Clutter Elimination Patents (Class 342/159)
  • Patent number: 12254758
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal comprising a communication unit that is paired with a display device and configured to perform a communication; an input unit configured to receive a search command from a user; a processor configured to transmit a search function activation command to the display device through the communication unit, receive a packet signal from a remote control device that transmits a packet signal at a predetermined packet period according to the search function activation command of the display device, obtain a signal strength of the packet signal, receive packet pattern information from the display device, and determine a distance with the remote control device based on whether the packet is changed and the signal strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyojeong Jeong, Gwanhui Seo
  • Patent number: 12241958
    Abstract: System and method are provided to incorporate radar technology in a time-division duplex radio access network. Information in the guard period between the downlink transmission and uplink transmission, such as the capturing of the UL RF signal landscape, is modified to capture radar signals (RF signals) that reflect from objects. The reflected radar signals are stored, process, and analyzed by a connected computer to determine stationary and moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Oliver P Coudert
  • Patent number: 12235380
    Abstract: A distributed radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method is provided for coherently combining physically distributed radars to jointly produce target scene information in a coherent fashion without sharing a common local oscillator (LO) reference by configuring a first (slave) radar to apply fast and slow time processing steps to target returns generated from a second (master) radar, to compute an estimated frequency offset and an estimated phase offset between the first and second radars based on information derived from the fast and slow time processing steps, and to apply the estimated frequency offset and estimated phase offset to generate a bi-static virtual array aperture at the first radar that is coherent in frequency and phase with a mono-static virtual array aperture generated at the second radar, thereby achieving better sensitivity, finer angular resolution, and low false detection rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Haoyun Wu, Arunesh Roy
  • Patent number: 12210114
    Abstract: A radar system for tracking an object in a scene by transmitting frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) is provided. The radar system is configured to collect radar measurements of the scene sampled in a time-frequency domain within an intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidth to which reflection of the transmitted FMCW is shifted by mixing with a copy of the FMCW, where a frequency dimension of the time-frequency domain is quantized into multiple frequency bins forming the frequency bandwidth, where a time dimension of the time-frequency domain is quantized into multiple time instances forming a time interval corresponding to the PRI, count a number of amplitude peaks of the radar measurements for each frequency bin at different instances of time, identify a number of frequency bins with their counts of the number of peaks above a pre-determined threshold, and determine at least a distance to the object based on frequency analysis of the radar measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu Wang, Sian Jin
  • Patent number: 12164054
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to methods and systems for implementing radar electronic support measure operations. A vehicle's processing unit may receive information relating to electromagnetic energy radiating in an environment of the vehicle that is detected using a vehicle radar system. The electromagnetic energy originated from one or more external emitters, such as radar signals transmitted by other vehicles. The processing unit may determine a spectrum occupancy representation that indicates spectral regions occupied by the electromagnetic energy and subsequently adjust operation of the vehicle radar system based on the spectrum occupancy representation to reduce or mitigate interference with the external emitters in the vehicle's environment. In some examples, the vehicle radar system may be switched to a passive receive-only mode to measure the electromagnetic energy radiating in the environment from other emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Markel, Timothy Campbell, Alessandro Temil
  • Patent number: 12158537
    Abstract: A radar device includes: a transmission unit; a reception unit; an interference signal processing unit that cancels an influence of an interference signal from a beat signal; and an object detection unit that detects the object based on the beat signal. The interference signal processing unit includes: a digital converter that converts the beat signal into a time sample; a multiple resolution analysis unit that converts the time sample into time-frequency plots; an interference plot detection unit that detects an interference plot; an interference cancellation unit that cancels the influence of the interference signal; and a reverse converter that reverse converts the time-frequency plots into the time sample. The object detection unit detects the object using the reversely converted time sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12078752
    Abstract: A method and system for real-time and automated detection and classification of aerial objects, such as e.g. UAVs, on a radar plot level from digital radar images, wherein the digital radar images are created from radar return signals obtained by a conventional radar such as e.g. a continuous wave radar (e.g. FMCW radar), a phased-array radar, or a pulse radar, as opposed to using specialized micro-Doppler radars for classifying UAVs based on the Doppler effect created by the rotors or propellers of the UAVs. Further, the method and system allow for tracking the UAVs based on the digital radar images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBIN RADAR FACILITIES BV
    Inventors: Siete Hamminga, Bart Portegijs, Hylke Jurjen Lijsbert Westra
  • Patent number: 12072709
