Land Vehicle Location (e.g., Bus, Police Car Patents (Class 342/457)
  • Patent number: 11956053
    Abstract: A network node for a wireless telecommunications network, and a method of operating a network node, are disclosed. The wireless telecommunications network includes a first access point having a first transmitter configured to transmit in a first coverage area, and the method can include receiving, from a sensor, data indicative of an object within the first coverage area of the first access point's first transmitter; determining, from the data, that the object is an illegitimate user; and, in response, causing a modification of the first access point so that the object cannot successfully receive a transmission from the first transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Farhad Mehran, Richard Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 11877207
    Abstract: A location engine uses the empirical measurements made by a scouting wireless terminal (i) to discover the existence of a reference radio within a geographic region; (ii) to generate an estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) to generate an estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio. The location engine then uses: (i) the estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (ii) the estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) measurements, made by a user wireless terminal, of the power of each of the downlink control channel radio signals transmitted by each of the reference radios to generate an estimate of the location of the user wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Shiao-en Lu
  • Patent number: 11877209
    Abstract: A location engine uses the empirical measurements made by a scouting wireless terminal (i) to discover the existence of a reference radio within a geographic region; (ii) to generate an estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) to generate an estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio. The location engine then uses: (i) the estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (ii) the estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) measurements, made by a user wireless terminal, of the power of each of the downlink control channel radio signals transmitted by each of the reference radios to generate an estimate of the location of the user wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Shiao-en Lu
  • Patent number: 11877208
    Abstract: A location engine uses the empirical measurements made by a scouting wireless terminal (i) to discover the existence of a reference radio within a geographic region; (ii) to generate an estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) to generate an estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio. The location engine then uses: (i) the estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (ii) the estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) measurements, made by a user wireless terminal, of the power of each of the downlink control channel radio signals transmitted by each of the reference radios to generate an estimate of the location of the user wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Shiao-en Lu
  • Patent number: 11852741
    Abstract: A method of identifying a position of a user equipment within a wireless communication network includes: a) providing expected radio signal strengths produced by at least one radio communication station on each of plural elementary area elements in which a geographic area is subdivided; b) defining an initial attenuation experienced by the radio signals to the user equipment whose position is to be identified; c) obtaining measured radio signal strength measurements of the radio signals provided to the user equipment whose position is to be identified; d) determining an estimated elementary area element corresponding to the position of the user equipment whose position is to be identified based on the expected radio signal strengths, the initial attenuation and the radio signal strength measurements, and e) computing a final attenuation based on the estimated elementary area element. The operations b)-e) are iterated at least twice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Ghinamo, Massimiliano Petra
  • Patent number: 11846718
    Abstract: This application relates to a location measuring system including a driving-type working device. In one aspect, the system includes a data receiving unit that receives marking data about a working surface, a marking unit that executes a marking operation with respect to the working surface corresponding to the marking data, and a scanning unit that scans a target space. The system may also include a scan condition setting unit that sets a movement path of the driving-type working device corresponding to the marking data, sets a scanning position for scanning the target space in consideration of space map data corresponding to the target space, and sets a scan angle of the scanning unit at the scanning position. The system may further include a position detecting unit that compares scan data acquired via the scanning unit with the space map data to detect a position of the driving-type working device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Landor Architecture, Inc.
