公开(公告)号：US11921501B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17457429

申请日：2021-12-02

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Takaaki Tanaka ,  Kenichiro Aoki ,  Masayuki Katoh

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B60W30/18 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0061 ,  B60W30/181 ,  G05D1/0223 ,  B60W2555/20 ,  B60W2555/60 ,  B60W2720/10 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: An automatic driving system includes a control device that controls automatic driving of a vehicle, and a storage device that contains external environment information indicating an external environment of the vehicle. A driving transition zone is a zone in which a driver of the vehicle takes over at least a part of driving of the vehicle, from the control device. A termination target velocity is a target velocity of the vehicle at an end point of the driving transition zone. The control device variably sets the termination target velocity, depending on the external environment at the end point or the external environment surrounding the end point. Then, the control device controls the velocity of the vehicle in the driving transition zone, such that the velocity of the vehicle at the end point is the termination target velocity.

公开(公告)号：US11920938B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17082408

申请日：2020-10-28

Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY ,  KIA CORPORATION

Inventor： Blake Konrardy ,  Scott T. Christensen ,  Gregory Hayward ,  Scott Farris

IPC: G01C21/34 ,  B60L53/36 ,  B60L58/12 ,  B60P3/12 ,  B60R16/023 ,  B60R21/0136 ,  B60R21/34 ,  B60R25/04 ,  B60R25/10 ,  B60R25/102 ,  B60R25/104 ,  B60R25/25 ,  B60R25/30 ,  B60R25/31 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W40/04 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G01B21/00 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05B23/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06F11/36 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/903 ,  G06F17/00 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06F21/55 ,  G06F30/15 ,  G06F30/20 ,  G06Q10/1093 ,  G06Q10/20 ,  G06Q30/0283 ,  G06Q30/0645 ,  G06Q40/08 ,  G06Q50/26 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G07C5/00 ,  G07C5/08 ,  G07C9/00 ,  G08B21/00 ,  G08B21/02 ,  G08B21/18 ,  G08B25/00 ,  G08B25/01 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G08G1/017 ,  G08G1/0965 ,  G08G1/0967 ,  G08G1/14 ,  G08G1/16 ,  G16Y10/80 ,  G16Y30/00 ,  H04L12/28 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04N7/18 ,  B60R21/00 ,  B60R21/01 ,  G01S19/42 ,  G06N20/00 ,  H04L67/12

CPC classification number: G01C21/3461 ,  B60L53/36 ,  B60L58/12 ,  B60P3/12 ,  B60R16/0234 ,  B60R21/0136 ,  B60R21/34 ,  B60R25/04 ,  B60R25/10 ,  B60R25/1001 ,  B60R25/102 ,  B60R25/104 ,  B60R25/252 ,  B60R25/255 ,  B60R25/305 ,  B60R25/31 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/0956 ,  B60W30/18163 ,  B60W40/04 ,  B60W60/0023 ,  B60W60/0053 ,  B60W60/0059 ,  G01B21/00 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G01C21/3415 ,  G01C21/343 ,  G01C21/3438 ,  G01C21/3453 ,  G01C21/3469 ,  G01C21/3617 ,  G01C21/362 ,  G01C21/3697 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G05B15/02 ,  G05B23/0245 ,  G05D1/0011 ,  G05D1/0055 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G05D1/0231 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0255 ,  G05D1/0285 ,  G05D1/0287 ,  G05D1/0289 ,  G05D1/0293 ,  G05D1/0295 ,  G06F11/3688 ,  G06F11/3692 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/90335 ,  G06F17/00 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06F21/55 ,  G06F30/15 ,  G06F30/20 ,  G06Q10/1095 ,  G06Q10/20 ,  G06Q30/0284 ,  G06Q30/0645 ,  G06Q40/08 ,  G06Q50/163 ,  G06Q50/265 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G07C5/006 ,  G07C5/008 ,  G07C5/0808 ,  G07C5/0816 ,  G07C5/0841 ,  G07C9/00563 ,  G08B21/00 ,  G08B21/02 ,  G08B21/18 ,  G08B25/00 ,  G08B25/014 ,  G08G1/017 ,  G08G1/0965 ,  G08G1/096725 ,  G08G1/146 ,  G08G1/148 ,  G08G1/161 ,  G08G1/165 ,  G08G1/166 ,  G08G1/167 ,  G08G1/20 ,  G16Y10/80 ,  G16Y30/00 ,  H04L12/2803 ,  H04L12/2816 ,  H04L12/2825 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04N7/183 ,  B60R2021/0027 ,  B60R2021/01013 ,  B60R2025/1013 ,  B60W2420/403 ,  B60W2420/52 ,  B60W2530/209 ,  B60W2540/229 ,  B60W2552/05 ,  B60W2552/35 ,  B60W2554/4026 ,  B60W2554/4029 ,  B60W2554/4041 ,  B60W2554/406 ,  B60W2556/10 ,  G01S19/42 ,  G05D2201/0212 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06F2221/034 ,  G06N20/00 ,  H04L67/12

