Patents Examined by Nuzhat Pervin
  • Patent number: 11906658
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for shapelet decomposition based recognition using radar. State-of-the-art solutions involve use of standard machine learning classification techniques for gesture recognition which suffer with problem of dependency on collected data. The present disclosure overcome the limitations faced by the state-of-the-art solutions by obtaining a plurality of time domain signal using a radar system comprising three vertically arranged radars and one or more sensors, identifying one or more gesture windows to obtain one or more shapelets corresponding to one or gestures which are further decomposed into a plurality of sub shapelets. Further, at least one of (i) a positive or (i) a negative time delay is applied to each of the plurality of sub shapelets to obtain a plurality of composite shapelets which are further mapped with a plurality of trained shapelets to recognize gestures comprised in one or more activities performed by a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Arijit Chowdhury, Smriti Rani, Tapas Chakravarty, Arpan Pal
  • Patent number: 11899095
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for Doppler processing for frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar systems. Range-gate data representing the position of an object within a region of interest is generated at a radar sensor. A first Doppler Fast Fourier Transform (Doppler-FFT) is performed on the range-gate data to provide a first set of Doppler-FFT data. A velocity associated with a signal amplitude that exceeds a noise floor is identified in the first set of Doppler-FFT data. A correction value for the range-gate data is determined from the identified velocity. The range-gate data is modified using the determined correction value to provide modified range-gate data. A second Doppler-FFT is performed on the modified range-gate data to provide a second set of Doppler-FFT data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Sandeep Rao
  • Patent number: 11899126
    Abstract: A multi-chip MIMO radar system includes a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers. Each of the pluralities of transmitters and receivers are arranged across a plurality of chips. The multi-chip MIMO radar system includes a central processor configured to receive data from the plurality of chips. The central processor is operable to combine the information from each radar chip to produce improved range detection and angular resolvability of targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Uhnder, Inc.
    Inventors: Monier Maher, Arunesh Roy, Murtaza Ali, Jean Pierre Bordes, Curtis Davis
  • Patent number: 11894601
    Abstract: Provided is a millimeter-wave radar package module, which relates to antenna packaging. The millimeter wave radar package module includes a package and a plurality of antenna units packaged therein. The package includes a chip, and the chip includes a transmitter and a receiver. The antenna units are respectively connected to an output pin of the receiver and an output pin of the transmitter through a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: 8TH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zongming Duan, Chuanming Zhu, Ying Liu, Bowen Wu, Weiwei Jin, Bingfei Dou, Yuefei Dai
  • Patent number: 11892559
    Abstract: The invention regards a radar calibration system and a method for moving a radar calibration target along the predefined movement path. The system comprises a radar calibration target, having a reflector of a known radar cross section, the reflector having a discontinuous surface mounted on and at least partially surrounding a drive unit for three dimensionally moving the radar calibration target based on control signals. The calibration target further has a localisation unit for determining a position of the radar calibration target. A control unit is configured to generate the control signals based on position information received from the localisation unit and a desired movement path and the movement of the radar calibration target is then executed by the drive unit based on the control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Yassen Mikhailov
  • Patent number: 11867798
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method of determining a path of the electronic device is provided. The method includes emitting a signal in a direction of a surface and receiving a signal reflected from the surface or a subsurface, obtaining an image of a structure of the surface or a structure of the subsurface, based on the received signal; when it is possible to determine a location of the electronic device based on the obtained image and an image pre-stored in the electronic device, determining the location of the electronic device, and when it is impossible to determine the location of the electronic device based on the obtained image and the image pre-stored in the electronic device, obtaining surrounding environment information of the electronic device by using a second sensor and determining the location of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Artem Yurievich Nikishov, Andrey Vladimirovich Kletsov, Alexander Gennadievich Chernokalov, Ekaterina Igorevna Semernya
  • Patent number: 11866983
