Learning method and processing apparatus regarding machine learning model classifying input image
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236667
A method by one or more computers for learning a machine learning model classifying an input image into known classes and an unknown class by extracting a feature of the input image. The method comprises acquiring a set of features of a plurality of samples of training data each of which is with a label, calculating a loss function based on the set of the features, and learning the machine learning model to reduce the loss function. The loss function is calculated to include a first loss…
Sealed battery and assembled battery
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237463
The present disclosure provides a joining technique capable of improving strength and reducing electrical resistance of a connecting portion that performs heterometal interjunction in a sealed battery. A mode of the sealed battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case, a positive electrode internal terminal, a positive electrode external terminal, a negative electrode internal terminal, and a negative electrode external terminal. In the sealed battery, in a…
Method for manufacturing SiC substrate
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237378
An object to be solved by the present invention is to provide a new technology for producing a SiC substrate in which strain is removed and capable of achieving a flat surface as flat as a surface that has been subjected to CMP. The present invention, which solves the above object, is a method for producing a SiC substrate, the method including an etching step of etching a SiC substrate having arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a surface of equal to or less than 100 nm in an atmosphere…
SiC semiconductor substrate, and, production method therefor and production device therefor
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237377
An object of the present invention is to provide a SiC semiconductor substrate having a growth layer with a controlled step height, a manufacturing method thereof, and a manufacturing device thereof. The method includes: a growth process that grows a SiC substrate 10 in a SiC—Si equilibrium vapor pressure environment. In this way, when the SiC substrate 10 is grown in the SiC—Si equilibrium vapor pressure environment, it is possible to provide a SiC semiconductor substrate in which…
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237225
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: preparing a substrate made of a compound semiconductor containing a first element and a second element that is bonded to the first element and has an electronegativity smaller than that of the first element by 1.5 or more; causing an electric current to flow in the substrate; and dividing the substrate at a position including a current region where the electric current is caused to flow and along a cleavage plane of the…
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236787
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles configured to perform automated driving includes a controller configured to execute operations, the operations including receiving, from each of the plurality of vehicles, a notification of a content of an abnormality, in-vehicle images, and the number of persons in the vehicle, prioritizing the plurality of vehicles based on determination results by determining, for each of the plurality of…
Information processing system, storage medium, and information processing method
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236729
An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The vehicle includes a first component including a measuring unit configured to measure a first number of operations of the first component, a second component of which a second number of operations is measured by the measuring unit, and a controller configured to send the first and second numbers of operations to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes…
Vehicle and autonomous driving kit
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236721
When a computer of an ADK determines that a condition for performing self-diagnosis processing is met, or when performance of self-diagnosis processing is notified from a VP even if the condition for performing self-diagnosis processing is not met, the computer performs processing including: a step of performing self-diagnosis processing; a step of notifying the performance of the self-diagnosis processing to the VP; and a step of transmitting a result of diagnosis obtained through the…
Systems and methods for tracking occluded objects
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236688
A method for tracking occluded objects includes encoding locations of a plurality of objects in an environment, determining a target object, receiving a first end point corresponding to a position of the target object before occlusion behind an occlusion object, distributing a hypothesis between both sides of the occlusion object during occlusion from a subsequent frame of the sequence of frames, receiving a second end point corresponding to a position of the target object after emerging…
System and method for training a model to perform semantic segmentation on low visibility images using high visibility images having a close camera view
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236673
A system and a method for training a semantic segmentation model includes obtaining a plurality of sets of images each having an index z for visibility, iteratively training the model. Iteratively training the model includes (a) for each z above 1, obtaining preliminary semantic segmentation labels for each image of the set of images of index z?1 by applying the model to each image of the set of images of index z?1, (b) processing each preliminary semantic segmentation labels using…
Monocular 2D semantic keypoint detection and tracking
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236660
A method for 2D semantic keypoint detection and tracking is described. The method includes learning embedded descriptors of salient object keypoints detected in previous images according to a descriptor embedding space model. The method also includes predicting, using a shared image encoder backbone, salient object keypoints within a current image of a video stream. The method further includes inferring an object represented by the predicted, salient object keypoints within the current…
Terminal apparatus, operating method of terminal apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236508
A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.
Management apparatus, management method and mobile object
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236391
A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a storage mobile object that is configured to store a stored mobile object. The stored mobile object includes a first mobile object that is stored in the storage mobile object and a second mobile object that is not stored in the storage mobile object. The controller is configured to instruct the storage mobile object to transport the first mobile object while maintaining the first mobile object.
System and terminal apparatus
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236147
A system according to the present disclosure includes a first terminal apparatus that repeatedly transmits an image captured using an imager and a second terminal apparatus that displays the received captured image. The first terminal apparatus acquires a position of a display object capable of displaying information, determines, when existence of a blocking object between the display object and the imager is detected, whether a blocked portion, which is a portion where the display…
Transport management system, transport management method, and program
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235648
A transport management system includes: a reception section that receives p transport task information pieces indicating transport tasks, each of which has a point of origin and a point of destination; a linkage section that generates q (q<p) linked-tasks information pieces by linking the p transport task information pieces; and an assignment section that assigns the q linked-tasks information pieces to q transport robots, respectively. The linkage section generates the q linked-tasks…
Estimation system, estimation method, and vehicle
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235323
An estimation system includes a power storage device and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a charge process of controlling a charge device so as to charge the power storage device, and an estimation process of estimating a full charge capacity of the power storage device. The one or more processors are configured to execute the charge process with an upper limit state of charge of the power storage device set to a value that is more than a first…
Vehicle for receiving traveling guidance that is generated based on an image of a specific point
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235122
A vehicle includes a processor configured to receive information for traveling guidance, which is generated based on an image of a specific point. The image of the specific point is captured by another vehicle, and the specific point is a point at which a traveling route of a different vehicle deviates from a guidance route.
Transport-related object avoidance
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12227176
An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, a potential impact with an object at a location in a lane on a road and, when a distance away from the location exists within the lane, maneuvering, by the transport, the distance within the lane to avoid the potential impact.
Vehicle
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12227182
A vehicle includes a power unit configured to output drive power, a brake device, and a controller configured to execute predetermined travel control to control the power unit and the brake device such that the vehicle runs according to an inter-vehicle distance from a preceding vehicle or a difference between a set vehicle speed and an actual vehicle speed. The controller is configured to, when an absolute value of a controlled braking force calculated while the predetermined travel…
Driving support device, driving support method, and driving support program
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12227180
A driving support device acquires a signal color and controls a vehicle speed. The device controls the vehicle before a recognizable point such that a vehicle speed at a time at which the vehicle reaches the recognizable point is equal to or lower than a target value which is a lower speed than a target value. The recognizable point is a point at which a distance to the nearest traffic light positioned in front of the vehicle is a predetermined value. The device controls the vehicle such…
