By Motion Detection Patents (Class 342/28)
  • Patent number: 11940522
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a transmission-reception antenna unit including a plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of reception antennas along a predetermined array direction, which form a virtual array in which a plurality of virtual reception antennas are arranged along the array direction. Based on virtual reception signals received by the virtual reception antennas, the radar apparatus detects an object that reflects transmission signals, calculates a transmission phase difference between the transmission antennas of the transmission signals transmitted by the transmission antennas, and calculates a reception phase difference between the reception antennas of reception signals received by the reception antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11928894
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless gait recognition and rhythmic motion monitoring are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter is configured for transmitting a first wireless signal towards an object in a venue through a wireless multipath channel of the venue. The receiver is configured for: receiving a second wireless signal through the wireless multipath channel between the transmitter and the receiver. The second wireless signal differs from the first wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel which is impacted by a rhythmic motion of the object. The processor is configured for: obtaining a time series of channel information (CI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal, monitoring the rhythmic motion of the object based on the time series of CI (TSCI), and triggering a response action based on a result of the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ORIGIN WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Chenshu Wu, Feng Zhang, Beibei Wang, Yuqian Hu, K. J. Ray Liu, Oscar Chi-Lim Au
  • Patent number: 11925447
    Abstract: A method and system including a monitoring device to detect, during a session, a set of radar signals associated with first respiratory-related movements of a first person and second respiratory-related movements of a second person located within a detection zone comprising at least a portion of a bed. The method and system dynamically generate an out-of-bed zone adjacent to a side of the bed. The out-of-bed zone is monitored to detect motion within the zone to determine when the first person exits and enters the bed. The method and system identify a portion of the set of radar signals collected during a time period when the first person is determined to be out of the bed. The identified portion of the set of radar signals is removed from the set of radar signals collected during the sleep session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik Kalpesh Patel, Feng Zhang, Koohyun Um, James J. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11921186
    Abstract: A radar device includes a transmission module that generates a transmission chirp signal synchronized with a timing signal, and reception modules that each receive a reflected wave and a direct wave of the transmission chirp signal emitted from the transmission module, and perform mixing on a received signal, using a reception chirp signal, the reception chirp signal being synchronized with the timing signal and having the same slope as the transmitted chirp signal. The radar device includes a signal processor that detects a target on the basis of a beat signal resulting from the mixing performed by the reception modules. The signal processor detects a level of the beat signal generated from the received direct wave from the transmission module to the reception modules. The signal processor determines a failure of the radar device by comparing the detected level with a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11919644
    Abstract: A system for securement of galley trolleys in aircraft comprises a motion sensor mounted to monitor a trolley in a trolley bay; a controller connected to the motion sensor, and an output device operatively connected to the controller. The controller is configured to receive a signal from the motion sensor to detect unsecured motion of a trolley in the trolley bay and the output device is configured to alert a user upon detection of unsecured motion of a trolley in the trolley bay. A method for securement of galley trolleys in aircraft includes monitoring a trolley in a trolley bay of an aircraft for motion and alerting a user upon unsecure motion of the trolley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeevkumar Agadi, Praveen Kumar Rai
  • Patent number: 11917559
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for radio frequency (RF) exposure with antenna grouping. An example method for grouping antennas for RF exposure compliance by a processing system generally includes determining RF exposure distributions per transmit antenna configuration for a plurality of transmit antennas and assigning the plurality of transmit antennas to a plurality of antenna groups based on the RF exposure distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jagadish Nadakuduti, Lin Lu, Paul Guckian, Troy Curtiss, Akhil Deodhar
  • Patent number: 11910440
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for communication, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first target frequency based on historical sensed information of a destination node; transmitting an RTS frame to the destination node at the first target frequency, where the destination node obtains first sensed information of the source node from the RTS frame, and determines a first optimal receiving frequency of the source node based on the first sensed information; receiving a CTS frame transmitted by the destination node at the first optimal receiving frequency; obtaining second sensed information of the destination node from the CTS frame; determining a second optimal receiving frequency of the destination node based on the second sensed information; transmitting a data frame to the destination node at the second optimal receiving frequency; and receiving an ACK frame transmitted by the destination node at the first optimal receiving frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jibo Wei, Fanglin Gu, Haitao Zhao, Jie Liu, Xiaoran Liu, Jun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11864861
