Combined With Determining Distance And Direction Patents (Class 342/107)
-
Patent number: 10852426Abstract: A system and method of utilizing a LIDAR digital map improves automatic device by allowing a self-driving vehicle to safely make a sharp turn or pass by an environmental obstacle. The system includes at least one passenger vehicle, an automated driving system, and at least one roadside device. Road-condition data is continuously captured with a passenger LIDAR system and a passenger camera device of the passenger vehicle. The road-condition data is compared to LIDAR profiles with an automatic driving system in order to identify a matching profile. A roadside device is pinged if at least one non-line-of-sight condition is detected in the road-condition data. Hidden target data is retrieved from the roadside device to the automated driving system. The automated driving system compiles a set of driving instructions. The set of driving instructions is executed with the passenger vehicle through the automated driving system.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Inventor: Tiejun Shan
-
Patent number: 10812933Abstract: A method of determining a position of a mobile telecommunication device (10) which transmits a signal (S) to base stations (1, 2, 3, . . . ) connected by a data link (8) comprises the steps of: ?correlating the received signal (S) and a reference signal (S?) so as to produce a correlation for each base station, ?detecting a maximum in each correlation, which maximum is indicative of a time of arrival of the signal (S) at the respective base station, and ?using the respective times of arrival and the distances (D1, D2, . . . ) derived therefrom to derive a location of the mobile telecommunication device. The method uses receivers (21, 22, . . . ) coupled to a data network (7), each receiver (21, 22, . . . ) deriving the reference signal (S?) from the received signal (S). Each base station may select, if it receives multiple reference signals, the reference signal (S?) having the highest quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: K.Mizra LLCInventors: Martin Van Rijn, Franciscus Hendrikus Elferink
-
Patent number: 10788880Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable a smartphone-based radar system for determining user intention in a lower-power mode. The techniques and systems use a radar field to enable the smartphone to accurately determine the presence or absence of a user and further determine the intention of the user to interact with the smartphone. Using these techniques, the smartphone can account for the user's nonverbal communication cues to determine and maintain an awareness of users in its environment, and only respond to direct interactions once a user has demonstrated an intention to interact, which preserves battery power. The smartphone may determine the user's intention by recognizing various cues from the user, such as a change in position relative to the smartphone, a change in posture, or by an explicit action, such as a gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Leonardo Giusti, Ivan Poupyrev, Eiji Hayashi, Patrick M. Amihood
-
Patent number: 10761203Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for signal processing resource allocation. The method comprises receiving (S10) streaming signal data. The method further comprises, at a first computational resource, determining (S20) a first data subset of the streaming signal data based on a selection criterion, the selection criterion having a contextual relationship with a predetermined scenario. The method also comprises determining (S25) a second data subset of the received streaming signal data based on the first data subset and the contextual relationship. The method additionally comprises, at a second computational resource, analysing (S30) the second data subset using an algorithm based on the contextual relationship. The method further comprises forming (S40) aggregated signal data based on the received streaming signal data and the analysed second data subset. The method yet further comprises outputting (S50) data based on the aggregated signal data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: SAAB ABInventor: Stefan Eriksson
-
Patent number: 10754476Abstract: A close-range motion detector has at least one transmitter, at least one receiver, and at least one more transmitter or receiver. The transmitter(s) transmit, and the receiver(s) receive signals in one of the ultrasonic or mm-wave ranges. Multiple transmitters or receivers are spaced apart from one-another along a plane, and transmission of a signal takes place at a known time. Echos of the signal that bounce of a scatterer are received and digitized during a receive window, and the time-of-flight is determined using CAF. Time scaling may be determined as well, and may be determined using CAF. The determined time-of-flight is used to determine an X-Y-coordinate for the scatterer, and its motion (e.g., velocity) can be determined, which are output. In an embodiment, a such a close-range motion detector can be implemented on the side of a smart-watch, making a virtual writing surface on the back of a user's hand.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.Inventors: Darren Leigh, Kaan Duman, Steven Leonard Sanders
-
Patent number: 10739438Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an autonomous driving system in an ego vehicle. The autonomous driving system includes a radar system configured to detect a target in a path and a surrounding environment of the ego vehicle and produce radar data with a first resolution that is gathered over a continuous field of view on the detected target. The system includes a super-resolution network configured to receive the radar data with the first resolution and produce radar data with a second resolution different from the first resolution using first neural networks. The system also includes a target identification module configured to receive the radar data with the second resolution and to identify the detected target from the radar data with the second resolution using second neural networks. Other examples disclosed herein include a method of operating the radar system in the autonomous driving system of the ego vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Inventor: Matthew Paul Harrison
