Combined With Determining Distance Patents (Class 342/109)
  • Patent number: 12140666
    Abstract: The techniques and systems herein enable ghost object detection. Specifically, a reflection line indicative of a potential reflection surface between first and second moving objects is determined. If enough stationary objects are within an area of the reflection line, it is determined whether one or more of the stationary objects within the area are within a distance of a reflection point. An expected velocity of the second object is then determined and checked against a velocity of the second object. If the expected velocity is near the velocity, it is determined that the second object is a ghost object. By doing so, the system can effectively identify ghost objects in a wide variety of environments, thereby allowing for downstream operations to function as designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Zixin Liu, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 12052613
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conditional handover based on the service time of candidate cells in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network, handover configuration including information related to candidate cells to be measured and service time of each of the candidate cells. A wireless device performs measurement on the candidate cells. A wireless device selects a cell among the candidate cells based on the service time of each of the candidate cells. A wireless device performs handover to the selected cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Oanyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11919511
    Abstract: A driving support control device for a vehicle includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a first detector which detects change of a brightness value of an object which occurs in accordance with displacement of the object, information indicating change of a brightness value of a partially shielded object partially shielded by an obstacle which occurs in accordance with displacement of the partially shielded object, as a first detection signal, and a control unit configured to, in a case where it is determined, by using the first detection signal, that the partially shielded object is moving, cause a driving support execution device to execute collision prevention support for preventing a collision with the partially shielded object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Yokoyama, Noriyuki Ido
  • Patent number: 11879986
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a three-dimensional co-prime cubic array direction-of-arrival estimation method based on a cross-correlation tensor, mainly solving the problems of multi-dimensional signal structured information loss and Nyquist mismatch in existing methods and comprising the following implementing steps: constructing a three-dimensional co-prime cubic array; carrying out tensor modeling on a receiving signal of the three-dimensional co-prime cubic array; calculating six-dimensional second-order cross-correlation tensor statistics; deducing a three-dimensional virtual uniform cubic array equivalent signal tensor based on cross-correlation tensor dimension merging transformation; constructing a four-dimensional virtual domain signal tensor based on mirror image augmentation of the three-dimensional virtual uniform cubic array; constructing a signal and noise subspace in a Kronecker product form through virtual domain signal tensor decomposition; and acquiring a direction-of-arrival estimation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Zhiguo Shi, Hang Zheng, Chengwei Zhou, Jiming Chen, Yong Wang
  • Patent number: 11835623
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a device and method for controlling vehicles and a radar system for vehicles. The vehicle controller may include a spectrum generator generating a 2D spectrum, a range-velocity map generator generating a range-velocity map corresponding to each height value included in a height set, a correlation coefficient determiner determining a correlation coefficient corresponding to each height value included in the height set, and a target determiner estimating a height of a target based on the correlation coefficient and recognizing the target based on the height of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Jingu Lee, Han Byul Lee, Jung Hwan Choi, Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11821977
    Abstract: Methods and electronic devices for target detection and tracking operations are provided. A method of operating an electronic device includes identifying, based on signals received through a radar transceiver of the electronic device, a peak of the received signals in a current time slot, determining whether the peak in the current time slot corresponds to a tracked target based on comparing a location of the peak in the current time slot with a location of a peak corresponding to the tracked target in a previous time slot as a function of a movement speed threshold, and in response to a determination that the peak in the current time slot corresponds to the tracked target, updating tracking information for the tracked target associated with the peak in the current time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vutha Va, Wenxun Qiu, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11708100
    Abstract: An apparatus for sensing and optimizing the stopping-point accuracy of a vehicle. The apparatus includes at least one sensor unit, which can be arranged on the vehicle, and at least one evaluation unit connected to the sensor unit. The at least one sensor unit is configured to measure a distance relative to a gap profile arranged at a stopping point to which the vehicle travels and to transmit the measurement result to the evaluation unit connected to the sensor unit. There is also described a corresponding system including the apparatus and the distance profile, and also a vehicle with such an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Bienek, Volker Knollmann, Bernhard Poesel, Gerd Tasler