    Inventors: Han Seok Nam, James Patten
  • Patent number: 11818662
    Abstract: A mobile information handling system comprising a plurality of wireless network interface modules, a wireless network interface control system for controlling the plurality of wireless network interface modules, and a processor executing instructions of a wireless utilization machine learning inference modulator to receive iterative wireless utilization profiles indicating aggregated time and location profiles of wireless network utilization parameters and user configuration states of the information handling system for data needs including applications and hardware usage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Abu S. Sanaullah, Liam B. Quinn, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11714177
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system for identifying a vertical height of a user equipment using network-side components, instead of device-side components, is described. The system may include a fixed antenna of a node and a processor. The antenna sends a first beam having a first set of beam characteristics and receives a first signal strength indication from the user equipment based upon the first beam. The antenna then sends a second beam having a second set of beam characteristic and receives a second signal strength indication from the user equipment based upon the second beam. The processor may then analyze the first signal strength and the second signal strength to determine the vertical height of the user equipment, such as by a trigonometric calculation based upon an inclination of the beams and various known distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11705002
    Abstract: The technology includes communicating the current status of a self-driving vehicle to users, such as passengers within the vehicle and other users awaiting pickup. Certain information about the trip and vehicle status is communicated depending on where the passenger is sitting within the vehicle or where the person awaiting pickup is located outside the vehicle. This includes disseminating the “monologue” of a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode to a user via an app on the user's device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet or laptop PC, wearable, or other computing device) and/or an in-vehicle user interface. The monologue includes current status information regarding driving decisions and related operations or actions. This alerts the user as to why the vehicle is taking (or not taking) a certain action, which reduces confusion and allows the user to focus on other matters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Salil Pandit, Nirmal Patel, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Maria Moon, Lauren Schwendimann, Guilherme Villar, Ryan Powell, Peter Crandall, Matthew Hall
  • Patent number: 11662500
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a submarine position detection method based on extreme points of gravity gradients. A space rectangular coordinate system is established by taking a centroid of the middle cylindrical portion as a coordinate origin, a direction pointing to a bow is taken as a forward direction of the X axis, a direction pointing to a port is taken as a forward direction of the Y direction, and a vertical upward direction is taken as a forward direction of the Z axis. The detection method includes steps of: determining a horizontal position of a submarine, i.e., coordinates (X, Y), according to a position of a central extreme point and a central position between extreme points of non-diagonal components of a gradient tensor; and determining a functional relation between a depth and the extreme points of gravity gradients by using the submarine model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
    Inventors: Xiaoyun Wan, Xianghang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11645898
    Abstract: A multi sensor detection and disabling lock system includes detector cases for holding interchangeable detectors that sample for chemical, biological and radiological compounds, agents and elements, with each detector case disposed in or upon the monitored product. The detector case transmits detection information to a monitoring computer terminal and transmits a signal to a lock disabler engaged to the product to lock or disable the product's lock thereby preventing untrained, unauthorized and unequipped individuals from gaining access and entry to the product, and also preventing further contamination of the area. The detection system can be interconnected to surveillance towers scanning detector cases disposed at seaport docks, freight depots and rail terminals for monitoring containers being prepared for shipment or sitting on docks for long periods of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Larry Golden
  • Patent number: 11632419
    Abstract: Systems and methods electronically produce a local estimate of less-than-critical resources based on a client side version of digital rules and a coarse values received from an online service provider. Although using the client side version of digital rules and the coarse values may not include all the parameters and values needed to provide a fully accurate estimate of the resource, the ability to locally estimate resources without having to make network calls to the online service provider, such as when there are unfavorable conditions or latency of the network, imminent overloading of the online service provider or other operating conditions or demands on the online service provider preventing it from producing a timely more accurate estimate, provides a faster and more efficient way of obtaining a potentially useful estimate of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Lee Robles, Nikki Nash, Mark Janzen, Rahul Aggarwal, Gregory T. Kavounas, Hemendra Pal
  • Patent number: 11610241
    Abstract: A network based real estate transaction system is disclosed for assisting real estate agents and their clients with determining properties for purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventor: Dennis J. Dupray
  • Patent number: 11431555
