Toyota Motor Engin. & Manufact. N.A.(TEMA) Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
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 |
20130140505 | BINARY THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A thermoelectric material that comprises a binary main group matrix material and nano-particles and/or nano-inclusions of metal oxide dispersed therein, and has electrical properties of ternary doped materials. A process for making the thermoelectric material that includes reacting a reduced metal precursor with an oxidized metal precursor in the presence of nanoparticles. | 06-06-2013 |
20130140504 | TERNARY THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A thermoelectric material that comprises a ternary main group matrix material and nano-particles and/or nano-inclusions of a Group 2 or Group 12 metal oxide dispersed therein. A process for making the thermoelectric material that includes reacting a reduced metal precursor with an oxidized metal precursor in the presence of nanoparticles. | 06-06-2013 |
20130034780 | ELECTROLYTE FOR MAGNESIUM BATTERY - A magnesium battery, having an anode containing magnesium; a cathode stable to a voltage of at least 2.6 V relative to a magnesium reference; and an electrolyte containing an electrochemically active magnesium salt obtained by reaction of a Grignard reagent or Hauser base with a boron compound of formula BR | 02-07-2013 |
20120281907 | REAL-TIME 3D POINT CLOUD OBSTACLE DISCRIMINATOR APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR TRAINING A CLASSIFIER VIA BOOTSTRAPPING - Training a strong classifier by classifying point cloud data with a first classifier, inferring a first terrain map from the classified point cloud data, reclassifying the point cloud data with the first classifier based on the first terrain map, and training a second classifier based on the point cloud data reclassified with the first classifier based on the terrain map. The point cloud data is then classified with the second classifier, and the procedure followed with the first classifier is iteratively repeated until a strong classifier is determined. A strong classifier is determined when a probability of a terrain map matching a given terrain for the strong classifier is approximately equal to a probability of a terrain map matching the given terrain for a prior trained classifier. | 11-08-2012 |
20120277949 | COLLABORATIVE MULTI-AGENT VEHICLE FAULT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY - A control unit executes a first agent of a first subsystem of a vehicle, the first agent including a fault detection agent and a communication agent. The fault detection agent monitors performance data of the first subsystem to identify a problem in the first subsystem, stores first candidate fault diagnosis processes corresponding to the first subsystem in a first memory, and searches for a fault diagnosis process which identifies a fault causing the problem in the first subsystem from among the first candidate fault diagnosis processes. The communication agent collaborates with a second agent when a search by the fault detection agent fails to find the fault diagnosis process which identifies the fault. The collaboration includes searching a second memory which stores second candidate fault diagnosis processes, sending the monitored performance data to the second agent, and exchanging search result data between the first and second agents. | 11-01-2012 |
20120273735 | TERNARY THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL CONTAINING NANOPARTICLES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A thermoelectric material that comprises a ternary main group matrix material and nano-particles and/or nano-inclusions of a Group 2 or Group 12 metal oxide dispersed therein. A process for making the thermoelectric material that includes reacting a reduced metal precursor with an oxidized metal precursor in the presence of nanoparticles. | 11-01-2012 |
20120233102 | APPARATUS AND ALGORITHMIC PROCESS FOR AN ADAPTIVE NAVIGATION POLICY IN PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE ENVIRONMENTS - An apparatus and method for automatic learning of high-level navigation in partially observable environments with landmarks uses full state information available at the landmark positions to determine navigation policy. Landmark Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) can be generated only for encountered parts of an environment when navigating from a starting state to a goal state within the environment, thereby reducing computational resources needed for a navigation solution that uses a fully modeled environment. An MDP policy is calculated using the SarsaLandmark algorithm, and the policy is transformed to a navigation solution based on the current position and connectivity information. | 09-13-2012 |
20120218125 | TWO-WAY VIDEO AND 3D TRANSMISSION BETWEEN VEHICLES AND SYSTEM PLACED ON ROADSIDE - A system and method for providing visual information to a driver of a first vehicle, including: at least one camera or sensor which is not on the first vehicle but which captures image data that includes a view of a road within a vicinity of the first vehicle; a decision unit which receives the image data from the camera or sensor and which identifies information in the image data which a driver of the first vehicle needs to be informed of; and a display unit on the first vehicle which displays information transmitted to the first vehicle in a view that displays information determined to be missing in the vehicle's current line of sight, so that the otherwise missing information can be observed by a driver of the first vehicle. | 08-30-2012 |
20120202121 | HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY FOR A LITHIUM BATTERY - The present invention provides a electrolyte solution, particularly useful for lithium batteries that includes succinonitrile and a co-solvent that has improved conductivity and, in turn, better battery performance. | 08-09-2012 |
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 |
20110185676 | STORM COLLAR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION - A storm collar includes a shield, an upper anchoring collar, support arms, and a lower anchoring collar. The upper anchoring collar secures the shield to an exhaust stack. The support arms are attached to the underside of the shield and the lower anchoring collar. Gaskets are placed between the joints of the storm collar pieces and between the exhaust stack for a tight fit. The angle of the support arms and the shield provide a compression fit based on the load supported by the shield. The storm collar protects the flashing and joints around an exhaust stack from damage caused by moisture. | 08-04-2011 |
20110168347 | LOW PRESSURE CYLINDER HEAD OUTER DIE COMPONENTS FOR CORE GAS REMOVAL - An apparatus for core gas removal in a low-pressure cylinder head die casting operation includes an upper die, a lower die, an ejector plate disposed above the upper die to eject a part that has been cast, a plurality of tight plugs fastened into cavities formed in the upper die, and a plurality of clean pins attached to the ejector plate, each clean pin corresponding to a location of one of the tight plugs. The clean pins and the tight plugs have matching geometries. The ejector plate lowers to eject a casted cylinder head from the upper die such that a portion of the clean pins extend axially into the tight plugs to clean core gas residue formed on inner walls of the tight plugs during the casting cycle. | 07-14-2011 |
20110046843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VEHICULAR PATH PREDICTION FOR COOPERATIVE DRIVING APPLICATIONS THROUGH DIGITAL MAP AND DYNAMIC VEHICLE MODEL FUSION - Method and system of vehicular path prediction for a vehicle travelling on a road. A yaw rate of the vehicle is estimated over a prediction time period based on vehicle sensor information and map information for the road. Then, a further path of the vehicle on the road is predicted for the prediction time period based on a speed and a direction of the vehicle, and the estimated yaw rate. Map information includes a geometry for a portion of the road on which the vehicle is travelling, and the vehicle sensor information includes yaw rate information from a yaw rate sensor on the vehicle, and location information of the vehicle relative to the map information from a positioning device on the vehicle. A vehicle provided for path prediction includes a communication system for transmitting the predicted path to other vehicles for collision avoidance. | 02-24-2011 |