Here Global B.v.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Leon Stenneth

Jeremy Michael Young

Leo Modica

Jerome Beaurepaire

Zhenhua Zhang

Alex Averbuch

Gavril Adrian Giurgiu

James Adeyemi Fowe

Amarnath Nayak

Advait Mohan Raut

Vladimir Boroditsky

Ram Marappan

Bruce A Bernhardt

Eric Linder

Jingwei Xu

Catalin Capota

Sebastian Zaba

Robert Camp

James D Lynch

Dongwook Jang

Yuxin Guan

Anton Anastassov

Kyle Jackson

Donta White

Michael Finn

Mitchell McCuiston

Pradeepa Kavindapadi Nagarajan

Catalin Bogdan Capota

Yu Yang Bai

Lakshmi Nookala

Prashant Chauhan

Weimin Huang

Toby Tennent

Deekshant Saxena

Rakesh Singh

Justin M Spelbrink

Michael Weinberger

Mark Pundurs

Timur Perelmutov

Danny Savla

Roxana-Maria Iliese

Dereje Befecadu

Elena-Roxana Fuiorea

Alexandru Cristian

Hitesh Baid

Pranil Pandit

Kun Lee

Adekunle Afolabi

Sarah Fatima

Garvil Giurgiu

Preeti Sharma

Matthew Vachlon

Carol Walz

Andrew Dean

Corrine Bradley

Joel Ponder

Corinne Bradley

An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for determining a newly established vehicle-related rule within an area. In one example, the apparatus receives sensor data indicating attributes of an area for a first period. The attributes indicate a number of vehicle-related tickets issued within the area, a parking orientation of each vehicle within the area, or a combination thereof. The apparatus compares the sensor data to historical data associated with the area. The historical data indicate the attributes of the area for one or more second periods preceding the first period. Based on comparison of the sensor data and the historical data, the apparatus determines a likelihood of a vehicle-related rule established for the area, where the vehicle-related rule did not exist during the one or more second periods. The apparatus causes a notification indicating the likelihood at a user interface.

Apparatus and methods determining a newly established vehicle-related rule within an area

An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections. In one example, the apparatus identifies an intersection associated with at least two road signs having the same sign type and facing the same direction. The apparatus updates map data to include a datapoint that provides a representation of a single road sign at the intersection instead of the at least two road signs, thereby enabling an autonomous vehicle relying on the map data to traverse the intersection to adhere to the single road sign in lieu of the at least two road signs.

Apparatus and methods for providing autonomous vehicle navigation at intersections

The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for updating map data. The system, for example, receives, from one or more user equipment, at least one road works observation. The at least one road works observation is associated with a road works object. Further, the system, determines a first lane and a second lane. Further, the first lane is associated with the at least one road works observation and the second lane is associated with the road works object. Further, the system determines traffic density associated with a region in vicinity of the road works object. Further, the system detects the road works zone based on the first lane, the second lane and the traffic density.

System and method for detecting a road works zone

Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing sensor data through the use of map data. Methods include: receiving sensor data defining a trajectory; map-matching the sensor data using a map-matching algorithm to a plurality of road segments of a map database to generate a sequence of map-matched sensor data elements; determining a first value representing anonymization associated with a start of the trajectory; determining a second value representing anonymization associated with an end of the trajectory; determining first map-matched sensor data elements at the start of the trajectory to be redacted based on the first value; determining second map-matched sensor data elements at the end of the trajectory to be redacted based on the second value; and transmitting sensor data associated with elements in the sequence of map-matched sensor data elements between the first map-matched sensor data elements and the second map-matched sensor data elements.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing sensor data

An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing trailer sway detection. In one example, the apparatus receives sensor data and determines a pitch angle of a trailer based on the sensor data. The apparatus further determines a confidence of trailer sway occurring based on the pitch angle and in response to the confidence exceeding a threshold, the apparatus generates a warning signal indicating a potential trailer sway.

Apparatus and methods for detecting trailer sway

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for automated road incident detection using vehicle sensor data to detect road incidents in real time. The vehicle sensor data is provided from sensors on vehicles on the road segment. The methods and systems update a map with the detected road incidents in real time of detecting the road incident, resulting in updated maps with the road incident information and updated traffic flow information on the maps.

Automated road incident detection using vehicle sensor data

A system to assist an owner of a low-profile vehicle to avoid damages related to vehicle impact upon a raised feature of a road is disclosed. The system may be configured to obtain one or more locations of a vehicle impact upon the raised feature by detecting an occurrence of the vehicle impact and recording contextual factors related to the vehicle impact upon the raised feature, where the one or more obtained locations are clustered into a first location bucket defined by a manual detection of the vehicle impact and a second location bucket defined by an automatic detection of the vehicle impact. The locations may be map-matched to map locations. The system may cluster the map-matched locations and automatically predict, using a trained machine learning model trained on ground truth of a region, potential locations of vehicle impact relevant to the owner of the low-profile vehicle.

Method to support low-profile vehicles

An approach for traffic incident verification involves receiving a traffic message channel (TMC) message indicating a traffic incident. The TMC message indicates an extent of the traffic incident in a road graph using TMC location code(s)/offset(s). The approach also involves matching the TMC location code(s)/offset(s) to a first set of map road link(s) and offset(s) of a geographic database, determining sensor data collected from vehicle(s) travelling within the road graph. The sensor data indicates the extent as location point(s) of topology segment(s) (TSs) and TS offset(s), matching the location point(s) of the TS(s) and TS offset(s) to a second set of map road link(s) and offset(s) of the geographic database, determining an intersection set between the first and second sets, and initiating a confirmation of the traffic incident reported in the TMC message based on the sensor data of the location point(s) of the TSs in the intersection set.

Method, apparatus, and system for traffic incident verification

Methods and systems for identifying vehicle filling stations and generating related visual indications are provided. In some examples, vehicle data is received that corresponds to a plurality of vehicles. From the vehicle data, a first subset of data is extracted that corresponds to location data and one of a fuel or charge level state change of each of the plurality of vehicles. One or more locations of one or more of the plurality of vehicles are identified, based on the location data, when the fuel or charge level state change corresponds to an increase in a fuel or charge level of the one or more of the plurality of vehicles. One or more visual indications are generated that correspond to the identified one or more locations.

Identifying vehicle filling stations and generating related visual indications

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for emulating vehicle features of a first vehicle in a second vehicle having different features. Methods may include: receiving an indication of a user operating an unfamiliar vehicle; determining vehicle features familiar to the user; and providing emulation of one or more features of the vehicle features familiar to the user in the unfamiliar vehicle. According to some embodiments, the vehicle features familiar to the user are determined based on one or more vehicles familiar to the user. According to certain embodiments, vehicle features familiar to the user include one or more of vehicle size, vehicle performance, or vehicle autonomy level.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for vehicle feature emulation

The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for updating map data. The system, for example, obtains sensor data from one or more user equipment. The sensor data is associated with a road object. Further, the system, determines a first location of a road observation sight and a second location of the road object based on a timestamp associated with the first location. Further, a distance associated with the second location of the road object and a center point of a link, is calculated. The link is a map matched link associated with the second location. Further, the system updates the map data based on the calculated distance.

System and method for updating map data

An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for providing a tire pressure analysis. In one example, the apparatus receives first sensor data indicating a first tire pressure change associated with a first vehicle and causes a prediction model to generate a predicted cause of the first tire pressure change based on the first sensor data. The prediction model is trained based on historical data, the historical data defining a plurality of tire pressure signatures. Each of the plurality of tire pressure signatures correlates a cause of a second tire pressure change associated with a second vehicle to second sensor data indicating one or more tire pressure levels of the second vehicle over a period in which a wheel of the second vehicle completes a revolution. The apparatus further causes a notification of the predicted cause at a user interface associated with the first vehicle.

Apparatus and methods for providing tire pressure analysis

A method, apparatus, and user interface are provided for generating personalized splines. For example, one or more geometries that represent a portion of a road network are identified and a first spline curve is calculated from the one or more geometries. One or more additional geometries that represent a different portion of the road network are then interpolated, by a processor, and the processor then calculates at least a second spline curve from the one or more additional geometries, wherein the second spline curve is derived, at least in part, from personalized driving preference data.

Method and apparatus for generating personalized splines

Embodiments described herein may provide a method for analyzing traffic congestion at a toll plaza and identifying a preferred lane of travel through the toll plaza based on the traffic congestion. Methods may include: determining active toll lanes of all toll lanes at a toll plaza; obtaining probe data for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; determining lane-wise congestion for each active toll lane at the toll plaza; identifying a preferred lane of the active toll lanes; and providing for at least one of a navigational instruction or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control to enter or continue in the preferred lane.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for lane level toll plaza congestion modeling

A system, a method and a computer program product are provided to predict vehicle parking bunching in a geographic region. For example, the system is configured to obtain a plurality of contextual features and/or a plurality of sensor data related to parking information in the geographic region. The system is configured to predict a vehicle parking bunching based on a vehicle unparking threshold, a vehicle separation distance cluster threshold and/or unparking vehicle information. The system may also be configured to alert a vehicle of the vehicle parking bunching with a vehicle parking bunching notification.

System to predict vehicle parking bunching

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