Patents Examined by Peter M Bythrow
  • Patent number: 12379462
    Abstract: A height measurement device and a height measurement method based on a millimeter-wave radar are provided. The height measurement device comprises a millimeter-wave radar module, a main controller, and a wake-up module. The wake-up module and the millimeter-wave radar module are connected to the main controller, respectively. The wake-up module activates the millimeter-wave radar module through the main controller. The millimeter-wave radar module sends a transmission signal and receives an echo signal, and obtains an intermediate-frequency signal based on the transmission signal and the echo signal. The echo signal is formed by the reflected back transmission signal after it encounters human head. The main controller applies continuous millimeter waves to sweep across the highest point of the human head and obtain height data based on the intermediate-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Airtouch Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuiyang Lin, Huaping Wu, Li Lin, Yantao Guo, Zhilin Wang
  • Patent number: 12379505
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for performing Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) signal acquisition. For example, an example of a method for performing QZSS signal acquisition includes obtaining a modulated message signal using a frequency band and generating, based on an estimated set of signal acquisition parameters associated with an acquired signal, an energy grid of correlation codes. A series of extracted data bytes can be generated for each respective hypothesis of a plurality of hypotheses, based on a location of a peak energy within the energy grid of correlation codes. A correct hypothesis out of the plurality of hypotheses can be determined, wherein the correct hypothesis is associated with a generated series of extracted data bytes that includes a pre-determined header preamble pattern. The modulated message signal can be decoded using an initial code phase associated with the correct hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pulkit Rajgadiya, Fnu Siddhant, Jordan Cookman, Mukesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 12379480
    Abstract: The radar device for a vehicle according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an antenna part including a plurality of transmitting antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas, the antenna part being formed of array antennas; a signal processor for detecting a target by processing a radar signal and a reflected signal transmitted and received through the antenna part; and a feeding part for correcting phases of the radar signal and the reflected signal through a feeding line connecting the antenna part and the signal processor, wherein the signal processor corrects a phase of a noise signal based on the phase information of a feeding line designed such that a false target corresponding to the noise signal incoming is detected at a specific angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Jong Gyu Park, Hanyeol Yu, Hyeon Dong Cho
  • Patent number: 12379488
    Abstract: A radar device includes an oscillator that generates a transmission signal including a plurality of chirp signals, the chirp signal having a frequency that increases or decreases from an initial frequency in each predetermined sweep cycle. The oscillator changes the initial frequency of each chirp signal. A transmitter emits the transmission signal, and a receiver receives a reflected wave of the transmission signal reflected at an object and an unwanted wave as a reception signal. Circuitry is configured to estimate a phase of the reception signal from the transmission signal and the reception signal, calculate a correlation between a change pattern of the initial frequency of each chirp signal and a change pattern of the phase of the reception signal, estimate the reflected wave from the reception signal based on the correlation, and calculate a number of incoming waves based on a result of the estimation of the reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Saito, Katsuhisa Kashiwagi, Nobuya Arakawa, Koichi Ichige
  • Patent number: 12362499
    Abstract: A unit cell of an array antenna includes an integrated dilation and feed circuit and an associated radiator assembly. The integrated dilation and feed circuit includes an asymmetric dilation layer, an asymmetric combiner layer, a symmetric feed layer and a symmetric slot layer. Feed circuits on the feed layer are configured to couple radio frequency (RF) signals to/from a pair of orthogonally disposed slot elements symmetrically disposed on the slot layer of the integrated dilation-feed circuit. The slot layer couples signals to and from the radiator assembly. Such unit cell may be used to provide an array antenna including an active electronically scanned array (AESA) antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sikina, Jack J. Schuss, Izabella Furman, Robert S. Isom
  • Patent number: 12352846
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for joint communication and radar sensing. A method is provided for wireless communications by a network entity. The method generally includes communicating one or more radar signals in a first set of slots. Each of the first set of slots comprises an extended cyclic prefix have a first length. The method generally includes communicating one or more signals in a second set of slots, each of the second set of slots comprising a normal cyclic prefix having a second length that is shorter than the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hyojin Lee, Weimin Duan, June Namgoong
  • Patent number: 12356295
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sensing a dynamic area on request. In an example method, a core network device receives a sensing request from a terminal device. The sensing request indicates an initial sensing area and a change tendency of the initial sensing area. The core network device transmits a sensing instruction to an access network device. The sensing instruction instructs the access network device to sense a target sensing area determined based on the initial sensing area and the change tendency. The core network device receives a sensing result of the target sensing area from the access network device. The core network device transmits a sensing response to the terminal device. The sensing response is determined based on the sensing result. In this way, resource utilization efficiency of sensing of a network device is improved and impact on communication performance of the network device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Xiaobing Leng
  • Patent number: 12339355
