Patents Issued in October 24, 2017
-
Patent number: 9797959Abstract: A circuit comprises a battery field-effect transistor (FET) coupled between a battery and an electronic system so that current from the battery flows through the battery FET to the electronic system. A replica FET couples the battery to a current sensing circuit. One of the battery FET and the replica FET comprises a plurality of parallel FET segments having separate control terminals. A logic block provides a plurality of switch control signals based on a system state input. A switching circuit receives the switch control signals and selectively couples the separate control terminals of the FET segments to one of a first reference voltage terminal or a second reference voltage terminal to independently turn each FET segment on or off. The current sensing circuit provides a voltage indicative of the current flowing through the replica FET.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Eric I Mikuteit
-
Patent number: 9797960Abstract: A battery charge management method and device operable to perform that method. The battery charge management method comprises the steps of determining charge delivered to or from a battery based on Coulomb counting and updating an estimated battery state of charge based on the amount of delivered charge and measuring the battery current. Then comparing the updated estimated battery state of charge with a predetermined state of charge value of less than 100%, such that each predetermined state of charge value being associated with an expected battery current for that predetermined state of charge value. The method also includes modifying the updated estimated battery state of charge when the updated estimated state of charge is greater than the predetermined state of charge value and the measured battery current is greater than the expected battery current associated with the predetermined state of charge.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: PowerOasis LimitedInventors: Stephen Barrett, Peter William Dale Bishop, Graham Ronald Johnson
-
Patent number: 9797961Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods that provide a delayed output signal with reduced sampling error are described. Embodiments include a clock circuit that generates a sample clock signal having a predetermined sample clock period. A sampling circuit may generate samples of a received signal during each sample clock period. An interpolation circuit may estimate a value of the received signal at times between the samples of the received signal based on at least a first sample and a second sample of the received signal. The interpolation circuit may estimate a time that the received signal crosses a threshold, and determine a time delta between the first sample and the estimated time that the received signal crosses the threshold. A delay circuit to generate a time delay substantially equal to the time delta is also included. An output signal changes state after the generated time delay.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLCInventors: Christian Feucht, Thomas J. Kovalcik
-
Patent number: 9797962Abstract: A sensor element based on a magneto-thermoelectric effect and realizing method thereof are provided, the sensor element includes a plurality of thermoelectric elements having an angular structure and are located in a magnetic field; the thermoelectric element is made of magnetic material having a thermoelectric effect, and includes a first side, a second side, and an angular part formed by connecting the two sides; the angular part is provided with a heating device; and the temperature in the region where the other end of the first side and the second side are located are less than or equal to the ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITYInventor: Guoqing Di
-
Patent number: 9797963Abstract: Systems and techniques for a detecting a magnetic target that reduce output signal jitter are disclosed. A system includes a magnetic target. The magnetic target has a plurality of regions having juxtaposed edges and opposing ends. Adjacent ones of the plurality of regions have different magnetic polarities. The magnetic target includes a first magnetic strip, having a first magnetic polarity disposed at one end of the regions, and a second magnetic strip having a second magnetic polarity opposite to the first magnetic polarity disposed at a second end of the regions to generate a magnetic bias across at least a portion of the regions. The system includes at least one magnetic field sensing element placed in proximity to the magnetic target and configured to produce an output signal responsive to the magnetic target.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLCInventors: Andreas P. Friedrich, Yannick Vuillermet
-
Patent number: 9797964Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to devices and methods for determining a magnetic field distribution of a magnet along a main surface of said magnet. An example device for determining a magnetic field distribution of a magnet along a main surface of said magnet includes an arrangement of at least two independent magnetic field camera modules being arranged in a fixed relative position with respect to each other, each magnetic field camera module being adapted for measuring a magnetic field distribution to which it is exposed by means of a respective detection surface. The device also includes a means for providing a predetermined relative movement between the main surface and the arrangement to thereby scan the magnetic field distribution of the magnet along the main surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: MAGCAM NVInventor: Koen Vervaeke
-
Patent number: 9797965Abstract: A method and system for measuring Hall effect in a material includes measuring a voltage in two test states, each state alternating the direction and orientation of a current applied across the material or the voltage measured across the material relative to a magnetic field in each state. According to an embodiment, the frequency of measurement at each state differs.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey R. Lindemuth
