Patents by Inventor Peter Gulden

Peter Gulden 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: 20240069152
    Abstract: Techniques to improve the detection and mitigation of synchronous and asynchronous interference in radar signals. The corrupted received signals can be processed to reduce the effect of interference, while preserving existing targets. Various can use a two-step approach to (1) detect and mask the corrupted samples, and (2) recover the masked-out samples. The recovery step enforces sparsity of the existing targets and prevents target smearing, which is a common problem after interference mitigation. The sparsity enforcing recovery step can preserve small targets while successfully rejecting interference. The techniques do not require any prior knowledge of the parameters of the interfering radar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sunrita Poddar, Peter Gulden, Ilker Bayram
  • Publication number: 20240061078
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for calibrating at least one signal and/or system parameter of a wave-based measurement system, in particular radar measurement system. At least one receiving unit for receiving signals and an object scene assume several spatial positions relative to each other assume, wherein a relative positioning of the several positions to each other is known or determined, and at these several positions the signals are coherently detected by the at least one receiving unit, whereby a set of several coherent measurement signals is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Gulden, Martin Vossiek, Johanna Geiß, Erik Sippel
  • Patent number: 11906655
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar system for capturing surroundings of a moving object, in particular a vehicle and/or a transportation apparatus, such as a crane, in particular, wherein the system is mounted or mountable on the moving object, wherein the radar system comprises at least two non-coherent radar modules (RM 1, RM 2, . . . RM N) having at least one transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna, wherein the radar modules (RM 1, RM 2, . . . RM N) are arranged or arrangeable in distributed fashion on the moving object, wherein provision is made of at least one evaluation device which is configured to process transmitted and received signals of the radar modules to form modified measurement signals in such a way that the modified measurement signals are coherent in relation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger, Peter Gulden, Mark Christmann, Christoph Mammitzsch
  • Publication number: 20240045052
    Abstract: Detection points may be first observed over multiple radar frames. The observed detection points, which form the tracklets, can be used to form a segmentation of the present radar frame by associating the tracklats to at least one object-track, which represents at least one object based on at least one feature-parameter. Segmentation results from tracking of detection points over multiple radar frames (viz. utilizing tracking information) which is used for associating detection points to objects (segmentation-by-tracking). A two-level tracking approach can be implemented, in which for a present radar frame, (new) detection points are associated to tracklets, which may be seen as a first level, and then the tracklets are associated to object-tracks, which may be seen as a second level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Johannes TRAA, Atulya YELLEPEDDI, Peter GULDEN, Andrew SCHWEITZER
  • Publication number: 20230333236
    Abstract: Estimating the ego-motion of a vehicle, e.g., the self-motion of the vehicle, can be improved by pre-processing data from two or more radars onboard the vehicle using a processor common to the two or more radars. The common processor can pre-process the data using a velocity vector processing technique that can estimate a velocity vector at each point of a predefined number of points, such as arranged in a grid in the field-of-view of radars, with coordinates (X, Y, Z (optional)), where U is the component of the velocity in the X-direction, V is the component of the velocity in the Y-direction, and W is the component of the velocity in the optional Z-direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Alan Christopher O'Connor, Peter Gulden, Fabian Kirsch, Christoph Mammitzsch, Marcel Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20230314588
    Abstract: A method for signal processing of radar signals of a radar system (100) has at least two radar units (10, 20) arranged at a known distance from one another. At least one spatial field of vision (FoV) of the radar system (100) is captured with radar signals of the at least two radar units (10, 20). A discrete total coordinate system is generated from the field of vision (FoV). Measurement data of the at least two radar units (10, 20) of the radar system (100) generated by the detection of the field of vision (FoV) are co-registered. A multidimensional, vector velocity ({right arrow over (v)}) for at least one resolution cell of the discrete total coordinate system and/or a multidimensional, vector velocity ({right arrow over (v)}100) for the radar system (100) are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Marcel Hoffmann, Michael GOTTINGER, Martin VOSSIEK, Mark CHRISTMANN, Peter GULDEN
  • Patent number: 11774551
    Abstract: A method for compensating for noise in a secondary radar system is described. The method includes, using a first transceiver, transmitting, in temporally overlapping manner, a first transmission signal containing a first interfering component and a second transmission signal containing a second interfering component, and compensating for at least one of phase shifts or frequency shifts resulting from the first and second interfering components by evaluation of the first and second transmission signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Peter Gulden, Michael Gottinger
  • Patent number: 11733348