  • Patent number: 11592548
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve Doppler velocity estimation. An example apparatus is disclosed including a transmitter to transmit a first sweep signal at a first position in a first block of time during a transmit time sequence pattern, and transmit a second sweep signal at a second position in a second block of time during the transmit time sequence pattern, the second position different than the first position. The example apparatus also includes a velocity analyzer to determine a velocity and a direction of arrival of a target object identified during the transmit time sequence pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Saiveena Kesaraju, Arnaud Amadjikpe, Chulong Chen
  • Patent number: 11525908
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for determining velocity of an object. The method includes in response to two interleaved chirp sequences being sent towards the object, processing responsive chirps of each of the two interleaved chirp sequences independently from one another to produce respective Doppler-spectrum data sets, and calculating the velocity of the object based on the respective Doppler-spectrum data sets. Each of the interleaved chirp sequences being characterized by a common time spacing between respective chirps of the respective chirp sequence, and each chirp of one of the chirp sequences being offset by an amount of time that is different than the common time spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Francesco Laghezza, Feike Guus Jansen
  • Patent number: 11513223
    Abstract: A ladar system and related method are disclosed where the system includes a ladar transmitter and a ladar receiver. The ladar transmitter transmits ladar pulses into a field of view, and the ladar receiver receives ladar pulse returns from objects in the field of view. The ladar receiver comprises a cross-receiver, the cross-receiver comprising a first 1D array of photodetector cells and a second 1D array of photodetector cells that are oriented differently relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AEYE, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Carlos Dussan, Allan Steinhardt, Jordan Spencer Greene, Allen Chi-Luen Wang, Nitin Vyas, Daryoosh Rejaly
  • Patent number: 11448746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of estimating a velocity magnitude of a moving target in a horizontal plane using radar signals received by a radar detection system, the radar detection system being configured to resolve multiple dominant points of reflection, i.e. to receive a plurality of radar signals from the moving target in a single measurement instance of a single, wherein each of the resolved points of reflection is described by data relating to a range, an azimuth angle and a raw range rate of the points of reflection in said single radar measurement instance. The invention further relates to a radar detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Mateusz Stachnik, Dariusz Cieslar
  • Patent number: 11442162
    Abstract: The invention provides a millimeter wave radar modeling-based method for object visibility determination, to solve the problem of object visibility determination based on virtual sensor modeling in intelligent vehicle simulation and testing, and improve the fidelity of sensor modeling while meeting simulation efficiency requirements. It includes the steps of target vehicle information detection to obtain target vehicle information; target vehicle reflection intensity simulation: for each target vehicle performing geometry culling on the target vehicle, discarding completely-invisible target vehicles, and calculating visible section information for each target vehicle that has a visible section, and reflection intensity calculation; target vehicle visibility determination: analyzing visibility of the target vehicle according to the target vehicle reflection intensity, and converting and outputting information of a visible object into an expression form of a real millimeter-wave radar sensing an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JILIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Zhan, Xuecai Dong, Chunguang Duan, Zhangu Wang, Rong Liu, Kai Yang, Huainan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11428796
    Abstract: A radar system and a method for detecting a target using the radar system. The radar system includes a waveform generator, a plurality of phase shifters, at least one mixer, an analog-to-digital converter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor, and a processor. The waveform generator generates a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal including a set of chirps repeated for a predetermined number of times. The phase shifters shift a phase of each chirp on a transmit branch. The phases transmitted via first and second transmit branches are shifted in accordance with first and second sets of regularly spaced phases, respectively. The first and second sets of regularly spaced phases have first and second phase differences, respectively, that are different from each other. The FFT processor performs FFT processing and the processor determines an angle of direction of the target based on range Doppler map bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Sang Ho Nam, Mohit Berry, Byung Kwon Park
  • Patent number: 11397257