-
Patent number: 9797966Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic field measurement device, including a detector (4) configured to measure the amplitude of an output signal at a harmonic of an oscillation frequency of an excitation source, said amplitude being proportional to the magnetic field (B) to be measured, characterised in that it comprises an excitation circuit configured to associate with a principal excitation source (B1cos?t) oscillating at a principal oscillation frequency at least one secondary excitation source (B2cos(?/3t+?2)) oscillating at a secondary oscillation frequency that is a fraction of the principal oscillation frequency, said fraction being odd if said harmonic is odd, and even if said harmonic is even.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Matthieu Le Prado, Francois Bertrand, Marie-Constance Corsi, Elisabeth Delevoye, Sophie Morales
-
Patent number: 9797967Abstract: Gradient coils are operated to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) signals encoding a first MRI image over a first region inside a main magnet of the MRI system in which at least a portion of a subject is placed, the first region being located within a volume of uniform magnetic field with inhomogeneity below a defined threshold. An active coil is energized to shift the volume of uniform magnetic field such that a second region inside the main magnet of the MRI system is located within the shifted volume of uniform magnetic field, at least a portion of the second region being located outside of the volume of uniform magnetic field before the volume of uniform magnetic field has been shifted. The gradient coil is operated to acquire MR signals encoding a second MRI image over the second region.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Synaptive Medical (Barbados) Inc.Inventors: Geron André Bindseil, Chad Tyler Harris
-
Patent number: 9797968Abstract: A method of data acquisition at a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The system receives at least a portion of raw data for an image, and detects anomalies in the portion of raw data received. When anomalies are detected, the system can correct those anomalies dynamically, without waiting for a new scan to be ordered. The system can attempt to scan the offending portion of the raw data, either upon detection of the anomaly or at some point during the scan. The system can also correct anomalies using digital correction methods based on expected values. The anomalies can be detected based on variations from thresholds, masks and expected values all of which can be obtained using one of the ongoing scan, previously performed scans and apriori information relating to the type of scan being performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC.Inventors: Cameron Anthony Piron, Alexander Gyles Panther, Chad Tyler Harris, Stephen B. E. McFadyen
-
Patent number: 9797969Abstract: In a method to generate a spatially selective excitation in an imaging region of a magnetic resonance apparatus that precedes an acquisition of magnetic resonance data, in the course of the excitation an excitation trajectory in k-space is traversed, the excitation trajectory having a symmetry relative to the k-space center in at least one direction of k-space in the sense that a first traversed extreme value in this direction corresponds to the negative of the other extreme value traversed in this direction, so the excitation trajectory is shortened in the at least one directions on one side of the zero point between the extreme values, and the shortened excitation trajectory is used for excitation.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Josef Pfeuffer, Rainer Schneider
-
Patent number: 9797970Abstract: Representative methods and systems are disclosed for reducing image distortion or increasing spatial resolution in echo planar magnetic resonance imaging. In representative embodiments, a targeted field of view (FOV) image is divided into segments, with each segment having a predetermined overlap region with an adjacent segment, such as in a phase-encoding direction. Image data is acquired for each segment, sequentially or simultaneously, using a reduced phase-encoding FOV with a 2D radiofrequency (RF) excitation pulse, and rotated and scaled magnetic field gradients. The 2D RF excitation pulse may also be modulated, such as onto a plurality of different carrier frequencies, for simultaneous acquisition of multiple segments in the same imaging plane. Using the spatial response of the 2D RF excitation pulse, the acquired image data for each segment of the plurality of segments is combined to generate a combined magnetic resonance image having the targeted field of view.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Xiaohong Joe Zhou, Yi Sui
-
Patent number: 9797971Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of suppressing noise in an environment of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method comprising estimating a transfer function based on multiple calibration measurements obtained from the environment by at least one primary coil and at least one auxiliary sensor, respectively, estimating noise present in a magnetic resonance signal received by the at least one primary coil based at least in part on the transfer function, and suppressing noise in the magnetic resonance signal using the noise estimate.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Hyperfine Research, Inc.Inventors: Todd Rearick, Gregory L. Charvat, Matthew Scot Rosen, Jonathan M. Rothberg
-
Patent number: 9797972Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate, from three-dimensional medical image data, a first cross-sectional image and a second cross-sectional image intersecting the first cross-sectional image and is configured to change display locations of the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image on a display, in conjunction with a change in an intersecting location of the first and the second cross-sectional images.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nitta, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Masahiro Sekine
