Patents Examined by Timothy A. Brainard
  • Patent number: 11774574
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for determining an angle of a detection comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring a range rate of the detection; determining a pair of candidate angles of the detection based on the range rate; acquiring a beamvector of the detection; determining a correlation between the beamvector and a reference vector; and determining the angle of the detection based on the pair of candidate angles and based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Uri Iurgel, Stephanie Lessmann, Markus Stefer
  • Patent number: 11777230
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an antenna device comprises an antenna panel including a first transmission antenna, a first reception antenna, and a second reception antenna, and a rotation device configured to rotate the antenna panel. A first radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when a rotation angle of the antenna panel is a first angle and a reflected radio wave of the first radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna. A second radio wave is irradiated from the first transmission antenna when the rotation angle is a second angle and a reflected radio wave of the second radio wave is received by the first reception antenna and the second reception antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Xu Zhu, Hiroki Mori
  • Patent number: 11774592
    Abstract: A wireless multimode system includes: an array of N antenna elements that includes a first portion of M antenna elements and a second portion of L antenna elements; M transmission amplifiers configured to transmit, via the M antenna elements, frames of transmit data, where the frames of transmit data include transmit radar signals and transmit communication signals; M reception amplifiers configured to receive, via the M antenna elements, frames of receive data, where the frames of receive data includes receive communication signals; and L reception amplifiers configured to receive, via the L antenna elements, receive radar signals; and a resource scheduler configured to allocate bandwidth for transmit radar signals and transmit communication signals within the frames of transmit data based on one or more predetermined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ivan Tsvelykh, Ashutosh Baheti, Avik Santra, Samo Vehovc
  • Patent number: 11774573
    Abstract: A system for determining a stationary state of a rail vehicle on a track includes a first radar mounted at an end of the rail vehicle and a second radar mounted at another end of the rail vehicle. A speed sensor is mounted on the rail vehicle. A series of fixed reflective track features are found along the track. A processing unit, communicably connected with the speed sensor, the first radar and the second radar receives data from the first radar and the second radar corresponding to the distance to the fixed reflective track features and determines the stationary state or low-speed condition of the rail vehicle and checks the state or condition by comparing it with an output of the speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: THALES CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Adam Le, Tyler Daoust, David Beach, Alon Green
  • Patent number: 11762088
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a plurality of transmit antennas that transmits a plurality of transmission signals using a multiplexing transmission, and a transmission circuit that applies phase rotation amounts corresponding to combinations of Doppler shift amounts and code sequences to the plurality of transmission signals. Each of the plurality of transmission signals is assigned a different combination among the combinations. The combinations include at least one combination of different numbers of multiplexing by the code sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Kishigami, Kenta Iwasa, Hidekuni Yomo
  • Patent number: 11762060
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement height-estimation of objects using radar. In particular, a radar system, which is mounted to a moving platform, receives reflection signals that represent versions of a radar signal that are reflected off of objects. The radar system generates a range-elevation map based on raw data from the reflection signals, identifies an elevation bin and a range bin in the range-elevation map that corresponds to a selected object, and calculates a height for the selected object based on the range and elevation bins. The radar system then calculates a de-noised height for the selected object based on one or more previously calculated heights for the selected object. In this way, the radar system can determine accurate heights of objects at sufficiently long ranges for evasive action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Yihang Zhang, Narbik Manukian
  • Patent number: 11762081
    Abstract: A localization method for locating a target that is coupled with a locator transponder associated with a permanent identification code permanently assigned to the locator transponder is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Domenico Giancristofaro, Gianluca Chiarelli
  • Patent number: 11762079
    Abstract: A vehicle radar system utilizes multiple radar sensors having overlapping fields of view to effectively synthesize a distributed radar antenna array aperture from the outputs of the multiple radar sensors and effectively enhance one or more of angular resolution, detection range and signal to noise ratio beyond that supported by any of the radar sensors individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Crouch, Chunshu Li
  • Patent number: 11762077