    Abstract: Phase noise compensation can be performed in a primary radar system, such as in transceiver hardware. A first reflected reception signal can be received, corresponding to a reflection of a first transmission signal from an object, and a first measurement signal can be generated using mixing or correlation of the first reflected reception signal and the first transmission signal. A second measurement signal can be similarly generated from a second transmission signal and a second reflected reception signal. The first and second measurement signals include respective components including complex conjugate representations of each other. The components correspond to interfering components associated with phase noise, and such respective components can cancel each other to suppress phase noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger, Peter Gulden
  • Publication number: 20220404456
    Abstract: The invention describes a method for reducing interference effects in a radar system, which has at least two transceiver units (S1, S2), which are in particular spatially separated from one another, wherein the method comprises the following steps: —a transmission step (VS1), in which a first transmission signal (sigTX1) of the first transceiver unit (S1) is sent and received to and by a second transceiver unit (S2) and a second transmission signal (sigTX2) of the second transceiver unit (S2) is sent and received to and by the first transceiver unit (S1) via a radio channel (T), wherein the transmission signals (sigTX1, sigTX2) are modulated according to an orthogonal frequency multiplex method; and—a pre-correction step (VS2), in which correction values (?1, ?n, ?2) are determined from the received transmission signals (sigTX1, sigTX2) and in particular are exchanged between the transceiver stations (S1, S2), wherein the received transmission signals (sigRX1, sigRX2) are postprocessed on the basis of the cor
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Michael GOTTINGER, Peter GULDEN, Martin VOSSIEK
  • Publication number: 20220350011
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar system, particularly a primary radar system, comprising at least one signal generating device (SGEN), which is configured to generate and to emit a transmit signal sequence, at least one signal detection device, which is configured to receive and to detect a receive signal sequence reflected on an object structure, at least one mixer (MIX) for mixing the receive signal sequence with the transmit signal sequence and for forming N baseband signals sb(n, t), where n=1 . . . N, and at least one scanning device (ADC), which is configured to scan the N baseband signals at scanning frequencies fs(n), wherein at least two, preferably at least three, further preferably all of the N scanning frequencies fs(n) differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Martin VOSSIEK, Andreas HOFMANN, Peter GULDEN, Mike KEAVENEY
  • Publication number: 20220334217
    Abstract: A radar method, in particular a primary radar method, in which at least one first and at least one second transceiver unit (S1, S2), which are in particular spatially separated from one another, and transmit and receive signals simultaneously or overlapping in time, wherein a respective comparison signal, in particular mixed signals s1k,mix(t) or s2k,mix(t) are formed from a signal transmitted and received by the respective transceiver unit, wherein a phase correction is formed for each of a plurality of sample values, preferably a phase correction value for each of a plurality of sample values from the comparison signals s1k,mix(t) or s2k,mix(t), in particular in such a way that, preferably by a mathematical operation, a measure is formed of a phase difference per sample value between the at least two signals s1k,mix(t) or s2k,mix(t).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Peter GULDEN, Martin VOSSIEK, Michael GOTTINGER
  • Patent number: 11353570
    Abstract: Transmitting-receiving devices, such as within a radar system, can use a clock generator from which various higher-frequency signals are derived. For example, respective transmitting-receiving devices can include high-frequency (HF) generators. The present subject matter concerns a system and a method for providing measurement signals having increased coherence as compared with signals originally transmitted by the transmitting-receiving devices. Such measurement signals can be exchanged for synchronization. Increased coherence can enhance overall system performance, such as to assist in separating returns associated with weaker targets from those associated with stronger targets, or to provide enhanced angular resolution, as illustrative examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger, Peter Gulden
  • Publication number: 20210405183
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar system for capturing surroundings of a moving object, in particular a vehicle and/or a transportation apparatus, such as a crane, in particular, wherein the system is mounted or mountable on the moving object, wherein the radar system comprises at least two non-coherent radar modules (RM 1, RM 2, . . . RM N) having at least one transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna, wherein the radar modules (RM 1, RM 2, . . . RM N) are arranged or arrangeable in distributed fashion on the moving object, wherein provision is made of at least one evaluation device which is configured to process transmitted and received signals of the radar modules to form modified measurement signals in such a way that the modified measurement signals are coherent in relation to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Martin VOSSIEK, Michael GOTTINGER, Peter GULDEN, Mark CHRISTMANN, Christoph MAMMITZSCH
  • Patent number: 11016169
    Abstract: A method is described in particular for reducing interference due to phase noise in a radar system, in which in a first noncoherent transceiver unit (NKSE1) a first signal (sigTX1) is generated and transmitted, in particular emitted, via a path (SP), in a further, in particular second noncoherent transceiver unit (NKSE2), a first signal (sigTX2) is generated and transmitted, in particular emitted, via the path (SP), the signals (sigTX1 and sigTX2) are received directly or indirectly in the respective other transceiver unit and are processed further therein as received signals sigRX12 and sigRX21, in the first transceiver unit (NKSE1), a comparison signal (sigC12) is formed from its first signal (sigTX1) and from such a first signal (sigRTX2) received from the further transceiver unit (NKSE2) via the path (SP), and in the further transceiver unit (NKSE2), a further comparison signal (sigC21) is formed from its first signal (sigTX2) and from such a first signal (sigTX1) received from the first transceiver unit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger, Fabian Kirsch, Peter Gulden
