With Particular Circuit Patents (Class 342/175)
  • Patent number: 10802263
    Abstract: An imaging signal extraction apparatus comprising: an interface; a processing device, the processing device operatively coupled to the interface; and a computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the processing device, perform operations comprising: a) generating a two-dimensional image from imaging information obtained from the interface, thereby estimating ballistic component of the imaging information; b) generating a three-dimensional image by remapping the two-dimensional image; c) identifying a candidate object in the three-dimensional image; d) obtaining an estimated spatial forward model of the candidate object by mapping the three-dimensional image of the candidate object with a point-spread-function associated with the imaging apparatus; e) obtaining background-corrected data by using the estimated spatial forward model of the candidate object and estimated temporal components; and f) iteratively updating the estimated spatial forward model and estimated temporal componen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Rockefeller University
    Inventors: Alipasha Vaziri, Tobias Noebauer, Oliver Skocek
  • Patent number: 10804616
    Abstract: The phased array antenna system is described. The phased array antenna system formed on one or more layers of a printed circuit board (PCB). The phased array antenna system be may include a beam forming network to convert between one or more element signals and a beam signal. The phased array antenna system may include one or more control circuits, where each control circuit may receive the element signals for corresponding antenna element. Each of the control circuits may further may establish a control signal path and an element signal path between the antenna elements and the beamforming network, where the signal path may carry multiplexed element and control signals. The control circuits may include a signal adjustment circuit that may adjust the corresponding element signal (e.g., in phase or amplitude) based on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth V. Buer, Ronald S. Lipton, Ashitkumar J. Tripathi
  • Patent number: 10795015
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a scanning apparatus and a security-inspection device with the same. The scanning apparatus include: at least one millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module, wherein the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module include a plurality of millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units each having a signal terminal facing the predetermined scanning area, and a dustproof film covering the signal terminal of each of the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units. The scanning mechanism is simple in structure, more convenient for maintenance, and has a lower cost. When each millimeter-wave transceiving antenna unit emits and receives millimeter waves, the millimeter waves pass through the dustproof film without passing through the organic glass, and the attenuation of the millimeter wave signal is small, thereby improving the 3D imaging effect of the security-inspection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Rong Wang, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Patent number: 10796444
    Abstract: Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for calculating signatures, utilizing signatures and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Ruth Bernstein
  • Patent number: 10790582
    Abstract: An antenna device that has a housing formed with a window surface and transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave through a cover member facing the window surface, the antenna device having a length in a direction of transmitting and receiving the electromagnetic wave that is greater than a height thereof, comprises: a circuit board that is provided inside the housing; a reflection plate that is provided inside the housing and faces a board surface of the circuit board; a transmitting antenna that is provided inside the housing and transmits the electromagnetic wave to a side of the reflection plate; and a receiving antenna that is provided inside the housing and receives the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Shiozaki, Ken Takahashi, Tomohiro Yui, Noriaki Saito, Kouji Suzuki, Yuichi Kashino
  • Patent number: 10784570
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal antenna device includes a signal source, a driving module, a correction module, and a plurality of radiation units. The signal source provides an input electromagnetic wave. The driving module outputs a plurality of initial voltage signals according to a radiation address. The correction module receives the initial voltage signals and outputs a plurality of corrected voltage signals according to a lookup table. The radiation units respectively receive the corrected voltage signals and are coupled to the input electromagnetic wave to generate an output electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yan-Zheng Wu, I-Yin Li, Kuang-Chiang Huang, Chien-Hung Chan, Huang-Chi Chao, Chih-Yung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10775498
    Abstract: A weather radar with a transmission antenna array that outputs a high aspect ratio FMCW transmission beam that illuminates an area in the field of regard in elevation and may be electronically scanned in azimuth. The weather radar includes a receive array and receive electronics that may receive the reflected return radar signals and electronically form a plurality of receive beams that may be used to determine characteristics of the area in the field of regard. The receive beams may be used to determine reflectivity of weather systems and provide a coherent weather picture. The weather radar may simultaneously process the receive signals into monopulse beams that may be used for accurate navigation as well as detection and tracking of objects, such as birds, aircraft, UAVs and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: David C. Vacanti
