Combined With Diverse Type Radiant Energy System Patents (Class 342/52)
  • Patent number: 11933912
    Abstract: A test system for testing a radar sensor comprising a test chamber for encompassing a radar sensor to be tested. A test location is provided within the test chamber on which the radar sensor to be tested is placed for testing. Further, the test system comprises at least one antenna unit and at least one first radar target simulator connected to the antenna unit. The test system also comprises at least one antenna array different to the antenna unit and at least one second radar target simulator connected to the antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Hamberger, Matthias Beer, Benoit Derat
  • Patent number: 11906612
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: a measurement unit configured to transmit a radio wave to measure, based on a reflected wave acquired from an object to be detected existing in a periphery of the moving body, a position and a doppler speed of the object as a reflection point; a grouping processing unit configured to execute grouping processing when a plurality of reflection points are acquired, and are determined to be acquired from the same object; a moving speed calculation unit configured to use the doppler speeds and the positions of the plurality of reflection points acquired from the same object, to thereby calculate a moving direction and a moving speed of the same object; and an output unit configured to output the calculated moving direction and moving speed as information on a position and a speed corresponding to detection results of the same object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Nishida
  • Patent number: 11885906
    Abstract: A radar sensor system is provided that includes: multiple sensor units that each includes a radar receiver and a location sensor; and a processor that is configured to use location sensor-based information to determine differences between respective sensor unit nominal locations and respective sensor unit actual locations and to use the determined differences to fuse the radar data received at the radar receivers to produce a wide radar aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Plato Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Amin Arbabian, Upamanyu Madhow, Babak Mamandipoor
  • Patent number: 11880202
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing a vehicle control system are described herein. A system for managing a vehicle comprises: a vehicle control system of a vehicle having access to a network, including: a communication module to interface with at least one of: a mobile device, the vehicle, and environmental sensors coupled to the vehicle; and a configuration module to identify a mitigation operation to be taken when predetermined factors exist; wherein the vehicle control system is to identify a potential obstacle in a travel route of the vehicle and initiate a mitigation operation at the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick L. Connor
  • Patent number: 11876308
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a micro-wave transducer and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The micro-wave transducer includes: a dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface oppositely arranged; a first electrode layer arranged on the first surface of the dielectric layer, and the reference electrode layer being provided with at least one first opening; at least one transducer electrode arranged on the second surface of the dielectric layer, wherein an orthographic projection of one transducer electrode on the dielectric layer is within an orthographic projection of one first opening on the dielectric layer; at least one first microstrip line arranged on the second surface of the dielectric layer, wherein one first microstrip line is configured to feed one transducer electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongdong Zhang, Qianhong Wu, Shuo Zhang, Yali Wang, Zongmin Liu, Feng Qu
  • Patent number: 11773717
    Abstract: A system includes a housing configured to be secured to the casing string. The housing has a ring shape defining a central orifice for passage of the fluid and an interior surface facing the central orifice. A reflectometer is mounted on the interior surface and is configured to emit a microwave signal into the fluid in the central orifice, receive a reflected microwave signal from the central orifice, and determine a microwave reflection parameter. An acoustic transceiver is also mounted on the interior surface and is configured to emit an acoustic signal into the fluid in the central orifice, receive a reflected acoustic signal from the central orifice, and determine an acoustic reflection parameter. A processor is configured to determine the property of the fluid from the microwave reflection parameter and the acoustic reflection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Jose Oliverio Alvarez
  • Patent number: 11754697
    Abstract: Methods of defining a virtual fence and for detecting a body inside or outside a region of interest defined by the virtual fence and/or of determining a height for a body on a surface in a region of interest use radar signals and a configuration mode and a monitoring mode are disclosed. In the configuration mode coordinates for defining a virtual fence are determined and/or a topology of a surface in the region of interest is determined. In the monitoring mode, a location of a second body on the surface is detected to determine if the second body is inside or outside the virtual fence and/or a height of for the second body relative to the determined topology is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Essence Security International (E.S.I.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Boaz Menis, Jacob Gabay
  • Patent number: 11721066