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes: a receiving unit including plural receiving antennas including an antenna element, and configured to receive incoming waves whose arrival directions are known; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a correction value for correcting an error component included in a received signal of the incoming waves received by the receiving unit based on the received signal, the correction value being depending on an azimuth of the antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Kunihiro Goto
  • Patent number: 11393332
    Abstract: A detection device and an indoor navigation system are provided. The detection device includes two detection modules each including a sound receiver for receiving sound from a peripheral object and a signal converting circuit that is electrically coupled to the sound receiver and that is configured to convert input signal from the sound receiver into a target spectrogram. The two spectrograms from the signal converting circuits have a time/phase difference, and at least one wireless earphone includes a storage unit and a judging circuit that is electrically coupled to the storage unit and the two signal converting circuits. The judging circuit is configured to compare any target spectrogram with basic spectrograms of the storage unit so as to determine which kind of objects the peripheral object is, and is configured to obtain an instant position of the peripheral object by the time/phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Shih-Feng Chen, Yen-Min Chang
  • Patent number: 11383725
    Abstract: A system and method of carrying out a remedial vehicle action in response to determining an error in a monitored vehicle sensor, the method include: determining a vehicle true velocity vector based on measurements from vehicle operations sensors; determining a monitored sensor velocity vector based on measurements from the monitored vehicle sensor; when it is determined that the vehicle true velocity vector is different than the monitored sensor velocity vector, then testing for a first component error, wherein the testing for the first component error includes calculating a first component error value based on a first component measured value and a first component corrected value, and when one or more measured vector components of the monitored sensor velocity vector are determined to be erroneous, them carrying out a remedial vehicle action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventor: William B. Ribbens
  • Patent number: 11378667
    Abstract: A system including an optical receiver to receive a return beam from the target. The optical receiver is to combine a second frequency modulate signal portion transmitted towards a local oscillator with a first frequency modulate portion to produce a beat frequency. The system further including a processor and a memory to store instructions executable by the processor. The processor to sample the beat frequency to produce a plurality of frequency subbands, and classify the plurality of frequency subbands into a plurality of subband types based on a subband criteria. The processor further to select one or more subband processing parameters based on the subband criteria, and process the plurality of frequency subbands, using the subband processing parameters, to determine a range and velocity of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Aeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha, Jose Krause Perin, Rajendra Tushar Moorti, Mina Rezk
  • Patent number: 11366209
    Abstract: A method for determining a change in a distance, a location prompting method and an apparatus and a system thereof are provided. The method includes: sending, by a receiving terminal, a paring request to a server for the server to forward the paring request to a transmitting terminal, and to allocate a frequency band for the receiving terminal and the transmitting terminal after the transmitting terminal accepts the paring request; acquiring, by the receiving terminal, an acoustic wave signal of a frequency sent by the transmitting terminal, wherein the frequency is determined by the transmitting terminal based on the allocated frequency band; determining, by the receiving terminal, a change in the acquired acoustic wave signal; and determining, by the receiving terminal, a change in a distance between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal according to the change in the acquired acoustic wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nan Wang, Qiang He, Zhijun Du
  • Patent number: 11242056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus and a control method of an adaptive cruise control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Jae Hyun Han
  • Patent number: 11237246
    Abstract: A pulse radar system and method has long range unambiguous image reflections at high pulse repetition frequency (PRF), long range high resolution radial velocity not limited by Doppler Nyquist limiting, improved signal sensitivity, and strong in-band interference rejection, thereby improving existing radar by increasing the transmission pulse rate by uniquely tagging each outgoing pulse so they can be easily separated when received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: DBTSYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: David Tansek
  • Patent number: 11226409
    Abstract: An in-vehicle radar device includes a transmission section, a reception section, an analysis section, an extraction section, a speed calculation section, a distance calculation section, and a folding detection section. The folding detection section detects occurrence of erroneous calculation of a distance, when reflection intensity at a frequency peak obtained by the extraction section is smaller than a preset intensity threshold for a distance calculated by the distance calculation section and a frequency width in a frequency spectrum calculated by the analysis section is smaller than a preset width threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Akamine, Naoki Kawasaki, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11143755