-
Patent number: 10718862Abstract: There is provided a radar device which detects targets by performing a signal processing procedure based on a frequency-modulated continuous wave and the reflected waves of the transmission wave from the targets. A signal processing unit is configured to periodically perform the signal processing procedure based on beat signals which are differential waves between the transmission wave and the reflected waves. A monitoring unit is configured to monitor each of processing states of processes which are sequentially performed in the signal processing procedure. A changing unit is configured to change a processing condition for the subsequent-stage processes of a process, according to the processing state of the process, if the monitoring unit detects that the process is in a high load state, from the processing states.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITEDInventors: Hisateru Asanuma, Yasuhiro Suedomi
-
Patent number: 10663571Abstract: A multi-static radar system provides surveillance. The radar system includes a plurality of radar receivers and a plurality of radar transmitters arranged in a multi-static configuration to form at least one radar cell to provide an area of radar coverage within the cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: AVEILLANT LIMITEDInventors: Max Peter Halbert, Mohammed Jahangir, Gordon Oswald
-
Patent number: 10656096Abstract: A camera assembly arranged on an unmanned and autonomously navigating aerial vehicle is employed to inspect a surface area of for material defects. The vehicle is automatically flown to the surface area from a launch site, wherein it can fly around obstacles using automatic obstacle detection and avoidance methods. A relative position of the aerial vehicle with respect to the surface area with the aid of a position sensor is continuously measured and a sequence of images of the surface area is recorded. Between the individual images, the aerial vehicle is moved along a flight path overlapping image details of the surface area. The images of the sequence are composed into an overall image of the surface area to allow for the surface area to be inspected for defects and the location of defects to be ascertained on the basis of the overall image.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Michael Naderhirn, Peter Langthaler
-
Patent number: 10641884Abstract: A radar transceiver (100) includes: a transmission-signal forming section (110) that forms an upbeat signal and a downbeat signal from a carrier signal and a chirp signal, using an image rejection circuit; and a received-signal processing section (120) that separates a reflection signal received via a reception antenna (105) into a reflection signal based on the upbeat signal and a reflection signal based on the downbeat signal, using an image rejection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuji Takada
-
Patent number: 10622713Abstract: A beam signal tracking method, device, and system, where the method includes obtaining a Doppler frequency shift of a receive-beam signal, determining a Doppler frequency shift change speed of the receive-beam signal according to the Doppler frequency shift, determining a scanning speed and a scanning angle step size of the receive-beam signal according to the Doppler frequency shift change speed, scanning the receive-beam signal according to the scanning speed and the scanning angle step size, determining a beam angle that is formed when the receive-beam signal is aligned with a transmit-beam signal, determining phase configuration information of a phase shifter according to the beam angle that is formed when the receive-beam signal is aligned with the transmit-beam signal, and configuring the phase shifter according to the phase configuration information of the phase shifter such that the receive-beam signal is aligned with the transmit-beam signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun Ma
-
Patent number: 10571265Abstract: A method for determining trajectory of a mobile object, including: provision of an object including sensors; displacement of the sensors along one and the same trajectory, the sensors maintaining one and the same distance between themselves and each measuring one and the same physical quantity; determination of instants for which the object has travelled an aggregate curvilinear distance which is equal to an integer multiple of the distance and calculation of a direction tangent to the trajectory of the object, for each of the instants determined; automatic reconstruction of the trajectory followed by the mobile object during its displacement by an interpolation, based on, for each reference instant determined, the measured tangent calculated for the reference instant.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Laurent Jouanet, Mikael Carmona, Nathalie Sprynski
-
