Patents by Inventor Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia 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).

  • Publication number: 20240175683
    Abstract: A motion tracking system comprises a computing device and a plurality of motion trackers in communication with the computing device. A user interface provided by the computing device is used to instruct a subject to perform a movement of one or more body members. One or more frequencies of one or more of the plurality of motion trackers is adjusted to reduce a power consumption of at least one of the plurality of motion tracker to thereby reduce a power consumption of the motion tracking system. The one or more frequencies is adjusted based at least in part on the movement which the subject is instructed to perform. The subject is tracked using the plurality of motion trackers of the motion tracking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Pedro Miguel Simoes Bastos Martins, Pedro Miguel Moreira de Sousa, Jose Carlos Coelho Alves, João Paulo Dias Andrade, Mârcio Filipe Moutinho Colunas, Luìs AntÓnio Correia de Oliverira, Virgìlio AntÓnio Ferro Bento
  • Publication number: 20240176023
    Abstract: A motion measuring system comprises a plurality of sensors and at least one computing device in communication with the plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors comprise one or more optical sensors and one or more body member sensors. A user interface provided by the at least one computing device is used to instruct a subject to perform a movement of one or more body members. An adjustment of one or more frequencies of one or more of the plurality of sensors is performed to reduce a power consumption of at least one of the plurality of sensors. The adjustment is performed based at least in part on the movement which the subject is instructed to perform. A motion of the subject is measured using the one or more optical sensors of the motion measuring system during or subsequent to performing the adjustment of the one or more frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Pedro Miguel Simoes Bastos Martins, Pedro Miguel Moreira de Sousa, José Carlos Coelho Alves, João Paulo Dias Andrade, Márcio Filipe Moutinho Colunas, Luís António Correia de Oliveira, Virgílio António Ferro Bento
  • Patent number: 11960791
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motion tracking system, including the steps of: digitally processing sound waves detected by a plurality of microphones so as to detect a voice of a user and estimate a first direction of the user; digitally processing electromagnetic waves captured by antennas so as to detect data packets transmitted to a computing apparatus by sensors and estimate second directions of each sensor; digitally averaging the second directions so as to provide an average direction for the sensors; digitally computing a difference between the first direction and the average direction; and starting to digitally track motion of the user based on measurements of each sensor when the computed difference does not exceed a predetermined difference threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SWORD HEALTH, S.A.
    Inventors: Márcio Filipe Moutinho Colunas, José Carlos Coelho Alves, Luís António Correia de Oliveira, Luís Ungaro Pinto Coelho, Virgílio António Ferro Bento
  • Publication number: 20230241454
    Abstract: Methods for automatically monitoring operation of a motion tracking system and actuating based on the operation, the motion tracking system comprising both a computing device, and a plurality of inertial measurement units adapted to be arranged on a body of a user. The computing device processes measurements of the units and sound captured by at least one microphone to provide flags related to the motion tracking procedure with regards to the motion input and the sound input, and actuates when motion-related flags and sound-related flags have been provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: José Carlos COELHO ALVES, Diego Ricardo CASTRO GONÇALVES, Márcio Filipe MOUTINHO COLUNAS, Ana Clara FERREIRA MATOS, Luís Ungaro PINTO COELHO, Pedro Henrique OLIVEIRA SANTOS, Luís António CORREIA DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro Filipe Xavier RODRIGUEAS, Virgílio António FERRO BENTO
  • Publication number: 20230108601
    Abstract: A method for establishing wireless communications connections between sensors and a computing apparatus of a motion tracking system include the steps: processing radiofrequency signals received by the computing apparatus and transmitted by each sensor, each radiofrequency signal including an advertisement package of the respective sensor; providing a number of RSSI per sensor based on the processed radiofrequency signals; computing and storing mean RSSI values based on the number of RSSI so that a number of RSSImean values is computed per sensor; computing velocities of change of RSSImean, vRSSI, based on the number of RSSImean values so that a number of vRSSI values is computed per sensor; establishing the wireless communications for which at least the following is fulfilled: the computing apparatus determines that at least some vRSSI values within a first period of the number of vRSSI values of each sensor has a modulus greater than a predetermined minimum velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: José Carlos COELHO ALVES, Pedro Filipe Xavier RODRIGUES, Márcio Filipe MOUTINHO COLUNAS, Luís António CORREIA DE OLIVEIRA, André Moura RODRIGUES NOGUEIRA, Virgílio António FERRO BENTO
  • Publication number: 20230043643
    Abstract: A method for allowing or disallowing control of a motion tracking system by means of voice, comprising: digitally processing sound detected by each microphone of the at least one microphone; digitally computing SNR by computing both first energy of a voice signal in the detected sound and second energy of noise in the detected sound; digitally processing electromagnetic waves captured by each antenna of the at least one antenna so as to detect data packets transmitted to the computing apparatus by each sensor of the plurality of sensors, each data packet including RSSI of a respective sensor; digitally computing distance between each sensor and the computing apparatus based on the RSSI of the data packets received from the respective sensor; digitally computing a percentage of sensors of the plurality of sensors having at least one of: a distance exceeding a predetermined maximum distance threshold, and a change in distance exceeding a predetermined maximum changing distance threshold; and digitally setting a
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Márcio Filipe MOUTINHO COLUNAS, Luís António CORREIA DE OLIVEIRA, José Carlos COELHO ALVES, Rui Xavier FIALHO COSTA, Virgílio António FERRO BENTO
  • Publication number: 20230003863