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for executing tasks with unmanned vehicles is provided. The system includes an unmanned vehicle comprising: a chassis; a propulsion system configured to move the chassis; sensor(s) configured to sense features around the chassis; a memory storing feature reference data; a communication interface; and a processor configured to: receive, using the interface, a command having task data and a location associated with a given feature; control the propulsion system to move the chassis to the location; while the chassis is moving to the location, determine, using the sensor(s), that the given feature is detected based on the feature reference data; and, responsive to the given feature being detected, control the propulsion system to execute a task based on the task data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Christopher Gariepy, Yan Ma, Alex Bencz
  • Patent number: 12026953
    Abstract: In some implementations, an adverse environment detection system may receive an image of a road scene associated with a vehicle. The adverse environment detection system may determine a set of features associated with the image based on providing the image to an initial portion of a model. The adverse environment detection system may determine a first condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a first processing layer of the model, a second condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a second processing layer of the model, and a third condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a third processing layer of the model. The first processing layer, the second processing layer, and the third processing layer may process the set of features in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tommaso Bianconcini, Leonardo Sarti, Leonardo Taccari, Francesco Sambo, Fabio Schoen, Enrico Civitelli, Simone Magistri
  • Patent number: 12019138
    Abstract: This beam formation device includes: a Doppler bin detection unit that detects a target Doppler bin which is a Doppler bin in which a target signal is present, from a correlation matrix calculated by a correlation matrix calculation unit and a reception signal vector calculated by a Doppler analysis unit; a target signal removal unit that removes, from the correlation matrix calculated by the correlation matrix calculation unit, the target signal in the target Doppler bin detected by the Doppler bin detection unit and thereby calculates a target-signal-removed correlation matrix from which the target signal has been removed; and a weighting calculation unit that calculates an adaptive weighting of the reception signal vector from the target-signal-removed correlation matrix calculated by the target signal removal unit. A beam formation unit forms an adaptive beam from the reception signal vector calculated by the Doppler analysis unit and the adaptive weighting calculated by the weighting calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuhei Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12013478
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radar device may process a transmitted radar signal and a received radar signal to obtain at least one energy level measurement. The radar device may determine that the at least one energy level measurement satisfies a threshold value. The radar device may perform a listen before talk procedure based at least in part on determining that the at least one energy level measurement satisfies the threshold value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Junyi Li, Dan Zhang, Kapil Gulati
  • Patent number: 12013484
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radar receiving system is provided comprising a first receiving circuit, a second receiving circuit, a spectral analyzer, an object detector, and a phase compensation circuit. The spectral analyzer is configured to generate, from a first plurality of reception signals, a first set of Fourier transformation output values and, from a second plurality of reception signals, a second set of Fourier transformation output values. The object detector is configured to determine a range/Doppler bin of a plurality of range/Doppler bins as an estimate of a range and speed of an object. The phase compensation circuit is configured to determine a phase offset between the Fourier transformation output values of the first set and second set of Fourier transformation output values and to compensate the phases of at least a part of the second set of Fourier transformation output values by the determined phase offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventors: Andre Roger, Dian Tresna Nugraha, Simon Achatz
  • Patent number: 11994625
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device may include: an optical phased array configured to modulate a phase of light incident on the optical phased array and emit the light; a first photodetector configured to detect, as a reference light, the light emitted from the optical phased array in a first direction toward the first photodetector, and generate a reference signal based on the reference light; a second photodetector configured to detect, as a target light including information about an object, the light emitted from the optical phased array in a second direction toward the object, and generate a target signal based on the target light; and a processor configured to determine a distance between the LiDAR device and the object based on a cross-correlation between the reference signal and the target signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jisan Lee, Jungwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11988766
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein that are configured to identity detections output by a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system that are caused by an interfering signal. The detections are detected as being caused by an interferer based upon numbers of detections assigned to bins in a velocity-direction histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Christoph Schwark
  • Patent number: 11940551