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for automatic building material ordering that includes directing capture of building images of the building at a location, building a scaled multi-dimensional building model based on the building images, extracting, based on the scaled multi-dimensional building model, dimensions of at least one architectural feature from the scaled multi-dimensional building model, identifying a set of possible manufacturer products matching the dimensions of the at least one architectural feature, receiving user preferences related to the set of possible manufacturer products, auto-populating, based on the user preferences, a select list of the manufacturer products, auto-ordering manufacturer products from the select list of the manufacturer products and auto-tracking the ordered manufacturer products until delivery to the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Hover Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Cambon Sanjurjo, Steven Caamano, Derek Halliday
  • Patent number: 11675068
    Abstract: A data processing method, device and multi-sensor fusion method for multi-sensor fusion, which can group data captured by different sensors in different probe dimensions to simultaneous interpreting deep learning data based on pixel elements in the multi-dimensional matrix structure, thereby realize the more effective data mining and feature extraction to support more effective ability of environment perception and target detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai YuGan Microelectronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11644529
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, radio signals may reach a receiving antenna at a user equipment by two or more paths, which can cause interference (e.g., destructive multipath interference, constructive multipath interference, etc.). To reduce the interference, the user equipment may perform interference suppression, shaping, or both based on choosing radar waveform patterns that are varied across chirps. In one aspect, the user equipment (e.g., a vehicle) may identify waveform patterns selected by nearby vehicles based on side channel or centralized signaling and may suppress or shape interference by selecting waveform parameters based on this information. In one aspect, the pattern of waveform parameters is chosen from a codebook of patterns. The selected pattern can be broadcasted to the other vehicles using a side-communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Sundar Subramanian, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan
  • Patent number: 11621746
    Abstract: An analog tamper-detection apparatus (ATAMP) for onboard analysis of a target device includes a plurality of antennas, each antenna of the plurality of antennas disposed within the target device and being electrically isolated from components of the target device. The ATAMP device further includes radio frequency (RF) front-end (RFFE) transmitter circuitry coupled to the plurality of antennas, the RFFE transmitter circuitry configured to illuminate the target device with a plurality of electromagnetic signals emitted via the plurality of antennas, to generate a plurality of mixed RF signals. The ATAMP device further includes RFFE receiver circuitry configured to receive emissions from the target device based on the mixed RF signals, and processing circuitry configured to perform subsequent analysis and evaluation of the target device based on the received emissions. The processing circuitry further generates a notification of the subsequent analysis and evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Tyler Shake, John Dishon, John-Francis Mergen, Zachary Leuschner, Thomas Wilkerson, David Brian Miller, Ronald Buikema
  • Patent number: 11616522
    Abstract: A radio communication system for a vehicle includes a first radio unit to communicate using a first channel within a designated radio frequency band, a second radio unit to communicate using a second channel within the designated radio frequency band, a common receive antenna shared by the first and second radio units, a signal splitter having a splitter input port coupled to the antenna, a first splitter output port, and a second splitter output port, a first circulator, and a second circulator. The first circulator has an input port coupled to the first splitter output port, an output port coupled to the first radio unit, and a termination port coupled to a matched load. The second circulator has an input port coupled to the second splitter output port, an output port coupled to the second radio unit, and a termination port coupled to a second matched load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: James Senerth, John Marchetti
  • Patent number: 11614536
    Abstract: An object detection apparatus detects a target object present in a periphery of a moving body. The object detection apparatus derives recognition information indicating a state of a target object, and predicts a state of the target object at a next second observation timing, based on the recognition information derived at a first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a score based on a degree of difference between a state of the target object observed at the second observation timing and a next state of the target object predicted at the first observation timing. The object detection apparatus derives a reliability level by statistically processing scores related to the target object derived at a plurality of observation timings from past to present. In response to the reliability level satisfying a predetermined reference, the object detection apparatus determines that the target object related to the reliability level is actually present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondo, Yusuke Akamine, Yasuyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 11615221
    Abstract: Exemplary practice of the present invention defines “sphibules” in computer-modeling the spread of a substance in a fluid medium. A “sphibule,” a modeling entity conceived and named by the present inventors, represents a discrete quantity of a substance that is propagative in a fluid medium. Every sphibule has the same size when created, the same constant geometric shape, the same constant mass, and a uniform density. Multiple sphibules are created at a prescribed rate at a source in the fluid medium. Several or many timesteps are performed to compute enlargement and relocation, in the fluid medium, of each sphibule that has been created. Through succeeding timesteps, each sphibule becomes less dense and more distant from the source. A sphibule ceases to exist when the sphibule is less dense than a prescribed minimum density of the sphibules, and/or when the sphibule travels beyond a prescribed spatial boundary of the fluid medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Matthew D. McMahon, Krzysztof J. Rutkowski, Stephen M. Farley