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a method for monitoring a physiological parameter in a person using a radar system, the method including generating a pulse wave signal from stepped frequency scanning data that corresponds to radio waves that have reflected from features below the skin of the person. In some embodiments, the stepped frequency scanning data is collected through stepped frequency scanning with a two-dimensional array of receive antennas over a range of stepped frequencies using frequency steps of a step size. Embodiments may also include changing a parameter of the stepped frequency scanning in response to the pulse wave signal. Embodiments may also include generating the pulse wave signal from stepped frequency scanning data using the changed parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Movano Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Leabman
  • Patent number: 11860299
    Abstract: A method for measuring an elevation angle and/or azimuth angle with an antenna array. Identical transmitted signals that are formed of successive linear-frequency-modulated ramps are transmitted through the transmitting antennas of the antenna array using time division multiplexing, wherein the time division multiplexing is achieved through alternating attenuation of the signals transmitted by the transmitting antennas. Echoes of the transmitted signals are received by the receiving antennas and are down-converted to a baseband and sampled. The down-converted and sampled echoes are transformed by an FFT into a 2D image domain. Phase differences are determined from the image data, and, in order to compensate for a systematic error present because of the lack of separation of the two transmitted signals, an error-compensated elevation angle and/or an error-compensated azimuth angle is determined by means of a compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Tobias Breddermann
  • Patent number: 11836293
    Abstract: A method for 3D gesture interaction across electronic devices includes: measuring spatial location information of the electronic devices based on Location Technology; generating a 3D gesture field of the electronic devices based on the spatial location information; setting the location update method, the detection method of 3D gesture, the frequency band of detecting 3D gesture, and the time sequence of detecting gesture at different devices; detecting the cooperative gesture; generating interactive auxiliary messages based on the detection of the cooperative gesture; updating the 3D gesture field if the location of any devices have update; identifying the cooperative gesture in the 3D gesture field of the electronic devices; performing the commands corresponding to the cooperative gesture; detecting that the cooperative gesture is beyond the 3D gesture field of the electronic devices; and sending the cooperative gesture to other electronic devices based on the direction of the cooperative gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Guangyu Sun, Ning Li, Youxiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11815593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for precise location of a high slope collapse area. Firstly, the slope images in a long time series are obtained, the slope images in the long time series are composed into a two-dimensional slope deformation graph, and an area with the maximum deformation in the two-dimensional slope deformation graph is selected as a deformation area. Then, the deformation area is segmented by straight line, and the deformation region obtained by straight line segmentation is displayed in overlapping way in the slope images of long time series, and the region corresponding to the connecting line with the largest change range is selected as the monitoring line area from the overlapping image. Finally, the monitoring points are selected from the monitoring line area to determine the location of the high slope collapse area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Tianjie Lei
  • Patent number: 11808840
    Abstract: There is provided a mmWave RTLS (Real-Time Location Sensing) system for detecting the presence of one or more objects. The system includes multiple anchors. Each anchor includes a mmWave radar subsystem that uses radar algorithms to detect one or more objects and determine the one or more location-based objects characteristics. The location-based object characteristics include one or more of the following: range, direction-of-arrival, velocity, absolute position, or logical position, each determined relative to one or more anchors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NODENS MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Khalid Rajab, Rishi Das Gupta, Peter Alizadeh
  • Patent number: 11796701
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, to methods, and to a processing module for detecting one or more objects in the seabed, wherein the detection of the one or more objects is based on the scattering of the at least one acoustic signal at the one or more objects. The system comprises an attachment structure (10). The attachment structure is intended to mechanically couple a signal source (20) and a plurality of receivers (30) to a vessel or to a propulsion unit. The system comprises the signal source (20) configured to emit at least one acoustic signal towards the seabed. A wavelength of the acoustic signal is adapted to an expected size of the one or more objects. The system comprises the plurality of receivers (30). A distance between adjacent receivers is at most half the wavelength of the acoustic signal. The plurality of receivers is configured to generate a receiver signal based on a scattering of the at least one acoustic signal at the one or more objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Carlos Alejandro Ramos Cordova, Benedict Preu, Nikolas Stange, Volkhard Spiess, Stefan Wenau, Hanno Keil
  • Patent number: 11796666
