Combined With Determining Distance And Direction Patents (Class 342/107)
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Patent number: 12386062Abstract: According to various embodiments, a radar system is described including a first radar processing device and a second radar processing device, wherein the first radar processing device is configured to generate radar data and to transmit the radar data partially to the second radar processing device for further processing, wherein the first radar processing device is configured to omit parts of the radar data from the transmission and wherein the second radar processing device is configured to reconstruct the omitted parts using a machine learning model trained to supplement radar data with additional radar data and is configured to further process the transmitted parts of the radar data in combination with the additional radar data.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Simon Achatz, Maximilian Eschbaumer
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Patent number: 12379464Abstract: A method for automatically adjusting correction information in a radar system of a vehicle. The method includes: performing at least one acquisition of at least one item of acquisition information by a radar sensor, the acquisition information being specific to at least one item of angle information and one item of distance information relating to at least one detected object in an environment of the vehicle. An identification of a reference object is performed in the environment on the basis of the acquisition information. An ascertainment of the distance information relating to the reference object is performed on the basis of the acquisition information. The adjustment of the correction information is performed on the basis of the ascertained distance information relating to the reference object in order to provide a correction of the angle information.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Tobias Breddermann, Tai Fei, Adrian Macaveiu, Christian Westhues
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Patent number: 12372637Abstract: A wearable system for pedestrians/users is adapted to detect threats posed by, for example, approaching vehicles, bikers, and issue an alert. The wearable system may include an inertial measurement unit to measure the gait of the pedestrian and actively adjust alert generation thresholds to account for the noisy and large movements of the gait using present and past IMU data. The thresholds can be raised during active phases of the gait, and lowered in the quieter (i.e., less active) phases of the gait, keeping the range, and therefore time to react, relatively steady with respect to the pedestrian/user's motion. The alert generation threshold may be combined with the processed receiver data to determine threats and alert the pedestrian/user using any combination of haptic, audio, vibrational, or visual outputs.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2025Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Inventor: Cavon M Hajimiri
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Patent number: 12366644Abstract: A method is provided for estimating a velocity of an object located in the environment of a vehicle. Detections of a range, an azimuth angle and a range rate of the object are acquired for at least two different points in time via a sensor. A cost function is generated which depends on a first source and a second source. The first source is based on a range rate velocity profile which depends on the range rate and the azimuth angle, and the first source depends on an estimated accuracy for the first source. The second source is based on a position difference which depends on the range and the azimuth angle for the at least two different points in time, and the second source depends on an estimated accuracy for the second source. By minimizing the cost function, a velocity estimate is determined for the object.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AGInventor: Mateusz Stachnik
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Patent number: 12340028Abstract: This document describes techniques for radio frequency (RF) based micro-motion tracking. These techniques enable even millimeter-scale hand motions to be tracked. To do so, radar signals are used from radar systems that, with conventional techniques, would only permit resolutions of a centimeter or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jaime Lien, Erik M. Olson, Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
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Patent number: 12325444Abstract: A mobile warning apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a velocity calculator, a position determiner, and an eliminator. The velocity calculator calculates one or more relative velocities of one or more observed points. The position determiner determines whether the observed points are in a predetermined proximity extent. The eliminator eliminates, in response to determination that the observed points are in the predetermined proximity extent, all the observed points from a warning target.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masato Onozawa, Mai Sakamoto, Hiroki Hori
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Patent number: 12298429Abstract: A radar signal processing method includes: extracting a first chirp sequence signal of a first carrier frequency and a second chirp sequence signal of a second carrier frequency from a radar signal received through an array antenna in a radar sensor; generating a first range-Doppler map by performing frequency conversion on the first chirp sequence signal; detecting a first target cell corresponding to a first target in the first range-Doppler map; determining a first ambiguous Doppler velocity of the first target based on first frequency information of the first target cell; determining a first range of an unambiguously measurable Doppler velocity through the first chirp sequence signal; estimating second ambiguous Doppler velocities based on the first ambiguous Doppler velocity and the first range; and determining a Doppler velocity of the first target by performing partial frequency conversion on the second chirp sequence signal based on the second ambiguous Doppler velocities.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sungdo Choi, Jong-Sok Kim, Young Rae Cho
