Patents by Inventor Asaf Ashkenazi

Asaf Ashkenazi 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: 9992449
    Abstract: A method and a system for sharing in video images, captured by a video image capturing device mounted on a source user and having a wide field of view, with a destination user, are provided herein. The method may include: receiving video images and respective positions and orientations thereof, captured by the video image capturing device at the source location; receiving a request from a destination user equipment, to view video images captured at the source location, wherein the request includes a line of sight of the destination user, as derived by an orientation sensor of a destination user headset; mapping the request to a respective region of interest of the destination user based on the line of sight; cropping the video images based on the respective region of interest and further based on said respective positions and orientations; and transmitting the cropped video images to the destination user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: EVERYSIGHT LTD.
    Inventors: Asaf Ashkenazi, Hanan Shamir
  • Patent number: 9781138
    Abstract: A device for providing a security breach indicative audio alert. The device includes: a security monitor adapted to detect a security breach in device and a loudspeaker, the device wherein including a secure audio alert generating hardware, adapted to participate, in response to the detection of the security breach, in a generation of a security breach indicative audio alert. The secure audio alert generating hardware is connected to an audio mixer that is adapted to mix the security breach indicative audio alert signal with audio signals generated by a software controlled audio source to provide a mixed signal. The audio mixer is further adapted to provide the mixed signal to the loudspeaker that reproduces the mixed signal as sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Mostinski, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20170208251
    Abstract: Apparatus for remote imaging of a terrestrial area, the apparatus comprising: a camera array having a focal length f and a photosensor comprising photosensor pixels characterized by a photosensor pixel pitch P on which light from the terrestrial area is imaged from an operating distance A from the terrestrial area to acquire an image of the terrestrial area; an orthographic image of the terrestrial area having image pixels that image features in the terrestrial area; a terrain map that provides elevation for features in the terrestrial area imaged on the image pixels of the orthographic image; a controller that registers the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image responsive to the terrain data; wherein elevation provided by the terrain map has an uncertainty ?? that satisfies a constraint P??e·f·sin?/A, where a is a maximum oblique angle at which the camera array images the terrestrial area so that registration of the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image has an accuracy bet
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Hanan SHAMIR, Asaf ASHKENAZI, ELIYAHU TELL
  • Patent number: 9621549
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may comprise a secure volatile memory configured to store first data-validity information associated with first data stored in an external nonvolatile memory; and a secure processor configured to: retrieve the first data-validity information from a secure remote server over a secure communication channel, wherein the secure processor uses mutual authentication with the secure remote server to secure the secure communication channel; store the first data-validity information in the secure volatile memory; retrieve the first data from the external nonvolatile memory; obtain second data-validity information associated with the first data; compare the first data-validity information stored in the secure volatile memory with the second data-validity information to generate a comparison value; and determine, based on the comparison value, whether the first data is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olivier Jean Benoit, Laurence Geoffrey Lundblade, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Patent number: 9262259
    Abstract: One-time programmable integrated circuit security is described. An example of a method of protecting memory assets in an integrated circuit includes sampling values of multiple OTP memory arrays and comparing the sampled value of each OTP memory array with the sampled value of each other OTP memory array and with an unprogrammed OTP memory array value. The method further includes determining if an integrated circuit performance fault has occurred based on the compared sampled values, booting the integrated circuit, and operating the integrated circuit with access to memory determined by the fault occurrence determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20160028725
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may comprise a secure volatile memory configured to store first data-validity information associated with first data stored in an external nonvolatile memory; and a secure processor configured to: retrieve the first data-validity information from a secure remote server over a secure communication channel, wherein the secure processor uses mutual authentication with the secure remote server to secure the secure communication channel; store the first data-validity information in the secure volatile memory; retrieve the first data from the external nonvolatile memory; obtain second data-validity information associated with the first data; compare the first data-validity information stored in the secure volatile memory with the second data-validity information to generate a comparison value; and determine, based on the comparison value, whether the first data is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Olivier Jean Benoit, Laurence Geoffrey Lundblade, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Patent number: 9239920