    Abstract: A radar apparatus detects objects in a vicinity of a host vehicle on which the radar apparatus is mounted. The radar apparatus includes a microcomputer configured to operate as a prediction processor that calculates a prediction position of a previously detected target in a current detection cycle and an extrapolation processor that executes an extrapolation to determine that a same target as the previously detected target exists in the prediction position for the current detection cycle. The extrapolation processor executes the extrapolation when the prediction position is outside a detection range of the radar apparatus and a speed of the host vehicle is lower than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Aoki, Seiya Fujitsu
  • Patent number: 11105913
    Abstract: A RADAR control apparatus includes a range identifier configured to identify a scan range that is a radial distance from the range identifier, and a control unit configured to receive the scan range and cause a RADAR pulse generation unit to emit a RADAR pulse train that is a pattern of RADAR pulse waves including: a type of RADAR pulse wave; a number of each type of RADAR pulse wave; a RADAR pulse wave duration or RADAR pulse wave width; a RADAR pulse wave amplitude; a temporal spacing between each RADAR pulse wave; a sequential order for the type and the number of RADAR pulse waves; and/or at least one sector of space surrounding the RADAR pulse generation unit through which the RADAR pulse waves will propagate. The control unit is configured to continuously adapt the pattern of RADAR pulses in accordance with the received scan range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WÄRTSILÄ SAM ELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventor: Kai Hanisch
  • Patent number: 11047966
    Abstract: A method for determining a change in a distance, a location prompting method and an apparatus and a system thereof are provided. The method includes: sending, by a receiving terminal, a paring request to a server for the server to forward the paring request to a transmitting terminal, and to allocate a frequency band for the receiving terminal and the transmitting terminal after the transmitting terminal accepts the paring request; acquiring, by the receiving terminal, an acoustic wave signal of a frequency sent by the transmitting terminal, wherein the frequency is determined by the transmitting terminal based on the allocated frequency band; determining, by the receiving terminal, a change in the acquired acoustic wave signal; and determining, by the receiving terminal, a change in a distance between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal according to the change in the acquired acoustic wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nan Wang, Qiang He, Zhijun Du
  • Patent number: 10969480
    Abstract: An electronic system for mapping a work site that includes a plurality of radar sensors to be provided on vehicles moving on the site, the radar sensors being able to detect objects included in a respective area of detection and acquire their relative positions. The system includes a speed module configured for determining a speed parameter for objects detected by the radar sensors, according to their relative positions. The system also includes a classification module configured for classifying detected objects as standing still or moving objects according to the respective speed parameters, and a map module configured for creating a common map of the site providing the positions of standing still objects detected in the site by said plurality of radar sensors, according to a reference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Luca Ferrari, Riccardo Morselli
  • Patent number: 10932861
    Abstract: An electromagnetic (EM) system for tracking a surgical tool is provided. The system may comprise a plurality of subsets of field generator coils disposed along edge portions of a surgical bed. Each subset of field generator coils may be configured to generate a magnetic field within a control volume. The system may further comprise a position sensor disposed on a portion of the surgical tool. The position sensor may be configured to generate a sensor signal in response to the magnetic field when the position sensor is located inside the control volume. Additionally, the system may comprise an EM system controller configured to selectively activate one or more of the subsets of field generator coils based on the sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Sramek, Gregory J. Kintz, David S. Mintz, Alan Yu
  • Patent number: 10927585
    Abstract: A system for waking an electronic control unit upon movement of a controlled member, such as a vehicle lift gate or window, and protecting the electronic control unit from motor back EMF are provided. The system includes a power drive unit coupled to the controlled member and to the electronic control unit for moving the controlled member. A comparator subsystem is coupled to the power drive unit and is configured to compare an electrical output of the power drive unit generated due to motor back electromotive force in response to a manual movement of the controlled member to an electrical reference to determine whether to wake the electronic control unit. The system detects manual movement of the controlled member, e.g. from unauthorized entry, and causes an alarm and/or for the motor to brake or to drive to counteract the manual movement of the controlled member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MAGNA CLOSURES INC.
