Patents by Inventor Stephen Arnold

Stephen Arnold 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: 9989622
    Abstract: In a general aspect, the radio state of a wireless communication device is controlled. In some aspects, a first set of motion detection signals is processed by operation of a radio subsystem of a wireless communication device in a first radio state. An amount of variation in the first set of motion detection signals is determined based on values of a parameter of the motion detection signals. A counter is updated in response to a determination that the variation is greater than a first threshold, and the radio subsystem is changed to a second radio state based on comparing the value of the counter with a second threshold. A motion detection process is executed to detect motion of an object in the space based on a second set of motion detection signals processed by operation of the radio subsystem in the second radio state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Dustin Griesdorf, Stephen Arnold Devison, Christopher Vytautas Olekas
  • Patent number: 9927519
    Abstract: In a general aspect, motion detected using wireless signals is categorized. In some aspects, frequency response signals are obtained. The frequency response signals are based on wireless signals that were transmitted through a space and received at a wireless sensor device over a time period. Values of a statistical parameter are determined for the time period, with the statistical parameter for the time period being based on a function applied to frequency components of the frequency response signals over the time period. A category of motion that occurred in the space during the time period is identified based on the values of the statistical parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Stephen Arnold Devison, Yunfeng Piao, Dustin Griesdorf, Tajinder Manku, Oleksiy Kravets, Christopher Vytautas Olekas
  • Patent number: 9743294
    Abstract: In a general aspect, motion is detected by processing wireless signals using stored modem parameters. In some aspects, stored modem parameters are accessed from a memory of a wireless sensor device. The stored modem parameters represent a radio state previously used by a radio subsystem of the wireless sensor device in processing a first motion detection signal. The stored modem parameters are applied to the radio subsystem of the wireless sensor device, a second motion detection signal is processed at the wireless sensor device using the radio state represented by the stored modem parameters, and motion is detected based on the first and second motion detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Stephen Arnold Devison, Yunfeng Piao, Dustin Griesdorf
  • Patent number: 9709476
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are provided to determine the size and/or mass of a particle, such as a nanoparticle for example, deterministically (i.e., non-statistically). At least two resonances of the same radial order, having the same angular momentum number l but different azimuthal numbers m (?l<m<l) are excited in a WGM resonator. The particle's latitude angle on the WGM resonator is located using a ratio of detected resonance wavelength shifts. Finally, at least one of (A) the particle's size, and (B) the particle's mass, is determined from the latitude angle of the particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: New York University
    Inventors: Stephen Arnold, Ta Kang Keng, Siyka Shopova
  • Patent number: 9584974
    Abstract: In a general aspect, motion of an object is detected based on wireless signals. In some aspects, a receiver in a space receives wireless signals; the wireless signals are based on transmissions of a reference signal by a transmitter. Each of the received wireless signals is based on a respective transmission of the reference signal at a distinct time. Channel responses are determined based on the received wireless signals and the reference signal. Each channel response is determined based on a respective one of the received wireless signals. Motion of an object in the space is detected based on the channel responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Yunfeng Piao, Mikhail Alexand Zakharov, Marco Paulo dos Santos Nogueria, Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Patent number: 9524628
    Abstract: In a general aspect, motion is detected based on wireless signals. In some aspects, a modulation type of a first signal is identified at a motion detector device. The first signal is based on a wireless signal transmitted through a space by a transmitter device and received by the motion detector device. A demodulator at the motion detector device generates a second signal from the first signal by demodulating the first signal according to the identified modulation type. A modulator at the motion detector device generates a third signal from the second signal by modulating the second signal according to the identified modulation type. A channel response is generated based on the first signal and the third signal. The channel response is used to detect motion of an object in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Stephen Arnold Devison, Dustin Griesdorf
  • Patent number: 9503991
    Abstract: A method for controlling a transmitter power control system in communication networks that include a modulation scheme having a non-constant amplitude envelope. The method includes generating a transmission signal and transitioning the transmission signal from a first specified power level to a second specified power level and having a transition period therebetween, and generating a constant amplitude envelope modulation of the transmission signal during the transition period. The method may further include generating a non-constant amplitude envelope modulation of the transmission signal at the first specified power level, switching to the constant amplitude envelope modulation of the transmission signal during the transition period and generating the non-constant amplitude envelope modulation of the transmission signal at the second specified power level. A mobile communication device may be used to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Publication number: 20160313901
    Abstract: An interactive medical system and methods, involving a processor operable by way of a set of executable instructions stored in a non-transitory memory device, the set of executable instructions enabling the processor to receive, analyze, and transmit data in relation to a database, a plurality of medical equipment, and a display device, whereby an integrated medical protocol can be provided to the display device based on the analyzed data. The system is readily transportable for use in critical medical situations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Stephen ARNOLD
  • Patent number: 9411756
    Abstract: Function approximation circuitry approximates an arbitrary function F over discrete inputs. Discrete values of the function F are stored in a lookup table (LUT) component for various inputs. An addressing module generates an address from an input. An interpolation factor module generates an interpolation factor from the input. An interpolation module generates an output, which is an approximate value of the function F for the input, from the interpolation factor, and from outputs of the LUT component when the LUT component is addressed by the address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Marco Paulo dos Santos Nogueira, Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Publication number: 20160084747
