Having Plural Transmitters Or Receivers Patents (Class 342/463)
  • Patent number: 11954247
    Abstract: Provided regarding a technique of an HMD is a technique capable of realizing high functionality and weight reduction in a well-balanced manner and improving usability for a user. An HMD of an embodiment is a head mounted display apparatus, includes: a head attached part that is attached to a user's head and has a display screen for displaying an image; and a body trunk attached part communicating with the head attached part and attached to a portion of the user's body trunk, measures a relatively positional relationship between the head attached part and the body trunk attached part and grasps states including a position and a direction of the head attached part states including a position and a direction of the body trunk attached part based on the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11947030
    Abstract: A radar system for providing position information to a mobile unit is provided. The radar system comprises a receiving interface. The receiving interface is adapted to receive radio frequency, RF, signals. The radar system further comprises a processing unit. The processing unit is adapted to process the received RF signals. The processing unit is adapted to determine an occupation of a predetermined time-frequency space by the received RF signals. The radar system further comprises a transmitting interface which adapted to transmit information on an intention of the radar system to occupy a specific portion of the predetermined time-frequency space. The radar system further comprises a plurality of beacon units. The beacon units are adapted to provide position information of the radar system on the specific portion in the predetermined time-frequency space, when it is determined that the specific portion of the predetermined time-frequency space is not occupied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Russel Que, Klaus Kittmann, Michael Von Voithenberg
  • Patent number: 11943738
    Abstract: In an aspect, a position estimation entity (e.g., LMF) determines at least one shared requirement (e.g., a timing requirement, an RF chain requirement, etc.) for both of a first differential timing (DT) procedure of a double differential timing (DDT) procedure (e.g., TDOA-based or RTT-based) and a second DT procedure of the DDT procedure, the first DT procedure based on timing measurements between a target user equipment (UE) and first and second wireless nodes, and the second DT procedure based on timing measurements between a reference wireless node and the first and second wireless nodes, and transmits, to at least the target UE and the reference wireless node, requests to perform the DDT procedure along with an indication of the at least one shared requirement for the DDT procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jingchao Bao, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11917493
    Abstract: UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, David Goodwin Shaw, Tyler Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11879988
    Abstract: A mobile device and base station are enabled to support improved positioning accuracy in the presence of phase noise in high frequency radio network, such as in 5G New Radio network operating in mmWave. Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) may be transmitted with Positioning Reference Signals (PRS) and used for positioning and/or used to correct the phase offset between symbols in the PRS. A request may be made to transmit PTRS alone or with the PRS, or that the PRS is transmitted with a specific PRS frame structure, e.g., with a specific comb value, that minimizes the impact of phase noise. The PTRS or a phase ramp of the staggered symbols in the PRS may be used to estimate and correct the phase offset. Less than all of the symbols transmitted in the PRS may be used to generate positioning measurements to minimize the impact of phase noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mukesh Kumar, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug
  • Patent number: 11850515
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide for generating real-time egress plans for users in a building, based on the users' current locations. As the users' current locations change, egress plans associated with the users can be dynamically modified in real-time. The egress plans can also be generated, modified, and/or trained based on inputted information about the user. The disclosed technology can include a mobile application for presenting, in a centralized interface, information about user-specific egress plans, training the user for different emergency scenarios, improving or changing features in the building to improve safety, and user profiles. The mobile application can include training simulation games to help prepare the users to safely egress during an emergency. The disclosed technology can also predict building component and structure emergency risk levels. The disclosed technology can also designate zones in the building based on possible egress routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Tabor Mountain LLC
    Inventors: Bill Delmonico, Joseph Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11841449
    Abstract: A mobile device and base station are enabled to support improved positioning accuracy in the presence of phase noise in high frequency radio network, such as in 5G New Radio network operating in mmWave. Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) may be transmitted with Positioning Reference Signals (PRS) and used for positioning and/or used to correct the phase offset between symbols in the PRS. A request may be made to transmit PTRS alone or with the PRS, or that the PRS is transmitted with a specific PRS frame structure, e.g., with a specific comb value, that minimizes the impact of phase noise. The PTRS or a phase ramp of the staggered symbols in the PRS may be used to estimate and correct the phase offset. Less than all of the symbols transmitted in the PRS may be used to generate positioning measurements to minimize the impact of phase noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mukesh Kumar, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug
  • Patent number: 11818002
    Abstract: A wireless sensor preferably has a case which is intrinsically safe and has no exposed parts which can become not intrinsically safe due to the passage of time or through contact with chemicals typically encountered in a location where the wireless sensor is used. It preferably has no integral visual display other than lights, and it preferably includes at least one signal light. The sensor preferably includes a wireless transceiver for allowing remote read and remote control of the sensor. The sensor preferably includes piezoelectric pressure detectors for allowing a user to locally interact with the sensor by pressing on the case. Data can be automatically harvested from the sensors by a portable electronic data-retrieving device which is usually geographically remote from the sensors when the portable electronic data-retrieving device and the sensors are in range of a wireless system which allows them to communicate when they are geographically proximate each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip George Hunt, Mark V. Bertolina, Brooks Stevens Read, Bruce Henry Thompson, Richard Bruce McKinstry, Richard Allan Chaney
  • Patent number: 11818681
    Abstract: A secure ranging system can use a secure processing system to deliver one or more ranging keys to a ranging radio on a device, and the ranging radio can derive locally at the system ranging codes based on the ranging keys. A deterministic random number generator can derive the ranging codes using the ranging key and one or more session parameters, and each device (e.g. a cellular telephone and another device) can independently derive the ranging codes and derive them contemporaneously with their use in ranging operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jerrold V. Hauck, Alejandro J. Marquez, Timothy R. Paaske, Indranil S. Sen, Herve Sibert, Yannick L. Sierra, Raman S. Thiara
  • Patent number: 11805389
    Abstract: A placement of a set of devices in an environment is evaluated. At least a plurality of neighboring locations is selected for a target location in the environment. A probability of an estimated location conditioned on the target location is calculated for each of at least the plurality of neighboring locations as the estimated location by using an observation model for obtaining a set of observation values given a location under the placement. An evaluation metric is computed by using the probability calculated for each of at least the plurality of neighboring locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Murata
  • Patent number: 11784780
    Abstract: A communication system allows for clock synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver when switching from transmission of an analog signal to transmission of a digital signal. The system uses clock synchronization during transmission of the digital signal, but the clock synchronization may be lost when switching to transmission of an analog signal. A digital clock synchronization is embedded in the analog signal so that the clock synchronization between the transmitter and the receiver may be reestablished upon switching to a digital signal without any delay in transmission of the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Skywave Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Babich
  • Patent number: 11768269
    Abstract: A positioning method, as well as the system of base stations (T1,T2,T3) and detector (I) is based on measuring the propagation time difference of externally controlled electromagnetic pulses (F1,F2,F3) and the arrival signals of the controlled base station during a measurement cycle (t1+t2). In one embodiment, a reference clock is not required for measuring propagation time differences, but instead, accurate fixed distances between base stations can be used as a reference. System calibration is rarely performed. It checks the mutual locations of base stations. This may be partially automated. The positioning system does not require any sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: EXALOCUS OY
    Inventors: Erkki Pesonen, Jukka Heikkonen
  • Patent number: 11748778
    Abstract: A mobile billboard messaging icon displays messages related to a user's preferences from an advertiser on the display of a user's devices, such as Smartphone or tablet, having Internet connectivity, location technology, and logic means for determining when the user device is in a given vicinity of the advertiser's location. The coordinate location of the device is used to identify advertiser's locations within a preselected distance that correlate with user's preferences. Where a correlation is found, at least one message from the advertiser is displayed on the Smartphone or tablet device. The message is triggered when the device enters within the given radii from the advertiser. When triggered, the messaging icon provides relevant real-time promotions, deals and coupons for purchase of goods and services of the advertisers or sponsors related to the user preferences. The mobile billboard displays target messages based on both the user's specific preferences and the user's geographical real-time location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Henry Peter Badenhop
  • Patent number: 11743344