    Abstract: A radar system includes antenna elements and receive channels. An adaptive switch couples the receive channels to a subset of the antenna elements as selected antenna elements. The selected antenna elements receive reflected signals from reflection by objects and each of the receive channels outputs the digital signal based on the reflected signal from the coupled selected antenna element. A controller processes the digital signal from each receive channel to estimate a direction of arrival (DOA) to each object and generate candidate configurations of the switch. Assessing the candidate configurations includes performing a multi-step assessment using a decision tree with each candidate configuration as a root and examining accuracy of an output at a last step in the decision tree to select a selected candidate configuration based on the accuracy. The switch is configured according to the selected candidate configuration prior to receiving the reflected signals for a next iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yaron Eshet, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 11789180
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for meteorological observation, including: a prop; a meteorological sensor, mounted on the prop, configured to measure at least wind direction information; a level configured to maintain a horizon of the prop; a first GPS, mounted on a first area of the prop, configured to acquire first longitudinal information and first latitudinal information; a second GPS, mounted on a second area of the prop, configured to acquire second longitudinal information and second latitudinal information, wherein the second area is separated from the first area by a predetermined distance; a processor configured to calibrate the wind direction information and thus output adjusted wind direction information by referring to a location of the first area, a location of the second area, the first latitudinal information, the first longitudinal information, the second latitudinal information and the second longitudinal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Mi Eun Park, Yong Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 11762080
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first wireless signal detected by a first device in an environment, the first wireless signal including a first distortion pattern caused by an object moving in the environment, receiving a second wireless signal detected by a second device in the environment, the second wireless signal including a second distortion pattern caused by the object moving in the environment, determining, by comparing the first distortion pattern to the second distortion pattern, that the first distortion pattern and the second distortion pattern correspond to a same movement event associated with the object moving in the environment, determining a timing offset between the first device and the second device based on information associated with the first distortion pattern and the second distortion pattern, and determining, based on the timing offset, temporal correspondences between data generated by the first device and data generated by the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Minh Phuoc Vo, Kiran Kumar Somasundaram, Steven John Lovegrove
  • Patent number: 11753013
    Abstract: A method for operating a driving assistance system. The method includes operating at least one sensor device in a host vehicle for monitoring the surroundings of the host vehicle; recognizing a fast-moving vehicle that is traveling in a first lane adjacent to a second lane in which the host vehicle is traveling, and determining a travel speed of the fast-moving vehicle in a travel direction of the host vehicle, based on a travel speed of the host vehicle or of a following vehicle or of a preceding vehicle, by the sensor device and by a control device; identifying a movement of the fast-moving vehicle as a passing operation of the host vehicle or of the following vehicle or of the preceding vehicle; and identifying a change in the movement of the fast-moving vehicle as an abortion of the passing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bastian Reckziegel, Erich Sonntag, Gian Antonio D' Addetta, Johannes Ludwig Foltin, Sybille Eisele
  • Patent number: 11741828
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may receive a vehicle to everything (V2X) communication associated with a vehicle in an environment; determine, based at least in part on a vulnerability measure of a vulnerable roadside user (VRU) in the environment, a VRU notification profile associated with whether an alert is to be provided to a VRU to indicate vehicle data of the vehicle; and perform an action according to the VRU notification profile. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman, Soumya Das
  • Patent number: 11741813
    Abstract: A fall detection system includes a radar that generates emitting radio waves and receives reflected radio waves from a person under detection, a data generator that generates a point cloud according to the reflected radio waves, an area determining device that determines a sub-area of a detecting area in which the person under detection lies, and a classifier that determines whether the person under detection falls according to the point cloud. The classifier adaptively processes the point cloud with different methods according to sub-areas as determined by the area determining device respectively to determine whether the person under detection falls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Climax Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Kai Chen, Yu-Hua Hu
  • Patent number: 11737430
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for applying an agrochemical to an agricultural area of interest based on information generated from a remote sensing survey. A remote sensing survey is performed within or adjacent to the agricultural area of interest wherein the survey generates remotely sensed data. The remotely sensed data can be analyzed and/or interpreted to determine whether to apply an agrochemical based on an insect presence within or adjacent to the agricultural area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BASF AGRO TRADEMARKS GMBH
    Inventors: Tai-Teh Wu, Dick Rogers
  • Patent number: 11726203
