Patents Examined by Aditya S. Bhat
  • Patent number: 11691655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for automatically planning maintenance in railway, the method comprising the steps of determining maintenance for different assets at different locations comprising determining at least one of a predicted technical condition of an asset and automatically optimizing the planning accordingly. Further, a railway planning system for automatically planning maintenance comprising a determining component for determining maintenance for different assets at different locations comprising a determining component for determining at least one of a predicted technical condition of an asset and an optimization component for automatically optimizing the planning accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: KONUX GMBH
    Inventors: Vlad Lata, Chrisopther Boucher, Thomas Böhm
  • Patent number: 11686809
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of acoustic positioning, and discloses an acoustic positioning system and method for a smartphone and a wearable device, and a terminal. A ranging signal is transmitted by virtue of a base station network, and specific space signals of which the frequencies are 12 kHz to 21 kHz are designed; the ranging signal is received and decoded by virtue of a user terminal, distances from base stations to the user terminal are estimated according to the first arrival signals, and the position of a user is estimated according to a plurality of distances measured on the position of the user. The present disclosure provides the acoustic positioning system (APS) for the smartphone and the wearable device, which is a technology for precise ranging based on acoustic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Deqing Zhilu Navigation Technology Co., LTD
    Inventor: Ruizhi Chen
  • Patent number: 11687622
    Abstract: Embodiments match sensor data output by a sensor to a trained pattern. Embodiments form a plurality of windows of an identified pattern from the sensor data, each of the plurality of windows having a substantially equal window length to a length of the trained pattern. For each of the windows, embodiments generate a corresponding first Symbolic Aggregate approximation (“SAX”) word, determine a Hamming distance between the first SAX word and a second SAX word corresponding to the trained pattern, and determine a final distance score based on coefficients between the first SAX word and the second SAX word. For each of the windows, embodiments determine a number of positions in the first SAX word that do not contribute to the final distance score, update the Hamming distance after eliminating the number of positions and determine an average distance based on the final distance score and the updated Hamming distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Vaid, Karthik Gvd
  • Patent number: 11679300
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, media, and methods for quantifying and monitoring exercise parameters and/or motion parameters, including performing data acquisition, analysis, and providing scientifically valid, clinically relevant, and/or actionable diagnostic feedback. Embodiments may be related to systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for providing baseline-adjusted real-time feedback to a user. Embodiments may include determining a type of activity for the user. Embodiment may include receiving data from the one or more motion sensors indicating a time-dependent series of three axis acceleration data and three-axis orientation data. Embodiments additionally may include providing a graphical user interface with a real-time representation of the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BioMech Sensor LLC
    Inventors: John Douglas, Frank Fornari
  • Patent number: 11660022
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a body of a user; detecting a plurality of skeletal joints of the body depicted in the video; tracking movement of the plurality of skeletal joints across a set of frames of the video; and smoothing the movement of a first set of the plurality of skeletal joints between frames in the first set of frames independently of smoothing movement of a second set of the plurality of skeletal joints in the first set of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Avihay Assouline, Itamar Berger, Gal Dudovitch, Matan Zohar
  • Patent number: 11662817
    Abstract: A method of controlling a gimbal includes receiving angular velocity information transmitted by a somatosensory controller, the angular velocity information including an angular velocity of the somatosensory controller in a geodetic coordinate system, determining a target attitude of the gimbal according to the angular velocity information, and controlling the gimbal according to the target attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tie Su, Yi Hao
  • Patent number: 11663442
    Abstract: An apparatus, methods and systems for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A monitoring system can include a data collector coupled to a plurality of sensors to collect data, a data storage structured to store a plurality of data collection management plans, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and select one of the plurality of data collection management plans, wherein the selected one of the plurality of data collection management plans is selected is at least in part based on a data analysis of received data from the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
  • Patent number: 11657938
    Abstract: An optimizer includes a processor configured to: optimize a change amount of a interlinkage magnetic flux in a coil by using an objective function formula that maximizes a sum of ??irightxi (i=1 to Nc) and ??ileftyi (i=1 to Nc), when it is assumed that a surface of the magnetic device where the coil is arranged be divided into Nc (Nc is integer) coil regions, in an i-th coil region Ni, an auxiliary variable of a clockwise coil that may exist in the coil region Ni be xi, and an auxiliary variable of a counterclockwise coil that may exist in the coil region Ni be yi, and a change amount of an interlinkage magnetic flux of the clockwise coil in the coil region Ni be ??iright and a change amount of an interlinkage magnetic flux of the counterclockwise coil in the coil region Ni be ??ileft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akito Maruo, Hirotaka Oshima
