Patents by Inventor Xiaofu Ma

Xiaofu Ma 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: 12279190
    Abstract: Technologies directed to respiration monitoring based on noise channel state information (CSI) data are described. A method includes receiving CSI data representing channel properties of a wireless channel used by a first wireless device and a second wireless device located in a geographical region. The method generates a set of CSI samples by sampling the CSI data and removes one or more outlier CSI samples using a sparse outlier process, and removes a cluster of outlier samples using a cluster outlier process. The method determines Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) data for each channel subcarrier index and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value for each channel subcarrier index, and identifies a first number of channel subcarrier indexes having highest SNR values to obtain a subset of FFT data, which represents a breathing spectrum. The method determines a respiratory rate of a user in the geographical region from the subset of the FFT data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Xiaofu Ma, Piyush Tayal, Cong Phuoc Huynh, Xi Chen, Mohammed Rana Basheer, Avinash Joshi
  • Patent number: 11510028
    Abstract: Techniques for performing high-precision presence detection by establishing and monitoring peer-to-peer communication links between user devices residing in a same physical environment. A user device that resides in the environment may establish communication links with multiple other user devices residing in the environment. The user device may monitor the channel properties for those communication links to detect fluctuations in the channel properties caused by a user moving through a signal of the communication links. In examples where the user device detects fluctuations in channel properties for multiple communication links, the user device may determine that the user had moved though signals of the communication links. The user device may determine that, because the user moved through signals of multiple communication links, the user may be in close proximity to the user device, such as in the same room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qinghai Gao, Qiang Hu, Avinash Joshi, Piyush Tayal, QingYun Wei, Xiaofu Ma
  • Patent number: 11070945
    Abstract: Techniques for performing high-precision presence detection by establishing and monitoring peer-to-peer communication links between user devices residing in a same physical environment. A user device that resides in the environment may establish communication links with multiple other user devices residing in the environment. The user device may monitor the channel properties for those communication links to detect fluctuations in the channel properties caused by a user moving through a signal of the communication links. In examples where the user device detects fluctuations in channel properties for multiple communication links, the user device may determine that the user had moved though signals of the communication links. The user device may determine that, because the user moved through signals of multiple communication links, the user may be in close proximity to the user device, such as in the same room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qinghai Gao, Qiang Hu, Avinash Joshi, Piyush Tayal, QingYun Wei, Xiaofu Ma