Patent number: 10564276Abstract: A system and method to perform target tracking with a radar system that uses a Kalman filter include predicting a predicted target position of a target detected by the radar system in a frame. The frame is a period of time to transmit from every transmit element of the radar system in turn and receive the reflections from a range of the target. The method also includes determining an actual target position of the target detected by the radar system based on reflections received by the radar system for the frame, and computing a process noise covariance matrix Q for a next frame, immediately following the frame, based on the predicted target position and the actual target position. Predicting a position of the target in the next frame is based on the process noise covariance matrix Q.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Ishai Eljarat, Igal Bilik, Shahar Villeval
-
Patent number: 10566298Abstract: Wireless modules having a semiconductor package attached to an antenna package is disclosed. The semiconductor package may house one or more electronic components as a single die package and/or a system in a package (SiP) implementation. The antenna package may be communicatively coupled to the semiconductor package using by one or more coupling pads. The antenna package may further have one or more radiating elements for transmitting and or receiving wireless signals. The antenna package and the semiconductor package may have dissimilar number of interconnect layers and/or dissimilar materials of construct.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Sidharth Dalmia, Ana M. Yepes, Pouya Talebbeydokhti, Miroslav Baryakh, Omer Asaf
-
Patent number: 10557931Abstract: An FMCW radar sensor and a method for localizing a radar target, in which FMCW radar measurements are performed with transmitting antennas having different fields of view which differ in terms of an aperture angle and/or a range, the measurements each encompassing temporally interleaved sequences of ramps, and measurements with different fields of view being temporally interwoven with one another; ambiguous values for the relative velocity of the radar target being determined from a position of a peak in a two-dimensional spectrum; phase relationships between spectral values of spectra being checked for agreement with phase relationships expected for several of the determined values of the relative velocity; and on the basis thereof an estimated value for the relative velocity of the radar target being selected from the determined periodic values of the relative velocity.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schoor, Benedikt Loesch
-
Patent number: 10371797Abstract: A system for determining a spatial disposition or a characteristic of a target external to a terrestrial vehicle is provided. The system may comprise a radar antenna array configured to transmit and receive radar signals, and a controller operatively coupled to the radar antenna array. The controller can be configured to use spatial information of the terrestrial vehicle and a spatial configuration of the radar antenna array to generate an enhanced main lobe by attenuating one or more side lobes in an effective sensitivity pattern associated with the radar antenna array or enhancing a main lobe in the effective sensitivity pattern associated with the radar antenna array. The controller can be configured to use the enhanced main lobe to determine (i) the spatial disposition of the target relative to the terrestrial vehicle or (ii) the characteristic of the target.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Zendar Inc.Inventors: Michael Prados, Antonio Puglielli, Ching Ming Wang, Vinayak Nagpal
-
Patent number: 10353063Abstract: A radar apparatus includes a targeting unit that irradiates a radar wave and recognizes a detection subject using a reflected wave thereof. The targeting unit extracts, as a target, a peak that is confirmed to have historical connection over measurement cycles equal to or more than a predetermined targeting threshold, from peaks extracted from a power spectrum generated by frequency analysis. A rainy-weather determining unit determines that weather is rainy when a number of erroneous detections is greater than a predetermined rainy-weather determination threshold. The number of erroneous detections is a number of peaks that have been detected in a previous measurement cycle or earlier by the targeting unit and are not confirmed to have historical connection to a peak detected in a current measurement cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Mai Sakamoto, Koichiro Suzuki
-
Patent number: 10288725Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for performing passing sensing using wireless digital communications. The wireless digital communications are frame-based with a predefined frame structure. The method includes receiving a reference signal into to a reference channel, wherein the reference signal comprises a direct version of a radio frequency transmission as part of said wireless digital communications; receiving a surveillance signal into a surveillance channel; detecting and extracting portions of the reference signal corresponding to data transmissions based on said predefined frame structure; extracting portions of the surveillance signal corresponding to the extracted portions of the reference signal; performing a cross-correlation on the extracted portions of the reference signal and the surveillance signal to determine a range-Doppler surface; and providing a real-time display of said range-Doppler surface and/or of information derived therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: UCL Business PLCInventors: Bo Tan, Karl Woodbridge, Kevin Chetty
-