  • Patent number: 10740271
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a connecting apparatus and a system. The connecting apparatus includes N interconnection units, M line processing units, and X switch processing units, where each interconnection unit is connected to at least one switch processing unit, each switch processing unit is connected to only one interconnection unit, each interconnection unit is connected to the M line processing units, each line processing unit is connected to the N interconnection units, M is a positive integer, N is a positive integer, and X is greater than or equal to N. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention further provide another connecting apparatus and system. According to the foregoing technical solutions, a connecting mode between an LPU and an SPU is relatively flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chongyang Wang, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10727585
    Abstract: Provided is a directional monopole array antenna using a hybrid ground plane in which a plurality of monopole antennas are connected in a form of an array, wherein the monopole antennas includes: a ground plane designed to be divided into a PMC (perfect magnetic conductor) and a PEC (perfect electric conductor) such that a surface current induced in the PEC flows in a direction; and an antenna device vertically disposed in the ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hongik University Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Jeong-Hae Lee, Jae-Gon Lee
  • Patent number: 10675977
    Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) can include a VIC in operable communication with the EV main computer and the EV infotainment system. The VIC can include a processor, a memory in operable communication with the processor, and a computer-readable medium in operable communication with the processor and having software, such as a hypervisor, stored thereon. The VIC can be configured to have internet connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: INDIEV, INC
    Inventors: Hai Shi, Alejandro Portabales, Hojeong Kim, Young Joon Ju
  • Patent number: 10658758
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an antenna assembly that includes a plurality of separate and distinct antenna modules that are interconnected together to form an antenna layer. Each of the antenna modules may include a support structure including a core frame connected to a core support, and a backskin connected to one or both of the core frame and the core support. The antenna assembly may also include an alignment grid configured to receive and align each of the antenna modules, and/or a matching layer configured to receive and align each of the antenna modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Joseph L. Hafenrichter, Manny S. Urcia, Joseph A. Marshall, Charles W. Manry, Jr., Mohammad-Nasar M. Adeeyo
  • Patent number: 10627511
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer having a flexible printed circuit board with a thick metal layer and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The ultrasonic transducer, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an active element that generates an ultrasonic signal, wherein the active element has a thickness of ΒΌ? or less at the center frequency of the generated ultrasonic signal; and a flexible printed circuit board that includes a metal layer with a predetermined thickness, which is formed on one surface of the active element and is electrically connected to the active element, wherein the metal layer blocks ultrasonic waves that propagate in an opposite direction to a predetermined travel path of the ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Alpinion Medical Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won-Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10625735
    Abstract: A driving assistance ECU that serves as a vehicle control apparatus performs traveling control of a vehicle based on a detection result of a radar apparatus that detects a target in the periphery of an own vehicle. An angle calculating unit of the driving assistance ECU calculates an axial misalignment angle that is a misalignment amount of an attachment angle of the radar apparatus by statistically processing angle misalignment information of the radar apparatus acquired at a predetermined cycle. A control processing unit sets the angle misalignment amount of the radar apparatus to a predetermined initial angle until a predetermined initial period elapses after startup, and performs operation restriction on traveling control based on the initial angle. After the initial angle elapses after startup, the operation restriction on traveling control is performed based on a calculation value of the axial misalignment angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Syogo Matsunaga, Jun Tsuchida, Ichiro Aizawa
  • Patent number: 10602377
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes a dual-band antenna array configured to transmit first radio frequency (RF) signals to a remote device in an RF band and to transmit first millimeter wave (MMW) signals to the remote device in a MMW frequency band, wherein the MMW frequency band is above the RF band. A base transceiver station is configured to generate a consolidated steering matrix in accordance with the transmission of the first RF signals to the remote device in the RF band. A remote radio head is configured to convert the consolidated steering matrix to a converted steering matrix that facilitates the transmission of the first MMW signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band via the dual-band antenna array in accordance with an antenna beam pattern having at least one selected null direction, and further configured to generate the first MMW signals in accordance with the converted steering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10602376