    Abstract: Techniques for improving security of an electronics device are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, security of a device may be improved by generating a working key based on a hardware secret key and at least one security parameter of the device, e.g., with a key derivation function. The security parameter(s) may be related to software to be authenticated on the device and/or other aspects of security for the wireless device. The security parameter(s) may indicate whether the software is authorized and/or at least one operating function authorized for the software. At least one security function may be performed for the device based on the working key. For example, the working key may be used to encrypt, sign, decrypt, or verify data for the device. The working key may be used directly or indirectly by the software for the at least one security function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20150324584
    Abstract: A device for providing a security breach indicative audio alert. The device includes: a security monitor adapted to detect a security breach in device and a loudspeaker, the device wherein including a secure audio alert generating hardware, adapted to participate, in response to the detection of the security breach, in a generation of a security breach indicative audio alert. The secure audio alert generating hardware is connected to an audio mixer that is adapted to mix the security breach indicative audio alert signal with audio signals generated by a software controlled audio source to provide a mixed signal. The audio mixer is further adapted to provide the mixed signal to the loudspeaker that reproduces the mixed signal as sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: ROMAN MOSTINSKI, ASAF ASHKENAZI
  • Patent number: 9094441
    Abstract: A device for providing a security breach indicative audio alert. The device includes: a security monitor adapted to detect a security breach in device and a loudspeaker, the device wherein including a secure audio alert generating hardware, adapted to participate, in response to the detection of the security breach, in a generation of a security breach indicative audio alert. The secure audio alert generating hardware is connected to an audio mixer that is adapted to mix the security breach indicative audio alert signal with audio signals generated by a software controlled audio source to provide a mixed signal. The audio mixer is further adapted to provide the mixed signal to the loudspeaker that reproduces the mixed signal as sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Mostinski, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20150168730
    Abstract: A user wearable optical display system comprising a user attachable section for detachably mounting said user wearable optical display system to a head of a user; a partially transmissive partially reflective lens, coupled with said user attachable section, and configured to be facing at least one eye of said user; and an electro-optical unit coupled with at least one of said user attachable section and said partially transmissive partially reflective lens, said electro-optical unit comprising: a processor; and a light projection unit coupled with said processor, said light projection unit is configured to transmit light beams onto said partially transmissive partially reflective lens; wherein said electro-optical unit is configured to be positioned with respect to said user attachable section such that when said user wearable optical display system is mounted on said user, said electro-optical unit is located at the glabellar region of said user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Asaf Ashkenazi, Hanan Shamir
  • Patent number: 8970962
    Abstract: A wearable system is shown that presents one or more heads-up displays to the wearer. A data source provides information to an image generator that is sufficient to generate one or more display images, which are still or moving, characters or graphical displays. The output image from the image generator passes through a lens, reflects off a curved mirror, and passes back through the lens the other way. The image then passes through two lenses, between which an intermediate image exists. The image reflects off the “lens,” or visor, of the glasses and proceeds to the pupil of the wearer's eye. Alternative embodiments use a helmet visor, mirror, or other (at least partially) reflective surface for the final reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd
    Inventors: Danny Filipovich, Jack Fiore, Eric Ford, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20140317417
    Abstract: Techniques for improving security of an electronics device are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, security of a device may be improved by generating a working key based on a hardware secret key and at least one security parameter of the device, e.g., with a key derivation function. The security parameter(s) may be related to software to be authenticated on the device and/or other aspects of security for the wireless device. The security parameter(s) may indicate whether the software is authorized and/or at least one operating function authorized for the software. At least one security function may be performed for the device based on the working key. For example, the working key may be used to encrypt, sign, decrypt, or verify data for the device. The working key may be used directly or indirectly by the software for the at least one security function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Asaf ASHKENAZI
  • Patent number: 8850232
    Abstract: A device and a method for protecting a cryptographic module of which the method includes: estimating a functionality of a circuit that is adapted to malfunction when a physical parameter has a first value different from a nominal parameter value at which the cryptographic module functions correctly. The cryptographic module malfunctions when the physical parameter has a second value different from the nominal parameter value and a difference between the first value and the nominal parameter value being smaller than a difference between the second value and the nominal parameter value. A cryptographic module protective measure is applied if estimating that the circuit malfunctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Priel, Asaf Ashkenazi, Dan Kuzmin, Anton Rozen