    Abstract: A radar detector including a radar transmitting device, a radar receiving device, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital processing unit, and an interference suppression method using the radar detector are provided. The radar transmitting device transmits a first wireless signal. The radar receiving device receives a second wireless signal to generate an analog reference signal in response to the first wireless signal is subdued from being transmitted, and receives a third wireless signal to generate an analog main signal in response to the first wireless signal is not subdued from being transmitted. The ADC generates a digital reference signal according to the analog reference signal, and generates a digital main signal according to the analog main signal. The digital processing unit adjusts the digital or analog main signal according to the digital reference signal to correspondingly suppress interference components in the digital main signal or in the analog main signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Hsiang-Feng Chi
  • Patent number: 11921196
    Abstract: A radar device includes: an electromagnetic noise detecting unit for detecting electromagnetic noise input to an ADC using digital data in a period when no radar signal is transmitted, among digital data output from the ADC; and an observation target detecting unit for detecting an observation target using digital data in a period when the radar signal has been transmitted, among the digital data output from the ADC, and the electromagnetic noise detected by the electromagnetic noise detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kitsukawa, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 11908326
    Abstract: A vehicle alert system includes a detection sensor configured to detect a target vehicle approaching a subject vehicle, a storage configured to store a false alert condition comprising a position or lateral error of the target vehicle with respect to the subject vehicle, and an alert determiner configured to output an alert signal when the target vehicle is detected by the detection sensor and no sensing blockage occurs, and not output the alert signal when the sensing blockage occurs and the detected target vehicle satisfies the false alert condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Seok Kang
  • Patent number: 11899125
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit includes an input terminal configured to receive a reception signal from an antenna; an output terminal configured to output a digital output signal; a receive path including a mixer and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), wherein the receive path is coupled to and between the input and output terminals, wherein the receive path includes an analog portion and a digital portion, and wherein the ADC generates a digital signal based on an analog signal received from the analog portion; a test signal generator configured to generate an analog test signal injected into the analog portion of the receive path; and a digital processor configured to receive a digital test signal from the digital portion, the digital test signal being derived from the analog test signal, analyze a frequency spectrum of the digital test signal, and determine a quality of the digital test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Melzer, Rainer Findenig
  • Patent number: 11899131
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for converting source radar data of a source configuration of a radar system target radar data of a target configuration. The method comprises: providing a source array of grid cells for source reflex locations; determining, for each respective grid cell in the source array, a probability or frequency that source reflex locations are located in the respective grid cell; forming a source tensor including the source array populated with the probability or frequency for each grid cell; transforming the source tensor into a target tensor including a target array of grid cells for the target reflex locations and indicating the probabilities or frequencies of the target reflex locations for each respective grid cell; and generating the target radar data by sampling the location coordinates of the target reflex locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Junginger, Michael Johannes Oechsle, Thilo Strauss
  • Patent number: 11901985
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for beam selection based on user pose information provided by an extended reality (XR) application. The pose information may be used to determine a position of the UE, and one or more beam parameters may be requested based on the position of the UE. The position information of the UE may include position information for a current time period, predictive position information for one or more future time periods, or any combinations thereof. The UE may transmit a beam request to a base station for one or more beams for the current time period, for one or more future time periods, or any combinations thereof. The UE may request a switch between beams of differing beamwidths or having the same beamwidth, or request a change of a beamwidth of an existing beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 11867833
    Abstract: A classification method comprises positioning an object and a radar unit in proximity to each other; receiving by the radar unit radar signals reflected from the object; and classifying the object, wherein the classifying is based on the radar signals and/or at least one feature extracted from the radar signals, and the classifying of the object comprises determining classification data for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hui Shyong Yeo, Aaron Quigley, Gergely Flamich, Patrick Schrempf, David Harris-Birtill
  • Patent number: 11852714
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium includes instructions to identify, based upon Doppler-speed determination from one or more radars, radar targets within a hitbox for determining a first stationary status of a vehicle based on tracking Doppler-speed radar targets in a hitbox region. The medium also includes instructions to identify, based upon the Doppler speed determination from the one or more radars, field-of-view (FOV) radar targets for determining a second stationary status based on a substantial number and a distribution of Doppler-speed determinations for the FOV radar targets. The medium also includes instructions to confirm, based on detecting a change in either of the first or the second stationary status of the vehicle, an acceleration sensed by an inertial measurement unit onboard the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: THALES CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Mohamed Helwa, Mohammad Sharif Siddiqui, Veronica Marin
  • Patent number: 11841457