    Abstract: A method for managing edge resource processing includes identifying a plurality of data sources, wherein each sensor from a plurality of sensors associated with the plurality of data sources produce data for processing by a plurality of edge devices. In response to sampling a data feed from each data source form the plurality of data sources to establish context, the method also includes determining contextual priority for each data source. The method also includes identifying the plurality of edge devices at the location for performing computations on the data produced by the plurality of data sources. In response to identifying a type of computation for the plurality of edge devices, the method also includes determining a computation plan for the edge devices based on the contextual priority for each data source from the plurality of data sources and deploying the computation plan for the plurality of edge devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy, Sri Harsha Varada, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11662477
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the location of a vehicle when GNSS signals are not available use triangulation between one or two radio transmitters and, respectively, two or one radio receivers mounted on the vehicle. The distance between each radio transmitter and/or each radio receiver can be determined according a phase difference between received radio signals. The radio signals can have the geographical location of the radio transmitter included therein. Utilizing the demodulated geographical location of each radio transmitter and the distance between the radio transmitter and each radio receiver, triangulation can be used to determine the geographical location of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Ryan Staats, Stuart John Barr
  • Patent number: 11622399
    Abstract: A transmission device includes N wireless transmission circuits and N transmission buffers. N is an integer equal to or greater than two. Each of the N transmission buffers is connected to a respective wireless transmission circuit of the N wireless transmission circuits. At least a part of a piece of delivery data is stored in each of the N transmission buffers before the N wireless transmission circuits establish wireless links. The N wireless transmission circuits are instructed to transmit the piece of delivery data stored in the N transmission buffers after the N wireless transmission circuits establish the wireless links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Koji Takinami, Naganori Shirakata, Tomoya Urushihara, Masashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11600182
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation service system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information and positional information of a user, a selection unit configured to select a moving object to be provided to the user based on the biological information, a decision unit configured to acquire priority added to a satisfied condition of the biological information of the user and decide an order of vehicle allocation for the selected moving object according to the priority, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the selected moving object to move according to the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 11579232
    Abstract: Navigation beacons may be trained to receive signals of opportunity from one or more vehicles, to recognize their own position based on such signals, and to transmit information regarding their own position to one or more other vehicles accordingly. The navigation beacons may be of small size and feature a basic construction including one or more transceivers, power sources and the like, and may communicate via a Bluetooth® Low Energy, Ultra Wideband or long-range low-power wireless standard, or any other standard. The navigation beacons may be installed in any location, preferably being mounted to one or more existing fixed structures or facilities (e.g., transportation structures or facilities), and may operate in active and/or passive modes when learning their positions or servicing position information to one or more remote devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Clark Coonley Duksta, Camerin Cole Hahn, Fabian Thomas Hensel, Ronald Eugene Huebner
  • Patent number: 11579237
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are provided for determining the installation positions of radio devices. Signal propagation time parameters are obtained with each signal propagation time parameter associated with an installation position and an observation position. Each signal propagation time parameter represents a respective signal propagation time value of radio signal(s) traveling between the respective installation and observation positions. A signal propagation time parameter is selected for defining a coordinate system. First point coordinates are selected to represent the installation position associated with the selected signal propagation time parameter, and second point coordinates are selected to represent the observation position associated with the selected signal propagation time parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Petri Rauhala, Marko Luomi
  • Patent number: 11536797
    Abstract: A method localizes a first agent in a network including a number of agents, the number of agents including a number of mobile agents and one or more beacons located at known locations. The method includes performing a procedure including, receiving transmissions from a number of neighboring agents, processing the transmissions to determine information related to a relative location of the first agent and each neighboring agent of the number of neighboring agents, determining, based on the information related to the relative location of the first agent and each neighboring agent, that the first agent is within one or more proximity regions, and updating an estimated location of the first agent based on the information related to a relative location of the first agent and each neighboring agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Trustees of Tufts College
