Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080291014 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSIS AND REPAIR OF A PLANT MALFUNCTION WITH SOFTWARE AGENTS - A system and method for the remote diagnosis and repair of a plant malfunction in an automotive vehicle. The method includes the step of sending a plant malfunction diagnostic request to the remote station. Thereafter, the remote station transmits a software agent selected as a function of the nature of the malfunction from the remote station and to the vehicle. Upon execution, the software agent collects plant data relevant to the malfunction and transmits that collected data from the vehicle and to the remote station. The remote station analyzes the data to diagnose the cause of the plant malfunction and, if necessary, transmits additional diagnostic software agents to the vehicle to complete the diagnosis and then generates an output signal as a result of that analysis. If the malfunction is repairable at the plant, such as a software malfunction, the remote station transmits a software agent to the vehicle to perform the repair. | 11-27-2008 |
20080291032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING BOREDOM WHILE DRIVING - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for reducing driver boredom for the driver of a vehicle particularly for vehicle environments such as straight roads and lack of traffic that are likely to induce boredom. An example system includes an electronic circuit such as a computer, a vehicle environment monitor, a driver interface, and a driver stimulation device such as a semitransparent display. | 11-27-2008 |
20090112395 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A BATTERY MALFUNCTION AND PERFORMING BATTERY MITIGATION FOR AN HEV - A system for detecting malfunction of a battery in a hybrid electric vehicle and optionally mitigating the battery fault. A neural network forms a diagnostic circuit which receives signals representative of the required driveshaft torque and speed over a diagnostic period and a prior state of charge of the battery at the beginning of the diagnostic period as input signals. The diagnostic circuit generates an output signal representing a difference between an estimated state of charge of the battery at the end of the diagnostic period and the actual state of charge of the battery. In the event that the difference exceeds a predetermined threshold, a battery fault signal is generated. The battery fault signal may be employed to vary the engine speed and/or torque to perform battery fault mitigation by increasing the state of charge of the battery. | 04-30-2009 |
20090224896 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTRUSION DETECTION - Provided is a system and method for detecting the presence of an intruder in a vehicle using sensors to measure the change in distance between a portion of the vehicle and the ground. Distance sensors may be placed in a plurality of locations along the vehicle, preferably under the hood where the sensors have a clear line of sight to the ground. A computer is provided to receive the measurements from the sensors to compute a base distance which represents the weight of the vehicle with no intruder. The sensors continue to measure the distance to the ground and the computer subsequently computes a present distance and compares said present distance to said base distance. The computer activates an alarm when the present distance is lesser than the base distance by a predetermined value. | 09-10-2009 |
20090322871 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SPARSE CODE BASED OBJECT CLASSIFICATION WITH SENSOR FUSION - A system and method for object classification based upon the fusion of a radar system and a natural imaging device using sparse code representation. The radar system provides a means of detecting the presence of an object within a predetermined path of a vehicle. Detected objects are then fused with the image gathered by the camera and then isolated in an attention window. The attention window is then transformed into a sparse code representation of the object. The sparse code representation is then compared with known sparse code representation of various objects. Each known sparse code representation is given a predetermined variance and subsequent sparse code represented objects falling within said variance will be classified as such. The system and method also includes an associative learning algorithm wherein classified sparse code representations are stored and used to help classifying subsequent sparse code representation. | 12-31-2009 |
20090326796 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ESTIMATE DRIVING RISK BASED ON A HEIRARCHICAL INDEX OF DRIVING - A system and method for providing driving risk assessment for a host vehicle equipped with on-board sensors or vehicle-to-vehicle or infrastructure-to-vehicle systems. The system includes a hierarchical index of passive driving conditions, a means of collecting active driving conditions and a processor whereby the sum of passive driving conditions may be further refined by the active driving conditions The method incorporates a hierarchical index of risks associated with passive driving conditions, and refining said risks with active driving conditions of the vehicle to generating a driving risk assessment for current vehicle operation. | 12-31-2009 |
