Patents by Inventor Ali Cafer Gurbuz

Ali Cafer Gurbuz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11301672
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer program product for radar-based communication and interpretation of sign languages such as American Sign language (ASL) comprising detecting, using a radar system comprising a computing device, sign language gestures, wherein said detected sign language gestures comprise radar data; analyzing the radar data using a trained neural network executing on the computing device to determine word or phrases intended by the sign language gestures; and outputting the determined words or phrases in a visible or audible format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama
    Inventors: Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz, Ali Cafer Gurbuz, Chris Crawford, Darrin Griffin
  • Publication number: 20200334452
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer program product for radar-based communication and interpretation of sign languages such as American Sign language (ASL) comprising detecting, using a radar system comprising a computing device, sign language gestures, wherein said detected sign language gestures comprise radar data; analyzing the radar data using a trained neural network executing on the computing device to determine word or phrases intended by the sign language gestures; and outputting the determined words or phrases in a visible or audible format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Sevgi Zubeyde Gurbuz, Ali Cafer Gurbuz, Chris Crawford, Darrin Griffin
  • Patent number: 8379485
    Abstract: Compressive Sensing (CS) is an emerging area which uses a relatively small number of non-traditional samples in the form of randomized projections to reconstruct sparse or compressible signals. Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is performed with an array of sensors using CS. Using random projections of the sensor data, along with a full waveform recording on one reference sensor, a sparse angle space scenario can be reconstructed, giving the number of sources and their DOA's. Signal processing algorithms are also developed and described herein for randomly deployable wireless sensor arrays that are severely constrained in communication bandwidth. There is a focus on the acoustic bearing estimation problem and it is shown that when the target bearings are modeled as a sparse vector in the angle space, functions of the low dimensional random projections of the microphone signals can be used to determine multiple source bearings as a solution of an l]-norm minimization problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Volkan Cevher, Ali Cafer Gurbuz, James H. McClellan, Ramalingam Chellappa
  • Publication number: 20100265799
    Abstract: Compressive Sensing (CS) is an emerging area which uses a relatively small number of non-traditional samples in the form of randomized projections to reconstruct sparse or com-pressible signals. Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is performed with an array of sensors using CS. Using random projections of the sensor data, along with a full waveform recording on one reference sensor, a sparse angle space scenario can be reconstructed, giving the number of sources and their DOA's. Signal processing algorithms are also developed and described herein for randomly deployable wireless sensor arrays that are severely constrained in communication bandwidth. There is a focus on the acoustic bearing estimation problem and it is shown that when the target bearings are modeled as a sparse vector in the angle space, functions of the low dimensional random projections of the microphone signals can be used to determine multiple source bearings as a solution of an 1]-norm minimization problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Volkan Cevher, Ali Cafer Gurbuz, James H. McClellan, Ramalingan Chellappa