Patents Issued in November 30, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170343617
    Abstract: A system for magnetic detection, includes a magneto-optical defect center material comprising a plurality of magneto-optical defect centers, a radio frequency (RF) excitation source, an optical detector and an optical light source. The RF excitation source is configured to provide RF excitation to the material. The optical detector is configured to receive an optical signal emitted by the material. The optical light source is configured to provide optical light to the material, and includes a readout optical light source and a reset optical light source. The readout optical light source is configured to illuminate light in a first illumination volume of the material. The reset optical light source is configured to illuminate light in a second illumination volume of the material, the second illumination volume being larger than and encompassing the first illumination volume. The reset optical light source provides a higher power light than the readout optical light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Arul Manickam, Peter G. Kaup, Gregory Scott Bruce, Wilbur Lew
  • Publication number: 20170343618
    Abstract: A system for magnetic detection includes a magneto-optical defect center material comprising a plurality of magneto-optical defect centers, an optical light source, an optical detector and a radio frequency (RF) excitation source. The optical light source is configured to provide optical excitation to the magneto-optical defect center material. The optical detector is configured to receive an optical signal emitted by the magneto-optical defect center material, The RF excitation source is configured to provide RF excitation to the magneto-optical defect center material. The RF excitation source includes an RF feed connector, and a plurality of coils, each connected to the RF feed connector, and adjacent the magneto-optical defect center material, the coils each having a spiral shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph W. Hahn, Duc Huynh
  • Publication number: 20170343619
    Abstract: A system for magnetic detection includes a magneto-optical defect center material comprising a plurality of magneto-optical defect centers, a radio frequency (RF) excitation source, an optical detector, and an optical light source. The RF excitation source is configured to provide RF excitation to the material. The optical detector is configured to receive an optical signal emitted by the material. The optical light source includes a readout optical light source configured to provide optical excitation to the material to transition relevant magneto-optical defect center electrons to excited spin states in the material, and a reset optical light source configured to provide optical light to the material to reset spin states in the material to a ground state. The reset optical light source provides a higher power light than the readout optical light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Arul Manickam, Peter G. Kaup, Gregory Scott Bruce, Wilbur Lew
  • Publication number: 20170343620
    Abstract: Systems and methods using a magneto-optical defect center material magnetic sensor system that uses fluorescence intensity to distinguish the ms=±1 states, and to measure the magnetic field based on the energy difference between the ms=+1 state and the ms=?1 state, as manifested by the RF frequencies corresponding to each state in some embodiments. The system may include an optical excitation source, which directs optical excitation to the material. The system may further include an RF excitation source, which provides RF radiation to the material. Light from the material may be directed through a light pipe to an optical detector. Light from the material may be directed through an optical filter to an optical detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph W. Hahn, Wilbur Lew, Nick Luzod, Gregory Scott Bruce
  • Publication number: 20170343621
    Abstract: A magneto-optical defect center magnetometer, such as a diamond nitrogen vacancy (DNV) magnetometer, can include an excitation source, a magneto-optical defect center element, a collection device, a top plate, a bottom plate, and a printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph W. HAHN, Arul MANICKAM, Peter G. KAUP, Gregory Scott BRUCE, Wilbur LEW, Nicholas M. LUZOD, Duc HUYNH
  • Publication number: 20170343622
    Abstract: An integrated fluxgate device has a magnetic core on a control circuit. The magnetic core has a volume and internal structure sufficient to have low magnetic noise and low non-linearity. A stress control structure is disposed proximate to the magnetic core. An excitation winding, a sense winding and a compensation winding are disposed around the magnetic core. An excitation circuit disposed in the control circuit is coupled to the excitation winding, configured to provide current at high frequency to the excitation winding sufficient to generate a saturating magnetic field in the magnetic core during each cycle at the high frequency. An isolation structure is disposed between the magnetic core and the windings, sufficient to enable operation of the excitation winding and the sense winding at the high frequency at low power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Erika Lynn Mazotti, Dok Won Lee, William David French, Byron J R Shulver, Thomas Dyer Bonifield, Ricky Alan Jackson, Neil Gibson