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Patent number: 12287423Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a MIMO radar system, comprising a first beamforming network (6) comprising a first beam ports (7A) and antenna ports (7B), wherein the first beamforming network is configured to connect the first beam ports via the first antenna ports to the first antenna elements, wherein the first beamforming network is configured to generate for each first beam port a single beam pattern. The first antenna elements transmitting or receiving a single beam pattern selected from the number of single beam patterns, wherein the first antenna elements are spaced apart at a first distance selected to provide a beam pattern of the first antenna array essentially consisting of a plurality of single main lobes. The radar system also has a similar second beamforming network (8).Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Cicero Silveira Vaucher, Nick Andrew Cancrinus, Olexander Yarovyi, Jan Puskely
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Patent number: 12287398Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for generating a radar image of a scene. The method comprises receiving radar measurements of a scene collected from a set of antennas, wherein the set of antennas are under uncertainties caused by one or a combination of position ambiguities and clock ambiguities of each of the antennas. The method further comprises generating the radar image of the scene by solving a sparse recovery problem. The sparse recovery problem determines, until a termination condition is met, a set of image shifts of the radar image corresponding to different uncertainties of the antennas and updates an estimate of the radar image, based on the determined set of image shifts of the radar image. The sparse recovery problem is solved with a neural network denoiser that denoises a filtering of the estimate of the radar image.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Suhas Lohit, Petros Boufounos
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Patent number: 12287427Abstract: A method with rear cross collision warning includes generating a grid map by dividing an area around a host vehicle into a plurality of cells arranged in lateral and longitudinal directions, and classifying the cells corresponding to positions where a stationary object around the host vehicle as occupied cells, determining a position of a reflective structure reflecting radar signals based on a positional relationship between the occupied cells on the grid map, and determining, based on the determined position of the reflective structure and a moving direction of the tracking target, whether the tracking target is a ghost tracking target.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
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Patent number: 12265168Abstract: An RF pulse correlator comprising a track database, an antenna, a receiver, and a processor. The track database is configured to store established tracks of RF emissions. The antenna and receiver are configured to receive RF pulses. The tracker is configured to generate improved geolocation data for every received RF pulse based on kinematics of the received RF pulses. The processor is communicatively coupled to the database, the receiver, and the tracker. The processor is configured to associate each received RF pulse with an existing track in the track database or to create a new track.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Gregory Knowles Fleizach, Mark William Owen, Christopher Craig Pelham, Michael Aaron Slutsky
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Patent number: 12248092Abstract: A feature quantity extraction unit extracts at least one type of feature quantity using at least one of information associated with an instantaneous value generated by an instantaneous value generation unit and information associated with a target object member generated by a connection determination unit. A virtual image determination unit calculate a virtual image probability from a virtual image distribution and a real image probability from a real image distribution for each target object member generated by the connection determination unit using an extraction result related to the target object member of the feature quantity extraction unit. The virtual image determination unit further determines whether or not the target object member is a virtual image according to a result of integrating the calculated virtual image probability and the calculated real image probability.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Seiya Fujitsu
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Patent number: 12241973Abstract: A method and system to accurately detect a longitudinal velocity of a target by using longitudinal and lateral velocity values calculated by grouping a plurality of Doppler velocities detected from the target by a detection sensor mounted in a vehicle on the basis of the plurality of Doppler velocities.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Hee Lee
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Patent number: 12241971Abstract: Systems and methods relating to air traffic control and navigational aids for aircraft. An antenna system uses a multi-sector sensor that uses two vertical column antenna arrays per sector. Each pair of vertical column antenna arrays produces two beams that are off a boresight for each pair of antenna arrays. Wide angle monopulse processing is used to determine an azimuth or angle of arrival for an aircraft using at least one pair of the vertical column antenna arrays. Predetermined correction factors are applied to the azimuth for specific elevation values and, for elevation values without predetermined correction factors, interpolation between known predetermined correction values to arrive at the corrector factor to be applied.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Inventor: James Harvey
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Patent number: 12241991Abstract: A method for evaluating overlapping targets in a two-dimensional radar spectrum, wherein the following steps are carried out: providing the two-dimensional radar spectrum, selecting at least one region of interest as an input signal from the spectrum, and performing an evaluation of the input signal to determine an information about the overlapping targets, wherein the evaluation is specific for a model order selection method.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Tai Fei, Yuliang Sun