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes an antenna array configured to receive first millimeter wave (MMW) signals from a remote device in a millimeter wave (MMW) frequency band and to transmit second millimeter wave (MMW) signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band. A base transceiver station is configured to generate a consolidated steering matrix in accordance in a radio frequency (RF) band based on a consolidated feedback matrix in accordance with the RF band, wherein the MMW frequency band is above the RF band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10585163
    Abstract: The invention is for a multi-sensor multiple hypotheses testing tracking system. The multi-hypothesis testing system associates measurements from multiple sensors with tracks. Measurements are incorporated using a Kalman Filter and the same filters are used to propagate the trajectories of the tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: PRINCETON SATELLITE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Paluszek, Joseph Mueller, Stephanie Thomas
  • Patent number: 10566713
    Abstract: Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: one or more die electrically coupled to a lead frame. The lead frame may be included within a housing. The semiconductor package may also include a set of signal leads extending from the housing, a set of power leads extending from the housing, and a plurality of press fit pins each fixedly coupled to the set of signal leads and the set of power leads. The set of signal leads and the set of power leads may be configured to couple with a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jie Chang, Huibin Chen, Tiburcio Maldo, Keunhyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 10522898
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices and methods for integration of millimeter wave antennas in platforms with reduced form factors while maintaining or improving antenna gain. An antenna assembly may include a first planar substrate; a ground plane disposed on the first planar substrate; a second planar substrate disposed on the ground plane; and an antenna radiation element disposed on the second planar substrate. The antenna radiation element may be configured to transmit a signal in the millimeter wave frequency region. The assembly may also include a via to provide a conductive path for the signal from a microstrip feed line, beneath the first planar substrate, to the antenna radiation element. The assembly may further include a dielectric layer disposed on the antenna radiation element to provide increased antenna gain under conditions of reduced air gap between the antenna radiation element and a structural element of an enclosing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Keen Tang, Ana M. Yepes, Yaniv Michaeli, Menashe Soffer
  • Patent number: 10505632
    Abstract: Extending a communication distance range of an electronic data interface involves establishing a data communicating link between a first and second electronic device in accordance which communicate in accordance with a predetermined electronic interface standard (PEIS). An optical fiber bus extender embedment (FBEE) disposed intermediate of the first and second electronic device includes first and second transport modules, respectively disposed proximate to the first and second electronic devices. These transport modules interface the FBEE directly with both of the first and second electronic device in accordance with the PEIS. Electronic data signals received from the first electronic device are used to modulate a first optical signal so as to form a first modulated optical data signal (MODS). The first MODS is coupled to an optical fiber to communicate the first MODS to the second transport module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Precision Optical Transceivers Inc.
    Inventor: Bryce Tennant
  • Patent number: 10503883
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for radar-based authentication. The techniques describe a radar-based authentication component that is configured to recognize biometric characteristics associated with a person or gestures performed by the person. Then, by comparing the biometric characteristics or gestures with an authentication library, an authentication state may be determined which allows or restricts access to a device or application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Edward Gillian, Ivan Poupyrev, Carsten C. Schwesig
  • Patent number: 10491639
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide a secure federated computing system for mobile structures. A secure federated computing system includes a secure system controller and one or more user modules each implemented with a secure system processor and configured to communicate over one or more system fabrics. The secure system controller and the user modules are configured to form secure communication channels to each other over the one or more system fabrics to facilitate a secure initialization procedure. Once the secure initialization procedure is complete, the secure system controller and the user modules can be used to dynamically allocate secure and non-secure system resources as needed or as indicated by a security rule set programmed into the secure system processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey G. King
  • Patent number: 10473760
    Abstract: There is provided a radar device which is mounted on a moving object and configured to detect a target on the basis of reception signals acquired by receiving reflected waves from the target by receiving antennae. A transmitting unit has a transmission axis substantially parallel to a traveling direction of the moving object. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit transmission waves around the transmission axis as a center thereof. A determining unit is configured to determine upward axis misalignment or downward axis misalignment of the transmission axis, on the basis of the reception signals acquired by receiving the reflected waves of the transmission waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ishimori
