Patents Issued in September 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10416273Abstract: Systems (100) and methods for determining a location of a tag (310). The methods involve: receiving, at each detector of a plurality of detectors (202-216, 306, 308), a device transmission periodically transmitted from the tag; determining, by the detectors, Received Signal Strength Indictors (“RSSIs”) for the device transmission received thereat; determining, by a computing device (218), a probable location of the tag within the passage, first demarcated area or second demarcated area using the RSSIs and relationships between the RSSIs; determining a first likelihood value indicating the likelihood that the probable location is correct; and determining an estimated location of the tag within the passage, first demarcated area or second demarcated area based on the probable location when the first likelihood value meets a first criteria.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLCInventors: Jorge F. Alicot, Paul B. Rasband
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Patent number: 10416274Abstract: A vehicle or other mobile communication entity (102) locates objects using received (typically radio frequency) signals (104, 106). These received signals included multi-path versions of the transmitted signals (104). The received signals may include packets having location information of the transmission source. The receiving vehicle may track, or know, its own position. The receiving entity may determine properties for a multi-path version of the signal (208, 210). These properties may include a delay, a Doppler and an angle of reception (122, 124) for one or more multi-path versions of the received signal. The receiving entity may also measure an imbalance (504) induced between a pair (or more) of antenna elements (302) for a particular multi-path version of the signal received. This imbalance may be dependent on the angle of arrival of the particular signal being received.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Cohda WirelessInventors: Paul D. Alexander, John L. Buetefuer, Alexander J. Grant, Malik Khan
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Patent number: 10416275Abstract: A method and software product display errors of a tracking system that utilizes a plurality of receivers positioned around a tracking area to receive pings periodically transmitted by a tracking tag within the tracking area. For each locate received from the tracking system, a symbol indicative of the locate is plotted on a display graphically depicting the tracking area. A vector connecting each pair of chronologically consecutive symbols is plotted on the display, the vector visually indicating an error within the locates that would otherwise not be visible on the display. Another method concurrently displays predicted sensitivity for each of at least two receivers of a tracking system that locates tracking tags within a tracking area, the receivers being positioned within a surrounding area of the tracking area. A graphical representation of the surrounding area, the tracking area, and receiver sensitivities indicate the predicted receiver coverage of the tracking area.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ISOLYNX, LLCInventors: Douglas J. DeAngelis, Edward G. Evansen, Gerard M. Reilly, Brian D. Rhodes, Joseph M. Gaudreau, Kirk M. Sigel
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Patent number: 10416276Abstract: An RF position tracking system for wirelessly tracking the three-dimensional position of a tracked object. The tracked object has at least one mobile antenna and at least one inertial sensor. The system uses a plurality of base antennas which communicate with the mobile antenna using radio signals. The tracked object also incorporates the inertial sensor to improve position stability by allowing the system to compare position data from radio signals to data provided by the inertial sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: POSITION IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Edward L. Hill, Mark Schneider
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Patent number: 10416277Abstract: A configuration is provided, including a determination processor 5 that determines, using the values TDOA11,i and TDOA22,j calculated by an autocorrelation processor 4, whether the values TDOA12,k calculated by a cross-correlation processor 3 are time differences of arrival resulting from direct waves emitted from a radio source, and a positioning processor 6 that calculates the location of the radio source, using the values TDOA12,k that are determined by the determination processor 5 as being time differences of arrival resulting from direct waves and selected from among the values TDOA12,k calculated by the cross-correlation processor 3.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeshi Amishima, Toshio Wakayama
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Patent number: 10416278Abstract: Systems and methods for determining an accurate location of a signal's source of transmission. The methods involve: demodulating a detected carrier signal modulated with a Pseudo Noise (“PN”) code sequence to obtain an original information-bearing signal therefrom; computing time delay offsets using correlations of PN code windows for each symbol of the original information-bearing signal; determining a high accuracy Time Of Arrival (“TOA”) of the detected carrier signal using the time delay offsets; and using the high accuracy TOA to determine an accurate location of the original information-bearing signal's source of transmission.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Concentric Real Time, LLCInventors: Reese S. Bovard, Eric J. Jensen
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Patent number: 10416279Abstract: A method for determining a location of a client device in a wireless network including the client device and at least three network devices, each of the three network devices having a known location comprises a pairwise exchanges of messages between at least three different pairs of network devices of said at least three network devices. In the pairwise exchange messages, wherein in a pairwise message exchange time difference information of the time difference between reception of a message and subsequent transmission of a message is included. This time difference information is used in the determination of the location of the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Handte, Daniel Schneider, Ben Eitel