    Inventors: Thomas McGettrick, Xu Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10914831
    Abstract: An FMWC radar sensor for motor vehicles, having a high-frequency oscillator, which is developed to generate a frequency-modulated transmit signal that has a periodically repeating series of modulation sequences having different modulation patterns, and having an evaluation device for evaluating the received radar echo according to the FMCW principle, wherein the series of the modulation sequences includes a special class of modulation sequences whose duration is longer than that of any other modulation sequence not belonging to this class and whose frequency swing is smaller than that of any other modulation sequence, and the evaluation device is developed to carry out a measurement of the ego velocity of the vehicle on the basis of a radar echo that is received from non-moving objects during the modulation sequences that belong to the special class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Buddendick, Markus Schlosser
  • Patent number: 10908273
    Abstract: A vehicle, system and method of estimating a velocity of an object with respect to the vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of radars associated with the vehicle and a processor. The plurality of radars provide a coarse estimate of the velocity. The processor obtains a plurality of velocity hypotheses based on the coarse estimate of the velocity of the object, determines a likelihood for each of the plurality of velocity hypotheses, and chooses a velocity hypothesis having as the estimate of velocity based on the determined likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Oded Bialer, Amnon Jonas, Tom Tirer
  • Patent number: 10885798
    Abstract: Disclosed is an autopilot-coupled traffic alert and collision avoidance systems (AP TCAS). The AP TCAS includes a an AP/automatic flight control system (AFCS) that is configured to receive a vertical speed setting after the issuance of a preventive resolution advisory, wherein the aircraft vertical speed setting exceeds the maximum vertical speed allowed by the resolution advisory, the AP/AFCS being further configured to: (1) modify the aircraft vertical speed setting so as to be less than the maximum vertical speed, and relay the modified second aircraft vertical speed to an autopilot system of the aircraft to automatically cause the aircraft to fly at a vertical speed in accordance with the modified second vertical speed setting; and (2) relay a command to the autopilot system to initiate an automatic, corrective flight maneuver if a current vertical speed of the aircraft is within a predetermined amount of the maximum vertical speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ratan Khatwa, William Peter Cleveland, Bob D Crouse
  • Patent number: 10712428
    Abstract: There is provided a radar device for detecting a target based on a frequency-modulated transmission wave and reflected waves of the transmission wave from the target. An extracting unit configured to extract peaks corresponding to the target based on beat signals which are differential waves between the transmission wave and the reflected waves. A generating unit configured to generate instantaneous values corresponding to the peaks based on the peaks extracted by the extracting unit. A filtering unit configured to generate a target data item corresponding to the instantaneous values by performing chronological filtering on the instantaneous values generated by the generating unit. The filtering unit can assign a plurality of instantaneous values to an assignment range corresponding to one target data item, based on individual elements included in the instantaneous values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Seiya Fujitsu, Hisateru Asanuma
  • Patent number: 10670709
    Abstract: A controller comprises a communication interface to receive an anchor localization dataset comprising a plurality of anchor range measurements and a processing circuitry to identify a qualified subset of anchor range measurements from the anchor localization dataset, wherein the anchor range measurements in the qualified subset are consistent, select a first anchor range measurement in the anchor localization dataset from outside the qualified subset of anchor range measurements, and add the first anchor range measurement to the qualified subset of anchor range measurements when the first anchor range measurement is consistent with the anchor range measurements in the qualified subset of anchor range measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ke Ding, Alexander Essaian, Daniel Gurdan, Jun Li, Martin Moerth, Lei Yang, Xue Yang
  • Patent number: 10634788
    Abstract: A distance measuring method and a distance meter for a distance measurement according to the principle of a frequency-modulated continuous wave radar, wherein at least a part of a first laser radiation, which comprises a first frequency modulation defining a first modulation band, and at least a part of a second laser radiation, which comprises a second frequency modulation defining a second modulation band, are emitted as the first or as the second emission radiation, respectively, to a target. A parameter is determined, which is indicative of a frequency offset between the first and the second modulation band, and the parameter is taken into consideration during the determination of the at least one distance to the target to derive a frequency difference between the first frequency modulation and the second frequency modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventor: Marcel Rohner