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Patent number: 12216201Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a radar control device and method. Specifically, a radar control device according to the present disclosure may include a receiver for receiving vehicle driving information for a host vehicle from a radar, an APS determiner for determining an angular power spectrum (APS) for a predetermined frequency based on the vehicle driving information if an object is detected in the vehicle driving information, and an object determiner for determining a position of a measurement value based on the determined APS, and determine whether there are a plurality of objects based on the position of the measurement value.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.Inventor: OhCheol Heo
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Patent number: 12216194Abstract: In a target tracking device, a state quantity estimation unit is configured to, every time a preset repetition period of a processing cycle elapses, estimate, for each of the one or more targets, a current state quantity based on at least either observation information of the one or more targets observed by a sensor or past state quantities of the one or more targets. A model selection unit is configured to, for each of the one or more targets, select one motion model from a plurality of predefined motion models, based on at least either states of the one or more targets or a state of the vehicle. An estimation selection unit is configured to, for each of the one or more targets, cause the state quantity estimation unit to estimate the state quantity of the target with the one motion model selected by the model selection unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Akamine, Takayuki Kitamura
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Patent number: 12169250Abstract: A processor-implemented radar data recognition method including generating a plurality of pieces of input data, with respectively different dimension configurations, based on radar data of an object; and outputting a recognition result of the object based on the generated plurality of pieces of input data using a recognition model.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Insoo Kim, Seungju Han, Jaejoon Han
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Patent number: 12146944Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an object detection system. For example, aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and techniques for performing object detection using sensor information, such as elevation and/or velocity information from one or more light-based sensors. One example apparatus generally includes one or more processors operably configured to: obtain sensor information indicating at least two objects in an environment; determine at least one of a velocity or an elevation associated with each object of the at least two objects; consolidate the at least two objects into a common object based on the at least one of the velocity or the elevation; and output an indication of the common object.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Radhika Dilip Gowaikar, Volodimir Slobodyanyuk
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Patent number: 12136231Abstract: To perform high-speed recognition processing of an image signal acquired by imaging. A recognition processing system of the present disclosure includes: a first sensor device that acquires an image signal by imaging; a second sensor device that performs an object detection process, a selection unit that selects one of a plurality of recognition processes based on information on the object detected by the detection process; and a recognition processing unit that executes the recognition process selected by the selection unit based on the image signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Akihiro Tamaoki
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Patent number: 12124271Abstract: A variety of methods, controllers and algorithms are described for identifying the back of a particular vehicle (e.g., a platoon partner) in a set of distance measurement scenes and/or for tracking the back of such a vehicle. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of different distance measuring technologies including radar, LIDAR, camera based distance measuring units and others. The described approaches are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying systems including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications. In another aspect, technique are described for fusing sensor data obtained from different vehicles for use in the at least partial automatic control of a particular vehicle. The described techniques are well suited for use in conjunction with a variety of different vehicle control applications including platooning, convoying and other connected driving applications including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Peloton Technology, Inc.Inventors: Austin B. Schuh, Stephen M. Erlien, Stephan Pleines, John L. Jacobs, Joshua P. Switkes
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Patent number: 12122368Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a collision warning apparatus of a vehicle may include an information acquisition device that obtains surrounding object information and vehicle information and a controller that generates collision prediction information of a surrounding object based on the surrounding object information and the vehicle information and provides a warning to an outside of the vehicle or generates control information for controlling braking of the vehicle while providing the warning to the outside of the vehicle based on the collision prediction information.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Dong Pil Lee
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Patent number: 12111418Abstract: A feature quantity calculation unit calculates one or more predetermined types of feature quantities using information correlated to respective extracted peaks. An environment determination unit calculates a specific environment probability from a calculation result of the feature quantity calculation unit using the positive distribution and a non-specific environment probability from a calculation result of the feature quantity calculation unit using the negative distribution. The environment determination unit further determines whether the mobile body is in the specific environment or the non-specific environment in accordance with a result of integration of the specific environment probability and the non-specific environment probability which are calculated for respective feature quantities.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Naotsugu Shimizu, Seiya Fujitsu
