Patents Examined by Peter M Bythrow
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Patent number: 11841261Abstract: The present invention relates to a level radar antenna assembly for measuring a level in a container. The level radar antenna assembly comprises a transmitting antenna assembly for transmitting a transmission signal in the direction of a filling material surface of a filling material stored in the container, a receiving antenna assembly for receiving a transmission signal reflected at the filling material surface, and a housing. The transmitting antenna assembly and the receiving antenna assembly are integrated in the housing, the transmitting antenna assembly being larger than the receiving antenna assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KGInventor: Roland Baur
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Patent number: 11841421Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar image analysis system 20 includes: a phase correlation determination means 21 which determines a strength of the phase correlation between a plurality of pixels in an image selected from among a plurality of images on the basis of the plurality of images that have been photographed by a synthetic aperture radar and show the same point; a shape determination means 22 which determines a degree of similarity between the shape of the distribution of the plurality of pixels and an object shape indicated by geospatial information; and an association means 23 which associates the plurality of pixels with the object on the basis of the determined strength of the phase correlation and the determined degree of similarity.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Taichi Tanaka, Daisuke Ikefuji, Osamu Hoshuyama
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Patent number: 11835647Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing radar operations based on characteristics of a target. First operational limits defining a limit of a detection operation, imaging operation, or some combination thereof can be identified. The first operational limits can be associated with first operational values of operational parameters. Radar waveform parameters to optimize can be identified. Further, first optimal values for the radar waveform parameters can be identified based on the first operational values associated with the first operational limits. Additionally, a first optimized radar signal can be generated using the first optimal values of the radar waveform parameters. The first optimized radar signal can be optimized for the first operational limits. As follows, the first optimized radar signal can be transmitted towards a target area.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: KMB TELEMATICS, INC.Inventors: Bryan Cattle, Marco La Manna
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Patent number: 11828836Abstract: A system and method for detection and identification of an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) employs a radar system to detect and identify the UAS based on the rich Doppler spectrum generated by one or more rotors and associated motors onboard the UAS. UAS have a low radar cross sections (RCS), relatively low speed, and possess a unique Doppler signature providing data for the system to discriminate once the system detects the quadcopter UAS. The system and method functions as a traditional radar, yet analyzes the micro-Doppler signature, including the RCS and radial speed, to detect and identify the UAS. Based on the signature analysis, the system and method are able to distinguish one model from other types of UAS.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Roger A. Dana, Jean-Phillippe Wasselin, John W. Borghese
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Patent number: 11828840Abstract: A method for detecting a moisture damage on an asphalt pavement based on adaptive selection of a penetrating radar (GPR) image grayscale includes the following steps: step 1: obtaining a moisture damage GPR image dataset through asphalt pavement investigation by using a ground GPR, where a GPR image with an appropriate plot scale is selected according to an adaptive GPR image selection method; step 2: adjusting image resolution, specifically, scaling a resolution of an initial GPR image dataset of a damage directly to 224×224 to obtain a BD dataset; step 3: inputting the dataset into a recognition model, specifically, inputting the BD dataset obtained in step 2 into the recognition model, performing operation by the recognition model, and performing step 4; and step 4: outputting a moisture damage result. The new method truly realizes automatic and intelligent target detection based on the GPR.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CHANG' AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Zhang, Jun Tao
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Patent number: 11828869Abstract: A narrowband AJ signaling system includes an AJ processor placed between a high precision analog-to-digital (ADC) converter and a narrowband digital receiver. In another example, the AJ processor is placed between the high precision ADC and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The AJ processor of either example may suppress the jammer power down to the level of the noise floor of the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONInventor: Philip A Dafesh
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Patent number: 11822003Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting radar transmission parameters based on congestion level measurements are disclosed. In some aspects, a congestion level of radar signals at a location in a vicinity of a radar source may be measured or otherwise determined. In some aspects, a transmission parameter of radar signals configured for transmission to the location by the radar source may be adjusted based on the congestion levels.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Dan Zhang, Ahmed Bedewy, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li