    Abstract: Example systems and methods are provided to determine the size and/or mass of a particle, such as a nanoparticle for example, deterministically (i.e., non-statistically). At least two resonances of the same radial order, having the same angular momentum number/but different azimuthal numbers m (?l<m<l) are excited in a WGM resonator. The particle's latitude angle on the WGM resonator is located using a ratio of detected resonance wavelength shifts. Finally, at least one of (A) the particle's size, and (B) the particle's mass, is determined from the latitude angle of the particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen Arnold, Ta Kang Keng, Siyka Shopova
  • Patent number: 9190963
    Abstract: A system and method of pre-distorting a signal applied to a power amplifier to compensate for distortion introduced by the power amplifier at different power settings, comprising pre-distorting the signal according to a pre-distortion polynomial, prior to amplification of the signal by the power amplifier; adaptively estimating and applying pre-distortion polynomial coefficients to the pre-distorter by saving successive iterations of adaptive estimation of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients; and regularizing estimation of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients over successive iterations according to a modified objective function that initially constrains growth in the magnitude of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients and then relaxes the constraint in growth over successive iterations until estimation is reduced to a steady-state least squares estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Oleksiy Kravets, Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Patent number: 9191250
    Abstract: A pre-distortion method. A signal to be transmitted Tx is pre-distorted to compensate for nonlinearities of a transmitter. The pre-distorted signal is filtered by an EBEE filter and a baseband filter. The EBEE filter has a filter characteristic of that cancels the baseband filter response over the range of frequencies from a first corner frequency of the baseband filter to a frequency of N*fB where N is a highest order of distortion component being cancelled and fB is the bandwidth of the original signal to be transmitted. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mohammad Omer, Stephen Arnold Devison, Hamed Holisaz, Oleksiy Kravets
  • Patent number: 9179411
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling envelope tracking in a transmitter with closed loop power control, including up-converting and pre-amplifying a baseband signal to a pre-amplified RF signal, amplifying the pre-amplified RF signal, converting the envelope of the baseband signal into a shaped envelope signal, adjusting the gain of the pre-amplified RF signal, and adjusting the shape of the envelope signal in response to changes in the gain of the pre-amplified RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen Arnold Devison, Christopher Eugene Snyder
  • Patent number: 9106190
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a processor configured to generate a baseband signal, a modulator coupled downstream from the processor, a power amplifier coupled downstream from the modulator, an antenna, and a tunable antenna matching network coupled between the power amplifier and the antenna and configured to match an impedance of the antenna and thereby causing a phase change in an output from the antenna. The processor may be configured to provide upstream phase change compensation in the baseband signal for the phase change in the output from the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventor: Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Publication number: 20150146769
    Abstract: A pre-distortion method. A signal to be transmitted Tx is pre-distorted to compensate for nonlinearities of a transmitter. The pre-distorted signal is filtered by an EBEE filter and a baseband filter. The EBEE filter has a filter characteristic of that cancels the baseband filter response over the range of frequencies from a first corner frequency of the baseband filter to a frequency of N*fB where N is a highest order of distortion component being cancelled and fB is the bandwidth of the original signal to be transmitted. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mohammad OMER, Stephen Arnold DEVISON, Hamed HOLISAZ, Oleksiy KRAVETS
  • Publication number: 20150054579
    Abstract: A system and method for method of pre-distorting a signal applied to a power amplifier to compensate for distortion introduced by the power amplifier at different power settings, comprising pre-distorting the signal according to a pre-distortion polynomial, prior to amplification of the signal by the power amplifier; adaptively estimating and applying pre-distortion polynomial coefficients to the pre-distorter by saving successive iterations of adaptive estimation of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients; and regularizing estimation of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients over successive iterations according to a modified objective function that initially constrains growth in the magnitude of the pre-distortion polynomial coefficients and then relaxes the constraint in growth over successive iterations until estimation is reduced to a steady-state least squares estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammad OMER, Oleksiy KRAVETS, Stephen Arnold DEVISON
  • Patent number: 8942656
    Abstract: In a radio receiver, a method of reducing second order distortion components, involves at a first mixer, mixing an input signal with an oscillator signal to generate an I component of a received radio signal; at a second mixer, mixing the input signal with a phase shifted oscillator signal to generate a Q component of the received radio signal; where the I and Q components of the received signal have a receive bandwidth; computing an estimate of second order distortion components as a power output of the I and Q components between approximately the receive bandwidth and twice the receive bandwidth of the received radio signals; and adjusting an operational parameter of the radio receiver to reduce the estimated value of second order distortion components. This abstract is not to be considered limiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Tajinder Manku, Christopher Eugene Snyder, Stephen Arnold Devison
  • Publication number: 20150017931
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling envelope tracking in a transmitter with closed loop power control, including up-converting and pre-amplifying a baseband signal to a pre-amplified RF signal, amplifying the pre-amplified RF signal, converting the envelope of the baseband signal into a shaped envelope signal, adjusting the gain of the pre-amplified RF signal, and adjusting the shape of the envelope signal in response to changes in the gain of the pre-amplified RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Stephen Arnold DEVISON, Christopher Eugene SNYDER
  • Patent number: 8886270
    Abstract: A syringe-based whispering gallery mode sensor includes a syringe including an assembly provided its needle, the assembly including (1) an optical carrier having a reflective distal end, and (2) at least one resonator coupled with the optical carrier. This sensor may be provided in a system including a light source, a light detector, and a data analysis component. A method for determining the presence or concentration of a target substance in body fluid may be performed using such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Stephen Arnold, Siyka Shopova, Ying Chen, William Chin, Guyu Liu, Raaj Haresh Rajmangal
  • Patent number: D716140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: MSD Consumer Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong-Kuk Thomas Kim, William Stephen Arnold