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Patent number: 10416280Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accurately tracking a package by calculating time with a GRL Device. The GRL Device may include a Miniature Atomic Clock along with other components that can receive process and communicate information to enable locating, identifying, and tracking physical Assets and data contained within the Assets. Methods and apparatus may deploy a Global Resource Locating (GRL) device adhered to or inserted into packaging for an Asset.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: William D. Meadow
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Patent number: 10416281Abstract: Regional positioning system using timed pulses. In an embodiment, a plurality of beacon devices are selected by a processor of a target device. For each beacon device, a connection to the beacon device is established, a first pulse is transmitted to the beacon device, a second pulse is received from the beacon device, a flight duration, including both a time of flight of the first pulse and a time of flight of the second pulse, is timed, and a distance to the beacon device is calculated based on the flight duration. A location of the target device is then computed based on the calculated distances for the selected beacon devices and the locations of the beacon devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Mark Hopperton
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Patent number: 10416282Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for radar signal detection, the method comprising: scanning a radio channel by a scanning filter in a first frequency subband to provide an incoming signal; detecting a potential radar signal in the incoming signal based on prior knowledge of a structure of the radar signal; and if the potential radar signal is detected, keeping the scanning filter in the first frequency subband; if no potential radar signal is detected, adjusting the scanning filter to a second frequency subband.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Patent number: 10416283Abstract: A polarimetric transceiver front-end includes two receive paths configured to receive signals from an antenna, each receive path corresponding to a respective polarization. Each front-end includes a variable amplifier and a variable phase shifter; a first transmit path configured to send signals to the antenna, where the transmit path is connected to the variable phase shifter of one of the two receive paths and includes a variable amplifier; and a transmit/receive switch configured to select between the first transmit path and the two receive paths for signals, where the transmit/receive switch includes a quarter-wavelength transmission line that adds a high impedance to the transmit path when the transmit/receive switch is in a receiving state.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Herschel A. Ainspan, Mark Ferriss, Arun S. Natarajan, Benjamin D. Parker, Jean-Oliver Plouchart, Scott K. Reynolds, Mihai A. Sanduleanu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
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Patent number: 10416284Abstract: An example relates to a method for processing radar signals, wherein said radar signals comprise digitized data received by at least one radar antenna, the method comprising (i) determining FFT results based on the digitized data received; and (ii) storing a first group of the FFT results without a second group of the FFT results.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: David Addison, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Andre Roger, Romain Ygnace
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Patent number: 10416285Abstract: The object detection apparatus is provided with a signal processing unit and an object detection unit. The signal processing unit performs a frequency analysis of a beat signal obtained by transmitting and receiving continuous waves and estimates an incoming direction of reception waves, the object detection unit executes, based on a processing result of the signal processing unit, at least an extracting process of an object candidate, a tracking process for an object and the object candidate, and an object recognition process that recognizes the object candidate to be the object. The object detection unit is characterized in that the unit executes, individually for each type of object to be detected, the extracting process, the tracking process and the object recognition process, and changes content of processes depending on a feature of the object to be detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Koji Shimizu
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Patent number: 10416286Abstract: The present invention is a signal processing method to significantly improve the detection and identification of source emissions. More particularly, the present invention offers a processing method to reduce the false alarm rate of systems which remotely detect and identify the presence of electronic devices through an analysis of a received spectrum the devices' unintended emissions. The invention identifies candidate emission elements and determines their validity based on a frequency and phase association with other emissions present in the received spectrum. The invention compares the measured phase and frequency data of the emissions with a software solution of the theoretically or empirically derived closed-form expression which governs the phase and frequency distribution of the emissions within the source. Verification of this relationship serves to dramatically increase the confidence of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: NOKOMIS, INCInventors: Stephen Dorn Freeman, Walter John Keller, III
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Patent number: 10416287Abstract: A laser device includes a transmitter that emits a light, a first reflector that pivotally reflects the light by a shaft, a light receiver provided apart from the transmitter in a first direction parallel to the shaft, a guide part that receives the light from the first reflector and changes a direction of the light in the first direction, and a second reflector that reflects a returning light from an object and pivots in sync with the first reflector.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.Inventor: Yuichiro Masuda
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Patent number: 10416288Abstract: An integrated optical system includes a frequency tunable optical source. A reference path is coupled to the frequency tunable source. The integrated optical system also includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprising a coherent optical receiver that is optically coupled to the reference path. An optical phased array is optically coupled to the frequency tunable source and is positioned to couple light to and from a sample. The integrated optical system is configured such that when the frequency tunable optical source is tuned in optical frequency, the coherent optical receiver produces electrical signals having optical information about the sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Eric Swanson
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Patent number: 10416289Abstract: The invention describes an illumination device (100) for illuminating a three dimensional arrangement (250) in an infrared wavelength spectrum. The illumination device (100) comprises at least a first group of laser devices (110) comprising at least one laser device (105) and at least a second group of laser devices (120) comprising at least one laser device (105). The first and the second group of laser devices (110, 120) are adapted to be operated independent with respect to each other. The first group of laser devices (110) is adapted to emit laser light with a first emission characteristic and the second group of laser devices (120) is adapted to emit laser light with a second emission characteristic different from the first emission characteristic. The invention further describes a distance detection device (150) and a camera system (300) comprising such an illumination device (100).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: PHILIPS PHOTONICS GMBHInventors: Joachim Wilhelm Hellmig, Pieter Hoeven, Robert Van Der Kloet, Holger Moench
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Patent number: 10416290Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that facilitate light detection and ranging operations. An example transmit block includes at least one substrate with a plurality of angled facets. The plurality of angled facets provides a corresponding plurality of elevation angles. A set of angle differences between adjacent elevation angles includes at least two different angle difference values. A plurality of light-emitter devices is configured to emit light into an environment along the plurality of elevation angles toward respective target locations so as to provide a desired resolution and/or a respective elevation angle. The present disclosure also relates to adjusting shot power and a shot schedule based on the desired resolution and/or a respective elevation angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Benjamin Ingram, Pierre-Yves Droz, Luke Wachter, Scott McCloskey, Blaise Gassend, Gaetan Pennecot
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Patent number: 10416291Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device includes a light source unit that emits distance measurement light, a projection light optical system that causes the distance measurement light, emitted by the light source unit, to be emitted along a distance measurement light axis, a light receiving optical unit that receives the reflected distance measurement light, a light receiving and splitting unit that splits the reflected distance measurement light that has transmitted through the light receiving optical unit into first reflected split light and second reflected split light, attenuates intensity of the second reflected split light to be lower than intensity of the first reflected split light, and converts the first reflected split light and the second reflected split light into electrical signals, and angle detection units that detect a light emitting direction of the distance measurement light.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Morita, Ken'ichiro Yoshino, Yasushi Tanaka
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Patent number: 10416292Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: VEONEER US, INC.Inventors: Bernard de Mersseman, Kenneth V. Puglia
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Patent number: 10416293Abstract: A histogramming readout circuit is described. The readout circuit comprises a time to digital converter (TDC) configured to continually report time-stamps defining an arrival time of a laser clock and a signal output from a photosensor. Memory is provided for 10 storing TDC events. A programmable processor is configured to implement a state machine. The state machine being operable to save a time-stamp when a TDC event is detected; determine the time of flight of each of the photons detected by the photosensor; use each calculated time of flight to address a memory location; build up a histogram of the TDC data values using the memory locations as time-bins; and maintain a pointer to a maximum memory location where the highest number of TDC event resides. A calculator is operable to read the value of the maximum memory location and one or more adjacent time-bins either side for processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SENSL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.Inventors: Steven John Buckley, John Carlton Jackson
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Patent number: 10416294Abstract: A ranging device includes an array of photon detection devices that receive an optical signal reflected by an object in an image scene and first and second logic devices to respectively combine the outputs of first and second pluralities of the photon detection devices. First and second counter circuits are respectively coupled an output of the first and second logic devices and generate first and second count values respectively by counting the photon detection events generated by the first and second pluralities of photon detection devices. A range estimation circuit estimates the range of the object by estimating the timing of one or more pulses of said optical signal based on the first and second count values.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited, STMicroelectronics (Genoble 2) SASInventors: Pascal Mellot, Stuart McLeod, Marc Drader
