Patents Examined by Peter M Bythrow
  • Patent number: 11822003
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting radar transmission parameters based on congestion level measurements are disclosed. In some aspects, a congestion level of radar signals at a location in a vicinity of a radar source may be measured or otherwise determined. In some aspects, a transmission parameter of radar signals configured for transmission to the location by the radar source may be adjusted based on the congestion levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dan Zhang, Ahmed Bedewy, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11821981
    Abstract: A method for operating a radar sensing system includes configuring a transmitter to transmit a radio signal. A receiver is configured to receive radio signals. The received radio signals include the transmitted radio signal transmitted by the transmitter and reflected from objects in the environment. The method includes with advanced temporal knowledge of the codes used to modulate the transmitted radio signal, using code values of the plurality of codes, and in combination with a bank of digital finite impulse response (FIR) filters, generating complementary signals of any self-interference noise. The method further includes subtracting the complementary signals at one or more points in the receiver prior to the interference desensing the receiver. The radar sensing system further includes a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) interference canceller for detecting the largest interference signals and sequentially cancelling them while signal processing the received radio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: UHNDER, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Davis, Monier Maher, Jean P. Bordes, Manju Hegde, Otto A. Schmid, Raghunath K. Rao, Marius Goldenberg, Aria Eshraghi, Vito Giannini, David S. Trager, Nikhilesh Bhagat, Srikanth Gollapudi, Sundar Govindarajan, Steve Borho, Jonathan Preussner, Paul W. Dent, Paul Bassett, Stephen W. Alland, Fred Harris, Wayne E. Stark, Murtaza Ali
  • Patent number: 11822001
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing instructions to broadcast a modulated radar chirp signal from a radar antenna of a vehicle. The modulated radar chirp signal includes data associated with the vehicle. The method includes receiving a first return signal whose waveform substantially matches the modulated chirp signal. The first return signal is the modulated radar chirp signal after reflecting off of an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle. The method includes calculating a location for the object using the first return signal, receiving, from a base station antenna, a second return signal that indicates the modulated chirp signal was received by the base station antenna, and providing instructions to establish a wireless communication session with the base station antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari, Romain Clément, Helen Ruth Lurie
  • Patent number: 11815589
    Abstract: In imaging radar, examples are directed to uses of multiple sets of transmit antenna included with transceiver circuitry, for transmitting in a plurality of modes. Transmissions may involve having at least one transmit antenna, from each of at least two of the multiple sets, to transmit continuous-wave energy concurrently (simultaneously) in one or more of the plurality of different modes. Transceiver circuitry may include multiple receive antennas which may be receiving reflections of the continuous-wave energy from various targets. Signals from the multiple receive antennas may route to signal processing circuitry. The signal processing circuitry may respond to the received reflections of the continuous-wave energy by assessing differences in antenna gain and/or phase due to transmit antenna position associated with the received reflections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Feike Guus Jansen, Francesco Laghezza, Saif Alhasson
  • Patent number: 11815593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for precise location of a high slope collapse area. Firstly, the slope images in a long time series are obtained, the slope images in the long time series are composed into a two-dimensional slope deformation graph, and an area with the maximum deformation in the two-dimensional slope deformation graph is selected as a deformation area. Then, the deformation area is segmented by straight line, and the deformation region obtained by straight line segmentation is displayed in overlapping way in the slope images of long time series, and the region corresponding to the connecting line with the largest change range is selected as the monitoring line area from the overlapping image. Finally, the monitoring points are selected from the monitoring line area to determine the location of the high slope collapse area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Tianjie Lei
  • Patent number: 11815586
    Abstract: One of a transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna includes a first antenna group and a second antenna group. The first antenna group includes one or more first antenna elements of which the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out at each first layout spacing following a first axis direction, and a shared antenna element. The second antenna group includes a plurality of second antenna elements and the one shared antenna element, and the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out in two columns at each second layout spacing following a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The phase centers of the antenna elements included in each of the two columns differ from each other regarding position in the second axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Iwasa, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 11815588
