Combined With Determining Direction Patents (Class 342/146)
  • Patent number: 11952087
    Abstract: A smart clothing and backpack system enables a user to perform many actions. The smart clothing includes circuitry and/or is made of a conductive material enclosed in an insulation material. The smart clothing includes a set of sensors configured to detect body information. The smart clothing includes multiple electromagnets configured to adjust a size of the smart clothing. The electromagnets are configured to have an increased attraction to make the smart clothing tighter on the body of the user. The system includes a smart backpack to communicate with the smart clothing. The smart backpack includes a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader configured to detect RFID tags on or in items within the smart backpack. Many other features are able to be implemented with the smart clothing and backpack system. The smart clothing is able to include a wetsuit configured to communicate with a surfboard and/or a backpack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandra E. Myslinski, William T. Myslinski, Lucas J. Myslinski
  • Patent number: 11953590
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for detecting multipath radar returns and modifying radar data. A vehicle may use radar devices to receive radar data while traversing within an environment. The vehicle may process the radar data using a virtual array based on an arraignment of the antennae within an aperture of the radar device. Using the virtual array, the vehicle may determine an elevated noise level that may be indicative of a multipath radar return. Based on the elevated noise level, the vehicle may determine a second virtual array associated with multipath radar returns, and may process the radar data using the second virtual array. Based on determining that the noise level associated with the second virtual array is lower than the initial noise level, the vehicle may determine that the radar data includes a multipath radar return, and may modify the radar data to correct or mitigate the error caused by the multipath return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Abdeldayem, Badeea Ferdaous Alferdaous Alazem, Samantha Marie Ting
  • Patent number: 11950585
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating a distance to an object are described. In an example, a device can receive a reflected signal of a modulated signal being used in a wireless transmission of data. The reflected signal can be a reflection of the modulated signal from at least one object. The device can estimate a distance to the at least one object based on the modulated signal and the reflected signal. Further, the device can use the estimated distance to image a scenery including the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Junfeng Guan, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Arun Paidimarri, Asaf Tzadok, Alberto Valdes Garcia
  • Patent number: 11933585
    Abstract: The method and apparatus for a remote weapon station or incorporated into manually-aimed weapons. The methodology requires use of a muzzle velocity sensor that refines the aiming of the second and subsequent fires or volleys fired from weapon systems. When firing the first volley a weapon uses an estimated velocity and, at firing, the muzzle velocity of a projectile is measured. When firing the second volley a weapon's fire control calculates an aiming point using the measured velocity of the first volley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NOSTROMO HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Sullivan, Torgrim Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 11929814
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may determine a reference location associated with a virtual image corresponding to a target area. The network node may transmit a radio frequency signal, wherein the radio frequency signal is beamformed based at least in part on the reference location to direct the radio frequency signal to the target area. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Danlu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11921229
    Abstract: An apparatus, including processing unit (PU) cores and computer readable storage devices storing machine instructions for determining a distance between a target object and a radar sensor circuit. The PU cores receive a beat signal generated by the radar sensor circuit and compensate for a phase difference between the received beat signal and a reconstruction of the received beat signal to obtain a phase compensated beat signal. The phase compensated beat signal is then filtered to remove spurious reflections by demodulating the phase compensated beat signal using an estimated frequency of the phase compensated beat signal. The PU cores then apply a low pass filter to the demodulated phase compensated beat signal, resulting in a modified beat signal. The PU cores then determine the distance between the target object and the radar sensor circuit using the modified beat signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Zubair Ikram, Adeel Ahmad, Dan Wang, Murtaza Ali
  • Patent number: 11919508
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for vehicle perception. A first contour of a current image a dna second contour of a next image are determined relative to an optical center. The current image is scaled to the next image relative to the optical center, wherein the scaling includes applying a scale vector to the first contour. A frame offset vector is determined, and the second contour is translated, based on the frame offset vector and the scale vector, to align the translated second contour to a focus of expansion. An image velocity is determined, based on the first contour and the translated second contour, wherein the image velocity is used to determine object movement from the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Edmund Dawes Zink, Qiang Liu, Jens Langenberg
  • Patent number: 11906615
    Abstract: To provide an object position detection system in which positions of detection target objects are determined with accuracy, in which pairing accuracy increases, and in which accuracy of detecting the detection target objects increases. Radar devices 2A and 2B receive, with respective reception antennas 31, reception waves obtained by transmission waves that have been transmitted from respective transmission antennas 25 being reflected back from a plurality of targets T1, T2, T3, T4, . . . , and Tm and calculate relative distances to the plurality of targets T1, T2, T3, T4, . . . , and Tm from beat frequencies between the transmission waves and the reception waves without using pieces of phase information of the transmission waves and the reception waves. An arithmetic device 4 includes a pairing means and a position calculation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Maekawa
