Determining Velocity Patents (Class 342/104)
  • Patent number: 11929813
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may communicate, using a first set of active antenna elements of an antenna array, during a first time period. The network node may activate a second set of active antenna elements based on a dynamic antenna set switching scheme, wherein the second set of active antenna elements includes at least one active antenna element not included in the first set, wherein a difference between a first main lobe property and a second main lobe property satisfies a main lobe threshold, and wherein a difference between a first side lobe property and a second side lobe property satisfies a side lobe threshold. The network node may communicate, using the second set of active antenna elements, during a second time period. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Yu-Chin Ou, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11835563
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for systems and methods for using pulsed radio frequency (RF) signals to stimulate one or more modulated scattering probes (MSPs) to enable measurements of distance to and planarity of a surface of a wireless device under test (DUT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LITEPOINT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minh-Chau Huynh, Morten Damgaard, Christian Volf Olgaard
  • Patent number: 11822005
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses and/or methods involving the communication of radar signals. Certain aspects involve communicating time division multiplexing (TDM) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar signals, having pulses with a chirp interval time (CIT) that is different for respective chirps. Positional characteristics of a target may be ascertained based upon both the CIT between each chirp in the communicated radar signals and the time between each corresponding chirp in received ones of the signals reflected by the target. Communication of the radar signals may involve utilizing a combination of antennas to provide a virtual aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Ryan Haoyun Wu, Dongyin Ren, Wendi Zhang, René Geraets
  • Patent number: 11802961
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement lateral-bin monitoring for radar target detection. In particular, a radar system, which is mounted to a moving platform, divides a region of interest that is associated with at least one side of the moving platform into multiple lateral bins. The radar system maps locations of detections to the lateral bins, and monitors respective quantities of consecutive frames in which detections occur within the lateral bins. The radar system determines that at least one object is present within one of the lateral bins responsive to a quantity of consecutive frames having detections within the lateral bin being equal to or greater than a threshold. By waiting for a lateral bin to have detections across multiple consecutive frames, the radar system can minimize the false-alarm rate without reducing sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 11804135
    Abstract: An extraction unit (101) extracts as a stationary object-detection point, a detection point on a stationary object among a plurality of detection points around a vehicle (200), the plurality of detection points being detected by an outside-detection sensor (501) at a plurality of detection timings. A grouping unit (105) groups two or more stationary object-detection points deduced as detection points on a same stationary object, among a plurality of stationary object-detection points extracted by the extraction unit (101) at the plurality of detection timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Sekiguchi, Koji Iida
  • Patent number: 11766247
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide ways to detect the object of ultrasound scanning and to automatically, load system settings and image preferences necessary to generate high quality output images. In some aspects, an ultrasound system can be configured to perform steps including receiving a selection of a first transducer, identifying a body structure or organ based on a signal received in response to an activation of the first transducer, retrieving a first set of parameters corresponding with the body structure, and configuring the first transducer based on the first set of parameters. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Glen W. McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11764461
    Abstract: A microwave-doppler detecting module and device thereof are provided, wherein the microwave-doppler detecting module includes an electromagnetic reflecting surface and at least a pair of antithetical dipoles spacingly disposed to the electromagnetic reflecting surface. When the first and second radiating source poles respectively extended from a first and second feed ends of the pair of antithetical dipoles are respectively fed by the same excitation signal feed source at the first feed end and the second feed end, the current and the potential distribution of the first radiating source pole and the second radiating source pole can present an antithetical distribution state and antithetically coupled to the midpoint of the connection of the first feed end and the second feed end, so as to reduce the size requirement of the microwave-doppler detecting module and to avoid detection dead zone from occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Gaodi Zou, Xin Zou
  • Patent number: 11754674
    Abstract: For example, a processor may be configured to determine a plurality of potential targets based on radar data; and to identify one or more true targets in the plurality of potential targets by identifying a first potential target and a second potential target, which are at a same angle relative to the radar antenna; classifying the first potential target as a first true target based on a determination that a range between the first potential target and the radar antenna is shorter than a range between the second potential target and the radar antenna; and classifying the second potential target as a second true target or as a ghost target of the first true target according to a classification criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuval Amizur, Nir Dvorecki, Leor Banin
