Patents Examined by Dao L. Phan
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Patent number: 11802976Abstract: Invention relates to multisystem radio-frequency units of navigational satellite receiver and may be used for simultaneous reception of navigation signals from multiple navigation systems: GLONAS, GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, IRNSS and QZSS. The unit comprises 4 reception channels, 3 of which are identical and independently configurable reception channels, simultaneously receiving of navigation signals from GLONAS, GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, IRNSS and QZSS navigation systems in various combinations, and one channel for signal reception of S band of IRNSS, L2/L3/L5 bands and 65-862 MHz bands, including real-time differential corrections data (RTK). The unit also comprises 4 frequency synthesizers, a quadrature heterodyne signal driver for mixers for each channel and automatic calibration system for intermediate frequency filter passband for each channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: NIKOLAI TCHERNIAKOVSKI, OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOSTYU “NTLAB-SC”Inventors: Igor Antonov, Andrei Kolotkin
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Patent number: 11747485Abstract: Invention relates to multisystem radio-frequency units of navigational satellite receiver and may be used for simultaneous reception of navigation signals from multiple navigation systems: GLONAS, GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, IRNSS and QZSS. The unit comprises 4 reception channels, 3 of which are identical and independently configurable reception channels, simultaneously receiving of navigation signals from GLONAS, GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, IRNSS and QZSS navigation systems in various combinations, and one channel for signal reception of S band of IRNSS, L2/L3/L5 bands and 65-862 MHz bands, including real-time differential corrections data (RTK). The unit also comprises 4 frequency synthesizers, a quadrature heterodyne signal driver for mixers for each channel and automatic calibration system for intermediate frequency filter passband for each channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: NIKOLAI TCHERNIAKOVSKI, OBSHCHESTVO S OGRANICHENNOY OTVETSTVENNOSTYU “NTLAB-SC”Inventors: Igor Antonov, Andrei Kolotkin
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Patent number: 11555841Abstract: A device for the radio stimulation of an antenna includes at least one transmission sub-assembly formed by an array of radiating elements and an array of photoelectric receivers; as well as a generator that synthesizes a set of electrical signals that are intended to excite each radiating element. The electrical signals are transmitted to the transmission sub-assembly in the form of modulated light waves that are multiplexed to form a composite laser beam that illuminates the array of photoelectric receivers. Each of the photoelectric receivers receives a light wave. The array of photoelectric sensors and the array of radiating elements have substantially identical arrangements. Each photoelectric receiver is connected to a radiating element in its array at a position identical to the one that said receiver occupies within its own or a position symmetrical thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: THALESInventors: Daniel Jahan, Thierry Mazeau, Stéphane Formont
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Patent number: 11550067Abstract: A method can include receiving sensor data, receiving satellite observations, determining a positioning solution (e.g., PVT solution, PVA solution, kinematic parameters, etc.) based on the sensor data and the satellite observations. A system can include a sensor, a GNSS receiver, and a processor configured to determine a positioning solution based on readings from the sensor and the GNSS receiver.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Christian Reimer, Guillaume Decerprit, Richard Deurloo, Sébastien Carcanague, Joseph Angelo
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Patent number: 11531119Abstract: Coordinated smart contract-based satellite management and operation is provided by obtaining terms of smart contracts that govern utilization of a constellation of Earth-orbiting satellites, which form a space-based data center, in transmitting data between the constellation of satellites and ground stations for receiving data transmissions. Different service providers operate different satellites of the constellation and different ground stations of the collection, and the smart contracts further govern servicing of requests made between the different service providers. A service provider operates satellite(s) of the constellation pursuant to the smart contracts and ground station(s) of the collection of ground stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11525926Abstract: A dual-antenna positioning system includes a first GNSS antenna/receiver, a second GNSS antenna/receiver, and a GNSS processor system. The first GNSS antenna/receiver is located at a first position and calculates a first pseudo-range based on a received GNSS signal. The second GNSS antenna/receiver is located at a second position a known distance from the first GNSS antenna/receiver, wherein the second GNSS antenna/receiver calculates a second pseudo-range based on a received GNSS signal. The GNSS processor system configured to receive the first pseudo-range and the second pseudo-range, wherein in response to the GNSS processor system identifying one of the first and second pseudo-ranges as erroneous and one of the first and second pseudo-ranges as valid, the GNSS processing system calculates a corrected pseudo-range and utilizes the corrected pseudo-range and the valid pseudo-range to determine GNSS position fix estimates for the first GNSS antenna/receiver and the second GNSS antenna/receiver.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Eric P. Knutson, David M. Spell, Linh N. Pham