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: a wave receiver that receives a reflected wave generated by reflection, by an object, of a transmission wave incident on the object; a determination section that determines whether, in a change over time in an amplitude of the reflected wave received by the wave receiver, an amplitude of a falling portion is greater than a predetermined criterion, the amplitude of the falling portion being decreased after the amplitude has reached a maximum value; and a processing section that, on the basis of a determination by the determination section that the amplitude of the falling portion is greater than the predetermined criterion, performs a process in which the object is treated as an object to be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Taketo Harada, Dai Kondo, Takuya Nomura, Kenzo Kano
  • Patent number: 11717189
    Abstract: A sensing system includes a first radar sensing assembly and an analysis system. The first radar sensing assembly measures plural distances to a first target location at different times using radar. The analysis system receives the plural distances from the first radar sensing assembly and quantifies movements of a target object at the first target location at the different times by calculating differences in the plural distances measured by the first radar sensing assembly. The analysis system generates one or more first quantified activity level values indicative of the movements of the target object at the first target location using the differences in the plural distances that are calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TransRobotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Sayf Al-Alusi
  • Patent number: 11714485
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclose an electronic device including a camera, at least one mmWave antenna module, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire image information of a surrounding environment via the camera; acquire signal information resulting from a signal emitted from the at least one mmWave antenna module by the surrounding environment; and track a position of the user, based on at least one of the image information acquired via the camera and the signal information acquired via the at least one mmWave antenna module. Various other embodiments derived from the specification are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junwhon Uhm, Jaewon Kim, Minhyuk Nam, Yunguk Lee
  • Patent number: 11709245
    Abstract: A method and system improve on the accuracy of detecting the presence of people in a room. Aspects of the embodiments may be used for occupancy sensors by monitoring occupant physiological movements. In an embodiment, a Doppler radar sensor may be used to measure the occupant-related physiological signals, calculate the Riemann integral (RI) of the occupants' cardiopulmonary movement displacement, body movement index (BMI), and amplitude difference accumulation (ADA) of the body movement. A determination for detection of occupants may be by adaptive thresholding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Adnoviv Inc.
    Inventors: Amy Diane Droitcour, Ehsan Yavari, Chenyan Song
  • Patent number: 11686811
    Abstract: A high-frequency module with a simple configuration and facilitates size reduction and mass production is provided. An oscillator that includes a bipolar transistor, an antenna, and mixers are realized as one circuit. A base of the bipolar transistor is electrically connected to a resonance pattern or the like that outputs a signal at a frequency in a quasi-millimeter wave band or higher by direct oscillation. A collector is electrically connected to a transmission line or the like which is connected to a power source. An emitter is electrically connected to a planar open transmission line or the like that operates as an antenna. A portion of the signal transmitted through the open transmission line is fed back to the base via a capacitance between the open transmission line and the base. The open transmission line is electrically connected to two diodes and each of which operates as a mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Mitsugi
  • Patent number: 11675066
    Abstract: A system for using radio frequency (RF) communication signals to extract situational awareness information thorough deep learning. Pre-processing is performed to maximally preserve discriminating features in spatial, temporal and frequency domains. A specially designed neural network architecture is used for handling complex RF signals and extracting spatial, temporal and frequency domain information. Data collection and training is used so that the learning system desensitizes from features orthogonal to the underlying classification problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Biao Chen, Yang Liu, Tiexing Wang
  • Patent number: 11660023
    Abstract: Fall detection systems and methods use radar chips to scan monitored regions such that data obtained by the scanning radar chip are processed to identify targets within the monitored region. Targets are tracked and profiled indicating their posture and fall detection rules are applied. Standard energy profiles and time dependent energy profiles are generated for various segments of the monitored region and compared to the current energy profile for each target segment of the monitored region. Anomalies are detected, false fall alerts filtered out and verified fall alerts are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Amit Dvash, Ronen Tur, Ido Klemer, Alon Keren, Tomer Zimmerman, Michael Orlovsky, Yuval Lomnitz, Tsachi Rosenhouse
  • Patent number: 11660008
    Abstract: A method and a system for determining an in vivo transit distance and a corresponding transit time for an arterial pulse. An example system comprises a radar receiver connected to a processor to perform time-resolved measurements of reflections of wave pulses and to spectrally filter the reflections to select spectral components associated with the arterial pulse. The resulting signal samples are then organized into groups corresponding to different wave pulses, and the groups are processed to identify samples corresponding to a first arterial pulse point and a second arterial pulse point on the body of a subject, and the identified samples are further processed to determine the in vivo transit distance and the corresponding transit time for the arterial pulse. In some embodiments, a collection of arterial pulse points detected by the measurements may be mapped onto a reference constellation for a more-accurate determination of the in vivo transit distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Durgaprasad Shamain, Klaus Doppler, Swetha Muniraju, Eric Torkildson