  • Patent number: 11906617
    Abstract: A portable radar system that may leverage the processing power, input and/or display functionality in mobile computing devices. Some examples of mobile computing devices may include mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers and similar devices. The radar system of this disclosure may include a wired or wireless interface to communicate with the mobile computing device, or similar device that includes a display. The radar system may be configured with an open set of instructions for interacting with an application executing on the mobile computing device to accept control inputs as well as output signals that the application may interpret and display, such as target detection and tracking. The radar system may consume less power than other radar systems. The radar system of this disclosure may be used for a wide variety of applications by consumers, military, law enforcement and commercial use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Vacanti, Jeffrey D. Radke
  • Patent number: 11814044
    Abstract: A method includes transmitting a first transmitted signal corresponding to a first range rate window size; receiving a first received signal; determining a first detected range rate of an object based on the first received signal; transmitting a second transmitted signal corresponding to a second range rate window size; receiving a second received signal; determining a second detected range rate of the object based on the second received signal; computing a first range rate window index based on a first range rate window index difference; in accordance with a determination that the first range rate window index meets predefined criteria, computing an estimated range rate based on the first range rate window index difference; and in accordance with a determination that the first range rate window index does not meet the predefined criteria, foregoing computing an estimated range rate based on the first range rate window index difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Motional Ad LLC
    Inventor: Guchan Ozbilgin
  • Patent number: 11777230
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna device comprises an antenna panel including a first transmission antenna, a first reception antenna, and a second reception antenna, and a rotation device configured to rotate the antenna panel. A first radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when a rotation angle of the antenna panel is a first angle and a reflected radio wave of the first radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna. A second radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when the rotation angle is a second angle and a reflected radio wave of the second radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Xu Zhu, Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 11762085
    Abstract: A device comprising circuitry configured to: obtain radar signal measurements simultaneously acquired by two or more radar sensors having overlapping fields of view, derive range information of one or more potential targets from samples of radar signal measurements of said two or more radar sensors acquired at the same time or during the same time interval, the range information of a single sample representing a ring segment of potential positions of a potential target at a particular range from the respective radar sensor in its field of view, determine intersection points of ring segments of the derived range information, determine a region of the scene having one of the highest densities of intersection points, select a ring segment per sensor that goes through the selected region, and determine the most likely target position of the potential target from the derived range information of the selected ring segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maximilian Steiner, Christian Waldschmidt
  • Patent number: 11763433
    Abstract: A depth image generation method includes obtaining a first depth image, based on a binocular image, obtaining a second depth image, using a depth camera, and obtaining a final depth image by performing image fusion on the obtained first depth image and the obtained second depth image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua Liu, Yamin Mao, Tianhao Gao, Hongseok Lee, Myungjae Jeon, Qiang Wang, Yuntae Kim
  • Patent number: 11753781
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes a roadway stud control system including a local stud control system positioned along a first section of a roadway, a plurality of roadway studs, each roadway stud disposed on a surface of the first section of the roadway and communicably coupled to the local stud control system, wherein the local stud control system is configured to communicate a control signal to control at least one aspect of the plurality of roadway studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MZC Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Harriet Anderson Langford, A. Philip Langford, Alan J. Anderson, John Picard, Allison Kelly Beaton, Glenn Le Faou, Laura Churcher, James Salisbury, Marie Buda, Edward Colby, Andy Milton
  • Patent number: 11726177
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating the number of targets including a radar signal receiver configured to receive a radar signal that belongs to a detection signal transmitted by a radar and that is reflected by an object on the ground, and a controller configured to learn the number of targets by processing the received radar signal and to estimate the number of targets by processing a newly received radar signal based on the learned information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11709977
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a high-fidelity radar simulator that performs operations associated with a radar system's hardware and/or software. The radar simulator can account for non-ideal characteristics within the radar system or environment and have an ability to process data from a variety of electromagnetic (EM) simulators. By using the radar simulator, an EM simulator can operate without specific information regarding the radar system's antenna response or signal generation. In this manner, the EM simulator can be decoupled from the radar system's design and operational configuration. Furthermore, the radar simulator can use the same environmental response data generated by the EM simulator to estimate performances of multiple radar systems. Use of the high-fidelity radar simulator enables problems to be efficiently discovered during design, integration, and testing phases of the radar system prior to performing a live test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Bruno F. Camps Raga, James F. Searcy