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a mounting structure of an object detection device to a vehicle body capable of improving the accuracy of object detection by the object detection device and improving the durability of the object detection device. A mounting structure of a radar device, which is an object detection device for detecting objects, to a vehicle body includes: a support bracket attached to the vehicle body side for supporting the radar device in a first direction, which is an object detection direction by the radar device; and a cover member fixed to the first direction side of the support bracket and disposed on the first direction side of the radar device. The radar device is housed in a housing chamber defined by the cover member and the support bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Inoue, Go Shimizu, Ryoya Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12339387
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein may improve joint communication-radar system by providing a radar reference signal with GI-FMCW waveform. Aspects presented herein may be compatible with communication-centric waveforms and thereby may apply to UEs or network entities with minimal changes if specified. In one aspect, a wireless device transmits a set of communication signals. The wireless device configure one or more parameters associated with a set of radar reference signals for radar sensing based on the set of communication signals, each radar reference signal in the set of radar reference signals including a guard interval. The wireless device transmits the set of radar reference signals associated with the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Preeti Kumari, Stelios Stefanatos, Junyi Li, Kapil Gulati, Shuanshuan Wu
  • Patent number: 12341568
    Abstract: An efficient synthesis method for a radiation pattern of a conformal array antenna is provided. The method includes: step 1, establishing a field analysis model of the conformal array antenna; determining an aperture field distribution principle suitable for the conformal array antenna, and expanding distribution of an excitation I of an arbitrary curved surface source in a spherical coordinate system according to the aperture field distribution principle; and step 3, establishing an optimization model for the radiation pattern of the conformal array antenna, and performing synthesis of the radiation pattern of the conformal array antenna according to the optimization model. The method greatly improves the synthesis efficiency of a radiation pattern of a conformal array antenna while ensuring that the directional pattern requirements are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Xun Li, Yuanchen Zeng, Jie Wu, Zaipeng Han
  • Patent number: 12339349
    Abstract: A method and devices are disclosed for geo-location of wireless local area network (WLAN) devices. According to one aspect, a method for determining a corrected round trip times (RTT) resulting from communication with a WD is provided. The WD is configured with one or two short interframe spacings (SIFS). The method includes performing RTT measurements at successive times. The method includes determining a presence of one or two modes based at least in part on peaks of a kernel density estimation (KDE) surface. The KDE surface is determined from the RTT measurements. When there is only one mode, a corrected RTT is determined based on the RTT measurements and a first SIFS. When there are two modes, a corrected RTT is determined based on the RTT measurements and the first SIFS plus an SIFS offset (?), ? being based at least in part on a difference between the two modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Passler, Kyle Patrick Kelly
  • Patent number: 12332343
    Abstract: An electromagnetic non-line-of-sight imaging method based on time reversal and compressed sensing is provided. The electromagnetic signal passively scattered by the target behind the obstacle is received by the antenna, the contour imaging of the target is realized by using compressed sensing, the signal-to-noise ratio of the electromagnetic signal of the target is improved by using time reversal for the contour area, so as to achieve the purpose of staring at and detecting the non-line-of-sight target; a random radiation signal is transmitted for multiple times through active metasurface modulation, compressed sensing is performed for calculation imaging after receiving the signal to judge the number of targets and the contour area in the occluded area; for the target contour area, the amplitude and phase of signals obtained at different positions are adjusted by the active metasurface, so as to focus and scan the electromagnetic signals at different positions behind the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiangtao Huangfu, Lusong Wei, Zhiyi Tang
  • Patent number: 12332338
    Abstract: A one-bit quantization based target tracking method, device, terminal, and storage medium. The method includes acquiring echo data of each radar node in a multi-radar node system for a target; performing one-bit quantization on each echo data to obtain one-bit data; estimating a distance information and a direction of arrival of signal of the target relative to each radar node based on the one-bit data; determining, based on the distance information and the direction of arrival of signal, a position information of the target relative to each radar node; fussing the position information to obtain a tracking point of the target. By adopting one-bit quantization and multi-base site trajectory fusion processing, high-precision detection and tracking of ocean monitoring targets are achieved, which significantly enhances data processing speed and anti-interference capability, while reducing the demand for storage and transmission resources, ensuring reliability and real-time performance in complex environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Tianyao Long, Wei Wang, Yuhang Xiao, Xian Fan, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 12332357
    Abstract: An interference detector for detecting interference in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) includes an RF splitter, multiple detectors and a comparator. RF splitter, splits a radio frequency (RF) input signal into multiple RF output signals which are provided to respective detectors. Each of the detectors includes a bandpass filter and a peak detector. The bandpass filter filters the RF output signal into a respective GNSS frequency band and the peak detector detects the peak level of the filtered RF signal. The comparator analyzes the peak detector outputs and identifies whether interference is present in the GNSS frequency bands by comparing the peak levels to respective thresholds. Based on this analysis, the comparator outputs a signal that indicates the presence and absence of identified interference in the GNSS frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Infinidome Ltd.
