Patents by Inventor Lionel M. Ni

Lionel M. Ni 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: 9578466
    Abstract: A method for indoor localization using nomadic access points, comprising the following steps: a target object transmits a modulated signal over wireless channels to nearby access points, wherein the access points include both static access points and nomadic access points; the access points measure channel state information via the signal from the target object, after that, the static access points export the channel state information to a server, the nomadic wireless access point report the channel state information along with their coordinates of the current sites to the server; and based on the channel state information, the server determines the target object's relative proximity to two arbitrary access points, then based on the result of the relative proximity determination and the coordinates, the server estimates a feasible region for the target object with a space partition-based algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Guangzhou HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute
    Inventors: Jiang Xiao, Youwen Yi, Lu Wang, Lionel M. Ni
  • Publication number: 20160102987
    Abstract: Present invention provides a method for inferring the type of a road segment, comprising the steps of: collecting historical driving trajectory data of a plurality of vehicles for a target road segment, performing a statistic on the historical driving trajectory data, and obtaining statistical features of the target road segment; extracting topological features of the target road segment from topological structure data of the road network; merging the statistical features with the topological features of the target road segment, and obtaining an arrogated feature vector of the target road segment; building a logistic regression model according to the arrogated feature vector, and obtaining a first inferred type of the target road segment. The present embodiment considers both the driving trajectory data of a plurality of vehicles and the topological structure data of the road network, the accuracy of the present invention is high, and the inferred result is accurate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ye Ding, Haoyu Tan, Min Gao, Lionel M. Ni
  • Publication number: 20160066158
    Abstract: A method for indoor localization using nomadic access points, comprising the following steps: a target object transmits a modulated signal over wireless channels to nearby access points, wherein the access points include both static access points and nomadic access points; the access points measure channel state information via the signal from the target object, after that, the static access points export the channel state information to a server, the nomadic wireless access point report the channel state information along with their coordinates of the current sites to the server; and based on the channel state information, the server determines the target object's relative proximity to two arbitrary access points, then based on the result of the relative proximity determination and the coordinates, the server estimates a feasible region for the target object with a space partition-based algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Jiang Xiao, Youwen Yi, Lu Wang, Lionel M. Ni