  • Patent number: 11009598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar method for determining the angular position, the location, and/or the velocity, in particular the vectorial velocity, of a target, wherein a first transceiver unit and at least one second transceiver unit, which is spatially separated in particular from the first transceiver unit, are not synchronized, but a measurement beginning of the first transceiver unit and the second transceiver unit is triggered in a wireless or wired manner with a chronological deviation ?tn, wherein measurements of the transceiver units are coherently processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Symeo GmbH
    Inventors: Yassen Dobrev, Peter Gulden, Mark Christmann, Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger
  • Patent number: 11002818
    Abstract: A wave-based method has at least two reference stations (1, 2) transmit signals (s1, s2; s3, s4). The signals are transmitted almost at the same time (S1, S2), are transmitted in the same frequency range, and are separable using a multiplexing method. At least one of the sending reference stations (1, 2), besides transmitting its own signal (s1, s2), also receives at least one signal (s2, s1) sent by another reference station (2, 1) at the same time and determines a time stagger (?1) and/or a phase angle between its own transmission and the reception with high precision. At least one receiving station (7) which at least receives the signals (s1, s2) receives the signals (s3, s4) from at least two of the reference stations (1, 2). A system and stations perform the wave-based method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SYMEO GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Peter Gulden, Fabian Kirsch
  • Patent number: 10962634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in a radar system, wherein: in a first non-coherent transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE1), a first signal (sigTX1) is generated and is transmitted, in particular emitted, via a path (SP); in a further, in particular second non-coherent transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE2), a first signal (sigTX2) is generated and is sent, in particular emitted, via the path (SP); in the first transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE1), a comparison signal (sigC12) is formed from the first signal (sigTX1) of the first transmitting-receiving unit and from such a first signal (sigTX2) received from the further transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE2) via the path (SP); and in the further transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE2), a further comparison signal (sigC21) is formed from the first signal (sigTX2) of the further transmitting-receiving unit and from such a first signal (sigTX1) received from the first transmitting-receiving unit (NKSE1) via the path (SP), wherein the further comparison signal (sigC21) is tra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SYMEO GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Gulden, Martin Vossiek
  • Publication number: 20210080540
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for compensating for noise, in particular phase noise, in a radio location system, comprising a first and a second non-coherent transceiving unit, wherein a first measurement signal (sm1(t)) and at least one second measurement signal (sm2(t)) are generated on the basis of signals transmitted by the first transceiving unit and received by the first transceiving unit, wherein a first frequency shift in the first measurement signal (sm1(t)) which is caused by noise, in particular phase noise, is opposite, in particular exactly opposite, a second frequency shift in the second measurement signal (sm2(t)) which is caused by the noise, in particular phase noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Peter Gulden, Michael Gottinger
  • Publication number: 20210080541
    Abstract: Method for compensating for noise, in particular phase noise, in a primary radar system, wherein a first transmission signal with a first interfering component caused by the noise is transmitted by a transceiving unit, wherein at least one second transmission signal with a second interfering component caused by the noise is transmitted at the same time as or in a manner temporally overlapping the first transmission signal by the transceiving unit, wherein the transmission signals are such that, if the transmission signals are processed further and evaluated, phase and/or frequency shifts resulting from the interfering components are at least partially compensated for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Vossiek, Michael Gottinger, Peter Gulden
  • Publication number: 20200309889
    Abstract: A wave-based method has at least two reference stations (1, 2) transmit signals (s1, s2; s3, s4). The signals are transmitted almost at the same time (S1, S2), are transmitted in the same frequency range, and are separable using a multiplexing method. At least one of the sending reference stations (1, 2), besides transmitting its own signal (s1, s2), also receives at least one signal (s2, s1) sent by another reference station (2, 1) at the same time and determines a time stagger (?1) and/or a phase angle between its own transmission and the reception with high precision. At least one receiving station (7) which at least receives the signals (s1, s2) receives the signals (s3, s4) from at least two of the reference stations (1, 2). A system and stations perform the wave-based method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Martin VOSSIEK, Peter GULDEN, Fabian KIRSCH