  • Patent number: 10634781
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for computing a target distance estimate using a wireless device. A waveform is transmitted to an object (e.g., automobile) by a wireless device. Reflections of the waveform are then received, such as on two forward directional antennas. A channel impulse response (e.g., a frequency-domain channel impulse response) is then obtained from the reflections. A parameterized function is applied to the channel impulse response. Parameters of the parameterized function are fitted to measure the channel impulse response. A distance to the object is then estimated based on the fitted parameters. In this manner, by operating wireless devices as radar devices, a higher accuracy in target range estimates can be achieved with less spectrum bandwidth when compared to standard radar waveforms with standard radar processing. Furthermore, by utilizing wireless devices as opposed to radar devices, the cost problem associated with radar is addressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Robert Heath, Robert Daniels
  • Patent number: 10621868
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, at a host vehicle, a plurality of messages transmitted using Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications indicating a heading angle and a speed of a remote vehicle; calculating an expected change in frequency of the plurality of messages received at the host vehicle based on the heading angle and the speed of the remote vehicle; measuring an actual change in frequency of the plurality of messages received at the host vehicle due to the Doppler effect; comparing the expected change in frequency to the actual change in frequency; and determining that the plurality of messages were not transmitted from the remote vehicle when a difference between the expected change in frequency and the actual change in frequency exceeds a predefined frequency change threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Naserian, Allan Lewis
  • Patent number: 10598766
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining operating data of a radar sensor, including transmitting defined data of a first subsequence of ramp signals to an RF component of the radar sensor; ascertaining the data of the remaining subsequences of the ramp signals from the defined values of the first subsequence with the aid of the RF component; and storing the ascertained data of the remaining subsequences in a first memory of the RF component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Steinbuch, Karin Moertlbauer, Matthias Steinhauer, Michael Ott
  • Patent number: 10578729
    Abstract: A ranging method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending a ranging signal to a measured system, where the measured system includes at least one reflection point (S110); receiving a first spectrum signal obtained after the ranging signal is reflected by the at least one reflection point (S120); determining a second spectrum signal according to the first spectrum signal, where the second spectrum signal includes the first spectrum signal, and a spectral width of the second spectrum signal is greater than a spectral width of the first spectrum signal (S130); and estimating a distance of the at least one reflection point according to the second spectrum signal (S140). According to the ranging method and apparatus, a distance of a reflection point in a measured system can be determined in a relatively accurate manner, so as to improve ranging accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 10551488
    Abstract: A detection method implementing an FMCW waveform is provided, the emitted waveform is formed of a recurring pattern of given period Tr covering an emission frequency band of given width B, each pattern being divided into a given number P of sub-patterns of duration Tr/P covering an excursion frequency band ?F=B/P, the sub-patterns being mutually spaced by a frequency interval equal to ?F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Pascal Cornic, Patrick Le Bihan, Jean-Michel Quellec
  • Patent number: 10545227
    Abstract: A method for determining distances and relative velocities of objects with using a radar includes transmitting a ramp-like frequency-modulated transmission signal whose modulation pattern includes multiple sequences of ramps having an identical ramp slope, which alternately follow each other, the sequences having a frequency offset and a time offset with respect to each other; Undersampling, and subjecting to a 2D Fourier transform, base band signals for the individual ramps; determining hypotheses for the distance and the relative velocity v of an object based on alternative distance-velocity relationships and based on periodic ambiguous information about velocity; ascertaining degrees of the agreements of a phase relationship between spectral values of the spectra with phase relationships expected for the hypotheses between spectral values of the sequences; and determining unambiguous estimated values for the distance and the relative velocity by selecting a hypothesis having the maximum agreement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Goetz Kuehnle, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 10473753