  • Patent number: 11700531
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and protecting against phase manipulation during AoA or AoD operations are disclosed. For AoA operations, the network device receiving the constant tone extension (CTE) generates an antenna switching pattern, which may be randomly generated. The network device then receives the CTE using a plurality of antenna elements. In one embodiment, the network device compares the phase of portions of the CTE signal received that utilize the same antenna element. If the phase of these portions differs by more than a threshold, the network device detects a malicious attack and acts accordingly. In another embodiment, if the AoA algorithm cannot determine the angle of arrival, the network device detects a malicious attack and acts accordingly. For angle of departure operations, the network device that transmits the CTE signal generates the antenna switching pattern and transmits it to the position engine, which performs the comparisons described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Esa Piirilä, Lauri Hintsala
  • Patent number: 11656365
    Abstract: A method of automatically geolocating a visual target. The method comprises operating a flying vehicle in a search region including the visual target. The method further includes affirmatively identifying a visual target in an aerial photograph of the search region captured by the flying vehicle. The method further includes automatically correlating the aerial photograph of the search region to a geo-tagged photograph of the search region, wherein the geo-tagged photograph is labelled with pre-defined geospatial coordinates. Based on such automatic correlation, a geospatial coordinate is determined for the visual target in the search region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Evan Gregory Levine
  • Patent number: 11656354
    Abstract: A radar system for tracking UAVs and other low flying objects utilizing wireless networking equipment is provided. The system is implemented as a distributed low altitude radar system where transmitting antennas are coupled with the wireless networking equipment to radiate signals in a skyward direction. A receiving antenna or array receives signals radiated from the transmitting antenna, and in particular, signals or echoes reflected from the object in the skyward detection region. One or more processing components is electronically coupled with the wireless networking equipment and receiving antenna to receive and manipulate signal information to provide recognition of and track low flying objects and their movement within the coverage region. The system may provide detection of objects throughout a plurality of regions by networking regional nodes, and aggregating the information to detect and track UAVs and other low flying objects as they move within the detection regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rhombus Systems Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Erlend Olson
  • Patent number: 11635487
    Abstract: A method for controlling a radar apparatus that detects an object using frequency modulation includes: performing first reception of a radio wave in a state where transmission of a radio wave for detecting the object is stopped, to obtain a first reception signal; performing second reception of a radio wave in a state where the transmission of the radio wave is stopped, to obtain a second reception signal, after the performing of the first reception; acquiring a strength of a difference signal between the first reception signal and the second reception signal; comparing the strength with a threshold value; and starting the transmission of the radio wave in a case where the strength is equal to or less than the first threshold value in the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Joji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11634152
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to provide a steering indicator to a driver of a vehicle. It is determined whether a first obstacle is in a forward path of the vehicle and whether a second obstacle is present at a side of the vehicle. In response to (a) determining the first obstacle is in the forward path and (b) determining whether the second obstacle is present at the one or more sides of the vehicle, a suggested steering action indicator indicating one or more movements for the vehicle to avoid the first obstacle is provided to a user interface of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Koh, Hervé Cecchi, Steven Goodin
  • Patent number: 11595835
    Abstract: Service cognizant radio role assignments may be provided. A computing device may receive a beacon message associated with a tag. Then, based on information derived from the beacon message, an optimum radio in a network may be determined to monitor the tag. The optimum radio may be associated with an Access Point (AP) comprising one of a plurality of APs in the network. The optimum radio associated with the AP in the network may then be provisioned to monitor the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal Satyendra Desai, Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton
  • Patent number: 11543512
    Abstract: A system and method for locating radio-frequency identification tags within a predetermined area. The method can incorporate sub-threshold superposition response mapping techniques, alone, or in combination with other methods for locating radio-frequency identification tags such as but not limited to time differential on arrival (TDOA), frequency domain phase difference on arrival (FD-PDOA), and radio signal strength indication (RSSI). The system can include a plurality of antennas dispersed in a predefined area; one or more radio-frequency identification tags; a radio-frequency transceiver in communication with said antennas; a phase modulator coupled to the radio-frequency transceiver; and a system controller in communication with said transceiver and said phase modulator. Calibration techniques can be employed to map constructive interference zones for improved accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Automaton, Inc.
