Patents Examined by Timothy X Pham
  • Patent number: 11307301
    Abstract: A location detection system includes a first directional radar sensor, a second directional radar sensor and a controller. The first directional radar sensor has a first facing direction and a first radio coverage correspondingly, and is used to receive a first response signal upon detecting an object. The second directional radar sensor has a second facing direction and a second radio coverage correspondingly, the second radio coverage being partially overlapping with the first radio coverage, and is used to receive a second response signal upon detecting the object. The controller is used to determine which region the object is located in according to receptions of the first response signal and the second response signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chiang-Hua Yeh
  • Patent number: 11300675
    Abstract: A method and devices are disclosed for producing a differential RTT vector (RTV) that is based upon the relative change in an airborne measuring station velocity relative to the target wireless device based upon RTT measurements, the RTT measurements being taken at known time intervals to a ground based target station, and the velocity and heading of the airborne measuring station. In one embodiment, the target device is an access point or station conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard and the airborne measuring station 110 may also be a device that conforms to the IEEE 802.11 standard. The disclosed method enables the quick determination of the location of a target station to an accuracy of, for example, in the order of one half degree of bearing within, for example, a period in the order of 5 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Passler
  • Patent number: 11294050
    Abstract: A system and method for ground calibration of an aircraft weather radar (W×R) employs a calibrated W×R already flight tested on a reference aircraft to generate a ground reference map from a specific ground position on a specific heading. A W×R alignment tool receives the ground reference map and compares it to an uncalibrated ground map generated by an uncalibrated W×R in the same ground position and on the same heading. Once compared, the alignment tool determines a delta between the ground reference map and the uncalibrated ground map and determines offset values in pitch, roll, and elevation to reduce the delta to a desired operational value and make the maps nearly identical. The alignment tool then applies to offset values to the uncalibrated W×R to calibrate the W×R for operational use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Xingming Wang, Anthony Schoepske
  • Patent number: 11275165
    Abstract: According to a first aspect, a pulsed radar comprises a transmitter; wherein the pulsed radar is arranged to generate a string of binary values; wherein the transmitter comprises a pulse generator arranged to generate a pulse signal comprising a series of transmit pulses with polarities determined in accordance with the string of binary values; wherein a first substring comprises a first series of values; wherein a second substring comprises a second series of values; wherein the second substring is different from the first substring; and wherein each value in the second series of values is either the same as or different from the corresponding value in the first series of values according to a repeating pattern; and wherein the string of binary values comprises at least the first substring and the second substring concatenated together and each optionally being reversed before concatenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Novelda AS
    Inventor: Håkon André Hjortland
  • Patent number: 11272320
    Abstract: Systems, methods and one or more computer readable storage media are configured to facilitate entry by a user into a first electronic device of information associated with an animal harvest, where the information includes at least one of an animal species, a geographic location indicating where the animal harvest occurred, and a date of the animal harvest. Harvest data is uploaded from the first electronic device to a second electronic device, where the harvest data includes the information entered by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Iiley Thompson
  • Patent number: 11269054
    Abstract: A partially coordinated radar system is provided comprising: a radar transmitter; a radar receiver; processing circuitry; a first spatial information indicator; a side channel communication system to send radar waveform configuration information from the transmitter to the receiver; processing circuitry to use the waveform information to configure the radar receiver to receive the waveform signal; determine radar-based spatial information based upon the radar waveform signal; determine a mismatch of clocks or local oscillators of transmitter and receiver; and generating a compensation signal indicating correction information to compensate for the determined at least one mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Plato Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Amin Arbabian, Babak Mamandipoor
  • Patent number: 11249192
    Abstract: Techniques for automatic adaptive scanning with a laser scanner include obtaining range measurements at a coarse angular resolution and forming a horizontally sorted range gate subset and a characteristic range. A fine angular resolution is determined automatically based on the characteristic range and a target spatial resolution. If the fine angular resolution is finer than the coarse angular resolution, then a minimum and maximum vertical angle is automatically determined in each horizontal slice extending a bin size from any previous horizontal slice. A set of adaptive minimum and maximum vertical angles is determined automatically by dilating and interpolating the minimum and maximum vertical angles of all the slices to the second horizontal angular resolution. A horizontal start angle, and the set of adaptive minimum and maximum vertical angles are sent to cause the ranging system to obtain measurements at the second angular resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BLACKMORE SENSORS & ANALYTICS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen C. Crouch, Randy R. Reibel, James Curry, Trenton Berg