  • Patent number: 11656336
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that enable advanced gaming and virtual reality control using radar. These techniques enable small motions and displacements to be tracked, even in the millimeter or submillimeter scale, for user control actions even when those actions are optically occluded or obscured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
  • Patent number: 11638527
    Abstract: The disclosure herein generally relates to the field of determination of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons, and, more particularly, to determination of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons using in-body signals obtained by ultra-wide band (UWB) radar. The disclosed method determines of cardiopulmonary signals for multi-persons using in-body signals, wherein a UWB radar signals/waves reflected from inside a human body is utilized for efficient determination of cardiopulmonary signals. The disclosed method and system utilize the UWB radar signals to identify a number of persons along with several details about the persons that include a girth of the each identified person and the orientation of the identified person towards the one or more UWB radar. Further a chest wall distance, a breathing rate, a heart wall distance and a heart rate are determined for all the identified persons based on the identified girth and the identified orientation along with the UWB radar signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Arijit Chowdhury, Smriti Rani, Anwesha Khasnobish, Taniya Das, Tapas Chakravarty, Arpan Pal
  • Patent number: 11625045
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining sensor data indicative of a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle, the surrounding environment including one or more occluded sensor zones. The method includes determining that a first occluded sensor zone of the occluded sensor zone(s) is occupied based at least in part on the sensor data. The method includes, in response to determining that the first occluded sensor zone is occupied, controlling the autonomous vehicle to travel clear of the first occluded sensor zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventor: Brian C. Becker
  • Patent number: 11585891
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving radar signals with a millimeter-wave radar; generating range data based on the received radar signals; detecting a target based on the range data; performing ellipse fitting on in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals associated with the detected target to generate compensated I and Q signals associated with the detected target; classifying the compensated I and Q signals; when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a first class, determining a displacement signal based on the compensated I and Q signals, and determining a vital sign based on the displacement signal; and when the classification of the compensated I and Q signals correspond to a second class, discarding the compensated I and Q signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Avik Santra, Muhammad Arsalan, Christoph Will
  • Patent number: 11585913
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband-based system and method for detecting properties associated with a movable object in an environment such as an indoor environment. The method includes transmitting ultra-wideband radar signals to an environment, using an ultra-wideband transmitter, and receiving signals reflected from the environment as a result of the transmission of the first ultra-wideband radar signals using an ultra-wideband receiver. The method also includes processing the reflected signals and determining properties associated with a movable object in an environment based on the processed reflected signals, using the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Logistics and Supply Chain Multi Tech R&D Centre Limited
    Inventors: Kin Keung Lee, Edward James Jackson, Ka Lun Fan
  • Patent number: 11567168
    Abstract: A radar system comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The radar system is operable to define a near range and a far range. The radar system is operable to, during each one of a plurality of time intervals, repeatedly transmit, via the transmitter, a plurality of OFDM symbols. The transmitter is operable to select a transmit power for the transmission during the one of the time intervals based on from which of the near range and the far range reflections of the OFDM symbols are to be received during the one of the time intervals. The receiver is operable to receive reflections of the OFDM symbols, and process, in the receiver, the reflections of the OFDM symbols to detect objects within the near range and the far range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Ling
  • Patent number: 11428797
    Abstract: A radar presence detection system is configured to detect oscillations within a building. The radar presence detection system includes an accelerometer, a radar, and a processing unit. The accelerometer is attached to the building and configured to detect structural vibration waves. The radar is configured to transmit a monitoring wave and receive a reflected wave. The processing unit includes a filter, an adaptive filter, and a detector. The filter is configured to receive a first signal indicative of the reflected wave and output a filtered reflected wave signal spanning a frequency range indicative of an oscillation within the building. The adaptive filter is configured to receive a second signal indicative of the structural vibration wave signal and output a focused vibration signal spanning a frequency range for the cancellation of vibration noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan Matthew Finn, Nicholas Charles Soldner, Joseph Zacchio, Ziyou Xiong, Cagatay Tokgoz
  • Patent number: 11431404