  • Patent number: 10451711
    Abstract: The radiation-direction changing and maintaining portion includes: a linear-movement generator, which is provided on a surface of a wave energy radiating portion opposite to a surface of the wave energy radiating portion from which the wave energy is radiated, and is configured to generate power required to change the direction of radiation of the wave energy radiating portion linearly along the wave energy radiating portion; a direction changer, which is provided so as to face the linear-movement generator, and is configured to change a direction of the power generated by the linear-movement generator toward the wave energy radiating portion to turn the wave energy radiating portion; and a force applying member configured to apply a force to the wave energy radiating portion in a direction against the turning of the wave energy radiating portion, which is caused by the power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Oba
  • Patent number: 10440244
    Abstract: Imaging apparatus (26) includes an image sensor (30), configured to capture an image of radiation at a target wavelength that is incident on a front surface of the image sensor. A metasurface (28) having a negative permittivity and a negative permeability at the target wavelength is fixed to the front surface of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Gilad Rosenblatt, Meir Orenstein
  • Patent number: 10437991
    Abstract: A system for capturing communication variables associated with a communication between two or more parties and implementing a quantum optimizer to analyze the communication variables to determine the actual context of a communication held by one or more parties to the communication. Once the actual context is determined, a further determination is made as to whether the actual context poses or potentially poses a security threat to one or more parties to the communication or a third-party and, if so, notifies the party of the security threat. In this regard, parties to a communication that are unaware of the actual context of the communication held by another party are made aware of that actual context poses a security threat and, in some embodiments, notifies the parties while the communication is still occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Benjamin Castinado, Jeffery B. Schroeder, William August Stahlhut
  • Patent number: 10382132
    Abstract: A transceiver architecture for wireless base stations wherein a broadband radio frequency signal is carried between at least one tower-mounted unit and a ground-based unit via optical fibers, or other non-distortive media, in either digital or analog format. Each tower-mounted unit (for both reception and transmission) has an antenna, analog amplifier and an electro-optical converter. The ground unit has ultrafast data converters and digital frequency translators, as well as signal linearizers, to compensate for nonlinear distortion in the amplifiers and optical links in both directions. In one embodiment of the invention, at least one of the digital data converters, frequency translators, and linearizers includes superconducting elements mounted on a cryocooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Hypres, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepnarayan Gupta, Oleg Mukhanov
  • Patent number: 10353051
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting axial misalignment of a beam sensor calculates, based on a result of first target recognition tasks by a beam recognition unit and a result of second target recognition tasks by an image recognition unit, a percentage of the number of times at least one preceding vehicle, which is running in front of an own vehicle, is recognized by the pair of the first and second target recognition tasks to the number of times the at least one preceding vehicle is recognized by at least the image recognition task. The apparatus detects misalignment of the beam axis of the beam sensor in the vertical plane including the beam axis of the beam sensor in accordance with the calculated percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Takaki
  • Patent number: 10355536
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of determining a location of a wireless power receiver. The method involves determining a first coupling coefficient between a transmitter and a receiver coupled via a wireless resonant coupling link, where the receiver is disposed at a first location. Further, the method involves receiving, by the transmitter, kinematic data generated by a sensor coupled to the receiver. Yet further, the method involves determining, based on the kinematic data and the first coupling coefficient, the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Michael Grundmann, Martin Schubert
  • Patent number: 10354066
    Abstract: An endpoint computer system can harvest data relating to a plurality of events occurring within an operating environment of the endpoint computer system and can add the harvested data to a local data store maintained on the endpoint computer system. A query response can be generated, for example by identifying and retrieving responsive data from the local data store. The responsive data are related to an artifact on the endpoint computer system and/or to an event of the plurality of events. In some examples, the local data store can be an audit log and/or can include one or more tamper resistant features. Systems, methods, and computer program products are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Permeh, Matthew Wolff, Samuel John Oswald, Xuan Zhao, Mark Culley, Steve Polson