20100092073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION USING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE FEATURE DETECTORS - A method including imaging an object in three-dimensions; binning data of the imaged object into three-dimensional regions having a predetermined size; determining a density value p of the data in each bin; inputting the p density values of the bins into a first layer of a computational system including a corresponding processing element for each of the bins; calculating an output O of the processing elements of the computational system while restricting the processing elements to have weights Wc | 04-15-2010 |
20100128975 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION BASED ON A TRAINABLE DYNAMIC SYSTEM - A system for object recognition in which a multi-dimensional scanner generates a temporal sequence of multi-dimensional output data of a scanned object. That data is then coupled as an input signal to a trainable dynamic system. The system exemplified by a general-purpose recurrent neural network is previously trained to generate an output signal representative of the class of the object in response to a temporal sequence of multi-dimensional data. | 05-27-2010 |
20100215254 | Self-Learning Object Detection and Classification Systems and Methods - A method of object classification based upon fusion of a remote sensing system and a natural imaging system is provided. The method includes detecting an object using the remote sensing system. An angle of view of a video camera of the natural imaging system is varied. An image including the object is generated using the natural imaging system. The natural imaging system may zoom in on the object. The image represented in either pixel or transformed space is compared to a plurality of templates via a competition based neural network learning algorithm. Each template has an associated label determined statistically. The template with a closest match to the image is determined. The image may be assigned the label associated with the relative location of the object, the relative speed of the object, and the label of the template determined statistically to be the closest match to the image. | 08-26-2010 |
20100222897 | DISTRIBUTED FAULT DIAGNOSIS - A distributed diagnosis algorithm based on a multi-signal digraph model of an overall system is provided. In addition, a model enables the generation of a fault-test dependency matrix (D-matrix), which summarizes the detection capabilities of tests designed for faults associated with each node. Each row represents a fault state and each column represents a test. | 09-02-2010 |
20100222939 | Methods and Systems for Remotely Managing A Vehicle - A method for managing a vehicle is disclosed wherein the method includes receiving an identification (ID) code associated with at least one user. The method further includes corresponding the ID code to at least one user profile following verification of the ID code and executing a vehicle setting associated with the at least one user profile. An apparatus for remotely managing a vehicle setting is further disclosed. The apparatus includes memory for storing at least one user profile. The apparatus further includes a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to receive an identification (ID) code corresponding to the at least one user profile. Furthermore, the processor is in communication with a vehicle processing system operable to execute a vehicle setting associated with the at least one user profile. | 09-02-2010 |
20100274433 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MOST PROBABLE CAUSE OF A PROBLEM IN A PLANT - A system for determining a most probable cause or causes of a problem in a plant is disclosed. The system includes a plant, the plant having a plurality of subsystems that contribute to the operation of the plant, the plurality of subsystems having operating functions that produce operational signals. A plurality of sensors that are operable to detect the operational signals from the plurality of subsystems and transmit data related to the signals is also provided. An advisory system is disclosed that receives an input, the input being in the form of data from the plurality of sensors, possible input root causes of the problem, possible input symptoms of the problem and/or combinations thereof. The advisory system has an autoencoder in the form of a recurrent neural network. The recurrent neural network has sparse connectivity in a plurality of nodes, and the autoencoder is also operable to receive the input and perform multiple iterations of computations at each of the plurality of nodes as a function of the input and provide an output. The output can be in the form of possible output causes of the problem, possible output symptoms of the problem and/or combinations thereof. | 10-28-2010 |
20100312744 | SYSTEM FOR BATTERY PROGNOSTICS - A battery prognosis system for estimating the remaining useful life of a battery includes a sensor input, a conversion module, and a mapping module. The sensor input is capable of receiving a measurement signal from a sensor measuring properties of the battery. The conversion module is in electronic communication with the sensor input to receive the measurement signal and processes the measurement signal into an output signal of internal parameters of the battery. A mapping model trained on actual battery performance data in the mapping module maps the output signal and time variant parameters related to the output signal to generate a battery life signal corresponding to an estimate of the remaining useful life of the battery. | 12-09-2010 |