  • Patent number: 11231495
    Abstract: In order to achieve object detection that does not detect an object moving at a speed within a prescribed speed range, the present invention comprises at least two cross-correlation calculation units which each calculate a cross correlation function between a waveform of a reflection signal obtained when a transmission signal having changing frequencies is reflected by a target object, and a different correlation waveform generated from the waveform of the transmission signal, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes at least two cross-correlation functions from at least the two cross-correlation calculation units so as to make detection of a target object moving at a speed within the prescribed speed range less likely, and that outputs the synthesis results to a post-processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Hoshuyama, Kentarou Kudou, Shohei Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11233894
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a wireless communication device configured to connect with wireless external devices. The electronic device obtains information regarding the wireless external devices. Before and after a call connection event, it is determined whether each of the wireless external devices includes a microphone based on the information. In response to receiving the call connection event, when it is determined that only one of the wireless external devices includes a microphone, an audio input is obtained from the one of the wireless external devices that includes the microphone. In response to receiving the call connection event, when it is determined that at least two of the wireless external devices each include a respective microphone, an audio input is selectively obtained from a microphone of one of the at least two of the plurality of wireless external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Sang-Kyu Park, Seung-Yup Lee, Jung-Ho Park, Soo-Ho Song
  • Patent number: 11231496
    Abstract: Provided is a radar device and a rear seat detection method thereof, in which the method includes: (a) transmitting a radar signal in a form of a multi-channel high-speed FMCW to a periphery of the rear seat and receiving a signal reflected from a target by a transceiver; (b) detecting a motion of the passenger through a macro speed detection scheme by a signal processor; (c) detecting a change according to characteristics of the passenger through a micro speed detection scheme; and (d) determining, by a passenger detector, that the passenger is present on the rear seat when the motion or the change is detected in step (b) or step (c). Accordingly, a multi-channel high-speed FMCW radar waveform is employed to simultaneously detect the motion of the passenger detected through the macro speed detection scheme and a change caused by respiration of the passenger detected through the micro speed detection scheme, so that the passenger in the rear seat is accurately detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: DIGITAL EDGE INC.
    Inventors: Soo Ho Choi, Hee Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11231485
    Abstract: The optical axis adjustment system 3 adjusts an optical axis O of a radar device R in a vehicle V in which the radar device R that detects an external environment is attached to a vehicle body B, and includes an adjustment target T that is movable in an inspection chamber Rb in which the vehicle body B is disposed, a radar attachment position and direction calculation unit that calculates an attachment position of the radar device R and a direction of the optical axis, a normal posture calculation unit that calculates a normal posture of the adjustment target T on the basis of a calculation result of the radar attachment position and direction calculation unit, and a target movement unit that sets a posture of the adjustment target T to a normal posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michiaki Okubo, Kenichiro Kurai, Kazuyuki Fukamachi, Yasuhiro Okuno, Kazumori Sakai
  • Patent number: 11221404
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include transmitting, by at least one radar device, a frequency-modulated radar signal to at least one transponder located within a physical environment surrounding a user, detecting, by a processing device communicatively coupled to the at least one radar device a signal returned to the at least one radar device from the at least one transponder in response to the frequency-modulated radar signal, determining a beat frequency of the returned signal by performing a zero-crossing analysis of the returned signal in the time domain, and calculating, based at least in part on the beat frequency of the returned signal, a distance between the at least one transponder and the at least one radar device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Riccardo DeSalvo, Giuseppe Castaldi, Andrea Cusano, Vincenzo Galdi, Paolo Mattera, Roberto Parente, Fereydoun Daneshgaran, Joseph Minh Tien, Dustin Krogstad
  • Patent number: 11221398
    Abstract: A device may include a test signal generator and a receive antenna input. The device may include a switchable impedance matching circuit, coupled to the test signal generator and to a receive chain, to cause an impedance matching between the test signal generator and a component of the receive chain to be increased during a monitoring phase. The impedance matching during the monitoring phase enables one or more measurements based on a test signal generated by the test signal generator. The switchable impedance matching circuit may cause a partial impedance mismatching between the test signal generator and the component of the receive chain during a verification phase associated with verifying a return of the switchable impedance matching circuit to an impedance matching caused during the operational phase. The device may include a control circuit to verify operation of the returning of the switchable impedance matching circuit in the verification phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Grigory Itkin
  • Patent number: 11215706