  • Patent number: 10317910
    Abstract: Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a driver-assist object detection system is provided for a vehicle. One or more processing devices associated with the system receive at least two images from a plurality of captured images via a data interface. The device(s) analyze the first image and at least a second image to determine a reference plane corresponding to the roadway the vehicle is traveling on. The processing device(s) locate a target object in the first two images, and determine a difference in a size of at least one dimension of the target object between the two images. The system may use the difference in size to determine a height of the object. Further, the system may cause a change in at least a directional course of the vehicle if the determined height exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Gideon Stein, Amnon Shashua
  • Patent number: 10297926
    Abstract: The radar transceiver assembly configured to reduce ghost lobes and narrow the receive beams so as to provide a better image resolution relative to current radar transceiver assemblies is provided. The radar transceiver assembly includes a first transceiver chip and a second transceiver chip mounted on opposite sides of the substrate. The accordingly, space on the first support surface may be utilized for antennas. The first array of transmit antennas and first array of receive antennas is interleaved with the second array of transmit antennas and the second array of receive antennas. The second array of transmit antennas and the second array of receive antennas are electrically coupled to the second transceiver chip via a coupling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Paul Schmalenberg
  • Patent number: 10276920
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a package structure includes an RFIC chip. an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution circuit structure, an antenna and a microwave director. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the RFIC chip. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip. The antenna is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip through the redistribution circuit structure. The antenna is located between the microwave director and the RFIC chip. The microwave director has a microwave directivity enhancement surface located at a propagating path of a microwave received or generated by the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Chien Hsiao, Chen-Hua Yu, Chung-Shi Liu, Chao-Wen Shih, Shou-Zen Chang
  • Patent number: 10270166
    Abstract: A radar and a method for enabling array antenna are proposed. The radar includes a transceiver, a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) array antenna, a phased array antenna, and a controller. The MIMO array antenna is coupled to the transceiver and includes first transmitting sub-arrays and receiving sub-arrays. The phased array antenna is coupled to the transceiver and includes second transmitting sub-arrays and the receiving sub-arrays. The controller is coupled to the transceiver and configured to to enable the first transmitting sub-arrays to form the MIMO array antenna or enable the second transmitting sub-arrays to form the phased array antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corp.
    Inventors: Guo-Shu Huang, Jeng-Da Li, Hsin-Lung Hsiao
  • Patent number: 10261178
    Abstract: A wireless network based method for detecting carrying of metal, comprising: installing a wireless signal transmitting device and a wireless signal receiving device indoors; continuously transmitting to the surrounding, by the wireless signal transmitting device, wireless electromagnetic wave signals; continuously receiving, by the wireless signal receiving device, the wireless electromagnetic wave signals; continuously performing, through a signal abnormity detection system, abnormity analysis to the received wireless electromagnetic wave signals, and if any abnormality is determined, performing further analysis in the next step S5 to wireless electromagnetic wave signals within an abnormal waveband; and S5: extracting, through a date feature analysis system, a feature value of the wireless electromagnetic wave signals within the abnormal waveband, comparing and matching the feature value with features stored in an abnormal feature library, and if the feature of the wireless electromagnetic wave signals matc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kaishun Wu, Yuanchao An, Zhong Ming
  • Patent number: 10261177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for scanning objects and persons, for example, persons in security gates, by means of microwave radiation. Such a system includes an arrangement of several panels between which an angled walk-through passage is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sherif Sayed Ahmed, Olaf Ostwald, Christian Evers
  • Patent number: 10263322
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicular antenna. The antenna, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a spring part which is perpendicularly disposed on the roof of a vehicle; and a metal part perpendicularly disposed on the top of the spring part. The metal part comprises: a first part extending from the body; a second part which extends from the body and is disposed to have a predetermined interval from the first part; and a third part which extends from the body, is disposed between the first and second parts, and is bent to form a predetermined angle with the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Hun Park
  • Patent number: 10247842