-
Patent number: 9797973Abstract: Magnetic resonance examination system comprises displaceable carrier for supporting an object to be examined. The carrier can be moved over a two dimensional area. The magnetic resonance examination system is configured to acquire sets of magnetic resonance signals from the object for various positions of the carrier in the two dimensional area.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Peter Boernert, Jochen Keupp, Peter Koken, Kay Nehrke
-
Patent number: 9797974Abstract: A method for providing an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with nonrigid motion correction of an object is provided. An MRI excitation is applied to the object. A magnetic field read out from the object using a plurality of sensor coils. Spatially localized motion estimates are obtained for each sensor coil of the plurality of sensor coils. The motion estimates are used for each sensor coil to provide motion correction.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Joseph Y. Cheng, John M. Pauly, Michael Lustig, Shreyas S. Vasanawala
-
Patent number: 9797975Abstract: A phantom for an MRI system is provided. The phantom includes a third layer, the third layer including a first structure and a second structure, the first structure including two adjacent wedge-shaped objects in opposite directions which do not generate magnetic resonance signals, the second structure includes a first module group pair, the first module group pair including a first module group and a second module group, the first module group and the second module group each including multiple modules which are identical to each other, aligned with each other and separated from each other by the same distance, and the first module group and the second module group are perpendicular to each other. The phantom for an MRI system can satisfy measurement of multiple image quality indices such as layer thickness and resolution at the same time, which saves a large amount of repetitive work and time.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Hai Ping Yin, Wen Qiang You
-
Patent number: 9797976Abstract: A device includes a first biosensor of a biosensor array; a second biosensor of a biosensor array; a readout circuit electrically connected to the biosensor array; a decoder electrically connected to the biosensor array; a voltage generator electrically connected to the biosensor array; and a decision system electrically connected to the voltage generator and the readout circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Chin-Hua Wen, Jui-Cheng Huang, Yi-Shao Liu, Chun-Wen Cheng, Tung-Tsun Chen
-
Patent number: 9797977Abstract: The present disclosure involves method and apparatus for de-embedding test fixture to extract the electrical behavior of device under test. A calibration board with both “1× open” and “1× short” test structures is fabricated and measured by equipment such as vector network analyzer that produces S parameters. The S parameters of “1× open” and “1× short”, with or without correction factors, are combined to produce the S parameters of equivalent “2× thru” test structure. The S parameters of equivalent “2× thru” are used subsequently to de-embed the test fixture. This present disclosure gives a simpler and more accurate method to create the S parameters of “2× thru” for de-embedding.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: AtaiTec CorporationInventor: Ching-Chao Huang
-
Patent number: 9797978Abstract: The invention is directed to a UAV, system, and method for radio frequency spectral analysis. Accordingly, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a flight body, a flight module, a geolocation module, and a signal detection module is utilized to detect and store signal data associated with various radio signal(s) during flight. The signal data may then be displayed on a processing device to provide a user with a visualization of the signal data parameters in various points of three dimensional space and at particular recorded times.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Inventors: Howard Melamed, Stevan Melamed, Chris Svanberg, Matias Ponce, Michael Horvat
-
Patent number: 9797979Abstract: An RFID tag reading system and method estimate bearings of RFID tags. When the RSSI of a primary and/or secondary RFID receive signal is below a threshold, a primary receive beam is steered in a limited scan to an array of locations distributed around the location at which the RSSI of the primary receive signal is a maximum, and the RSSI of the primary receive signal is recorded at each location. The recorded RSSIs are processed to determine an effective weighted center of distribution of the recorded RSSIs, and the bearing for the tag based on the weighted center of distribution is thus estimated.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLCInventors: Charles B Swope, Benjamin J Bekritsky
-
Patent number: 9797980Abstract: An imaging sensor system, having a view of a target area comprising: a rigid mount unit having at least two imaging sensors disposed within the mount unit, wherein a first imaging and a second imaging sensor each has a focal axis passing through an aperture in the mount unit, wherein the first imaging sensor generates a first image area comprising a first data array of pixels and the second imaging sensor generates a second image area comprising a second data array of pixels, wherein the first and second imaging sensors are offset to have a first image overlap area in the target area, wherein the first sensors image data bisects the second sensors image data in the first image overlap area.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Visual Intelligence LPInventor: Chester L. Smitherman
-
