Patents by Inventor Wyatt Thomas Riley
Wyatt Thomas Riley 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).
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Publication number: 20220390236Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods to supplement, combine, replace, verify and calibrate in-vehicle and in-device sensors and GNSS systems are presented. A mobile device and a vehicle navigation system share sensor and GNSS information to arrive at an improved navigation solution. For example, a navigation solution computed by a vehicle may rely on a sensor signal from a mobile device. Similarly, a navigation solution computed by a mobile device may use a sensor signal or a GNSS signal from a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventor: Wyatt Thomas RILEY
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Publication number: 20210080596Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for position determination and other operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station uses wireless signals from a plurality of wireless networks (e.g., with different air interfaces and/or operated by different service providers) for position determination (e.g., for data communication, for obtaining time and/or frequency information, for range measurement, for sector or altitude estimation). In one embodiment of the present invention, mobile stations are used to harvest statistical data about wireless access points (e.g., the locations of mobile stations that have received signals from the wireless access points, such as from cellular base stations, wireless local area network access points, repeaters for positioning signals, or other wireless communication transmitters) and to derive location information (e.g., position and coverage area of the wireless access points) for the wireless networks from the collected statistical data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Mark Leo Moeglein, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Wyatt Thomas Riley, James DeLoach, Jr., Leonid Sheynblat
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Patent number: 10895648Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for position determination and other operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station uses wireless signals from a plurality of wireless networks (e.g., with different air interfaces and/or operated by different service providers) for position determination (e.g., for data communication, for obtaining time and/or frequency information, for range measurement, for sector or altitude estimation). In one embodiment of the present invention, mobile stations are used to harvest statistical data about wireless access points (e.g., the locations of mobile stations that have received signals from the wireless access points, such as from cellular base stations, wireless local area network access points, repeaters for positioning signals, or other wireless communication transmitters) and to derive location information (e.g., position and coverage area of the wireless access points) for the wireless networks from the collected statistical data.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leo Moeglein, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Wyatt Thomas Riley, James Douglass DeLoach Jr., Leonid Sheynblat
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Patent number: 10725184Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with mode switchable navigation radios and the like. The methods and apparatuses may be implemented to selectively switch between certain operating modes based, at least in part, one or more determinations relating to one or more satellite positioning signals and/or space vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dominic Gerard Farmer, Jie Wu, Lalitaprasad V Daita, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Wyatt Thomas Riley
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Patent number: 10473690Abstract: Techniques for compensating for inertial and/or magnetic interference in a mobile device are provided. The mobile device can include a vibration motor to vibrate the device, a processor, and can include an inertial sensor and/or a magnetometer. The processor can be configured to actuate the vibration motor to induce vibration of the mobile device, to measure motion of the mobile device with the inertial sensor of the device to produce sensor output data and/or to measure a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor to produce magnetometer output data, and to compensate for the vibration of the inertial sensor induced by the vibration motor to produce compensated sensor output data and/or to compensate for a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor when the vibration motor is actuated to produce compensated magnetometer output data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, Carlos Manuel Puig, Joseph Czompo
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Patent number: 10247828Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to positioning systems and location determination using measurement stitching.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Dominic Gerard Farmer
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Patent number: 10041798Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods to supplement, combine, replace, verify and calibrate in-vehicle and in-device sensors and GNSS systems are presented. A mobile device and a vehicle navigation system share sensor and GNSS information to arrive at an improved navigation solution. For example, a navigation solution computed by a vehicle may rely on a sensor signal from a mobile device. Similarly, a navigation solution computed by a mobile device may use a sensor signal or a GNSS signal from a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Inventor: Wyatt Thomas Riley
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Publication number: 20180113148Abstract: Techniques for compensating for inertial and/or magnetic interference in a mobile device are provided. The mobile device can include a vibration motor to vibrate the device, a processor, and can include an inertial sensor and/or a magnetometer. The processor can be configured to actuate the vibration motor to induce vibration of the mobile device, to measure motion of the mobile device with the inertial sensor of the device to produce sensor output data and/or to measure a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor to produce magnetometer output data, and to compensate for the vibration of the inertial sensor induced by the vibration motor to produce compensated sensor output data and/or to compensate for a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor when the vibration motor is actuated to produce compensated magnetometer output data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Wyatt Thomas RILEY, Carlos Manuel PUIG, Joseph CZOMPO
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Patent number: 9880193Abstract: Techniques for compensating for inertial and/or magnetic interference in a mobile device are provided. The mobile device can include a vibration motor to vibrate the device, a processor, and can include an inertial sensor and/or a magnetometer. The processor can be configured to actuate the vibration motor to induce vibration of the mobile device, to measure motion of the mobile device with the inertial sensor of the device to produce sensor output data and/or to measure a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor to produce magnetometer output data, and to compensate for the vibration of the inertial sensor induced by the vibration motor to produce compensated sensor output data and/or to compensate for a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor when the vibration motor is actuated to produce compensated magnetometer output data.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, Carlos Manuel Puig, Joseph Czompo
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Publication number: 20170315240Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with mode switchable navigation radios and the like. The methods and apparatuses may be implemented to selectively switch between certain operating modes based, at least in part, one or more determinations relating to one or more satellite positioning signals and/or space vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dominic Gerard Farmer, Jie Wu, Lalitaprasad V Daita, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Wyatt Thomas Riley