    Inventors: Sam Safavi, Usman A. Khan
  • Patent number: 11496989
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positioning network system, apparatus, and method using a mobile object, and more particularly, to a positioning network system, apparatus, and method using a mobile object, that are capable of improving positioning accuracy while reducing an amount of calculation for positioning by arranging a plurality of positioning nodes included in a positioning mobile object in a right angle direction, and also efficiently expanding a positionable region by using a plurality of positioning mobile objects or an intermediate mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Sang Cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 11467274
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having at least one sensor for detecting the presence of a survivor in a search and rescue area. The at least one sensor is preferably an ultra-wide band (UWB) transceiver sensor. The UAV includes a UAV data link transceiver for wirelessly communicating information concerning the survivor to a command center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Melwyn F. Sequeira, Mohammad Mohiuddin
  • Patent number: 11395105
    Abstract: UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: POLTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, David Goodwin Shaw, Tyler Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11388554
    Abstract: UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: POLTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, David Goodwin Shaw, Tyler Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11380207
    Abstract: A system and method of positioning a set of vehicles (102) with respect to an object (104) and a set of targets (106). Embodiments can generate (302) an isovist using data obtained from at least one sensor associated with the object and use it to compute (304) an estimated position of each target with respect to the object. Embodiments can compute (306) a plurality of positions for each vehicle based on the estimated positions of the targets, with each position having an associated value representing a number of the targets at their estimated positions that are within a predetermined proximity of the vehicle at that position. Embodiments can select (308) a subset of the positions based on the associated values, and position (310) the set of vehicles based on the selected subset of the positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: John Paterson Bookless, Markus Deittert
  • Patent number: 11375341
    Abstract: UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: POLTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Felix Markhovsky, Truman Prevatt, Russ Markhovsky, David Goodwin Shaw, Tyler Matthew Smith
  • Patent number: 11343789
    Abstract: A terminal device is configured to detect a failure in communicating the position assistance information, such as a failure to decrypt or an integrity protection decoding failure, and in response to detecting the failure in communicating the position assistance information to perform a position assistance information failure procedure. In one example embodiment the position assistance information failure procedure includes transmitting a message indicating the failure to the infrastructure equipment. In another example the position assistance information failure procedure includes adapting one or more communications parameters in order to recover the reception of the position assistance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11310761
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a positioning method and system based on a Wi-Fi IoT device network, wherein positioning monitoring nodes in a subnet respectively receives, within an information receiving and transmitting range thereof, a data packet sent by a same positioning target device, records corresponding data packet receipt clock information, and provides the data packet receipt clock information and identification information of the positioning target device to the subnet master node; the subnet master node utilizes signal arrival time differences between a plurality of positioning monitoring nodes receiving the data packet from the same positioning target device, and mutual physical distances between the positioning monitoring nodes, to compute the distance differences of the positioning target device with respect to the plurality of positioning monitoring nodes, and determine a position of the positioning target device in a physical coverage range of the subnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Espressif Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rui Zhan
  • Patent number: 11307283
    Abstract: The subject invention is a system of apparatus interconnected by communication with a computer system. The primary detect transceiver detects entities involved in a change of location event. The detection data is analyzed to provide current location of entities. That data may also be analyzed to create/confirm a digital identity of each entity. The current location is compared their prior location in relation to a designated event area and outputting a location and vector. Identity, location and vector are compared to a rule data set to determine whether the event should proceed under normal rules or modified rules. The output of the computer system includes a representation of the event region, event area, entities and current event operation condition to a human perceivable interface which may also accept commands altering the output. That output is further transmitted to event enunciators which in turn signal to the event entities whether to proceed under normal or modified rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: William Manley
  • Patent number: 11304171