Abstract: Methods and systems for autonomous vehicle recharging or refueling are disclosed. Autonomous electric vehicles may be automatically recharged by routing the vehicles to available charging stations when not in operation, according to methods described herein. A charge level of the battery of an autonomous electric vehicle may be monitored until it reaches a recharging threshold, at which point an on-board computer may generate a predicted use profile for the vehicle. Based upon the predicted use profile, a time and location for the vehicle to recharge may be determined. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be controlled to automatically travel to a charging station, recharge the battery, and return to its starting location in order to recharge when not in use.

公开(公告)号：US20240071090A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US17895119

申请日：2022-08-25

Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. ,  KEIO UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Naoki Hosomi ,  Teruhisa Misu ,  Kentaro Yamada

IPC: G06V20/56 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06V10/774

CPC classification number: G06V20/56 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G06V10/774 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: Provided is a mobile object control device including a storage medium storing a computer-readable command and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable command to: acquire a photographed image, which is obtained by photographing surroundings of a mobile object by a camera mounted on the mobile object, and an input instruction sentence, which is input by a user of the mobile object; detect a stop position of the mobile object corresponding to the input instruction sentence in the photographed image by inputting at least the photographed image and the input instruction sentence into a trained model including a pre-trained visual-language model, the trained model being trained so as to receive input of at least an image and an instruction sentence to output a stop position of the mobile object corresponding to the instruction sentence in the image; and cause the mobile object to travel to the stop position.

公开(公告)号：US20240066949A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US17898152

申请日：2022-08-29

Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC

Inventor： Domenico Rusciano ,  Jeffrey Robert Brandon

IPC: B60H1/00 ,  B60H1/32 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: B60H1/00785 ,  B60H1/00021 ,  B60H1/00771 ,  B60H1/3207 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0291 ,  B60H2001/00114 ,  B60H2001/3244 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting and responding to a moisture condition of an autonomous vehicle (AV). In some examples, an AV fleet management device may detect a moisture condition within AV based on sensor data received from the AV. In some aspects, in response to detecting the moisture condition, the AV fleet management device may determine, based on the sensor data, that a humidity level within the autonomous vehicle exceeds a threshold humidity level or a wet surface within the autonomous vehicle is present. In some cases, a drying procedure may be determined or selected for reducing the humidity level or drying the wet surface within the autonomous vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11916736B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US16387518

申请日：2019-04-17

Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Inventor： Seyhan Ucar ,  Takamasa Higuchi ,  Onur Altintas ,  Kentaro Oguchi

IPC: H04W4/40 ,  H04L41/0823 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  H04L67/10

CPC classification number: H04L41/0823 ,  G05D1/0276 ,  G05D1/0291 ,  G08G1/22 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04W4/40 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for reorganizing autonomous entities to meet a resource demand of a vehicular micro cloud. In some embodiments, a method for a connected vehicle that is a member of the vehicular micro cloud includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected vehicle to receive, via a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network, a reorganization message that includes a reorganization instruction to fulfill the resource demand of the vehicular micro cloud. The method includes executing the reorganization instruction to incorporate one or more resources of an autonomous entity into a resource pool of the vehicular micro cloud so that the resource demand of the vehicular micro cloud is met.