    Inventor: Spencer Hewett
  • Patent number: 11493598
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first signal associated with a first multipath effect from a first radar installed on a vehicle at a first height, receiving a second signal associated with a second multipath effect from a second radar installed on the vehicle at a second height, wherein the first height and the second height are different, wherein a difference between the first height and the second height is configured to generate a mitigation of the first multipath effect and the second multipath effect, and wherein the first radar and the second radar have an overlapping field of view, and determining that a target exists in the overlapping field of view based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Woven Planet North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamaledin Izadian, Mohammad Emadi
  • Patent number: 11494830
    Abstract: Described is a multiple-camera system and process for determining an item involved in an event. For example, when a user picks an item or places an item at an inventory location, image information for the item may be obtained and processed to identify the item involved in the event and associate that item with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Jiang, Yasser Baseer Asmi, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Emilio Ian Maldonado, Ammar Chinoy, Daniel Bibireata, Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan
  • Patent number: 11486958
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing magnetic tracking error in the position and orientation determined in an electromagnetic tracking system is disclosed. In some embodiments, a corrected position and orientation is blended with an uncorrected position and orientation based upon the calculated probability of each. To determine a corrected position and orientation, data from an IMU in the receiver is used to obtain a constraint on the orientation. In other embodiments, the amount of detected error due to electromagnetic distortion is measured. Any error is first assumed to be from “floor distortion,” and a correction is applied. If the error is still deemed too great, a constraint is again obtained from IMU data. Using this constraint, another correction for the distortion is made. The solution from this correction may be blended with a standard solution and the solution from the floor distortion to arrive at a final solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PENUMBRA, INC.
    Inventors: Oded Y. Zur, Alejandro Santiago Diaz, Michael D. Collins, Ran Bar-On, Ron Barak, Amir Rubin
  • Patent number: 11422225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to integrated localization method and apparatus of high accuracy, and estimates a relative position of a moving node, based on motion sensing of the moving node, estimates an absolute position of the moving node, based on a change pattern of at least one signal strength received from at least one fixed node over a plurality of time points, calculates accuracy of the absolute position of the moving node that changes along a movement route of the moving node, and determines a current position of the moving node from at least one of the relative position and the absolute position estimated as such in accordance with the accuracy of the absolute position of the moving node. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately estimate a position of a moving node using a radio signal which not only accurately estimates the position of the moving node even in a change of wireless environment or various route changes but also has almost no change in signal strength over a wide region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Taikjin Lee, Chulki Kim, Yongsang Ryu, Beomju Shin
  • Patent number: 11378676
    Abstract: A device for detecting and/or tracking a projectile has a receiving antenna, for receiving at least an electromagnetic signal emitted by at least one radar, at least one amplifier configured to amplify the electromagnetic signal received by the receiving antenna, and at least one emitting antenna. The emitting antenna is configured to return, at an output of the device, an amplified electromagnetic signal for calculating data indicative of the trajectory of the projectile based at least on the amplified electromagnetic signal. A system for detecting a projectile has a transmitting device mounted on the projectile, a radar configured to sense an electromagnetic signal produced and sent by the transmitting device. The signals emitted from the projectile are limited to the electromagnetic signal sent by the transmitting device, and a processing unit, configured to calculate data indicative of the trajectory of the projectile, based on the sensing of the electromagnetic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Noam Frenkel, Josef Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 11330601
    Abstract: A method of mitigating start-of-packet interference in a millimetre waveband wireless mesh communications network which comprises a first plurality of network node devices each having a transceiver unit which includes a beamforming antenna device, and a second plurality of millimetre waveband wireless communications links each of which interconnects a respective pair of the transceiver units of the network node devices, the method comprising: allocating respective baseband centre frequencies to pairs of transceivers of the network node devices, which baseband centre frequencies are for use with respective communications links of the network, each such allocated baseband centre frequency being offset from at least one other allocated baseband centre frequency by a respective predetermined offset amount; and at a first transceiver of a selected pair of transceivers, encoding a data packet using an encoding signal having the baseband centre frequency allocated to the selected pair of transceivers, to generate an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BluWireless Technology Limited