  • Patent number: 11611707
    Abstract: A system for automatically maintaining focus while tracking remote flying objects includes an interface and processor. The interface is configured to receive two or more images. The processor is configured to determine a bounding box for an object in the two or more images; determine an estimated position for the object in a future image; and determine an estimated focus setting and an estimated pointing direction for a lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Anduril Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Marcin Camacho, Calvin Michael Hareng, Corey Martin Hass, Forrest Nelson Iandola, Gokul Ganesh Subramanian, Nadav Ben-Haim, Adnan Esmail, Kevin Michael Christensen
  • Patent number: 11541888
    Abstract: A driving assist device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a control device. The control device does not execute an inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined first condition upon determination that at least one preceding object is detected based on the output of one of the first sensor and the second sensor without being detected based on the output of the other of the first and second sensors; and an environment of a non-detection sensor that is the other of the first and second sensors satisfies a first requirement for determination of a reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor; and the control device executes the inter-vehicle distance control under a predetermined second condition upon determination that the environment of the non-detection sensor satisfies a second requirement for determination of the reliability of the output of the non-detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Mizuno, Yohei Masui
  • Patent number: 11531099
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detection and reporting of small targets to an operational area. Exemplary embodiments are presented to detect targets such as avian species, UAS, UAV, and drones, and transmit unique small target identifier information via data link, such as ADS-B, to an operational area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ohio University
    Inventors: Chris G. Bartone, Anthony Milluzzi
  • Patent number: 11493625
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating simulated LiDAR data using RADAR and image data are provided. An algorithm is trained using deep-learning techniques such as loss functions to generate simulated LiDAR data using RADAR and image data. Once trained, the algorithm can be implemented in a system, such as a vehicle, equipped with RADAR and image sensors in order to generate simulated LiDAR data describing the system's environment. The simulated LiDAR data may be used by a vehicle control system to determine, generate, and implement modified driving operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIO Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arun C S Kumar, Disha Ahuja, Ashwath Aithal
  • Patent number: 11490324
    Abstract: A base station apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit configured to transmit a first beacon for performing wireless communication in a first channel, a second wireless communication unit configured to transmit a second beacon for performing wireless communication in a second channel, and a control unit configured to switch a channel in which the first beacon is transmitted to the second channel when a radar wave is detected in the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohisa Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11465625
    Abstract: A traffic safety control method is provided. The method includes obtaining first related information of a road when a vehicle is traveling on a road. Second related information is detected using a detecting device of the vehicle when the first related information indicates that there is the intersection in front of the vehicle on the road. The vehicle is controlled according to the first related information and the second related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Mobile Drive Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hsien-Chi Tsai, Chun-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11440792
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include systems and techniques for converting (i.e., transducing) a quantum-level (e.g., single photon) signal between the three wave forms (i.e., optical, acoustic, and microwave). A suspended crystalline structure is used at the nanometer scale to accomplish the desired behavior of the system as described in detail herein. Transducers that use a common acoustic intermediary transform optical signals to acoustic signals and vice versa as well as microwave signals to acoustic signals and vice versa. Other embodiments described herein include systems and techniques for storing a qubit in phonon memory having an extended coherence time. A suspended crystalline structure with specific geometric design is used at the nanometer scale to accomplish the desired behavior of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Oskar Painter, Jie Luo, Michael T. Fang, Alp Sipahigil, Paul B. Dieterle, Mahmoud Kalaee, Johannes M. Fink, Andrew J. Keller, Gregory MacCabe, Hengjiang Ren, Justin D. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11431074
    Abstract: An antenna alignment system for a directional antenna may include an antenna alignment device to be temporarily mounted to the directional antenna to determine antenna positioning data therefor. The antenna alignment system may also include a technician tool mount associated with the antenna alignment device. The antenna alignment device may also include a technician tool configured to be temporarily mounted to the technician tool mount, and acquire an image looking in a direction outward from the directional antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SUNSIGHT HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: James A. Wattwood