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, an apparatus and a method for integrating communication and sensing functions in the wireless communication system are provided. The communication device includes a communication unit for bi-directional communication, and a radar unit for sensing. The communication unit and the radar unit may commonly include a common transmit chain which generates a transmit signal. The transmit signal may have a first polarization. The communication unit may include a communication receive chain, and if a receive signal has the first polarization in response to the transmit signal, the communication receive chain may receive the receive signal having the first polarization via the hybrid coupler and perform communication and if the receive signal corresponding to the transmit signal has second polarization different from the first polarization, a sensing receive chain of the radar unit may receive the receive signal having the second polarization perform sensing by the radar unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Byung-Jun Jang
  • Patent number: 11373499
    Abstract: A rescue system identifies and rescues a protection target, using information from a camera. The rescue system includes: a plurality of movable bodies each equipped with a camera; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of movable bodies. The server is configured to (a) identify the protection target, using movable-body information from the plurality of movable bodies, and (b) provide a protector of the protection target with notification about positional information on the protection target, when the protection target is identified and a position where the protection target is detected is out of a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Sawada, Masato Tamaoki, Eisuke Ando, Masato Endo, Kuniaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11353572
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus utilizing time division access of multiple radar transceivers in living object detection for wireless power transfer applications are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for detecting an object in a detection area of a wireless power transfer system is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of radar transceivers. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to group the plurality of radar transceivers into pairs of radar transceivers. The processor is configured to instruct each of the pairs of radar transceivers to transmit radar signals during a corresponding time slot of a plurality of time slots. The processor is configured to instruct each of the pairs of radar transceivers to receive the radar signals during the corresponding time slot of the plurality of time slots. The processor is configured to detect the object in the detection area based on at least some of the radar signals received by each of the pairs of radar transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: WiTricity Corporation
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Joshua Reuben Lee, Michael Hutterer
  • Patent number: 11349222
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods relating to sensing the presence of a lifeform. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting the presence of a lifeform in a building or room using dynamic metasurface aperture (DMA), which overcome many limitations of currently available radio frequency (RF) or infrared (IR)-based systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani, Timothy Sleasman, Jonah Gollub, David Smith
  • Patent number: 11338754
    Abstract: An improved vehicle safety device for activating an alarm when the temperature in the interior of a vehicle reaches an extreme value. The device includes a presence sensor for detecting the presence of a human or an animal in the interior of a vehicle and a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature in the vehicle interior. A controller is coupled to the presence detector, the temperature detector, and the vehicle ignition system for generating a hazardous-condition signal in response to an extreme-temperature condition in the vehicle when a human or an animal is in the vehicle and the vehicle engine is not running. An alarm module is connected to the controller for generating audible, visual, and wireless emergency-response signals when a hazardous condition is detected. The alarm module may also be further configured to create a door-unlocking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mitchell Ethan Schmenk, Robert Seloff
  • Patent number: 11307061
    Abstract: An electrical measurement device for measuring at least one electrical signal is described, the electrical measurement device comprising an electrical measurement unit for measuring the electrical signal and for deriving at least one measurement parameter from the measured electrical signal, an acoustic processing unit for processing a signal obtained from the electrical measurement unit, and a loudspeaker for outputting an acoustic signal representative of the signal obtained from the electrical measurement unit. The acoustic processing unit is configured to generate the acoustic signal to be outputted by the loudspeaker. The acoustic processing unit is further configured to modulate a predetermined acoustic signal by the at least one measurement parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andrew Schaefer, Markus Freidhof
  • Patent number: 11295587
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a sensor (200) for a security system, the method comprising: switching the sensor (200) to a zone calibration mode for configuring the sensor (200) to operate with a detection zone; detecting a moveable object (202) moving along a border of the detection zone, wherein the sensor (200) detects the position of the moveable object (202) as the moveable object (202) moves along the border of the detection zone; calculating zone calibration data for the detection zone based on the detected positions of the moveable object (202); and configuring the sensor (200) to operate using the calculated zone calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: UTC FIRE & SECURITY EMEA BVBA
    Inventors: Mateusz Mazur, Maciej Sobczyk
  • Patent number: 11295119