    Inventor: Raymond Mark McConnell
  • Patent number: 11320509
    Abstract: An electronic device may use information about the location of nearby devices to make sharing with those devices more intuitive for a user. The electronic device may include control circuitry, wireless circuitry including first and second antennas, and motion sensor circuitry. The control circuitry may determine the location of a nearby electronic device by calculating the angle of arrival of signals that are transmitted by the nearby electronic device. To obtain a complete, unambiguous angle of arrival solution, the electronic device may be moved into different positions during angle of arrival measurement operations. At each position, the control circuitry may calculate a phase difference associated with the received signals. Motion sensor circuitry may gather motion data as the electronic device is moved into the different positions. The control circuitry may use the received antenna signals and the motion data to determine the complete angle of arrival solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tunc Ertan, Brent M. Ledvina, Robert W. Brumley, Adam S. Meyer, Peter C. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 11317443
    Abstract: Subband based uplink access for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. A base station performs a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on system allocated subbands of a shared communication channel. The base station determines a first set of candidate subbands that are signaled to a user equipment (UE). The UE performs an LBT procedure on the first set to identify a second set of candidate subbands including the successful LBT subbands of the first set. Aspects of the disclosure provide for managing and refining the subbands for transmissions. A first aspect provides the UE to determine a transmission behavior based on mismatch between the first and second sets. A second aspect provides the first and second sets in handshaking between the base station and UE for refining the eventual transmission set of subbands. A third aspect provides cross-band LBT reporting for further refining subband selection in later slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 11175153
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a route optimization system. The route optimization system includes a sensor configured to detect a location of one or more pedestrians. The route optimization system includes a processor. The processor is coupled to the sensor and configured to obtain a start location and a destination location for a vehicle or a personal device. The processor is configured to determine pedestrian traffic flow between the start location and the destination location based on the location of the one or more pedestrians. The processor is configured to determine multiple routes between the start location and the destination location and determine an optimal route based on the pedestrian traffic flow. The processor is configured to provide the optimal route to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Alex Pham, Jerry Tipper, Jacob Morrow, Nutonya Lynn Parker, Ratan Kumar Gone
  • Patent number: 11113363
    Abstract: An indoor event detection system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a first antenna, and the receiver includes a second antenna, a processor and a memory. The receiver communicates with the transmitter based on a line of sight link between the transmitter and the receiver covering an area to be detected in the indoor space. The processor detects whether an event associated to the indoor space is occurred by obtaining a current CSI from the probe signal, obtaining an amplitude matrix by extracting a plurality amplitudes of a plurality of sub-carriers from the current CSI, applying a statistical operation on the amplitude matrix to obtain a statistical matrix, obtaining a plurality of eigenvalues from the statistical matrix, obtaining a current eigenvalue statistical value according to the plurality of eigenvalues; and determining whether the current eigenvalue statistical value is within the first eigenvalue range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ya-Ping Wei, Horen Chen
  • Patent number: 11092670
    Abstract: A signal compression method, a signal compression apparatus, a vehicle, and a distance measurement system are provided, which can compress the LiDAR sensor signal without a loss. The signal compression method includes a division operation in which data detected by a distance measurement device is divided into a distance component and an angle component; and a preprocessing operation in which at least one of rearranging the angle component and inserting a dummy signal into arrangement of the angle component is performed such that the arrangement of the angle component has periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wanjae Lee, Jinhyuk Choi, TaeDong Oh, Haeryong Lee, Youngchul Oh, Kicheol Shin
  • Patent number: 11086011
    Abstract: A target detection device mounted in a vehicle includes: a radar specification unit; a same target determination unit; and an image specification unit that specifies, as image target position information, an image detection region of an image detection target detected on the basis of a captured image, the image detection region representing the position of the image detection target relative to the base point on an XY-plane with the X-axis representing the vehicle width direction of the vehicle and the Y-axis representing the vehicle length direction of the vehicle. The image specification unit sets the Y-axis range of the image detection region in the Y-axis direction on the basis of the bearing from the base point to each of the two X-directional ends of the image detection target in the captured image and of an expected width minimum value and an expected width maximum value in the X-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Sakai, Yohei Masui, Ryoma Niihara, Takashi Maeda, Takeshi Nanami, Minoru Nakadori
