Patents Examined by Olumide Ajibade-Akonai
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Patent number: 10444373Abstract: A system and method for providing communications with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation using a non-omnidirectional antenna is disclosed. A system and method for determining blockages around a non-omnidirectional antenna for use with a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation is disclosed. The method including: receiving System Information (SI) including ephemeris data for satellites in the LEO constellation; receiving a segment division that divides a ground about the antenna into segments; and determining a segment blocking information for the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLCInventor: Trevor Eagling
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Patent number: 10444326Abstract: Disclosed herein is a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. The FMCW radar includes: a transmission signal generator that generates a frequency-modulated transmission signal; a transmission signal sender that sends the transmission signal; a receiver that receives a reflected wave of the transmission signal; an adjuster that adjusts the amplitude and phase of a cancel signal, which cancels a leakage signal component in a received signal, in accordance with a variation in the frequency of the transmission signal; and a superimposer that superimposes the cancel signal over the received signal to cancel the leakage signal component.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.Inventors: Yoshifumi Hosokawa, Isao Imazeki, Yoichi Nagaso
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Patent number: 10436895Abstract: An efficient RADAR imaging method that is able to detect an object within an interested area. This method uses electromagnetic waves transmitted by one or many transmitters to illuminate the interested area, and then estimates the phase shift of the scattered wave of an object according to the path that the electromagnetic wave propagated. By reversing the phase of the obtained scattered signal to the transmitters' position, an image is constructed for the entire interested area according to the correlation of signals in all channels. The present method works in the frequency domain. It produces a microwave image by using the phase and magnitude of the obtained signal, or using the phase information only. Other unique features include the way it synthesizes the signals obtained in multiple channels and at multiple frequencies. Its overwhelming high efficiency makes rapid microwave imaging and real-time imaging possible.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ELLUMEN, INC.Inventors: Wenyi Shao, Todd R. McCollough, William J. McCollough, Arezou Edalati
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Patent number: 10440591Abstract: Described is a method performed by a computing device for generating policies for improving network system performance, the method comprising: receiving operational data from a network device; processing the operational data from the network device to generate a Wi-Fi management policy; merging the Wi-Fi management policy, a mobile device policy, and a user preference or user policy to generate a unified policy; and sending the unified policy to the network device for network management.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ASSIA SPE, LLCInventors: Wooyul Lee, Manikanden Balakrishnan, Sungho Yun, Carlos Garcia Hernandez
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Patent number: 10436897Abstract: A system for determining the location of a man-made object based upon symmetry of the object comprising a receiver configured to receive radar signals comprising cross-polarized and co-polarized responses; at least one processor configured to combine the horizontal-horizontal polarimetric responses and vertical-vertical polarimetric responses to form co-polarimetric images and operate on one or both of the vertical-horizontal polarimetric responses and horizontal-vertical polarimetric responses to form cross-polarized images; the at least one processor configured to process the co-polarized and cross-polarized images to locate areas of interest containing a maximum in the co-pol image and a null state in the co-pol image indicating the potential detection of a man-made object; the at least one processor being configured to filter data using buffer regions and/or skipping of pixels in the vicinity of an area of interest. A method for detection of man-made objects is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Kenneth Irving Ranney, David Chun Wong, Tuan That Ton
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Patent number: 10440529Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and system of responding to a call with a text. The method includes receiving by a target communication device a call from an initiator communication device. The target communication device responds to the from call with a real time text (RTT). One or more characters in the RTT are sent instantaneously to the initiator communication device.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Basavaraj Jayawant Pattan, Ashok Kumar Selvaraj, Kyungtak Lee, Nishant Gupta
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Patent number: 10429494Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for detecting a target object by a radar device for a vehicle. The method includes recognizing the situation that causes the deterioration in the function of a radar, and preventing the performance from deterioration through a signal processing technology. The apparatus includes: a signal transmitting unit that transmits a transmission signal for detecting a target object; a signal receiving unit that receives a reception signal generated by a reflection of the transmission signal; a signal analyzing unit that calculates frequency spectrum information of the reception signal, and extracts periodicity information for determining a periodicity of the frequency spectrum information; a determining unit that determines whether a clutter structure exists; and a target detecting unit that detects a target object by deleting a peak value component of the periodicity information when it is determined that the clutter structure exists.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: JaeEun Lee, HaeSueng Lim