  • Patent number: 11662460
    Abstract: Apparatus for detecting misalignment of a radar unit (2; 22) of a vehicle (3; 23), the apparatus comprising: a magnet (1; 21), which may be a permanent magnet or an electromagnet, arranged to be mounted on the vehicle (3; 23) spaced from the radar unit (2; 22); a magnetic field sensor (4; 24), typically a three-axis magnetic field sensor, such as a Hall Effect Sensor, arranged to be coupled to the radar unit (2; 22) and having an output at which a signal indicative of the magnetic field at the magnetic field sensor (4; 24); and a processor (5; 25) coupled to the output and arranged to determine a misalignment of the radar unit (2; 22) based on the output of the magnetic field sensor (4; 24). Where the magnet is an electromagnet (21), the field strength of the electromagnet (21) can be varied by its drive circuit (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: ZF AUTOMOTIVE UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Pinnock, Roger Hazelden
  • Patent number: 11643011
    Abstract: For a vehicle (1) with a tractor (2) and a trailer (3), a view system has a capture unit (10) with an image sensor (12) for capturing image data of an area of view, around the vehicle, a processing unit (20) for processing the image data, and a reproduction unit (30) for reproducing at least one first image section (410) and one second image section (420) of the area of view (40) captured by the capture unit (10). The processing unit provides different resolutions of image data depending on the position of the tractor with respect to the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MEKRA LANG GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Werner Lang, Andreas Redlingshöfer, Andreas Enz
  • Patent number: 11615525
    Abstract: A soil imaging system having a work layer sensor disposed on an agricultural implement to generate an electromagnetic field through a soil area of interest as the agricultural implement traverses a field. A monitor in communication with the work layer sensor is adapted to generate a work layer image of the soil layer of interest based on the generated electromagnetic field. The work layer sensor may also generate a reference image by generating an electromagnetic field through undisturbed soil. The monitor may compare at least one characteristic of the reference image with at least one characteristic of the work layer image to generate a characterized image of the work layer of interest. The monitor may display operator feedback and may effect operational control of the agricultural implement based on the characterized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CLIMATE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Strnad, Roger Koch, Dale Koch
  • Patent number: 11583255
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide ways to detect the object of ultrasound scanning and to automatically, load system settings and image preferences necessary to generate high quality output images. In some aspects, an ultrasound system can be configured to perform steps including receiving a selection of a first transducer, identifying a body structure or organ based on a signal received in response to an activation of the first transducer, retrieving a first set of image parameters corresponding with the body structure, and configuring the first transducer based on the first set of image parameters. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Glen W. McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11550045
    Abstract: A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar subsystem and images from a video subsystem to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The video subsystem and the lidar subsystem may be aligned with one another, and hence calibrated, by determining, for example, a centroid of an iris determined from the lidar subsystem and a centroid of the iris determined from the video subsystem and determining a calibration offset between the two centroids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Aeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sebastian, Anatoley T. Zheleznyak
  • Patent number: 11544608
    Abstract: Systems and methods for probabilistic semantic sensing in a sensory network are disclosed. The system receives raw sensor data from a plurality of sensors and generates semantic data including sensed events. The system correlates the semantic data based on classifiers to generate aggregations of semantic data. Further, the system analyzes the aggregations of semantic data with a probabilistic engine to produce a corresponding plurality of derived events each of which includes a derived probability. The system generates a first derived event, including a first derived probability, that is generated based on a plurality of probabilities that respectively represent a confidence of an associated semantic datum to enable at least one application to perform a service based on the plurality of derived events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Raymond Florence, Christopher David Sachs, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Patent number: 11416077
    Abstract: A controller is configured to be coupled to a millimeter-wave radar mounted on a device, where the millimeter-wave radar includes a field of view in a direction away from the device. The controller is configured to: detect a presence of an object in a first range zone of a plurality of range zones of the field of view, where each range zone of the plurality of range zones respectively corresponds to different distance ranges relative to the device, and where each range zone is associated with a respective command database; determine a gesture signature based on detecting the presence of the object in the first range zone of the field of view; and cause execution of a command chosen from the respective command database associated with the first range zone as a function of the gesture signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Ashutosh Baheti, Avik Santra, Mandy Barsilai Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11360217