  • Patent number: 11654568
    Abstract: A 3D measurement model and the spatial calibration method based on a 1D displacement sensor are proposed. A 3D measurement system based on a fixed 1D displacement sensor is established; then a spatial measurement model based on the 1D displacement sensor is established; and then based on the high precision pose data of the measurement plane and sensor measurement data, spatial calibration constraint equation are established; a weighted iterative algorithms is employed to calculate the extrinsic parameters of the 1D sensor that meet the precision requirements, then the calibration process is completed. A high precision 3D measurement model is established; a 3D measurement model based on a 1D displacement sensor is established, and the calibration method of the measurement model is proposed, which will improve the precision of the 3D measurement model and solve the problem of inaccurate spatial measurement caused by the errors of the sensor extrinsic parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Bing Liang, Mengde Zhou, Kun Liu, Yang Zhang, Di Feng, Xintong Jiang, Likun Si, Zhenyuan Jia
  • Patent number: 11644383
    Abstract: The invention provides an adaptive manifold probability distribution-based bearing fault diagnosis method, including constructing transferable domains and transfer tasks; converting a data sample in each transfer task into frequency domain data via Fourier transform, inputting the frequency domain data into a GFK algorithm model, and calculating a manifold feature representation matrix related to a bearing fault in each transfer task by using the GFK algorithm model; calculating a cosine distance between centers of a target domain and a source domain in each transfer task according to a manifold feature representation, and defining a target function of in-domain classifier learning; then solving the target function, to obtain a probability distribution matrix of the target domain; and selecting a label corresponding to the largest probability value corresponding to each data sample in the target domain from the probability distribution matrix as a predicted label of the data sample in the target domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Changqing Shen, Yu Xia, Lin Kong, Liang Chen, Piao Lei, Yongjun Shen, Dong Wang, Hongbo Que, Aiwen Zhang, Minjie Chen, Chuancang Ding, Xingxing Jiang, Jun Wang, Juanjuan Shi, Weiguo Huang, Zhongkui Zhu
  • Patent number: 11644512
    Abstract: A battery monitoring device includes: an oscillator causing an AC signal to flow in the battery cell; a subtractor acquiring voltage fluctuation of the battery cell when the AC signal flows as a response signal; and a calculation unit calculating complex impedance. The calculation unit calculates the complex impedance based on a multiplication value X of the response signal and a first reference signal outputted in synchronization with the AC signal, and a multiplication value Y of the response signal and the second reference signal obtained by shifting the phase of the AC signal. The AC signal is a rectangular wave signal, the first reference signal is a rectangular wave signal outputted in synchronization with the AC signal, and the second reference signal is a rectangular wave signal, the phase of which is shifted so as not to be outputted overlapping with the first reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomomichi Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 11635481
    Abstract: A stellar atmospheric refraction measurement correction method based on collinearity of refraction surfaces, comprising: performing star identification on the basis of observed star vectors in a star sensor and the reference star catalog, to obtain matching relationships between observed stars and reference stars; converting reference star vectors corresponding to the observed stars to a geographic coordinate system before entering the atmosphere to obtain zenith distances and azimuth angles of incident stellar; on the basis of a principle of collinearity of refraction surfaces, performing optimal solving according to imaging coordinates of observation stars, to obtain the optimal position coordinates of the zenith direction on an imaging surface of the star sensor; according to the optimal zenith direction, performing atmospheric refraction correction on all the recognized observed stars by means of the trigonometric cosine formula to obtain corrected star coordinates; and performing optimal solving to obtai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
    Inventors: Jie Jiang, Zhen Wang, Guangjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11613020
    Abstract: A system for determining a discrete number of flexible, non-rigid workpiece items loaded onto a robotic carrier. The system includes a robotic carrier capable of traveling to multiple workstations, at least one of which is a weigh station. A loading mechanism is functional to load one or more workpieces onto the robotic carrier which weighed by the weigh station. By comparing the weight of the loaded items with a predetermined weight range of a single workpiece, the number of discrete workpieces loaded onto the robotic carrier can be determined. In addition, a method can be provided for determine position error of a mobile robot based on a detected center of gravity of the mobile robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Gopi V. Avvari, Hossein Mousavi Hondori, Weixin Yang
  • Patent number: 11609089
    Abstract: A method for evaluating measurement data from a measurement of a plurality of workpieces includes obtaining a set of measurement data. Each workpiece has an associated set of measurement data. The set of measurement data corresponds to measurement points of the workpieces. The set of measurement data has, for each measurement point of the workpieces, at least one measured coordinate and/or, for each measured coordinate, a divergence from a comparison coordinate. The method includes determining a measure of the correlation of the measured coordinates and/or of the divergences is determined for a plurality of the sets of measurement data, in each case in relation to a pair of measurement points that consists of two measurement points of the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Rüger, Daniel Görsch
