techniques by which a navigation system provides directional information for vehicular travel that is customized based upon real-time conditions, a safety profile associated with a vehicle driver, and the safety assessment associated with the characteristics of road segments are disclosed. In one implementation, a method for a personalized vehicular navigation assessed dynamically based on risk tolerance includes retrieving data indicative of accident history associated with at least one of the road segments, retrieving data indicative of real-time condition of the road segments, and retrieving a user profile associated with the user. The method further includes calculating risk scores, based on the accident history and the real-time conditions and weighed based on tolerance level and the driver's history, associated with a plurality of proposed routes, identifying a personalized route based on the risk scores, and transmitting the identified personalized route to a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Kathleen B. Berman, Brian T. Simmons
  • Patent number: 12134197
    Abstract: A method of controlling a movement of a robot based on determination of a risk level includes: a risk level determining operation of determining a risk level related to a motion of the robot; and a robot control operation of controlling the movement of the robot based on the risk level, wherein the robot transfers an object. The determination of the risk level related to the motion of the robot includes: an internal risk level determining operation of determining an internal risk level based on an attribute of the object; and an external risk level determining operation of determining an external risk level related to an environmental state around the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: XYZ Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 12135216
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes: a map processing unit that creates local map data based on high accuracy map data and a position of an own vehicle; an autonomous driving control unit that creates a travel plan based on the local map data and controls traveling of the own vehicle according to the travel plan; and a map guidance unit that, based on a set destination, sets a route to the destination. The map processing unit creates multiple pieces of transmission data by dividing the local map data so as to correspond to regions on a map, selects pieces of transmission data corresponding to regions located within a prescribed distance from the own vehicle and including the route to the destination as first transmission data, and transmits the first transmission data to the autonomous driving control unit with a higher priority than other pieces of transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Chikamori, Kazumasa Nakamura, Hitoshi Konishi, Takuji Harayama, Tomoaki Masakawa, Naofumi Aso, Ryo Matsuzawa, Zhaoqi Wang
  • Patent number: 12123727
    Abstract: A safe transit route generation system determines a travel route for a user traveling from an origin location to a destination location and generates a route safety value for the travel route based on one or more safety conditions associated with at least one geographic location of the travel route. The system also determines a risk aversion value for the user based on a plurality of safety preferences associated with a user risk profile and that the risk aversion value for the user exceeds the route safety value for the travel route. The system further modifies one or more portions of the travel route to increase the route safety value above the risk aversion value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: METROPOLITAN LIFE ISURANCE CO.
    Inventor: Terrance Luciani
  • Patent number: 12118884
    Abstract: Systems and methods of cooperative autonomous driving which maximize objectives of a global traffic environment are provided. In particular, a cooperative controller may control multiple connected vehicles within a traffic environment. In certain embodiments, the cooperative controller may assign each connected vehicle a traffic role, based in part on their situation within the traffic environment. In some embodiments, this traffic role may also be based on a “priority level” for the connected vehicle which corresponds to a desired travel time. Once traffic roles have been assigned, the cooperative controller may control each connected vehicle according to a driving policy associated with its assigned traffic role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jianyu Su, Rui Guo, Ziran Wang
  • Patent number: 12111162
    Abstract: One challenge for middle-mile route planning is that the set of loads changes significantly between daily planning and execution. Systems and methods are provided for optimizing a transportation plan for a transportation network based on these load changes. The disclosed system re-optimizes a solution by starting from a previously existing plan and previously generated columns (e.g., candidate routes). The disclosed techniques significantly improve the compute time of the system to generate transportation plans that are optimized accordingly to an optimization parameter. The system takes into account the current execution status associated with a given entry of the plan to determine whether the entry should be re-optimized. Entries corresponding to tours that have already commenced, may be at least partially ignored for re-optimization consideration. The disclosed techniques enable state-aware, adaptive re-optimization for even tours that are in-progress or have been tendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Oliver Kriett, Quico Pepijn Spaen, Georgios Patsakis, Diwakar Tiwari, Akhand Pratap Singh, Ivan Borges Oliveira, Andrew V. Goldberg, Philip Mark Kaminsky, Karthik Ramakrishnan, Manik Kumar
  • Patent number: 12110026
    Abstract: Autonomous driving systems and methods for a vehicle include a driver intent determination system configured to determine a driver intent for which of two different lanes the driver intends the vehicle to follow during a lane split scenario and a controller configured to operate the vehicle according to an autonomous driving feature whereby the controller automatically controls steering of the vehicle, determine which of the two different lanes are supported for the autonomous driving feature, determine which of the two different lanes that the vehicle will follow during the lane split scenario based at least on the determined driver intent and which of the two different lanes are supported for the autonomous driving feature to obtain a target lane, and automatically control at least the steering system of the vehicle to follow the target lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Michael A Carlson, Amy K Farris
  • Patent number: 12103535
