Patents Examined by Harry K. Liu
  • Patent number: 11762100
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a positioning signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a positioning signal transmitted from a positioning satellite and a parameter acquisition unit configured to calculate a parameter preset based on the positioning signal. The information processing apparatus further includes an accuracy index calculation unit configured to calculate a positioning accuracy index from the parameter, and an output unit configured to output the positioning accuracy index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Miyamoto, Maho Kashiwagi, Yuka Kanda
  • Patent number: 11754723
    Abstract: An apparatus control method includes: controlling a first frequency band receive chain, of an apparatus, to alternate being on and off with a first duty cycle, the first frequency band receive chain being configured to measure satellite signals within a first frequency band; determining one or more performance criteria; and controlling, based on the one or more performance criteria, a second frequency band receive chain, of the apparatus, to alternate being on and off with a second duty cycle, the second frequency band receive chain being configured to measure satellite signals within a second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Deepika Srinivasan, Krishnaranjan Rao, Jeffrey Wong, Jordan Cookman
  • Patent number: 11754722
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a positioning signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a positioning signal transmitted from a positioning satellite and a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter preset based on the positioning signal. The information processing apparatus further includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of the parameters at a plurality of time points in a preset period, an accuracy index calculation unit configured to or calculating a positioning accuracy index from the plurality of stored parameters, and an output unit configured to output the positioning accuracy index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Miyamoto, Maho Kashiwagi, Yuka Kanda
  • Patent number: 11754657
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle includes a main body and at least two rotor units configured to propel the unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes at least two antenna units configured to receive a radio signal. The antenna units are located with respect to the main body such that the antenna units are assigned to different lateral sides of the main body. Further, a direction finding system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Baris Guezelarslan, Dominik Hettich
  • Patent number: 11754724
    Abstract: For cross-channel spectral analysis of measurement data from multiple recording units with independent sampling clocks, a processing method corrects phase mismatch between the data received over the different channels. Blocks of sampled measurement data are buffered in a hardware logic circuit and timestamps are associated with successive blocks through a hardware interrupt to a GPS receiver of each recording unit. For each first channel data block, the block's starting point, a closest point in time in a data block of the second channel, and the starting point of that second channel data block are determined, using GPS timestamps associated with those data blocks, nominal sampling rate and block size. Phase correction based on the time offset between starting points of the pairs of data blocks and the interval between starting points of successive blocks is applied in the frequency domain after a time-to-frequency domain transformation. Multiple frames of phase-corrected spectra may then be averaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Crystal Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: James Q. Zhuge
  • Patent number: 11747488
    Abstract: A method performed by a wireless device (110, 210, 410, 1200) is disclosed. The method comprises sending (801), to a network node (120, 115, 215, 220, 225, 460), a request for reference station transfer information. The method comprises obtaining (802) the reference station transfer information for at least one pair of satellites (235, 240). The method comprises determining (803) an integer ambiguity solution associated with a new reference station (230B) based on the obtained reference station transfer information and an integer ambiguity solution associated with a current reference station (230A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Sara Modarres Razavi
  • Patent number: 11747431
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle positioning method, including: a first controller synchronously controlling each first beacon node to send a detection initial signal; a second controller determining a target beacon node among second beacon nodes and controlling the target beacon node to send a detection feedback signal; the first controller synchronously controlling each first beacon node to send a corresponding detection signal to be responded and recording a first moment of sending the detection signal to be responded; the second controller controlling the target beacon node to send a detection response signal; the first controller recording a second moment of receiving the detection response signal and determining a distance between each first beacon node and the target beacon node according to the first moment and the second moment, so as to determine a position of the target beacon node relative to the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Jiuyang Cheng, Lijia Zhou, Quanguo Zhou, Lirong Xu
  • Patent number: 11747482
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a APNT service positioning and integrity monitoring method and system. The method includes the following steps: determining a positioning accuracy requirement in a target scene; when the positioning accuracy requirement is high-accuracy positioning, determining a position of an aircraft by adopting a combined positioning algorithm, and monitoring the integrity of a combined positioning by adopting a multi-solution separation mode; when the positioning accuracy requirement is low-accuracy positioning, judging whether the aircraft is a high-altitude user; if not, adopting an air-to-air positioning algorithm for a high-altitude user and a low-altitude user based on LDACS to determine the position of the aircraft, and adopting a least square residual method to monitor the integrity of the air-to-air positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhipeng Wang, Yanbo Zhu, Siqi Huang, Kun Fang
  • Patent number: 11740318
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system used for a vehicle includes a sensor unit, a receiving device, and a control device. The sensor unit is provided at each wheel of the vehicle, detects tire pressure of the each wheel with a tire pressure sensor and transmits data of the detected tire pressure by radio waves. The receiving device includes a receiving antenna that is provided at an outside of the vehicle to receive the data of the tire pressure transmitted from the sensor unit. The control device includes a data acquisition unit that acquires the data of the tire pressure received by the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11740363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for error evaluation in position determination, comprising time-synchronous recording of first and second position values, wherein the second position values are recorded by a different measuring method than the first position values; forming a first and a second trajectory (A, B) from the first and the second position values respectively; forming differential vectors (D) between first and second position values recorded at the same time; parallel-shifting the second trajectory (B) along a displacement vector (s) such that the amounts of the differential vectors (D) are minimized on average; evaluating the faultiness of the position determination on the basis of one or more amounts of the differential vectors (D) created as a consequence of the parallel shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Bernd Kubina, Roland Burghardt, Robert Bodenheimer
  • Patent number: 11740364
    Abstract: A method of enhancing the accuracy of a navigation system which includes a GNSS receiver. The method includes receiving navigation signals from at least one GNSS constellation and a LEO constellation. Position estimates will be made through implementation of a filter using successive readings of pseudoranges and carrier-phase measurements from the GNSS constellation and carrier-phase measurements from the LEO constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Globalstar, Inc.
    Inventors: James Kilfeather, Samuel Phillip Pullen
  • Patent number: 11733343
    Abstract: A method for associating an address with a fingerprint, according to an aspect of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving collected information including an address and a wireless LAN fingerprint; storing the received collected information; filtering multiple pieces of stored collected information according to addresses, on the basis of multiple pieces of collected information for adjacent addresses; and constructing a radio map by using the collected information filtered according to addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Dongsoo Han, Sungeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11733391
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for automatic detection of entrance(s). In particular, processor(s) could have access to counter data arranged to maintain counters that each respectively represent a count of how many times GNSS service has been obtained or lost in a respective one of a plurality of sub-areas. Given this, the processor(s) could detect a GNSS state change corresponding to an instance of GNSS service being obtained or lost in a particular sub-area and could responsively increment the respective counter associated with the particular sub-area. In turn, the processor(s) could make a determination that the respective counter is representing a count that is greater than other count(s) represented by counter(s) associated with other sub-area(s). And based at least on this determination, the processor(s) could deem the particular sub-area to include an entrance, thereby resulting in detection of the entrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen, Petri Rauhala
  • Patent number: 11733395
    Abstract: A precise point position and real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK) positioning method, including: when direct emission signals broadcast by a multi-system navigation satellite and a low-earth-orbit constellation are detected, determining raw observation data (S11); receiving navigation satellite augmentation information broadcast by the low-earth-orbit constellation, and a low-earth-orbit satellite precise orbit and precise clock difference (S12); using the navigation satellite augmentation information, the low-earth-orbit satellite precise orbit and precise clock difference and the raw observation data for precise point positioning (S13); or when comprehensive ground-based augmentation error correction information is received, using the navigation satellite augmentation information, the low-earth-orbit satellite precise orbit and precise clock difference, the raw observation data and the comprehensive ground-based augmentation error correction information for precise point positioning of ground-based augmentation (S
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Future Navigation Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Xucheng Mu
  • Patent number: 11733397
    Abstract: A method or system can include or be configured to receive a set of satellite observations, receiving sensor data, determining a position estimate and associated positioning error for a rover based on the set of satellite observations and the sensor data, determine a protection level associated with the position estimate based on a set of potential faults, and optionally provide an alert when the positioning error exceeds the protection level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Philippe Brocard
  • Patent number: 11728879
    Abstract: There is presented a wireless device for dual-polarization beamforming. The wireless device comprises an antenna array. The antenna array comprises antenna elements of mutually orthogonal polarizations and a baseband chain. The antenna elements of both polarizations are operatively connected to the baseband chain. There is also presented a method for dual-polarization beamforming as performed by such a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11719829
    Abstract: An anti-spoofing satellite navigation and positioning method includes: receiving a positioning satellite radio frequency (RF) signal by a satellite RF receiving module, and detecting whether a power strength of the received signal exceeds a preset threshold; preprocessing the received signal by a satellite RF signal identification module, and intercepting an identifiable positioning satellite signal for identification to distinguish a real signal and a false signal; calculating the received signal to acquire real position and time information when the received signal is identified as the real signal; and sending an alarm message when the received signal is identified as the false signal. An anti-spoofing satellite navigation and positioning chip is further provided. By identifying whether the signal is a real signal or a false signal, the authenticity of the upper-layer position calculation is ensured, and the purpose of timely and accurate detection and effective resistance to spoofing attacks is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Hainan University
    Inventors: Chunjie Cao, Yang Sun, Fangjian Tao, Xin Zheng, Xiuhua Wen
  • Patent number: 11719828
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein are directed to detect the presence of false, incorrect, or spoofed Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals. Embodiments may comprise receiving, at a mobile device, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal via a GNSS antenna of the mobile device; determining first movement data based on the GNSS signal; determining second movement data based on data from one or more motion sensors of the mobile device, wherein the first movement data and the second movement data each comprise respective movement-related information regarding the mobile device during a time period; and providing an indication that GNSS error is occurring based on a determination that a difference between first movement data and the second movement data exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: David Tuck, James Stephen, Inchara Lakshminarayan
  • Patent number: 11719830
    Abstract: A navigation system for a mobile object generates navigation data for the mobile object based on satellite navigation signals received from a plurality of satellites and base data received from a stationary base station. The navigation data includes code phase estimates and carrier phase estimates for the plurality of satellites. The system computes position, velocity and time estimates for the mobile object in accordance with the code phase estimates and carrier phase estimates, and performs a navigation function for the mobile object in accordance with the position, velocity and time estimates. The system generates code phase estimates by performing a Vector Delay Locked Loop (VDLL) computation process that drives a code NCO for each channel of a plurality of channels, and generates carrier phase estimates for the plurality of satellites by performing a RTK Vector Phase Locked Loop computation process that drives a carrier NCO for each channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Deere & Company, Auburn University c/o Office of Innovation Advancement and Commercialization
    Inventors: Scott M. Martin, David M. Bevly, Richard G. Keegan, Stephen F. Rounds
  • Patent number: 11714196
    Abstract: A system for generating satellite positioning corrections includes a global correction module that generates a set of global pre-corrections based on modeling of global positioning error, a set of local correction modules that, for each local correction module of the set, takes input from a unique reference source and generates a set of local pre-corrections based on modeling of local positioning error; and a correction generator that generates a positioning correction from the set of global pre-corrections and the sets of local pre-corrections to correct a position of the mobile receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Fergus Noble, Anthony Cole