Patent number: 10279806Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lane estimating apparatus and method. The apparatus includes: a lane determiner, an obstacle position calculator, a vehicle position corrector, and a lane estimator. The lane determiner compares a first lane detected by a first sensor with a lane on an actual road or a second lane on a local map to determine reliability of the first lane. The obstacle position calculator detects, when the reliability of the detected first lane is less than a preset reference, a first obstacle in the vicinity of a vehicle and a second obstacle on the local map, and calculates a difference between slopes and positions of straight lines extracted from the first obstacle and the second obstacle. The vehicle position corrector corrects a heading direction and a position of the vehicle based on the difference between the slopes and positions of the straight lines. In addition, the lane estimator estimates a driving lane on the local map.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Young Chul Oh, Ki Cheol Shin, Byung Yong You, Myung Seon Heo
-
Patent number: 10281569Abstract: A method for locating a target comprises: a) receiving, by means of N?1 receivers, opportunity radioelectric signals transmitted by M?1 transmitters and reflected by the target, with N·M?3, or at least one transmitter being situated out of sight of at least one receiver; b) receiving, by means of a data transmission link, one or more reference signals, representative of the radioelectric signals transmitted by each transmitter situated out of sight of at least one receiver; and c) determining the position of the target on the basis of the radioelectric signals and of the reference signal or of the reference signals. An application of the method to the primary monitoring of air traffic, a multistatic radar system for the implementation of the method, and a system for monitoring air traffic comprising a multistatic radar system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: THALESInventor: Daniel Muller
-
Patent number: 10267907Abstract: A radar apparatus is mountable on a vehicle, transmits a radar signal, and includes a radio receiver that receives reflected wave signals being the radar signal reflected by multiple objects present in the viewing angle of the radar apparatus via a receiving antenna mountable on a side of the vehicle, a signal processing unit that determines the azimuths of the objects, the Doppler speeds between the radar apparatus and the objects, and the intensities of the reflected wave signals by using the reflected wave signals, and a radar state estimation unit that estimates the speed and traveling direction of the radar using the azimuths of the objects, the Doppler speeds, and the intensities.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Maiko Shikatani, Hirofumi Nishimura, Asako Hamada, Takaaki Kishigami
-
Patent number: 10228454Abstract: Provided is an obstacle detection device for a work machine which can detect an obstacle coming close to a vehicle accurately regardless of vehicle speed. In the present invention, an obstacle detection device 10 for a dump truck 1 which detects an obstacle coming close to the vehicle includes: a periphery monitoring unit 11 for detecting an obstacle in the area around the vehicle and monitoring the area around the vehicle; a distant monitoring unit 12 for detecting an obstacle in a more distant place from the vehicle than the detection range of the periphery monitoring unit 11 and monitor a distant area from the vehicle; and a monitoring switching unit 13 for switching between monitoring by the periphery monitoring unit 11 and monitoring by the distant monitoring unit 12.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinichi Uotsu
-
Patent number: 10228439Abstract: In a general aspect, motion is detected based on statistical parameters of received wireless signals. In some aspects, signals are obtained. The signals are based on wireless signals transmitted through a space and received at a wireless communication device. Values of a set of statistical parameters are computed for each signal, and filtered values are obtained by applying a filter to the values of the statistical parameters. The filter includes parameters based on a signal quality analysis of the wireless signals. A motion detection process is executed to determine, based on the filtered values, whether an object moved in the space.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Christopher Vytautas Olekas, Yunfeng Piao, Stephen Arnold Devison
-
Patent number: 10180494Abstract: A method for a radar sensor for a motor vehicle, for angle estimation of radar targets based on an antenna diagram that indicates, for various configurations of radar targets, pertinent amplitudes and/or phase correlations between signals which are obtained for the relevant configuration in multiple evaluation channels of the radar sensor, wherein for a single real target, the occurrence of a number n of apparent targets, which are caused by reflection of the signal coming from the real target from elongated objects, is modeled mathematically; a correlation between the location angle of the real target and the location angles of the apparent targets is calculated; and to estimate the location angle of the real target, a multi-target estimate is performed in an n-dimensional search space and the search is limited to a sub-space that is determined by the calculated correlation.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Goetz Kuehnle, Volker Gross, Benedikt Loesch
-
Patent number: 10124802Abstract: A device and method for a controlled deceleration based on a selected vehicle driving mode are disclosed, in which upon sensing a deceleration of a vehicle, a plurality of deceleration control signals based on a deceleration target for the selected vehicle driving mode are produced. At least one of the plurality of deceleration control signals are transmitted to prompt a controlled deceleration of the vehicle to correspond with a deceleration target for the selected vehicle driving mode. The method receives sensor data relating to the deceleration of the vehicle, and compares at least some of the sensor data with the deceleration target to generate a deceleration feedback signal. The method provides for adjusting the plurality of deceleration control signals based on the deceleration feedback signal to effect the controlled deceleration.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Christopher T. Gauthier