    Abstract: A LIDAR system, preferably including one or more: optical emitters, optical detectors, beam directors, and/or processing modules. A method of LIDAR system operation, preferably including: determining signals, outputting the signals, receiving one or more return signals, and/or analyzing the return signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Red Leader Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Hillard, Christopher Baca
  • Patent number: 11353547
    Abstract: A radar system is provided. The radar system includes a first radar chip, a second radar chip and a third radar chip. Further, the second radar chip includes a first coupling circuit. Additionally, the third radar chip includes a second coupling circuit. A control circuit is configured to control the first coupling circuit and the second coupling circuit. The first radar chip includes an analysis circuit configured to determine information indicating a reflected wave component. The analysis circuit is further configured to determine, based on the determined information, whether distributions of the oscillation signal to the first and second input nodes via the first and second signal lines are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Grigory Itkin
  • Patent number: 11320517
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to classifying a target object. An electronic device may transmit a detection signal and receive a reflection signal reflected from the target object. The electronic device then determines, based on one or more features of the reflection signal, a category of the target object and adjusts at least one transmission parameter based on the category. The electronic device then transmits an adjust signal using the transmission parameter. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Rimini, Tsai-Chen Huang
  • Patent number: 11313742
    Abstract: A system for analysis of the performance in use of a sliding board includes a database storing baseline performance; a sensor sensitive to the deformations of said sliding board; and a monitoring body. The monitoring body determines the performance in use based on measurements from the sensor; and compares the performance in use with the baseline performance. The sensor is secured to the sliding board and has at least one piezoelectric element secured to the sliding board and configured to generate electric energy during the deformations of the sliding board; and an electronic processing circuit, powered exclusively by the electric energy generated by the at least one piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: Skis Rossignol, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Nicolas Puget, Romain Bailly, Johan Vailli, Aurélie Zucco, Jerome Boutet, Jean-Philippe Gros, Maxime Gallardo, Gael Parent
  • Patent number: 11194039
    Abstract: A traffic radar system comprises a first radar transceiver, a second radar transceiver, a speed determining element, and a processing element. The first radar transceiver transmits and receives radar beams and generates a first electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The second radar transceiver transmits and receives radar beams and generates a second electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The speed determining element determines and outputs a speed of the patrol vehicle. The processing element is configured to receive a plurality of digital data samples derived from the first or second electronic signals, receive the speed of the patrol vehicle, process the digital data samples to determine a relative speed of at least one target vehicle in the front zone or the rear zone, and convert the relative speed of the target vehicle to an absolute speed using the speed of the patrol vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Kustom Signals, Inc.
    Inventor: Maurice Shelton
  • Patent number: 11186276
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes determining a path for an autonomous driving vehicle. The path is located within a first lane of an environment in which the autonomous driving vehicle is currently located. The method also includes obtaining sensor data. The sensor data indicates a set of speeds for a set of moving obstacles located in a second lane of the environment and wherein the second lane is adjacent to the first lane. The method further includes determining whether the set of speeds is lower than a threshold speed. The method further includes determining a new speed for the autonomous driving vehicle in response to determining that the set of speeds is lower than the threshold speed. The method further includes controlling the autonomous driving vehicle based on the path and the new speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Jiaming Tao, Liangliang Zhang, Dong Li, Yifei Jiang, Jiangtao Hu, Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11183772
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a downlight includes: a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed in a housing of the downlight, and a millimeter-wave radar. The millimeter-wave radar includes: an antenna disposed in the housing, a controller configured to: detect a presence of a human in a field-of-view of the millimeter-wave radar, determine a direction of movement of the detected human, and produce log data based on the direction of movement of the detected human, and a wireless module configured to transmit the log data to a wireless server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ho Chun Lee, Chung Hong Wong
  • Patent number: 11181625
    Abstract: A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar subsystem and images from a video subsystem to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The video subsystem and the lidar subsystem may be aligned with one another, and hence calibrated, by determining, for example, a centroid of an iris determined from the lidar subsystem and a centroid of the iris determined from the video subsystem and determining a calibration offset between the two centroids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: StereoVision Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sebastian, Anatoley T. Zheleznyak