    Abstract: A radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided for generating a transmit reference or chirp signal that is applied to a waveform generator having a frequency offset generator and a plurality of single channel modulation mixers configured to generate a plurality of transmit signals having different frequency offsets from the transmit reference signal for encoding and transmission as N radio frequency encoded transmit signals which are reflected from a target and received at a receive antenna as a target return signal that is down-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and converted by a high-speed analog-to-digital converter to a digital signal that is processed by a radar control processing unit which performs fast time processing steps to generate a range spectrum comprising N segments which correspond, respectively, to the N radio frequency encoded transmit signals transmitted over the N transmit antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Haoyun Wu, Douglas Alan Garrity, Maik Brett
  • Patent number: 11762075
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a phased antenna array for conveying first signals at a first frequency between 10 GHz and 300 GHz and a non-millimeter wave antenna for conveying second signals at a second frequency below 10 GHz. The device may include conductive housing sidewalls and a display. Conductive structures in the display and the conductive housing sidewalls may define a slot element in the non-millimeter wave antenna. The phased antenna array may be mounted within the slot element, aligned with a spatial filter in the display, or aligned with a dielectric window in the conductive housing sidewalls. Control circuitry may process signals transmitted by the phased antenna array and a reflected version of the transmitted signals that has been received by the phased antenna array to detect a range between the device and an external object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jayesh Nath, Simone Paulotto, Mario Martinis, Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima, Andrea Ruaro, Carlo Di Nallo, Matthew A. Mow, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11762059
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for simplifying a sampled signal digital filter, the method including at least one step for: in order to obtain a first intermediate filter, gathering channels including discrete nonstationary operations relating to the same signal, the first channels including the nonstationary operations relating to a first signal and the second channels including the nonstationary operations relating to a second signal, in order to obtain a second intermediate filter, on each of the first channels and second channels, commutative stationary operations with the nonstationary operations, in order to eliminate the redundant nonstationary operations, and building the filter corresponding to the last obtained intermediate filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Hode
  • Patent number: 11762058
    Abstract: A radar system for generating a fast frequency hopping output for frequency agility using a transmitter block and a receiver block. The transmitter block is configured to (i) modulate a digital signal using a first digital mixer, (ii) convert a modulated signal into an inphase analog signal and provide the inphase analog signal to at least one of a first RF IQ mixer or a third RF IQ mixer, (iii) convert the modulated signal into a quadrature analog signal provide the quadrature analog signal to at least one of the first RF IQ mixer or the third RF IQ mixer, and (iv) generate the fast frequency hopping output radar signal by mixing the inphase analog signal and the quadrature analog signal with an inphase RF local oscillator signal and a quadrature RF local oscillator signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNALCHIP INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Nikhil Birur Gururaja Rao, Himamshu Gopalakrishna Khasnis
  • Patent number: 11762074
    Abstract: A position calibration method including, moving body information including first global estimated position information indicating global position information recognized as a geographic position of the moving body, the method including: extracting local estimated position information indicating a position of the moving body within the detection target region from information acquired by the sensor unit; calculating second global estimated position information estimated as the geographic position of the moving body based on the local estimated position information; and performing calibration of third global estimated position information held as a geographic position of the sensor unit when a determination value obtained from the difference between the first global estimated position information and the second global estimated position information exceeds a preset threshold value and based on a result of calibration processing in which a difference between the first global estimated position information and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mikikane Hirohata
  • Patent number: 11754676
    Abstract: Various devices, systems and methods for performing targeted sleep tracking are presented herein. Multiple digital radar data streams from multiple antennas may be received. A direction optimization process may be performed to determine a first weighting and a second weighting. The first weighting may be applied to a first digital radar data stream. The second weighting may be applied to a second digital radar data stream. The weighted first digital radar data stream and the weighted second digital radar data stream may be combined to create a first directionally-targeted radar data stream. A sleep analysis can be performed based on the first directionally-targeted radar data stream. Sleep data may be output for a user based on the performed sleep analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dongeek Shin, Michael Dixon, Ajay Kannan, Jeffrey Yu, Ashton Udall, Ken Mixter, Reena Lee, David Janssens, Andrew William Goldenson
  • Patent number: 11754670
    Abstract: A stepped frequency radar system is disclosed. The system includes components for performing stepped frequency scanning across a frequency range using frequency steps of a step size, the stepped frequency scanning performed using at least one transmit antenna and a two-dimensional array of receive antennas, changing at least one of the step size and the frequency range, and performing stepped frequency scanning using the at least one transmit antenna and the two-dimensional array of receive antennas and using the changed at least one of the step size and the frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MOVANO INC.