-
Patent number: 10126421Abstract: A radar transmitter comprises orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol generation circuitry, windowing circuitry, and control circuitry. The OFDM symbol generation circuitry is operable to modulate data onto a plurality of subcarriers to generate a plurality of OFDM symbols. The windowing circuitry is configurable to support a plurality of windowing functions. The control circuitry is operable to analyze returns from a previous transmission of the radar transmitter to determine characteristics of the environment into which the previous transmission was transmitted. The control circuitry is operable to select which one of the plurality of windowing functions the windowing circuitry is to apply to each of the plurality of OFDM symbols based on the characteristics of the environment. A first one of the windowing functions may correspond to a first radiation pattern and the second one of the windowing functions may correspond to a second radiation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.Inventor: Curtis Ling
-
Patent number: 10127817Abstract: A vehicle turning in an intersection includes a speed detector configured to detect a driving speed of the vehicle; a sensor configured to determine a cross time between the vehicle and a target vehicle driving in the intersection, and a controller configured to calculate a turning radius of the vehicle in the intersection, based on a minimum turning radius of the intersection, configured to estimate a time to collision between the vehicle turning in the intersection and the target vehicle and a time to collision avoidance allowing the vehicle to pass cross the target vehicle without colliding with the target vehicle, based on at least one of the driving speed of the vehicle and the calculated turning radius, and configured to transmit a warning signal by estimating that the vehicle collides with the target vehicle when the determined cross time is equal to or more than the estimated time to collision and equal to or less than the estimated time to collision avoidance.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Dae Seok Jeon, HyeongMin Ko
-
Patent number: 10080146Abstract: Spatial sensor data, such as position, movement and rotation, which is provided by a sensor in a wireless communication device in a wireless communication system is used. By using the spatial sensor data it is possible to calculate predicted spatial data for use in controlling antenna beams for transmission as well as reception in the wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Lars Sundström, Daniel Araújo, Dennis Hui, Andres Reial
-
Patent number: 9989334Abstract: Techniques for tracking a straight line object by creating a detection envelope between two detections selected from temporally-discontinuous frames are discussed. The detections within the detection envelope can then be analyzed in order to determine whether they are associated with a straight line track between the outer detections of the envelope. Techniques for identifying a launch-flash are also discussed. Potential launch flashes are checked for energy duration, intensity and spectral ratio. Techniques for detecting a hostile fire based on a single-frame detection are additionally detected. Based on a frame length of the detection, it can be determined whether the detection correlates to a hostile fire.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Kevin C. Cole, Joseph M. Schlupf, Michael N. Mercier, Lucas Lawrence-Hurt
-
Patent number: 9984704Abstract: Disclosed is vehicle classification technology. A vehicle classification system includes a sound generation module configured to generate a sound caused by friction with a wheel of a passing vehicle and a sensor node configured to collect the sound generated by the sound generation module, analyze the collected sound to acquire axle information, and classify a model of the vehicle on the basis of the acquired axle information.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Young Jin Kwon, Do Hyun Kim, Seung Jun Lee
-
Patent number: 9983296Abstract: A data processing apparatus that can set the magnification factor according to the distance from the antenna is provided so that the display of objects close to the antenna is easier to see and with which the changes in the settings of the magnification factor is easy. The buffer memory stores the digital signals converted by the A/D converter in association with the distance and azimuth with respect to the antenna. The digital filter filters the digital signals read from the buffer memory. A digital filter is provided that converts a value of data of interest, of digital data stored in the memory, to a value based on values of the data of interest to be processed and peripheral data in a periphery of the data of interest, and the digital filter changes a range of the peripheral data used for a filter processing according to the distance from the antenna to the data of interest.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Koji Nishiyama
-
Patent number: 9921306Abstract: An active state estimation system comprises radar systems for obtaining sensor measurements, data storage devices for storing the sensor measurements, and computer processors in communication with the data storage devices. A memory stores program instructions which cause the computer processors to initialize a system having state variables and also having unknown, multidimensional, arbitrarily time-varying parameters, but which are subject to known bounded values. Sensor measurements for the object being tracked are then received, and applied to an estimating filter that explicitly uses a mean square optimization criterion that separately accounts for measurement errors and said bounding values, to produce estimates of the true state of the system. The system also determines whether a regime change has occurred based on the estimates of the true state of the system, and if so, determines updated known bounded values that are used to update the boundaries used by the system.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventor: Mark A. Friesel
