Patents Examined by Peter M Bythrow
  • Patent number: 11947018
    Abstract: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver includes a wideband signal correlator and a multipath mitigator. The wideband signal correlator generates wideband correlation signals of at least one of a plurality of GNSS signals with respect to corresponding locally generated code replica signals in which a bandwidth of the wideband signal correlation module is at least about 20 MHz. The multipath mitigator determines a Line of Sight (LOS) signal from the wideband correlation signals. The GNNS receiver may include a narrowband signal correlator to generate narrowband correlation signals of the at least one GNSS signal with respect to corresponding locally generated code replica signals in which a bandwidth of the narrowband signal correlation module is less than about 6 MHz. The multipath mitigator further corrects a range and range-rate measurement generated from the narrowband correlation signals based on a code phase and a carrier estimated based on the LOS signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gary Lennen
  • Patent number: 11947035
    Abstract: A feature enhancement and data augmentation method for detecting at least one action of at least one tested subject is provided. The feature enhancement and data augmentation method includes obtaining at least one spectrogram; and performing a feature enhancement processing on the at least one spectrogram, to enhance at least one feature corresponding to at least one action in the at least one spectrogram and generate at least one feature enhanced spectrogram. The feature enhancement processing comprises a directional filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Hsuan-Tsung Chang, Hao-Gong Chou
  • Patent number: 11940552
    Abstract: An electrical circuit for providing an output signal based on a first input signal and a second input signal has: a mixer which is configured to receive and mix the first and second input signals in order to generate a mixer output signal and to switch on or off based on the first input signal, wherein a DC signal component of the mixer output signal depends on whether the mixer is switched on or off; and a downstream circuit which is configured to switch on or off based on the DC signal component of the mixer output signal and to provide the output signal based on the mixer output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Leibetseder, Andreas Stelzer, Christoph Wagner
  • Patent number: 11933911
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for enabling radar system calibration with bistatic sidelobe compensation. Radar signals reflect off of a flat plate that changes orientation (e.g., elevation and/or azimuth angle) and position relative to a mounting position of a specific radar sensor being calibrated. For each radar sensor, measurements may be obtained across a range of translational positions of the flat plate. Highly accurate calibration errors are determined for each radar sensor this way. By calibrating radar systems repositioning the target during the data collection in this way, the prominence of any bistatic sidelobes appearing in measurements may be reduced or prevented, which may enable less-complex and more-accurate calibration of each unique radar system installation. An indication of each calibration error may be output for use in individually adjusting the mounting position of each specific radar sensor within a radar system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Armin Talai, Rafal Michal Burza, Sashi Praveen Kalli
  • Patent number: 11933885
    Abstract: A radar signal imaging device 30 includes: a transmission unit 31 which transmits a radar signal toward an object to be imaged that is a non-rigid body; a position estimation unit 32 which estimates the position of the object; an oscillation degree estimation unit 33 which estimates an oscillation degree which is a degree of change within a predetermined period in the relative positions of feature points constituting the object; and a synthetic aperture processing unit 34 which performs synthetic aperture processing on the radar signal reflected by the object on the basis of the estimated position of the object and the estimated oscillation degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Yuzo Senda, Osamu Hoshuyama, Taichi Tanaka, Daisuke Ikefuji, Shingo Yamanouchi
  • Patent number: 11933913
    Abstract: A method of emulating echo signals reflected from an elongated target during radar testing includes identifying first and second end points do the target; acquiring a radar signal from a radar sensor that includes multiple receive elements; generating emulated echo signals, responsive to the acquired radar signal, corresponding to target points on the target, including the first and second end points and reference points located on a line connecting the first and second end points, by repeatedly identifying descriptive attributes corresponding to each of the target points during an integration period of the radar sensor, where the descriptive attributes are identified by interpolating between the corresponding descriptive attributes of the first and second end points; and applying the emulated echo signals to the receive elements of the radar sensor, respectively, during the integration period, where radar sensor calculates a relative position of the target using the descriptive attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Ken A. Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11921194