    Abstract: A room-temperature semiconductor maser, including a first matching network, a second matching network, a heterojunction-containing transistor, and a resonant network. The output end of the first matching network is connected to the drain of the heterojunction-containing transistor. The input end of the second matching network is connected to the source of the heterojunction-containing transistor. The gate of the heterojunction-containing transistor is connected to the resonant network. The pumped microwaves are fed into the input end of the first matching network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Shirong Bu, Liu Chen, Cheng Zeng, Junsong Ning, Zhanping Wang, Yang Fu, Ruyi Wang, Chenle Wang
  • Patent number: 11815594
    Abstract: A vehicular forward-sensing system includes a radar sensor and a forward viewing image sensor disposed within a windshield electronics module that is removably installed within an interior cabin at a windshield of a vehicle. A control is responsive to outputs of the radar sensor and of the image sensor. The image sensor captures image data for an automatic headlamp control system of the vehicle and for a lane departure warning system of the vehicle. The image sensor views and the radar sensor senses an object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle. The control determines that the object is an object of interest based at least in part on the image sensor viewing the object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle and the radar sensor sensing the object present in the path of forward travel of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Niall R. Lynam
  • Patent number: 11811507
    Abstract: A programmable radio frequency (RF) memory system includes a receiver designed to receive an RF pulse, a memory, a waveform transform module, and a transmitter. The memory stores a digitized version of the RF pulse. The waveform transform module is designed to determine one or more characteristics of the digitized version of the RF pulse, and based on the determined one or more characteristics, transform the digitized version of the RF pulse into a transformed signal. The transformed signal has at least one characteristic that is different than the one or more characteristics. The transmitter is designed to transmit an analog equivalent of the transformed signal. The analog equivalent of the transformed signal and the received RF pulse are coherent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Austin T. Rios, Marc A. Fisher, Ryan Harding, Patrick R. Kane, Ryan A. Walsh
  • Patent number: 11808880
    Abstract: An automotive radar system includes multiple radar antennas and a radar front end chip. The front end chip includes a plurality of phase rotators coupled to a local oscillator, wherein each phase rotator of the plurality of phase rotators is coupled to multiple digital phase modulators; a plurality of switches that couple selectable ones of the multiple digital phase modulators to respective amplifiers, each amplifier coupled to a respective antenna output; and a controller which provides digital control signals to the plurality of phase rotators, the multiple digital phase modulators, and the plurality of switches to synthesize transmit signals for each of the multiple radar antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AyDeeKay LLC
    Inventors: Jian Bai, Nader Rohani
  • Patent number: 11808845
    Abstract: A radar device for a vehicle, the radar device including: an antenna provided on an inner surface of a lamp for a vehicle and configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves; and a signal processing module provided in the lamp and configured to process a signal received by the antenna, such that it is possible to obtain an advantageous effect of simplifying a structure and improving a degree of design freedom and spatial utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Sub Lim, Han Seong Yu, Myeong Je Kim
  • Patent number: 11808836
    Abstract: A radar system for a vehicle, having at least two transmission antennas, each for emitting a transmission signal into the surroundings of the vehicle, at least four reception antennas, each for acquiring a detection signal for detecting targets in the surrounding of the vehicle, and a processing device for determining the viewing angle, in order to assign phase information in the detection signals to at least one viewing angle for respective detected targets, such that a minimum ambiguous range of the reception antennas in a first direction is specific for the assignment to be ambiguous to more than one viewing angle, wherein all of the reception antennas are spaced apart from each other in the first direction by different distances such that only one of the distances corresponds to the minimum ambiguous range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Muhammed Soubhi Al Kadi, Tobias Breddermann, Ridha Farhoud, Tai Fei, Christopher Grimm, Ernst Warsitz
  • Patent number: 11796670
    Abstract: A radar point cloud data processing method and device, an apparatus, and storage medium are provided, which are related to technical fields of radar point cloud, automatic driving, and deep learning. An implementation includes: determining a target location area where a target object is located by utilizing a target detection box in the radar point cloud data; removing each point of the target object in the target location area from the radar point cloud data; and adding an object model to the target location area. By applying embodiments of the present disclosure, richer radar point cloud data may be obtained by removing the target object from the radar point cloud data and adding the needed three-dimensional model to the target location area in the radar point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Jin Fang, Dingfu Zhou, Xibin Song, Liangjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11796654