  • Patent number: 10955521
    Abstract: A wireless animal location system is provided that identifies a location of a pet roaming within an environment using a single base unit. The wireless animal location system tracks and manages animal behavior in the environment using information of pet location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Radio Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Seltzer
  • Patent number: 10863543
    Abstract: Subband based uplink access for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. A base station performs a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on system allocated subbands of a shared communication channel. The base station determines a first set of candidate subbands that are signaled to a user equipment (UE). The UE performs an LBT procedure on the first set to identify a second set of candidate subbands including the successful LBT subbands of the first set. Aspects of the disclosure provide for managing and refining the subbands for transmissions. A first aspect provides the UE to determine a transmission behavior based on mismatch between the first and second sets. A second aspect provides the first and second sets in handshaking between the base station and UE for refining the eventual transmission set of subbands. A third aspect provides cross-band LBT reporting for further refining subband selection in later slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Lei, Jing Sun, Tamer Kadous
  • Patent number: 10746512
    Abstract: A shot tracking and feedback system is disclosed that uses a camera to track a shot fired from a weapon and a moving target, such as a clay target. Radar may be used in conjunction with the camera to track the shot and the moving target. Tracking the moving target and the shot allows for determination of the paths of the shot and the target to determine and provide performance feedback, such as whether the shot was above or below the target and/or to the left or right of the target. The performance feedback and additional information may be provided on a display of the system or a user device having a display (e.g., watch, smartphone, etc.). A user may utilize the presented information to improve shooting accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Garmin Switzerland GmbH
    Inventor: Jason D. Howe
  • Patent number: 10684140
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for monitoring the accuracy of the azimuthal orientation of a handheld optoelectronic measuring device to be determined (110) by means of an electronic magnetic compass, including an automatic ascertainment (120) of an estimated accuracy value by the measuring device based on measured data of the magnetic compass, characterized by a safety check (200), within the scope of which a probability that the estimated accuracy value meets a previously determined (140) accuracy criterion is automatically ascertained (220) by the measuring device, and the ascertained probability is provided (230) to a user as a return value. The invention also relates to a handheld optoelectronic measuring device including an electronic magnetic compass for carrying out the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Vectronix AG
    Inventors: Ivo Annen, Marzell Schiller
  • Patent number: 10539394
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: John C. McNeil, Earl Clyde Cox, Makoto Ueno, Jon Andrew Ross
  • Patent number: 10466366
    Abstract: A vehicle cooperative object positioning optimization method includes steps of: receiving an information package by the local vehicle and the information package having a vehicle original coordinate and at least one object original coordinate provided by a neighbor vehicle; performing a time delay compensation for the vehicle original coordinate and the object original coordinate to acquire a vehicle coordinate and an object coordinate of the neighbor vehicle respectively; performing an optimizing procedure to optimize the vehicle coordinate and the object coordinate respectively so as to obtain the vehicle optimized coordinate and the object optimized coordinate. Therefore, the vehicle optimized coordinate and the object optimized coordinate possess higher accuracy than the original coordinate information detected by the GPS receiver and other sensors. And that helps to determine a distribution of the environmental objects with improved precision and to enhance driving safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER
    Inventors: Chao-Yang Lee, Che-Cheng Chang
  • Patent number: 10444325
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a frequency of an echo signal obtained by a radar system is disclosed. The echo signal in response to a source signal of the radar system is received at a receiver. A harmonic oscillator generates a harmonic component signal, and a multiplier multiplies the echo signal with the harmonic component signal to obtain a combined signal. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is performed on the combined signal to obtain a peak in a frequency space, wherein a central frequency of a frequency bin in the frequency space is shifted with respect to the frequency of the echo signal by the harmonic component signal. The frequency of the echo signal is determined from the shifted central frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Pokrass, Moshe Laifenfeld, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 10438489