20110046846 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AIR QUALITY WITHIN AN INTERIOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - The present invention discloses a process for controlling air quality within an interior of a motor vehicle. The process can include providing a motor vehicle with a heating-venting-air conditioning (HVAC) system, the HVAC system having an internal air supply option and an external air supply option. The process can also include providing a reinforcement learning system that can increase the air quality within the motor vehicle as a function of user preferences with respect to choosing the external air supply or the internal air supply. | 02-24-2011 |
20110188737 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION BASED ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL ADAPTIVE FEATURE DETECTORS - Method and system for imaging an object in three-dimensions, binning data of the imaged object into three dimensional bins, determining a density value p of the data in each bin, and creating receptive fields of three dimensional feature maps, including processing elements O, each processing element O of a same feature map having a same adjustable parameter, weight Wc | 08-04-2011 |
20110196819 | METHOD FOR APPROXIMATION OF OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR NONLINEAR DISCRETE TIME SYSTEMS - A method for approximation of optimal control for a nonlinear discrete time system in which the state variables are first obtained from a system model. Control sequences are then iteratively generated for the network to optimize control variables for the network and in which the value for each control variable is independent of the other control variables. Following optimization of the control variables, the control variables are then mapped onto a recurrent neural network utilizing conventional training methods. | 08-11-2011 |
20120036097 | Systems And Methods For Recognizing Events - Systems and methods for recognizing events include a processor for executing machine readable instructions. The processor may be electronically coupled to an electronic memory. A temporal sensor may be electronically coupled to the processor for generating a sequence of temporal signals relating to an unrecognized event. The temporal sensor may transmit the sequence of temporal signals to the processor. The processor may execute the machine readable instructions to: input the sequence of temporal signals relating to the unrecognized event to a recurrent neural network; transform the sequence of temporal signals relating to the unrecognized event to a neural output relating to the unrecognized event with the recurrent neural network; input the neural output relating to the unrecognized event into a random forest classifier; and recognize a recognized event based upon a transformation of the neural output relating to the unrecognized event with the random forest classifier. | 02-09-2012 |
20120096969 | DRIVER-ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR VEHICLE ACTUATION WITH STEERING WHEEL CONTROLS - A steering wheel and associated control system to execute a corresponding algorithm, the steering wheel including a rim which is rotatable about a first axis to steer a vehicle, and a throttle dial disposed in a surface of the rim. The throttle dial controls a throttle of the vehicle and has a variable output to control an amount of the throttle in proportion to an amount the throttle dial is displaced from a nil output position. A similar brake dial is also provided, and is also disposed in the surface of the rim at another location, thus providing hand operation of a throttle and brake of a vehicle without having to remove one's hands from the steering wheel. | 04-26-2012 |
20120310472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFICATION OF DRIVER PEDAL ACTIONS - A device and a corresponding method including a vehicle data recording section having a plurality of vehicle operating characteristic sensors, a main system controller, and an event data recorder subservient to the main system controller. Also included in the device is a driver action recording section including at least one driver action sensor, a driver action system controller not subservient to the main system controller, and a driver action recorder. The at least one driver action sensor obtains information regarding actions of a driver of the vehicle concurrently with at least one of the plurality of vehicle operating characteristic sensors such that sensor data corresponding to an event is obtained independently by each of the vehicle data recording section and the driver action recording section. | 12-06-2012 |
20130051612 | SEGMENTING SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA BASED ON USER GAZE DATA - A segmentation task is specified to a user, and gaze data generated by monitoring eye movements of the user viewing spatiotemporal data as a plurality of frames is received. The gaze data includes fixation locations based on the user's gaze throughout the frames. A first frame and a second frame of the frames are selected based on the fixation locations. Segmentation is performed on the first and second frames to segment first and second objects, respectively, from the first and second frames based on a region of interest associated with the first and second frames, the region of interest corresponding to a location of one of the fixation locations. A determination is made as to whether the first and second objects are relevant to the segmentation task, and if so, association data to associate the first object with the second object when the first and second objects is generated. | 02-28-2013 |