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Patent number: 12105191Abstract: A radar-enabled device that manages radar interference. In particular, the radar-enabled device detects a radar signal transmitted by a second radar-enabled device, transmits a notification of the detected radar signal, receives localization information associated with the second radar-enabled device, and sets a device location based on the received localization information. Additionally, the radar-enabled device may adjust a timing of radar signal transmissions to avoid subsequent detections of radar signals transmitted by the second radar-enabled device.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Andrew Larsen Axley, Eric Michael Monsler, Marci Meingast
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Patent number: 12105179Abstract: A system for detecting human entry into a container using electromagnetic imaging to generate image maps of the container. The system includes a door monitor configured to detect an entry door open event associated with the container. The system uses one or more processors and a memory with instructions to generate a baseline image map of the container, detect an entry door open event with the door monitor associated with the container, generate a post entry door open event image map of the container, and compare the baseline image map generated before the entry door open event with image map generated after the entry door open event.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: GSI Electronique Inc., University of ManitobaInventors: Ian Jeffrey, Colin Gerald Gilmore, Joe Lovetri, Jitendra Paliwal, Mohammad Asefi, William Kurt Hildebrand, Eric Conner Hawley
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Patent number: 12090999Abstract: An apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle includes: a radar mounted on the vehicle to have a front field of view of the vehicle and configured to acquire detection data; and a controller including a processor, configured to process the detection data, and configured to identify an estimated collision time between the vehicle and a first preceding vehicle, located in front of the vehicle, based on processing of the detection data, and to control a braking system of the vehicle to brake the vehicle, in response to the estimated collision time being less than a reference time, wherein the controller is configured to increase a reference time for braking the vehicle, based on an acceleration and a travelling speed of the first preceding vehicle and an acceleration and a travelling speed of a second preceding vehicle, located in front of the first preceding vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HL Klemove Corp.Inventor: Sangyeob Lee
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Patent number: 12066569Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a radar transmission circuit that transmits a radar signal from a transmission array antenna, and a radar reception circuit that receives, from a reception array antenna, a reflected wave signal that is the radar signal reflected at a target. One of the transmission array antenna and the reception array antenna includes a first antenna element group having m antenna elements arranged at a first interval Dt along a first axis direction, wherein m is an integer of 2 or larger. The other one of the transmission array antenna and the reception array antenna includes a second antenna element group having n antenna elements arranged at a second interval Dr along the first axis direction, wherein n is an integer of 4 or larger. The second interval Dr includes several different intervals.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Iwasa, Hidekuni Yomo
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Patent number: 12039112Abstract: Contactless operation of a device is provided via a mobile pointing apparatus and a receiving arrangement associated with the device. The mobile pointing apparatus includes a signal emitter for emitting an optical or electromagnetic signal, and the receiving arrangement associated with the device determines a pointing target of the mobile pointing apparatus relative to the device based on the signal emitted by the mobile pointing apparatus and triggers a function of the device based on the pointing target of the mobile pointing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care AGInventors: Christoph Hitzelberger, Waldemar Witt, Martin Pospiech
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Patent number: 12033482Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for implementing customized intrusion zones for security monitoring. For instance, a user may provide (e.g., via a GUI) an indication of a physical space to be monitored. An electronic device may detect one or more objects and its respective location from radar data collected by a radar sensor. The electronic device may additionally detect one or more objects within image data captured via a camera. The electronic device may then analyze the radar data and the image data in order to determine that the object detected by the radar sensor includes the same object represented by the image data. As such, the electronic device may send an alert to one or more computing devices that may include the radar data and/or the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yevhen Tsyba, Illia Bondariev, Roman Moshin, Oleg Savelyev, Mykyta Sytyi, Nataliia Pikozh
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Patent number: 12024175Abstract: A vehicle environment detection system in an ego vehicle, including a sensor arrangement and a main control unit is arranged to detect and track at least one oncoming vehicle, and to determine whether the ego vehicle has entered a curve. The main control unit is arranged to determine a common curve with a radius, along which common curve the ego vehicle is assumed to travel, determine a measured oncome direction of the oncoming vehicle on the common curve, corresponding to an oncome angle, determine a difference angle between the measured oncome direction and an oncome direction corresponding to if the oncoming vehicle would be moving along the common curve, compare the difference angle with a threshold angle, and to determine that the oncoming vehicle is crossing if the difference angle exceeds the threshold angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Arriver Software ABInventors: Michael Maas, Andreas Schmid, Christopher Unverdorben