    Abstract: The present disclosure may be embodied as systems and methods for action recognition developed using a multimodal dataset that incorporates both visual data, which facilitates the accurate tracking of movement, and active acoustic data, which captures the micro-Doppler modulations induced by the motion. The dataset includes twenty-one actions and focuses on examples of orientational symmetry that a single active ultrasound sensor should have the most difficulty discriminating. The combined results from three independent ultrasound sensors are encouraging, and provide a foundation to explore the use of data from multiple viewpoints to resolve the orientational ambiguity in action recognition. In various embodiments, recurrent neural networks using long short-term memory (LSTM) or hidden Markov models (HMMs) are disclosed for use in action recognition, for example, human action recognition, from micro-Doppler signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Andreas G. Andreou, Kayode Sanni, Thomas S. Murray, Daniel R. Mendat, Philippe O. Pouliquen
  • Patent number: 11297464
    Abstract: An object recognition method and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes transmitting a signal to an external object, controlling a wireless communication module to receive a signal reflected from the external object, controlling the wireless communication module to obtain a channel impulse response based on the transmitted signal and the received signal, obtaining information of an orientation of the external object based on the received signal, detecting phase noise caused by a movement of the electronic device, extracting a component matching the orientation of the external object from the detected phase noise, and compensating for phase information in the channel impulse response based on the component matching the orientation of the external object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junsu Choi, Chiho Kim, Hyunkee Min, Junghun Lee
  • Patent number: 11215706
    Abstract: A device and method for detecting motion using an adjustable detection shell. The motion detector includes an antenna; a reception circuit configured to receive a reflected radio frequency (RF) signal via the antenna; a time gate circuit electrically connected to the reception circuit and configured to generate a control signal for the reception circuit based on a timing setpoint signal; and an electronic processor electrically connected to the reception circuit and the time gate circuit. The electronic processor is configured to receive a signal from the reception circuit indicative of motion occurring within a detection shell that is adjustable via the timing setpoint signal. The signal is based on the reflected RF signal. The electronic processor is further configured to generate a notification when the signal received from the reception circuit is indicative of motion occurring within the detection shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: William DiPoala
  • Patent number: 11194037
    Abstract: A Doppler motion sensor device is used for detecting a motion of an object. The Doppler motion sensor device includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna is used to transmit or receive a first wireless signal. The second antenna is used to transmit or receive a second wireless signal. A first straight line passing through a first feed-in point and a first middle point of the first antenna is orthogonal to a second straight line passing through a second feed-in point and a second middle point of the second antenna. One of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal is a transmission signal. The transmission signal is reflected by the object to form the other one of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Tse-Peng Chen, You-Chieh Chen, Shih-Kai Lin
  • Patent number: 11194032
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for detecting the presence of an object near an electronic device. A radio frequency (RF) system of an electronic device may include a first circuit that includes one or more transmission paths for transmitting a reference signal external to the electronic device. The RF system may include a second circuit that includes one or more receiving paths for receiving a reflection signal based on the reference signal. The RF system may also include a processor that may instruct the RF system to perform a comparison between the reference signal and the reflection signal, determine whether the object is in proximity based at least in part on whether comparison results exceed a comparison threshold, and decrease power output by the RF system below the comparison threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Berke Cetinoneri, Ioannis Sarkas, Qishan Yu
  • Patent number: 11169256
    Abstract: A new system and method for FWI of common-offset GPR data, particularly targeting the dimensions and infilling material of buried objects. The method is useful in situations where clear isolated diffraction hyperbolas indicate the presence of an underground object, but the object's dimensions and filling may be unknown. The present invention acquires GPR data and applies advanced numerical methods to get the depth and size of the underground object in a very accurate manner. An embodiment of the invention includes five main steps: GPR data processing, ray-based analysis to set a good initial model, 3D to 2D transformation of data, effective SW estimation, and FWI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Sajad Jazayeri, Sarah Kruse
  • Patent number: 11150337
    Abstract: A search area width setting unit for setting a search area width having a frequency corresponding to a signal component of an object by using detection information of the object is included, and a signal component selecting unit determines a search area having the search area width set by the search area width setting unit and selects a signal component a frequency of which is included in the search area from each of a signal received by a signal receiving unit and signals received by object detection devices. As a result, an increase in the false detection probability of the object can be suppressed even in a case where the reception signals have low signal power-to-noise power ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Awazu, Yasunori Kato, Ryuhei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11102492
    Abstract: Use of multiple sensors to determine whether motion of an object is occurring in an area is described. In one aspect, an infrared (IR) sensor can be supplemented with a radar sensor to determine whether the determined motion of an object is not a false positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ARLO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel