Patents Examined by Mohammed Rachedine
  • Patent number: 11159229
    Abstract: A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites. Satellite terminal equipment may be used to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite terminal equipment may have indoor and outdoor equipment that can communicate wirelessly. Power may be conveyed wirelessly between the indoor equipment and the outdoor equipment. The indoor equipment may include communications circuitry for supporting communications with electronic devices. The outdoor equipment may include satellite communications circuitry. The satellite communications circuitry may include antennas, satellite transceiver circuitry, and modems. Wireless communications between the indoor and outdoor equipment may be supported using radio-frequency wireless communications circuits or optical communications circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Reed Garcia, Valerie Chang, James Gordon
  • Patent number: 11151182
    Abstract: A classification model training method includes obtaining a positive training set and a first negative training set, where the positive training set includes samples of a positive sample set in a corpus, where the first negative training set includes samples of an unlabeled sample set in the corpus, training, using the positive training set and the first negative training set, to obtain a first classification model, determining, using the first classification model, a pseudo negative sample in the first negative training set, removing the pseudo negative sample from the first negative training set, updating the first negative training set to a second negative training set, and training, using the positive training set and the second negative training set, to obtain a target classification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasheng Wang, Yang Zhang, Shuzhan Bi, Youliang Yan
  • Patent number: 11137489
    Abstract: A radar system includes a first chip having a first radio frequency (RF) contact; a second chip having a second RF contact; a first RF oscillator integrated in the first chip and has an output coupled to the first RF contact; a second RF oscillator integrated in the second chip; a transmission line connecting the first RF contact to the second RF contact; a demodulator that is arranged in the second chip and has a first RF input; wherein the first RF oscillator is configured to generate a first RF oscillator signal that is transmitted to the first RF input of the demodulator via the first RF contact, the transmission line, and the second RF contact, and wherein a controller is configured to determine a first propagation delay of the first RF oscillator signal arriving at the second chip on a basis of information obtained from the demodulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Florian Starzer, Helmut Kollmann, Alexander Melzer, Rainer Stuhlberger, Roland Vuketich, Mathias Zinnoecker
  • Patent number: 11138769
    Abstract: An image reconstruction method according to an embodiment includes: collecting first k-space data at a first time and second k-space data having an undersampled pattern different from an undersampled pattern of the first k-space data at a second time different from the first time; generating intermediate data by converting data including the first k-space data and the second k-space data; generating, by inversely converting the intermediate data, third k-space data and fourth k-space data that correspond to the first k-space data and the second k-space data, respectively, and in each of which at least part of a region undersampled through the corresponding undersampled pattern is filled; and generating a magnetic resonance image at a time different from any of the first time and the second time by converting k-space data obtained by combining at least part of the third k-space data and at least part of the fourth k-space data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagashima, Hiroshi Takai
  • Patent number: 11128368
    Abstract: A method of localizing an object is provided. The method comprises deactivating a wireless system in a defined zone and then activating a wireless data concentrator located in the defined zone, wherein the wireless data concentrator is electrically isolated from the wireless system. The wireless system is activated, wherein the wireless system is electrically coupled to a circuit breaker with a known location in the defined zone. A signal from the wireless system is received at the wireless data concentrator. The distance of the wireless system from the wireless data concentrator is determined based on the signal, and a location is assigned to the wireless system within the defined zone based on the distance of the wireless system from the wireless data concentrator and the known location of the circuit breaker in the defined zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Christopher P. Alvarez
  • Patent number: 11120256
    Abstract: A method of extracting meta-data from semi structured documents, by using area and cone orientation as relevance between words/phrases is described. It also a computer implemented system to handle OCR errors with respect to the coordinates interpreted for each word and user corrections both in online and offline mode. The method is carried out by the steps as follows: converting scanned or digital document to a readable format with coordinates using OCR; scanning the coordinates obtained through OCR for each character; marking all potential labels and values with a bounding box; searching for relevant labels for the particular value by using default control parameters and adjusting trainable parameters; mapping a cone region for the labels and values using the upper and lower angles along x-axis and the scope box and formulating the score area to get the confidence percentage which is used as measure to extract all relevant label-value pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Zycus Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Durga Prasad, Vijesh Bhaktha, Alok Jain
  • Patent number: 11121459
    Abstract: An assembly includes: a small cell antenna base station comprising a radio, an antenna, and a mounting structure; and an IoT gateway assembly mounted to the mounting structure, the IoT gateway assembly comprising: an IoT gateway module configured for aggregation and backhaul of data from IoT sensors; and an loT antenna connected with the IoT gateway module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Walter Mark Hendrix, Willis Frank James, Mark George Spaulding, Wayne Hopkinson, Jeffrey Cook
  • Patent number: 11115932
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of boosting power of a phase tracking reference signal, PTRS, in a telecommunication system, wherein PTRS is used in an uplink transmission and two PTRS ports are configured and whereby the power boosting is defined based on relationship of the power to a number of PUSCH layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yinan Qi
  • Patent number: 11115515
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for playing sound and a multi-screen terminal. The method includes: detecting, by a multi-screen terminal, a current opening/closing angle or angles between the respective display screens; and selecting, by the multi-screen terminal according to the detected current opening/closing angle or angles, a group of prestored audio drive parameters, and outputting the group of audio drive parameters to a power amplification module of the multi-screen terminal; or, determining whether the current opening/closing angle or angles and the current audio drive parameters are respectively prestored opening/closing angle or angles and audio drive parameters corresponding to an optimal sound field playing effect, and if not, giving a prompt as to whether to adjust the opening/closing angle or angles between the respective display screens and/or the current audio drive parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO. LTD
    Inventors: Fengpeng Liu, Dongmei Liu
  • Patent number: 11115816
    Abstract: A communication apparatus connectable to a communication network notifies the presence of the communication apparatus using a communication channel assigned to the communication apparatus, then sets one communication channel different from the assigned communication channel of those available in the communication network, and searches for a communication partner apparatus which functions as a providing apparatus that provides communication parameters using the set communication channel. The communication apparatus repetitively executes the notification processing and the search processing, and changes a communication channel used in the search processing every time the repetition is executed one or a plurality of number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumihide Goto, Tatsuhiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 11108422
    Abstract: A device and method of verifying protective case usage, is described. The device includes one or more processors to drive an electromechanical transducer with an input signal. The electromechanical transducer generates an input force based on the input signal, and a sensor of the device generates a test output signal in response to the input force. The one or more processors determine, based on the test output signal, a level of verification that a protective case is mounted on the device. The determination can include determining whether the test output signal matches a predetermined impulse response signal indicative of an unprotected device or a protected device. A digital identification tag of the protective case can be read by a radio-frequency transceiver of the device to provide an additional level of verification that the protective case is mounted on the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CaseFax Inc.
    Inventor: Randy Mark Cunningham
  • Patent number: 11109391
    Abstract: A method and a system for transmission control in a network supporting mission critical (MC) services are provided. The method includes associating a predefined priority to a data transmission request from a communication device, availing MC services, based on type of the data transmission request. The type of the data transmission request is classified in at least one arbitration category. Further, the method includes managing flow of data associated with the data transmission request in the network based on the associated predefined priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Basavaraj Jayawant Pattan, Suresh Chitturi
  • Patent number: 11087144
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for identifying objects and scenarios that have not been trained or are unidentifiable to vehicle perception sensors or vehicle assistive driving systems. Embodiments are directed to using a trained vehicle data set to identify target objects in vehicle sensor data. In one embodiment, a process is provided that includes running a scene detection operation on vehicle to derive a vector of target object attributes of the vehicle sensor data and generating a vector representation for the scene detection operation and the attributes of the vehicle sensor data. The vector representation compared to a familiarity vector to represent effectiveness of the scene detection operation. In addition, the vector representation can be scored to identify one or more target objects or significant scenarios, including unidentifiable objects and/or driving scenes, scenarios for reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Aaron Thompson, Honghao Tan
  • Patent number: 11082816
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and to the transceiver and configured to: obtain a first device identity for each of a plurality of first radio-frequency (RF) devices each configured to transmit a wireless RF signal; obtain a mobility status for each of the plurality of first RF devices, the mobility status indicative of whether the respective first RF device is expected to be mobile or static; obtain an RF signal measurement for each of the plurality of first RF devices; and produce a profile of the plurality of first RF devices using the first device identity for each of the plurality of first RF devices, the mobility status for each of the plurality of first RF devices, and the RF signal measurement for each of the plurality of first RF devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Ju-Yong Do, Gengsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11080825
    Abstract: Provided is a novel aliasing elimination technique capable of suppressing noise amplification in an aliasing elimination calculation in parallel imaging and the like. The technique utilizes the fact that a phase of an image (a true image that is one of a plurality of images) to be separated from a main captured image obtained with the plurality of images superimposed is basically the same as a phase of an image obtained at a low resolution, to obtain a phase difference between a phase of a low-resolution image and a phase of the main captured image, and separates the true image by calculation using the phase difference and a pixel value of the main captured image. At this time, the low-resolution image is obtained by each of a plurality of receiving coils, and the true image is calculated after multiplying a plurality of low-resolution images by a complex number that minimizes the noise amplification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke Itou, Shinji Kurokawa, Masahiro Takizawa
  • Patent number: 11080519
    Abstract: Provided is a method including steps: (a) storing in a database an eigenvector and an eigenvalue for each recognizable gesture, with respect to a first signal input through a radar apparatus and a second signal resulting from removing background information from the first signal: (b) receiving a third signal from which to determine a gesture, as an input, from the radar apparatus: (c) removing background information from the third signal from which to determine the gesture to obtain a fourth signal: (d) computing an inner product of the eigenvector and a signal matrix relating to each of the third signal from which to determine the gesture and the fourth signal resulting from removing the background information from the third signal: and (e) comparing the computed inner product with the eigenvalue in the database, in which the eigenvector is extracted from signals of all recognizable gestures and the eigenvalue, and the eigenvalue for each recognizable gesture is an inner product of the eigenvector and the si
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: WRT LAB CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Cho, Jun Bum Park
  • Patent number: 11071057
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a method and an energy control device are provided for estimating electricity consumption during one or more transmission intervals of a transmission site or part of a transmission site. Said site comprises a scheduler for scheduling assignments, and a set of radio transmitters having known radio efficiency ?r. Said method comprises a step of estimating scheduled transmission electricity consumption ETOT based on a quotient of a sum Psch,sum of scheduled radio transmission powers Psch and the radio efficiency ?r. An energy management control method based on information from the scheduler to control the alternative energy sources on site is provided, wherein said information is depending on radio traffic load. The energy control method for every TTI for efficient and effective control that is based on the real traffic situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Lackis Eleftheriadis, Per Eklund, Ulf NeĆ¼man
  • Patent number: 11064977
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide ways to detect the object of ultrasound scanning and to automatically, load system settings and image preferences necessary to generate high quality output images. In some aspects, an ultrasound system can be configured to perform steps including receiving a selection of a first transducer, identifying a body structure or organ based on a signal received in response to an activation of the first transducer, retrieving a first set of image parameters corresponding with the body structure, and configuring the first transducer based on the first set of image parameters. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Glen W. McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11064316
    Abstract: A portable radio system including dual programmable push-to-talk (PTT) switches is disclosed. One embodiment includes the PTT switches positioned so as to permit ambidextrous operation of the portable radio. Another embodiment allows a user to program the PTT switches to execute different functional tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Datron World Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Irwin H. Morse, Zbigniew Cyganik, Arthur L. Reynolds, III, J. Andrew Moulds, Benjamin L. LaBelle, Matthew R. Fallows
  • Patent number: 11063660
    Abstract: A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites that provides services to users with electronic devices such as portable electronic devices and home and office equipment. A network operations center may use gateways to communicate with the satellite constellation. The satellite constellation may include sets of satellites with different orbits such as circular orbits with different inclinations, sets of satellites with elliptic orbits, sets of satellites with circular orbits of different altitudes including low earth orbits, medium earth orbits, and/or geosynchronous orbits, and/or sets of satellites with other orbits. The satellite orbits of the satellites in the satellite constellation may be selected to provide coverage to desired user population concentrations at different locations on the earth without using an excessive number of satellites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Vaughan, Greg Busche, Brett Poirier, Robert Hawkins