    Abstract: Motion tracking systems and methods for determining how trackers are positioned on body members of a person, the methods including: wirelessly receiving, by a computing device, one or more first data packets of each tracker; digitally determining a first direction in which the computing device is relative to the respective tracker by computing an angle of departure of the one or more first data packets; digitally determining based on the first directions, a second direction in which each tracker is relative to one or more other trackers; and digitally determining on which body member is each tracker positioned on the person at least based on both the second directions and the body members requiring to have a tracker positioned thereon. Also, systems and methods in which angles of arrival are computed for determining the first directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: José Carlos Coelho ALVES, Márcio Filipe Moutinho COLUNAS, Luís António Correia de OLIVEIRA, Pedro Filipe Xavier RODRIGUES, Pedro Miguel Simões Bastos MARTINS, Pedro Miguel Moreira de SOUSA, Virgílio António Ferro BENTO
  • Publication number: 20220308829
    Abstract: A method for controlling a motion tracking system, including the steps of: digitally processing sound waves detected by a plurality of microphones so as to detect a voice of a user and estimate a first direction of the user; digitally processing electromagnetic waves captured by antennas so as to detect data packets transmitted to a computing apparatus by sensors and estimate second directions of each sensor; digitally averaging the second directions so as to provide an average direction for the sensors; digitally computing a difference between the first direction and the average direction; and starting to digitally track motion of the user based on measurements of each sensor when the computed difference does not exceed a predetermined difference threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Márcio Filipe Moutinho COLUNAS, José Carlos Coelho ALVES, Luís António Correia de OLIVEIRA, Luís Ungaro Pinto COELHO, Virgílio António Ferro BENTO
  • Patent number: 11243142
    Abstract: A method is provided for testing a reliability of a plurality of driven component variants (22, 24, 30), such as those to be used as power train elements in one or more wind turbines. The method includes conducting physical success run testing on a test bench (42) of a first subset of test specimens (50) provided for the component variants (22, 24, 30), and conducting virtual success run testing of a second subset of the test specimens (50). The virtual success run testing does not use test bench time or physical component samples, which reduces the costs typically needed to provide reliability results for specified operating time durations or other parameters at desired confidence levels for operators of driven components such as wind turbine operators, who want to avoid unscheduled downtime based on component failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Antonio Correia
  • Patent number: 11002633
    Abstract: A method is provided for testing a reliability of a plurality of driven components (22, 24, 30), such as those to be used as power train elements in one or more wind turbines. The method includes conducting physical success run testing on a test bench (42) of a first subset of test specimens (50) provided for the driven components (22, 24, 30), determining a minimum test duration needed for one of a second subset of test specimens (50) that will be required to confirm reliability of the driven components (22, 24, 30) at a predetermined target confidence level, and conducting physical success run testing of the second subset of the test specimens (50). The planning and evaluation of physical testing according to the methods described herein avoid excessive, unnecessary use of the test bench (42) and other resources. As such, results of desired confidence levels for operators of driven components (22, 24, 30) such as wind turbine operators can be reliably provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Antonio Correia
  • Publication number: 20190277726
    Abstract: A method is provided for testing a reliability of a plurality of driven components (22, 24, 30), such as those to be used as power train elements in one or more wind turbines. The method includes conducting physical success run testing on a test bench (42) of a first subset of test specimens (50) provided for the driven components (22, 24, 30), determining a minimum test duration needed for one of a second subset of test specimens (50) that will be required to confirm reliability of the driven components (22, 24, 30) at a predetermined target confidence level, and conducting physical success run testing of the second subset of the test specimens (50). The planning and evaluation of physical testing according to the methods described herein avoid excessive, unnecessary use of the test bench (42) and other resources. As such, results of desired confidence levels for operators of driven components (22, 24, 30) such as wind turbine operators can be reliably provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Antonio Correia
  • Publication number: 20190278642
    Abstract: A method is provided for testing a reliability of a plurality of driven component variants (22, 24, 30), such as those to be used as power train elements in one or more wind turbines. The method includes conducting physical success run testing on a test bench (42) of a first subset of test specimens (50) provided for the component variants (22, 24, 30), and conducting virtual success run testing of a second subset of the test specimens (50). The virtual success run testing does not use test bench time or physical component samples, which reduces the costs typically needed to provide reliability results for specified operating time durations or other parameters at desired confidence levels for operators of driven components such as wind turbine operators, who want to avoid unscheduled downtime based on component failures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Antonio Correia
  • Publication number: 20080128212
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oil scoop assembly (2) for using in a stationary housing with machine parts, rotatable therein around a rotational axis. The oil scoop assembly comprises an oil return element (3), which can be connected to the housing and has a wiper (10) for abutting an outer face (21) of a machine part, at least one channel (6), which is supplied by the wiper (10) with oil and which ends in an annular channel (7), extending coaxially to the rotational axis A; and an oil scoop wheel (4), connectable to one of the machine parts, with a plurality of blades (24), distributed around the rotational axis A and which extend into the annular channel (7) and, when the oil scoop wheel (4) rotates relative to the oil return element (3), delivers oil from the annular channel (7). The invention relates further to a clutch arrangement (32) with such an oil scoop assembly (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Utzat, Ralf Schafer, Antonio Correia, Aleksej Katsnelson, Holger Seidl