  • Patent number: 11428795
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for measuring a headcount by using a peak value distribution pattern of a radar reception signal according to the headcount. The method for counting people by using a UWB radar disclosed herein comprises: a step of computing, for each predetermined headcount, an amplitude probability density function based on the distance between a reflection point and a radar, by using a sample radar reception signal for the headcount; a step of calculating likelihood values with respect to the headcounts from a measured radio reception signal by using the probability density function; and a step of determining a headcount corresponding to the largest likelihood value among the calculated likelihood values, as a final headcount with respect to the measured radar reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Sung Ho Cho, Jeong Woo Choi
  • Patent number: 11402492
    Abstract: A surroundings detection system for motor vehicles, including multiple sensors which are sensitive to electromagnetic radiation in different ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, and including associated evaluation modules for locating and/or classifying objects present in the surroundings based on the data supplied by the sensors, including a model module in which a surroundings model is stored which, in addition to the 3D position data of the objects, also contains data about the spectral reflection properties of surfaces of the objects, the model module being capable of providing these data to the evaluation modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Hasberg, Jan-Hendrik Pauls
  • Patent number: 11392124
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method of calibrating a vehicle's plurality of detection systems. To calibrate a first detection system, orientation data is collected using the first detection device when the vehicle faces a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction. To calibrate a second detection system, data is collected using the second detection device while the vehicle moves in a repeatable pattern near a first object. To calibrate a third detection system, light reflected off a second object is detected using the third detection system as the vehicle is moved towards the second object. To calibrate a fourth detection system, data collected using the second detection system and the fourth detection system is compared. To calibrate a fifth detection system, radar signals reflected off a third object is received using the fifth detection system while the vehicle moves relative to the third object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Colin Braley, Dorel Ionut Iordache, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz
  • Patent number: 11391544
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system to increase the effectiveness of direct fire weapon systems in targeting and destroying a target utilizing the military's existing direct fire weapon systems. The invention consists of a network which communicates with the devices of the invention and that are capable of directing the fire to a specific location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Dane Stephens Pigott, Westin Riggs Pigott, Babak Hossein Keradman
  • Patent number: 11378653
    Abstract: A method for increasing the reliability of determining the position of a vehicle on the basis of a plurality of detection points is described, the plurality of detection points being acquired using a radio-based and/or an optical sensor system, in particular a radar system, of a vehicle receiving electromagnetic signals from a vicinity of the vehicle, and each of the plurality of detection point representing a location in the vicinity of the vehicle, wherein the method comprises for each detection point of at least a subset of the plurality of detection points: determining at least one geometrical object associated with the detection point; determining at least one group of detection points from the subset sharing the at least one geometrical object; determining a quantity of detection points in the at least one group; evaluating a weight which represents the quantity of detection points in the at least one group on a predefined scale, and processing the detection point with respect to the weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ahmad Pishehvari, Stephanie Lessmann, Uri Iurgel
  • Patent number: 11320830
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein provide probabilistic decision support regarding detected obstacles in a working area. Real-time data sets are collected from obstacle sensors associated with at least one self-propelled work vehicle, corresponding to detected presence/absence of obstacles at given locations within the working area. The received real-time data sets are integrated in data storage comprising a priori data sets corresponding to the working area, to generate one or more new a priori data sets. Probabilities are determined for the detected presence or absence of the obstacle, and for each of one or more obstacle categories, based on the received real-time data set and at least an a priori data set corresponding to the work vehicle's location. An output corresponding to at least a most likely of the determined probabilities is generated as feedback to a user interface, and/or relevant machine control units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Stewart J. Moorehead, Mark J. Cherney
  • Patent number: 11205348
    Abstract: A drive assist device includes a display that displays an image around a vehicle imaged by an imaging device installed on the vehicle, a setting unit that sets a target designated by a user on the image as a recognition target, a detection unit that detects a state change of the recognition target on the image in a case where the recognition target is set, and a notification control unit that controls a notification device to notify the user of the detection result in a case where the state change of the set recognition target is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Ichikawa, Toshiki Kindo, Katsuhiro Sakai, Masahiro Harada, Hiromitsu Urano