    Abstract: In an object detection apparatus, a first association unit associates, based on radar information and camera information, radar objects with at least one camera object that are estimated to be the same as each other. If camera objects are detected so that the camera information includes at least the detection point and the type of each of the camera objects, a determination unit determines whether the camera objects express a common object in accordance with the camera information. A second association unit defines, upon determination that the camera objects express the common object, the camera objects as a camera object group, and associates, if one of the camera objects constituting the camera object group is associated with a target radar object that is one of the radar objects, all the camera objects constituting the camera object group with the target radar object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Baba
  • Patent number: 10252670
    Abstract: Respective movements and positions of traffic participants arranged within a monitoring range surrounding a motor vehicle are captured on the front side, on the rear side, and/or laterally, by several sensors of the motor vehicle. One characteristic value per traffic participant is established which quantifies a collision probability of the motor vehicle with the respective traffic participants in dependency on the captured movements and positions of the traffic participants and the movement and position of the motor vehicle. At least one warning message is issued with respect to the traffic participants, for which the established characteristic values reach a predetermined collision probability value, wherein the warning message is signaled in which direction of the motor vehicle the respective collisions are impending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Zieglmeier, Shuai Tang, Markus Popken
  • Patent number: 10247518
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: John C. McNeil, Earl Clyde Cox, Makoto Ueno, Jon Andrew Ross
  • Patent number: 10228456
    Abstract: A device includes a first means for determining a first position of a vehicle, a second means for determining a movement direction of the vehicle, a third means for providing a number of fixed point data that specify, at least for significant radar objects on a planet surface, radar signature thereof and position thereof, a radar system for scanning a current surrounding area of the vehicle and detecting radar data, wherein, for a number of radar objects present in the surrounding area, radar signatures thereof and relative positions thereof in relation to the vehicle are determinable from the radar data, and wherein the radar system is configured to determine a second position, and the first means is configured such that the first position is correctable based on the second position and/or a warning is issuable if the first position and the second position differ by more than a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Hartmut Runge, Robert Klarner
  • Patent number: 10139493
    Abstract: Piloted or autonomous rotorcraft includes a rotor safety system. The rotor safety system comprises a lidar scanner toward a rotor of the rotorcraft, e.g., the tail rotor, that scans the 3D space in the vicinity of the rotor. Objects in the vicinity of the rotor are detected from the lidar point data. In a piloted rotorcraft, predictive warnings can be provided to the helicopter's flight crew when a detected object presents a hazard to the rotor of the rotorcraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: NEAR EARTH AUTONOMY, INC.
    Inventors: Lyle Chamberlain, Sanjiv Singh, Adam Stambler, Hugh Cover, Bradley Hamner
  • Patent number: 10082522
    Abstract: Telematics system wherein a data processor is configured to: calculate a first rotation to isolate horizontal components of orientation data obtained from a three-axis accelerometer; calculate a second rotation of the orientation data dependent on acceleration data obtained from the velocity measuring device; and perform the first and second rotations on the orientation data to calibrate the orientation of the accelerometer relative to a vehicle on which the accelerometer is mounted. An associated method of calibrating the orientation of accelerometer is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Quartix Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Dobra, Jeremy Bentham
  • Patent number: 10042819
    Abstract: Examples herein relate to convolution accelerators. An example convolution accelerator may include a transformation crossbar array programmed to calculate a Fourier Transformation of a first vector with a transformation matrix and a Fourier Transformation of a second vector with the transformation matrix. A circuit of the example convolution accelerator may multiply the Fourier Transformation of the first vector with the Fourier Transformation of the second vector to calculate a product vector. The example convolution accelerator may have an inverse transformation crossbar array programmed to calculate an Inverse Fourier Transformation of the product vector according to an inverse transformation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Miao Hu, John Paul Strachan, Naveen Muralimanohar
  • Patent number: 10021518
    Abstract: Determining an individual exceeds a time-distance from a point. Locations for a set of individuals are monitored and an alert is transmitted if an individual exceeds a time-distance from a point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Y. Duale, Shailesh R. Gami, Louis P. Gomes, Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy