Patents by Inventor Romain Ygnace
Romain Ygnace 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).
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Patent number: 11802938Abstract: A radar device is provided that is arranged for conducting an interference detection and mitigation based on received and sampled radar signals and storing interference-mitigated data; conducting an FFT on the interference-mitigated data and storing FF-transformed data; conducting a compression on the FF-transformed data into compressed data; and storing the compressed data in a memory. Also, a method for operating such radar device is suggested.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Farhan Bin Khalid, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11683049Abstract: A processor having a hardware decompressor configured to pad a non-equidistant data set, which is data received at irregular time intervals, with one or more of a predefined value, wherein the data is radar or optical sensor data; and a Fourier transform engine configured to receive the padded non-equidistant data set directly and continuously per data set from the hardware decompressor, and to FFT process the received padded non-equidistant data set.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11639983Abstract: A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11567175Abstract: An apparatus for light detection and ranging is provided. The apparatus includes a reflective surface configured to oscillate about a rotation axis, and a plurality of light sources each configured to controllably emit a respective light beam via an optical system onto the reflective surface. Further, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control emission times of the plurality of light sources so that the reflective surface emits a plurality of light beams to an environment according to a first sequence of beam directions for a first measurement, and according to a second sequence of beam directions for a subsequent second measurement.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventors: Andre Roger, Wojciech Kudla, Hendrikus Van Lierop, Jaap Verheggen, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20220410912Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Andre Roger, Farhan Bin Khalid, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11531086Abstract: A radar device is disclosed including an input DMA module, at least one processing module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is arranged to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module, wherein each of the processing modules is arranged to be enabled or disabled. The at least one processing module that is enabled is arranged to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, and the output DMA module is arranged to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, a method for processing data by a radar device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11525885Abstract: A radar device is disclosed that includes an input DMA module, at least one processing module, a histogram module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is configured to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module and/or to the histogram module. Each of the processing modules is configured to be enabled or disabled, wherein the at least one processing module that is enabled is configured to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, wherein the histogram module is fed by data from the at least processing module that is enabled and/or by the input DMA module. The output DMA module is configured to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, an according method is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Romain Ygnace, David Addison, Markus Bichl, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Andre Roger
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Patent number: 11513213Abstract: A method for processing a radar signal is provided. The method may include receiving chirps of a radar signal, sampling the radar signal, dividing the samples that correspond to the chirp of the radar signal into at least two virtual chirps, and processing the radar signal based on the at least two virtual chirps. Also, a corresponding device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Farhan Bin Khalid, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11433910Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar Sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Andre Roger, Farhan Bin Khalid, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11422249Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radar device including a first radar-IC for processing first receive signals from first antennas of an antenna array, wherein the first radar-IC is configured to determine a first range-Doppler map based on the first receive signals, and to determine a first subregion of the first range-Doppler map based on criteria of interest. The radar device also includes at least a second radar-IC for processing second receive signals from second antennas of the antenna array, wherein the second radar-IC is configured to determine a second range-Doppler map based on the second receive signals, and to determine a second subregion of the second range-Doppler map based on the criteria of interest. A data interface is configured to forward information indicative of the first and/or the second subregions to a common processor for further processing.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventors: Andre Roger, Farhan Bin Khalid, Paul Meissner, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11366198Abstract: A method for processing a radar signal includes adjusting a processing clock signal, wherein the processing clock signal determines an operation period of a signal processing circuit, wherein the processing clock signal is determined based on a time window, wherein the size of the time window is determined based on the maximum time available for processing a portion of the radar signal and wherein the end of the time window is determined such that it does not occur during an active transmission portion of the radar system.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Markus Bichl, Ljudmil Anastasov, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20220103218Abstract: A method of handling radar signals of a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method includes processing a plurality of radar signals for determining a distance between the radar system and at least one target and a velocity of the at least one target, thereby forming a plurality of processed radar signals. Each radar signal of the plurality of radar signals is received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas. The plurality of processed radar signals are digitally beamformed for at least one beam direction, thereby forming a plurality of beamformed radar signals. The plurality of beamformed radar signals are summed from the plurality of antennas per beam direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Farhan Bin Khalid, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11232034Abstract: A cache circuit associated with a hypervisor system is disclosed. The cache circuit comprises a cache memory circuit comprising a plurality of cachelines, wherein each cacheline is configured to store data associated with one or more virtual machines (VMs) of a plurality of VMs associated with the hypervisor system and a plurality of tag array entries respectively associated with the plurality of cachelines. In some embodiments, each tag array entry of the plurality of tag entries comprises a tag field configured to store a tag identifier (ID) that identifies an address of a main memory circuit to which a data stored in the corresponding cacheline is associated and a VM tag field configured to store a VM ID associated with a VM to which the data stored in the corresponding cacheline is associated.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Manoj Kumar Harihar, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20210263706Abstract: A radar device is configured to: select a set of operands comprising several operands, determine a common exponent for the operands of the set of operands, normalize the operands based on the common exponent, compress each operand by reducing the resolution of its mantissa, and store the common exponent and the compressed operands in a memory. Also, a vehicle including such radar device and an according method as well as computer program product are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 11099256Abstract: A device for processing radar signals is suggested, the device comprising: (i) a memory, which is arranged to store radar data and (ii) an accessor comprising a DMA engine, wherein the accessor is arranged to access data of the memory via the DMA engine, to filter the accessed data, and to forward the filtered data.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Christian Schmid, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20210258021Abstract: A processor having a hardware decompressor configured to pad a non-equidistant data set, which is data received at irregular time intervals, with one or more of a predefined value, wherein the data is radar or optical sensor data; and a Fourier transform engine configured to receive the padded non-equidistant data set directly and continuously per data set from the hardware decompressor, and to FFT process the received padded non-equidistant data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20210255278Abstract: A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Andre ROGER, Markus BICHL, Dian Tresna NUGRAHA, Romain YGNACE
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Patent number: 11085994Abstract: A radar device including at least three subcircuits, wherein each subcircuit has a cascade input port and a cascade output port and is chained such that the cascade output port of a first subcircuit is connected to the cascade input port of a subsequent subcircuit, the cascade input port of the last subcircuit of the chain is connected to the cascade output port of its preceding subcircuit, and the cascade output port of the last subcircuit of the chain is connectable to an external device, and wherein the at least three subcircuits are configured to conduct a radar computation in a distributed manner such that intermediate results are conveyed towards the last subcircuit of the chain which is configured to combine these results and supply them towards its cascade output port.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Romain Ygnace
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Publication number: 20210141055Abstract: A radar device is provided comprising a first processing unit, a radar circuitry, at least one security circuitry, at least one secure memory, and a secure interface arranged for communicating with a second processing unit that is external to the radar device, wherein the first processing unit is arranged to configure and/or run the radar device based on parameters obtained via the secure interface from the second processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Andre ROGER, Romain YGNACE
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Patent number: 10996311Abstract: A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Markus Bichl, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Romain Ygnace