  • Patent number: 11105892
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a radar apparatus which can create and display only necessary trail data. The radar apparatus may include an acquisition module, an echo data creation module, a memory, a trail data creation module, and a display unit. The acquisition module may acquire an echo based on a reflected wave from a target object, of a transmitted electromagnetic wave. The echo data creation module may create, based on the echo, echo data at least indicative of a position of the target object. The memory may store determination data set, for every given display area, whether trail data indicative of a moving trail of the target object is to be newly created based on the echo. The trail data creation module may create the trail data based on the echo and the determination data. The display unit may display the echo data and the trail data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Takumi Fujikawa, Yugo Kubota
  • Patent number: 11096151
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a fifth generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond the fourth generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE) are provided. The method for managing a channel in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system includes detecting a radar signal and determining an optimal channel based on history information of a channel and the detected radar signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ha-Kyung Jung, Jin-Hyoung Kim, Jin-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11059489
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detecting road surface conditions. A road surface detector comprises a transmitter, receiver, and one or more processors. The transmitter is configured to transmit one or more radio frequency (RF) beams at a road surface. The receiver is configured to receive RF reflections of the one or more transmitted RF beams at two or more receive channels. The one or more processors are to determine a road surface condition based on a doppler signature of the received RF reflections. A method comprises transmitting one or more radio frequency (RF) beams at a road surface. RF reflections of the one or more transmitted RF beams are receives at two or more receive channels. The method includes determining a road surface condition based on a doppler signature of the received RF reflections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Valeo Radar Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David Insana
  • Patent number: 11056766
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves via a cover member disposed outside, including: first and second antenna sections that are disposed adjacently to each other along a direction orthogonal to a predetermined direction to which the electromagnetic waves are transmitted and received and that transmit the electromagnetic waves, respectively; and first and second dielectric lenses that are disposed in the predetermined direction to which the first and second antenna sections transmit their electromagnetic waves and narrow beams of the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the first and second antennas, respectively, to transmit to the outside, in which an outer end face of first dielectric lens protrudes further forward in the predetermined direction than an outer end face of second dielectric lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Ryosuke Shiozaki, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 10909391
    Abstract: A vehicle surrounding information acquiring apparatus includes: a radar detector configured to detect an object around a vehicle by radio waves; a lidar detector configured to detect an object around the vehicle by light; and an image detector configured to capture a periphery of the vehicle and detect an object from the captured image. The apparatus comprises: a first processor configured to generate target information by combining a detection result of the radar detector and a detection result of the image detector; a second processor configured to generate target information by combining a detection result of the lidar detector and the detection result of the image detector; and a third processor configured to generate target information of the periphery of the vehicle by integrating the target information generated by the first processor and the target information generated by the second processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daihan Wang, Hiroshi Miura, Shintaro Fujita
  • Patent number: 10891859
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing sensor data on a display of a vehicle. For instance, data points generated by a lidar sensor may be received. The data points may be representative of one or more objects in an external environment of the vehicle. A scene including a representation of the vehicle from a perspective of a virtual camera, a first virtual object corresponding to at least one of the one or more objects, and a second virtual object corresponding to at least one object identified from pre-stored map information may be generated. Supplemental points corresponding to a surface of the at least one object identified from the pre-stored map information may be generated. A pulse including at least some of the data points generated by the sensor and the supplemental points may be generated. The scene may be displayed with the pulse on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Nirmal Patel, Maria Moon, Peter Crandall
  • Patent number: 10885354