Patent number: 9797981Abstract: A moving-object position/attitude estimation apparatus includes: an image-capturing unit configured to acquire a captured image; a comparative image acquiring unit configured to acquire a comparative image viewed from a predetermined position at a predetermined attitude angle; a likelihood setting unit configured to compare the captured image with the comparative image and to assigns a high attitude angle likelihood to the comparative image and to assigns a high position likelihood to the comparative image; a moving-object position/attitude estimation unit configured to estimate the attitude angle of the moving object based on the attitude angle of the comparative image assigned the high attitude angle likelihood and to estimate the position of the moving object based on the position of the comparative image assigned the high position likelihood.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Yamaguchi, Naoki Kojo
-
Patent number: 9797982Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for sending positional information from transmitters/beacons. In one implementation a transmitter generates a range block including a ranging signal and a hybrid block including positioning data, and sends the range block and hybrid block at different times. A user device may receive signals from a plurality of transmitters and generates position/location information using trilateration and measured altitude information in comparison with transmitter altitude information.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: NextNav, LLCInventors: Andrew Sendonaris, Arun Raghupathy, Norman F. Krasner
-
Patent number: 9797983Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment includes receiving, from a location server, first information about a first plurality of positioning signals expected to be transmitted by a first set of base stations; receiving, from a tile information server, second information about a second plurality of positioning signals expected to be transmitted by a second set of base stations, the second set of base stations including at least one additional base station not included in the first set of base stations; measuring a third plurality of positioning signals received from a combination of a first subset of the first set of base stations and a second subset of the second set of base stations, the third plurality of positioning signals including an additional positioning signal transmitted by the at least one additional base station; and sending measurement results for the third plurality of positioning signals to the location server.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Suresh Kumar Bitra, Ashwin Kumar Donthula
-
Patent number: 9797984Abstract: The relation between realization effort for a positioning system on the one hand and positioning accuracy on the other hand is improved by using, for determining the position of a mobile portable device, two sensors within the device, namely one sensor for detecting the movement of the mobile portable device as well as one sensor for detecting the approximation of the mobile portable device to one or several reference beacons, wherein, from a knowledge of a position of the one or several reference beacons by means of data provided by the sensor detecting the movement, the position of the mobile portable device relative to the one or several reference beacons is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Fraunhofer Portugal ResearchInventor: Dirk Elias
-
Patent number: 9797985Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing at least two determinations of the location of a mobile computing device, with each determined location having been determined without reference to explicit location information manually input by a user of the mobile computing device. At least one first determined location is compared with at least one second determined location, with comparisons being made between location determinations made based on different location determination input. A functionality associated with the mobile computing device is allowed if the first determined location corresponds to at least one of the second determined locations.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Erick Tseng, Yoon Kean Wong, Yael Maguire, Michael John McKenzie Toksvig
-
Patent number: 9797986Abstract: A method for determining the geographical position of at least one equipment unit using a device constrained to move with the equipment unit, the method including a first step of determination by the device, when the latter is fixed and has not been subjected to any movement for a first particular time, of network data including the identifiers of beacons of communication networks situated in the environment of the device and the Received Signal Strength Indication of the signals sent by each beacon, a second step of said device sending the network data to a data processing unit via a communication network if the communication network is available, the determination step and the sending step being repeated after each movement of the device to a new position.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SASInventors: Romain Gassion, Roland Goutay
-
Patent number: 9797987Abstract: A frequency correction for frequency difference of arrival geolocation of transmitted target signals may be provided. A frequency of a target signal may be determined at a first collector based upon a first reference timebase source. A frequency of the target signal may be determined at a second collector based upon a second reference timebase source. An observed frequency of a reference carrier signal based upon the first reference timebase source may be determined at the second collector based upon the second reference timebase source. A relative timebase error between the first collector and the second collector may be calculated based upon a difference between the intended frequency of the reference carrier signal and the observed frequency of the reference carrier signal. A corrected frequency difference for the target signal may be calculated based upon the relative timebase error and a proportional scaling factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Zeta Associates, Inc.Inventors: John M. Holford, James M. Williams, Michael E. Glidewell
-
Patent number: 9797988Abstract: A system comprising a first interrogator device that includes: a first antenna configured to transmit, to a target device, a first radio-frequency (RF) signal having a first center frequency; a second antenna configured to receive, from the target device, a second RF signal having a second center frequency that is a harmonic of the first frequency; and first circuitry configured to obtain, using the first RF signal and the second RF signal, a first mixed RF signal indicative of a first distance between the first interrogator and the target device. The system further comprises at least one processor configured to determine the first distance based, at least in part, on the first mixed RF signal, and determine a location of the target device based, at least in part, on the determined first distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Humatics CorporationInventors: Gregory L. Charvat, David A. Mindell
-
Patent number: 9797989Abstract: A semiconductor module has: an integrated circuit, which includes at least one oscillator for generating a radar signal; a rewiring layer for the external connection of the integrated circuit; and at least two antenna structures integrated into the semiconductor module for transmitting and/or receiving radar signals, at least one of the at least two antenna structures being connected to the integrated circuit, and at least one first one of the antenna structures being embedded in a housing material of the semiconductor module outside a height region of the rewiring layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Thomas Binzer, Delf Mittelstrass
-
Patent number: 9797990Abstract: There is provided an echo display device that is easy to manipulate and allows echoes that appear on an echo screen to be designated easily, quickly, and reliably with a cursor. An information display device includes a display component 10, a track ball, and a controller. The display component 10 displays a radar image in real time based on echo information inputted from a radar antenna. The track ball is manipulated to move a cursor 5 displayed in the radar image. The controller includes a cursor display position determination component, and this cursor display position determination component determines the display position of the cursor 5 in the radar image based on manipulation of the track ball.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yu Morita, Yugo Kubota, Hidetoshi Kaida
-
Patent number: 9797991Abstract: In a FMCW radar device, a transmission unit transmits a transmission signal that has a rising portion in which the frequency successively increases and a falling portion in which the frequency successively decreases. A reception unit receives a reception signal resulting from the transmission signal being reflected by a target and outputs a beat signal based on the transmission signal and the reception signal. A control unit determines whether or not three or more targets that have the same relative speed are present at the same orientation among a plurality of targets extracted from a plurality of peak frequencies in each of the rising portion and the falling portion of the beat signal, and when determined that three or more targets are present, gives notification that oscillation has occurred in a power supply bias circuit that supplies power supply voltage to the transmission unit or the reception unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masanobu Yukumatsu
-
Patent number: 9797992Abstract: In a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar apparatus, a transmitting section transmits a transmission signal and a receiving section outputs a beat signal. During this output period, a frequency-intensity property of a bias power supply voltage supplied from a power supply bias circuit is obtained. On the basis of determining whether or not the obtained frequency-intensity property satisfies a predetermined oscillation condition, it is checked whether or not there occurs oscillation in the power supply bias circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Masanobu Yukumatsu
-
Patent number: 9797993Abstract: A device and a method for monitoring and analysis utilize unintended electromagnetic emissions of electrically powered components, devices or systems. The emissions are received at the antenna and a receiver. A processor processes and measures change or changes in a signature of the unintended electromagnetic emissions. The measurement are analyzed to both record a baseline score for future measurements and to be used in determining status and/or health of the analyzed system or component.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Gerald W. Pauly, Walter J. Keller, III
-
Patent number: 9797994Abstract: An oil well improvement system having an intrusion detection and response subsystem that provides practical capability to defend offshore drilling platform from surface or subsurface terrorist threats/attacks utilizing modified low-cost off-the-shelf equipment and processor programs. The subsystem processes acoustical and/or RF sensor data to determine contact positions, rates, projected future positions, identification, threat analysis and recommends appropriate soft/hard kill counter measures and further provides control of those countermeasures.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Inventor: Joe Spacek
-
Patent number: 9797995Abstract: A mobile ladar platform having a ladar sensor, a positioning system, and a digital processor adapted to perform analysis of a scene in a field of view. The ladar sensor includes a ladar transmitter, a zero range reference circuit, a two-dimensional array of light sensitive detectors positioned at a focal plane of a light collecting and focusing system, and a readout integrated circuit with a plurality of unit cell electrical circuits. The ladar sensor also includes a detector bias circuit and a communications port.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Gilliland, Laurent Heughebaert, Joseph Spagnolia, Brad Short, Roger Stettner