    Abstract: A node comprises a location unit determines that the node requires positioning support from the anchor nodes, and a transmitter to transmit a request for positioning support from the anchor nodes. The node comprises a selection unit to select a set of the plurality of anchor nodes for providing positioning support following the transmission of the request. It also causes the transmitter to transmit an instruction to each anchor node in the set that instructs that anchor node to provide positioning support to the node via a sidelink between that respective anchor node and the node. The request for positioning support is transmitted at a time that suits the node, in dependence on its own situation and the requirements of any applications it might be running. The selection unit enables the node to make a dynamic selection of appropriate anchor nodes at the time when the node needs positioning support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sandip Gangakhedkar, Karabulut Umur, Liang Hu
  • Patent number: 11296730
    Abstract: A radio-frequency front-end circuit includes first and second radio-frequency switches and filters. The first radio-frequency switch includes a first antenna-side terminal and a plurality of first filter-side terminals selectively coupled to the first antenna-side terminal. The second radio-frequency switch includes a second antenna-side terminal and a plurality of second filter-side terminals selectively coupled to the second antenna-side terminal. Some of the filters are multiplexer filters and each includes a common terminal. The common terminals of the filters are coupled individually to some of the first filter-side terminals of the first radio-frequency switch. The second antenna-side terminal of the second radio-frequency switch is coupled to the remaining one of the first filter-side terminals of the first radio-frequency switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Morio Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11287511
    Abstract: An example method includes sensing, by a sensor of a mesh node, first sensor data; receiving, at the mesh node, second sensor data from an origin node, wherein the mesh node and the origin mode are different nodes; and in response to receiving an indication that the origin node is obstructed, transmitting, by the mesh node, the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John K. Hughes, James J. O'Hagan
  • Patent number: 11211993
    Abstract: Communication apparatus of a cellular communication network, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a reference signal; and to estimate a phase estimate based on the received reference signal; and to provide a localization module with the phase estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kurras, Norbert Franke, Mohammad Alawieh, Benjamin Sackenreuter
  • Patent number: 11190920
    Abstract: A device includes communication circuitry configured to establish, with an external device, a wireless channel according to a connection protocol and exchange, via the wireless channel and with the external device, network parameters for establishing a BLUETOOTH channel that is different from the wireless channel. The BLUETOOTH channel is established according to a BLUETOOTH protocol different from the connection protocol. The communication circuitry is further configured to establish, with the external device, the BLUETOOTH channel using the network parameters. To establish the BLUETOOTH channel, the communication circuitry is configured to refrain from advertising the network parameters via the BLUETOOTH channel. The communication circuitry is further configured to exchange, via the BLUETOOTH channel and with the external device, data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Juntunen, Bertrand Jean Michel Debever, Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan
  • Patent number: 11157758
    Abstract: A vehicle safety system includes at least one detector positioned to monitor at least a portion of an interior of a vehicle and a processor/communication system configured to receive inputs from the at least one detector and to communicate with brought-in devices located within the vehicle. The processor/communication system determines a location of the brought-in device based on visible/IR signals generated by the brought-in device and detected by the at least one detector, wherein the processor/communication system communicates restrictions/permissions to the brought-in device based on the determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: David M. Spell, Christopher D. Ruppel, Sunil Lingamurthy Javali
  • Patent number: 11105635
    Abstract: Techniques are described for seamlessly transitioning from a map that displays out-of-doors elements to a map that displays indoor elements, in response to detecting a transition event. The transition event may be, for example, that a navigation system that is generating the out-of-doors map has moved to an indoors location. Techniques are also provided for navigating to a parking spot in a parking structure. Specifically, users may search for parking spots that satisfy specific criteria. The search for a parking spot that satisfies the criteria may be initiated at the time a trip begins, or may be automatically triggered by some event. For example, a search for available parking spots near a designated destination may be automatically initiated as a user comes within a predetermined distance of the designated destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Devrim Varoglu, Monika Bansal, Swapnil R. Dave
  • Patent number: 11108582
    Abstract: A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location database. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Locator IP, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven A. Root, Michael R. Root
  • Patent number: 11035941
