Patents by Inventor Abhijit Shah

Abhijit Shah has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12019149
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. Power consumption is reduced through customization of the transmission or processing of radar signals within the radar system. During transmission, different duty cycles, transmit powers, or framing structures can be utilized to collect appropriate data based on detected activity in an external environment. During processing, different hardware or different radar pipelines can be utilized to appropriately analyze the radar data. Instead of disabling the radar system, the described techniques enable the radar system to continuously monitor a dynamic environment and maintain responsiveness while conserving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Publication number: 20240054988
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for filtering an audio signal using active noise cancellation (ANC). A channel response finite impulse response (CR FIR) filter in a conventional ANC system may be replaced with a two filter cascade configuration. The first filter in the cascade filter configuration may be a CR FIR filter with interleaved zero coefficients and the second filter may be a response interpolator filter that is a fixed interpolator. The CR FIR filter in the two filter cascade may be adaptive and may have its non-zero coefficients tracked, updated, adapted, and/or computed. The fixed interpolator in the two filter cascade may be fixed and therefore non-adaptive. The channel frequency response profile of the two filter cascade configuration may be similar to the channel frequency response profile of the conventional CR FIR filter that the cascade filter configuration replaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Abhijit Shah, Guohua Sun, Lawrence Frederick Heyl, Niel David Warren
  • Publication number: 20210072375
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. Power consumption is reduced through customization of the transmission or processing of radar signals within the radar system. During transmission, different duty cycles, transmit powers, or framing structures can be utilized to collect appropriate data based on detected activity in an external environment. During processing, different hardware or different radar pipelines can be utilized to appropriately analyze the radar data. Instead of disabling the radar system, the described techniques enable the radar system to continuously monitor a dynamic environment and maintain responsiveness while conserving power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Patent number: 10914834
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. Power consumption is reduced through customization of the transmission or processing of radar signals within the radar system. During transmission, different duty cycles, transmit powers, or framing structures can be utilized to collect appropriate data based on detected activity in an external environment. During processing, different hardware or different radar pipelines can be utilized to appropriately analyze the radar data. Instead of disabling the radar system, the described techniques enable the radar system to continuously monitor a dynamic environment and maintain responsiveness while conserving power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Patent number: 10845477
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable power management using a low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. In one aspect, the radar system can replace other power-hungry sensors and provide improved performance in the presence of different environmental conditions, such as low lighting, motion, or overlapping targets. In another aspect, the radar system can cause other components within the electronic device to switch to an off-state based on detected activity in an external environment. By actively switching the components between an on-state or the off-state, the radar system enables the computing device to respond to changes in the external environment without the use of an automatic shut-off timer or a physical touch or verbal command from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Publication number: 20180329049
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. Power consumption is reduced through customization of the transmission or processing of radar signals within the radar system. During transmission, different duty cycles, transmit powers, or framing structures can be utilized to collect appropriate data based on detected activity in an external environment. During processing, different hardware or different radar pipelines can be utilized to appropriately analyze the radar data. Instead of disabling the radar system, the described techniques enable the radar system to continuously monitor a dynamic environment and maintain responsiveness while conserving power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Publication number: 20180329050
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable power management using a low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. In one aspect, the radar system can replace other power-hungry sensors and provide improved performance in the presence of different environmental conditions, such as low lighting, motion, or overlapping targets. In another aspect, the radar system can cause other components within the electronic device to switch to an off-state based on detected activity in an external environment. By actively switching the components between an on-state or the off-state, the radar system enables the computing device to respond to changes in the external environment without the use of an automatic shut-off timer or a physical touch or verbal command from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick M. Amihood, Abhijit Shah, Jaime Lien, Hakim Kader Bhai Raja
  • Patent number: 7577881
    Abstract: A modem configured to couple to a communication medium for establishing a communication channel thereon. The modem includes an interleaver component configurable as to interleaver parameters ‘I, D’ corresponding to block length and depth respectively. An interleaver memory buffers the communication channel. An interleaver controller controls writing to and reading from the memory of successive data elements of the communication channel with a quantity ‘I’ pairs of write and read pointers. Each pair or write and read pointers identifies memory locations corresponding with an input and output respectively of an associated one of ‘I’ virtual first-in-first-out (‘v-FIFO’) buffers in the memory. Control of the pointers required to read out the stored data elements in interleaved fashion is limited to shifting all pointers uniformly by one address block in each interleaver block cycle, which simplifies pointer management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Ikanos Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Avadhani Shridhar, Abhijit Shah