    Abstract: A radar device includes a transmission module, a reception module, and a signal processing unit. The transmission module includes an RF signal source that generates a transmission chirp signal synchronized with a reference signal. The reception module includes an RF signal source that generates a reception chirp signal used as a reception local signal and synchronized with the reference signal. The reception module receives a reflected wave of the transmission chirp signal emitted from the transmission module, and mixes a received reception signal with the reception chirp signal. The signal processing unit detects a target based on a beat signal generated by the mixing by the reception module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Tsutsumi, Tatsuya Hagiwara, Mitsuhiro Shimozawa
  • Patent number: 11828840
    Abstract: A method for detecting a moisture damage on an asphalt pavement based on adaptive selection of a penetrating radar (GPR) image grayscale includes the following steps: step 1: obtaining a moisture damage GPR image dataset through asphalt pavement investigation by using a ground GPR, where a GPR image with an appropriate plot scale is selected according to an adaptive GPR image selection method; step 2: adjusting image resolution, specifically, scaling a resolution of an initial GPR image dataset of a damage directly to 224×224 to obtain a BD dataset; step 3: inputting the dataset into a recognition model, specifically, inputting the BD dataset obtained in step 2 into the recognition model, performing operation by the recognition model, and performing step 4; and step 4: outputting a moisture damage result. The new method truly realizes automatic and intelligent target detection based on the GPR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CHANG' AN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Jun Tao
  • Patent number: 11822003
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting radar transmission parameters based on congestion level measurements are disclosed. In some aspects, a congestion level of radar signals at a location in a vicinity of a radar source may be measured or otherwise determined. In some aspects, a transmission parameter of radar signals configured for transmission to the location by the radar source may be adjusted based on the congestion levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dan Zhang, Ahmed Bedewy, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11817919
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for beam steering is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a beam forming signal generator configured to generate a beam forming signal for applying to at least one of amplitude and phase shift circuitry associated with an antenna array to provide a radiation pattern. A determining means is provided that is configured to determine a signal strength of interfering signals received at the antenna array within a user equipment and to determine a dominant interfering ratio indicative of a strength of a strongest interfering signal relative to a strength of other interfering signals. A comparator is provided that is configured to compare the dominant interfering ratio to a predetermined ratio value and where the dominant interfering ratio exceeds the predetermined ratio value to generate a control signal for controlling the beam forming signal generator to generate a radiation pattern comprising a beam and at least one steered null.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Christian Rom, Benny Vejlgaard, Simon Svendsen, Johannes Harrebek
  • Patent number: 11796635
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar transceiver having a transmitter comprising a phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Birama Goumballa, Gilles Montoriol, Cristian Pavao Moreira, Dominique Delbecq
  • Patent number: 11774581
    Abstract: Radar systems and methods for imaging surfaces. A processor receives raw data from the radar and executes an image data generation. A display unit displays an image representing the targeted surface. The radar unit may be incorporated in a handheld scanner. Rectangular antenna arrays may be configured and processors may be operable such that the image data generated may be processed and displayed in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Tanya Chernyakova, Omer Gal, Assaf Kartowsky, Shay Moshe
  • Patent number: 11776143
    Abstract: A measurement information acquisition unit acquires depth information indicating a depth in a detection range measured by a depth measurement device that measures the depth. An image acquisition unit acquires an image of the detection range captured by an imaging device that captures the image. A depth extraction unit extracts partial depth information in which a portion not being subject to a determination of being foreign matter or not is removed from the depth information, based on the acquired image. A foreign matter determination unit determines presence or absence of foreign matter in the detection range based on the partial depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhenwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11745767
    Abstract: A work machine control system includes: a position sensor that detects the position of a work machine travelling on a traveling path; a non-contact sensor that detects the position of an object around the work machine; and a map data creation unit that creates map data on the basis of a detection point of the object and detection data of the position sensor, the detection point being detected by the non-contact sensor and satisfying a defined matching condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Shiga
  • Patent number: 11740328
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for processing radar signals from a sparse MIMO array. In some embodiments, the signals from a MIMO radar array are processed to generate a sparse virtual array. Then, by using a two-dimensional (2D) variant of missing-data iterative adaptive approach (missing-data IAA or MIAA) to process the virtual array, the system can estimate information from the missing antennas of the sparse virtual array. Then, by using the now full virtually array, the system can process the virtual array using a variant of multi-dimensional folding (MDF) to discover the existence and location (e.g., distance, elevation, and azimuth) of objects (also called scatterers) within the MIMO radar array's field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: DC-001, INC.