  • Patent number: 11604205
    Abstract: A risk determining method and apparatus are disclosed. The risk determining method includes obtaining a plurality of sets of elevation-velocity data, determining a diffusion prediction coefficient based on the obtained sets of elevation-velocity data, determining at least one of a volatilization factor (VF) or a particulate emission factor (PEF) based on the determined diffusion prediction coefficient, and determining a risk from an inhalation exposure based on the at least one of the VF or the PEF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: Seoul National University R&DB Foundation, National Institute Of Environmental Research
    Inventors: Kyoung Phile Nam, Seung Muk Yi, Sang Hyun Kim, Hyeon Yong Chung, Young Kwon Kim, Hyun Koo Kim, Hoe Jung Noh, Ji In Kim, Hyen Mi Chung
  • Patent number: 11598870
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicle apparatuses are provided. A method for estimating a Hitch Articulation Angle (HAA) using Ultra-Sonic Sensors (USSs) while ensuring quality detected echo signal performance using plausibility filtering, generating at least one set of USS data based on detecting a set of echo signals generated by a plurality of USSs configured about a vehicle coupled to a trailer; determining based on a set of USS data using a selected set of geometric equations in a plausibility filtering process for an arbitrary frontal shape of the trailer; and generating at least one comparison based on at least one set of USS data estimations to a kinematic model at low speeds for ensuring that results of the kinematic model to the HAA associated with the determined trailer shape is based on a pair of detected echo signals that are deemed to have a higher signal performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Nojan Medinei, Joseph K. Moore, Halit Zengin, Anushya Viraliur Ponnuswami, Rana M. Dastgir
  • Patent number: 11598694
    Abstract: The present invention provides an abnormality diagnosis system capable of identifying an abnormality occurrence site in a rotary electric machine by use of output of sensors mounted to a bearing of the rotary electric machine. The abnormality diagnosis system includes: a rotary electric machine that has a main shaft secured to a center of a rotor and supported by a bearing; a vibration sensor that measures a vibration value of the bearing; a speed sensor that measures a rotational speed value of the main shaft; and an abnormality diagnosis apparatus that diagnoses abnormality in the rotary electric machine based on the vibration value and the rotational speed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Ayukawa, Yasushi Hayasaka, Motonobu Iizuka, Takeki Hara, Masaaki Endo, Atsushi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 11599451
    Abstract: In some examples, visible elements-based application testing may include accessing, based on an analysis of a display of a page associated with execution of an application, an identification of elements and locations of the identified elements within the page. According to an example, each element of the identified elements may include a character. A determination may be made as to whether a word from a test script for testing the application is present in a set that includes at least two of the identified elements by comparing distances between a specified location of the word on the page and the locations of the identified elements. Further, in response to a determination that the word is present in the set of the identified elements, an operation associated with the word may be executed to test the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bikramaditya Padhi, Kramadhati Venkata Madhava Kumar
  • Patent number: 11592471
    Abstract: A flexible monitoring system and corresponding methods of use are provided. The system can include a base containing backplane, and one or more monitoring circuits. The monitoring circuits can be designed with a common architecture that is programmable to perform different predetermined functions. As a result, monitoring circuits can be shared between different implementations of the flexible monitoring system. Multiple bases that can be communicatively coupled in a manner that establishes a common backplane between respective bases that is formed from the individual backplanes of each base. Each monitoring circuit is not limited to sending data to and/or receiving data from the backplane to which it is physically coupled but can instead can communicate along the common backplane. Computational processing capacity can be increased or decreased independently of input signals received by addition or removal of processing circuits from the monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BENTLY NEVADA, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin Hess, Michael Alan Tart
  • Patent number: 11585657
    Abstract: A geoid calculation data is collected easily. A geoid calculation data collection device of the present invention comprises an inertial measurement data acquisition part, a comparison data acquisition part, and a recording part. In the inertial measurement data acquisition part, data related to velocity, position, and attitude angle is acquired as inertially-derived data based on an output of an inertial measurement part having a three-axis gyro and a three-axis accelerometer attached to a moving body. In the comparison data acquisition part, data related to velocity is acquired as comparison data from a source other than the inertial measurement part. In the recording part, inertially-derived data and comparison data are recorded in association with each other. In the inertial measurement part, a bias stability is acquired that allows error arising from plumb line deviation to be distinguished to a predetermined degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mikio Kozuma, Ryotaro Inoue, Toshiyuki Hosoya, Atsushi Tanaka