Harman International Industries, Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Harman International (china) Holdings Co., Ltd.

Other

Qingshan Zhang

Guoxia Zhang

Zeng Yang

Renxiang Yan

Haibo Wen

Fanxiang Bin

YingLan Jiang

Jianjun Ma

Songwei Ma

KeYao Zhu

Min Xu

Kai Wang

Zheng Luo

Xudong Zhu

Xiangru Bi

Wenjiang Pei

Jinguang Hao

ZheMin Ding

Liyun Lv

Youye Xie

Junhao Wang

Zongcheng Chen

Luo Zheng

Lv Liyun

Fangxiang Bin

An object tracking method and an object tracking system are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first relative position vector from a first node to a second node at a first time point; obtaining a first position data of the first node and a second position data of the second node at a second time point; identifying a position variation vector from the first node to the second node based on the first position data of the first node and the second position data of the second node; and identifying a second relative position vector from the first node to the second node at the second time point based on the first relative position vector and the position variation vector. The method improves the tracking accuracy.

Object tracking method and system

An in-vehicle computing system and method that extracts driving intention data, driving capability data, and a driving mode data from one or more vehicle systems including an autonomous driving system. Autonomous driving information is derived from the extracted data. A message frame is created to include the autonomous driving information and sent to a V2X system.

V2X communication system with autonomous driving information

The present disclosure provides method and system for voice separation based on DUET algorithm, and the method comprises receiving signals from microphones; performing a Fourier transform on the received signals; calculating a relative attenuation parameter and a relative delay parameter for each data point; selecting a clustering range for the relative delay parameters based on a distance between the microphones and a sampling frequency of the microphones, clustering the data points within the clustering range for the relative delay parameters into subsets, and performing an inverse Fourier transform on each subsets. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an efficient and intelligent solution to deploy DUET on the software and/or hardware.

Method and system for voice separation based on degenerate unmixing estimation technique

A device for virtualizing a driving environment surrounding a first node, which includes: a data acquisition device, configured to acquire position data of the first node, position data and sensing data of at least one second node, where the at least one second node and the first node are in a first communication network; and a scene construction device, configured to construct a scene virtualizing the driving environment surrounding the first node based on the position data of the fist node and the at least one second node, and on the sensing data of the at least one second node. Accordingly, by utilizing position data and sensor data of a node, a scene for virtualizing a driving environment can be constructed in real time for a driver, which improves driving safety.

Device and method for virtualizing driving environment, and vehicle

A vehicle identification method and system are provided. The method includes: identifying a first vehicle to be a second vehicle based on a first group of data and a second group of data, the first group of data representing information of the first vehicle obtained through at least one sensor, and the second group of data representing information received from the second vehicle through an inter-vehicle communication network. By the method, an identity of the first vehicle in the inter-vehicle communication network can be known, the first group of data may be used to check the accuracy of the second group of data, and the second vehicle may be still tracked even if it is out of sight of the at least one sensor.

Vehicle identification method and system

A system and a method for processing an overlapping region in a surround view. The system includes a plurality of cameras for capturing images; a processor configured to determine whether a point in a bird's-eye view image obtained from the captured images is located in an overlapping region; and upon the condition that the point is located in the overlapping region, retrieve a blending mask corresponding to the coordinate of the point, and determine a new pixel value of the point according to the blending mask and one or more original pixel values of the point. The described methods provide a solution which fast blends the overlapping regions in a surround view with low computational complexity.

Method and system of fast image blending for overlapping region in surround view

A lane detection method and a lane detection system mounted on a first vehicle are provided. The methods includes: calculating on which lane a first vehicle is located based on vehicle-to-vehicle data received by the first vehicle from at least one neighboring vehicle, where the neighboring vehicle means another vehicle located within a vehicle-to-vehicle communication range of the first vehicle. The system may include: a communication device for receiving vehicle-to-vehicle data from at least one neighboring vehicle, and a processing device for calculating on which lane the first vehicle is located based on the vehicle-to-vehicle data received by the communication device, where the neighboring vehicle means another vehicle located within a vehicle-to-vehicle communication range of the first vehicle. Lane detection may not rely on marks on roads which are inherently not clear or blur due to a bad weather.

Lane detection

A method for communicating messages in a channel of a wireless communication network is provided. In the channel, successive cycles, each of which including a predetermined number of successive time slots, are defined. The method may include: a first node obtaining a first list of its neighboring nodes before a first qtime slot; broadcasting a first message in the first qtime slot; receiving acknowledge information from other nodes within the network for one cycle after the first qtime slot; obtaining a second list of its neighboring nodes after the first qtime slot; and determining whether qtime slots are proper for communicating messages by the first node by checking whether all nodes on both the first and the second lists have received the first message based on the received acknowledge information, each piece of which indicates whether a corresponding node has received the first message.

Time slot selection in wireless communication

A trajectory detection method and a trajectory detection system are provided. The method includes: receiving, on a first vehicle, from a second vehicle, dynamic data containing at least one dynamic feature of the second vehicle; detecting a relative position of the second vehicle with regard to the first vehicle using an object detection sensor mounted on the first vehicle; and generating a trajectory of the second vehicle based on the relative position and the dynamic data. Accuracy may be improved.

Trajectory detection

A method for extracting a message from a received signal frame is provided. The method includes: receiving a signal frame having N parts which are modulated with different power levels, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2; demodulating and decoding the received signal frame to obtain N bit sequences which correspond to the N parts respectively; and forming a message based on the N bit sequences and a partition scheme according to which the message is partitioned into N message parts corresponding to the N bit sequences respectively.

Communication method and system

Method and system for soft decision decoding are provided. A soft decision decoding method implemented by a receiver in a communication network may include: receiving a signal frame carrying a message through a communication network; obtaining data structure of the message; obtaining at least one bit of the message based on the data structure and known information; and decoding the received signal frame based on the at least one bit using soft decision decoding to obtain a decoding result. Decoding efficiency and accuracy may be improved.

Soft decision decoding method and system thereof

One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for enabling vehicular communication. The technique includes broadcasting, from a first communication device of a first vehicle and in a dedicated vehicular communication channel, a service advertisement message indicating that a service is available and can be provided through a temporary communication channel which is determined to be available. The technique further includes receiving from a second communication device of a second vehicle a request for the service in the dedicated vehicular communication channel. The technique further includes transmitting, in response to the request, content of the service in the temporary communication channel to the second communication device.

Vehicular communication method and system

Embodiments are disclosed for collaboratively scanning and processing sensor data for building a map of an environment around a group of vehicles. An example an in-vehicle computing system of a vehicle includes a sensor subsystem in communication with an optical sensor, a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the processor to instruct the optical sensor to scan an assigned region around the vehicle, receive locally scanned data corresponding to the assigned region, process the scanned data to build a first portion of a three-dimensional map, transmit the processed scanned data to at least one other vehicle, receive additional map data from the at least one other vehicle, and build a second, different portion of the three-dimensional map using the received additional map data. In a first example of the in-vehicle computing system, the optical sensor may additionally or alternatively include a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor system.

Collaborative data processing

A method and a system for communicating a high priority message in a vehicular ad hoc network is provided. In the communication channel, time slots are defined, and N successive time slots constitute one cycle, where m th time slot of each cycle is reserved for transmitting a pre-emption message. The method may include: selecting a sub-frame, transmitted in a first q th time slot, having a priority lower than that of the high priority message; transmitting in a first m th time slot after the first q th time slot a pre-emption message indicating that a second q th time slot, which is after the first m th time slot, will be occupied to transmit the high priority message; and transmitting in the second q th time slot the high priority message. By using the method and system, messages with higher priority can be transmitted timely even under very congested conditions.

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Qingshan Zhang