-
Patent number: 9922518Abstract: Described embodiments include a real-time system, method, and apparatus. A system includes an incoming object sensor configured to be worn by a human and to acquire data indicative of a trajectory of an incoming projectile. The system includes a warning device configured to be worn by the human and to provide a notification to the human. The system includes a processing circuit configured to (i) receive the data indicative of a trajectory of the incoming projectile; (ii) predict a spatial relationship of the trajectory of the incoming projectile relative to the human; and (iii) initiate a notification by the warning device suggesting a movement by the human to evade the incoming projectile.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Inventors: Russell J. Hannigan, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, 3ric Johanson, Jordin T. Kare, Tony S. Pan, Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Victoria Y. H. Wood
-
Patent number: 9852560Abstract: A vehicle remote function system is provided for use in effectuating vehicle operations based on movement of a fob relative to a vehicle. The system may include a controller for determining locations of the fob within zones proximate the vehicle based on ultra-wide band wireless signals transmitted between the antennas and the fob, the zones including a primary zone and secondary zones, each secondary zone at least partially within the primary zone. The controller may be configured to detect a movement of the fob between secondary zones and generate a control signal for use in effectuating a vehicle operation based on the movement detected. A method is also provided which may include transmitting ultra-wide band wireless signals between the fob and the antennas, detecting a movement of the fob between secondary zones, and generating a control signal for use in effectuating a vehicle operation based on the movement detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Jason G. Bauman, Thomas O'Brien, Jian Ye
-
Patent number: 9851711Abstract: A robot cleaner system is described including a docking station to form a docking area within a predetermined angle range of a front side thereof, to form docking guide areas which do not overlap each other on the left and right sides of the docking area, and to transmit a docking guide signal such that the docking guide areas are distinguished as a first docking guide area and a second docking guide area according to an arrival distance of the docking guide signal. The robot cleaner system also includes a robot cleaner to move to the docking area along a boundary between the first docking guide area and the second docking guide area when the docking guide signal is sensed and to move along the docking area so as to perform docking when reaching the docking area.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyung Hwan Yoo, Jae Man Joo, Dong Won Kim, Jun Hwa Lee, Jun Pyo Hong, Woo Ram Chung, Jae Young Jung, Hwi Chan Jang, Jang Youn Ko, Jeong Gon Song, Sam Jong Jeung
-
Patent number: 9848428Abstract: A method performed by a network node (10) for finding a direction to a wireless device (20) in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises the step (S1) of the network node transmitting reference signal pairs on at least one pair of correlated antennas. Each reference signal pair has a unique phase difference between the signals in the signal pair, and the unique phase differences of the reference signal pairs are distributed over a given angular interval. The method further comprises the step (S2) of the network node receiving from the wireless device, in response to each pair of reference signals, a respective indication of a preferred pre-coding matrix, and the step (S3) of the network node determining a direction to the wireless device based on the received indications, information representative of the phase differences of the reference signal pairs, and phase information related to the indicated preferred pre-coding matrices.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Magnus Thurfjell, Kjell Larsson, Peter Ökvist
-
Patent number: 9841497Abstract: A device is suggested for processing input data received by several antennas, the device including a processing unit including a buffer and at least one multiplier, wherein the processing unit is configured to calculate a second stage FFT result based on input data received by a first antenna, multiply the second stage FFT result for the first antenna with a first compensation value, and store the result in the buffer. The processing unit is further configured to calculate a second stage FFT result based on input data received by a second antenna, multiply the second stage FFT for the second antenna with a second compensation value, and add the result to the value stored in the buffer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Andre Roger, Romain Ygnace, David Addison
-
