Patents by Inventor Weisong Wen

Weisong Wen 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: 20250258304
    Abstract: In estimating a position of a vehicle utilizing a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), it is desirable to exclude outliner GNSS measurements due to navigation signals via non-light-of-sight paths from the GNSS to the vehicle, but it leads to a distorted satellite geometry distribution. Complementariness between low-lying visual landmarks and healthy but high-elevation satellite measurements is explored to improve the geometry constraint. Measurements of an inertial measurement unit, low-lying visual landmarks captured by a forward-looking camera onboard the vehicle, and healthy but high-elevation satellite measurements are tightly-coupled integrated via sliding window optimization of system states used in a factor graph. To improve estimation performance, good initial guesses of system states are important.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Li-ta HSU, Weisong WEN
  • Patent number: 12123961
    Abstract: A method for supporting positioning of a vehicle using a satellite positioning system is disclosed. The method includes generating, in real-time, a sliding window map (SWM) based on 3D point clouds from a 3D LiDAR sensor and an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), wherein the SWM provides an environment description for detecting and correcting a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) reception; accumulating the 3D point clouds from previous frames into the SWM for enhancing a field of view (FOV) of the 3D LiDAR sensor; receiving global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements from satellites, by a GNSS receiver; detecting NLOS reception from the GNSS measurements using the SWM; correcting the NLOS reception by NLOS remodeling when a reflection point is not found in the SWM; and estimating a GNSS positioning by a least-squares algorithm. It is the objective to provide a method that mitigates NLOS caused by both static buildings and dynamic objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Li-ta Hsu, Weisong Wen
  • Publication number: 20230033404
    Abstract: A method for supporting positioning of a vehicle using a satellite positioning system is disclosed. The method includes generating, in real-time, a sliding window map (SWM) based on 3D point clouds from a 3D LiDAR sensor and an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), wherein the SWM provides an environment description for detecting and correcting a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) reception; accumulating the 3D point clouds from previous frames into the SWM for enhancing a field of view (FOV) of the 3D LiDAR sensor; receiving global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements from satellites, by a GNSS receiver; detecting NLOS reception from the GNSS measurements using the SWM; correcting the NLOS reception by NLOS remodeling when a reflection point is not found in the SWM; and estimating a GNSS positioning by a least-squares algorithm. It is the objective to provide a method that mitigates NLOS caused by both static buildings and dynamic objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Li-ta Hsu, Weisong Wen