Patents by Inventor Benjamin Dilsaver

Benjamin Dilsaver 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: 20240410978
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems related to a radar system using a machine-learned model to identify the number of objects within each range-Doppler bin. For example, the radar system includes a processor that obtains radar data associated with objects and processes the radar data to generate beam vectors. The processor then uses a machine-learned model to identify the number of objects within each range-Doppler bin using extracted features (e.g., magnitude variation, signal-to-noise ratio, subarray beam vector correlations) of the beam vectors. The processor selects a particular angle-finding technique based on whether a single object or multiple objects are identified. In this way, the described systems and techniques more accurately identify the number of object in each range-Doppler bin, thus improving the computational efficiency and robustness of subsequent angle finding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Baokun Liu, Xiuzhang Cai, Yi Feng, Benjamin Dilsaver
  • Patent number: 12072433
    Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for radar interference mitigation using signal pattern matching. Radar signals (e.g., chirps) received by a radar system may include interference from other nearby radar systems. The interference can result in reduced sensitivity of the radar system. The techniques, apparatuses, and systems described herein mitigate the interference by selecting an uncorrupted segment of the radar signal that neighbors a corrupted segment, analyzing the radar signal to identify a match segment that has similar signal characteristics to the neighbor segment, and replacing the corrupted segment with a segment that is adjacent to the match segment. In this manner, a noise floor of the radar system may be lowered, leading to increased sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Baokun Liu, James Fredrick Searcy, Benjamin Dilsaver
  • Publication number: 20220404455
    Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for radar interference mitigation using signal pattern matching. Radar signals (e.g., chirps) received by a radar system may include interference from other nearby radar systems. The interference can result in reduced sensitivity of the radar system. The techniques, apparatuses, and systems described herein mitigate the interference by selecting an uncorrupted segment of the radar signal that neighbors a corrupted segment, analyzing the radar signal to identify a match segment that has similar signal characteristics to the neighbor segment, and replacing the corrupted segment with a segment that is adjacent to the match segment. In this manner, a noise floor of the radar system may be lowered, leading to increased sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Baokun Liu, James Fredrick Searcy, Benjamin Dilsaver
  • Patent number: 11313786
    Abstract: A detector testing system includes an environmental chamber configured to provide at least one selected environmental condition within the chamber. The environmental chamber includes an opening. A cover over the opening has at least one surface that is at least partially transparent to radiation that the detector is configured to receive. The cover is configured to maintain the at least one selected environmental condition within the environmental chamber. A detector support is configured to support a plurality of detectors exposed to the at least one selected environmental condition in a location within a space defined by the cover where the cover provides a detector field of view through the at least one surface. The detector field of view for each of the detectors has a horizontal range of at least 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: James C. Baar, Steven D. Kaufman, Timothy D. Garner, Robert R. Bugher, Raul Alfonso Zubia Duran, Benjamin Dilsaver, Az Eddine Farouki
  • Publication number: 20210239597
    Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of a detector testing system includes an environmental chamber configured to provide at least one selected environmental condition within the chamber. The environmental chamber includes an opening. A cover over the opening has at least one surface that is at least partially transparent to radiation that the detector is configured to receive. The cover is configured to maintain the at least one selected environmental condition within the environmental chamber. A detector support is configured to support a plurality of detectors exposed to the at least one selected environmental condition in a location within a space defined by the cover where the cover provides a detector field of view through the at least one surface. The detector field of view for each of the detectors has a horizontal range of at least 180°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: James C. Baar, Steven D. Kaufman, Timothy D. Garner, Robert R. Bugher, Raul Alfonso Zubia Duran, Benjamin Dilsaver, Az Eddine Farouki