    Abstract: A fill level measurement device is provided, including a transmission branch configured to generate and emit a transmission signal towards a filling material surface; and a receiving branch configured to receive and evaluate a received signal, wherein the fill level measurement device is configured to selectively assume an interfering signal detection mode for detecting whether the received signal comprises an interfering signal, and a fill level measurement mode for measuring the fill level, and wherein the transmission signal has a lower intensity in the interfering signal detection mode than in the fill level measurement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KG
    Inventor: Michael Fischer
  • Patent number: 10473757
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to techniques for an FMCW radar system to determine an unambiguous radial velocity of a target. The radar system measures the Doppler shift in the received return signal reflected from the target, while the radar system simultaneously performs normal surveillance functions. Such a radar system may digitize the beat frequency that results from mixing the received return signal from a target the transmitted signal for a given frequency ramp. The radar system may divide the usable digitized samples at the output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) into a number of subsets and analyze the frequencies in each subset. Because each subset of samples covers a time interval that may be substantially less than the period of each frequency ramp, the radar system may extract without ambiguity the Doppler velocity of a target within as little as the period of single frequency ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: John B. Mckitterick
  • Patent number: 10451721
    Abstract: There is provided a radar device. An extracting unit is configured to extract peak signals from a frequency difference between a transmission signal and a reception signal, in a first range of each of a first period and a second period. An estimating unit is configured to estimate a current peak signal on the basis of a previous peak signal extracted by the extracting unit. A first setting unit is configured to set the first range on the basis of the estimation result. A second setting unit is configured to set a second range different from the first range, if the peak signal is extracted in the first range of the second period and the peak signal cannot be extracted in the first range of the first period. A re-extracting unit is configured to extract the peak signal in the second range of the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Hisateru Asanuma
  • Patent number: 10436890
    Abstract: A method for finding a position of an object using a MIMO FMCW radar. A ramp-shaped frequency-modulated radar signal is transmitted as a sequence of time-delayed successive ramps. A switch network is controlled to provide a corresponding switching state for each of the successive ramps. A different selection of antenna elements is used for transmission of each respective ramp. Radar echoes reflected by radar targets are mixed with the transmitted signal and are down-converted. Baseband signals resulting therefrom are transformed into spectra. Each baseband signal is separately subjected to a two-dimensional Fourier transform. A window function is applied to each of the baseband signals prior to the transform being carried out over a ramp index in a second dimension. A different window function is applied for each of the switching states. The spectra are subjected to a frequency-dependent phase correction which compensates for time offsets of the ramps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Loesch, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 10436891
    Abstract: A radar sensor for detecting at least one object, having a control device to receive a control input signal; a signal generator to generate a transmit signal having a multitude of signal cycles, each signal cycle having a multitude of signal sequences, and a series of blocks being formed, each block having precisely one frequency ramp of each signal sequence, and the signal generator furthermore being designed to select a predefined quantity of blocks from the transmit signal based on the control input signal and to output them as output signal; an antenna device to transmit the output signal that is output by the signal generator and to receive a receive signal; and an evaluation device which is designed to ascertain, by superpositioning the transmit signal and the receive signal, a quantity with regard to an angle and/or a distance and/or a relative speed of the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 10416299
    Abstract: A MIMO FMCW radar sensor and a MIMO time multiplexing method for localizing a radar target, in which an FMCW radar measurement is performed with a transmitted signal whose modulation pattern encompasses, for different transmission switching states that differ in terms of the selection of antenna elements used for transmission, mutually temporally interleaved sequences of ramps; ambiguous values for the relative velocity of the radar target are determined from a position of a peak in a two-dimensional spectrum; phase relationships between spectral values of spectra are checked for agreement with phase relationships expected for several of the determined values of the relative velocity; on the basis thereof, an estimated value for the relative velocity of the radar target is selected from the determined periodic values of the relative velocity; and the angle of the radar target is determined on the basis of amplitudes and/or phase relationships between obtained baseband signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schoor, Benedikt Loesch