    Inventor: Moshe Kaplan
  • Patent number: 12320886
    Abstract: An axial displacement estimation device estimates an axial displacement angle of a radar apparatus mounted on a mobile body. The axial displacement estimation device uses a plurality of detection values acquired by mutually different plurality of modulation methods to estimate an axial displacement angle for each of the plurality of modulation methods. The axial displacement estimation device determines whether a predetermined allowable condition is met based on a plurality of axial displacement angle estimation results estimated using a plurality of detection values corresponding to respective plurality of modulation methods. The axial displacement estimation device utilizes at least one of a plurality of axial displacement angle estimation results when determined that the predetermined allowable condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hotta, Koichi Sato, Hiroto Nakatani, Yuuji Katou, Ichiro Aizawa, Naoki Sugimoto, Takahiro Kohara
  • Patent number: 12313725
    Abstract: A system and method to receive radar returns from objects in response to radar scans from a moving radar system, wherein the radar returns include Doppler shift, to adjust velocity indicated in each of the radar returns based on an azimuth of each radar return to generate a set of adjusted radar returns, to group the adjusted radar returns into groups based on the velocity indicated in each of the adjusted radar returns, each group having a predetermined minimum velocity value Vmin, a predetermined maximum velocity value Vmax, and a predetermined threshold velocity difference value between Vmin and Vmax, and to determine which of the objects are static objects based on determining which group has the highest number of adjusted radar returns. Vehicle speed and speed of other moving objects can be determined based on determining which objects are static.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Zadar Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Emadi, Vitalii Topolnytskyi, Ali Mostajeran, Joshua Skow, Navid Fattahi
  • Patent number: 12313770
    Abstract: A system and method to receive radar returns from objects in response to a first radar scan, wherein the radar returns include Doppler shift, run a segmentation algorithm multiple times on the received radar returns, using a different preset estimated radar yaw angle for each iteration, wherein the estimated radar yaw angles are for estimated directions of transmission of the radar signals along a radar boresight from the transmitter of the radar system relative to a predetermined direction for each run of the segmentation algorithm, to determine which of the objects are static objects using the segmentation algorithm, and determine a first calibrated radar yaw angle as one of the preset estimated radar yaw angles which, among the different preset estimated radar yaw angles, has a highest number of adjusted radar returns for objects determined to be static objects by the segmentation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Zadar Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Emadi, Ali Mostajeran, Navid Fattahi, Vitalii Topolnytskyi
  • Patent number: 12313723
    Abstract: A radar return channel is estimated at a radar receiver by processing an existing channel estimate along with a radar return signal for an ideal transmission, to produce an updated estimate. Updating can be carried out based on a determination that the existing estimate has become degraded. Embodiments include using a least squares deconvolution to update polynomials describing a transfer function of the channel estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Alfred Daniel Wiffen
  • Patent number: 12313732
    Abstract: A contextual visual-based synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) target detection method and apparatus, and a storage medium, belonging to the field of target detection is described. The method includes: obtaining an SAR image; and inputting the SAR image into a target detection model, and positioning and recognizing a target in the SAR image by using the target detection model, to obtain a detection result. In the present disclosure, a two-way multi-scale connection operation is enhanced through top-down and bottom-up attention, to guide learning of dynamic attention matrices and enhance feature interaction under different resolutions. The model can extract the multi-scale target feature information with higher accuracy, for bounding box regression and classification, to suppress interfering background information, thereby enhancing the visual expressiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Anhui University
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Runfan Xia, Zhixiang Huang, Huiyao Wan, Xiaoping Liu, Zihan Cheng, Bocai Wu, Baidong Yao, Zheng Zhou, Jianming Lv, Yun Feng, Wentian Du, Jingqian Yu
  • Patent number: 12313771
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide techniques to enable spatial sensor data from multiple devices to be fused into a single coordinate space. This fused sensor data can then be processed into a point cloud. Point cloud data can then be transformed to enable the classification of objects detected within the sensor data. Features within multiple feature spaces can be extracted from the point cloud data for use in classification. Classification of objects can also be used to correlate objects detected by multiple sensor equipped devices to determine a coordinate space transformation between those devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ke-Yu Chen, James T. Curran, Jun Gong, Gierad Laput