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Patent number: 10424840Abstract: A method includes forming an output amplitude vector of an array antenna of addition values of a signal incoming wave reception output and a reception system noise output; generating a virtual array antenna output amplitude vector of addition values of a signal incoming wave reception output amplitude and a virtual noise wave reception output amplitude such that array output average power of the virtual noise wave is equivalent to average power of the reception system noise output, and deriving a singular linear equation indicating cause-effect relationship of the concerned generation; deriving a non-singular linear equation from the singular linear equation; and obtaining a signal incoming wave amplitude vector using the non-singular linear equation.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Inventor: Shinkichi Nishimoto
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Patent number: 10422682Abstract: The invention relates to a radar level gauge comprising a signal generator for generating electromagnetic waves and an antenna for emitting the electromagnetic waves in a container and for receiving electromagnetic waves reflected by the container. The radar level gauge also comprises a safety device for verifying the functional capability or for improving the measuring quality of the radar level gauge, said safety device having a reflector and an adjustment device and/or a reduction device and being suitably designed to adjust the reflector and/or the reduction device at least between a first position, in which the reflector reflects the electromagnetic waves and a second position, in which the reflector reflects the electromagnetic waves in a reduced manner. The safety device also has at least one additional sensor for detecting a measured variable in the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventor: Clemens Hengstler
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Patent number: 10422856Abstract: Various embodiments include methods and systems having a frequency-modulated continuous wave radar operable to compensate a return signal for nonlinearity in the associated radar signal that is transmitted. The radar signal can be mixed with a delayed version of the radar signal such that the mixed signal can be used to generate an estimate of the nonlinearity. The estimate can be used to compensate the return signal from an object that reflects the associated transmitted radar signal. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods can be implemented in a variety of applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ricky Lap Kei Cheung, Luzhou Xu, Lixi Wu, Hsing Kuo Lo, Yuan Su
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Patent number: 10416282Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for radar signal detection, the method comprising: scanning a radio channel by a scanning filter in a first frequency subband to provide an incoming signal; detecting a potential radar signal in the incoming signal based on prior knowledge of a structure of the radar signal; and if the potential radar signal is detected, keeping the scanning filter in the first frequency subband; if no potential radar signal is detected, adjusting the scanning filter to a second frequency subband.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Patent number: 10416299Abstract: A MIMO FMCW radar sensor and a MIMO time multiplexing method for localizing a radar target, in which an FMCW radar measurement is performed with a transmitted signal whose modulation pattern encompasses, for different transmission switching states that differ in terms of the selection of antenna elements used for transmission, mutually temporally interleaved sequences of ramps; ambiguous values for the relative velocity of the radar target are determined from a position of a peak in a two-dimensional spectrum; phase relationships between spectral values of spectra are checked for agreement with phase relationships expected for several of the determined values of the relative velocity; on the basis thereof, an estimated value for the relative velocity of the radar target is selected from the determined periodic values of the relative velocity; and the angle of the radar target is determined on the basis of amplitudes and/or phase relationships between obtained baseband signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schoor, Benedikt Loesch
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Patent number: 10418944Abstract: A high-efficiency high-integrated receiver is provided. The radar receiver according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a receiver configured to receive a radar signal, a processor configured to attenuate a magnitude of a low frequency band of the received signal of the receiver, a filter configured to perform a low pass filtering on an output signal of the processor, and an ADC configured to A/D convert the output signal of the filter. Accordingly, it is possible to demodulate all the signals being reflected from targets in various distances when even using a low resolution ADC, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost and power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTEInventors: Ki Jin Kim, Kwang Ho Ahan
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Patent number: 10416862Abstract: The system is configured to generate a display comprising a longitude-time graph. The system is also configured to generate a display that includes a longitude-time graph. The display can be configured to indicate an automatic selection of at least a second track representation corresponding to a second track that includes a plurality of the sets of identifiers, the second track representation may be selected based on a determination that the second track is associated with the same orbital object as the first track in response to a user selection of the first track representation.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ExoAnalytic Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Lee Hendrix, William Alexander Therien