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Patent number: 11821981Abstract: A method for operating a radar sensing system includes configuring a transmitter to transmit a radio signal. A receiver is configured to receive radio signals. The received radio signals include the transmitted radio signal transmitted by the transmitter and reflected from objects in the environment. The method includes with advanced temporal knowledge of the codes used to modulate the transmitted radio signal, using code values of the plurality of codes, and in combination with a bank of digital finite impulse response (FIR) filters, generating complementary signals of any self-interference noise. The method further includes subtracting the complementary signals at one or more points in the receiver prior to the interference desensing the receiver. The radar sensing system further includes a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) interference canceller for detecting the largest interference signals and sequentially cancelling them while signal processing the received radio signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: UHNDER, INC.Inventors: Curtis Davis, Monier Maher, Jean P. Bordes, Manju Hegde, Otto A. Schmid, Raghunath K. Rao, Marius Goldenberg, Aria Eshraghi, Vito Giannini, David S. Trager, Nikhilesh Bhagat, Srikanth Gollapudi, Sundar Govindarajan, Steve Borho, Jonathan Preussner, Paul W. Dent, Paul Bassett, Stephen W. Alland, Fred Harris, Wayne E. Stark, Murtaza Ali
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Patent number: 11822001Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing instructions to broadcast a modulated radar chirp signal from a radar antenna of a vehicle. The modulated radar chirp signal includes data associated with the vehicle. The method includes receiving a first return signal whose waveform substantially matches the modulated chirp signal. The first return signal is the modulated radar chirp signal after reflecting off of an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle. The method includes calculating a location for the object using the first return signal, receiving, from a base station antenna, a second return signal that indicates the modulated chirp signal was received by the base station antenna, and providing instructions to establish a wireless communication session with the base station antenna.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.Inventors: Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari, Romain Clément, Helen Ruth Lurie
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Patent number: 11815589Abstract: In imaging radar, examples are directed to uses of multiple sets of transmit antenna included with transceiver circuitry, for transmitting in a plurality of modes. Transmissions may involve having at least one transmit antenna, from each of at least two of the multiple sets, to transmit continuous-wave energy concurrently (simultaneously) in one or more of the plurality of different modes. Transceiver circuitry may include multiple receive antennas which may be receiving reflections of the continuous-wave energy from various targets. Signals from the multiple receive antennas may route to signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry may respond to the received reflections of the continuous-wave energy by assessing differences in antenna gain and/or phase due to transmit antenna position associated with the received reflections.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Feike Guus Jansen, Francesco Laghezza, Saif Alhasson
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Patent number: 11815593Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for precise location of a high slope collapse area. Firstly, the slope images in a long time series are obtained, the slope images in the long time series are composed into a two-dimensional slope deformation graph, and an area with the maximum deformation in the two-dimensional slope deformation graph is selected as a deformation area. Then, the deformation area is segmented by straight line, and the deformation region obtained by straight line segmentation is displayed in overlapping way in the slope images of long time series, and the region corresponding to the connecting line with the largest change range is selected as the monitoring line area from the overlapping image. Finally, the monitoring points are selected from the monitoring line area to determine the location of the high slope collapse area.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Inventor: Tianjie Lei
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Patent number: 11815586Abstract: One of a transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna includes a first antenna group and a second antenna group. The first antenna group includes one or more first antenna elements of which the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out at each first layout spacing following a first axis direction, and a shared antenna element. The second antenna group includes a plurality of second antenna elements and the one shared antenna element, and the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out in two columns at each second layout spacing following a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The phase centers of the antenna elements included in each of the two columns differ from each other regarding position in the second axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Iwasa, Hidekuni Yomo
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Patent number: 11815588Abstract: A room-temperature semiconductor maser, including a first matching network, a second matching network, a heterojunction-containing transistor, and a resonant network. The output end of the first matching network is connected to the drain of the heterojunction-containing transistor. The input end of the second matching network is connected to the source of the heterojunction-containing transistor. The gate of the heterojunction-containing transistor is connected to the resonant network. The pumped microwaves are fed into the input end of the first matching network.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINAInventors: Shirong Bu, Liu Chen, Cheng Zeng, Junsong Ning, Zhanping Wang, Yang Fu, Ruyi Wang, Chenle Wang
