Patents Examined by Phuoc H Doan
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Patent number: 11361559Abstract: A method for cargo management in a motor vehicle includes identifying the motor vehicle. The method gathers dimensional information of at least one object and gathers internal dimensions of a volume within the motor vehicle. The dimensional information of the at least one object is compared to the internal dimensions of the volume, and feedback is provided to a user. The feedback is one of: yes, the at least one object will fit; or no, the at least one object will not fit.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Robert C Jablonski, Ki Hyun Ahn, Joseph F Szczerba, Spencer W Chamberlain
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Patent number: 11350365Abstract: Wireless communications systems may employ shared control resource set (CORESET) configurations for control information monitoring by a user equipment (UE) in an inactive state (e.g., for wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring) and for control information monitoring by a UE in an active state (e.g., for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring). Further, a shared CORESET configuration may support one or more dynamic or variable configuration parameters, such that a shared CORESET configuration may be partially modified to optimize control information monitoring in different scenarios (e.g., to optimize WUS monitoring and PDCCH monitoring when using a shared CORESET configuration). For example, a CORESET configuration may include one or more static configuration parameters (e.g., a time resource, a frequency resource, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, etc.) and one or more dynamic configuration parameters (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Peter Pui Lok Ang
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Patent number: 11346931Abstract: A method of estimating, by a user equipment (UE), a location of the UE in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes measuring distances between a plurality of anchor nodes and the UE; creating a first matrix using values of the measured distances; creating a third matrix based on the first matrix and a second matrix, the second matrix being a centering matrix; and estimating the location of the UE based on a result of comparing a first value generated based on eigenvalues of the third matrix with a second value that is a pre-defined reference value, wherein when the first value is greater than the second value, all the measured distances are distances measured through a line of sight (LOS) path, wherein when the first value is less than the second value, some of the measured distances are distances measured through a non-line of sight (NLOS) path.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Woonghee Lee, Sangrim Lee
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Patent number: 11343823Abstract: A transmitter in a wireless communication network encodes data bits of a first layer to produce a set of coded symbols; spreads the coded symbols using discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM); and modulates the spread symbols onto a set of OFDM subcarrier frequencies to produce a discrete-time OFDM signal. Spreading is configured to map the coded symbols to a first sparse DFT-s-OFDM code space in a DFT-s-OFDM symbol, wherein the first sparse DFT-s-OFDM code space is different from a second sparse DFT-s-OFDM code space in the DFT-s-OFDM symbol, the second sparse DFT-s-OFDM code space being employed by a second layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Tybalt, LLCInventor: Steve Shattil
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Patent number: 11334963Abstract: The disclosed devices, systems and methods relate to various devices, systems and methods related to objectively analyzing digital images of turfgrass to rate various parameters and to objectively measure overall quality. The system establishes thresholds and may execute a series of steps to determine green coverage, color, density, and uniformity. The system can scale images to determine uniformity.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NexGen Turf Research, LLCInventors: Douglas Karcher, Carlin Purcell, Kenneth Hignight
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Patent number: 11330705Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, system and apparatus for detecting polarity of component, and a computer-readable storage medium. The component polarity detection method includes: selecting first component symbols similar to graphs in a pre-created template library of component polarity symbols from a polar graph layer of a to-be-detected printed circuit board (PCB), and sifting out second component symbols each having polarity from the selected first component symbols; and traversing each second component symbol having polarity, to detect whether a polarity symbol that has been already stored in the template library is in the second component symbol having polarity; if yes, examining whether a polarity position of the polarity symbol in the second component symbol is correct; and if the polarity position is incorrect, outputting a report indicating that the polarity position of the polarity symbol in the second component symbol is incorrect.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: VAYO (SHANGHAI) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengjie Qian, Yongjian Qu, Jishuo Liu, Fengshou Liu
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Patent number: 11323856Abstract: A system for multiple network usage tracking, the system having a policy management platform having one or more processors able to receive and to calculate account usage data associated with an account profile, the policy management platform arranged externally from a network of at least one wireless carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TRACFONE WIRELESS, INC.Inventors: Karen Levine, Mansi Srivastava, Carmen Pina, Sonia Guell, Miguel Fernandez, James Zimmerman