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to vehicle sensors. In some aspects, a device associated with a vehicle may obtain, from an external source, calibration data including a first set of measurements related to a position of one or more objects in a reference frame associated with the external source. The device may identify a second set of measurements related to the position of the one or more objects within a field of view of one or more onboard sensors, and update a calibration table based at least in part on a comparison of one or more of the first set of measurements and one or more of the second set of measurements that are most time-aligned. Accordingly, the device may convert sensor-derived location information from a source reference frame to a reference frame associated with the vehicle using the updated calibration table. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Volodimir Slobodyanyuk, Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman, Arnold Jason Gum
  • Patent number: 11796375
    Abstract: A radar-based fill-level measuring device, comprises the following parts: a semiconductor component for producing electrical high-frequency signals or for determining the fill-level value from the received high-frequency signals; a dielectric waveguide placed in contact with the semiconductor component to couple the high-frequency signals as radar signals into an antenna and/or to couple received radar signals from the antenna as electrical signals into the semiconductor component; a potting encapsulation, which encapsulates at least the waveguide radially such that a defined cavity is formed between the waveguide and the potting encapsulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Mayer Winfried, Klaus Feißt, Qi Chen, Ralf Reimelt, Thomas Blödt
  • Patent number: 11796672
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems for frequency division multiplexing (FDM) with polyphase shifters. A radar system can include transmitters, receivers, polyphase shifters, and a processor. The transmitters emit electromagnetic (EM) signals in an FDM scheme, and the receivers detect EM signals reflected by objects. The received EM signals include multiple channels. The processor controls the polyphase shifters to introduce phase shifts to the EM signals. The processor can also divide a Doppler-frequency spectrum of the received EM signals into multiple sectors representing a respective frequency range. Each channel is associated with a respective sector. The processor can determine, using non-coherent integration across the sectors, potential detections of the objects, including aliased and actual detections. The processor can then determine the actual detections. In this way, the described FDM techniques with polyphase shifters can resolve Doppler ambiguities in received EM signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Zhengzheng Li, Christopher D. Gianelli
  • Patent number: 11796356
    Abstract: A sensor installation structure includes: an exterior panel provided at a side part of a vehicle; an installation surface arranged at a location recessed inward in the vehicle width direction from a general surface of the exterior panel; a connecting surface connecting between a peripheral edge of the installation surface and the general surface; and a surroundings information sensor that detects surroundings information of the vehicle and that is located inward in the vehicle width direction from the installation surface. The connecting surface, in elevating from the peripheral edge of the installation surface toward the general surface, slopes so as to extend outward in the surface direction when viewed from the installation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamaji
  • Patent number: 11796633
    Abstract: A method and a radar system are provided in the present disclosure. The radar system includes a radar unit having an antenna array configured to transmit and receive radar signal and a memory configured to store radar calibration parameters and radar channel parameters corresponding to the radar unit. The method provides for operation of the radar system. The radar system also includes a radar processor. The radar processor is configured to cause transmission of radar signals by the antenna array based on the radar channel parameters. The radar processor is also configured to process received radar signals based on the radar calibration parameters. The radar system further includes a central vehicle controller configured to operate a vehicle based on the processed radar signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Duncklee, Brett Coon, Filip Perich
  • Patent number: 11789140
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for identifying gesture. A radar antenna array applied to mobile User Equipment (UE) includes a transmit (Tx) antenna array located on a horizontal line and configured to transmit radar waves and a receive (Rx) antenna array including horizontal Rx antennae arranged along a horizontal dimension and/or pitch Rx antennae arranged along a pitch dimension. The horizontal dimension and the pitch dimension are perpendicular to each other. The Rx antenna array is configured to receive echoes caused by reflection of the radar waves. The horizontal Rx antennae are located on the horizontal line where the Tx antenna array is located. The pitch dimension is perpendicular to the horizontal line. A transmitting parameter for transmitting the radar waves and a receiving parameter for receiving the echoes are used at least for identifying a gesture within a radiation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Chin-lung Li
  • Patent number: 11791543
    Abstract: A radar includes a transmitter antenna unit including a plurality of transmitter antennas arranged in a diagonal direction based on a first horizontal interval and a first vertical interval, a receiver antenna unit including a first receiver antenna group and a second receiver antenna group arranged based on the first horizontal interval, a transceiver configured to transmit a transmission signal through the transmitter antenna unit and receive a reflection signal reflected from a target object through the receiver antenna unit and a processing unit configured to extract information about the target object by processing the received reflection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BITSENSING INC.
    Inventors: Jae Eun Lee, Hae Seung Lim