    Abstract: A radar anti-spoofing system for an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of radar sensors that generate a plurality of input detection points representing radio frequency (RF) signals reflected from objects and a controller in electronic communication with the plurality of radar sensors. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine a signal to noise ratio (SNR) distance ratio for the input detection points generated by the plurality of radar sensors, where a value of the SNR distance ratio is indicative of an object being a ghost vehicle. The one or more controllers also determine an effective particle number indicating a degree of particle degradation for the importance sampling for each variable that is part of the state variable. In response to determining the effective particle number is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the one or more controllers estimate a ghost position for the ghost vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Qin Jiang, Hyukseong Kwon
  • Patent number: 11914071
    Abstract: A radar apparatus for detecting a target object is provided, which can improve target object detection performance by improving a Field of View (FOV) and can be widely used in various fields such as robotics and Internet of Things (IoTs) devices, as well as autonomous vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SMART RADAR SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventor: Kyung Sub Oh
  • Patent number: 11914030
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing a transceiver signal (115) detected by a transceiver (110). The method includes obtaining (S1) a processed signal from the transceiver signal (115), the processed signal having frames (200, 300) corresponding to respective time intervals (t1, t2, t3, t4), wherein the frames define bins (210, 310) configured according to a quantized resolution (dr) of the transceiver signal (115). The method further includes obtaining (S2) data related to a relative motion of the transceiver (110) during a time interval (t1, t2, t3, t4) and initializing (S3) a residual distance to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Christian Schwert, Dirk Klotzbuecher
  • Patent number: 11914067
    Abstract: Waveguides and related assemblies for use, for example, in RADAR sensor assemblies and the like. In some embodiments, the waveguide may comprise a conductive member having a first plurality of posts arranged in a first row thereon. A second plurality of posts may be arranged in a second row on the conductive member to define a waveguide between the first plurality of posts and the second plurality of posts. One or more platforms may be provided to project at least a subset of the first plurality of posts and the second plurality of posts beyond at least a portion of the conductive member adjacent to the one or more platforms. A second conductive member, such as a cover, may be coupled to the conductive member such that the first and second pluralities of posts extend between the conductive member and the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Veoneer US, LLC
    Inventors: Angelos Alexanian, Arnold Mobius
  • Patent number: 11914021
    Abstract: An object is to enable measurement of position and velocity of a measurement object. A velocity measurement device includes a transmitting means, a receiving means, and a signal processing means. The transmitting means transmits a transmission signal by a transmitting antenna toward a measurement object. The receiving means receives a reflected wave from the measurement object with multiple receiving antennas and generates a reception signal for each of the receiving antennas. The signal processing means obtains a phase plane of the reflected wave with respect to an antenna plane of the multiple receiving antennas from a phase difference between the reception signals to specify an arrival direction of the reflected wave, obtains a distance to the measurement object from a propagation delay time of the reflected wave, and calculates a phase fluctuation of the reflected wave to calculate a velocity of the measurement object from the phase fluctuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ALOUETTE TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nohmi
  • Patent number: 11914070
    Abstract: A radar target simulator front end, configured to simulate at least one radar target for testing a radar device under test is provided. The radar target simulator front end comprises at least two antenna units, arranged along a first angle under investigation. The at least two antenna units are configured to be selectively activated and deactivated. Whereby each antenna unit of the at least two antenna units generates a simulated radar target along the first angle under investigation, when activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Hamberger, Matthias Beer, Steffen Neidhardt, Maximilian Bogner, Benedikt Simper
  • Patent number: 11906344
    Abstract: Method for fill level measurement with a radar fill level measuring device using the following steps: sending a transmission design with a plurality of frequency ramps, receiving a reception signal per frequency ramp of the transmission signal, saving the reception signals in a memory, performing a first spectral analysis of the reception signals or performing a second spectral analysis of the reception signals, carrying out a second spectral analysis of several output signals of the first spectral analysis at the location of at least one significant reflector in the reception signal or performing a first spectral analysis of several output signals of the second spectral analysis, determining the distances of significant reflectors from the results of the first spectral analysis, determining the fill level echo based on the previously determined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KG
    Inventors: Roland Welle, Steffen Waelde
  • Patent number: 11899129