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Patent number: 10408944Abstract: A GNSS device includes an antenna configured to receive a first plurality of GNSS signals from a first plurality of GNSS satellites and a second plurality of GNSS signals from a second plurality of GNSS satellites. The GNSS device also includes a communications interface configured to receive correction signals from a GNSS base unit. A processor of the GNSS device is coupled to the antenna and communications interface for processing data from the first plurality of GNSS signals and the second plurality of GNSS signals. Memory of the GNSS device includes executable instructions for several steps. A first algorithm is executed to determine first position data for the GNSS device based on the first plurality of GNSS signals and a correction signal received at the GNSS device from the GNSS base unit. The first position data is stored memory of the GNSS device. A second algorithm is executed to determine second position data for the GNSS device based on the second plurality of GNSS signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: JAVAD GNSS, INC.Inventor: Javad Ashjaee
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Patent number: 10405140Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for venue experience management. In one implementation, one or more inputs originating at one or more sensors of a first device are received at a communication interface of a location determination device, one or more inputs originating at one or more sensors of a second device are received at the communication interface of the location determination device, a processing device of the location determination device processes the one or more inputs originating at the one or more sensors of the first device in relation to the one or more inputs originating at the one or more sensors of the second device to determine a relative proximity of the first device in relation to the second device, and one or more actions are initiated based on the relative proximity of the first device in relation to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: eVenue LLCInventor: Joseph Piacentile
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Patent number: 10401490Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for radar-enabled sensor fusion. In some aspects, a radar field is provided and reflection signals that correspond to a target in the radar field are received. The reflection signals are transformed to provide radar data, from which a radar feature indicating a physical characteristic of the target is extracted. Based on the radar features, a sensor is activated to provide supplemental sensor data associated with the physical characteristic. The radar feature is then augmented with the supplemental sensor data to enhance the radar feature, such as by increasing an accuracy or resolution of the radar feature. By so doing, performance of sensor-based applications, which rely on the enhanced radar features, can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Nicholas Edward Gillian, Carsten C. Schwesig, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
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Patent number: 10401487Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling distance and velocity of a target approaching at a high speed in a short distance to be measured while securing a detection performance of the target. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, as a transmission signal, a multi-chirp signal having different slopes through the transmission antenna; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle, in which the transmission signal is transmitted by the transmission unit; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the transmission signal and the reception signal, frequency variation according to a distance of the target, and frequency variation according to the velocity of the target to measure the distance and velocity of the corresponding target.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
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Patent number: 10386220Abstract: A probe end device for a cable probe including a measuring cable having a predeterminable cross section is disclosed. The probe end device includes a probe end body having a receiving opening for an end portion of the measuring cable, the receiving opening having a wall, which is set up to provide a progression of an end portion, which is inserted into the receiving opening, of the measuring cable, and the wall further being set up to space apart the end portion, which is inserted into the receiving opening, of the measuring cable from at least one boundary of the probe end body.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KGInventor: Joachim Benz
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Patent number: 10382610Abstract: Automatically retrieving messages by a wireless telephone based on user preferences. A method of the invention receives a notification, on a wireless device, indicating that a computing device has a message for a user. One or more rules associated with the user are evaluated based on the received notification. The method also automatically requests the message from the computing device as a function of the evaluated rules and received from the computing device. The method further stores the received message in a memory area of the wireless telephone for rendering to the user. Alternatively, one or more rules associated with the user are dynamically generated by monitoring the user interaction with the wireless telephone.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Sami Khoury