Patent number: 9836961Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and a method for correcting position information of a surrounding vehicle, which provide accurate position information of a surrounding vehicle by correcting the position information of the surrounding vehicle received through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and identifies a license-plate number of a front vehicle through a sensor mounted in a vehicle, calculates a position of the front vehicle, and compare position information, which is included in information including the identified number of the front vehicle in information received from the surrounding vehicle, with the calculated position of the front vehicle to correct the position information of the surrounding vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bon Wook Koo
-
Patent number: 9835723Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for determining the velocity of an object using radar system having a processor, including: receiving, by a processor, a first digital signal corresponding to a first transmit signal; receiving, by the processor, a second digital signal corresponding to a second transmit signal; processing the first digital signal to produce a first range/relative velocity matrix; detecting objects in the first range/relative velocity matrix to produce a first detection vector; unfolding the first detection vector; processing the second digital signal to produce a second range/relative velocity matrix; interpolating the second range/relative velocity matrix in the relative velocity direction wherein the interpolated second range/relative velocity matrix has a frequency spacing corresponding to the frequency spacing of the first range/relative range velocity matrix in the relative velocity direction; detecting objects in the second range/relative velocity matrix to produce a secType: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Feike Guus Jansen, Zoran Zivkovic
-
Patent number: 9824586Abstract: The moving object recognition system includes: a camera that is installed in a vehicle and captures continuous single-view images; a moving object detecting unit that detects a moving object from the images captured by the camera; a relative approach angle estimating unit that estimates the relative approach angle of the moving object detected by the moving object detecting unit with respect to the camera; a collision risk calculating unit that calculates the risk of the moving object colliding with the vehicle, based on the relationship between the relative approach angle and the moving object direction from the camera toward the moving object; and a reporting unit that reports a danger to the driver of the vehicle in accordance with the risk calculated by the collision risk calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: DENSO IT LABORATORY, INC., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ikuro Sato, Yukimasa Tamatsu, Kunihiro Goto
-
Patent number: 9812017Abstract: The invention relates to a detection device (1) for a motor vehicle (VI) comprising at least one optical detector (3). Said at least one optical detector (3) being configured for detecting the approach of a person (U) in a predefined area in the vicinity of the vehicle in order to activate opening command means of a device for opening a movable panel (5, 7) of the vehicle (VI). According to the invention: —said detection device (1) comprises switching means for switching the function of the at least one optical detector (3) to a detecting function of an obstacle (V2) at a predefined distance of the vehicle (VI) when the identifier of an authorized person (U) is detected inside the vehicle (VI) and the vehicle movable panels (5, 7) are closed, and wherein—said detection device (1) comprises processing means configured to react depending on a detection of an obstacle (V2) by the optical sensor (3).Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: U-SHIN FRANCE SASInventors: Dietmar Krauss, Hervé Calor
-
Patent number: 9810772Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to an apparatus having a transmit signal generator for a pulse compression radar. The transmit signal generator may include a frequency modulation stage with phase-lock-loop (PLL) circuitry configured to generate a transmit signal at antenna frequency. The transmit signal generator may include an amplitude modulation stage configured to shape an amplitude of the generated transmit signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: NAVICO HOLDING ASInventor: Gregor Storz
-
Patent number: 9798001Abstract: A radar apparatus is provided to receive a transmission wave reflected by a target object by antennas. The radar apparatus includes a signal analysis unit to analyze reception waves, and to obtain amplitudes and phases of the reception waves, at a frequency with which reception strength shows a peak. The radar apparatus also includes a direction detection unit to detect a direction of the target object based on the phases of the reception waves, and an estimated amplitude and phase output unit to output estimated amplitudes and estimated phases of reception waves to be received, assuming that the target object exists in the detected direction. The radar apparatus further includes a comparison unit to compare the amplitude or phase obtained by the signal analysis unit with that output by the estimated amplitude and phase output unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ichiro Aizawa
-
Patent number: 9784828Abstract: A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system that includes a transceiver coupled to an analog to digital converter (ADC), and a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to the ADC. The transceiver is configured to transmit a plurality of FMCW chirps, receive a plurality of reflected FMCW chirps, and mix the reflected FMCW chirps with at least one of the FMCW chirps to generate a plurality of beat signals. The reflected FMCW chirps are the FMCW chirps after being reflected off of a target object. The ADC is configured to convert the beat signals into a plurality of digital chirps. The DSP is configured to receive the digital chirps and quantify a relative velocity of the target object as compared to a velocity of the FMCW radar system by removing an effect of a range to the target object from a two dimensional range Doppler processing signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTURMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Sujeet Milind Patole, Anand Dabak, Lei Ding