公开(公告)号：US11915176B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US17518942

申请日：2021-11-04

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Junya Watanabe ,  Yuji Sasaki ,  Seiji Arakawa ,  Naotoshi Kadotani ,  Masafumi Hayakawa ,  Takashi Hayashi

IPC: G06Q10/0631 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G07C5/00 ,  G07C5/08 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G06Q10/06315 ,  G05D1/021 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G07C5/008 ,  G07C5/0808 ,  G08G1/202 ,  G05D2201/0213 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G08G1/202 ,  G05D1/021

Abstract: A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.

公开(公告)号：US11914381B1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US17380681

申请日：2021-07-20

Applicant: Direct Current Capital LLC

Inventor： Carol Reiley ,  Daniel Espinel ,  Ryan Wistort ,  Michael Paris

IPC: B60Q1/26 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60Q1/50 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  B60Q1/46

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  B60Q1/26 ,  B60Q1/46 ,  B60Q1/5035 ,  B60Q1/525 ,  B60Q5/006 ,  G05D1/0061 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: One variation of a method for communicating state, intent, and context of an autonomous vehicle includes: at a first time, displaying a first icon representing a current state of a vehicle on a rear-facing visual display arranged on the vehicle; navigating toward an intersection; at a second time, detecting a state of the intersection ahead of the vehicle; rendering a second icon representing the state of the intersection at the second time on the rear-facing visual display; detecting a change in the state of the intersection at a third time succeeding the second time; selecting a next navigation action for the vehicle responsive to the change in the state of the intersection at the third time; prior to executing the next navigation action, rendering a third icon representing the next navigation action on the rear-facing visual display; and autonomously executing the next navigation action.

公开(公告)号：US20240062657A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-22

申请号：US18491492

申请日：2023-10-20

Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation

Inventor： Yue Wu ,  Pekka Janis ,  Xin Tong ,  Cheng-Chieh Yang ,  Minwoo Park ,  David Nister

IPC: G08G1/16 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06T7/20

CPC classification number: G08G1/166 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V20/58 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06F18/214 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0289 ,  G06N3/0418 ,  G06T7/20 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: In various examples, a sequential deep neural network (DNN) may be trained using ground truth data generated by correlating (e.g., by cross-sensor fusion) sensor data with image data representative of a sequences of images. In deployment, the sequential DNN may leverage the sensor correlation to compute various predictions using image data alone. The predictions may include velocities, in world space, of objects in fields of view of an ego-vehicle, current and future locations of the objects in image space, and/or a time-to-collision (TTC) between the objects and the ego-vehicle. These predictions may be used as part of a perception system for understanding and reacting to a current physical environment of the ego-vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11906311B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US18118937

申请日：2023-03-08

Applicant: GM Cruise Holdings LLC

Inventor： Juan Fasola ,  Harman Kumar ,  Shreyans Kushwaha ,  Xiaoyu Zhou ,  Yu-Cheng Lin

IPC: G01C21/32 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G01C21/32 ,  G01S17/89 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting a pavement marking around an autonomous vehicle, comparing the detected pavement marking with a pavement marking present in a semantic data map, determining whether a change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map, and updating the semantic data map based on the determining of whether the change has occurred between the detected pavement marking and the pavement marking present in the semantic data map.

公开(公告)号：US11904846B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17835479

申请日：2022-06-08

Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Shinya Otani

IPC: H04N5/44 ,  B60W30/06 ,  B60W50/14 ,  G08G1/14 ,  G08G1/16 ,  H04W4/40 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: B60W30/06 ,  B60W50/14 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G08G1/144 ,  G08G1/168 ,  H04W4/40 ,  B60W2050/143 ,  B60W2050/146 ,  B60W2556/50 ,  G05D2201/0213

Abstract: A remote parking apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a remote parking control to move an own vehicle and park the own vehicle in a designated parking space in response to receiving a signal transmitted wirelessly from an operation terminal. The electronic control unit is configured to set a parking space as the designated parking space even when there is an obstacle interrupting parking the own vehicle in the parking space.