    Abstract: In a device for generating travel trajectory data in an intersection, a road marking recognizer is configured to recognize a road marking in the intersection using captured image data of the intersection. A travel trajectory data generator is configured to, in response to a result of recognition by the road marking recognizer, generate travel trajectory data that is data enabling specification of a travel trajectory in the intersection for autonomous driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Murakami
  • Patent number: 12092816
    Abstract: A system for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle includes at least one vehicle sensor for determining information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, a display for providing information to the occupant, and a controller in electrical communication with the at least one vehicle sensor and the display. The controller is programmed to identify at least one driving rule associated with at least one portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle using the at least one vehicle sensor, determine an applicability state of the at least one driving rule, where the applicability state includes an applicable state and a non-applicable state, and display a graphic using the display in response to determining that the applicability state of the at least one driving rule is the applicable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba, Manoj Sharma
  • Patent number: 12091083
    Abstract: A method may determine transformation parameters for a transformation of a position of a vehicle between a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system. In the method, a trajectory may be traveled with the vehicle in a step. In another step, the positions of the vehicle while traveling the trajectory may be acquired in the first coordinate system with a first position detection system, and in the second coordinate system with a second position detection system. In a further step, transformation parameters between the coordinate systems may be derived based on the positions of the vehicle acquired in the coordinate systems, and based on at least one geometric parameter of the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Reith, Tomas Szabo
  • Patent number: 12092470
    Abstract: A vehicle localization method and device, an electronic device and a storage medium. The vehicle localization method includes: acquiring an image of a scene where a vehicle is located, the image comprising a semantic element; determining an element category corresponding to the semantic element; matching the semantic element with a map element to acquire a matching result by a matching method corresponding to the element category; and determining localization information of the vehicle according to the matching result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Chi Zhang, Hao Liu, Zhijun Xie, Kuiyuan Yang, Kun Guo, Rui Cai, Zhiwei Li
  • Patent number: 12083684
    Abstract: Provided is a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: capturing visual readings to objects within an environment; capturing readings of wheel rotation; capturing readings of a driving surface; capturing distances to obstacles; determining displacement of the robotic device in two dimensions based on sensor readings of the driving surface; estimating, with the processor, a corrected position of the robotic device to replace a last known position of the robotic device; determining a most feasible element in an ensemble based on the visual readings; and determining a most feasible position of the robotic device as the corrected position based on the most feasible element in the ensemble and the visual readings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: AI Incorporated
    Inventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Lukas Fath, Chen Zhang, Brian Highfill
  • Patent number: 12085690
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing and presenting aviation-focused weather information are provided. One computer-implemented method comprises receiving, at one or more processors, weather information for a select geographic location and a select time period, the select time period comprising a plurality of consecutive hours, and the weather information including general weather conditions and aviation-specific weather conditions for each of the hours; and displaying, on a display unit of an electronic device, a weather forecast user interface configured to present the weather information, wherein the weather forecast user interface comprises a first region configured to depict one or more of the aviation-specific weather conditions for each hour of the select time period using color-coding or shading associated with the corresponding aviation-specific weather condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jason Andrew Miller, Christopher Tyson Weihs, Kathryn Bauer Thomas, Malcolm Toon
  • Patent number: 12078502
    Abstract: A navigation method and a navigation apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating a navigation route based on a navigation start-point position and a navigation end-point position; acquiring a navigation scenario of a terminal device in a process of performing a navigation based on the navigation route; acquiring, in response to determining that the navigation scenario is a preset target navigation scenario, special effect data of a virtual navigator matching the target navigation scenario; and presenting the special effect data of the virtual navigator through the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ling Xiao, Huaibo Mei
  • Patent number: 12078492
    Abstract: A method and a device for determining a highly precise position of a vehicle. The method includes a step of sensing environment data values, which represent an environment of the vehicle, the environment encompassing multiple environment features which have at least one regular structure, and the environment data values at least encompassing the at least one regular structure; a step of carrying out a comparison of the environment data values with a map; a step of determining the highly precise position of the vehicle as a function of the comparison; and a step of supplying a signal on the basis of the highly precise position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Carsten Hasberg, Philipp Rasp, Tobias Strauss
  • Patent number: 12073331
    Abstract: In an aspect, a fuel economy of a vehicle is determined by: receiving telematics data produced at least partly by one or more sensors at a vehicle; identifying, based at least partly on the telematics data, one or more fueling events of the vehicle; determining, for each fueling event of the one or more fueling events, an amount of fuel added to the vehicle for that fueling event; and determining, based at least partly on the amount of fuel added to the vehicle for each fueling event and the telematics data, a fuel economy of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cambridge Mobile Telematics Inc.