    Abstract: A device and method for detecting motion using an adjustable detection shell. The motion detector includes an antenna; a reception circuit configured to receive a reflected radio frequency (RF) signal via the antenna; a time gate circuit electrically connected to the reception circuit and configured to generate a control signal for the reception circuit based on a timing setpoint signal; and an electronic processor electrically connected to the reception circuit and the time gate circuit. The electronic processor is configured to receive a signal from the reception circuit indicative of motion occurring within a detection shell that is adjustable via the timing setpoint signal. The signal is based on the reflected RF signal. The electronic processor is further configured to generate a notification when the signal received from the reception circuit is indicative of motion occurring within the detection shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: William DiPoala
  • Patent number: 11209520
    Abstract: A radar includes a transmitter that generates a first signal that is a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal and radiates the generated first signal to an outside, a receiver that receives a second signal based on the first signal and generates a baseband signal of the second signal, a signal processor that extracts a target frequency signal from the baseband signal, and a signal converter that outputs the target frequency signal that is controlled as a digital signal, and wherein the signal processor includes a high pass filter connected to the receiver, that receives the baseband signal, and attenuates a low frequency signal present in the received baseband signal, based on a first cutoff frequency, an amplifier that amplifies the attenuated baseband signal, and a signal controller that removes a direct current component of the amplified baseband signal, based on a second cutoff frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kisu Kim, Bon Tae Koo
  • Patent number: 11209526
    Abstract: A vehicle radar inspection system and method are provided for inspecting a mounting state of a radar sensor mounted to a vehicle. The vehicle radar inspection system includes a centering portion that aligns a position of the vehicle by driving rollers, displacement sensors that are respectively disposed at front and rear sides of the centering portion, an array antenna that measures propagation intensity of a radar signal transmitted from the radar sensor, and a server that connects wireless communication with a wireless terminal of the vehicle, calculates a mounting position of the radar sensor, and detects a mounting error of the radar sensor with reference to a normal reference mounting specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jihoon Park, David Oh
  • Patent number: 11209535
    Abstract: A vehicle radar sensor unit (2) arranged to acquire a plurality of radar detections, and including an antenna arrangement (3), a transmitter unit (4), a receiver unit (5) and a processing unit (6). The antenna arrangement (3) has at least two transmitter antennas (7, 8) and at least two receiver antennas (9, 10, 11, 12), where two transmitter antennas (7, 8) have a vertical spacing (h) between their respective phase centers (17, 18) that exceeds half the free-space wavelength of the transmitted signal. The processing unit (5) is arranged to determine a first radial velocity of each radar detection by tracking the change of radial distance (r) to each radar detection for a plurality of radar cycles; determine a second radial velocity that best matches the first radial velocity; track a plurality of measured heights (z) as a function of radial distance (r); and to choose a measured height (zGT) among the tracked measured heights (z) that has a minimal change from radar cycle to radar cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Mario Witter, Mireille Gregoire, Jonathan Moss
  • Patent number: 11199606
    Abstract: An indoor tracking system to track a location of a tag in a room. The system comprises of an initiator to initiate the tag, anchors placed at the corners of the room to track the location of the tag and to communicate data to a base station and a room intervention device provided to change a room identification (ID) and a floor identification (ID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Ravi Kumar Midathala
  • Patent number: 11199620
    Abstract: A radar device is provided which is capable of highly accurate distance calculation by a simple method. The radar device includes: a transmission circuit which transmits radio waves; an adjustment circuit which adjusts transmission angles of the radio waves transmitted from the transmission circuit; a reception circuit which receives plural signals which are the radio waves transmitted, based on adjustment made by the adjustment circuit, from the transmission circuit and respectively reflected from an object; and a signal processing circuit which, by processing the received signals, calculates a distance to the object. The signal processing circuit includes a buffer which stores signal strength data on the signals received by the reception circuit, the received signals respectively corresponding to the transmission angles, and a correction circuit which performs correction processing on equidistance-based portions of the signal strength data on the received signals stored in the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Motoda
  • Patent number: 11194036
    Abstract: A method for detecting motion may include: performing at least one scanning cycle on a monitored space using a radar apparatus; detecting and identifying at least one moving object in the monitored space, including detecting an actual displacement value for each moving object detected inside the monitored space between a detection cycle and a subsequent detection cycle; providing a threshold value of maximum allowable displacement associated with every moving object detected inside the monitored space between the detection cycle and the subsequent detection cycle; locating at least one semi-static zone in the monitored space, the at least one semi-static zone corresponding to a portion of the monitored space that surrounds at least one semi-static object; and generating an alarm signal only when, in the monitored space, at least one moving object situated outside the at least one semi-static zone is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INXPECT S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Tartaro, Alessio Degani, Marco Garatti