-
Patent number: 9797996Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining the distance from a distance-measuring-device to an object by sending a light-pulse from a light-emitting component toward the object by passing a current pulse through the component. A value based on the current or voltage across the component is used to determine the reference-time T0 when the value exceeds a first threshold-value, and determines first-time T1 when the value is reduced to a second threshold-value THL2. T1 is used to define two time-windows when intensity of reflected light is integrated to provide two values (Q1/Q3 and Q2/Q4) to determine a time of flight for the light-pulse based on the two values (Q1/Q3 and Q2/Q4), the difference between T0 and T1 (T1-T0), and the speed of light, c.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DELPHI INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.Inventor: Markus Heinrich
-
Patent number: 9797997Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnostic system estimates a desired time phase or one cycle period of a moving region (e.g., a heart) that repeats contraction and relaxation cyclically and which can be specified by a presystole, an end systole, a prediastole, an end diastole, and other clinical characteristics for one cycle of the moving region on the basis of the velocity information on multiple positions of the moving region which is obtained for each time phase. More specifically, assuming that, for example, the end systole phase=a time phase in which the myocardial velocity comes to zero or close to zero, the system calculates |myocardial velocity| for each time phase in a predetermined period, and estimates a time phase in which this value comes closest to zero as an end systole phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Yasuhiko Abe
-
Patent number: 9797998Abstract: A method for determining a position of a receiver is provided. The method includes the emission of at least one electromagnetic field by a respective transmitter, an amplitude of the at least one electromagnetic field rotating respectively with respect to the respective transmitter. The method includes the measurement of the at least one electromagnetic field by the receiver and the determination of a differential phase. The method further includes the determination of the position based on the at least one differential phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Ette, Bernhard Holldack
-
Patent number: 9797999Abstract: A display apparatus with a radio frequency (RF) sensor and a user detection method using an RF sensor are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a support frame located in a back area of the display panel and configured to support parts of the display apparatus; and a radio frequency (RF) sensor configured to be arranged in the support frame for performing one of transmitting a radio frequency signal to a front area of the display panel and receiving the radio signal from the front area of the display panel, wherein the radio frequency signal which is transmitted or received passes through the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sung-han Lee, Kun-sok Kang, Byung-seok Soh, Chang-won Son, Sang-on Choi
-
Patent number: 9798000Abstract: Methods and systems to provide location and navigation information to a user within a building. In an embodiment, low power radars may be used to locate and track a user. Moreover, the systems and methods described herein may take advantage of the known layout of a building, or may ascertain the layout using the radar devices. This information may be used to direct a user from a current location to a desired destination. In some contexts, such as stores, radio frequency ID (RFID) tags may be used to identify a particular destination, such as a particular product in a particular aisle in a store. Multiple persons may be tracked as they move about the building, so that the more frequently used paths may be identified for moving from point to point. These identified paths may then be used in constructing a path for a user who needs directions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Joshua Boelter, Paul J. Gwin, Ayeshwarya B. Mahajan, Geoff Y. Schreiber, Mark E. Sprenger
-
Patent number: 9798001Abstract: A radar apparatus is provided to receive a transmission wave reflected by a target object by antennas. The radar apparatus includes a signal analysis unit to analyze reception waves, and to obtain amplitudes and phases of the reception waves, at a frequency with which reception strength shows a peak. The radar apparatus also includes a direction detection unit to detect a direction of the target object based on the phases of the reception waves, and an estimated amplitude and phase output unit to output estimated amplitudes and estimated phases of reception waves to be received, assuming that the target object exists in the detected direction. The radar apparatus further includes a comparison unit to compare the amplitude or phase obtained by the signal analysis unit with that output by the estimated amplitude and phase output unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ichiro Aizawa
-
Patent number: 9798002Abstract: An object detection apparatus mounted in a vehicle, includes a first domain definition unit, a second domain definition unit, and a determination unit. The first domain definition unit defines a first object domain including a first detection point which is indicative of a position of a first object detected by using a vehicle-mounted radar. The second domain definition unit defines a second object domain including a second detection point which is indicative of a position of a second object detected on the basis of an image captured by a vehicle-mounted monocular camera. The determination unit determines whether or not an overlapping domain of the first and second object domains is present, and when it is determined that an overlapping domain of the first and second object domains is present, then determines that the first and second objects are the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Baba