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Patent number: 9778372Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for position determination and other operations. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station uses wireless signals from a plurality of wireless networks (e.g., with different air interfaces and/or operated by different service providers) for position determination (e.g., for data communication, for obtaining time and/or frequency information, for range measurement, for sector or altitude estimation). In one embodiment of the present invention, mobile stations are used to harvest statistical data about wireless access points (e.g., the locations of mobile stations that have received signals from the wireless access points, such as from cellular base stations, wireless local area network access points, repeaters for positioning signals or other wireless communication transmitters) and to derive location information (e.g., position and coverage area of the wireless access points) for the wireless networks from the collected statistical data.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mark Leo Moeglein, Douglas Neal Rowitch, Wyatt Thomas Riley, James Douglass DeLoach, Jr., Leonid Sheynblat
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Patent number: 9677887Abstract: The disclosure relates to estimating an initial position and navigation state associated with a vehicle using odometry and/or other data obtained from the vehicle to support dead reckoning at start-up. In particular, a last known position and last known heading at a first odometer value associated with the vehicle may be stored and compared to a current odometer value after linking a mobile device with the vehicle. The last known position and last known heading may be used to estimate the initial position and navigation state associated with the vehicle based on a difference between the compared odometer values. For example, the estimated initial position and/or navigation state may substantially correspond to the last known position and last known heading if the difference between the odometer values indicates no change, or a non-zero difference may define a radius to limit an estimated error associated with the initial position estimate.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Benjamin A. Werner, William James Morrison, Wyatt Thomas Riley, Joseph Czompo
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Publication number: 20170131410Abstract: A mobile device may use one or more outlier detectors to detect likelihoods that an outlier condition exists for a satellite positioning system (SPS) position fix. In some implementations, a method may comprise checking a position fix of a SPS receiver for consistency with assistance data used to generate a position fix. The method may further comprise determining whether to generate a new position fix using less than all of the assistance data based, at least in part, on results of the checking of the position fix.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, Lalitaprasad V. Daita, William James Morrison, Dominic Gerard Farmer, Jie Wu
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Patent number: 9568609Abstract: An attenuated satellite positioning system (SPS) signal is acquired using long integration over multiple navigation data bits. To produce a stable internal clock signal to perform the long integration, an external clock signal is received from a highly stable source, such as a wireless communication base station or a nearby femtocell. An internal oscillator is driven at a desired frequency that is aligned with the scaled frequency of the external clock signal to produce the stable internal clock signal. The SPS signal is received and integrated for an extended period using the internal clock signal. Predicted SPS data may be received from an external source and used to perform coherent integration. Alternatively, non-coherent integration may be performed. Additionally, a motion sensor may be used to determine if there is motion relative to the external clock source or to compensate for Doppler errors in the external clock signal due to motion.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Mayur N. Shah, Wyatt Thomas Riley, Dominic Gerard Farmer
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Patent number: 9476716Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and devices for generating one or more harsh or diminished radiofrequency environments relative to a planned route of a mobile device user. In one example, a mobile device user a be routed through a harsh or diminished radiofrequency environment based, at least in part, on a sensor suite of a mobile device and/or based on a user's preferences. Prior to entry into such an environment, various sensors may be activated in a manner that permits position estimation in an absence of SPS based positioning signals and/or TPS based positioning signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Guttorm R. Opshaug, Manish Kushwaha, Wyatt Thomas Riley, Zoltan F. Biacs, Mayur N. Shah, Joseph Czompo
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Patent number: 9423505Abstract: A mobile device may use one or more outlier detectors to detect likelihoods that an outlier condition exists for a satellite positioning system (SPS) position fix. In some implementations, an outlier detector may compare a computed position fix to an element of assistance data to generate an outlier likelihood. A decision to perform a recovery operation may be made based, at least in part, on a generated outlier likelihood. In some implementations, a computed reliability of the position fix may also be considered in making a recovery decision.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, Lalitaprasad V. Daita, William James Morrison, Dominic Gerard Farmer, Jie Wu
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Patent number: 9354321Abstract: A mobile communications device uses a method for determining position that involves a positioning filter, such as a Kalman filter, which is initialized with measurements from reference stations such as satellite vehicles and/or base stations which may be acquired during different epochs. Accordingly, the positioning filter may be used for position estimation without the need to first acquire at least three different signals during the same measurement epoch.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wyatt Thomas Riley, John R. Blackmer, Dominic Gerard Farmer, Rayman Wai Pon
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Patent number: 9250080Abstract: Navigation solutions for a pedestrian or vehicle user are obtained by determining whether the direction and location of the user obtained from a map at least substantially conform to the direction and location of the user based on one or more measurements obtained from one or more sensors, and if the direction and location of the user obtained from the map at least substantially conform to the direction and location of the user based on one or more measurements obtained from one or more sensors, computing the navigation solutions based, at least in part, on the direction and location of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: William James Morrison, Wyatt Thomas Riley, Yuhua Hu
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Patent number: 9223004Abstract: Systems and methods for constraining growth in position uncertainty of a mobile device are based on determination that the mobile device is in a pedestrian mode. Determination of the pedestrian mode is based on detection of steps by a pedometer, speed of motion of the mobile device, turn rate determination by a gyroscope, charging condition of the mobile device, availability of satellite signals, etc. Step counts and/or turn rate information are used to ascertain the distance that a pedestrian user may have traversed from a last known position, based on which growth of position uncertainty is controlled.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: William James Morrison, Tao Jia, Joseph Czompo, Wyatt Thomas Riley
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Patent number: 9191897Abstract: The disclosure is related to managing power consumption of a user equipment (UE) while providing location services. An aspect determines whether a given sensor configuration of a plurality of sensor configurations minimizes power consumption of the UE, wherein a sensor configuration comprises a set of values for a set of one or more sensor parameters controllable by the UE, and, based upon the determining, sets the set of one or more sensor parameters to the given sensor configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: William James Morrison, Benjamin A. Werner, Joseph Czompo, Vesa Veikko Ruuska, Tao Jia, Wyatt Thomas Riley, Ashok Bhatia