  • Patent number: 11170497
    Abstract: A soil imaging system having a work layer sensor disposed on an agricultural implement to generate an electromagnetic field through a soil area of interest as the agricultural implement traverses a field. A monitor in communication with the work layer sensor is adapted to generate a work layer image of the soil layer of interest based on the generated electromagnetic field. The work layer sensor may also generate a reference image by generating an electromagnetic field through undisturbed soil. The monitor may compare at least one characteristic of the reference image with at least one characteristic of the work layer image to generate a characterized image of the work layer of interest. The monitor may display operator feedback and may effect operational control of the agricultural implement based on the characterized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Strnad, Roger Koch, Dale Koch
  • Patent number: 11137488
    Abstract: One radar excitation signal has a first burst duration and a first sampling period. Another radar excitation signal has a second burst duration and a second sampling period. The first sampling period of the first signal is configured for scanning a velocity range and the second sampling period of the second signal is configured for scanning a portion of the velocity range, and the first burst duration is smaller than the second burst duration. The at least two radar excitation signals are embedded into a frame structure for a wireless communications system. At least one radar operation comprising at least one transmission based on the frame structure is performed. In this way the overhead of the radar excitation signals on the air interface of the wireless communications system may be controlled, while supporting a fine velocity resolution and a sufficiently large maximum velocity for a monitored target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Volker Braun, Thorsten Wild
  • Patent number: 11140706
    Abstract: A grant may allocate resources for an uplink transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a system using beamforming, where the resources may be used by the UE to transmit data or control information during a time that a base station is listening in a certain receive beam direction. A UE may be in communication with a base station using beamformed transmissions, and the base station may send a resource grant to the UE for uplink transmissions that correspond to a receive beam direction of a beamsweeping operation. The UE may then transmit data and/or uplink control information to the base station according to the resource grant and when the base station is listening in the corresponding direction. In some examples, the UE may send the uplink transmission to the serving base station, and transmit a random access channel to another base station based on the beamsweeping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Kaushik Chakraborty, Xiao feng Wang, Shengbo Chen, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11125857
    Abstract: A moving object detection system comprises: a transmission waveform setting section to set a transmission signal in such a way that a frequency of the transmission signal is linearly changed; a transmitting section to transmit the transmission signal; a receiving section to receive a reception signal resulting from a reflection of the transmission signal at an object; a Doppler coefficient estimating section to estimate a Doppler coefficient associated with a movement of the object by performing arithmetic processing on a waveform of the reception signal at a present time point and waveforms of the reception signal at one or more past time points, the one or more past time points being earlier than the present time point by one or more specified periods of time; and an object detection section to detect the object based on the transmission signal, the Doppler coefficient, and the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisashi Shiba
  • Patent number: 11087610
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises detecting, with a presence detector such as a radar device, a presence of a person at a location such as an ATM vestibule. In response thereto, a timer is initiated. After initiating the timer, a portal sensor is used to detect a change in a status of a portal permitting access to the location. In response thereto, the timer is adjusted (for example the timer is reset). Thus, multiple consecutive normal usages of the vestibule do not unnecessarily trigger an alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: AVIGILON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Anderholm, Yanyan Hu, Kevin Piette, Pietro Russo, Bo Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 11064977
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology provide ways to detect the object of ultrasound scanning and to automatically, load system settings and image preferences necessary to generate high quality output images. In some aspects, an ultrasound system can be configured to perform steps including receiving a selection of a first transducer, identifying a body structure or organ based on a signal received in response to an activation of the first transducer, retrieving a first set of image parameters corresponding with the body structure, and configuring the first transducer based on the first set of image parameters. Methods and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Glen W. McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 11061112
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the performance range of a radar system placed behind a portion of a vehicle including, in an operational mode, the steps of: transmitting a first signal in a high range resolution mode from the radar system through the portion of the vehicle; receiving a first return signal comprising a part of the first signal that is reflected by the portion of the vehicle at the radar system; measuring the first return signal; comparing the first return signal with a calibration return signal representative of a part of the first signal that is reflected by the portion of the vehicle in a calibration mode; determining the relative loss of transmission of the portion of the vehicle from the comparing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Fischer
