This patent, entitled "Automatic Capture of Image Data of Points of Interest", can capture all kinds of road trip, such as highway scenery, city scenery and scenery on highway routes crossing mountains or seaside.
When the car owner goes to another city for a trip to road trip, over mountains or along the seaside, the car camera system can capture the "good memories" of the car owner, and the car owner only needs to enjoy the journey.
Apple pointed out that with people becoming more and more interested in automatic vehicle control and automatic navigation systems, different types of remote sensing equipment are now installed in cars. Such sensors may be one or more radars, ultrasonic sensors, beam scanning devices, visible light camera devices, infrared camera devices, near infrared cameras and depth camera devices, including one or more optical scanning devices, such as laser radar devices.
Apple said that the point of interest may be a scene, event or object in the external environment of the vehicle. It may be captured as historical interest in the route, travel, itinerary or vehicle journey, such as sunset seascape, famous landmarks (such as Brooklyn Bridge), passing parades, wild animals, or passengers or vehicle users want to capture such points of interest as image data of travel history.
Vehicles can use various machine vision, computer vision and pattern recognition technologies to automatically detect points of interest without manual input by users. In some cases, there may also be an interface (such as a graphical user interface or a voice command) to receive a request manually input by a driver to capture image data of a point of interest.
Apple's patents continue.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office officially announced 66 new patents obtained by Apple, one of which is to improve the active suspension system of vehicles by using electric permanent magnets, thus reducing the energy consumption of vehicles.
The patent is entitled "Active Suspension System Equipped with Electric Permanent Magnet", which uses a control system to identify changes in vehicle operating characteristics, outputs a stability command to an actuator system according to the identified changes, and applies a first magnetic field with a predetermined intensity to the electric permanent magnet for a period of time based on the received stability command.
Apple patent map 1 shows a car equipped with a new suspension system; Patent figure 2 shows an overview of the automobile control system.
The first magnetic field changes the electric permanent magnet from a first state to a second state, and then the electric permanent magnet will generate a second magnetic field to change at least one spring constant or mechanical strength of suspension components in an automobile suspension system. After the first magnetic field disappears, the electric permanent magnet will remain in the second state after a predetermined duration.
20 19 obtained the patent related to chassis.
In 20 19, the Apple Titan Project was awarded two new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The two patents approved this time are related to automobile stability control system and adaptive positioning door respectively. The former aims to solve the problem of automatic driving of vehicles on uneven roads, while the latter mainly studies how to apply sliding doors to vehicles.
(Source: patentlyapple)
The first patent is about the stability control of auto-driving. Apple's car stability control system mainly determines the steering direction by measuring the steering angle of the steering wheel. For example, according to the lateral acceleration, wheel speed, vehicle stability and other characteristic data, the system can brake a wheel or increase the torque according to the actual situation when the vehicle loses partial stability. The system can provide necessary security for driving scenes that affect vehicle acceleration, braking or turning, such as wind and rain, gravel or mud on the road, and even uneven terrain when off-road. Apple's patents may be used in the self-driving cars of its Titan project, and of course they also apply to semi-driving cars.
Apple Titan Project Vehicles under Test
Another patent is adaptive positioning door, which is actually the design of sliding door. Apple's example shows a newly designed car style, which is also four doors, but there is no central doorpost between the doors. This technology can make the doors of self-driving cars self-adjust according to the surrounding environment, open flexibly, avoid collision with other vehicles, and facilitate passengers to get on and off.
About Apple Building Cars and Titan Project
Speaking of Apple cars, the first thing to say is the project? At the peak of Titan Project, more than 65,438+0,000 employees participated in research and development in a secret base near the headquarters of Cupertino. Later, after several layoffs and management restructuring, Project? Titan was once reported to have been shelved.
May 20 19, it was reported that the Titan project was still in secret. At present, Apple is building a large test site in California and developing some battery-related technologies. In addition, Apple also hired Michael, vice president of Tesla Engineering? Schwekutsch, participated in various projects including BMW i8 and Fiat 500? EV, Volvo XC90, Porsche 9 18? Research and development of electric and hybrid power system in speyer.
(Apple's Secret Test Website)
This also shows that autonomous driving is not a project? All of Titan, not just autonomous driving technology, Apple wants to be an electric car completely. A complaint report in September 2065438+2008 (a case about Apple's intellectual property rights disclosed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation) shows that about 5,000 people participated in Apple's car-making project, of which 2,700 employees can log in to Titan's project database, which means that at least 2,700 people directly participated in the project.
In 20 16, the related patent applications of Apple began to surface, and the patents were applicable to the fields of robots and autonomous driving. In the following years, more and more patents were exposed, including doors equipped with intelligent seat belt system, external hinged doors replacing traditional B-pillar, special battery-protected floor, multiple retro-reflective reflector retro-reflective system (which can identify road signs in low visibility), advanced encrypted anti-hacker door locks and so on.
(Apple applied for a car patent)
In May of the same year, Apple also invested $654.38 billion in Didi Chuxing. It is pointed out that Titan plans to get rich data from Didi Chuxing to improve its autopilot algorithm.
When will Apple launch its first electric car? Let's look forward to it. (photo/text/photo: all-electric? Zhou Jianqiang)
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