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Patent number: 11525927Abstract: An electronic device includes a receiver, a processor, and a communication unit. Via the communication unit from an external device, the processor receives altitude information on each of altitudes obtained at intervals of a first period, at intervals of a second period that is longer than the first period, and individually receives altitude information on an altitude obtained not at intervals of the first period. In response to receiving the altitude obtained not at intervals of the first period, the processor performs positioning at the receiving timing. Based on obtainment timings of the altitudes received at intervals of the second period and an obtainment timing of the altitude received individually, the processor correlates the altitudes received at intervals of the second period and the altitude received individually with positioning results of the positioning such that the obtainment timings correspond to positioning timings of the positioning results.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kosuke Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11505223Abstract: A train position detection apparatus is configured to detect a position of a train by receiving positioning radio waves from satellites through a reception antenna. The train position detection apparatus includes: a memory that stores therein in advance a railway design standard of a railway track on which the train travels; and one or more hardware processors that detect a position of the train by self-contained navigation based on an input signal from a self-contained navigation sensor. When a result of the train position detection based on the positioning radio waves does not satisfy the railway design standard, the one or more hardware processors correct the result of the train position detection based on the positioning radio waves with a result of the position detection by self-contained navigation.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hideaki Nameki, Naoto Seto, Yushi Kamo, Susu Jiang, Yohei Hattori
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Patent number: 11500111Abstract: Apparatus and method for communication in non-terrestrial networks are disclosed. A set of Doppler shift curves for different distances to one or more satellite orbits is obtained. Measurements of satellite transmission are performed to obtain estimate of instantaneous Doppler shift of the transmission, the measurements including a timestamp. A Doppler shift curve corresponding to the measurements is calculated. A time offset on the selected curve is determined utilising the timestamps of the measurements, the time offset indicating the position of the Doppler shift of the apparatus on the curve. The Doppler shift of the satellite transmission is determined utilising the selected curve and the time offset.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Frank Frederiksen, Jeroen Wigard, Knud Knudsen
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Patent number: 11487021Abstract: A system for determining a position of a receiver from as few as two or three transmitters. The receiver may be stationary or moving with a known velocity. The system includes a receiver clock having a clock bias and a clock drift relative to a reference clock and may also include a motion sensor. A decoder receives transmitted signals from a number of transmitters and determine pseudo-ranges and transmitter frequencies therefrom and a processing unit receives the pseudo-ranges, the transmitter frequencies and the receiver velocity and determines the position of the receiver therefrom. When only two transmitters are available, the position of the receiver is determined dependent upon a known receiver clock drift. The system may also determine clock bias and, when three or more transmitters are available, receiver clock drift. The processing unit uses ranging and Doppler equations in combination, and may also use a measured velocity.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Government of the United States as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Abi Komanduru, Madeleine Naudeau
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Patent number: 11487020Abstract: A satellite signal calibration system can receive sensor data from one or more sensors provided on a vehicle and detect satellite signal from one or more satellites of a satellite positioning system. Using the sensor data, the system can perform a localization operation to determine a current location of the vehicle. The system may then determine timing offsets of the satellite signals from each of the one or more satellites based at least in part on the current location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: UATC, LLCInventor: Brett Browning
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Patent number: 11482777Abstract: A portable information handling system rotationally couples main and lid housing portions to each other with a hinge having opposing faces. One of a first or second antenna set disposed on the opposing faces is selected to support wireless communication by a radio disposed in the housing based upon the rotational orientation of the hinge. Optimal antenna selection is confirmed by comparing return signal strength indicator or bit rate error of the first and second antenna sets.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Vinh X. Bui
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Patent number: 11480690Abstract: A method and system for determining a receiver position comprising receiving satellite observations from a set of satellites, determining differenced observations based on the satellite observations, determining an all-in-view position of the receiver based on the differenced observations, determining a set of fault modes each associated with a subset of the differenced observations, for a fault mode of the set of fault modes, determining a fault-tolerant position of the receiver using the subset of differenced observations associated with the fault mode, when the all-in-view position and the fault tolerant position of the receiver for each fault mode are within a solution separation threshold, calculating a protection level associated with the all-in-view position of the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Paul Grgich, Lloyd Maza, Philippe Brocard
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Patent number: 11422177Abstract: Disclosed is a spatial spectrum estimation method with enhanced degree-of-freedom based on block sampling tensor construction for coprime planar array, which mainly solves the multi-dimensional information loss in signals and degree-of-freedom limitation in the existing methods and which is implemented by the following steps: constructing a coprime planar array; modeling block sampling tensors of the coprime planar array; deducing coarray statistics based on the block sampling cross-correlation tensor; obtaining block sampling coarray signals of a virtual uniform array; constructing a three-dimensional block sampling coarray tensor and its fourth-order auto-correlation statistics; constructing signal and noise subspaces based on fourth-order auto-correlation tensor decomposition; estimating a tensor spatial spectrum with enhanced degrees-of-freedom.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Jiming Chen, Hang Zheng, Zhiguo Shi, Chengwei Zhou