    Inventors: William Bradley, Juan Martin Munoz Valdez
  • Patent number: 12068916
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node for handling one or more operations in a communications network comprising a plurality of computing devices performing one or more tasks. The network node obtains initial parameters relating to the plurality of computing devices, environment and the communications network; and generates a plan by taking one or more operation goals involving the plurality of computing devices into account as well as the obtained initial parameters, wherein the generated plan relates to operation of the plurality of computing devices. The network node further computes a number of back-up plans, wherein the number of back-up plans are taking one or more events into account wherein the one or more events relate to operation of the plurality of computing devices; and executes one or more operations using the generated plan, and in case the one or more events occur, using a computed back-up plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ajay Kattepur, Nanjangud Chandrasekhara Swamy Narendra, Ramamurthy Badrinath
  • Patent number: 12056815
    Abstract: In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method for generating map features includes receiving, by a processing device, aerial image data. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device, telemetry data. The method further includes performing, by the processing device, data fusion on the aerial image data and the telemetry data to generate map features. The method further includes controlling, by the processing system, a vehicle based at least in part on the map features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Orhan Bulan, Yehenew G. Mengistu, Sheetal Mahesh, Michael A. Losh, David H. Clifford
  • Patent number: 12052633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing time-delimited action suggestions are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices from a user device, data indicative of a user-requested time-bound activity. The time-bound activity is associated with a time period. The method includes identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more parameters associated with a user that requested the time-bound activity. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, a suggested action based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the user and the time period associated with the time-bound activity. The method includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, an output indicative of the suggested action to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Chen Xiao
  • Patent number: 12045061
    Abstract: A multi-AGV motion planning method, device and system are disclosed. The method of the present disclosure comprises: establishing an object model through reinforcement learning; building a neural network model based on the object model, performing environment settings including AGV group deployment, and using the object model of the AGV in a set environment to train the neural network model until a stable neural network model is obtained; setting an action constraint rule; and after the motion planning is started, inputting the state of current AGV, states of other AGVs and permitted actions in a current environment into the neural network model after trained, obtaining the evaluation indexes of a motion planning result output by the neural network model, obtaining an action to be executed of the current AGV according to the evaluation indexes, and performing validity judgment on the action to be executed using the action constraint rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Xueqiang Wang, Yifan Zhang, Libing Zou, Fuqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12038951
    Abstract: A map control module receives a stream of map data characterizing a geographic region proximal to a vehicle and outputs a moving map, and the moving map is divisible into a matrix of cells. A map item control receives a stream of point of interest (POI) data characterizing a plurality of POIs within the boundary and categorizes each of the plurality of POIs to define a set of categories. The map item control determines a display location of a map item within the matrix of cells for each of the plurality of POIs and determines an importance for each POI within a same category. The map item control forms a set of clusters of map items. Each map item in a given cluster of map items has a same cell and a same category. The map item control selects a top-item for each cluster of map items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas M. Dyer, Verner Keith Devlin, William R. Smith
  • Patent number: 12040675
    Abstract: A method for driving at least one rotor in a planar drive system. The rotor has a device for generating a magnetic field. The rotor can be moved on a drive surface formed by stator modules comprising a magnetic field generator. A virtual two-dimensional potential curve is determined for the rotor, with a target point having an attractive potential. A virtual force vector is determined with a vector direction and a vector length at a first position of the rotor, which is determined from the virtual two-dimensional potential curve. A magnetic drive field interacting with the magnetic field of the rotor is generated by the magnetic field generator such that a resulting force is applied to the rotor by interaction of the magnetic drive field with the magnetic field. The direction of the resulting force is based on the vector direction, and the strength is based on the vector length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Beckhoff Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Luthe, Hubertus Pennekamp, Eva Wiedner, Tobias Weber, Klaus Neumann, Alexander Weddemann
  • Patent number: 12030189
    Abstract: A method of controlling a movement of a robot based on determination of a risk level includes: a risk level determining operation of determining a risk level related to a motion of the robot; and a robot control operation of controlling the movement of the robot based on the risk level, wherein the robot transfers an object. The determination of the risk level related to the motion of the robot includes: an internal risk level determining operation of determining an internal risk level based on an attribute of the object; and an external risk level determining operation of determining an external risk level related to an environmental state around the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: XYZ, Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Jae Hwang
  • Patent number: 12030467
    Abstract: An AGV including a support structure and at least one drive unit connected to the support structure, wherein each drive unit includes a wheel rotatable about a wheel axis and about a steering axis perpendicular to the wheel axis; a wheel motor arranged to drive the wheel about the wheel axis; and a steering motor arranged to drive the wheel about the steering axis; wherein the AGV further includes at least one actuation member movable in an additional degree of freedom; and wherein the at least one actuation member is arranged to be driven by the wheel motor and/or the steering motor of at least one drive unit in the additional degree of freedom. A method of controlling an AGV is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jonatan Blom, Jonas Larsson
  • Patent number: 12030521
    Abstract: A path generation device and a vehicle control system capable of inhibiting generation of paths that make a vehicle unstable are provided. The path generation device includes a path generator that generates a plurality of paths along which a vehicle is to travel, in association with each piece of environment measurement data about a travel environment of the vehicle detected by a plurality of detectors; a reliability setting part that sets, for each of the generated paths, the reliability of the path in itself, the reliability corresponding to the degree to which a variation in the path falls within a predetermined range, and a path-weight setting part that sets the weight of each path on the basis of the reliability of the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Kameoka, Tomoki Uno, Shunsuke Nakajima