Patents Examined by Michael W Justice
  • Patent number: 12292495
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generation of map data. In these or other embodiments, the generation of the map data may include determining whether objects indicated by the sensor data are static objects or dynamic objects. Additionally or alternatively, sensor data may be removed or included in the map data based on determinations as to whether it corresponds to static objects or dynamic objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amir Akbarzadeh, Andrew Carley, Birgit Henke, Si Lu, Ivana Stojanovic, Jugnu Agrawal, Michael Kroepfl, Yu Sheng, David Nister, Enliang Zheng
  • Patent number: 12282088
    Abstract: Radar sensor for motor vehicles. The radar sensor has a high-frequency part, which is configured to transmit sequences of modulated radar pulses and to receive the corresponding radar echoes, and an electronic evaluation part, which is configured to take distance and angle measurements using a synthetic aperture, and includes a scanning module, an FFT module for performing fast Fourier transforms to calculating a two-dimensional distance/velocity radar image, a transform module configured to transform the raw data, while simultaneously correcting migration effects, into a format that can be processed by the FFT module, by applying a transform function defined by a number N of coefficients, and a coefficient module for preparing the coefficients for the transform module. The coefficient module including a memory, in which there is stored an initial set of coefficients comprising fewer than N coefficients, and a recursion module, for recursive calculation of the remaining coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gor Hakobyan, Johannes Fink
  • Patent number: 12276721
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a spatial position of an aircraft, without replying on measurements from the Global Positioning System. Various embodiments are described using a single Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR), and multiple SSRs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Seamatica Aerospace Ltd.
    Inventors: Siu Donald O'Young, Yake Li
  • Patent number: 12276719
    Abstract: A radar device includes a transmitter module configured to generate transmission waves including: generating a first chirp chain at a first chirp rate for a transmission wave to be output including: generating a first transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at a first angle; and generating a second transmission signal to be output at a second angle different from the first angle; and generating a second chirp chain at a second chirp rate for the transmission wave to be output including: generating a third transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at the first angle; and generating a fourth transmission signal including at least one modulated signal to be output at the second angle, where the first chirp rate is different than the second chirp rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, MIRISE Technologies Corporation, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sungwoo Cha
  • Patent number: 12276726
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for detecting multipath radar returns and modifying radar data. A vehicle may use radar devices to receive radar data while traversing within an environment. The vehicle may process the radar data using a virtual array based on an arraignment of the antennae within an aperture of the radar device. Using the virtual array, the vehicle may determine an elevated noise level that may be indicative of a multipath radar return. Based on the elevated noise level, the vehicle may determine a second virtual array associated with multipath radar returns, and may process the radar data using the second virtual array. Based on determining that the noise level associated with the second virtual array is lower than the initial noise level, the vehicle may determine that the radar data includes a multipath radar return, and may modify the radar data to correct or mitigate the error caused by the multipath return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Abdeldayem, Badeea Ferdaous Alferdaous Alazem, Samantha Marie Ting
  • Patent number: 12270920
    Abstract: A method for performing in a positioning, navigation, tracking, frequency-measuring, or timing system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: FOCAL POINT POSITIONING LIMITED
    Inventors: Ramsey Faragher, Nicolas Couronneau, Robert Mark Crockett
  • Patent number: 12265175
    Abstract: It is suggested to process radar signals including: (i) receiving reception signals via at least one antenna of a first receiving circuit; (ii) determining an interim result by processing the reception signals via a frequency transformation; (iii) determining an error compensation vector based on the interim result and an expected characteristic; and (iv) applying the error compensation vector on other reception signals that have been processed via the frequency transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Andre Roger, Simon Achatz, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Ljudmil Anastasov, Markus Bichl, Mayeul Jeannin, Maximilian Eschbaumer
  • Patent number: 12265150
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to an apparatus, method and/or system of radar tracking. For example, a radar tracker may be configured to generate target tracking information corresponding to a plurality of targets in an environment of a radar device. For example, the radar tracker may include a processor configured to determine the target tracking information based on a plurality of multi-target density functions corresponding to a respective plurality of target types, and to update the plurality of multi-target density functions based on detection information corresponding to a plurality of detections in the environment. For example, the radar tracker may include an output to output the target tracking information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leor Banin, Yuval Amizur, Nir Dvorecki
  • Patent number: 12253622
    Abstract: Method for providing reduced interference for at least two co-located FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) Doppler radars, each of said radars being used in a system to detect respective distances to and velocities of objects moving through space, can include a propagation determination step, in which expected electromagnetic wave propagation times are determined between pairs of radars; a sweep time offset synchronizing step, in which different respective sweep time offsets are selected, with respect to each radar in a first group of radars; and a sweep frequency offset synchronizing step, in which a second sweep frequency offset is selected with respect to a second group of radars, the second sweep frequency offset being relative to a sweep frequency pattern used for radars belonging to said first group. The invention also relates to a system and to a computer software product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Topgolf Sweden AB
    Inventors: Jonny Eriksson, Christer Andersson
  • Patent number: 12253590
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus 1000 includes: a transmission unit 1101, having a transmission antenna, configured to emit a radio wave toward an object using the transmission antenna; a reception unit 1102, having a reception antenna, configured to receive the radio wave reflected by the object as a reception signal and generate an intermediate frequency signal from the reception signal received; and a processing device 1211. The processing device 1211 calculates an amplitude distribution of the radio wave reflected by the object on the basis of the placement of the transmission antenna, the placement of the reception antenna, the frequency of the radio wave emitted from the transmission antenna, and the intermediate frequency signal, and furthermore, using a correction operator calculated from a point spread function indicating characteristics of the transmission unit 1101 and the reception unit 1102, corrects the amplitude distribution calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Yamanouchi, Toshiyuki Nomura, Taichi Tanaka, Tatsuya Sumiya
  • Patent number: 12253624
    Abstract: A signal transmission method applied to a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar, the MIMO radar includes a transmitter, and the transmitter includes a plurality of transmit antennas. The signal transmission method includes sending, by the transmitter, a first burst in a first measurement frame, where the first measurement frame is used to measure a velocity of a target, and when the first burst is sent, each of the plurality of transmit antennas sends a chirp signal in a time division manner, and sending, by the transmitter, a second burst in the first measurement frame after the transmitter sends the first burst in the first measurement frame, where when the second burst is sent, a quantity of transmit antennas configured to send a chirp signal is one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinnan Liu, Mu Zhou, Dapeng Lao
  • Patent number: 12241991
    Abstract: A method for evaluating overlapping targets in a two-dimensional radar spectrum, wherein the following steps are carried out: providing the two-dimensional radar spectrum, selecting at least one region of interest as an input signal from the spectrum, and performing an evaluation of the input signal to determine an information about the overlapping targets, wherein the evaluation is specific for a model order selection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Tai Fei, Yuliang Sun
  • Patent number: 12235347
    Abstract: A radar transceiver includes a phase shifter that is controlled to apply an induced phase shift in a first subset of chirp signals of a frame of chirp signals, which also includes a second subset of chirp signals in which no phase shift is applied. Other circuitry generates digital signals based on received reflected signals, which are based on transmitted signals. Processing circuitry performs a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on a first subset of digital signals, corresponding to the first subset of chirp signals, to generate a first range-Doppler array, and performs a FFT on the second subset of digital signals, corresponding to the second subset of chirp signals, to generate a second range-Doppler array; identifies peaks in the first and second range-Doppler arrays to detect an object; and compares a phases of peaks at corresponding positions in the first and second range-Doppler arrays to determine a measured phase shift between the two peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sandeep Rao, Karthik Subburaj
  • Patent number: 12235386
    Abstract: A system and associated method for calibrating a radar system is described, wherein the radar system includes a phased array antenna including a first antenna array and a second antenna array, a transmitter array, and a receiver array, communication leads, a calibration circuit, and a controller. The calibration circuit includes a power divider and directional couplers. A pilot signal is injected, via the power divider and the directional couplers, to the receivers during a quiet period. Phase offsets and gain imbalances for the receivers are determined in relation to a reference channel based upon the pilot signal, and phase calibrations and gain calibrations for the receivers are determined based upon the phase offsets and the gain imbalances, and a radar-related parameter is based upon the phase calibrations and the gain calibrations for the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Ofer Bar-Shalom, Igal Kotzer
  • Patent number: 12228637
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radar device includes antenna panels. The antenna panels include a first transmission panel, first reception panel, and second reception panel, or the antenna panels include a first transmission panel, second transmission panel, and first reception panel. The first transmission panel includes antennas at intervals of m times a substantially half wavelength where m is a positive integer of two or more. The first reception panel includes antennas at intervals of n times the substantially half wavelength where n is a positive integer of two or more, and m and n are coprime to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Xu Zhu, Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 12216195
    Abstract: An object detection system for use in residential or commercial buildings includes a housing for retaining a camera, a radar antenna, and an actuator. The camera has a first field of view, and the radar antenna has a second field of view. The actuator is configured to selectively move the camera. The system further includes computer memory and a processor in data communication with the camera, the radar antenna, the actuator, and the computer memory. The processor, using programming contained in the computer memory, causes the camera to move based on camera position data and data from the radar antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ainstein AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Zongbo Wang, Syed Ahmed, David Royer
  • Patent number: 12216194
    Abstract: In a target tracking device, a state quantity estimation unit is configured to, every time a preset repetition period of a processing cycle elapses, estimate, for each of the one or more targets, a current state quantity based on at least either observation information of the one or more targets observed by a sensor or past state quantities of the one or more targets. A model selection unit is configured to, for each of the one or more targets, select one motion model from a plurality of predefined motion models, based on at least either states of the one or more targets or a state of the vehicle. An estimation selection unit is configured to, for each of the one or more targets, cause the state quantity estimation unit to estimate the state quantity of the target with the one motion model selected by the model selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Akamine, Takayuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 12204018
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a reflection of a first radar waveform transmitted by the first UE. The UE may receive a second radar waveform from a second UE, wherein the second radar waveform is a direct transmission from the second UE or a reflection of the direct transmission. The UE may perform target detection based at least in part on the reflection of the first radar waveform and on the second radar waveform. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12196877
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration to perform cooperative radar sensing. The configuration may indicate resources for the first UE to use to communicate radar measurement reports. The UE may receive, from another UE on the identified resources, a radar measurement report that includes values for one or more radar measurement parameters for a first radar target and a time stamp associated with the values. The UE may identify a second set of values for the radar measurement parameters (e.g., its own measurements, or measurements received from a third UE in another radar measurement reports). The UE may generate a combined set of values for the radar measurement parameters for each time stamp by combining the first set of values and the second set of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Dan Zhang, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12189054
    Abstract: Transmitting antennas and receiving antennas are arranged such that a plurality of virtual antennas have the same position in a time-division-multiplexed (TDM) frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar apparatus. At least three peculiar chirps, at least one of which is included in a chirp loop of each of waveform signals transmitted by the plurality of virtual antennas having the same position, are respectively positioned in consecutive time slots and have different periods. A Doppler frequency may be uniquely determined from phase difference values between the at least three peculiar chirps respectively positioned in consecutive time slots measured from FMCW radar signals received at the plurality of virtual antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SMART RADAR SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Yong Jae Kim, Jeong Min Choi