    Abstract: Provided are a UWB high-precision positioning system, a positioning method and apparatus, and a computer readable medium. The positioning system comprises at least one UWB positioning signal transmitter group, and at least one central controller for controlling the synchronization of the UWB positioning signal transmitter group. Each UWB positioning signal transmitter group comprises N UWB positioning signal transmitters, where N is an integer equal to or greater than three. Wireless communication is realized between any two UWB positioning signal transmitters and between any UWB positioning signal transmitter and the central controller. The positioning system further comprises at least one positioning terminal. The positioning terminal is used for receiving a UWB positioning signal sent by each UWB positioning signal transmitter. Wireless communication is realized between the positioning terminal and the central controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CHENGDU JINGWEI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Yan
  • Patent number: 10972868
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is a network including a first local group of first node devices, a second local group of second node devices, and a new node device. The new node device has a processor with programmed instructions to range to each of the first node devices, collect ranging data from each of the first node devices, calculate a plurality of distances based on the ranging data, and send the plurality of distances to each of the second node devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: James B. Hurley, Michael G. Cronin, Donagh S. Horgan, Graham M. Baitson
  • Patent number: 10893471
    Abstract: A communication system includes a base station configuring an energy saving cell (ES cell) and a base station configuring a compensation cell (Comp cell). The ES cell is switchable between a switch-on state and a switch-off state. The Comp cell compensates for the coverage of the ES cell when the ES cell is in the switch-off state. Before the Comp cell starts compensating for the coverage, for example, before the ES cell decides to switch itself off in Step ST2101, in Step ST2201 for example, the base station configuring the ES cell notifies the UE being connected with the ES cell of the information about a Comp cell, for example, a Comp cell list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Onaka, Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Taisei Suemitsu, Noriyuki Fukui
  • Patent number: 10856229
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an electronic device configured to concurrently transmit wake-up radio (WUR) packets in a duplicated WUR transmission mode, non-duplicated WUR transmission mode, and/or mixed WUR transmission mode in one or more channels of a wideband basic service set (BSS) communication. Receiving electronic devices may be grouped together and assigned to monitor for the WUR packets. For example, the receiving electronic devices may be assigned to a position within the one or more channels to monitor for the WUR packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Yong Liu, Christiaan A. Hartman, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Oren Shani
  • Patent number: 10845454
    Abstract: An apparatus obtains results of measurements, which are performed by a mobile device on signals of communication nodes. The measurement results for each of the communication nodes include a signal strength related value and an identification of the communication node. The apparatus obtains for one of the communication nodes a stored indication of a location and a stored signal strength related value and determines a difference between measured and stored signal strength related values. The apparatus estimates the position of the mobile device based on the results of measurements and on obtained stored radio model data. In the case that the determined difference for the at least one communication node falls short of a predetermined threshold, the apparatus determines a distance between estimated position and indicated location for the at least one communication node, as an indication of a health state of stored radio model data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Muhammad Irshan Khan, Pavel Ivanov, Jari Syrjärinne
  • Patent number: 10794983
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains a machine learning model indicative of how to focus on particular location information from a plurality of radio frequency (RF) elements to provide an accurate location estimate of a wireless client based at least in part on angle-of-arrival information of the wireless client. When the device then obtains location information regarding the wireless client from the plurality of RF elements, it may apply the machine learning model to the location information regarding the wireless client to focus on particular location information of the location information from the plurality of RF elements. The device may then estimate a physical location of the wireless client based on focusing on the particular location information during a locationing computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mukul Chandail, Khashayar Mirfakhraei, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Xu Zhang, Zhigang Gao, Paul Jeffrey Stager
  • Patent number: 10771925
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides localization methods and a system using the same. One of the methods includes: broadcasting a ranging frame in a awake state of a localization tag; obtaining a response frame returned by the first anchor according to the ranging frame; updating the ranging anchor list according to the response frame; and calculating a distance between the localization tag and the first anchor based on a time of broadcasting the ranging frame, a time of receiving the response frame, the time of the first anchor receiving the ranging frame, and the time of the first anchor transmitting the response frame. In such a manner, the localization tag is enabled to switch the anchor for ranging in time according to the updated ranging anchor list during movement, thereby automatically ranging with the nearby anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Yongsheng Zhao, Wanjun He, Yu Tang, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10754324