    Abstract: A vehicular door control system responsive to object detection includes a radar unit disposed at a vehicle that has a field of sensing adjacent to and exterior a door of the vehicle and that transmits radar signals and receives reflected radar signals representative of an object. A scanning actuator coupled to the radar unit moves the radar unit relative to the door to create a variation between the transmitted radar signals and the reflected radar signals. An electronic control unit (ECU) operates the radar unit to transmit the radar signals. While the radar unit is transmitting the radar signals and receiving the reflected radar signals, the ECU operates the scanning actuator to move the radar unit relative to the door. The ECU processes the received reflected radar signals to determine presence of the object and operates an electrically powered actuator coupled to the door to open and close the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt M. Schatz, Ming Wang, Adam Bott
  • Patent number: 11860265
    Abstract: A method for extracting spatial resolution and/or velocity resolution of a single-input single-output radar acquiring raw radar data with a frequency scanning antenna is provided. The method includes steering a radar beam with the aid of the frequency scanning antenna with respect to an area to be illuminated by the radar, and dividing the area into at least two angular sectors. In this context, the at least two angular sectors are configured in a manner that the at least two angular sectors overlap with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventors: Rainer Oliver Hornung, Peng Zhang, Marco Mercuri, Paul Mateman, Lichen Yao
  • Patent number: 11852715
    Abstract: An object detector includes: a transmission and reception unit that transmits a transmission wave and receives a reflection wave from an object; an acquisition unit that detects the reflection wave having a signal level above a threshold to acquire distance information indicating a distance from the transmission and reception unit to the object; a sort processing unit that sets a priority of the distance information to be higher as a difference between a signal level corresponding to the distance information and the threshold is larger when a plurality of pieces of the distance information are acquired in a predetermined period; and an output control unit that outputs the plurality of pieces of the distance information in descending order of the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Sugae, Koichi Sassa
  • Patent number: 11846702
    Abstract: The image processing device 10A includes phase specifying means 11 for specifying a phase of a sample pixel from a plurality of SAR images, clustering means 12 for generating a plurality of clusters by clustering the sample pixels based on correlation of phases of a pair of the sample pixels in the SAR image, and phase statistic data calculation means 13 for calculating phase statistic data capable of grasping a phase statistic regarding the pixel for each of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taichi Tanaka, Osamu Hosyuyama
  • Patent number: 11841422
    Abstract: The signal processing device includes an interference processing unit which generates an interferogram from a plurality of SAR images, a coherence calculation unit which calculates coherence of the SAR images, a singular point processing unit which performs an operation for resolving singular points in the interferogram, a phase unwrapping unit which executes a phase unwrapping process using operation result of the singular point processing unit, and an SBAS analysis unit which performs displacement analysis by SBAS, using processing result of the phase unwrapping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ikefuji, Taichi Tanaka, Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Patent number: 11828870
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle inspection system that enables inspection of an inspection vehicle provided with electromagnetic sensors having different wavelengths. A first absorption member and a second absorption member are provided to non-overlapping positions in front of a position at which the radiation range of radiated waves from the first electromagnetic sensor and the radiation range of radiated waves from the second electromagnetic sensor overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Aono, Shoji Matsuda, Yosuke Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11822005
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses and/or methods involving the communication of radar signals. Certain aspects involve communicating time division multiplexing (TDM) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar signals, having pulses with a chirp interval time (CIT) that is different for respective chirps. Positional characteristics of a target may be ascertained based upon both the CIT between each chirp in the communicated radar signals and the time between each corresponding chirp in received ones of the signals reflected by the target. Communication of the radar signals may involve utilizing a combination of antennas to provide a virtual aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Ryan Haoyun Wu, Dongyin Ren, Wendi Zhang, René Geraets
  • Patent number: 11821980
    Abstract: The present invention relates a remote sensing system, or particularly a satellite-formation-based remote sensing system, wherein comprising: a master satellite provided with an SAR system as a payload thereof, a first concomitant satellite, and a second concomitant satellite, wherein the first concomitant satellite and the second concomitant satellite fly around the master satellite, and the master satellite is located on major axes of motion trajectories of the first concomitant satellite and the second concomitant satellite, so as to define a first spatial baseline and a second spatial baseline that have an identical cross-track baseline component. The present invention enables high-precision, wide-range, three-dimensional imaging based on the satellite-formation, while acquires spatiotemporal features of variation of a ground region according to the synchronization in terms of time, frequency, and space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SPACETY CO., LTD. (CHANGSHA)