  • Patent number: 11063677
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to machines comprising a movable part, transceiver circuitry configured to transmit a radio signal towards the movable part and to receive a reflection of the radio signal from the movable part, evaluation circuitry configured to determine a position or a speed of the movable part based on at least the received radio signal. A distance between an antenna of the transceiver circuitry and the movable part is less than 5 cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dirk Hammerschmidt, Erich Kolmhofer, Rudolf Lachner
  • Patent number: 11047972
    Abstract: A multichannel radar system comprising a set of antennas each receiving a sequence of chirps reflected from plurality of objects, a range detector generating a set of range bins for each chirp, a beam former operative to generate a set of dominant frequency components from a group of range bins picked from the set of range bins across the set of antennas, a nearness detector for separating the set of dominant frequencies into a first set of dominant frequencies and a second set of dominant frequencies, a frequency subtractor configured to shift the each dominant frequency in the first set of dominant frequencies by its phase by a first value to form a third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies, and a Doppler estimator estimating a Doppler frequency of the each dominant frequency in the set of dominant frequencies from the third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies and the second set of dominant frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Apu Sivadas, Gireesh Rajendran
  • Patent number: 10962636
    Abstract: A vehicle, radar system for a vehicle, and method of determining a radial velocity of an object via the radar system. The radar system includes a transmitter, receiver and processor. The transmitter transmits a source signal towards an object, and the receiver for receives a reflection of the source signal from the object. The processor obtains a Doppler measurement related to a radial velocity of the object, wherein the Doppler measurement includes a Doppler ambiguity, obtains a range walk rate for the radial velocity of the object, and resolves the Doppler ambiguity of the Doppler measurement using the range walk rate to obtain the radial velocity of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Oren Longman, Shahar Villeval, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 10893811
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for monitoring the motion, breathing, heart rate of humans in a convenient and low-cost fashion, and for deriving and displaying useful measurements of cardiorespiratory performance from the measured signals. The motion, breathing, and heart rate signals are obtained through a processing applied to a raw signal obtained in a non-contact fashion, typically using a radio-frequency sensor. Processing into separate cardiac and respiratory components is described. The heart rate can be determined by using either spectral or time-domain processing. The respiratory rate can be calculated using spectral analysis. Processing to derive the heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, or a ventilatory threshold parameter using the system is described. The sensor, processing, and display can be incorporated in a single device which can be worn or held close to the body while exercising (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventors: Philip De Chazal, Conor Hanley, Conor Heneghan
  • Patent number: 10890466
    Abstract: A rotating element is mounted in a base body for rotation about an axis of rotation. An excitation circuit generates an excitation signal. A divider circuit divides the excitation signal into a base signal supplied to an evaluation circuit and into an outgoing signal supplied to a transceiving antenna. A waveguide circulates in an annular manner about the axis of rotation. The rotating element comprises a termination element protruding into the waveguide and has a reflective side. The transceiving antenna emits an electromagnetic signal into the waveguide propagating in two directions which is reflected from the reflective side and returned to and received by the transceiving antenna which generates in response a receiving signal supplied to the evaluation circuit which determines a position of rotation of the rotating element in relation to a reference position of rotation by evaluating the base signal and receiving signal in a resolution region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Meyer, Jürgen Zettner
  • Patent number: 10823846
    Abstract: In an object detection method, a moving speed v0 of a radar device and an angle ?1 defined between a moving direction of the radar device and a reception direction of a radar wave reflected on a target are acquired, a first function which expresses a relative speed v1 between the radar device and the target by the speed v0 and the angle ?1 in a non-multipath environment model and a second function which expresses the speed v1 in a multipath environment model are formed, an actual relative speed between the radar device and the target is calculated from a reception signal of the radar wave by using the multipath environment model, and it is determined that the reception signal is derived from a stationary object when a point defined by the ?1 and the actual relative speed is positioned between the first function and the second function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Takada
  • Patent number: 10775482
    Abstract: A method for human detection includes: receiving first and second echo signals using a millimeter-wave radar to produce first and second sets of data, respectively; selecting first and second angles based on the first and second sets of data, respectively; performing a FrFT on the first set of data using the first angle; identifying first targets by comparing peaks of the FrFT of the first set of data with a first threshold; performing a FrFT on the second set of data using the second angle; identifying second targets by comparing peaks of the FrFT of the second set of data with the first threshold; generating a set of target tracks based on the identified first and second targets; and associating a target track with a human track based on comparing each target track of the set of target tracks with a set of reference track signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Avik Santra, Ashutosh Baheti, Jagjit Singh Bal
  • Patent number: 10768297
    Abstract: A traffic radar system comprises a first radar transceiver assembly, a second radar transceiver assembly, a display, and a processing element. The first radar transceiver assembly transmits and receives radar beams and generates a first electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The second radar transceiver assembly transmits and receives radar beams and generates a second electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The display displays a plurality of speeds, each speed being a speed of a target vehicle. The processing element is configured to receive the first and second electronic signals, process the first electronic signal to determine speeds of target vehicles in the front zone, process the second electronic signal to determine speeds of target vehicles in the rear zone, and control the display to display the speeds of target vehicles in the front zone or target vehicles in the rear zone based on predetermined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Kustom Signals, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Shelton, Mike Bietsch, Michael Paulson
  • Patent number: 10729332
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method monitors the motion, breathing, heart rate and sleep state of subjects, e.g., humans, in a convenient, non-invasive/non-contact, and low-cost fashion. More particularly, the motion, breathing, and heart rate signals are obtained through processing applied to a raw signal obtained in a non-contact fashion, typically using a radio-frequency sensor. Periods of sleep disturbed respiration, or central apnea can be detected through analysis of the respiratory signal. The mean heart rate, and derived information, such as the presence of cardiac arrhythmias can be determined from the cardiac signal. Motion estimates can be used to recognize disturbed sleep and periodic limb movements. The sleep state may be determined by applying a classifier model to the resulting streams of respiratory, cardiac and motion data. A means for display of the sleep state, respiratory, cardiac, and movement status may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Conor Heneghan, Conor Hanley, Niall Fox, Philip De Chazal
  • Patent number: 10728365
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for searching for a place on the basis of a free request of parameters defined by a user on a peripheral unit connected to a central unit, remarkable in that it comprises the following steps: a step of selecting and grouping types of parameters, spatial cutting of the earth's surface into surface cells, with said cells being associated with a plurality of sensors, associating data with a type of parameters and with a surface cell in order to obtain data sub-sets, processing and storing the data sub-sets, constituting the free request, analyzing the language and the interpretation of the free request, searching for and selecting surface cells associated with the sorted and selected data, displaying the place corresponding to the surface cells found. The invention also relates to a device implementing said process. Uses: Expediting the search for places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Inventor: Morou Boukari
  • Patent number: 10718870
    Abstract: Determination of one or more timing (phase) and/or frequency corrections to be made to a local time base of a receiver device to synchronize the local time base with the time of GPS or other highly accurate time base. Timing packets from one or more grandmaster devices whose time bases are substantially the same as that of GPS or the like and/or positioning system signals (e.g., GPS signals) directly from a positioning system are received and manipulated to determine the timing and/or frequency corrections. The corrected time base may be used to assist in acquiring such positioning signals to allow for higher accuracy correction and/or for downstream communication operation. The present utilities are advantageous such as when a sufficient number of channels (e.g., four) from the receiver device to positioning system satellites are unavailable to synchronize the local time base to the GPS or other accurate time base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: iPosi, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Derbez, Christopher Neil Kurby, Derek Glass
  • Patent number: 10705105
    Abstract: A system determines absolute speed of a moving object. In AM, time of flight data over a time period is processed to determine ranges between the system and the moving object. The system performs linear regression analysis on the collected ranges to calculate the radial velocity. The system measures angular swivel rate of the system to determine tangential velocity. From the radial velocity and tangential velocity, the absolute speed can be calculated by taking the square root of the addition of the square of the radial velocity and square of the tangential velocity. In MM, the system calculates object distance, i.e. distance in the direction of travel, by subtracting the square of a pre-determined perpendicular distance L, perpendicular to the direction of travel, from a square of line-of-sight distance R, and taking square root of the result. Absolute speed is determined by calculating the slope of modified linear regression curve-fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED CONCEPTS, INC.