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Patent number: 12007503Abstract: A method with rear cross collision warning includes: dividing a surrounding area of a host vehicle into a plurality of cells arranged in lateral and longitudinal directions; creating a grid map on which cells, among the plurality of cells, corresponding to positions where a stationary object around the host vehicle is viewed are classified as occupied cells; determining a position of a reflective structure reflecting radar signals based on a positional relationship between the occupied cells on the grid map; and determining, based on the determined position of the reflective structure and either one of a position of a tracking target viewed by the radar and moving direction of the tracking target, whether the tracking target is a ghost tracking target.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
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Patent number: 11994576Abstract: A radar system transmits pulses towards a target and receives pulses reflected back therefrom. Based on samples (of the received pulses) corresponding to a CPI, a first 2D matrix having a slow-time index and a fast-time index is generated. A slow-time FFT is performed to convert the slow-time index to a Doppler bin index to produce a second 2D matrix having the Doppler bin index and the fast-time index. Thereafter, a 1D interpolation is performed along the Doppler bin index to produce a third 2D matrix having a Velocity bin index and the fast-time index. Thereafter, a fast-time FFT is performed to convert the fast-time index to a Range bin index to produce a fourth 2D matrix having the Velocity bin index and a Range bin index. A distance to and a velocity of a target is determined based on the fourth 2D matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Luzhou Xu, Ricky Lap Kei Cheung, Hsing Kuo Lo, Jianghua Ying, Yuan Su
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Patent number: 11994575Abstract: A method for dithering radar frames includes determining at least one of a chirp period Tc for radar chirps in a radar frame and a chirp slope S for radar chirps in the radar frame. In response to determining the chirp period Tc, a maximum chirp dither ?c(max) is determined, and for the radar frame N, a random chirp dither ?c(N) between negative ?c(max) and positive ?c(max) is determined. In response to determining the chirp slope S, a maximum slope dither ?(max) is determined, and for the radar frame N, a random slope dither ?(N) between negative ?(max) and positive ?(max) is determined. A radar sensor circuit generates radar chirps in the radar frame N based on the at least one of (1) the chirp period Tc and the random chirp dither ?c(N) and (2) the chirp slope S and the random slope dither ?(N).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Sandeep Rao, Anand Dabak
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Patent number: 11977145Abstract: Disclosed is a method and a corresponding distance-measuring device for measuring a distance to an object using FMCW radar. The method includes the frequency-dependent determination of the amplitude of the radar signal, i.e. the frequency response in the output path and in the input path of the distance-measuring device. The standard windowing of the evaluation signal can be corrected using a correction factor dependent on the frequency responses. Thus the frequency dependence of the radar signal is compensated independently of device-internal or external interferences by adapting the window function. The result is more accurate and reliable distance measurement using FMCW radar. Because the distance can be determined by the disclosed method very accurately and without distortion, it is advantageous to use the distance-measuring device as a fill-level measuring device to measure the fill level of a filling material in a container.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KGInventor: Winfried Mayer
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Patent number: 11946771Abstract: An aerial vehicle including a body, a first ranging device, a second ranging device and a controller is provided. The first ranging device is disposed on the body and is configured to detect a first distance between the first ranging device and the reflector. The second ranging device is disposed on the body and is configured to detect a second distance between the second ranging device and the reflector. The controller is configured to obtain an included angle between a direction of the body and the reflector according to the first distance and the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yuan-Chu Tai, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Kai Wang
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Patent number: 11921212Abstract: A LIDAR-based method of determining an absolute speed of an object at a relatively longer distance from an ego vehicle, including: estimating a self speed of the ego vehicle using a first frame t?1 and a second frame t obtained from a LIDAR sensor by estimating an intervening rotation ? about a z axis and translation in orthogonal x and y directions using a deep learning algorithm over a relatively closer distance range; dividing each of the first frame t?1 and the second frame t into multiple adjacent input ranges and estimating a relative speed of the object at the relatively longer distance by subsequently processing each frame using a network, with each input range processed using a corresponding convolutional neural network; and combining the estimation of the estimating the self speed with the estimation of the estimating the relative speed to obtain an estimation of the absolute speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Sihao Ding, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Minming Zhao, Ying Li
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Patent number: 11914046Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for radar or LIDAR measurement are presented. Some configurations include transmitting, via a transceiver, a first beam having a first frequency characteristic; calculating a distance between the transceiver and a moving object based on information from at least one reflection of the first beam; transmitting, via the transceiver, a second beam having a second frequency characteristic that is different than the first frequency characteristic, wherein the second beam is directed such that an axis of the second beam intersects a ground plane; and calculating an ego-velocity of the transceiver based on information from at least one reflection of the second beam. Applications relating to road vehicular (e.g., automobile) use are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Michael John Hamilton, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Urs Niesen
