Patents by Inventor Ariel Yaakov Sagi

Ariel Yaakov Sagi 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: 20240019565
    Abstract: A method of motion compensation for a Doppler radar system includes receiving, for each transmitted pulse of a set of transmitted pulses, a respective set of echo signals returned from a plurality of distance ranges, performing Doppler Fourier transforms on the sets of echo signals for the set of transmitted pulses to generate outputs that include detected signals in a plurality of velocity bins, and applying a respective pre-determined compensation phase vector to the detected signals in each velocity bin of the plurality of velocity bins. The respective pre-determined compensation phase vector applied to the detected signals in each velocity bin includes at least one of a first component proportional to a velocity of the velocity bin or a second component for compensating a phase compensation error associated with Doppler velocity aliasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Uri LEVY, Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Evyatar HEMO, Evgeny LEVITAN
  • Publication number: 20230079716
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to media systems. In some aspects, a media device may monitor, using a radio frequency (RF) sensor, an environment of the media device; determine, from a received RF signal obtained by the RF sensor, a user attribute of a user within the environment; and control an audio system, associated with the media device, to direct an audio beam toward or away from the user. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sharad SAMBHWANI, Ferdinando OLIVIERI, Menucher MENUCHEHRY, Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Evyatar HEMO
  • Patent number: 11476998
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently reporting channel state feedback for a set of subbands. As an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a set of reference signals on the set of subbands and determine a respective channel quality indicator (CQI) index for each of the set of subbands based on the reference signals. The UE may then transmit indications of CQI indices for different subbands of the set using variable length indications, such as indications that include different numbers of bits. Since, in some examples, a small length or number of bits may be allocated for reporting CQI indices with a high probability of being reported, overhead in a wireless communications system may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Ran Berliner, Alexandros Manolakos, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy
  • Patent number: 11391836
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for liveliness detection. In an aspect, a radar sensor of an electronic device transmits a radar frame comprising a plurality of bursts, each burst comprising a plurality of radar pulses, and receives a plurality of reflected radar pulses. The electronic device generates a radar image representing azimuth, elevation, range, and slow time measurements for the radar frame based on the plurality of reflected pulses, applies a Doppler FFT to the radar image to convert the radar image to represent azimuth, elevation, range, and velocity measurements for the radar frame, identifies at least one area of motion in the radar image based on velocity bins of the radar image, and detects a target dynamic object based on a CFAR detection applied over the range and azimuth measurements and a SNR threshold of the received plurality of reflected pulses associated with the at least one area of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Evyatar Hemo, Evgeny Levitan, Sharad Sambhwani, Amichai Sanderovich
  • Publication number: 20210278521
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for determining, at a radar device, range and Doppler velocity based on reduced Doppler-induced radar range sidelobes, including generating code sequence pairs such that a sum of autocorrelations of each code sequence pair has substantially no sidelobes, transmitting a plurality of pulses in an emitted burst, where each pulse of the emitted burst comprises a code sequence pair different from at least one other pulse of the burst such that the autocorrelation sum of the code sequence pairs of the two different pulses has sidelobes, receiving pulses in a reflected burst, each pulse a reflected copy of a corresponding pulse of the emitted burst, generating an autocorrelation sum for each reflected pulse with its corresponding emitted pulse, and determining range and Doppler velocity based on autocorrelation sums, where the sidelobes autocorrelation sums combine incoherently at reduced power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Evgeny LEVITAN, Amichai SANDEROVICH, Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Evyatar HEMO
  • Patent number: 11108419
    Abstract: A transmitter may be configured to generate a reference signal having a non-constant envelope for nonlinearity estimation by a receiver. The transmitter may transmit the reference signal. A receiver may be configured to receive, from the transmitter, the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may estimate at least one nonlinearity characteristic based on the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may transmit feedback based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic and/or perform at least one digital post distortion (DPoD) operation based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Igor Gutman
  • Patent number: 11070397
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward enabling short-range proximity detection using radar sensors by reducing or eliminating OTA leakage. Embodiments generally include performing spatial cancellation by using a plurality of transmit/receive pairs of antenna elements to implement analog and/or digital leakage cancellation on the transmit and/or receive side. According to some embodiments null space projection cancellation, OTA leakage tracking, or adaptive minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming may be performed to help preserve of the OTA leakage cancellation efficacy over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Evyatar Hemo, Evgeny Levitan, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Publication number: 20210050981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently reporting channel state feedback for a set of subbands. As an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a set of reference signals on the set of subbands and determine a respective channel quality indicator (CQI) index for each of the set of subbands based on the reference signals. The UE may then transmit indications of CQI indices for different subbands of the set using variable length indications, such as indications that include different numbers of bits. Since, in some examples, a small length or number of bits may be allocated for reporting CQI indices with a high probability of being reported, overhead in a wireless communications system may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Shay Landis, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Ran Berliner, Alexandros Manolakos, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Guy Wolf, Sharon Levy
  • Publication number: 20210034160
    Abstract: Techniques for performing gesture recognition with an electronic device are disclosed where the electronic device has a wireless communications capability using beamforming techniques and includes a plurality of millimeter wave antenna modules, each antenna module including at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna, the antennas being operable in one or more frequency ranges greater than 20 GHz. Performing gesture recognition includes: simultaneous operation of the at least one transmit antenna and the at least one receive antenna so as to provide a radar capability; and detecting a presence and motion of a reflective object by analyzing magnitude and phase of signals received by the at least one receive antenna and resulting from reflection of signals transmitted by the transmit antenna and reflected by the reflective object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Eran HOF, Amichai SANDEROVICH, Evgeny LEVITAN, Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Evyatar HEMO, Sharad SAMBHWANI