    Inventors: Mahendra Mandava, Robert S. Gammenthaler, Russell D. Kautz, Steven F. Hocker, Robert E. Jordan, Devin L. Kautz
  • Patent number: 10681568
    Abstract: Fiber, cable, and wireless data channels are typically impaired by reflectors and other imperfections, producing a channel state with echoes and frequency shifts in data waveforms. Here, methods of using pilot symbol waveform bursts to automatically produce a detailed 2D model of the channel state are presented. This 2D channel state can then be used to optimize data transmission. For wireless data channels, an even more detailed 2D model of channel state can be produced by using polarization and multiple antennas in the process. Once 2D channel states are known, the system turns imperfect data channels from a liability to an advantage by using channel imperfections to boost data transmission rates. The methods can be used to improve legacy data transmission modes in multiple types of media, and are particularly useful for producing new types of robust and high capacity wireless communications using non-legacy data transmission methods as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib
  • Patent number: 10680305
    Abstract: A signal handling device includes a first substrate. A plurality of first conductors in the first substrate are arranged to form a substrate integrated waveguide. A second substrate includes a plurality of second conductors arranged to form a resonating cavity near one end of the substrate integrated waveguide. A signal carrier is aligned with the one end of the substrate integrated waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Alireza Foroozesh, George J. Purden, Shawn Shi
  • Patent number: 10679341
    Abstract: A soil imaging system having a work layer sensor disposed on an agricultural implement to generate an electromagnetic field through a soil area of interest as the agricultural implement traverses a field. A monitor in communication with the work layer sensor is adapted to generate a work layer image of the soil layer of interest based on the generated electromagnetic field. The work layer sensor may also generate a reference image by generating an electromagnetic field through undisturbed soil. The monitor may compare at least one characteristic of the reference image with at least one characteristic of the work layer image to generate a characterized image of the work layer of interest. The monitor may display operator feedback and may effect operational control of the agricultural implement based on the characterized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: THE CLIMATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Strnad, Roger Koch, Dale Koch
  • Patent number: 10667148
    Abstract: Computerized wireless transmitter/receiver system that automatically uses combinations of various methods, including transmitting data symbols by weighing or modulating a family of time shifted and frequency shifted waveforms bursts, pilot symbol methods, error detection methods, MIMO methods, and other methods, to automatically determine the structure of a data channel, and automatically compensate for signal distortions caused by various structural aspects of the data channel, as well as changes in channel structure. Often the data channel is a two or three dimensional space in which various wireless transmitters, receivers and signal reflectors are moving. The invention's modulation methods detect locations and speeds of various reflectors and other channel impairments. Error detection schemes, variation of modulation methods, and MIMO techniques further detect and compensate for impairments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Selim Rakib, Ronny Hadani
  • Patent number: 10634782
    Abstract: An extravisual obstacle detecting system includes: a radio wave receiving unit 15 configured to receives a radio wave from a radio wave source 13 attached to an object 11; one or a plurality of external sensors 19 attached to the vehicle 17 and configured to detect an external obstacle; an alarm generating unit 21 configured to generate a predetermined alarm, and, when the radio wave receiving unit 15 receives the radio wave from the object 11, and the external sensors 19 do not detect the object 11, the alarm generating unit 21 generates the first alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: Waseda University, Optoquest Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kawanishi, Masaru Fukumitsu
  • Patent number: 10577925
    Abstract: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements from a downhole well tool in a wellbore are obtained to identify length of fractures adjacent the wellbore. A ground penetrating radar transmitter of the downhole tool emits an electromagnetic pulse. The electromagnetic wave of the ground penetrating radar is diffracted on encountering an end or tip of a fracture, which acts as a secondary source. The diffracted signal is then collected by downhole receiver(s) of the downhole tool. Length of the fracture is determined based on the time of travel of the electromagnetic wave from its emission until its collection as a diffracted signal by the downhole receiver(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Jesus Manuel Felix Servin, Erika Shoemaker Ellis, Ersan Turkoglu, Howard Khan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10562551
    Abstract: In a ground apparatus system, polling communication where a ground apparatus serves as a primary station and a train serves as a secondary station is performed. A ground apparatus that is a ground apparatus of the ground apparatus system and is capable of communicating with a platform screen door control apparatus performs polling communication at a first communication frequency to obtain train location information from the train. When the train reaches an impending arrival range including a stop position at a station, the ground apparatus switches the communication frequency to a second communication frequency higher than the first communication frequency. The apparatus then transmits, to the train through polling communication, synchronized opening and closing control instruction information received from the platform screen door control apparatus, and transmits, to the platform screen door control apparatus, train state information obtained from the train through polling communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: KYOSAN ELECTRIC MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Mizuno, Tamotsu Yokoyama, Tomonori Itagaki, Toshifumi Nishi
  • Patent number: 10481252
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Masuda, Tadashi Murakami, Shigeo Gotoh