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Patent number: 11422269Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus intended to address problems in which positioning devices simply equipped with a plurality of antennas will fail to perform the carrier positioning. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a processing unit. The receiving unit has a plurality of antennas located at second positions (Pa, Pb) and capable of receiving a carrier wave transmitted from a satellite. The processing unit performs positioning of a set first position (Po) on the basis of second phase information obtained by correcting first phase information of carrier waves respectively received by the plurality of the antennas.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Ookubo, Tomohisa Takaoka, Haruto Takeda, Yu Tanaka, Takahiro Tsujii
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Patent number: 11423195Abstract: A method is disclosed of providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for simulating target detection and recognition. The method includes providing a user entry area for receiving user entered ground truth attributes defining one or more respective simulated physical objects, and providing a user entry area for receiving user entered collection attributes defining one or more collections, each collection being a simulation of automated target recognition applied to simulated sensor output associated with simulated sensing of the one or more simulated physical objects. The method further includes simulating detection of the one or more simulated physical objects and recognition based on the ground truth attributes and the collection attributes, generating detection data about at least one detected object based on the simulated target detection, and displaying the detection data.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Christopher M. Jengo, Suhail Shabbir Saquib, Matthew Goldstein, Allan B. Liburd
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Patent number: 11391850Abstract: Provided is a BeiDou navigation satellite B1C signal capturing method, including: mixing a digital intermediate frequency signal with a local intermediate frequency carrier signal to obtain a baseband signal; obtaining a local BOC-like signal on a data channel and a local BOC-like signal on a pilot channel; processing the local BOC-like signal on the data channel and the local BOC-like signal on the pilot channel to obtain a cross-correlation result of the data channel and a cross-correlation result of the pilot channel; performing a linear operation on the cross-correlation result of each of the two channels through a pseudo-correlation function generator to eliminate a secondary peak in the cross-correlation result of each of the two channels, and obtain an optimized cross-correlation result of each of the two channels; and capturing a satellite signal based on the optimized cross-correlation result of each of the two channels.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: Guangdong University of Technology, Russian Academy of EngineeringInventors: Shengli Xie, Xiaobo Gu, Kan Xie, Guoxu Zhou, Haochuan Zhang, Victor Fedorovich Kuzin
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Patent number: 11378698Abstract: A platform with a signal generation unit and a transmitting unit. The signal generation unit is adapted to generate a spreading code sequence. The spreading code sequence has a reference chip with a rising edge and a falling edge. The signal generation unit is adapted to adjust the spreading code sequence to ensure that the rising edge or the falling edge of the reference chip arrives at a Virtual Timing Reference Station, VTRS, on a predetermined time (tref,VTRS). The transmitting unit is adapted to engage with the signal generation unit and adapted to transmit the spreading code sequence. Further, a user device for receiving the transmitted spreading code sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbHInventors: Francis Soualle, Jean-Jacques Floch, Thomas Bey
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Patent number: 11372112Abstract: A GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver apparatus includes a bank of correlators configured to receive in-phase and quadrature versions of a received signal. A code numerical controlled oscillator is configured to determine a code frequency. A GNSS pseudo random noise sequence generator is configured to generate a pseudo random noise sequence at the code frequency set by the code numerical controlled oscillator. A GNSS pseudo random noise delayed sequence generator includes a first shift register and a second shift register. Taps of the shift registers are selectable as a punctual replica, an early replica and a delayed replica of the pseudo random noise sequence. An enable circuit is configured to generate an enable signal coupled to an enable input of the flip-flops, the enable signal operating at a selectable enable frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventor: Gennaro Musella
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Patent number: 11366234Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for preventing leakage of Beidou differential positioning data. The method includes the following steps: step 1, determining the number of positioning terminals; step 2, making identification cards, wherein one identification card corresponds to one positioning terminal, and writing data into each identification card; step 3, putting the identification cards into the card slots of the positioning terminals corresponding to the identification cards; step 4, verifying whether the read data is accurate; step 5, generating the Beidou differential positioning data by the positioning base station, a positioning satellite and the positioning terminals operating normally. The system includes a positioning base station, a positioning satellite, a service terminal, a card issuing device, a plurality of identification cards and a plurality of positioning terminals.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Inventors: Jianying Jiao, Tao Zhang, Yanshuang Li, Shaoping He, Xiaolin Qi