    Abstract: A mail screening apparatus is provided to perform the inspection of mail or similar objects. Terahertz inspection is used to localize potential suspicious areas by imaging the contents inside the envelope or small parcel. The mail screening apparatus includes a primary and a secondary inspection zone, preferably allowing inspection of the mail in a normal and a zoomed mode, respectively. The same light source, image capture device and intervening optical components are used in both normal and zoomed modes. Metal detection may optionally be used to enhance awareness in the presence of metallic content. In one implementation, metal detection zones are provided in an orthogonal configuration with respect to the primary inspection zone used for terahertz imaging to accommodate for both manual and automatic inspection of mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: RaySecur Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Marchese, Alain Bergeron, Γ‰ric Giroux, Marc Terroux
  • Patent number: 10244408
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, a communication device includes a dual-band antenna array configured to transmit first radio frequency (RF) signals to a remote device in an RF band and to transmit first millimeter wave (MMW) signals to the remote device in a MMW frequency band, wherein the MMW frequency band is above the RF band. A base transceiver station is configured to generate a consolidated steering matrix in accordance with the transmission of the first RF signals to the remote device in the RF band. A remote radio head is configured to convert the consolidated steering matrix to a converted steering matrix that facilitates the transmission of the first MMW signals to the remote device in the MMW frequency band via the dual-band antenna array in accordance with an antenna beam pattern having at least one selected null direction, and further configured to generate the first MMW signals in accordance with the converted steering matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Giovanni Vannucci, Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 10243248
    Abstract: Devices and methods related to high power diode switches. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency (RF) switch circuit can include a plurality of first switchable paths implemented between a pole and a first throw, with each first switchable path including one or more PIN diodes. The RF switch circuit can further include a second switchable path implemented between the pole and a second throw, with the second switchable path including one or more PIN diodes. The pole can be an antenna port, and the first and second throws can be transmit (TX) and receive (RX) ports, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Mark Puente, Richard Allen Cory, Barry E. McCluskey
  • Patent number: 10218067
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides system and methods for optimizing the tuning of impedance elements associate with sub-wavelength antenna elements to attain target radiation and/or field patterns. A scattering matrix (S-Matrix) of field amplitudes for each of a plurality of modeled lumped ports, N, may be determined that includes a plurality of lumped antenna ports, Na, with impedance values corresponding to the impedance values of associated impedance elements and at least one modeled external port, Ne, located external to the antenna system at a specified radius vector. Impedance values may be identified through an optimization process, and the impedance elements may be tuned (dynamically or statically) to attain a specific target radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Black, Brian Mark Deutsch, Alexander Remley Katko, Melroy Machado, Jay Howard McCandless, Yaroslav A. Urzhumov
  • Patent number: 10191144
    Abstract: The present application describes a method including transmitting at least two radar signals by a radar unit of a vehicle, where a first signal is transmitted from a first location and a second signal is transmitted from a second location. The method also includes receiving a respective reflection signal associated with each of the transmitted signals. Additionally, the method includes determining, by a processor, at least one stationary object that caused a reflection. Further, the method includes based on the determined stationary object, determining, by the processor, an offset for the radar unit. The method yet further includes operating the radar unit based on the determined offset. Furthermore, the method includes controlling an autonomous vehicle based on the radar unit being operated with the determined offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Campbell, Larry Smith
  • Patent number: 10191454
    Abstract: Ultra-short pulse detection. At least some example embodiments are methods including: receiving by an antenna a series of ultra-short pulses of electromagnetic energy at a repetition frequency, the receiving creates a pulse signal; self-mixing or intermodulating the pulse signal by applying the pulse signal to a non-linear electrical device, thereby creating a modulated signal; and filtering the modulated signal to recover a filtered signal having an intermodulated frequency being the repetition frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Babak Jamali
  • Patent number: 10191142
    Abstract: A method for determining a frequency modulation includes generating a symbol stream that is filtered, with multiple samples per period. Sample values represent samples of the filtered symbols at instants separated by intervals of a fraction of a time period between successive symbols. Samples of I and Q waveforms are calculated from frequency modulating a signal with the sequence of symbols. For each possible set of symbol values on which a waveform depends, an average waveform is produced over all symbol values outside the group; and on which the waveform is not to depend, all waveforms are superimposed within +/?half a period of the center symbol of each group having the same set of values and averaging the superimposed I, Q samples to produce for each group an averaged set of samples and an average waveform. Final I, Q values are stored for subsequent frequency modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Uhnder, Inc.