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Patent number: 10416295Abstract: A digital processing technique for measuring the time of arrival of a digitized electronic signal pulse for in-line implementation in a field programmable gate array or digital signal processor. For each detected pulse, an interpolation method is used to estimate its maximum M, M is multiplied by a fraction f, and a second interpolation method is used to estimate the time when the pulse reaches the value f·M, which is then taken as the pulse's time of arrival. Various interpolation methods may be used. A particularly accurate method employs convolution of the pulse data by a kernel that is the product of the sinc function and a Gaussian. Detector physics limited time resolutions of 2-5% of the sampling interval are demonstrated. Estimating M is useful in its own right for determining pulse amplitudes, for example as a measure of the energies of photons absorbed in a detector.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: XIA LLCInventor: William K. Warburton
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Patent number: 10416296Abstract: A three-dimensional image 3DI system includes a modulator configured to generate a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal having a predetermined frequency difference, an illumination source configured to generate a light signal modulated by the first modulation signal, and a sensor core including a pixel array modulated by the second modulation signal. At least one pixel of the pixel array is configured to receive a reflected modulated light signal and to demodulate the reflected modulated light signal using the second modulation signal during an image acquisition to generate a measurement signal. The at least one pixel is configured to generate a plurality of measurement signals based on a plurality of image acquisitions taken at different sample times. A controller is configured to receive the plurality of measurement signals, and calibrate the at least one pixel of the pixel array based on the plurality of measurement signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Thomas Thurner
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Patent number: 10416297Abstract: In one aspect the invention provides a time of flight camera system which includes a time of flight transmitter arranged to transmit modulated radiation at a target, and a phase adjustment element configured to adjust the phase of a source modulation signal used to modulate the radiation transmitted at the target. This phase adjustment element provides a set of phase separated output signals, each output signal provided having one of a set phase offsets values applied, where at least one of these phase offset values is the cancellation phase value of another member of the set of phase offset values. The camera system also includes an image sensor modulated with the source modulation signal and configured to measure radiation reflected from a target, and a processor arranged to receive the image sensor measurements and being programmed to resolve range information from the measurements received by the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: WalkatoLink LimitedInventors: Adrian Andrew Dorrington, Lee Vincent Streeter
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Patent number: 10416298Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to ultrasound device circuitry as may form part of a single substrate ultrasound device having integrated ultrasonic transducers. The ultrasound device circuitry may facilitate the generation of ultrasound waveforms in a manner that is power- and data-efficient.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Butterfly Network, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Tyler S. Ralston, Nevada J. Sanchez, Andrew J. Casper
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Patent number: 10416299Abstract: A MIMO FMCW radar sensor and a MIMO time multiplexing method for localizing a radar target, in which an FMCW radar measurement is performed with a transmitted signal whose modulation pattern encompasses, for different transmission switching states that differ in terms of the selection of antenna elements used for transmission, mutually temporally interleaved sequences of ramps; ambiguous values for the relative velocity of the radar target are determined from a position of a peak in a two-dimensional spectrum; phase relationships between spectral values of spectra are checked for agreement with phase relationships expected for several of the determined values of the relative velocity; on the basis thereof, an estimated value for the relative velocity of the radar target is selected from the determined periodic values of the relative velocity; and the angle of the radar target is determined on the basis of amplitudes and/or phase relationships between obtained baseband signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schoor, Benedikt Loesch
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Patent number: 10416300Abstract: A method begins by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a radar system determining whether a radar signature varies cyclically with time, and when the radar signature varies cyclically with time the method continues with the one or more processing modules collecting state telemetry information for the radar signature, along with a signal representation for the radar system. The state telemetry information includes rotation angle, yaw angle and rotation rate for the object responsible for the observed radar signature and the signal representation for the radar system includes data sufficient to determine an I/Q signal for the radar system. The method then determines a characterized radar signature for the object responsible for the radar signature and based on the state telemetry and the signal representation, substantially removes the radar signature from radar data.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Colorado State University Research FoundationInventors: Robert M. Beauchamp, Chandrasekaran Venkatachalam
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Patent number: 10416301Abstract: In certain embodiments, a method includes transmitting, by a first node, a first signal with a first frequency. The method includes receiving a second signal with a second frequency by downmixing the second signal to an intermediate frequency. The method includes determining a first value of a first phase for the second frequency. The method includes transmitting a third signal with a third frequency, the first frequency and the third frequency having a frequency difference, and receiving a fourth signal with a fourth frequency, the second frequency and the fourth frequency having the frequency difference. The method includes determining a second value of the first phase for the fourth frequency. The first frequency and the second frequency are spaced apart by an amount of the intermediate frequency, and the third frequency and the fourth frequency are spaced apart by the amount of the intermediate frequency.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Wolfram Kluge, Eric Sachse
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Patent number: 10416302Abstract: Compressive imaging captures images in compressed form, where each sensor does not directly correspond with a pixel, as opposed to standard image capture techniques. This can lead to faster image capture rates due to lower I/O bandwidth requirements, and avoids the need for image compression hardware, as the image is captured in compressed form. Measuring the transformation of an emitted multimodal signal is one method of compressive imaging. Metamaterial antennas and transceivers are well suited for both emitting and receiving multimodal signals, and are thus prime candidates for compressive imaging.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: David Smith, David Brady, Tom Driscoll, John Hunt, Alexander Mrozack, Matthew Reynolds, Daniel Marks
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Patent number: 10416303Abstract: A method and system for obtaining SAR images with reduced or eliminated surface clutter to detect subsurface targets, the method comprising the following steps:—selecting a first frequency and an incidence angle for the radar signal such that the ratio of surface backscattering to subsurface target backscattering is significantly larger for vertical polarization than for horizontal—obtaining vertically and horizontally polarized SAR images based on the same SAR path exploiting the selected first frequency and viewing angle—weighting and differencing the vertically and horizontally polarized SAR images so that the surface backscattering completely cancels between the two images and only the combination of the target backscattering components remains.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SAAB ABInventor: Hans Hellsten
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Patent number: 10416304Abstract: A system for reducing accidents caused by distracted drivers. The system may form an invisible track using material-impregnated grooves and a radar beam, preventing a vehicle from veering away from a road lane. The material-impregnated grooves (MIGs) within one or more road lanes may include scrap metal. The radar beam may be emitted from a transceiver mounted underneath the vehicle such that backscatter from the MIGs is returned to the transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: The Aerospace CorporationInventor: Henry Helvajian
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Patent number: 10416305Abstract: A positioning device includes an optical sensor, an ultrasonic transceiver and a processor. The optical sensor is configured to obtain a depth image. The ultrasonic transceiver is configured to send an ultrasound and receive an ultrasound reflection. The processor is configured to target a reflective surface in the depth image, recognize a salient feature corresponding to the reflective surface in the ultrasound reflection, estimate a distance between the positioning device and reflective the surface according to a first response time of the salient feature in the ultrasound reflection.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: HTC CorporationInventor: Yuan-Tung Chen
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Patent number: 10416306Abstract: Methods and apparatus to measure and analyze vibration signatures are disclosed. In some examples, a meter is provided comprising a waveform generator to generate a waveform based on first distance measurements of an object. In some examples, the meter includes a waveform generator to determine a first vibration characteristic of the object based on the waveform. In some examples, the meter includes a comparator to compare the first vibration characteristic to a signature vibration characteristic of the object, the signature vibration characteristic of the object indicative of normal characteristics of the object. In some examples, the meter includes a reporter to, in response to determining the first vibration characteristic does not match the signature vibration characteristic, generate an alert.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Leonardo William Estevez, Yuming Zhu, Sujeet Milind Patole
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Patent number: 10416307Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide accurate and compact multichannel sonar systems for mobile structures. A compact multichannel sonar system includes a multichannel transducer and associated processing and control electronics and optionally orientation and/or position sensors disposed substantially within the housing of a sonar transducer assembly. The multichannel transducer includes multiple transmission and/or receive channels/transducer elements. The transducer assembly is configured to support and protect the multichannel transducer and associated electronics and sensors, to physically and/or adjustably couple to a mobile structure, and/or to provide a simplified interface to other systems coupled to the mobile structure. The system may additionally include an actuator configured to adjust an orientation of the transducer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Paul Stokes, David Wellcome
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Patent number: 10416308Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an ultrasound sensor (20) for a motor vehicle, in which method, for the ultrasound sensor (20), a diaphragm (23) for emitting ultrasound signals in an emitting direction (21) and a sensor housing (24) are provided, in and/or on which sensor housing the diaphragm (23) is fastened, wherein the sensor housing (24) has a front side (25), which points in the emitting direction (21) of the diaphragm (23), and a rear side (26), which points in a rearward direction (27) which is opposite to the emitting direction (21), and wherein the sensor housing (24) is, on the rear side (26), formed with a rear-side installation opening (29) for components of the ultrasound sensor (20), wherein the diaphragm (23) is inserted into the sensor housing (24) through the rear-side installation opening (29) in the emitting direction (21), and said diaphragm is placed, through an interior space (30) of the sensor housing (24), into an installed position at the front side (25) of the sensorType: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbHInventors: Hans-Wilhelm Wehling, Wolfgang Hamm
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Patent number: 10416309Abstract: Included are embodiments for remotely determining a battery characteristic. Some embodiments include searching for a first wireless signal that identifies the energy storage device and, in response to receiving the first wireless signal, determining a current charge level of the energy storage device. Some embodiments include receiving a second wireless signal from the energy storage device, determining from the second wireless signal, whether the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches the predetermined threshold, sending, by the computing device, an alert indicating the current charge level.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DURACELL U.S. OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Nancy Taylor Dempsey, Karen Coltharp McGinnis, Elizabeth Jane Wenzel, Mathias Amann, Jordan Todorov Bourilkov, Sergio Coronado Hortal, Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Steven Jeffrey Specht
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Patent number: 10416310Abstract: The invention includes a process for one's own global navigation satellite system and at least one other global navigation satellite system including the following: Receiving ranging signals and navigation messages or ranging signals only from the at least one other global navigation satellite system, and processing the received ranging signals and navigation messages in a similar way as the ranging signals and navigation messages of the owned global navigation satellite system.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBHInventors: Michael Kirchner, Tanja Rang, Hans L. Trautenberg
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Patent number: 10416311Abstract: Geofence crossing-based control systems and techniques are described herein. For example, a geofence crossing control technique may include receiving a location signal indicative of a range of locations in which a mobile computing device is located; receiving a velocity signal indicative of a speed and direction of the mobile computing device; generating, for each of a plurality of candidate geofence crossing times, a performance indicator based on the location signal, the velocity signal, and a boundary of the geofence; selecting a geofence crossing time from the plurality of candidate geofence crossing times based on the performance indicators; and transmitting a control signal representative of the geofence crossing time. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: YuHuan Huang, Ke Han, Ke Ding
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Patent number: 10416312Abstract: A system for indoor localization using satellite navigation signals in a Distributed Antenna System includes a plurality of Off-Air Access Units (OAAUs). Each of the plurality of OAAUs is operable to receive an individual satellite navigation signal from at least one of a plurality of satellites and operable to route signals optically to one or more DAUs. The system also includes a plurality of remote DRUs located at a remote location. The plurality of remote DRUs are operable to receive signals from a plurality of local DAUs. The system further includes an algorithm to delay each individual satellite navigation signal for providing indoor localization at each of the plurality of DRUs and a GPS receiver at the remote location used in a feedback loop with the DRU to control the delays.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Dali Systems Co. Ltd.Inventor: Shawn Patrick Stapleton
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Patent number: 10416313Abstract: A method of performing radio occultation for inferring physical properties of a portion of atmosphere includes receiving, at a receiver, a first signal from a satellite at a first timing; receiving, at the receiver, a second signal from the satellite at a second timing different from the first timing; correlating the first signal with the second signal; and determining a first quantity indicative of a path delay between the first signal and the second signal resulting from at least one of the first signal and the second signal having passed through the portion of atmosphere between transmission by the satellite and reception at the receiver, based on a result of the correlation. The application further relates to a system for performing radio occultation for inferring physical properties of a portion of atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: European Space AgencyInventor: Manuel Martin-Neira
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Patent number: 10416314Abstract: A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) based control system is provided for positioning a working component relative to a work surface, such as an agricultural spray boom over a crop field. Inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are mounted on the working component and provide positioning signals to a control processor. A method of positioning a working component relative to a work surface using GNSS-based positioning signals is also disclosed. Further disclosed is a work order management system and method, which can be configured for controlling the operation of multiple vehicles, such as agricultural sprayers each equipped with GNSS-based spray boom height control subsystems. The sprayers can be remotely located from each other on multiple crop fields, and can utilize GNSS-based, field-specific terrain models for controlling their spraying operations.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: AGJUNCTION LLCInventors: Joshua M. Gattis, Steven A. Koch, Mark W. Anderson
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Patent number: 10416315Abstract: A Global Navigation Satellite System receiver comprising at least one processor is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Jakub Skalicky, Martin Orejas, Jussi Raasakka
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Patent number: 10416316Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of determining frame timing of one or more signals from one or more respective transmitters. The method determining first observation windows that correspond to first candidate segments of the one or more signals; calculating a first set of accumulated signal patterns, each accumulated signal pattern of the first set of accumulated signal patterns being calculated based on signal patterns in a respective subset of the first candidate segments of the one or more signals; determining whether a first set of accumulated synchronization words derived from the first set of accumulated signal patterns is consistent with a first set of corresponding benchmark synchronization words; and determining the frame timing of the one or more signals based on timing of the first observation windows when the first set of accumulated synchronization words is consistent with the first set of corresponding benchmark synchronization words.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Yongsong Wang, Zhike Jia, Jian Cheng, Juhong Xing, Mobo Qiu
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Patent number: 10416317Abstract: A map generating method includes: modeling a predetermined amount of global positioning system (GPS) data as linear segments; determining whether a difference between the modeled segments and the GPS data is within a predetermined range; and determining an amount of GPS data forming the modeled segments based on whether the difference is within the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Taesung Choi, Jihyun Yoon
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Patent number: 10416318Abstract: A large-area directional radiation detection system useful in detecting shielded radiological weapons may include a large number of prism-shaped detectors stacked in a two-dimensional array of particle detectors in which alternate detectors are displaced frontward and rearward in, for example, a checkerboard-type arrangement of detectors. If a source of radiation is in front of the array, the frontward detectors act as collimators for the rearward detectors, thereby producing a narrow detection peak among the rearward detectors. The lateral position of the detection peak indicates the lateral position of the source, and the width of the detection peak indicates the distance of the source from the detector array, thereby providing a three-dimensional determination of the source location.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: David Edward Newman
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Patent number: 10416319Abstract: A ceramic scintillator array of an embodiment includes: a plurality of scintillator segments each composed of a sintered compact of a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor; and a reflective layer interposed between the scintillator segments adjacent to each other. The reflective layer contains a transparent resin and reflective particles dispersed in the transparent resin. The reflective particles contain titanium oxide and at least one inorganic substance selected from the group consisting of alumina, zirconia, and silica. A glass transition point of the transparent resin is 50° C. or higher, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the transparent resin at a temperature higher than the glass transition point is 3.5×10?5/° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazumitsu Morimoto, Yukihiro Fukuta, Akihisa Saito, Hiroyasu Kondo
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Patent number: 10416320Abstract: To provide a radiographic imaging apparatus having an airtight internal space and capable of reducing a difference in air pressure between the inside and the outside thereof, a radiographic imaging apparatus includes a radiation detector configured to detect radiation transmitted through an object to be examined and convert the radiation into an electrical signal, and sealing members configured to seal an opening in a housing of the apparatus, wherein the sealing members have the function of reducing a difference in air pressure between the inside and the outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroto Kondo
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Patent number: 10416321Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprises an X-ray detector including a first detector and a second detector capable of simultaneously detecting X-rays irradiated from an X-ray tube, and processing circuitry configured to, when displaying one of a first image based on output from the first detector and a second image based on output from the second detector on a display, display the other one of the first image and the second image corresponding to a partial region of the one of the first image and the second image.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Akihito Takahashi, Haruki Iwai
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Patent number: 10416322Abstract: A device for determining the location of a source of radiation, based on data acquired at a single orientation of the device without iteration or rotations. Embodiments may comprise two side detector panels positioned closely parallel to each other and adjacent to each other, plus a front detector positioned orthogonally in front of the side detectors, without collimators or shields. The various detectors have contrasting angular sensitivities, so that a predetermined angular correlation function can determine the sign and magnitude of the source angle according to the detection rates of the front and side detectors. Embodiments enable rapid detection and localization of nuclear and radiological weapon materials for greatly improved inspection of cargo containers and personnel. Advanced detectors such as those disclosed herein will be needed in the coming decades to protect against clandestine weapon transport.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: David Edward Newman