  • Patent number: 8830569
    Abstract: Image-intensifying or night vision glasses are suitable for certain commercial and entertainment applications by virtue of their light weight, small size, and economical production, compared to certain other night vision products. In one embodiment, input light passes through two Amici prisms and a field-flattening lens to reach an image intensifier. The intensified image it produces is reflected off a first folding mirror, passes through a lens, reflects off a curved mirror, and passes back through the lens the other way. The intensified image then passes through two additional, non-doublet lenses, between which an intermediate image exists. The intensified image then reflects off the “lens” or visor of the glasses and proceeds to the pupil of the eye of the wearer. Alternative embodiments use a helmet visor, mirror, or other (at least partially) reflective surface for the final reflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Danny Filipovich, Jack C. Fiore, Eric Ford, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Patent number: 8797792
    Abstract: A memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) bitcell. The MTJ bitcell includes a first MTJ and a second MTJ. The memory device further includes programming circuitry configured to generate a non-reversible state at the bitcell by applying a program signal to a selected one of the first MTJ and the second MTJ of the bitcell. The non-reversible state corresponds to a value of the MTJ bitcell that is determined by comparing a first value read at the first MTJ and a second value read at the second MTJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari M. Rao, Jung Pil Kim, Seung H. Kang, Xiaochun Zhu, Tae Hyun Kim, Kangho Lee, Xia Li, Wah Nam Hsu, Wuyang Hao, Jungwon Suh, Nicholas K. Yu, Matthew Michael Nowak, Steven M. Millendorf, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20140201607
    Abstract: One-time programmable integrated circuit security is described. An example of a method of protecting memory assets in an integrated circuit includes sampling values of multiple OTP memory arrays and comparing the sampled value of each OTP memory array with the sampled value of each other OTP memory array and with an unprogrammed OTP memory array value. The method further includes determining if an integrated circuit performance fault has occurred based on the compared sampled values, booting the integrated circuit, and operating the integrated circuit with access to memory determined by the fault occurrence determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Asaf ASHKENAZI
  • Patent number: 8687056
    Abstract: Enhanced vision system for assisting aircraft piloting, the system including a line-of-sight detector for determining the line-of-sight of the pilot of the aircraft, a head mounted display (HMD) worn by the pilot, and a processor which receives the determined line-of-sight from the line-of-sight detector, receives a spatial image of the external scene to the aircraft, generates symbolic information respective of the aircraft piloting, and superimposes the symbolic information onto the spatial image to produce a combined spatial and symbolic image, the HMD displaying the combined spatial and symbolic image to the pilot in real-time, in alignment with the determined line-of-sight. The spatial image may be an image combined from a sensor image and a synthetic image. A communication interface may be coupled to the HMD allowing the pilot to receive and confirm flight instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Dror Yahav, Yaron Kranz, Asaf Ashkenazi, Itai Orenstein, Tal Waisman, Mike Abrahami
  • Patent number: 8677153
    Abstract: A device and a method for protecting a cryptographic module of which the method includes: estimating a functionality of a circuit that is adapted to malfunction when a physical parameter has a first value different from a nominal parameter value at which the cryptographic module functions correctly. The cryptographic module malfunctions when the physical parameter has a second value different from the nominal parameter value and a difference between the first value and the nominal parameter value being smaller than a difference between the second value and the nominal parameter value. A cryptographic module protective measure is applied if estimating that the circuit malfunctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Priel, Asaf Ashkenazi, Dan Kuzmin, Anton Rozen
  • Publication number: 20140010006
    Abstract: A memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) bitcell. The MTJ bitcell includes a first MTJ and a second MTJ. The memory device further includes programming circuitry configured to generate a non-reversible state at the bitcell by applying a program signal to a selected one of the first MTJ and the second MTJ of the bitcell. The non-reversible state corresponds to a value of the MTJ bitcell that is determined by comparing a first value read at the first MTJ and a second value read at the second MTJ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari M. Rao, Jung Pill Kim, Seung H. Kang, Xiaochun Zhu, Taehyun Kim, Kangho Lee, Xia Li, Wah Nam Hsu, Wuyang Hao, Jungwon Suh, Nicholas K. Yu, Matthew M. Nowak, Steven M. Millendorf, Asaf Ashkenazi
  • Patent number: 8547736
    Abstract: A method of generating a non-reversible state at a bitcell having a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a second MTJ includes applying a program voltage to the first MTJ of the bitcell without applying the program voltage to the second MTJ of the bitcell. A memory device includes a bitcell having a first MTJ and a second MTJ and programming circuitry configured to generate a non-reversible state at the bitcell by applying a program signal to a selected one of the first MTJ and the second MTJ of the bitcell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari M. Rao, Jung Pill Kim, Seung H. Kang, Xiaochun Zhu, Tae Hyun Kim, Kangho Lee, Xia Li, Wah Nam Hsu, Wuyang Hao, Jungwon Suh, Nicholas K. Yu, Matthew Michael Nowak, Steven M. Millendorf, Asaf Ashkenazi