    Inventors: Theagenis J. Abatzoglou, Wenwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11733365
    Abstract: A radar system for a vehicle. The radar system has at least one central control unit for transmitting data and for processing received data, at least one radar sensor head, which is set apart from the central control unit and has at least one transmitting antenna for generating and at least one receiving antenna for receiving radar waves, and having at least one data line between the at least one central control unit and the at least one radar sensor head, with the at least one central control unit having a clock pulse generator for generating a reference frequency and the reference frequency being transmittable via the at least one data line to the at least one radar sensor head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Marcel Mayer, Michael Schoor
  • Patent number: 11709248
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that cause processors to obtain an N×M range matrix comprising radar data indexed by velocity and antenna and an M×S steering matrix comprising expected phases indexed by antenna and hypothesis angle. For each unique X×Y range slice corresponding to a particular set of X velocities, processors store the particular range slice in a first buffer. For each unique Y×Z steering slice corresponding to a particular set of Y antenna, processors store the particular steering slice in a second buffer. The processors perform beamforming operations on the range, steering, and intermediate slices, storing the result in a third buffer as the intermediate slice. After each steering and range slice for the particular set of X velocities has been iterated through, the processors store the intermediate slice as a beamforming slice for the particular set of X velocities and the hypothesis angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Jasbir Singh
  • Patent number: 11681038
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, for each of one or more environmental radars, one or more parameter values associated with a radar signal of the environmental radar, determining one or more transmission parameter values for the radar, wherein a combination of the one or more transmission parameter values is different from a combination of the one or more parameter values of each of the one or more environmental radars, and configuring the radar with the determined one or more transmission parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Woven Planet North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamaledin Izadian, Mohammad Emadi
  • Patent number: 11651326
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for autonomously predicting shipper behavior. An example method includes the following operations. One or more learning models are generated. Shipper behavior data for at least one shipper is extracted. The shipper behavior data includes a plurality of features associated with the at least one shipper scheduled to ship one or more parcels. It is predicted whether one or more shipments will be sent or arrive at a particular time based at least in part on running the plurality of features of the at least one shipper through the one or more learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Ted Abebe, Ed Hojecki, Ilya Lavrik, Vinay Rao, Donald Hickey
  • Patent number: 11573287
    Abstract: A method of updating background components of an echo signal for radar includes: transforming M sets of N pieces of time domain data to frequency domain to generate M sets of P magnitudes corresponding to P frequency bins, wherein the M sets of N pieces of time domain data include spatial information of an object; and updating P background components corresponding to the P frequency bins according to the M sets of P magnitudes corresponding to the P frequency bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Chun-Hsien Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11573310
    Abstract: A method for increasing the effective aperture of radar switch/MIMO antenna array, using a low number of transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) army elements, according to which an array of radar physical receive (Rx)/Transmit (Tx) elements are arranged in at least two opposing Rx rows and at least two opposing Tx columns, such that each row includes a plurality of receive (Rx) elements uniformly spaced from each other and each column includes a plurality of transmit (Tx) elements uniformly spaced from each other, the array forming a rectangular physical aperture. Used as a switch array, a first Tx element from one column is activated to transmit a radar pulse during a predetermined time slot. Reflections of the first transmission are received in all Rx elements, thereby virtually replicating the two opposing Rx rows about an origin determined by the location of the first Tx element within the rectangular physical aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventors: Noam Arkind, Amos Baron, Yoram Stettiner
  • Patent number: 11536827
    Abstract: A ground penetrating radar device and/or other sensor such as LIDAR, pressure, or temperature sensors is mounted on a mobile device, and is adapted, during motion of the mobile device, to sense characteristics of asphalt pavement on which the mobile device is moving, prior to compaction of the asphalt pavement by rollers. A processor, functionally associated with at least one sensor, receives from the sensor signals relating to characteristics of the asphalt pavement on which the mobile device is moving, and computes, based on the received signals, at least one compaction characteristic of the asphalt pavement. The processor provides a mapping of computed desired change in compaction characteristics to regions of the asphalt pavement during the rolling process. During rolling, at least one sensor measures the change in compaction and assesses when the change in compaction matches the desired optimal compaction based on the pre-generated map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Roberts, David Cist