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Patent number: 11906650Abstract: An object detection apparatus 1000 is provided with: a transmission unit 1101 that emits a radio wave as a transmission signal toward a target 1003 object; a reception unit 1102 that receives, through receiving antennas, radio waves reflected by the object as reception signals, and that generates, for each reception signal received by the respective receiving antennas, using the reception signals, an intermediate frequency signal; and an arithmetic device 1211 that decides sampling times so as to suppress generation of a virtual image by a beam pattern obtained by synthesizing the respective intermediate frequency signals, and generates an intermediate frequency signal for target position detection by performing sampling on the intermediate frequency signals at the decided sampling times, and detects the target using the intermediate frequency signals for position detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Yamanouchi
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Patent number: 11906616Abstract: The present disclosures discloses a method of target feature extraction based on millimeter-wave radar echo, which mainly solves the problems that techniques in the prior art cannot fully utilize raw radar echo information to obtain more separable features and cannot accurately distinguish targets with similar physical shapes and motion states. The method is implemented as follows: acquiring measured data of targets, generating an original RD map, and removing ground clutter of the map; sequentially performing target detection, clustering and centroid condensation on the RD map after the ground clutter removal; acquiring a continuous multi-frame RD maps and carrying out the target tracking; according to the tracking trajectory, selecting candidate areas and extracting features based on a single piece of RD map and features based on two successive RD maps, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Xidian UniversityInventors: Lan Du, Zengyu Yu, Xiaoyang Chen, Zenghui Li, Chunxin Wang
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Patent number: 11904859Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of achieving appropriate cornering during cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle. In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, during the cruise control, in which acceleration/deceleration of the straddle-type vehicle is automatically controlled without relying on an accelerating/decelerating operation by a driver, a vehicle speed of the straddle-type vehicle is restricted to be equal to or lower than an upper limit speed at the time of turning, an exit of a curved road is detected on the basis of a predicted route of the straddle-type vehicle, and a magnitude of the deceleration of the decelerated straddle-type vehicle is reduced at a time point before the straddle-type vehicle reaches the exit.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Kazuhiko Hirakuri
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Patent number: 11840143Abstract: The present invention obtains a controller and a control method capable of achieving appropriate cornering during cruise control of a straddle-type vehicle. In the controller and the control method according to the present invention, during the cruise control, in which acceleration/deceleration of the straddle-type vehicle is automatically controlled without relying on an accelerating/decelerating operation by a driver, an entry of a curved road is detected on the basis of a predicted route of the straddle-type vehicle, and the straddle-type vehicle is decelerated at a time point before the straddle-type vehicle reaches the entry.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Kazuhiko Hirakuri
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Patent number: 11835649Abstract: Two-dimensional data obtained by performing a Fourier transform on a digitally converted FMCW radar signal at every pulse repetition interval over N pulse repetition intervals is input to a convolutional neural network (CNN) to find the probabilities of the existence of a target in range indices. The range indices, i.e., bit frequencies are selected based on the probabilities of the existence of the target. In order to reduce the size of the CNN, windowing is applied to the two-dimensional data. A speed-index-specific coefficient value may be calculated by re-performing a Fourier transform on range data for the selected bit frequencies. Thus, the range and speed of the target may be calculated.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SMART RADAR SYSTEM, INC.Inventor: Jong Il Kim
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Patent number: 11828838Abstract: An object detection radar apparatus is installed in a vehicle and is configured to detect an object. The object detection radar apparatus includes a transceiver configured to transmit a radar signal to the outside of the vehicle and receive a radar signal reflected from the object; a driving environment detector configured to detect a driving environment of the vehicle based on an operation status of the vehicle; an object detector configured to detect the object based on the received radar signal; and a controller configured to determine whether or not a predetermined event occurs based on the driving environment of the vehicle or a result of the detection of the object, and control signal characteristics of the transmitted radar signal or the received radar signal when the predetermined event occurs.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BITSENSING INC.Inventors: Jae Eun Lee, Hae Seung Lim