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to test RADAR integrated circuits. A radar circuit comprising a local oscillator (LO), a transmitter coupled to the LO and configured to be coupled to a transmission network, a receiver configured to be coupled to the transmission network, and a controller coupled to the LO, the transmitter, and the receiver, the controller to cause the LO to generate a frequency modulated continuous waveform (FMCW), cause the transmitter to modulate the FMCW as a modulated FMCW, cause the transmitter to transmit the modulated FMCW via the transmission network and the receiver to obtain a received FMCW from the transmission network, and in response to obtaining the received FMCW from the receiver, generate a performance characteristic of the radar circuit based on the received FMCW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthik Subburaj, Zahir Ibrahim Parkar, Krishnanshu Dandu, Vashishth Dudhia
  • Patent number: 11899101
    Abstract: A method, a computer program with instructions, and a device for predicting a course of a road based on radar data of a motor vehicle. The radar data to be processed is received and then accumulated in a measuring grid. Subsequently, clusters are formed for objects in the measuring grid. Cluster descriptions are generated for the clusters. The resulting clusters are processed to determine polynomials for describing the road edges. The polynomials are finally output for further use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ELEKTROBIT AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Rottach, Mathias Trumpp, Stefan Frings, Dietmar Kling, Wilhelm Nagel
  • Patent number: 11892554
    Abstract: A method for implementing radar-communication integration of a vehicle, where the method includes obtaining, by a radar device of a first vehicle, a first communication message, modulating the first communication message into a first carrier signal, where an operating frequency of the first carrier signal is in an operating band of the radar device, sending a periodic radar signal, and sending the first carrier signal to a second vehicle within a time gap between sending of a radar signal in a current period and sending of a radar signal in a next period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaofeng Xu, Zhiwei Zhang, Botao Zhai, Xueming Peng
  • Patent number: 11892535
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus that performs signal processing on a Doppler spectrum derived from a reception signal of a reflected wave of pulsed undulation repeatedly transmitted into a space removes a topographic echo spectrum from the Doppler spectrum and extracts a plurality of candidate points of a target echo spectrum from the Doppler spectrum from which the topographic echo spectrum has been removed. Furthermore, the signal processing apparatus determines positional relation between the candidate points and a plurality of removed points of the topographic echo spectrum removed from the Doppler spectrum and extracts as an interpolation point, a point where the target echo spectrum is missing by removal of the topographic echo spectrum based on positional relation between the candidate points and the removed points in a direction of a frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamaki, Ikuya Kakimoto, Tomoya Matsuda, Takamichi Nakamizo
  • Patent number: 11892536
    Abstract: An object-detecting device includes a first detector, an object tracker, a second detector, and an axial misalignment determiner. The first detector detects a distance between a moving body and an object and an orientation of the object relative to the moving body based on detection information acquired from detection sensors including a search wave sensor that searches a detection region with a search wave. The object tracker tracks the same object passing through a different detection region based on the detection information. The second detector detects at least either one of a height of the object or a lateral distance of the object as object information based on the detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11885902
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system includes at least one radar, a detection section, an extraction section, a pair determination section, and a target position determination section. The extraction section extracts at least one observation point pair from a plurality of detected observation points. The observation point pair is a pair of the observation points located in the same direction. The target position determination section calculates a surface direction of a reflection surface from a reflection surface observation point of the observation point pair and observation points around the reflection surface observation point, and determines a position of the target from the calculated surface direction and the at least one observation point pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11885907
    Abstract: In various examples, a deep neural network(s) (e.g., a convolutional neural network) may be trained to detect moving and stationary obstacles from RADAR data of a three dimensional (3D) space, in both highway and urban scenarios. RADAR detections may be accumulated, ego-motion-compensated, orthographically projected, and fed into a neural network(s). The neural network(s) may include a common trunk with a feature extractor and several heads that predict different outputs such as a class confidence head that predicts a confidence map and an instance regression head that predicts object instance data for detected objects. The outputs may be decoded, filtered, and/or clustered to form bounding shapes identifying the location, size, and/or orientation of detected object instances. The detected object instances may be provided to an autonomous vehicle drive stack to enable safe planning and control of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Popov, Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Ryan Oldja, Shane Murray, Tilman Wekel, David Nister, Joachim Pehserl, Ruchi Bhargava, Sangmin Oh