    Abstract: A method of determining how to repair a damaged composite component includes generating a three-dimensional model of the damaged component, determining a configuration of a repair structure to be applied to the damaged component using the generated three-dimensional model and general design data for the component prior to being damaged, determining an operational feasibility of the determined repair structure using application specific information related to the damaged component and generating a repair procedure for forming the repair structure when the determined operational feasibility indicates that the damaged component can be successfully repaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan K. Garhart, Michael Rene Urban, Thomas Arthur Carstensen
  • Patent number: 10634792
    Abstract: A control device includes a communication unit, a storage, and a position estimator. The position estimator updates a position of the first wireless communication device by using a difference between first reception quality and third reception quality and a difference between second reception quality and fourth reception quality. A first response signal includes at least the first reception quality calculated when a first control signal is received by the first wireless communication device and the second reception quality of a second response signal calculated when the second response signal is received by the first wireless communication device, and a third response signal includes at least the third reception quality of a third control signal and the fourth reception quality of a fourth response signal calculated when the fourth response signal is received by the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellctual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Junichi Morita, Naganori Shirakata, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kazuma Nishiyasu
  • Patent number: 10591581
    Abstract: A space-time calibration system and method implement space-time solutions, in which, in one preferred embodiment, a single node determines its own space-time solutions based on other network nodes with which the single node communicates. In other preferred embodiments, space-time solutions for the node can be generated using other resources in the network. The disclosed system and method enable reliable, precise object positioning particularly for environments where the Global Positioning System (GPS) is blocked or subject to interference such as within the urban core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventor: Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 10543398
    Abstract: A wireless positioning apparatus is disclosed, which includes at least one first device and at least one second device. Each first device is disposed on each moving object and is configured to transmit a wireless signal. Each second device is disposed on a fixed position and is configured to detect a strength of the wireless signal of each first device. The wireless positioning apparatus further includes a data processor, which is configured to receive the strength of the wireless signal of each first device detected by each second device, to calculate a distance between each first device and each second device, and to ultimately determine a position of each first device to thereby realize the positioning of each moving object. A wireless positioning method and a sports training apparatus comprising the wireless positioning apparatus are also provided in the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guilong Yang, Miao Liu, Feng Bai
  • Patent number: 10516416
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for blind decoding a signal in a decoder of a mobile device. The method comprises receiving a channel coded signal; testing a plurality of hypotheses for the decoder that are not related to channel decoding by decoding the channel coded signal to generate a hypothesis specific decoded, channel coded signal and correlating a local channel coded reference sequence against a presumed corresponding section of the hypothesis specific decoded, channel coded signal for each of the plurality of hypotheses to generate a plurality of test results. The method further comprises determining a best hypothesis based on the plurality of test results and channel decoding a hypothesis specific decoded, channel coded signal for the best hypothesis to generate a channel decoded signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Eckardt, Zhibin Yu
  • Patent number: 10412541
    Abstract: A real-time location system (RTLS) having tags, bridges, bay-level event sensors and a location engine for use in determining the bay location of tags, To determine which bay a tag is in, bay-level event sensors sense motion events in the bay, transmit the motion event reports to a location engine, and/or tags. Tags contain an accelerometer, to sense motion of the tags. A series of location-engine steps estimates the bay-level-location of the tags based on a combination of received signal-strength analysis, and a comparison of tag-motion status to the perceived motion events in a bay. The analysis of tag-motion status and motion-in-bay events produces a better estimate of bay-level location of the tag than a received-signal-strength estimate can produce alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Infinite Leap Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: John A. Swart