Abstract: Various methods and systems for combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using spatially multiplexed wireless signals.

Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking persons by utilizing imagery data captured by a plurality of on-road vehicles. A large number of different persons appear in a corpus of imagery data collectively captured by a plurality of on-road vehicles. An initial and limited-accuracy model of one of the persons is used to search and detect visual occurrences of that person in the corpus of imagery data, thereby starting to track that person, in which such search is limited at first to a confined geo-temporal range, in order to limit the number of different persons over which the initial and limited-accuracy model has to search and detect that person. When the visual occurrences of that person are found, a better model can be constructed, which can now be used to expand the geo-temporal range over which yet additional visual occurrences of that person are found and used to better track that person.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for (i) combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using maximal-ratio-combining techniques, and (ii) selecting receiving directions for wireless data packets in conjunction with beam-forming networks.

Abstract: Methods and systems for autonomously delivering consumer items in disposable packages, in which the disposable package, with the consumer item inside, are carried under a wheel robot using a grabbing mechanism that holds the package under the wheel robot. The wheel robot straddles over the package to allow the grabbing mechanism access to the package during a loading process, and then straddles off the package at a delivery location after the grabbing mechanism releases the package with the consumer item inside. Releasing of the package can be done by lowering the package to the ground in a controlled manner, or by simply releasing the package above ground thereby dropping the package.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using spatially multiplexed wireless signals.

Abstract: Methods and systems for autonomously altering shape and functionality of on-road vehicles. An on-road autonomous vehicle, which is currently integrated with a first object and thus having a respective certain functional shape, performs a respective certain function. A request is obtained to alter functionality of the on-road vehicle, which consequently releases autonomously the first object, self drives to a location of a second object, and self-integrates with the second object by straddling-over and grabbing the second object, thus switching to a different functional shape and consequently accomplishing said alteration of functionality.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for executing efficiently, in real-time, a plurality of machine learning processes. In one embodiment, a computing platform with multiple compute elements receives multiple data streams, each such stream associated with its own respective machine learning process. Each machine learning process is operative to use its data stream as input to train, in real-time, a respective mathematical model. Each of the processes has peaks and dips in processing demands. The system re-allocates, in real-time, compute elements from the processes with lower processing demands to processes with higher processing demands, thereby handling all of the multiple processes on-the-fly, preventing peak demands from causing the system to stall, and reducing overall the computational resources required by the system.

Abstract: An orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) base station operative to transmit a sequence of OFDM signals simultaneously using at least two separate twisted pairs, in which each of the OFDM signals is modulated by a plurality of sub-carriers. At least two converters are connected to the OFDM base station using the at least two twisted pairs, respectively, in which each of the converters, and simultaneously with the other converters, is configured to receive each of the OFDM signals from the OFDM base station using the respective twisted pair, up-convert the OFDM signal into a radio-frequency (RF) band, and re-transmit wirelessly the OFDM signal, in conjunction with the RF band, from at least one antenna associated with each converter.

Abstract: Methods and systems for hybrid point to multipoint communication systems having multiple downlink channels and a single uplink channel, including the steps of centrally allocating bandwidth to, and synchronizing communications with, a first and a second wireless clients; transmitting, over a shared signal wired distribution line, a first downlink signal transported over a first frequency, a second downlink signal transported over a second frequency, and an uplink signal transported over a fifth frequency; converting the frequency of the first downlink signal to a third frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a first wireless client over the third frequency; converting the frequency of the second downlink signal to a fourth frequency, and bi-directionally wirelessly communicating with a second wireless client over the fourth frequency; and converting and superpositioning a first received wireless uplink signal having the third frequency and a second received wireless uplink signal having

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for executing efficiently, in real-time, a plurality of machine learning processes. In one embodiment, a computing platform with multiple compute elements receives multiple data streams, each such stream associated with its own respective machine learning process. Each machine learning process is operative to use its data stream as input to train, in real-time, a respective mathematical model. Each of the processes has peaks and dips in processing demands. The system re-allocates, in real-time, compute elements from the processes with lower processing demands to processes with higher processing demands, thereby handling all of the multiple processes on-the-fly, preventing peak demands from causing the system to stall, and reducing overall the computational resources required by the system.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using spatially multiplexed wireless signals.

Abstract: Various methods and systems for (i) combining the capabilities of beam-forming networks together with the benefit of using maximal-ratio-combining techniques, and (ii) selecting receiving directions for wireless data packets in conjunction with beam-forming networks.

Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking persons by utilizing imagery data captured by a plurality of on-road vehicles. A large number of different persons appear in a corpus of imagery data collectively captured by a plurality of on-road vehicles. An initial and limited-accuracy model of one of the persons is used to search and detect visual occurrences of that person in the corpus of imagery data, thereby starting to track that person, in which such search is limited at first to a confined geo-temporal range, in order to limit the number of different persons over which the initial and limited-accuracy model has to search and detect that person. When the visual occurrences of that person are found, a better model can be constructed, which can now be used to expand the geo-temporal range over which yet additional visual occurrences of that person are found and used to better track that person.

