REMOTE OPERATING DEVICE, REMOTE OPERATING SYSTEM, STEERING INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250021092
A remote operating device including a steering unit configured to steer a mobile body, a display unit configured to display steering information, and a control unit. The control unit includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive actual steering information regarding the mobile body, acquire steering information for steering the steering unit, determine a difference between the actual steering information regarding the mobile body and the…
AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250022325
The present disclosure provides an autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle and configured to perform autonomous driving of the vehicle by using a machine learning model. The autonomous driving system comprises processing circuitry and one or more storage devices. When the autonomous driving is performed, the processing circuitry is configured to execute acquiring log data related to the autonomous driving, acquiring a current state of an operator of the vehicle, acquiring an ideal…
DRIVER MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVER MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250022292
A driver monitoring device includes an acquisition part which acquires a driver monitor camera image including a face of a driver of a vehicle captured by a driver monitor camera and estimation part which estimates whether the driver is holding a mobile phone located outside shooting range of the driver monitor camera in a hand of the driver and calling based on the driver monitor camera image acquired by the acquisition part.
INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250022196
A computer-implemented method for merging a first road graph corresponding to a first area and a second road graph corresponding to a second area that partially overlaps with the first area, the method comprising: a selection step of selecting one edge from a plurality of edges overlapping each other in the first road graph and the second road graph and deleting non-selected edge; and a merging step of determine whether or not to merge a first node, that is a node connected to the…
VEHICLE POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND GENERATION METHOD FOR GENERATING LEARNED MODEL
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250022163
A vehicle position estimation system comprises one or more processors configured to estimate a position of a target vehicle shown in an image captured by a camera. The vehicle position estimation system extracts a universal feature point and a plurality of types of unique feature points from the captured image using a trained model. The universal feature point is a feature point independent of vehicle type. Each of the plurality of types of unique feature points is a feature point…
INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250022141
A computer-implemented method for combining a plurality of road graphs that partially overlap with an adjacent area, the method comprising: an acquisition step of acquiring a plurality of road graphs; a labeling step of grouping the plurality of road graphs into groups, and assigning a label to each of the road graphs in each of the groups; and a merging step of selecting one label and executing, in parallel for the groups, a process of merging a first road graph to which the selected…
INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250021876
Each of a plurality of information processing apparatuses mounted on different mobile bodies performs machine learning using local data, and generates a local model. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses exchanges an evaluation value with another information processing apparatus mounted on each of the other mobile bodies by proximity communication. Then, among the information processing apparatuses whose evaluation value is equal to or greater than a predetermined…
ADAPTIVE DRIVING MODEL FOR VIRTUAL TEST DRIVING INCLUDING ABSTRACT ACTIONS
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250021823
Systems and methods are provided for evaluating different vehicle and race configurations in simulation through deriving a driving model that can accurately account for driver preferences, environment settings and changes in vehicle setup without using independent models. The driving model may be used to simulate race scenarios to determine optimal vehicle setup parameters, optimal goals and optimal functions to be implemented on a vehicle during a race. The systems and methods may…
GENERATION DEVICE
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250021713
The server generates background data based on the captured data of the drive recorder provided by the user of the vehicle, and generates data including the background data as course data of the travel simulator executed by the user terminal, and distributes the data to the user.
DATA COMMUNICATION WITH REMOTE OPERATION OF A VEHICLE
Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number:
20250021319
An example operation includes one or more of responsive to an inoperability of a vehicle above a threshold, requesting for the vehicle to be remotely operated, receiving software, by the vehicle, based on the level of inoperability, responsive to an installation of the software on the vehicle, remotely operating the vehicle using the installed software, responsive to the inoperability of the vehicle above the threshold while it is remotely operated, receiving an update to the software,…
CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010886
A vehicle includes an autonomous driving device and a navigation device. A control device for the vehicle is configured to display on the navigation device an evaluation window for evaluating a driver assistance function performed by the autonomous driving device. The control device is configured to adjust a parameter that is used when the autonomous driving device performs the driver assistance function, based on an input operation from a driver to the evaluation window.
DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR INDUCING AUTOMOTIVE BODY VIBRATION
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012663
A system generates realistic vibrations in a vehicle body. The system includes the vehicle, a power supply, a processor circuit including a processor and memory, and a user interface configured to select a frequency and amplitude for a sound or vibration. The system also includes at least one amplifier in communication with the user interface and configured to: receive power from the power supply and output an electrical signal at the selected frequency and amplitude. The system also…
DEFORMABLE SENSORS HAVING AN INTERNAL STEREO DEPTH SENSOR AND AN INFRARED SENSOR
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012634
Deformable sensors having a stereo depth sensor and an infrared sensor and methods of their use are disclosed. In one embodiment, a deformable sensor includes an enclosure having a housing and a deformable membrane, wherein the deformable membrane is transparent to a wavelength band in the infrared spectrum, a stereo depth sensor that is disposed within the enclosure and is configured to view an underside of the deformable membrane, and output a deformation region of the deformable…
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012588
When the second mobile terminal is brought close to the first mobile terminal, the installation information of the passenger application is transmitted to the second mobile terminal. When the installation is confirmed, the passenger application is installed. After that, when the operation of designating the destination is performed in the second mobile terminal, the destination information is transferred from the destination setting application to the passenger application. The user is…
NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250012586
In a navigation system, a data center and a plurality of vehicles are connected via a communication network. The data center accepts specific section information, which can identify a specific section for which the capturing of road conditions is requested, from a capturing requester. The data center proposes capturing-requested routes, each of which goes through a specific section, to a user who performed a route search with a destination set using a navigation device, based on the…
VEHICLE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010923
A vehicle includes: a floor panel; a first crossmember that extends in a vehicle left-right direction along the floor panel; a second crossmember that extends in the vehicle left-right direction along the floor panel and is positioned rearward of the first crossmember in a vehicle front-rear direction; a joining member that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction along the floor panel and joins the first crossmember and the second crossmember to each other; and a seat bracket which…
ROOF STRENGTH MOMENT CANCELLING BULKHEAD
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010920
A vehicle roof support structure on a vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure includes a roof rail member extending in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure also includes a side pillar member disposed at least partially below the roof rail member on a lateral side of the vehicle and extending substantially in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The vehicle roof support structure further includes a load force transfer member. The load force…
VEHICLE-BODY LOWER STRUCTURE
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010917
A vehicle-body lower structure includes: a front suspension member, a lower arm supported by the front suspension member; and a battery case that is disposed on the rear side of the front suspension member and houses a battery. The battery case includes: a front plate; and a frame extending in the left-right direction on a lower portion of the front plate. A block is attached to a front portion of the frame so as to be positioned on the rear side of the lower arm.
STEERING CONTROL DEVICE AND STEERING CONTROL METHOD
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010910
A steering control device is applied to a vehicle steering system for steering traveling of a vehicle. The steering control device includes a rudder angle control unit that executes a control in which a rudder angle variable obtained about the steering is referred to. The rudder angle control unit executes a control information setting process of setting control information that is a value indicating straight movement of the vehicle and that is a reference of the rudder angle variable.…
STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: January 9, 2025
Application Number:
20250010889
The vehicle control program is executed in a VCIB connected between DS and VP that performs autonomous driving in accordance with a command from DS. VCIB includes a memory in which a program including a predetermined API defined for each signal is stored, and a processor that controls VP in response to an instruction from DS by executing the program. VCIB has a manual/automatic mode. VP can accept a manual driving operation in the manual mode, and can accept a command from DS in the…