    Inventor: Michael A. Leabman
  • Patent number: 11754699
    Abstract: A non-contact motion detection method, a motion detection device and an emergency detection method are provided. The non-contact motion detection method includes: receiving a reflection signal from a field to obtain a raw data signal; determining that a first event occurs in the field according to an energy value of the raw data signal, and providing a first alarm; determining that a second event occurs in the field according to an energy distribution of the reflection signal; and in case of determining that the second event occurs, providing a second alarm corresponding to the second event according to the energy value of the raw data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Hsing Wang, Chih-Ping Wu
  • Patent number: 11754675
    Abstract: Various examples are provided related to penetrating radar based upon precursors. In one example, a method includes transmitting a radio frequency (RF) signal; and receiving a return signal associated with the RF signal, where the return signal is a precursor having no exponential decay. The precursor can be one of a sequence of precursors, which can be used to improve resolution of the system. The RF signal can be a short pulse generated by an RF front end, without automatic level control. The return signal can be processed without filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Edward Olson, Scott Keith Lindsey
  • Patent number: 11747436
    Abstract: A noise-mitigated continuous-wave frequency-modulated radar includes, for example, a transmitter for generating a radar signal, a receiver for receiving a reflected radar signal and comprising a mixer for generating a baseband signal in response to the received radar signal and in response to a local oscillator (LO) signal, and a signal shifter coupled to at least one of the transmitter, LO input of the mixer in the receiver and the baseband signal generated by the mixer. The impact of amplitude noise or phase noise associated with interferers, namely, for example, strong reflections from nearby objects, and electromagnetic coupling from transmit antenna to receive antenna, on the detection of other surrounding objects is reduced by configuring the signal shifter in response to an interferer frequency and phase offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Karthik Subburaj, Karthik Ramasubramanian, Sriram Murali, Sreekiran Samala, Krishnanshu Dandu
  • Patent number: 11747437
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radar transmitting device, comprising a CMOS transceiver chip configured to provide at least one local oscillator signal at an output of the CMOS transceiver chip, and at least one BiCMOS transmitter chip coupled to the CMOS transceiver chip. The BiCMOS transmitter chip has an input for the local oscillator signal, at least one amplifier coupled to the input, a plurality of outputs for outputting a radar transmission signal on the basis of the local oscillator signal, and a plurality of transmission paths between the input and the plurality of outputs. Each of the transmission paths has a controllable analog phase shifter for controllable beam scanning during emission of the radar transmission signal. Additionally or alternatively, individual transmission paths of the BiCMOS transmitter chip can be selectively activated or deactivated using control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ernst Seler, Ulrich Moeller, Markus Treml
  • Patent number: 11747438
    Abstract: A cognitive scheduler and asset allocation system to optimize electronic warfare (EW) resource allocation in reaction to RF signals observed in real-time without the need for prior collected data and without a predetermined scan schedule. The EW system of the present disclosure may further provide optimum resource allocation to minimize response time and to more effectively react to agile threat systems in an area of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Harrison, Stuart M. Lopata, Charles R. Skarda