Abstract: A shared wired-based medium is deployed inside a vehicle, so as to interconnect various in-vehicle communication components such as radio transmitters, radio receivers, antennas, and processors. The shared wired-based medium is used by each of the communication components to send and receive intermediate-frequency (IF) signals to and from at least one of the other communication components, thereby implementing an efficient in-vehicle IF communication bus, in which each of the IF signals may be a frequency-shifted version of an original signal produced by one of the communication components, and in which such IF signal, after being transported by the shared wired-based medium, is extracted from the shared wired-based medium by at least one of the other communication components, which in turn frequency-shifts the extracted IF signal into a respective radio-frequency (RF) signal capable, for example, of being wirelessly transmitted outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: An access point is located in a first room together with a local plurality of antennas. A plurality of power boosters are located in a second room together with a peripheral plurality of antennas. A wire-based medium connects the first and second rooms. The access point uses the local antennas to transmit wirelessly, in the first room, a plurality of spatially-multiplexed streams, thereby allowing a receiving wireless device in the first room to decode the streams. The access point injects into the wire-based medium, in the first room, a plurality of signals derived respectively from the streams, which are then transported to the second room. The boosters then power-boost the signals extracted from the wire-based medium in the second room, and the peripheral antennas transmit wirelessly, in the second room, the now-power-boosted signals, thereby allowing another receiving wireless device, in the second room, to decode the same plurality of streams.

Abstract: Methods and systems for autonomously altering shape and functionality of on-road vehicles. An on-road autonomous vehicle, which is currently integrated with a first object and thus having a respective certain functional shape, performs a respective certain function. A request is obtained to alter functionality of the on-road vehicle, which consequently releases autonomously the first object, self drives to a location of a second object, and self-integrates with the second object by straddling-over and grabbing the second object, thus switching to a different functional shape and consequently accomplishing said alteration of functionality.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing past events by identifying and delivering specific imagery data that was collected and stored locally by a plurality of on-road vehicles. A plurality of on-road vehicles capture visual records of areas surrounding locations visited by the vehicles, in which the visual records are stored locally onboard the vehicles, thereby resulting in a corpus of imagery data that is stored distributively onboard the vehicles. Upon a request to analyze a past event associated with a certain location and a certain time, the system finds and retrieves from the vehicles those of visual records that were captured by the respective vehicles at about said certain time and in vicinity of said certain location. The visual records found and retrieved are used by the system to analyze the past event and to determine additional times and locations that may be relevant for further analysis the past event.

Abstract: On-road autonomous vehicles and other vehicles operative to: autonomously collect and transport a load over public roads, autonomously collect and transport a passenger in a cabin, autonomously collect transport and place a functional load according to a request, autonomously collect and use a functional load, exchange a functional load between at least two on-road autonomous vehicles in a convoy, lift and transport a load by at least two on-road autonomous vehicles, charge batteries of the on-road autonomous vehicle on the move, provide a hybrid air-gap and mechanical protection for a passenger cabin, protect the on-road vehicle from impact with foreign objects, control a length thereof, reduce drag on the vehicle, and adapt to carry a long load.

Abstract: On-road autonomous vehicles and other on-road vehicles operative to perform various autonomous maneuvers to reduce, avoid, or alleviate injuries in conjunction with an anticipated collision of the vehicle with a foreign object. A foreign object approaching is detected by the vehicle, object dynamics are calculated, and a prediction is made that a collision is either unavoidable or preferred over a different outcome. As a result, the vehicle then decides to perform an injury-mitigating autonomous maneuver in the short period of time between such a detection/prediction and the actual collision, in which such a maneuver is not expected to circumvent the collision, but is rather designed to mitigate injuries caused by the collision. The injury-mitigating autonomous maneuver may include autonomously and controllably changing orientation or trajectory of the vehicle relative to the foreign object or relative to the expected point of impact.

Abstract: An access point is located in a first room together with a local plurality of antennas. A plurality of power boosters are located in a second room together with a peripheral plurality of antennas. A wire-based medium connects the first and second rooms. The access point uses the local antennas to transmit wirelessly, in the first room, a plurality of spatially-multiplexed streams, thereby allowing a receiving wireless device in the first room to decode the streams. The access point injects into the wire-based medium, in the first room, a plurality of signals derived respectively from the streams, which are then transported to the second room. The boosters then power-boost the signals extracted from the wire-based medium in the second room, and the peripheral antennas transmit wirelessly, in the second room, the now-power-boosted signals, thereby allowing another receiving wireless device, in the second room, to decode the same plurality of streams.