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates transmitting a plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves that propagates along a surface of a first transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the first plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves conveys a plurality of communication signals, detecting an attenuation in the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves that affects a propagation of the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves along the first surface of the first transmission medium, and responsive to the detecting, redirecting at least a portion of the plurality of ultra-wideband electromagnetic waves to an interface of a second transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Giovanni Vannucci, Peter Wolniansky, Paul Shala Henry
  • Patent number: 11422224
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for determining a location of a device based on phase differences of a signal received from the device. In some embodiments, expected phase differences for signals transmitted from a plurality of regions are determined. The expected phase differences are those differences of the signal when received at each of a plurality of receive elements of a receiving device. By comparing phase differences of a signal received from the device to the expected phase differences, a location of the device is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Neal Dante Castagnoli
  • Patent number: 11425535
    Abstract: A method of navigating a vehicle with an electronic device using bilateration to a desired location is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving, with an electronic device, a plurality of signals emitted from a plurality of transmitting devices within a vicinity of the electronic device and determining a signal quality for the signals that are received based on 1) a RSSI or 2) a received signal power and a received signal gain, and signal propagation characteristics based on transmitting device information. The signal propagation characteristics is compared with either 1) the RSSI or 2) the received signal power and the received signal gain and at least two of the signals are designated having a highest signal quality, and are used to determine a distance that the electronic device is from the transmitting devices for locating the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Kenmar Corporation
    Inventors: Neal C. Fairbanks, Frederick R. Nader, Collin M. Rusk
  • Patent number: 11396275
    Abstract: The invention proposes an autonomous device for controlling a heating circuit of an automotive vehicle windscreen wiper blade, comprising a module for regulating the electrical power supply of the heating circuit, furnished with an input for connecting to an electrical energy generator and with an output for connecting to a said windscreen wiper blade heating circuit. This device comprises means for acquiring, at an instant t, a datum representative of a temperature outside the vehicle on the one hand and of a datum representative of the instantaneous speed of the vehicle on the other hand, the said acquiring means being configured to transmit these data to the regulating module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Stephane Houssat, Vincent Gaucher, Guillaume Mouleyre, William Terrasse
  • Patent number: 11368202
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for a user equipment in a wireless communication system with a plurality of user equipment where reference weight vectors orthogonal to each other are selected from a predefined set of directions for reference beams. The inner products of a UE-specific beam weight vector with all reference weight vectors is performed and UE-specific beams are mapped to the set of reference beams. From the set of reference beams, based on the reference beam with largest magnitude of inner product, the direction of the user equipment is determined. Based on that determined direction, the user equipment is instructed in to pair with another user equipment of the plurality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Bulin Zhang, Gurudutt Hosangadi, Yang Yang
  • Patent number: 11366216
    Abstract: Systems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless device. After receiving the first packet, the second wireless device sending to the first wireless device a second packet. After sending the second packet, the second wireless device sends a first continuous wave signal to the first wireless device. After receiving the first continuous wave signal, the first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a second continuous wave signal. The first wireless device then calculates a time-of-flight measurement based on a time between the first wireless device sending the first packet and receiving the second packet, and calculates a second measurement based on a phase shift of the first continuous wave signal and the second continuous wave signal, and combines the two measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomas Motos, Espen Wium
  • Patent number: 11360195
    Abstract: Various embodiments determine a position of a wireless device and enable the wireless device to retrieve the determined location. In one embodiment, a system comprises of at least one wireless transmitting device, a plurality of wireless receivers, and at least one server. Each of the plurality of wireless devices receive signals from the wireless transmitting device with unknown position and send time stamped information to the server. Each of the plurality of wireless device also sends unique identifying information about the wireless transmitting device. The server calculates a position of the wireless transmitting device by considering the inputs received from the plurality of wireless receivers. The wireless device obtains its position from the server. The process can be executed on demand or at regular frequent intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholaus J. Bauer
  • Patent number: 11341438
    Abstract: Product provisioning and recommender systems and methods are described for generating product-based recommendations for geographically distributed physical stores based on mobile device movement. In various embodiments, a server aggregates mobile device movement data originating from a plurality of mobile devices geographically distributed with respect to a physical store of a geographic trade area. A provisioning application (app) executing on the server and analyzing the mobile device movement data, assigns geographic region descriptors defining a geographical consumer region for each mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices. The provisioning app generates a network store graph model based on a set of regional probabilities and a set of trade area probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Daniel E Ames, II