    Inventors: Aria Eshraghi, Curtis Davis, Murtaza Ali, Paul Dent
  • Patent number: 10187752
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a user equipment device (UE), and associated methods for enabling the UE to estimate velocity of the UE based on cellular parameters. In some embodiments, a first velocity of a UE may be estimated based on a first set of parameters associated with one or more cellular based metrics. Doppler measurements may be performed in response to the first velocity exceeding a velocity threshold for at least a time period. In some embodiments, performing (or conducting) the Doppler measurements may be triggered by (e.g., in response to) the first velocity exceeding the velocity threshold for at least the first time period and receiving an indication from a motion processor of the UE that the UE is in a non-static state. In addition, a second velocity of the UE may be estimated based on the first set of parameters and the Doppler measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao Manepalli, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Jianxiong Shi, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srinivas Burugupalli
  • Patent number: 10145952
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted radar device providing stabilized performance and enabling a radar main body to be installed easily on a radar bracket. Radar device 100 includes radar main body 106 and a radar bracket 108 for installing on a vehicle. The radar bracket 108 forms an opening area 140 which exposes a transmission and reception surface 112 of the radar main body 106. One or more support parts which are provided on the side plate part 116, and support the radar main body 106 by contacting a side surface 128, or the transmission and reception surface 112 form a withdrawn shape 160 at the end of each of the support parts near the center of the transmission and reception surface 112 and is inclined toward the side distant from the center of the transmission and reception surface 112 and toward the outside of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: VEONEER SWEDEN AB
    Inventor: Jin Hayashihara
  • Patent number: 10141636
    Abstract: A vehicular radar system includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a first material. The vehicular radar system also includes a plurality of end-fire antennas positioned on the first PCB. The vehicular radar system also includes a second PCB stacked on or under the first PCB and having a second material that has a greater rigidity than the first material. The vehicular radar system also includes a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) coupled to the plurality of end-fire antennas and configured to control the plurality of end-fire antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Jae Seung Lee
  • Patent number: 10120003
    Abstract: System and methods for plausibility check in vehicle-to-everything dynamic environments in which a local vehicle communicates with remote vehicles. The system comprises means for obtaining a measured RSSI from a specific remote vehicle, and a modified plausibility check unit configurable and operable to apply a dynamic RSSI model to detect implausible positioning of the specific remote vehicle and/or of the local vehicle based on the measured RSSI of the specific remote vehicle and on a RSSI calculated for the specific remote vehicle. Decisions on respective further actions to be performed by the specific remote vehicle and by the local vehicle are made based on respective plausibility checks applied to both vehicles using the dynamic RSSI model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Autotalks LTD
    Inventors: Onn Haran, Ariel Feldman, Nir Raviv
  • Patent number: 10113877
    Abstract: A system provides feedback to a user to guide the user to point a part of the body at a target of interest. An angle sensor senses the angle in which the part of the user's body is pointing, such as the head or the hand. The system computes the angle to a target and compares to the angle in which the part of the user's body is pointing and the feedback indicates to the user how to point more closely to the direction of the target. Additional sensors allow the system to update the angle to the target as the position of the user changes. A walking sensor is disclosed to accurately measure the position of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Inventor: Philip Raymond Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10079646
    Abstract: A system for testing and/or calibrating an antenna array. The system comprises a device under test comprising the antenna array and at least one active radio frequency device for transmitting a test signal being known and always the same on each of at least two signal paths, and a measurement device comprising at least one probe for receiving the test signal on each of the at least two signal paths. The test signal is a non-repeatable one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Corbett Rowell, Hendrik Bartko, Adam Tankielun
  • Patent number: 10067225
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for transmitting a first set of continuous wave (CW) signals, where each CW signal of the first set of CW signals has a first signal frequency and the transmitter is turned off between transmission of each CW signal of the first set of CW signals. For each CW signal of the first set of CW signals, receiving a reflection of the CW signal, and selecting an analog to digital (A/D) sample of the reflection of the CW signal that does not contain ground reflections by selecting the A/D sample based on timing from the transmitter being turned off after transmission of the CW signal. Integrating the selected A/D samples from each of the CW signals of the first set of CW signals to obtain a single A/D sample for the first set of CW signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Gary Sentelle, Jeffery Carter May