-
Patent number: 9769620Abstract: A system includes one or more processors, and data storage configured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform functions. In this example, the functions include receiving sensor data that is collected by one or more sensors of a device over one or more locations and over a time period. Further, in the present example, the functions also include determining location estimates of the device by performing filtering of the sensor data to determine offsets for a least one sensor providing sensor data. The filtering is an iterative process of filtering control input data to determine the sensor bias based on data from a second sensor of the at least two sensors and adjusting the set of sensor data based on the determined bias.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mohammed Khider, Brian Williams, Etienne Le Grand, Patrick Robertson
-
Patent number: 9738216Abstract: In one embodiment, a towed implement proximity system, the system comprising: a first device comprising a transceiver, the first device configured to: transmit a signal; receive a first signal at a first angle and a second signal at a second angle responsive to the transmitted signal, the first and second signals comprising first information and second information, respectively, the first and second information each corresponding to respective positional information; and a controller coupled to the first device, the controller configured to determine a relative position in three axes between a first machine and a second machine based on the first and second information.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Patrick Kendrick, Lawrence Retzlaff, Gerald R. Johnson, Quentin Guhr
-
Patent number: 9715014Abstract: An antenna array, particularly for a radar system, having first antenna elements which are situated in a horizontal direction in a plane and which are developed to receive a first radio signal, having second antenna elements which are each situated above or below the horizontally situated first antenna elements and which are developed to receive the first radio signal, and having a processing device which is developed to calculate an azimuth angle and an angle of elevation of an object, that is located in front of the antenna array, from the radio signal received by the first antenna elements and from the radio signal received by the second antenna elements. Also described is a radar system, a vehicle and a method.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Schoor, Goetz Kuehnle, Volker Gross, Benedikt Loesch
-
Patent number: 9709674Abstract: A radar device generates pair data items by associating angle peaks of an up section and angle peaks of a down section. Thereafter, on the basis of a plurality of specific pair data items whose positions are close to each other in an angle direction and which are substantially the same in the position in a distance direction intersecting with the angle direction and are substantially the same in relative speed, the radar device derives one representative pair data item. The derivation of one representative pair data item is performed before continuity determination of a continuity determining unit at the same process timing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Takumi Moriuchi, Yasuhiro Kurono, Hiroki Ishikawa
-
Patent number: 9679430Abstract: A vehicle remote function system is provided for determining locations of a fob relative to a vehicle. The system may include a controller configured for communication with antennas mounted at different locations in the vehicle, the controller for use in determining locations of the fob based on ultra-wide band wireless signals transmitted between the antennas and the fob. The controller is configured to use a first filtering of the wireless signals to determine an initial location of the fob, and a second filtering of the wireless signals to determine a subsequent location of the fob. A method is also provided which may include transmitting ultra-wide band wireless signals between the fob and antennas mounted in the vehicle, using a first filtering of the wireless signals to determine an initial location of the fob, and using a second filtering of the wireless signals to determine a subsequent location of the fob.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Thomas O'Brien, Jason G. Bauman, Jian Ye
-
Patent number: 9671876Abstract: Resolution of perspective in three dimensions is necessary for intermeshing real players into simulated environments during virtual training exercises. With the advent of high resolution image sensors the ability to sense position and orientation using image capture devices is possible. The combination of small sized sensors and image recognition tracking algorithms allows the tracking element to be placed directly on the device whose perspective is desired. This provides a solution to determining perspective as it provides a direct measurement from the center axis of the observer. This invention employs a perspective tracking device to determine a point-of-gaze or a point-of-aim in a three-dimensional space to a high degree of accuracy. Point-of-gaze may be used to determine views for head mounted displays and aim-points for weapons. The invention may operate in an unconstrained space allowing simulation participants to operate in a larger, open environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: RAYDON CORPORATIONInventor: David Page