  • Publication number: 20170343623
    Abstract: A magnetic-field-sensitive MOSFET (MagFET) is described herein. In accordance with one embodiment, the MagFET comprises a semiconductor body, a first well region arranged in the semiconductor body and being doped with dopants of a first doping type, and a number of N contact regions arranged in the first well region and doped with dopants of a second doping type, which is complementary to the first doping type, wherein N is equal to or greater than three. A gate electrode covers the first well region between the contact regions. The gate electrode is separated from the first well region by an isolation layer and is configured to control a charge carrier density in the first well region between the contact regions dependent on a voltage applied at the gate electrode. The first well region has a center of symmetry and the contact regions are arranged rotationally symmetric with respect to the center of symmetry with a rotational symmetry of order N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Udo AUSSERLECHNER
  • Publication number: 20170343624
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring an absorption rate when using a primary coil of a magnetic resonance device and a secondary coil inductively coupled to the primary coil and to a monitoring unit, a magnetic resonance device and a computer program product. According to the method a maximum admissible absorption rate is provided, using which a maximum admissible B1 field strength of the secondary coil is determined. Furthermore, an actual B1 field strength of the secondary coil is determined. The absorption rate is monitored using the actual B1 field strength of the secondary coil and the maximum admissible B1 field strength of the secondary coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bielmeier, Gerhard Brinker, Jürgen Nistler, Volker Schnetter
  • Publication number: 20170343625
    Abstract: In one example, an RF coil array includes a first RF coil configured to generate a magnetic field along a first axis, the first RF coil having a first surface, a second RF coil configured to generate a magnetic field along a second axis, orthogonal to the first axis, the second RF coil having a second surface, and a first foldable interconnect coupling the first RF coil to the second RF coil. The first foldable interconnect may be adjusted to couple the first RF coil to the second RF coil with a first amount of overlap and with the first surface and second surface facing a common direction, or couple the first RF coil to the second RF coil with a second amount of overlap, larger than the first amount of overlap, and with the first surface in face to face position with the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Dashen Chu, Scott Allen Lindsay, Dawei Gui, James Hiroshi Akao, Zhu Li
  • Publication number: 20170343626
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry and a display. The processing circuitry acquires information of an RF (radio frequency) coil. The processing circuitry sets a protocol to be applied to imaging using the RF coil before execution of the imaging. When there are a plurality of protocols that can be selected as the protocol applied to the imaging, the display displays at least one protocol narrowed down from the protocols as the protocol that can be applied to the imaging, based on information of the RF coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Sadanori TOMIHA, Miyuki OTA, Keiji TAHIRA, Satoshi IMAI, Mitsuo TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20170343627
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a common mode trap for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus. In one embodiment, a common mode trap for an MRI apparatus comprises: a first conductor and a second conductor counterwound around a length of a central conductor, wherein the first and the second conductors are radially spaced a first distance from the central conductor at first and second ends of the length, and wherein the first and the second conductors are radially spaced a second distance larger than the first distance from the central conductor at a midpoint of the length. In this way, coupling and subsequent detuning of common mode traps provided adjacent to one another may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Victor Taracila, Robert Steven Stormont, Fraser John Laing Robb
  • Publication number: 20170343628
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a common mode trap for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus. In one embodiment, a common mode trap comprises: a first conductor and a second conductor counterwound around a length of a central conductor, the first and the second conductors radially spaced a distance from the central conductor, the first and second conductors fixed to a first side of the central conductor; and a third conductor and a fourth conductor counterwound around the length of the central conductor, the third and fourth conductors are radially spaced the distance from the central conductor, the third and fourth conductors fixed to a second side of the central conductor opposite the first side. In this way, the density of common mode trap conductors in a common mode trap may be increased, thereby increasing the mutual inductance between the common mode trap and the central conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Victor Taracila, Robert Steven Stormont, Fraser John Laing Robb, Louis Jay Vannatta
  • Publication number: 20170343629
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet coil arrangement has a high-temperature superconductor (HTS) coil section (1a,1b,1c) in the form of a solenoid that is wound with an HTS tape conductor, and also has a field-shaping device comprising at least two field-shaping elements (2a,2b,2c). At least one respective field-shaping element is arranged adjoining each of the two axial ends of the HTS coil section, the field-shaping elements being configured in such a way that they reduce the field angle of the magnetic field generated by the magnet coil arrangement with respect to the axial direction in the region of the HTS coil section by at least 1.5°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Patrick WIKUS, Volker NIEMANN, Wolfgang FRANTZ, Michael DUMM, Michael WAGENKNECHT
  • Publication number: 20170343630
    Abstract: A method for supplying electrical power to a gradient amplifier that drives a gradient coil for a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method includes predicting a gradient voltage required to drive the gradient coil for a scan based at least in part on a gradient coil model. The method further includes calculating a voltage set point for a power supply based at least in part on the predicted gradient voltage. The method further includes providing electrical power to the gradient amplifier via the power supply based at least in part on the calculated voltage set point. The gradient coil model is based at least in part on historical data acquired prior to the scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: MARGARET ANN WIZA, MELISSA JEAN FREEMAN, SYED SAAD ASIF ALI, DOUGLAS JOHN LINK, MICHAEL THOMAS ROSE, TANZANIA SAMONE SEWELL
  • Publication number: 20170343631
    Abstract: The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and an apparatus for processing MRI images wherein a plurality of slices of an object is applied with a spatial encoding gradient and a corrected gradient for applying a radial sampling, and radially sampled magnetic resonance signals of the slices are received, and MRI images are generated with the radial sampling applied over multi-bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyun Wook PARK, Dong Chan KIM
  • Publication number: 20170343632
    Abstract: The MRI apparatus includes a main magnet forming a static magnetic field in a bore, and a gradient coil assembly which forms a magnetic field gradient in the static magnetic field and includes a plurality of shim trays arranged therein at a predefined interval and at least one first shim token provided between the shim trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Oh Soo Kwon, Dong Keun Park, Jun Suk Kwak
  • Publication number: 20170343633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing metabolite concentration in a subject using a medical imaging system are provided. The method includes, using a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR] system, acquiring data from a subject during multiple acquisitions using different echo times for the multiple acquisitions to create a chemical shift domain. The method also includes, using the chemical shift domain, identifying metabolites by at least two chemical shifts and generating a report indicating the metabolites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Lin, Susan Waisbren
  • Publication number: 20170343634
    Abstract: A method of predicting the response of a subject to an antipsychotic agent is described. The method includes obtaining functional MRI (fMRI) scan data of the brain of the subject, modifying the scan data using a standardizing algorithm to provide modified scan data, calculating the value of a plurality of striatal connectivity dyads from the modified scan data using an extraction algorithm, calculating a combined score from the values of the striatal connectivity dyads using a combining algorithm; and comparing the combined score to a classifier value to determine if the subject is a responder or a non-responder. Systems for carrying out the method of predicting the response of a subject to an antipsychotic agent are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Todd Lencz, Anil K. Malhotra, Deepak K. Sarpal, Miklos Argyelan, Delbert Robinson
  • Publication number: 20170343635
    Abstract: Some aspects of the present disclosure relate a method for magnetic resonance imaging, which can include acquiring, by applying an imaging pulse sequence, magnetic resonance data associated with a region of interest of a subject. The imaging pulse sequence can include a plurality of RF pulses configured to generate a desired image contrast, and an outer-volume suppression (OVS) module to attenuate the signal outside the region of interest. The method can further include reconstructing, from the acquired magnetic resonance data, a plurality of reduced field of view (rFOV) magnetic resonance images corresponding to the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Salerno, Yang Yang, Li Zhao, Xiao Chen
  • Publication number: 20170343636
    Abstract: In a method for supporting a monitoring of a magnetic resonance examination on a patient using a magnetic resonance apparatus, the magnetic resonance examination of the patient is started and a monitoring processor determines current examination information of the ongoing magnetic resonance examination. The current examination information are compared with predefined values in the monitoring processor, and a warning is generated if there is a variation between the current examination information and the predefined values. The warning is presented at a display in communication with the monitoring processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Maria Kroell
  • Publication number: 20170343637
    Abstract: Time of flight between two or more ultrasonic transceivers is measured using known delays between receiving a trigger and sending an ultrasonic pulse in reply. A receive time is measured from a beginning of a receive phase in which the pulse is detected until receipt of an ultrasonic reply pulse. A trip time is determined from a sum of the receive time and a difference between a known first reference period for a transceiver that sends the trigger pulse and a second know reference period for a second transceiver that sends the reply pulse. The second reference period corresponds to a delay between when the second transceiver receives the initial or subsequent trigger pulse from the first transceiver and when the second transceiver sends the reply pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Richard J. Przybyla, Ryan Young, Mitchell H. Kline, David A. Horsley
  • Publication number: 20170343638
    Abstract: In some examples, a query including signal values providing measures of signals between a first wireless device and corresponding access points is received. Access points are ranked for the query based on sorting the signal values. Similarity values are computed, using the ranking, between the query and respective fingerprints of signal values collected at a plurality of locations in an area, each signal value of the signal values in the fingerprints providing a measure of a signal between at least one wireless device at a location of the plurality of locations and a respective access point of the access points. A location of the first wireless device is determined based on the computed similarity values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Krishnam Raju Jampani
  • Publication number: 20170343639
    Abstract: An apparatus obtains fingerprints that have been collected by at least one mobile device for supporting a positioning of other mobile devices. Each fingerprint comprising results of measurements on radio signals of at least one communication node at a particular location and an indication of the particular location. The apparatus estimates values of parameters defining a radio model for the at least one communication node based on the obtained fingerprints. The apparatus determines a quality of the radio model. The apparatus generates data for a feedback for a user of the at least one mobile device based on the determined quality of the radio model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Pavel IVANOV, Lauri WIROLA, Jari SYRJÄRINNE, Muhammad Irshan KHAN
  • Publication number: 20170343640
    Abstract: An apparatus obtains results of measurements, which are performed by a mobile device on signals of communication nodes. The measurement results for each of the communication nodes include a signal strength related value and an identification of the communication node. The apparatus obtains for one of the communication nodes a stored indication of a location and a stored signal strength related value and determines a difference between measured and stored signal strength related values. The apparatus estimates the position of the mobile device based on the results of measurements and on obtained stored radio model data. In the case that the determined difference for the at least one communication node falls short of a predetermined threshold, the apparatus determines a distance between estimated position and indicated location for the at least one communication node, as an indication of a health state of stored radio model data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Muhammad Irshan KHAN, Pavel IVANOV, Jari SYRJÄRINNE
  • Publication number: 20170343641
    Abstract: A system and method for keeping restricted objects within a confined area that forms part of an institutional site. The confined area having lockable exits, a safe area where the restricted objects are designated to stay, a buffer area adjacent to the first area, and a lock area situated between the buffer area and the lockable exits. The system detects whether the restricted object is in the buffer area or in the lock area and checks whether the restricted object is authorized to leave the safe area. Upon recognizing that the restricted object is in the buffer area and is not authorized to leave the safe area, the system sends a message to a tag of a staff member, instructing to move the restricted object back to the safe area; upon recognizing that the restricted object is in the lock area and is not authorized to leave the safe area, the system sends a locking signal to lockable exits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Mordechai TEICHER
  • Publication number: 20170343642
    Abstract: Neighbor cell hearability can be improved by including an additional reference signal that can be detected at a low sensitivity and a low signal-to-noise ratio, by introducing non-unity frequency reuse for the signals used for a time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement, e.g., orthogonality of signals transmitted from the serving cell sites and the various neighbor cell sites. The new reference signal, called the TDOA-RS, is proposed to improve the hearability of neighbor cells in a cellular network that deploys 3GPP EUTRAN (LTE) system, and the TDOA-RS can be transmitted in any resource blocks (RB) for PDSCH and/or MBSFN subframe, regardless of whether the latter is on a carrier supporting both PMCH and PDSCH or not. Besides the additional TDOA-RS reference signal, an additional synchronization signal (TDOA-sync) may also be included to improve the hearability of neighbor cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Lai King Tee, Geng Wu, Jun Li, Yuqiang Tang, Neng Wang, Hua Xu, Jianglei Ma
  • Publication number: 20170343643
    Abstract: A method of localising portable apparatus (200) obtains: a stored experience data set comprising a set of connected nodes; captured location representation data provided by at least one sensor associated with the portable apparatus, and a current pose estimate of the portable apparatus within the environment. The pose estimate is used to select a candidate set of the nodes that contain a potential match for the captured location representation data. The pose estimate is used to obtain a set of paths from path memory data, each said path comprising a set of said nodes previously traversed in the environment under similar environmental/visual conditions. The set of paths is used to refine the candidate set. The captured location representation data and the refined candidate set of nodes is compared in order to identify a current pose of the portable apparatus within the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: WINSTON SAMUEL CHURCHILL, PAUL MICHAEL NEWMAN, CHRISTOPHER JAMES LINEGAR
  • Publication number: 20170343644
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting an acoustic event of interest in a space. In the method acoustic signal data is obtained from sensors and at least some candidate impulses are determined. The candidate impulses are mapped to a representation on a basis of an origin of the candidate impulse in question and it is determined, from the generated representation, at least one indication quantity representing a likelihood of an acoustic event of interest taking place in the specified positions in space and time. Finally, the at least one indication quantity is compared to a predetermined threshold and an indication is generated if the at least indication quantity meets the predetermined threshold. Also disclosed is a computing unit and a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jussi SALMI, Juha TOIVANEN
  • Publication number: 20170343645
    Abstract: A system for bistatic radar target detection employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a ramjet providing supersonic cruise of the UAV. Deployable antenna arms support a passive radar receiver for bistatic reception of reflected radar pulses. The UAV operates with a UAV flight profile in airspace beyond a radar range limit. The deployable antenna arms have a first retracted position for supersonic cruise and are adapted for deployment to a second extended position acting as an airbrake and providing boresight alignment of the radar receiver. A mothership aircraft has a radar transmitter for transmitting radar pulses and operates with an aircraft flight profile outside the radar range limit. A communications data link operably interconnects the UAV and the tactical mothership aircraft, transmitting data produced by the bistatic reception of reflected radar pulses in the UAV radar antenna to the mothership aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Inyoung Daniel Kim, Ryan S. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20170343646
    Abstract: A method for operating a radar system of a motor vehicle includes receiving a reception signal, deriving the reception signal from time, ascertaining parameters of an interference signal from the derived reception signal, reconstructing the interference signal from the parameters, and eliminating the interference signal from the reception signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Jonathan Bechter
  • Publication number: 20170343647
    Abstract: A method (100; 200) for digital signal processing (S(t)) of a pulse and scanning radar during an observation of a coastal zone in land/sea detection mode, the signal being sampled according to a two-dimensional temporal map, a distance dimension (d) and a recurrence dimension (rec), comprising: selecting a digital terrain model file (MNT) of the observed coastal zone; transforming (110; 210) the temporal map and/or the digital terrain model file to obtain a transformed temporal map and/or a transformed digital terrain model file the data of which are expressed in a common reference frame; constructing (120) a mask (MT; MF) from the transformed digital terrain model file; and applying (130) the mask to the samples (E(d, rec); E(d, ?f)) of the map associated with the transformed temporal map, in such a way as to obtain filtered samples (Ef(d, rec); Ef(d, ?f)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Vincent Corretja, Gilles Guerrini, Richard Montigny, David Thierry Sfez
  • Publication number: 20170343648
    Abstract: A method for operating a radar system includes increasing a frequency of a radar signal during a first time interval and transmitting the radar signal from a first transmit antenna during the first time interval. Moreover, the method includes decreasing the frequency of the radar signal during a second time interval and transmitting the radar signal from a second transmit antenna during the second time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Saverio Trotta, Reinhard Wolfgang Jungmaier, Dennis Noppeney
  • Publication number: 20170343649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting a screening of a sensor device (4) of a motor vehicle (1) by an object (8), in which at least one echo signal, captured by the sensor device (4), that characterizes a spacing between the sensor device (4) and the object (8) is received (S1) by means of a computing device (3), a capture region (E) for the sensor device (4) is determined, and on the basis of the at least one received echo signal it is checked whether the capture region (E) of the sensor device (4) is being screened by the object (8), at least in some regions, wherein the at least one echo signal is assigned by means of the computing device (3) to a discrete spacing value (B1, B2, B3) from a plurality of discrete spacing values (B1, B2, B3), for each of the discrete spacing values (B1, B2, B3) a power value (P) is determined (S2) on the basis of the echo signal, and on the basis of the power values (P) a decision is made by means of a classifier as to whether at least a predetermined proportion of
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Suhre, Youssef-Aziz Ghaly, Urs Luebbert
  • Publication number: 20170343650
    Abstract: A radar apparatus mounted on a moving body includes a signal transceiver that receives one or more radar signals reflected by one or more second reflection points of one or more targets located in a scan range with a plurality of antennas, detection circuitry that detects an azimuth angle of the one or more second reflection points of the one or more targets on the basis of a correspondence between a phase difference among the plurality of antennas and an azimuth angle and a phase difference observed in the scan range among the plurality of antennas, calculation circuitry that selects the one or more second reflection points located in a second range that differs from a first range including a central axis on which the phase difference among the antennas is zero and calculates a second azimuth angle error, and correction circuitry that corrects the correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: MASAKI KANEMARU, HIROSHI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170343651
    Abstract: A traffic radar system (TRS) utilizing an automated test process which aids the operator in quickly conducting comprehensive system tuning fork tests that includes front and rear antennas and stationary, moving opposite, and moving same-lane operations. The automated process has the ability to select the proper radar antenna and proper mode of operation for each step of the test. The process will measure the input fork signals and report if the signals are within the specified tolerance. Optionally, the process can be set to not allow the radar system to enter the normal operating mode if the tuning fork tests have not been successfully completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Kustom Signals, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice E. SHELTON, Michael J. BIETSCH
  • Publication number: 20170343652
    Abstract: A LiDAR system and method include a signal generator generating an output signal having a variable frequency. A modulation circuit receives the output signal from the signal generator and applies the output signal from the signal generator to an optical signal to generate an envelope-modulated optical signal having a frequency-modulated (FM) modulation envelope. Optical transmission elements transmit the envelope-modulated optical signal into a region. Optical receiving elements receive reflected optical signals from the region. Receive signal processing circuitry receives the reflected optical signals and uses quadrature detection to process the reflected optical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard de Mersseman, Kenneth V. Puglia
  • Publication number: 20170343653
    Abstract: Improved flash light detection and ranging (also referred to herein as “flash LIDAR”) systems and methods for determining the distance to a target object disposed in a field-of-view. A flash LIDAR system can include an array of illuminators, an array of light detectors, and a signal processor/controller, as well as have a field-of-view in which a target object may be disposed. The flash LIDAR system can effectively divide the field-of-view into a plurality of segments, and each illuminator in the illuminator array can be made to correspond to a specific segment of the field-of-view. The flash LIDAR system can also effectively divide the light detector array into a plurality of subsets of light detectors. Like the respective illuminators in the illuminator array, each subset of light detectors in the light detector array can be made to correspond to a specific segment of the field-of-view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Harvey Weinberg
  • Publication number: 20170343654
    Abstract: A vehicle sensor calibration system can detect an SDV on a turntable surrounded by a plurality of fiducial targets, and rotate the turntable using a control mechanism to provide the sensor system of the SDV with a sensor view of the plurality of fiducial targets. The vehicle sensor calibration system can receive, over a communication link with the SDV, a data log corresponding to the sensor view from the sensor system of the SDV recorded as the SDV rotates on the turntable. Thereafter, the vehicle sensor calibration system can analyze the sensor data to determine a set of calibration parameters to calibrate the sensor system of the SDV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jean-Sebastien Valois, David McAllister Bradley, Adam Charles Watson, Peter Anthony Melick, Andrew Gilbert Miller
  • Publication number: 20170343655
    Abstract: A system and method from improving the image quality achievable with an ultrasound transducer by using a composite aperture for receiving ultrasound echoes. By using two receive cycles per vector, twice as many transducers may be used for receiving ultrasound imaging data than there are physical channels available in the ultrasound probe. An ultrasound probe utilizing a composite aperture can achieve high image quality from a system have reduced power, size, cost and complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: ROMAN SOLEK, PATRICE RICHARD, ALBERT LEE
  • Publication number: 20170343656
    Abstract: 1st and 2nd pulsed waves (103, 104) with 1st and 2nd center frequencies are transmitted along 1st and 2nd transmit beams so that the 1st and 2nd pulsed waves overlap at least in an overlap region (Z) to produce nonlinear interaction scattering sources in said region. The scattered signal components from at least the nonlinear interaction scattering sources are picked up by a receiver (102) and processed to suppress other components than said nonlinear interaction scattered signal components, to provide nonlinear interaction measurement or image signals. At least a receive beam is scanned in an azimuth or combined azimuth and elevation direction to produce 2D or 3D images of said nonlinear interaction scattering sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Bjørn ANGELSEN
  • Publication number: 20170343657
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes a casing, a first transmitting unit, a second transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The first transmitting unit is used for transmitting a first push beam and the first push beam has a first transmitting frequency. The second transmitting unit is used for transmitting a second push beam and the second push beam has a second transmitting frequency. The receiving unit has a receiving frequency and is used for selectively receiving a reflective wave of the first push beam and the second push beam, wherein the receiving frequency is covered with the first transmitting frequency and the second transmitting frequency. The receiving unit, the first transmitting unit and the second transmitting unit are disposed in the casing side by side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Jian-Hung Liu
  • Publication number: 20170343658
    Abstract: In order to detect movements of objects and/or living beings in a radio range, which enables easily with a minimum of hardware complexity an automated movement detection based on a Single-Sensor, it is proposed to: Collect as input data for the movement detection based on received radio signals of an intended or unintended communication between a transmitting radio terminal being mobile or fixed and a receiving local fixed radio device in the radio range a set of “Channel State Information”-values, determine a change in the received radio signals, which are derived from the facts that the movement influences the transmitted radio signal in the radio range based on the collected CSI-values by the indication of a statistical parameter value, and assess on the basis of the statistical parameter value a “chaos index” value until the “chaos index” value in accordance with a threshold check provides a reliable statement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Alejandro Ramirez, Corina Kim Schindhelm, Thorsten Ziercke
  • Publication number: 20170343659
    Abstract: A parking space status sensing system is used for detecting a state of a parking space. A parking space status sensing system includes a first antenna array transmitting a first signal, a second antenna array receiving a second signal feedback reflected from an object, a radio-frequency transceiver receiving the second signal and performing down-conversion and demodulation on the second signal with receiving a local signal modulated from a triangularly modulated signal by the radio-frequency transceiver, to generate a first beat frequency signal. An analog-distance-signal-integral information and an analog-speed-signal-integral information of the object are obtained from the first beat frequency signal by related analog signal processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Chi-Ho CHANG, Meng-Xi WU, Houng-Ti CHIANG, Guo-Zhong LU, Chao-Fu CHIANG, Jing-Chung XU, Sen WANG
  • Publication number: 20170343660
    Abstract: A ranging method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending a ranging signal to a measured system, where the measured system includes at least one reflection point (S110); receiving a first spectrum signal obtained after the ranging signal is reflected by the at least one reflection point (S120); determining a second spectrum signal according to the first spectrum signal, where the second spectrum signal includes the first spectrum signal, and a spectral width of the second spectrum signal is greater than a spectral width of the first spectrum signal (S130); and estimating a distance of the at least one reflection point according to the second spectrum signal (S140). According to the ranging method and apparatus, a distance of a reflection point in a measured system can be determined in a relatively accurate manner, so as to improve ranging accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Yan Wang
  • Publication number: 20170343661
    Abstract: A pulse radar includes pulse generation circuitry that generates a transmission pulse signal, radio frequency transmission circuitry that transmits a radio frequency signal obtained by performing a frequency conversion on the transmission pulse signal, radio frequency reception circuitry that converts a reflected-wave signal to a reception pulse signal, the reflected-wave signal being a part of the radio frequency signal reflected back from an object to be measured and received via a reception antenna, signal processing circuitry that calculates a distance between the object and the pulse radar, detection circuitry that detects a main pulse, and correction filter coefficient calculation circuitry that calculates an amount of delay and a phase difference of the one or more error pulses with reference to the main pulse to update a parameter of the correction filter circuitry. The correction filter circuitry updates a filter characteristic using the updated parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: TADASHI MORITA, HIROSHI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170343662
    Abstract: Methods and systems for cancelling continuous wave interference in radar systems include defining an integration time period, dividing the integration time period into sub-periods during which the radar sensor system transmits a radar signal integrating a detected signal during both sub-periods to generate sub-period integrated values, wherein integration in the sub-periods is triggered at points of symmetrical opposite polarities of a down converted interferer signal having a non-integer number of cycles in each sub-period, and adding tire respective sub-period integrated values to cancel interference residue of opposite polarity in the respective sub-periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Boutin, Xueru Ding
  • Publication number: 20170343663
    Abstract: A sensor device includes a radio wave sensor and a signal processor. The signal processor includes an identifier and a noise remover configured to remove, from a second sensor signal, at least one frequency component determined as a noise component by the identifier. The identifier compares a signal intensity of each of the frequency components with one or more signal intensities of other frequency components. When a signal intensity of a first frequency component is greater than signal intensities of one or more second frequency components located in the vicinity of the first frequency component by an extent exceeding a threshold range, the identifier determines the first frequency component as the noise component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Tatsuo MASUDA, Tadashi MURAKAMI, Shigeo GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20170343664
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for detecting airborne objects comprising a kill vehicle bus having a radar sensor. The radar sensor may be an interferometric sensor comprising a plurality of transmit-receive arrays. Each of the transmit-receive arrays may be adapted to be stowed in a stowed position in or on the kill vehicle bus, and may be adapted to be expandable from the stowed position to an operable position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: JESS GRANONE, JAMES KIRKLAND, ROBERT DeSILVA
  • Publication number: 20170343665
    Abstract: A system performs operations including receiving pairs of sensor signals indicative of imaging of an environment, each pair of sensor signals including (i) a first sensor signal received from a first sensor and including first spatial coordinates and a first signal characteristic and (ii) a second sensor signal including second spatial coordinates and a second signal characteristic. The operations include identifying valid pairs of sensor signals, including determining that an address including the first coordinates of the first sensor signal of a given pair and the second coordinates of the second sensor signal of the given pair corresponds to an admissible address in a set of admissible addresses stored in a data storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jefferson M. Willey, Richard E. Pavek
  • Publication number: 20170343666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detector device for detection of unauthorised objects or substances, comprising a support base (110) designed to receive at least one foot covered by its shoe, of an individual to be controlled, characterised in that it comprises in combination microwave sender/receiver means (140), measuring means (150) of the width of an element inserted in between the microwave sender/receiver means (140), analysis means of at least one parameter of the transmission time between the microwave sender/receiver means (140) and/or the amplitude of the signal transmitted between the microwave sender/receiver means (140), and standardisation means of the abovementioned analysis relative to a size unit of standard width obtained on the basis of the width-measuring means (150).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Alessandro MANNESCHI