    Inventors: Feng Yang, Weijia Ren, Zhigui Du, Xianfeng Chen
  • Patent number: 11815621
    Abstract: A radar system is provided that includes a receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a first digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the reflected signal, a reference receive channel configured to receive a reflected signal and to generate a second digital IF signal based on the reflected signal, and digital mismatch compensation circuitry coupled to receive the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal, the digital mismatch compensation circuitry configured to process the first digital IF signal and the second digital IF signal to compensate for mismatches between the receive channel and the reference receive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sriram Murali, Karthik Subburaj, Karthik Ramasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11807390
    Abstract: A system 100 to detect aircraft ground proximity including: a transmitter 110 for transmitting a radio frequency signal along an extended landing gear 20 of an aircraft 10, a sensor 120 configured to detect a parameter of the radio frequency, and a controller 130 configured to detect a change in the detected parameter on the basis of an output of the sensor 120, and to issue a landing signal when the change in the detected parameter meets a predetermined criterion. The predetermined criterion is indicative of a certain aircraft ground proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Dylan Benedict James, Fraser Wilson, Franck Flourens
  • Patent number: 11802939
    Abstract: A radar signal processing method includes: extracting a first chirp sequence signal of a first carrier frequency and a second chirp sequence signal of a second carrier frequency from a radar signal received through an array antenna in a radar sensor; generating a first range-Doppler map by performing frequency conversion on the first chirp sequence signal; detecting a first target cell corresponding to a first target in the first range-Doppler map; determining a first ambiguous Doppler velocity of the first target based on first frequency information of the first target cell; determining a first range of an unambiguously measurable Doppler velocity through the first chirp sequence signal; estimating second ambiguous Doppler velocities based on the first ambiguous Doppler velocity and the first range; and determining a Doppler velocity of the first target by performing partial frequency conversion on the second chirp sequence signal based on the second ambiguous Doppler velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungdo Choi, Jong-Sok Kim, Young Rae Cho
  • Patent number: 11802954
    Abstract: A radar device including a transmission antenna; a reception antenna; and a controller detecting target information about a target by transmitting a transmission wave from the transmission antenna in multiple transmission/reception modes and by receiving a reception wave by the reception antenna. The multiple transmission/reception modes include: a scanning mode performing beam scanning within a detection angle range; a provisional tracking mode irradiating the transmission wave from the transmission antenna to each of the targets detected in the scanning mode for provisionally detecting target information; and a main tracking mode decisively detecting the target information of each of the targets by irradiating the transmission wave to the target using a transmission wave irradiation time that is set based on the target information provisionally detected in the provisional tracking mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Anno, Sungwoo Cha
  • Patent number: 11796628
    Abstract: A cascaded radar system is provided that includes a first radar system-on-a-chip (SOC) operable to perform an initial portion of signal processing for object detection on digital beat signals generated by multiple receive channels of the radar SOC, a second radar SOC operable to perform the initial portion of signal processing for object detection on digital beat signals generated by multiple receive channels in the radar SOC, and a processing unit coupled to the first radar SOC and the second radar SOC to receive results of the initial portion of signal processing from each radar SOC, the processing unit operable to perform a remaining portion of the signal processing for object detection using these results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh Nayyar, Brian Paul Ginsburg, Sudipto Bose, Murtaza Ali
  • Patent number: 11791542
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) device includes a conformal RF antenna configured to be mounted on a non-metallic component of a vehicle and configured to operate at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The RF device further includes an RF chip mounted on the conformal RF antenna and electrically coupled to the conformal RF antenna to transfer an RF signal of a frequency greater than 10 GHz to the conformal RF antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Bernhard Rieder