  • Patent number: 11334807
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learning estimation networks in a communications system. One of the methods includes: processing first information with ground truth information to generate a first RF signal by altering the first information by channel impairment having at least one channel effect, using a receiver to process the first RF signal to generate second information, training a machine-learning estimation network based on a network architecture, the second information, and the ground truth information, receiving by the receiver a second RF signal transmitted through a communication channel including the at least one channel effect, inferring by the trained estimation network the receiver to estimate an offset of the second RF signal caused by the at least one channel effect, and correcting the offset of the RF signal with the estimated offset to obtain a recovered RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, Kiran Karra, T. Charles Clancy
  • Patent number: 11320271
    Abstract: A positioning device performs positioning to measure a position of a vehicle. The positioning device receives a signal transmitted from a GNSS satellite. The positioning device perform a positioning calculation using the signal. The positioning device communicates with a positioning server. The positioning device selects, as a system for the positioning, one of a first positioning system and a second positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Miyao, Kentaro Asai, Yosuke Moriuchi
  • Patent number: 11294096
    Abstract: The system as described collects and utilizes weather data sensor information in order to rapidly collect and update weather forecasts using real-time weather data collected at high rates of frequency, and use this collected high frequency weather data to rapidly correct and update the weather forecasts generated by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
    Inventors: Shimon Elkabetz, Jacob Ribnik, Itai Zlotnik, Rei Goffer, Nir Nossenson, Daniel Alexander Rothenberg, Karl Ginter
  • Patent number: 11277322
    Abstract: A method involves receiving a request for information of one or more second users located within a vicinity of a first client device, determining, for each second user within the vicinity of the first client device, an affinity score between a first user and the second user based at least on one or more network-traffic patterns associated with the first client device and a second client device associated with the second user, selecting one or more of the second users within the vicinity of the first client device based on the determined affinity scores, and sending, to the first client device, information associated with the selected one or more second users, the information including one or more context items generated based on the network-traffic patterns associated with the first client device and the one or more second client devices associated with the selected one or more second users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Mateusz Berezecki
  • Patent number: 11269480
    Abstract: A technique for controlling objects includes a handheld controller that provides output for generating a virtual ray. The virtual ray has a location and a direction. The location of the virtual ray is measured as a location of the handheld controller, based on input from sensors in the surrounding space. As a user moves and/or rotates the handheld controller, the virtual ray sweeps through space, intersecting various objects. When the virtual ray intersects with the location of a controllable object whose identity and location are known, the handheld controller identifies the object and accepts remote-control input from the user for controlling that object. Using the handheld controller, the user may control any controllable object having a known identity and location in space, and may control virtual as well as physical objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Reavire, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeff Gullicksen
  • Patent number: 11246010
    Abstract: A positioning and tracking system is disclosed. The positioning and tracking system includes positioning sensors disposed in a space, wherein the positioning sensors are all movable and all have functions of sensing distance, angle and time, and the positioning sensors communicate with each other to sense relative distances, relative angles and relative times between every two positioning sensors of the positioning sensors. when at least one of the positioning sensors moves in the space, the positioning sensors re-communicate with each other to instantly update the relative distances, the relative angles and the relative times between every two positioning sensors of the positioning sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: IWAVE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shau-Gang Mao, Chong-Yi Liou, Wei-Ting Tsai, Ting-Wei Wu, Yu-Yao Chen, Jin-Feng Neo, Zheng-An Peng, Tsu-Yu Lo, Je-Yao Chang, Chien-Bang Chen, Shih-Ping Huang
  • Patent number: 11239904
    Abstract: A communication system has a phased antenna array configured to communicate via a plurality of beams with a wireless device, such as user equipment (e.g., a smart phone). The plurality of beams define a field of view of the phased antenna array, the field of view having a plurality of cells and each of the plurality of beams is associated with one of the plurality of cells within the field of view. A processing device detects the wireless device within the field of view and determines a coarse geographic location of the wireless device within the field of view of the wireless device when the wireless device is within the field of view, or within a cell. The system further determines a fine geographic location for the wireless device based on frequency offset (due to Doppler) and signal flight time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AST & Science, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond J. Sedwick, Abel Avellan
  • Patent number: 11228469