  • Publication number: 20200326422
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for liveliness detection. In an aspect, a radar sensor of an electronic device transmits a radar frame comprising a plurality of bursts, each burst comprising a plurality of radar pulses, and receives a plurality of reflected radar pulses. The electronic device generates a radar image representing azimuth, elevation, range, and slow time measurements for the radar frame based on the plurality of reflected pulses, applies a Doppler FFT to the radar image to convert the radar image to represent azimuth, elevation, range, and velocity measurements for the radar frame, identifies at least one area of motion in the radar image based on velocity bins of the radar image, and detects a target dynamic object based on a CFAR detection applied over the range and azimuth measurements and a SNR threshold of the received plurality of reflected pulses associated with the at least one area of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Evyatar HEMO, Evgeny LEVITAN, Sharad SAMBHWANI, Amichai SANDEROVICH
  • Publication number: 20200321992
    Abstract: A transmitter may be configured to generate a reference signal having a non-constant envelope for nonlinearity estimation by a receiver. The transmitter may transmit the reference signal. A receiver may be configured to receive, from the transmitter, the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may estimate at least one nonlinearity characteristic based on the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may transmit feedback based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic and/or perform at least one digital post distortion (DPoD) operation based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Igor GUTMAN
  • Publication number: 20200295972
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward enabling short-range proximity detection using radar sensors by reducing or eliminating OTA leakage. Embodiments generally include performing spatial cancellation by using a plurality of transmit/receive pairs of antenna elements to implement analog and/or digital leakage cancellation on the transmit and/or receive side. According to some embodiments null space projection cancellation, OTA leakage tracking, or adaptive minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming may be performed to help preserve of the OTA leakage cancellation efficacy over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Evyatar HEMO, Evgeny LEVITAN, Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Sharad SAMBHWANI
  • Patent number: 10707907
    Abstract: A transmitter may be configured to generate a reference signal having a non-constant envelope for nonlinearity estimation by a receiver. The transmitter may transmit the reference signal. A receiver may be configured to receive, from the transmitter, the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may estimate at least one nonlinearity characteristic based on the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may transmit feedback based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic and/or perform at least one digital post distortion (DPoD) operation based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Igor Gutman
  • Patent number: 10637530
    Abstract: Space-time-frequency multiplexing (STFM) schemes for radio frequency (RF) scanning are disclosed in which complementary pairs of sequences (or “Golay pairs”) are transmitted at different times using multiple frequencies. The transmission and reception of the sequences can occur over multiple transmit (Tx) and/or receive (Rx) radio sectors to scan an entire area for range, azimuth, elevation, and (optionally) velocity of objects therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Evgeny Levitan, Evyatar Hemo, Simha Sorin, Ariel Yaakov Sagi
  • Patent number: 10469109
    Abstract: In certain aspects of the present disclosure, a method for wireless communication comprises predistorting a first signal based on a set of coefficients to generate a first predistorted signal, outputting the first predistorted signal for a first transmission to a receiving device, and receiving a first feedback signal from the receiving device, wherein the first feedback signal provides feedback of a first receive signal at the receiving device corresponding to the first transmission. The method also comprises determining whether to store the set of coefficients in a memory based on the received first feedback signal, and storing the set of coefficients in the memory based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Alecsander Petru Eitan
  • Publication number: 20190190552
    Abstract: A transmitter may be configured to generate a reference signal having a non-constant envelope for nonlinearity estimation by a receiver. The transmitter may transmit the reference signal. A receiver may be configured to receive, from the transmitter, the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may estimate at least one nonlinearity characteristic based on the reference signal having the non-constant envelope. The receiver may transmit feedback based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic and/or perform at least one digital post distortion (DPoD) operation based on the at least one nonlinearity characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov SAGI, Igor GUTMAN
  • Publication number: 20190089389
    Abstract: In certain aspects of the present disclosure, a method for wireless communication comprises predistorting a first signal based on a set of coefficients to generate a first predistorted signal, outputting the first predistored signal for a first transmission to a receiving device, and receiving a first feedback signal from the receiving device, wherein the first feedback signal provides feedback of a first receive signal at the receiving device corresponding to the first transmission. The method also comprises determining whether to store the set of coefficients in a memory based on the received first feedback signal, and storing the set of coefficients in the memory based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Igor Gutman, Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Alecsander Petru Eitan
  • Patent number: 9762266
    Abstract: A transceiver in a wireless device supporting carrier aggregation may include a correction module to generate a correction signal to attenuate intermodulation distortion associated with a first transmitted communication signal. In one embodiment, the correction signal may be added to the first transmitted communication signal (a victim signal) to reduce the intermodulation distortion caused by a second transmitted communication signal (an aggressor signal). The correction signal may be generated based on the aggressor signal. In another embodiment, the correction signal may equalize or pre-distort the first transmitted communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Haim Mendel Weissman, Ariel Yaakov Sagi
  • Publication number: 20160285484
    Abstract: A transceiver in a wireless device supporting carrier aggregation may include a correction module to generate a correction signal to attenuate intermodulation distortion associated with a first transmitted communication signal. In one embodiment, the correction signal may be added to the first transmitted communication signal (a victim signal) to reduce the intermodulation distortion caused by a second transmitted communication signal (an aggressor signal). The correction signal may be generated based on the aggressor signal. In another embodiment, the correction signal may equalize or pre-distort the first transmitted communication signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Haim Mendel Weissman, Ariel Yaakov Sagi