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Patent number: 11321874Abstract: A mobile electronic device is provided for use with a headset. A camera outputs digital pictures of a portion of the headset. A display device displays information for viewing by a user wearing the headset. A processor retrieves calibration parameters that characterize at least a pose of the camera relative to the display device, and processes a digital picture from the camera to identify a pose of an optically identifiable feature within the digital picture. A pose of the mobile electronic device is identified relative to the holder based on the identified pose of the optically identifiable feature within the digital picture and based on at least the pose of the camera relative to the display device as characterized by the calibration parameters. The processor controls where graphical objects are rendered on the display device based on the identified pose of the mobile electronic device relative to the holder.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: José Araújo, Leonard Bruns, Diego Gonzalez Morin, Ioannis Karagiannis, AmirHossein Taher Kouhestani
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Patent number: 11315236Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for assuring quality of a component, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for quality assurance of an automobile component using a marker, that can remove human error and apply a user-oriented display method, by utilizing image analysis techniques, such as a compensation technique according to shooting distance of a high-resolution camera of a terminal having a shooting function, a reference measurement technique where a marker itself includes information such as spatial information and measurement specifications and the like, and distortion correction of a taken image.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventor: Han-Kyung Yun
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Patent number: 11315317Abstract: In one embodiment, a system generates an occupancy grid map based on an initial frame of point clouds. The system receives one or more subsequent frames of the point clouds. For each of the subsequent frames, the system updates an occupancy grid map based on the subsequent frame. The system identifies one or more problematic voxels based on the update, the system determines whether the problematic voxels belong to a wall object, and in response to determining that the problematic voxels belong to a wall object, the system flags the problematic voxels as ghost effect voxels for the subsequent frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO. LTD.Inventors: Li Yu, Pengfei Yuan, Yong Xiao, Runxin He, Shiyu Song
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Patent number: 11300815Abstract: Disclosed is a method for verifying the mounting of at least one ophthalmic lens in a frame of a pair of spectacles designed to be worn by a subject, the method including the steps of: obtaining a test image of the frame in which the at least one ophthalmic lens is mounted, the at least one ophthalmic lens including at least one marking visible in the test image; comparing the test image of the frame with a reference image of the frame worn by the subject without the at least one ophthalmic lens; and verifying the mounting of the at least one ophthalmic lens in the frame based on the previous comparison.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Gilles Le Saux
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Patent number: 11303822Abstract: A vehicle imaging station comprising one or more cameras each camera having an adjustable shutter speed and a field of view, the fields of view of the one or more cameras covering an vehicle imaging volume, a control unit arranged to control the shutter speed of the cameras, a vehicle speed detection device arranged to measure the speed of a vehicle moving through the vehicle imaging volume and to output detected vehicle speed data to the control unit. The control unit is arranged to automatically adjust the shutter speed of the cameras based on the detected vehicle speed data and to cause the cameras to capture one or more images with the adjusted shutter speed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Degould LimitedInventor: Daniel George Gould
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Patent number: 11295411Abstract: An image scaling method based on a linear extension/contraction mode, includes step I: compressing an original image matrix composed of image pixels in a row by row manner with a Linearlization or OptimalPLR compression method to obtain a line segment segmentation form; step II: lengthening the line segments under Policy I or shortening the line segments under Policy II by resampling at a upscaling or downscaling factor, to obtain an upscaled or downscaled image in the row direction; and step III: upscaling the data upscaled in the row direction in the step II in a column by column manner through the process in the step II, to obtain an image upscaled in the column direction. The method which is an image scaling technique directly based on PLA for data compression, not only can compress static image data, but also can compress image data of dynamic data streams.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventors: Chaoyi Pang, Huanyu Zhao, Tongliang Li
