Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments provide wireless charging detection. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method comprises advertising by a wireless charging device, an availability for wireless charging over a wireless communication interface; scanning, by the wireless charging device, for wireless signals from one or more other wireless devices; providing, by the wireless charging device, information usable for characterizing charging capabilities of the wireless charging device; transmitting, by the wireless charging device, one or more wireless communication packets over the wireless communication interface, including the information usable for characterizing the charging capabilities of the wireless charging device, in response to receiving one or more wireless signals from the one or more other wireless devices; and providing, by the wireless charging device, power to the one or more other wireless devices over a wireless power interface.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless charging detection

The present invention provides a terminal, apparatus and method for providing a customized auto-valet parking service. The server device includes a service registration management unit for receiving auto-valet parking profile information that includes information about one or more of a user, a vehicle, and a mobile terminal, and a parking map management unit for generating customized parking slots suitable for the user using the auto-valet parking profile information, and providing a parking area map, which includes information about the customized parking slots, to the mobile terminal. The parking map management unit receives information about a final slot selected by the user from among the customized parking slots via the mobile terminal, and provides a route to the final slot.

Terminal, apparatus and method for providing customized auto-valet parking service

A smart necklace includes a body defining at least one cavity and having a neck portion and first and a second side portions. The necklace includes a pair of stereo cameras that is configured to detect image data including depth information corresponding to a surrounding environment of the smart necklace. The necklace further includes a positioning sensor configured to detect positioning data corresponding to a positioning of the smart necklace. The necklace includes a non-transitory memory positioned in the at least one cavity and configured to store map data and object data. The smart necklace also includes a processor positioned in the at least one cavity, coupled to the pair of stereo cameras, the positioning sensor and the non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to determine output data based on the image data, the positioning data, the map data and the object data.

Smart necklace with stereo vision and onboard processing

A vehicle parking spot locator system and method are provided. The system includes a database storing data pertaining to the parking spot locations including available parking spot locations, and a communication link for communicating with a vehicle and other sources. The communication link receives parking spot location information including information pertaining to availability of parking spot locations and further provides vehicles with parking spot location information to assist in locating a parking spot location. The system further includes a processor for processing the stored data in the database and providing parking spot location information to vehicles. The processor is configured to predict which open parking spot is closest to a desired destination and will be available when the vehicle arrives at the desired destination.

Vehicle parking locator system and method using connected vehicles

Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode.

Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode

Provided are a system and a method for auto valet parking. In the system and method, a parking slot of a target vehicle among a plurality of slots formed in a parking place is determined based on situation information on the parking place and a movement path based on information on current location of the target vehicle and information on the parking slot is determined. The target vehicle is automatically parked in the determined parking slot by moving along the movement path.

System and method for auto valet parking

Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for providing an indoor navigation service. An apparatus includes a communication module for, when an indoor navigation service is executed, accessing a service server for providing the indoor navigation service. An image control module acquires indoor images in real time and displays the indoor images on an indoor navigation screen. An indoor location recognition module extracts indoor marker from the indoor images, obtains information about the extracted indoor marker, and recognizes a current location in the indoor space based on the indoor marker information. An indoor navigation module requests indoor navigation information to the service server based on information about the current location and destination information, and displays the indoor navigation information.

Apparatus and method for providing indoor navigation service

The present invention relates to a time synchronization method in a wireless sensor network In the present invention, if an upper node requests a lower reference node to start time synchronization, the lower reference node broadcasts a first sync reference packet The upper node receives the first sync reference packet and transmits the first sync reference packet reception time to the lower reference node The lower reference node broadcasts the first sync reference packet reception time, such that the other nodes perform time synchronization on the basis of the first sync reference packet reception time Meanwhile, the lower reference node estimates the first sync reference packet reception time of the upper node to calculate the reception estimation time, and transmits the reception estimation time to a determination node that is two hops anterior to the lower reference node Therefore, the determination node compares the reception time received from the upper node and the reception estimation time received from the lower reference node and determines whether a capture attack on the upper node has occurred

Time synchronization method in wireless sensor network

The telematics field is highlighted as one of the fields of application for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we introduce a collision warning system for the convergence of telematics and wireless sensor networks technologies, and we explain several requirements needed for designing such a convergence service. Then, we propose a service system that can satisfy the requirements of 1) event driven operation, 2) deployment considering road structure, and 3) routing schemes considering data characteristics. We implemented the system and show the field test results of the system. It is expected that this service system can be helpful as a proper reference for converging telematics and wireless sensor network technologies.

Collision Warning System on a Curved Road Using Wireless Sensor Networks

A VideoGIS system aims at combining geo-referenced video information with traditional geographic information in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding over a spatial location. Video data have been used with geographic information in some projects to facilitate a better understanding of the spatial objects of interest. This paper presents an on-going VideoGIS project, in which scalable geo-referenced video and geographic information (GI) are transmitted to GPS-guided vehicles. The hypermedia, which contains cross-referenced video and GI, are organized in a scalable (layered) fashion. The remote users can request, through 3G mobile devices, the abundant information related to the objects of interest, while adapting to heterogeneous network condition and local CPU usage. Available bandwidth estimation technique is used in the adaptive video transmission.

Jae-Jun Yoo

Papers

System and method for auto valet parking

Apparatus and method for providing indoor navigation service

Time synchronization method in wireless sensor network

Collision Warning System on a Curved Road Using Wireless Sensor Networks

A scalable VideoGIS system for GPS-guided vehicles