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for providing locationing multipath mitigation for wireless communication is provided. The system includes a receiver having at least one controller. The at least one controller is programmed to; receive a first narrowband wireless signal including a predetermined symbol from a transmitter across a wideband transmission channel that exhibits a multipath condition and additive noise, the first narrowband wireless signal being convoluted with the wideband channel to form a first received signal and to perform autocorrelation on the first received signal to extract the predetermined symbol. The at least one controller is further configured to filter the extracted predetermined symbol to deconvolve the first received signal to minimize the effects of the multipath condition and the additive noise to provide a first deconvoluted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DEEYOOK LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Eran Shpak
  • Patent number: 11197265
    Abstract: A moving path determining method, applied to a user equipment, the moving path determining method comprises performing positioning to at least three wireless communication devices via a scanning frequency in a cumulative time, to calculate a plurality of sampling positions; determining whether a measured distance value corresponding to each of the plurality of sampling positions of at least three wireless communication devices is less than a predetermined value or not; removing the sampling position corresponding to the measure distance value less than the predetermined value within the plurality of sampling positions, to obtain a plurality of valid sampling positions; calculating a count value of the plurality of valid sampling positions; and determining a current position of the user equipment according to the count value and a smoothing threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Chin-Shuo Kuo
  • Patent number: 11194012
    Abstract: Provided is a radio source position estimation system including a plurality of radio transmission devices spaced a predetermined distance apart from one another and configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) signals received from an arbitrary radio source and a central radio reception device configured to estimate a position of the radio source using the RF signals received from at least three radio transmission devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Korea Aerospace Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Hyuck Im, Moon Beom Heo, Se Bum Chun, Deok Won Lim, Eun Seong Son, Koon Tack Kim
  • Patent number: 11184048
    Abstract: A measuring system includes a first measuring device and a second measuring device. The measuring system is configured to, between the first measuring device and the second measuring device, determine a first phase shift at a first frequency, determine a second phase shift at a second frequency, and determine a third phase shift at a third frequency. The first measuring device includes a phase difference calculator configured to calculate a first phase difference between the first phase shift and the second phase shift, and a second phase difference between the second phase shift and the third phase shift. The first measuring device also includes a range/velocity calculator configured to determine a first biased distance estimate from the first phase difference, a second biased distance estimate from the second phase difference, and an unbiased distance and/or velocity from the first biased distance estimate and the second biased distance estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventor: Jac Romme
  • Patent number: 11175654
    Abstract: A remote vehicle control system includes a vehicle mounted sensor system including a video camera system for producing video data and a distance mapping sensor system for producing distance map data. A data handling system is used to compress and transmit both the video and distance map data over a cellular network using feed forward correction. A virtual control system acts to receive the video and distance map data, while providing a user with a live video stream supported by distance map data. Based on user actions, control instructions can be sent to the vehicle mounted sensor system and the remote vehicle over the cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Oliver Ryan, Usman Ghani, Tobenna Arodigobu
  • Patent number: 11176596
    Abstract: User equipment (UE) includes a short-range transceiver configured for communication with a plurality of wireless access points (APs) distributed throughout a venue. The individual UEs can communicate with the venue via the APs. The UEs can be configured to play interactive games with the venue, some of which may be displayed on the large screen in the venue and others that are displayed on the display of the UE. Data may be sent to the UEs individually or in groups. The data may be in the form of advertising, text messaging, images, video, multimedia, or the like. An array of UEs can receive portions of an overall image and function as individual pixels in a large display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mobilitie, LLC
    Inventors: Gary B. Jabara, Lloyd Frederick Linder, David Brett Simon
  • Patent number: 11169260
    Abstract: A method for determining the position of a mobile radio station by a vehicle, the method being based on a plurality of radio measurements. The invention further relates to a vehicle for carrying out such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Gabriel Goron, Michael Schulmeister, Klaus Rink, Jonas Herzfeld
  • Patent number: 11161516
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, by way of example, a vehicle control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire map data indicating an absolute azimuth of a linear road surface sign disposed on a road surface on which a vehicle travels, and image data obtained by imaging surroundings of the vehicle with a vehicle-mounted camera included in the vehicle; and a correction unit configured to detect the road surface sign from the acquired image data, calculate a relative azimuth of the road surface sign with respect to the vehicle on the image data, calculate a shift of an azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated relative azimuth and the absolute azimuth of the detected road surface sign indicated by the map data, and correct the azimuth in which the vehicle moves based on the calculated shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Tanaka, Toyoji Hiyokawa