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Patent number: 11815594Abstract: A vehicular forward-sensing system includes a radar sensor and a forward viewing image sensor disposed within a windshield electronics module that is removably installed within an interior cabin at a windshield of a vehicle. A control is responsive to outputs of the radar sensor and of the image sensor. The image sensor captures image data for an automatic headlamp control system of the vehicle and for a lane departure warning system of the vehicle. The image sensor views and the radar sensor senses an object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle. The control determines that the object is an object of interest based at least in part on the image sensor viewing the object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle and the radar sensor sensing the object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 11811507Abstract: A programmable radio frequency (RF) memory system includes a receiver designed to receive an RF pulse, a memory, a waveform transform module, and a transmitter. The memory stores a digitized version of the RF pulse. The waveform transform module is designed to determine one or more characteristics of the digitized version of the RF pulse, and based on the determined one or more characteristics, transform the digitized version of the RF pulse into a transformed signal. The transformed signal has at least one characteristic that is different than the one or more characteristics. The transmitter is designed to transmit an analog equivalent of the transformed signal. The analog equivalent of the transformed signal and the received RF pulse are coherent.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Austin T. Rios, Marc A. Fisher, Ryan Harding, Patrick R. Kane, Ryan A. Walsh
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Patent number: 11808880Abstract: An automotive radar system includes multiple radar antennas and a radar front end chip. The front end chip includes a plurality of phase rotators coupled to a local oscillator, wherein each phase rotator of the plurality of phase rotators is coupled to multiple digital phase modulators; a plurality of switches that couple selectable ones of the multiple digital phase modulators to respective amplifiers, each amplifier coupled to a respective antenna output; and a controller which provides digital control signals to the plurality of phase rotators, the multiple digital phase modulators, and the plurality of switches to synthesize transmit signals for each of the multiple radar antennas.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: AyDeeKay LLCInventors: Jian Bai, Nader Rohani
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Patent number: 11808845Abstract: A radar device for a vehicle, the radar device including: an antenna provided on an inner surface of a lamp for a vehicle and configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves; and a signal processing module provided in the lamp and configured to process a signal received by the antenna, such that it is possible to obtain an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure and improving a degree of design freedom and spatial utilization.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jung Sub Lim, Han Seong Yu, Myeong Je Kim
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Patent number: 11808836Abstract: A radar system for a vehicle, having at least two transmission antennas, each for emitting a transmission signal into the surroundings of the vehicle, at least four reception antennas, each for acquiring a detection signal for detecting targets in the surrounding of the vehicle, and a processing device for determining the viewing angle, in order to assign phase information in the detection signals to at least one viewing angle for respective detected targets, such that a minimum ambiguous range of the reception antennas in a first direction is specific for the assignment to be ambiguous to more than one viewing angle, wherein all of the reception antennas are spaced apart from each other in the first direction by different distances such that only one of the distances corresponds to the minimum ambiguous range.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventors: Muhammed Soubhi Al Kadi, Tobias Breddermann, Ridha Farhoud, Tai Fei, Christopher Grimm, Ernst Warsitz
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Patent number: 11796670Abstract: A radar point cloud data processing method and device, an apparatus, and storage medium are provided, which are related to technical fields of radar point cloud, automatic driving, and deep learning. An implementation includes: determining a target location area where a target object is located by utilizing a target detection box in the radar point cloud data; removing each point of the target object in the target location area from the radar point cloud data; and adding an object model to the target location area. By applying embodiments of the present disclosure, richer radar point cloud data may be obtained by removing the target object from the radar point cloud data and adding the needed three-dimensional model to the target location area in the radar point cloud data.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: Baidu USA LLCInventors: Jin Fang, Dingfu Zhou, Xibin Song, Liangjun Zhang
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Patent number: 11796654Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to vehicle sensors. In some aspects, a device associated with a vehicle may obtain, from an external source, calibration data including a first set of measurements related to a position of one or more objects in a reference frame associated with the external source. The device may identify a second set of measurements related to the position of the one or more objects within a field of view of one or more onboard sensors, and update a calibration table based at least in part on a comparison of one or more of the first set of measurements and one or more of the second set of measurements that are most time-aligned. Accordingly, the device may convert sensor-derived location information from a source reference frame to a reference frame associated with the vehicle using the updated calibration table. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Volodimir Slobodyanyuk, Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman, Arnold Jason Gum