-
Patent number: 9798003Abstract: A distance measuring sensor (10) for a detection and distance determination of objects (18) in a monitoring area, the sensor (10) having a transmitter (12) for transmitting transmission pulses, a receiver (20) for generating a reception signal from transmission pulses remitted from the monitoring area, an A/D converter (38) for digitizing the reception signal, and a control and evaluation unit (28, 30), which is configured to transmit a plurality of transmission pulses via the transmitter (12), to accumulate the respective reception signals generated by the receiver (20) in a histogram (110), and to determine, from the histogram (110), a reception point in time and thus a measurement value for the signal time of flight from the sensor (10) to the object (18), wherein the sensor (10) comprises a noise generator (40) configured to add a noise signal to the reception signal prior to its digitization in the A/D converter (38).Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SICK AGInventors: Markus Hammes, Martin Muncher
-
Patent number: 9798004Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring a distance to an object. An exemplary method includes directing light beams from three or more continuous-wave lasers onto a target, and also frequency shifting the light beams split off from the lasers to generate local oscillator beams. When the reflected sensor beam (reflected off the target) and the local oscillator beams are combined, the method further includes determining optical phases of heterodynes produced by combining the light beams within the reflected sensor beam and the local oscillator beams, and determining synthetic phases by taking the difference between the optical phases of the heterodynes. The method further includes determining synthetic wavelengths based on the differences between the frequencies of the lasers. The method further includes determining a distance to the target based on the synthetic phases and the synthetic wavelengths.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David C. Soreide, Jonathan M. Saint Clair
-
Patent number: 9798005Abstract: In the present disclosure, a structure of a 3-dimensional space measurement device is maximally simplified to be easily carriable by a user to measure a 3-dimensional spatial data. For simplifying the structure, a light transmission unit and a light reception unit are fixed to a support plate, and the support plate is fixed to a rotation unit. Provided are a 3-dimensional space measurement device capable of adjusting a rotation angle of the rotation unit and a tilt angle of the support plate to efficiently measure a distance and space, and a measurement method of a distance and space for making 3-dimensional spatial data.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sungjin Cho, Jeonguk Lee, Gyeongeon Lee, Soowhan Jeoung, Hyerim Kim, Sunghoon Cha, Jejong Lee, Hyunseok Shin
-
Patent number: 9798006Abstract: A quantum photonic imaging device used in an underwater vehicle for stealthy detection of underwater objects includes a photon generating module that generates an entangled pair of photons that includes a signal photon and an ancilla photon, wherein the ancilla photon is retained within the device; a transmitter that transmits the signal photon towards a region of space for detecting an underwater object; a receiver that detects an incoming photon to the device; and a correlation module that distinguishes the signal photon that is reflected back to the receiver due to a presence of the object from environmental noise photons, wherein the distinguishing includes determining an entanglement correlation of the detected photon with the ancilla photon, and wherein a presence of the entanglement correlation between the detected photon and the ancilla photon indicates that the detected photon is the signal photon reflected back from the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Marco Lanzagorta
-
Patent number: 9798007Abstract: A method of operating an obstacle data model construction system of an aircraft is provided. With a vehicle moving through a vehicle obstacle space from a first to a second position, the method includes scanning the vehicle obstacle space at the first and second positions, generating first and second boundary data sets from results of the scanning at the first and second positions, respectively, and deriving first and second shrouded regions from the first and second boundary data sets, respectively. The method further includes identifying a high confidence occupancy region from intersecting portions of the first and second shrouded regions or identifying an occupancy region from a union of the first and second shrouded regions.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Harshad S. Sane, Thomas A. Frewen
-
Patent number: 9798008Abstract: A method of guidance for placing a satellite on station comprises the following steps carried out during a predefined current cycle: A) determining on the ground a law of orientation of the thrust vector, and a history of state variables and of adjoint state variables of the satellite for the transfer from a starting orbit to a target orbit using optimal control theory, B) determining on the ground a law of evolution of the rotation of the satellite about the thrust vector, on the basis of the orientation law and of the history, C) representing according to a predetermined format the evolution of the state variables and adjoint state variables so as to obtain first parameters, D) representing according to a predetermined format a law of evolution of the rotation so as to obtain second parameters, E) concatenating the first and second parameters so as to obtain a guidance plan for the satellite, F) downloading onboard the guidance plan, G) periodically repeating according to a predefined period which is smalleType: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: THALESInventors: Joël Amalric, Thierry Dargent, Christophe Le Bris