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Patent number: 11295461Abstract: A method and apparatus for verifying location and orientation of a piece attached to a work surface for s manufacturing a workpiece is disclosed. A controller is programmed with design data for manufacturing steps. Multiple layers of ply are sequentially layered over a work surface. An imaging system capable of redirecting a field of view along the work surface is provided. A light projector is provided for projecting reference features onto the work surface. The light projector projects a reference feature to a known location relative to the piece applied to the work surface within the field of view of the imaging device. The imaging device generates an image of the reference features projected by the light projector and of the piece applied onto the work surface. The controller compares the location of the piece on the work surface with the design data validating accurate placement of the piece.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: VIRTEK VISION INTERNATIONAL ULCInventor: Kurt D. Rueb
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Patent number: 11290849Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, mobile communication device and one or more computer programs for a monitoring system. In one aspect, the system includes a plurality of transmitters, each transmitter having associated therewith a reflector antenna configured to substantially reflect signal transmission toward a detection area; and a mobile device configured to: receive transmitter signals from at least two transmitters from the plurality of transmitters; and determine that the mobile device is located within the detection area based on received signal strengths of the at least some of the transmitter signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: TMA CAPITAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTDInventors: Anthony Karam, Gregori Alexandravich Laletin, Kevin John Walsh, Paul Blazkiewicz
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Patent number: 11291066Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, in a non-stand-alone radio communication system, multiple UL signals of varying RATs are transmitted properly. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits both a first uplink (UL) signal of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second UL signal of a second RAT, or a single UL signal in which the first UL signal and the second UL signal are multiplexed, by using a UL carrier of the first RAT, and a control section that controls frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing of the first UL signal and the second UL signal in the UL carrier, or multiplexing of the first UL signal and the second UL signal in the single UL signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 11288788Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine, for a pixel, a sampling location within a texture that comprises a plurality of texels, and based on the sampling location, select a set of texels in the plurality of texels. Each texel in the set of texels may encode a distance field. An interpolated distance field associated with the sampling location may be computed based on the distance fields associated with the set of texels. The interpolated distance field may represent a relative distance between the sampling location and a texture edge. According to a blending proportion based on the interpolated distance field, the computing system may determine a blended color for the sampling location by blending, a first and second color associated with a first side of the edge and a second side of the edge, and output a color for the pixel based on the blended color.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.Inventor: Larry Seiler
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Patent number: 11282242Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions readable and executable by a workstation (18) including at least one electronic processor (20) to perform an image reconstruction method (100). The method includes: generating, from received imaging data, a plurality of intermediate images reconstructed without scatter correction from data partitioned into different energy windows; generating a fraction of true counts and a fraction of scatter events in the generated intermediate images; generating a final reconstructed image from the intermediate images, the fraction of true counts in the intermediate images, and the fraction of scatter counts in the intermediate images; and at least one of controlling the non-transitory computer readable medium to store the final image and control a display device (24) to display the final image.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Jinghan Ye, Xiyun Song, Chuanyong Bai, Andriy Andreyev, Chi-Hua Tung, Zhiqiang Hu
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Patent number: 11270443Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically tracking objects, and projecting rendered 3D content onto said objects in real-time. The methods described herein further include image data capture performed by various image-capturing devices, wherein said data is segmented into various components to identify one or more projectors for rendering and projecting 3D content components onto one or more objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Robert G. LeGaye, Ian Coyle, Ian LeBlanc, Ben Purdy, Thomas Wester
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Patent number: 11272441Abstract: A mobile transceiver having multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and a method of selection is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver, comprising: activate a cellular transceiver using a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card in the plurality of SIM cards; switch from the first SIM card to a second SIM card in the plurality of SIM cards in response to a determination that a wireless service for the first SIM card is not available.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jose Eduardo Korneluk, Sandeep Chennakeshu, Siddharth Saxena, Sergio Javier Berriz