Patents by Inventor Anil Mani

Anil Mani 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).

  • Publication number: 20240031214
    Abstract: A non-transitory device-readable medium, which may be embodied in a device, such as a radar receiver, stores instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, are configured to perform operations to identify a region of interference. An analog signal is generated based on received signals reflected from a target object and an interfering object. The analog signal is converted to an initial time-domain data set. Processing circuitry is configured or instructed to perform a transform operation on the initial time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set, based on which a region of interference may be identified. Subsequent operations may be performed to facilitate identification of the region of interest including thresholding, inverse transforming, subtracting, and/or combining. The processing circuitry may be further configured or instructed to generate repaired time-domain data from which corrupted time-domain samples to remove data associated with the interfering object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Aberl, Sandeep Rao, Anil Mani
  • Patent number: 11811574
    Abstract: A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes performing, by processing circuitry, a first transform operation on a first time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set. In addition, the method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, that at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set satisfies a first threshold magnitude. The method also includes performing, by the processing circuitry, an inverse transform operation on the at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set to generate a second time-domain data set. The method further includes identifying, by the processing circuitry and based on the second time-domain data set, a region of interference in the first time-domain data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Aberl, Sandeep Rao, Anil Mani
  • Publication number: 20230296724
    Abstract: A frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system is presented. The FMCW radar system includes a receiver configured to receive a radar reflection signal. The radar system further includes an interference detection module, which is configured to identify a portion of the radar reflection signal corresponding to the time period during which the radar reflection signal exceeds a threshold. The FMCW radar system further includes a hysteresis module configured to adjust the identified portion of the radar reflection signal based on the portion of the signal and a hysteresis configuration. The FMCW radar system further includes a mitigation module configured to mitigate interference based on the output of the hysteresis module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Anil Mani, Sandeep Rao
  • Publication number: 20230231753
    Abstract: A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes performing, by processing circuitry, a first transform operation on a first time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set. In addition, the method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, that at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set satisfies a first threshold magnitude. The method also includes performing, by the processing circuitry, an inverse transform operation on the at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set to generate a second time-domain data set. The method further includes identifying, by the processing circuitry and based on the second time-domain data set, a region of interference in the first time-domain data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Aberl, Sandeep Rao, Anil Mani
  • Publication number: 20170054449
    Abstract: A radar system is provided that includes a compression component configured to compress blocks of range values to generate compressed blocks of range values, and a radar data memory configured to store compressed blocks of range values generated by the compression component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Anil Mani, Sandeep Rao, Karthik Ramasubramanian