Patents by Inventor Shahrokh Valaee

Shahrokh Valaee 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: 20230149581
    Abstract: A radiation-based disinfection system with detectors and an intelligent controller is capable of disinfecting small areas on surfaces with a suitable light source (e.g. a UV laser) in a dynamic fashion in high traffic environments while avoiding vulnerable targets with incident or reflected beams. The disinfection system operates by predicting likely 5 transmission sites between potential sources of infection and other objects in the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph John BARFETT, Bogdan Robert SCAUNASU, Marc Alfred SETTINO, Shahrokh VALAEE
  • Patent number: 9763035
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, method and computer program for anonymous localization. The location of a mobile device can be determined based on signal strength from one or more access points and a radio map. A radio map can be generated by measuring signal strength at a set of fingerprints, which are a finite set of reference points within the area to be mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Shahrokh Valaee, Chen Feng, Anthea Wain Sy Au
  • Publication number: 20160371394
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a map for indoor localization. Raw data traces from a plurality of mobile devices are merged to generate a single data graph. The raw data traces represent paths traversed by the mobile devices and include received signal strength (RSS) fingerprints associated with relative points along the paths. The data graph is matched with a predefined ground truth graph defining physical coordinates of traversable paths. A radio map is generated including both the defined physical coordinates and RSS fingerprints associated with the physical coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Shervin SHAHIDI, Shahrokh VALAEE
  • Patent number: 9525578
    Abstract: Disclosed in a novel scheme to jointly reduce and trade-off Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and a Block Error Rate (BLER) using random network coding. To do this, the different representations of the input information block are generated using a special form of network coding matrices. Further, the encoded block puncturing is utilized to improve in the PAPR against a degradation in the BLER.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongho Kim, Amin Alamdar Yazdi, Sameh Sorour, Shahrokh Valaee
  • Patent number: 9167386
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system, method and computer program for dynamic radio map generation, which may be used for indoor positioning of one or more mobile devices based on received signal strength (RSS) in some examples. In an aspect, a dynamic scheme may be used to learn the RSS radio map from only a small number of fingerprint samples. Compressive sensing may be applied to build the graph structure and calculate the graph weight in some embodiments. Once the RSS radio map is learned, a mobile device may be located and location based services can be provided to the user in some example embodiments. An indoor learning and positioning system on a mobile device may be used to evaluate the performance. Embodiments described herein may not require a large amount of offline calibrations, which may reduce the labor cost of collecting fingerprints significantly while maintaining a satisfactory level of localization accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Shahrokh Valaee, Chen Feng
  • Publication number: 20150105051
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system, method and computer program for anonymous localization. The location of a mobile device can be determined based on signal strength from one or more access points and a radio map. A radio map can be generated by measuring signal strength at a set of fingerprints, which are a finite set of reference points within the area to be mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Shahrokh VALAEE, Chen FENG, Anthea Wain Sy AU
  • Patent number: 8933841
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and computer program for anonymous localization. The location of a mobile device can be determined based on received signal strength (RSS) from one or more access points (APs) and a radio map. A radio map can be generated by measuring RSS at a set of fingerprints, which are a finite set of reference points within the area to be mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
    Inventors: Shahrokh Valaee, Chen Feng, Anthea Wain Sy Au
  • Publication number: 20140011518
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system, method and computer program for dynamic radio map generation, which may be used for indoor positioning of one or more mobile devices based on received signal strength (RSS) in some examples. In an aspect, a dynamic scheme may be used to learn the RSS radio map from only a small number of fingerprint samples. Compressive sensing may be applied to build the graph structure and calculate the graph weight in some embodiments. Once the RSS radio map is learned, a mobile device may be located and location based services can be provided to the user in some example embodiments. An indoor learning and positioning system on a mobile device may be used to evaluate the performance. Embodiments described herein may not require a large amount of offline calibrations, which may reduce the labor cost of collecting fingerprints significantly while maintaining a satisfactory level of localization accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
    Inventors: Shahrokh VALAEE, Chen FENG
  • Publication number: 20130198590
    Abstract: Disclosed in a novel scheme to jointly reduce and trade-off Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) and a Block Error Rate (BLER) using random network coding. To do this, the different representations of the input information block are generated using a special form of network coding matrices. Further, the encoded block puncturing is utilized to improve in the PAPR against a degradation in the BLER.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongho Kim, Amin Alamdar Yazdi, Sameh Sorour, Shahrokh Valaee
  • Publication number: 20120149415
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and computer program for anonymous localization. The location of a mobile device can be determined based on received signal strength (RSS) from one or more access points (APs) and a radio map. A radio map can be generated by measuring RSS at a set of fingerprints, which are a finite set of reference points within the area to be mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Shahrokh Valaee, Chen Feng, Anthea Wain Sy Au