20130203390 | AGENT-BASED SYSTEM FOR CALL VERIFICATION - An information-processing apparatus includes a communication unit that receives a telephone call from a telephone number of a calling party. The communication unit transmits a transmission of the telephone number to a search engine when the communication unit receives the telephone call. Further, the communication unit receives a result from the search engine after the transmission of the telephone number. The information-processing apparatus also includes a processing unit that determines whether a communication should be conducted with the calling party, by performing a textual search of the result for a plurality of predetermined words. | 08-08-2013 |
20130211682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL RECOGNITION - Detecting traffic signaling of a mobile environment includes receiving image frames captured by an imaging device to detect a traffic signal candidate therefrom based on at least a vehicle location. A score having a predefined value is established for the traffic signal candidate. The traffic signal candidate is tracked by incrementing the score when the traffic signal candidate is determined to appear, based on a probabilistic estimator that indicates an expected value for a location of the traffic signal candidate, in a tracked image frame of the captured image frames. The score is decremented when the traffic signal candidate is determined not to appear, based on the probabilistic estimator, in the tracked image frame. The traffic signal candidate is recognized as a traffic signal based on whether the score is above a specified threshold. | 08-15-2013 |
20140118833 | ANTI-BLINDING DEVICE FOR AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - A light filter assembly for an automotive vehicle that includes a central plate or a sleeve with at least one filter attached to by a fastener. The filter has a substantially triangular shape with at least one curved edge, and can rotate about the fastener in a plane parallel to the central plate or sleeve. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129129 | RECONFIGURABLE VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A processing system for a driven vehicle comprising a detector to detect an object which is in an area surrounding the driven vehicle via one or more sensors mounted on the driven vehicle, and to generate position data and size data corresponding to the detected object. The system may include a calculator to calculate an adjustment signal based on the position data and the size data. The system may also include a controller to adjust the driven vehicle's cabin height and/or the driven vehicle's wheelbase width, based on the calculated adjustment signal, such that the driven vehicle avoids colliding with the detected object. Collision may be avoided by the system via elevating the vehicle cabin above the road using an expandable suspension system. Further, an omni-directional telescoping shaft and wheel assembly system with in-wheel motors may be used for maneuvering the vehicle and/or altering the wheelbase width. | 05-08-2014 |
20140172290 | NAVIGATION OF ON-ROAD VEHICLE BASED ON VERTICAL ELEMENTS - A vehicle can include a navigation unit configured to determine a position of the vehicle. A detection unit can be configured to recognize position and features of objects external to the vehicle. An identification unit can be configured to identify objects expected to be detected based on a determined position of the vehicle, by comparing the recognized features to feature data of object reference data stored in a local database. When the identification unit is unable to identify an object, the identification unit can compare recognized or stored object features to the additional feature data received from a remote database. A navigation unit can update the position of the vehicle based on position data of identified objects and more accurate and safe autonomous operation of a vehicle can be achieved. | 06-19-2014 |
20140307917 | ROBUST FEATURE FUSION FOR MULTI-VIEW OBJECT TRACKING - Multi-Task Multi-View Tracking (MTMVT) is used to visually identify and track an object. The MTMVT employs visual cues such as color, edge, and texture as complementary features to intensity in the target appearance representation, and combines a multi-view representation with a robust multi-task learning to solve feature fusion tracking problems. To reduce computational demands, feature matrices are sparsely represented in a single matrix and then decomposed into a pair of matrices to improve robustness to outliers. Views and particles are further combined based on interdependency and commonality single computational task. Probabilities are computed for each particle across all features and the particle with the greatest probability is selected as the target tracking result. | 10-16-2014 |
20140324336 | NAVIGATION OF ON-ROAD VEHICLE BASED ON VERTICAL ELEMENTS - A vehicle can include a navigation unit configured to determine a position of the vehicle. A detection unit can be configured to recognize position and features of objects external to the vehicle. An identification unit can be configured to identify objects expected to be detected based on a determined position of the vehicle, by comparing the recognized features to feature data of object reference data stored in a local database. When the identification unit is unable to identify an object, the identification unit can compare recognized or stored object features to the additional feature data received from a remote database. A navigation unit can update the position of the vehicle based on position data of identified objects and more accurate and safe autonomous operation of a vehicle can be achieved. | 10-30-2014 |