  • Patent number: 10408932
    Abstract: An environment recognition system using vehicular millimeter wave radar includes a millimeter wave radar device detecting obstructions outside a vehicle and transforming detection results into reflection information. An energy intensity calculation device, an anti-noise calculation device, and an obstruction width calculation device are signally connected with the millimeter wave radar device to receive the reflection information, respectively calculate energy intensity information, signal-to-noise ratios and width information of the obstructions and transmit them to a control device. The control device integrates the energy intensity information, the signal-to-noise ratios and the width information to recognize types of the obstructions. The present invention can effectively recognize various obstructions outside the vehicle whereby the vehicle immediately reacts like performing a corresponding safety anti-collision system when detecting pedestrians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Automotive Research & Testing Center
    Inventors: Ping-Min Hsu, Tzu-Sung Wu
  • Patent number: 10401490
    Abstract: This document describes apparatuses and techniques for radar-enabled sensor fusion. In some aspects, a radar field is provided and reflection signals that correspond to a target in the radar field are received. The reflection signals are transformed to provide radar data, from which a radar feature indicating a physical characteristic of the target is extracted. Based on the radar features, a sensor is activated to provide supplemental sensor data associated with the physical characteristic. The radar feature is then augmented with the supplemental sensor data to enhance the radar feature, such as by increasing an accuracy or resolution of the radar feature. By so doing, performance of sensor-based applications, which rely on the enhanced radar features, can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Edward Gillian, Carsten C. Schwesig, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ivan Poupyrev
  • Patent number: 10401487
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling distance and velocity of a target approaching at a high speed in a short distance to be measured while securing a detection performance of the target. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, as a transmission signal, a multi-chirp signal having different slopes through the transmission antenna; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle, in which the transmission signal is transmitted by the transmission unit; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the transmission signal and the reception signal, frequency variation according to a distance of the target, and frequency variation according to the velocity of the target to measure the distance and velocity of the corresponding target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 10379213
    Abstract: Provided is a moving body rotation speed measurement device that makes it possible for a user or the like to easily measure the rotation speed of a spherical moving body. An input unit receives diameter information about a spherical moving body. A measurement processing unit calculates the movement speed and rotation speed of the moving body on the basis of a Doppler signal and the diameter information. The measurement processing unit calculates the movement speed using the maximum peak value of a Doppler signal obtained continuously over a predetermined measurement time and calculates the rotation speed using the maximum frequency width value of the Doppler signal. A display unit shows display content that includes the calculated movement speed and rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saegusa, Tsuyoshi Kitazaki
  • Patent number: 10369998
    Abstract: A variety of methods, controllers and algorithms are described for controlling a vehicle to closely follow one another safely using automatic or partially automatic control. The described control schemes are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying applications, including truck platooning and convoying controllers. In one aspect, a power plant (such as an engine) is controlled using a control scheme arranged to attain and maintain a first target gap between the vehicles. Brakes (such as wheel brakes) are controlled in a manner configured to attain and maintain a second (shorter) target gap. Such control allows a certain degree of encroachment on the targeted gap (sometimes referred to as a gap tolerance) before the brakes are actuated. The described approaches facilitate a safe and comfortable rider experience and reduce the likelihood of the brakes being actuated unnecessarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Peloton Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James B. Kuszmaul, Austin B. Schuh, Stephen M. Erlien, Joshua P. Switkes