  • Patent number: 11513213
    Abstract: A method for processing a radar signal is provided. The method may include receiving chirps of a radar signal, sampling the radar signal, dividing the samples that correspond to the chirp of the radar signal into at least two virtual chirps, and processing the radar signal based on the at least two virtual chirps. Also, a corresponding device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Andre Roger, Farhan Bin Khalid, Romain Ygnace
  • Patent number: 11506749
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to adjusting a suppression signal for suppressing a radio frequency (RF) interference signal in a received signal. A method includes generating an RF signal having a first frequency offset from an interference frequency; generating the suppression signal having a second frequency offset from the interference frequency; coupling the suppression signal into the received signal in order to generate a receiver input signal; mixing the receiver input signal with the RF signal in order to generate a mixer output signal; adjusting an amplitude of the suppression signal in order to align amplitudes of different components of the mixer output signal; coupling an adjusted suppression signal, having the interference frequency and the adjusted amplitude, into the received signal; and varying a phase of the adjusted suppression signal in order to reduce a frequency component of the mixer output signal that has the first frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Martin Dechant, Stefan Herzinger
  • Patent number: 11454704
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a target detection apparatus and method, and a vehicle control apparatus and method. A vehicle control apparatus includes: an image sensor operable to be disposed at a vehicle so as to have a field of view of exterior of the vehicle, the image sensor configured to capture image data; a processor configured to process the image data captured by the image sensor; and a controller configured to select a control target responsive at least in part to processing by the processor of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HL KLEMOVE CORP.
    Inventors: Jung Hwan Choi, Han Byul Lee
  • Patent number: 11448745
    Abstract: An FMCW radar is used to sense an object. A sensor device that senses an object by using an FMCW radar is provided. The sensor device includes: a signal processing unit that acquires a reception signal that is based on a reception wave of the FMCW radar, and senses the object; and a phase converting unit that acquires phase information from the reception signal, and tracks the object by monitoring a peak BIN, and a phase offset between the peak BIN and another BIN based on the phase information. As the reception signal, the signal processing unit may use micro-vibration data about the object to sense the object. A system including: a transceiving unit that transmits and receives an FMCW radar signal; and the sensor device according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Takeuchi, Willem Johan Stapelbroek
  • Patent number: 11441543
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a system recording the collisions of flying animals (9) with wind turbines (1) and indicating where they fell on the ground, which comprises a wind turbine (1) composed of a tower (2), a nacelle (3), a rotor (4) with blades (5) and a sensor unit comprising one sensor (6) and peripheral devices of the sensor, characterised in that the sensor (6) mounted on the nacelle (3) and/or tower (2) of the wind turbine (1) is a LIDAR sensor or a 3D light field camera or a 3D radar scanning the space around the wind turbine (1) in the field of view (7) of the sensor (6). The object of the invention is also the method of application of the above described system for recording the collisions of flying animals (9) with wind turbines (1) and indicating where they fell on the ground and the application of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Michal Przybycin
  • Patent number: 11415664
    Abstract: A method for obtaining an adaptive angle-Doppler ambiguity function (AF) for a target using multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar that includes a transmit antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The method includes generating transmit signals for transmission by the transmit antenna array, the transmit signals defining at least a first transmit trajectory of a phase center within the transmit antenna array; transmitting the transmit signals using the transmit antenna array and receiving receive signals from the target, the receive signals resulting from the incidence of the transmit signals upon the target; and obtaining at least an angle-Doppler ambiguity function (AF) from the receive signals. The first transmit trajectory is such that, in operation, the phase center undergoes random phase center motion (PCM), such that a phase center position within the transmit antenna array varies randomly with time. A system for obtaining an AF is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A., UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
    Inventors: Christian Hammes, Yogesh Nijsure, Bjorn Ottersten, Thiemo Spielmann, Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama Rao, Udo Schroder
  • Patent number: 11402465