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Patent number: 11808884Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (20) for determining a radar target list, comprising: an input interface (22) for receiving preprocessed sensor data from a radar sensor (18) with information on detected strengths at high points (H1, H2) in a distance and/or velocity dimension and in predefined neighborhood ranges of the high points in the distance and/or velocity dimension; an analysis unit (24) for determining mutually adjacent high points with overlapping neighborhood ranges based on the preprocessed sensor data; an adjustment unit (26) for adjusting the neighborhood ranges of the mutually adjacent high points; and an evaluation unit (28) for determining a radar target list with information on targets (17) in a field of view of the radar sensor based on the high points and the neighborhood ranges thereof. The present invention also relates to a method for determining a radar target list and a sensor system (10) for detecting targets (17) in an environment (12) of a vehicle (14).Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Benjamin Sick, Stefan Zechner, Florian Engels
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Patent number: 11802965Abstract: Techniques for Doppler correction of chirped optical range detection include obtaining a first set of ranges based on corresponding frequency differences between a return optical signal and a first chirped transmitted optical signal with an up chirp that increases frequency with time. A second set of ranges is obtained based on corresponding frequency differences between a return optical signal and a second chirped transmitted optical signal with a down chirp. A matrix of values for a cost function is determined, one value for each pair of ranges that includes one in the first set and one in the second set. A matched pair of one range in the first set and a corresponding one range in the second set is determined based on the matrix. A Doppler effect on range is determined based on combining the matched pair of ranges. A device is operated based on the Doppler effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: BLACKMORE SENSORS & ANALYTICS LLCInventors: Stephen C. Crouch, Randy R. Reibel, James Curry, Trenton Berg
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Patent number: 11802952Abstract: The position detecting apparatus repeatedly acquires, from a radar apparatus, object information including at least an object distance as a distance between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object and a relative speed between the radar apparatus and a reflecting object. The position detecting apparatus calculates a speed ratio as a ratio between the relative speed and the travelling speed. The position detecting apparatus calculates, based on the speed ratio, a projection distance between a projected position of the reflecting object projected onto a projection plane and a position of the radar apparatus on the projection plane, the projection plane having a predetermined angle with respect to a center axis indicating a direction along which the radar waves are transmitted by the radar apparatus and including the radar apparatus. The position detection apparatus calculates the position of the reflecting object based on the calculated projection distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: SOKEN, INC., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Takuya Takayama
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Patent number: 11794536Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control system, a vehicle control method, and an image sensor, the vehicle control system including: an image sensor disposed on the vehicle to have a field of view of an outside of the vehicle to capture image data; at least one non-image sensor disposed on the vehicle to have a field of sensing of the outside of the vehicle to capture sensing data; at least one processor configured to process the image data captured by the image sensor and the sensing data captured by the non-image sensor; and a controller configured to determine a chance of a collision with an obstacle with respect to a rear side warning determination reference area that is changed depending on whether a trailer is mounted on the vehicle, on the basis of at least part of processing at least one of the image data and the sensing data.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.Inventors: Jae Suk Kim, Tak Gen Kim
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Patent number: 11794782Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to features for improving the modularity and interoperability of sensors and in particular, sensors deployed for use in vehicle related sensing applications. In some aspects, the disclosed technology encompasses a sensor aggregation module (e.g., sensor pod) that includes a sensor enclosure having an interior volume configured for housing one or more sensors, a data port integrated into an exterior surface of the sensor enclosure, wherein the data port is configured to be electrically coupled to a vehicle data port, and a plurality of sensor ports disposed within an interior volume of the sensor enclosure, wherein the sensor ports are configured for modular connectivity to the one or more sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Brendan Hermalyn, Radu Raduta, Devin Cass
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Patent number: 11789139Abstract: A method for detecting critical transverse movements. The method includes the following steps: emitting a CW radar signal and generating radar data based on the received reflected CW radar signal with the aid of a radar device; ascertaining collision-relevant spectral ranges of the radar data as a function of an ego velocity of the radar device; ascertaining a time dependency of a relative velocity and of an object angle of an object by evaluating the radar data in the ascertained spectral ranges; and detecting a critical transverse movement of the object using the time dependency of the relative velocity and of the object angle of the object.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Hermann Buddendick, Stephan Morgen
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Patent number: 11771954Abstract: The present invention provides a method for calculating a swing trajectory of a golf club using radar sensing data capable of calculating a swing trajectory of a golf club therefrom, a radar sensing device using the same, and a recording medium readable by a computing device recording the calculation method, which calculates the position coordinate information of the golf club through the analysis of the radar signal separately from calculating the motion parameters for the ball through the analysis of the radar signal when the golfer hits the ball with the golf club, and effectively calculate the swing trajectory of the golf club from the calculated position coordinate information of the golf club.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GOLFZON CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae Yang Lee, Da Bin Han