    Abstract: A perimeter monitoring device is applied to a vehicle comprising a distance measuring sensor for transmitting a probing wave and receiving a reflected wave of the probing wave and an imaging device for capturing an image of the surroundings of the vehicle. The perimeter monitoring device comprises: an information acquisition unit for acquiring distance information, directional information, and object width information of an object existing in the vicinity of the vehicle as detection information of the object provided by the distance measuring sensor; an area setting unit for setting an image processing area on which image processing is performed in the image captured by the imaging device based on the distance information, the directional information, and the object width information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and an object recognition unit for performing the image processing on the image processing area set by the area setting unit to recognize the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Maeda, Taketo Harada, Mitsuyasu Matsuura, Hirohiko Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 10872248
    Abstract: A vehicle surrounding information acquiring apparatus acquires information of surroundings of a vehicle by using radar detectors configured to detect an object around the vehicle by radio waves, and lidar detectors configured to detect an object around the vehicle by light. The radar detectors are arranged one by one at four corners of the vehicle and one at a center on one side of the vehicle, and the lidar detectors are arranged one by one inside arrangement positions of the radar detectors in a vehicle width direction at respective corner portions on one side of the vehicle, one by one outside the arrangement positions of the radar detectors in the vehicle width direction at respective side portions on the other side of the vehicle, and one at a center on the other side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Fujita, Takato Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10769005
    Abstract: A subsystem of a tactical information system is provided that includes a memory configured to store instructions and a processor disposed in communication with the memory. The processor, upon execution of the instructions is configured to receive first standardized entity messages that include target information from multiple automatic target recognition (ATR) systems, parse the first standardized entity messages to extract the target information, provide the extracted target information to a fusion algorithm for fusion processing that determines whether to fuse the target information from different ATR systems and fuses the extracted target information to generate fused target information about a single target when determined to do so, receive fused target information about the single target, if any, from the fusion algorithm, and generate a second standardized entity message that includes the fused target information about the single target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Allan B. Liburd, Matthew Goldstein, Emily Seto
  • Patent number: 10667140
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an electronic device to perform a dynamic frequency selection (DFS) proxy function are described. An interface circuit of the electronic device receives, from an access point associated with the electronic device, a frame with DFS information that indicates a presence of interference associated with a higher priority user in a shared band of radio frequencies. The frame can include an action frame with a channel switch announcement (CSA) or a beacon with a CSA. In response to receiving the DFS information, the electronic device forwards, to a third electronic device, the DFS information, where the third electronic device is not associated with and does not have a connection to the access point. In this way, the electronic device functions as a DFS proxy for the third electronic device with respect to the shared band of radio frequencies used by the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrie Kurian, Tashbeeb Haque, Saravanan Balasubramaniyan, Anand Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 10659365
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the use of a station as a proxy for scanning one or more wireless channels. Upon a determination that a currently utilized wireless channel has become impaired, an access point may identify one or more idle wireless stations and may request that the one or more idle wireless stations perform a scan of one or more other wireless channels. The identified wireless station(s) may perform a scan of one or more other wireless channels and may provide an indication of the current level of congestion on each respective wireless channel to the access point. Based on the indication of the current congestion levels of each wireless channel, the access point may determine whether a more advantageous channel is available. If a more advantageous channel is available, the access point may tune to the more advantageous channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Hardt
  • Patent number: 10631805
    Abstract: Provided is an X-ray imaging system, including: an imaging apparatus configured to receive an X-ray beam to form an image; a control apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not interference with a specific device is detected in a channel used for wireless communication between at least one of the imaging apparatus or the control apparatus, and a master apparatus; and an output unit configured to output, when the interference is determined to have been detected and the wireless communication is stopped, notification information including a notification that the wireless communication is stopped, the imaging apparatus and the control apparatus being configured to communicate to/from each other via the wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Nishii
  • Patent number: 10613210
    Abstract: A configuration is provided with: a local oscillator 3 which generates M local oscillation signals Lm(t) whose frequencies differ from one another by an integral multiple of an angular frequency ?; receiver devices 4-m each converting the frequency of a received signal Rxm(t) of one antenna element 2-m using one local oscillation signal Lm(t) generated by the local oscillator 3, thereby generating a received video signal Vm(t) having an antenna element number m; an adder 5 which adds the received video signals V1(t) to VM(t) generated by the receiver devices 4-1 to 4-M, and outputs a received video signal Vsum(t) after addition; and an A/D converter 6 which A/D-converts the received video signal Vsum(t) outputted from the adder 5, thereby to generate a received video signal V(n) which is a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kageme, Nobuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10609335