    Abstract: A method and electronic device for leakage cancellation. The electronic device includes a first antenna pair, a memory, and a processor. The first antenna pair includes a first transmitter antenna configured to transmit signals and a first receiver antenna configured to receive signals. The memory is configured to store data. The processor is configured to identify, from the data stored in the memory, a first leakage factor associated with at least the first antenna pair, control the first transmitter antenna to transmit a first signal, generate a first CIR based on receipt, by the first receiver antenna, of reflection of the first signal, determine leakage in the first CIR based on at least the identified first leakage factor, and cancel the determined leakage from the first CIR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vutha Va, Wenxun Qiu, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 11391836
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for liveliness detection. In an aspect, a radar sensor of an electronic device transmits a radar frame comprising a plurality of bursts, each burst comprising a plurality of radar pulses, and receives a plurality of reflected radar pulses. The electronic device generates a radar image representing azimuth, elevation, range, and slow time measurements for the radar frame based on the plurality of reflected pulses, applies a Doppler FFT to the radar image to convert the radar image to represent azimuth, elevation, range, and velocity measurements for the radar frame, identifies at least one area of motion in the radar image based on velocity bins of the radar image, and detects a target dynamic object based on a CFAR detection applied over the range and azimuth measurements and a SNR threshold of the received plurality of reflected pulses associated with the at least one area of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ariel Yaakov Sagi, Evyatar Hemo, Evgeny Levitan, Sharad Sambhwani, Amichai Sanderovich
  • Patent number: 11385344
    Abstract: The techniques of this disclosure enable frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar-based detection of living objects. Instead of generating a chirp pattern with each chirp separated by an idle period, a radar generates a chirp pattern with multiple chirps separated by an idle period. From applying a Fourier transform to receiver signals for each frame, the radar determines an amplitude as a function of range for each frame. The radar computes the standard deviation between the amplitudes of two frames and then, for each additional frame, the radar incrementally updates the standard deviation to be inclusive of the amplitude contribution of the additional frame. That is, rather than recalculate the standard deviation for each new frame, the radar increments the standard deviation by a fraction of the amplitude for the new frame, which is proportionate to the total quantity of frames generated thus far.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Zhengyu Peng, James F. Searcy, Ashikur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11385323
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for radar signaling s are described. In some systems, devices may select radar parameters (e.g., frequency modulated continuous wave waveform parameters) to support coexistence for multiple radar sources in the system. To reduce mutual interference between radar waveforms in a system, a user equipment may detect interference from at least one interference source (e.g., another device transmitting a radar waveform) and may select waveform parameters for transmission of a radar waveform based on the detected interference. For example, the user equipment may determine slopes, frequency offsets, codewords, or a combination thereof used by nearby devices in the system (e.g., per chirp or for a waveform) and may select waveform parameters that result in low mutual interference with the determined slopes, frequency offsets, codewords, or combination thereof. The user equipment may transmit the radar waveform according to the selected waveform parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Sundar Subramanian, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan
  • Patent number: 11375543
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to co-existence of millimeter wave (mmW) communication and radar. In some aspects, a device that supports mmW communication and radar operations may determine whether or when to conduct radar operations based on information obtained about a nearby mmW network. For example, prior to sending radar signals, the device may monitor for mmW communication signals. As another example, the device may send at least one mmW communication signal to reserve a communication medium for subsequent radar operations. As yet another example, the device may conduct radar operations during idle or allocated time periods defined by the mmW network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amichai Sanderovich, Gal Basson, Assaf Yaakov Kasher, Alecsander Petru Eitan
  • Patent number: 11362721
    Abstract: Grid of beams (GoB) adaptation in a wireless communications circuit, particularly for a wireless communications system (WCS), is disclosed. The wireless communications circuit may be provided in the WCS to provide radio frequency (RF) coverage in a wireless communications cell. In this regard, an antenna array is provided in the wireless communications circuit to radiate the GoB, which includes a number of RF beams corresponding to an RF communications signal(s), in the wireless communications cell. In examples discussed herein, the wireless communications circuit can be configured to detect a coverage condition change in the wireless communications cell and modify the GoB accordingly. By adapting the GoB to the coverage condition change, it may be possible to reduce processing overhead and improve resource usage, data throughput, and system adaptability of the wireless communications circuit, thus helping to optimize RF coverage in the wireless communications cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Research & Development Corporation
    Inventors: Shirish Nagaraj, Deepak Pengoria, Jiadong Wang, Hsien Li Woo