  • Patent number: 11140651
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a computer program product for determining a location of a communication device. Data corresponding to a detected transmission of a data packet between a tag device and one or more communication devices is received on one or more communication channels. At least one of a channel state information and a signal strength associated with the detected transmission for each frequency band in a plurality of frequency bands are determined. Based on the determined channel state information, one or more lengths of signal paths corresponding to the detected transmission of the data packet are determined. A shortest length in across one or more communication devices is selected to determine a location of the tag device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Sai Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Dinesh Bharadia, Deepak Vasisht, Dina Katabi
  • Patent number: 11131744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a location of one or more user equipment (UE) in a wireless system can comprise receiving reference signals via a location management unit having two or more co-located channels, wherein the two or more co-located channels are tightly synchronized with each other and utilizing the received reference signals to calculate a location of at least one UE among the one or more UE. Embodiments include multichannel synchronization with a standard deviation of less than or equal 10 ns. Embodiments can include two LMUs, with each LMU having internal synchronization, or one LMU with tightly synchronized signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: POLTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, Michael John Buynak
  • Patent number: 11132004
    Abstract: Vehicles and methods of navigating vehicles comprise at least three receiver antennae configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals from one or more RF-transmitting antennae coupled to an object, receiver circuitry coupled to the receiver antennae to acquire the RF signals and to determine timing information from the acquired RF signals, memory storing information related to fixed distances between each receiver antenna and each other receiver antenna, a processor configured to determine a relative position of the vehicle with respect to the one or more RF-transmitting antennae based on the stored information related to the fixed distances between each receiver antenna and each other receiver antenna and on the timing information determined by the receiver circuitry, and a control system configured to control operation of the vehicle in response to the relative position of the vehicle with respect to the one or more RF-transmitting antennae determined by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: POSITION IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Edward L. Hill, Brett Bilbrey, Harry Lee Deffebach, III, Krenar Komoni
  • Patent number: 11119496
    Abstract: Some aspects include a method including: generating, with a processor of the robot, a map of the workspace; segmenting, with the processor of the robot, the map into a plurality of zones; transmitting, with the processor of the robot, the map to an application of a communication device; receiving, with the application, the map; displaying, with the application, the map; receiving, with the application, at least one input for the map; implementing, with the application, the at least one input into the map to generate an updated map of the workspace; transmitting, with the application, the updated map to the processor of the robot; receiving, with the processor of the robot, the updated map; generating, with the processor of the robot, a movement path based on the map or the updated map; and actuating, with the processor of the robot, the robot to traverse the movement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AI Incorporated
    Inventors: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi, Lukas Fath
  • Patent number: 11107127
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for the secure distribution of firmware and configuration updates to un-networked physical devices. A client component is provided for installation on a client device, which is configured to receive, via the client component, a status data packet including a status indication from a beacon, when the client is proximate to the beacon. A server receives the status data packet via the client component, determines whether an update is available for the beacon based at least in part on the status indication, and transmits, to the client device, an encrypted update data message relating to the update for installation at the beacon to complete the update of the beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Middleton, Orin Morris
  • Patent number: 11102727
    Abstract: An uplink control method, includes: determining a downlink path loss based on a first reference signal receive power that is of a serving cell in which the terminal device is located and that is obtained through measurement; receiving a first transmit power and a second transmit power that are sent by the base station; and if the first reference signal receive power is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, obtaining, by the terminal, an uplink transmit power of the terminal in a first network; or if the first reference signal receive power is less than a preset threshold, obtaining, by the terminal, an uplink transmit power of the terminal in the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Xu, Liwen Zhang, Lin Zhou, Bo Cheng
  • Patent number: 11079463
    Abstract: A method for the determining a position of at least one measurement object equipped with a mobile station having a receiver includes employing at least four reference objects having a base station and a transmitter, wherein a first reference object of the at least four reference objects has a mobile station with a receiver and simultaneously acts as a measurement object. The base station and the mobile station are structurally combined. The reference objects initially have a known position that can change. The transmitters of the base stations transmit signals and the mobile stations receive signals. The method additionally includes emitting, by at least two transmitters of base stations, periodic signals of different frequencies at mutually defined time intervals, wherein these frequencies are closely adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH
    Inventors: Yu Yao, Stefan Van Waasen, Renhai Xiong, Michael Schiek
  • Patent number: 11075929
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing time series data of a wireless communication link between a first node and a second node on a millimeter-wave communications network; determining that an anomaly exists in the time series data; determining an anomaly type for the anomaly by inputting one or more features derived from the time series data into a machine learning module; generating a report comprising an indication that the anomaly exists and a description of the anomaly type, and determining one or more treatments for the determined anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Ying Li, Fan Sun, Guan Pang
  • Patent number: 11067684
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiver with a unit for receiving sub-data packets configured to receive at least two sub-data packets from a data transmitter, and to combine the at least two sub-data packets to obtain a data packet that is transmitted split into the at least two sub-data packets by the data transmitter, wherein each of the at least two sub-data packets is shorter than the data packet, a unit for receiving sub-data packets configured to receive the at least two sub-data packets on at least two different carrier frequencies a unit for determining a phase difference configured to determine a phase difference between the at least two sub-data packets that is caused by the at least two different carrier frequencies and the path delay, and a unit for determining a distance difference configured to determine a distance difference between the data receiver and the data transmitter based on the determined phase difference between the at least two sub-data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Niels Hadaschik, Marc Faßbinder, Josef Bernhard, Jörg Robert, Jörn Thielecke, Markus Hartmann, Hans-Martin Tröger, Ferdinand Kemeth
  • Patent number: 11055802
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for managing provisioning of a service. The techniques include requesting identity credentials from a device having a PII wallet for identity credentials of a potential user of the service, receiving the requested identity credentials, sending the received requested identity credentials to an identity and access management system, receiving a decision regarding verification of the requested identity credentials from the identity and access management system, and producing a notification in response to the received decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Graeme Jarvis, Terezinha Rumble, George C. Grammer, Michael Lamarca
  • Patent number: 11051267
    Abstract: A channel latency determining method, a positioning method, and device, the method including obtaining, by a communications device, device location information of a calibration user equipment (UE), calculating a propagation delay according to the device location information and prestored location information of an antenna, where the propagation delay is a time between transmitting a radio signal by the calibration UE and receiving the radio signal by the antenna, calculating a time of arrival according to the radio signal transmitted by the calibration UE to the antenna, where the time of arrival is a time obtained through calculation according to a time of arrival (TOA) estimation algorithm, and determining a channel latency according to the propagation delay and the time of arrival, where the channel latency is positively correlated with the time of arrival and is negatively correlated with the propagation delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Feng Zhou, Yaxin Wu, Jiao He
  • Patent number: 11041934
    Abstract: The disclosure includes implementations for determining a position of a vehicle using millimeter wave narrow beamforming. A method may include receiving a set of training packets that each uniquely identify a position on a portion of a roadway where the vehicle is located. Each of the training packets included in the set may be associated with only one of the millimeter wave narrow beams. The method may include identifying a training packet included in the set of training packets that has a highest receive power level among the set of training packets. The method may include determining the position uniquely identified by the training packet having the highest receive power level. The method may include determining positional information for the vehicle based on the position uniquely identified by the training packet having the highest receive power level. The positional information may describe a location of the vehicle on the roadway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Vutha Va, Takayuki Shimizu, Gaurav Bansal, Toru Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11032665
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards user equipment (UE) geolocation. A machine learning model can be trained to estimate UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs. In order to train the machine learning model, known previous UE locations and corresponding historical network communication data can be provided to the machine learning model. A variety of other information, such as topographical information, can also be provided to the machine learning model. The machine learning model can be trained to predict the known previous UE locations based on the corresponding historical network communication data and any other provided information. Once it is trained, the machine learning model can be deployed to estimate real-time UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abraham George, Ye Ge, Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11023833
    Abstract: A pro-active mobile refueling service uses a multiple agents and targets solution to assign mobile service agents to re-fuel moving vehicles. A subscription service continually monitors the fuel consumption and fuel reserves of subscribed moving vehicles to predict when a subscribed vehicle will need fuel replenishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adi Ionel Botea, Fan Xie