    Abstract: A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera and an image processor. The camera has a forward field of view exterior of the vehicle. The image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera. At least one device is operable to detect objects that are present forward of the vehicle and outside of the forward field of view of the camera. The device may include at least one of (i) a sensor, (ii) an element of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system and (iii) an element of a vehicle-to-infrastructure communication system. Responsive to detection of the object being indicative of the object about to enter the field of view of the camera, the image processor anticipates the object entering the field of view of the camera and, upon entering of the field of view of the camera by the object, the image processor detects the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Axel Nix, Christopher L. Van Dan Elzen, Carl W. Shonk
  • Patent number: 10542522
    Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use continuation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Endo, Shinya Kawasaki, Tetsuyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10427689
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus mounted to an own vehicle to control the own vehicle according to the position of other vehicle ahead of the own vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a setting means setting a parameter indicating whether the other vehicle is in the path of the own vehicle, based on the position of the other vehicle relative to the own vehicle in a lateral direction perpendicular to the path of the own vehicle, a determining means determining whether the other vehicle is in the path of the own vehicle, based on the parameter, an acquisition means acquiring a lane width that is the width of the lane the own vehicle is traveling, and an adjustment means changing the correspondence between the relative position and the parameter, based on the lane width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tokimasa, Toyoharu Katsukura, Yoshihisa Ogata, Youhei Masui, Taku Sakima, Takeshi Nanami, Takashi Nishida
  • Patent number: 10386462
    Abstract: A method for non-coherent stereo radar tracking includes, at a stereo radar system, transmitting a probe signal, receiving a reflected probe signal in response to reflection of the probe signal by a tracking target, calculating first and second target ranges from the reflected probe signal data, transforming the reflected probe signal data based on the first and second target ranges, and calculating a first target angle from the transformed reflected probe signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Oculii Corp.
    Inventors: Lang Hong, Steven Hong
  • Patent number: 10324471
    Abstract: An autonomous traveling apparatus includes a body, a travel control unit that controls a drive member to cause the autonomous traveling apparatus to travel, an obstacle detection unit that detects an object located within a predetermined obstacle sensing area, a restart switch disposed on the body and operable to cause the autonomous traveling apparatus to resume traveling from a stop mode, and a restart control unit that, when an operation of activating the restart switch is performed by a user, causes the obstacle detection unit to resume obstacle detection so as not to detect the user as an obstacle until the user who has performed the operation of activating the restart switch moves out of the obstacle sensing area, and causes the autonomous traveling apparatus to resume traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Etoh
  • Patent number: 10305607
    Abstract: A mobile terminal receives, over a first cell configured on a carrier frequency, at least one parameter associated with a second cell configured on a carrier frequency. The at least one parameter comprises a cell identity. The mobile terminal then derives at least one physical layer characteristic for the second cell based on the received at least one parameter. Thereby, the mobile terminal is able to receive transmissions over the second cell, even if it could not initially detect the presence of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Mats Sågfors
  • Patent number: 10303045
    Abstract: A display device of an autonomous vehicle is controlled based on data collected from sensors located in or on the vehicle. The display device is used to present one or more images to a driver and/or passengers of the autonomous vehicle. The display device can be, for example, a windshield and/or other window of the vehicle. Image data can be, for example, transformed to improve visual perception by passengers in the vehicle when the images are displayed on a curved shape of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Junichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10137904
    Abstract: A driver assistance system of a vehicle includes a camera and a non-imaging sensor sensing forward of the equipped vehicle. The control, responsive to processing of captured image data and to processing of sensed sensor data, is operable to provide a driver assistance function. The control, responsive to processing of captured image data, detects the presence of a vehicle and determines a vision-based angle of the detected vehicle relative to the equipped vehicle. The control, responsive to processing of captured sensor data, detects the presence of the detected vehicle and determines a sensor-based angle of the determined vehicle relative to the equipped vehicle. The control determines an angle difference between the vision-based angle and the sensor-based angle. The control disables the driver assistance function at least in part responsive to the determined angle difference being greater than a disable threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: William J. Chundrlik, Jr., Dominik Raudszus