Orientation Or Position Patents (Class 702/150)
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Patent number: 11656316Abstract: A position and orientation determining system includes a first radio frequency (RF) device including at least one antenna configured to receive and transmit RF signals, a first radio unit in communication with the at least one antenna, and an inertial measurement unit (IMU).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: ENSCO, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Thomas Goff, Robert Barlow Alwood, William Todd Faulkner, William Petersen Lounsbury
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Patent number: 11654301Abstract: A system to determine the isocenter of a LINAC includes apparatus and processes. One embodiment does this by determining the axis of rotation for the collimator, the gantry, and may include the couch. In another embodiment only determining the axis of the rotation of the collimator is required. The system and apparatus enable the tracking of the translation-rotation of mechanical components attached to the LINAC to compute the axis of rotation of gantry, collimator and couch. Based on the data collected related to these axes the LINAC isocenter is determined. The primary apparatus utilized in the system includes a single emitter module, a signal receiver module, and a positioning module. The system also includes an isocenter target module and a gravity module to determine a gravity vector relative to the signal receiver.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Aktina Corp.Inventors: Nicholas Zacharopoulos, Milan Markovic, David Fenyes
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Patent number: 11656076Abstract: A method of calibrating a total station using a GNSS device includes physically coupling the total station with the GNSS device at a first location; determining the position of the total station at the first location based on position data received by the GNSS device; decoupling the total station from the GNSS device; moving the GNSS device to a second location while leaving the total station at the first location; determining the position of the GNSS device at the second location based on position data received by the GNSS device; adjusting the position of a camera on the total station to image the GNSS device while at the second location; determining axes of the camera based on the orientation of the camera and the determined positions at the first and second locations; and calibrating encoders of the total station based on the determined axes.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Javad GNSS, Inc.Inventor: Javad Ashjaee
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Patent number: 11644801Abstract: A mechanism is provided for utilizing localized clusters within a mesh network to aid in tracking environmental factors associated with information handling systems in an environment having a large number of information handling systems installed. Sensors within each information handling system measure a variety of environmental factors, such as, for example, temperature (CPU, ambient, air inlet, air exhaust, system board, and the like), air flow through the information handling system, fan speed, and hardware utilization. The sensor-derived environmental information is provided to a lead local cluster node, which can provide local responses to environmental values exceeding thresholds. Lead nodes generate a mapping of the environmental factors and provide that mapping to a data center management server.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Saurabh Kishore, Jeffrey Lairsey, Sudhir Shetty, Alex Rote
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Patent number: 11644294Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for automatic generation of probe path for surface inspection and part alignment. A mesh model is obtained of at least a portion of a three dimensional model of a part to be manufactured using a computer-controlled manufacturing system. Vertex points from the mesh model are collected to be an initial set of probing points in a three dimensional space of a working coordinate system of the computer-controlled manufacturing system, and filtering out points are filtered out from the initial set of probing points based on coverage of the least a portion of the three dimensional model to produce a final set of probing points. The final set of probing points is provided for use in alignment or surface inspection of the part by the computer-controlled manufacturing system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Marco Adriano, Lee Sanders, Richard Matthew Stubley
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Patent number: 11645727Abstract: Systems and methods for utility intervention are disclosed. The method of utility intervention includes: obtaining utility data from a utility data repository, (ii) detecting, using at least one type of anomaly-detecting module, at least one utility anomaly and a location address; (iii) calculating an amount of financial savings for the utility anomaly if the utility anomaly was remedied or addressed; (iv) computing a certainty score for the utility anomaly; (v) conveying information about the type of utility anomaly, and the location address of the utility anomaly; and (vi) displaying, on a display screen of a client device, a map depicting a geographical area that identifies, using a flag icon, the location address on the map of the utility anomaly, the type of the utility anomaly, a certainty score for the utility anomaly, and/or an amount of financial savings associated with the utility anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Valor Water Analytics Inc.Inventors: Christine E. Boyle, Renee Jutras, M. Sohaib Alam, David R. Wegman
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Patent number: 11644799Abstract: Wearable electronic devices that employ one or more contact sensors (e.g., capacitive sensors and/or biometric sensors) are described. Contact sensors include electromyography sensors and/or capacitive touch sensors. Capacitive touch sensors include single-frequency capacitive touch sensors, recently-proposed swept frequency capacitive touch sensors, and a generalized version of swept frequency capacitive touch sensors referred to as multi-frequency capacitive touch sensors. The contact sensors are integrated into various devices, including generic watchstraps that may be substituted for the existing watchstrap in any wristwatch design, generic watch back-plates that may be substituted for the existing back-plate in any wristwatch design, and wearable electromyography devices that provide gesture-based control in a human-electronics interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey
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Patent number: 11639860Abstract: This application relates to an absolute position detection device and detection method of a rotating body using a magnetic material. The device may include magnets coupled to a rotating body and configured to rotate together and having n pole pairs, wherein n is a natural number and (n+1) magnetic materials arranged adjacent to the magnets, spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval, and configured to rotate together with the rotating body. The device may also include a first Hall sensor spaced apart from the magnets, installed to allow the magnetic materials to rotate in a space between the first Hall sensor and the magnets and configured to output a first signal based on the magnets when the magnetic materials approach the first Hall sensor. The device may further include a controller configured to measure an absolute position of the rotating body using the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTEInventors: Jun Hyuk Choi, Joon Sung Park, Jin Hong Kim, Byong Jo Hyon, Yong Su Noh, Dong Myoung Joo
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Patent number: 11636737Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for high frequency wagering in a game with incremental play events, comprising: receiving a real-time stream of game data for a live game; analyzing the game data to detect a betting event associated with a play event about to take place in the live game; transmitting, to a participant device, a plurality of options associated with an outcome of the play event; receiving, from the participant device, an option indication selected from the plurality of options and option metadata corresponding to the option indication, wherein the option metadata comprises a timestamp of when the option indication was transmitted by the participant device; and accepting the option indication based on a comparison of the timestamp and a betting window configured to close before the outcome of the play event is determined, wherein the betting event is detected and the option indication is received without interrupting the live game.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: You Call The Play Inc.Inventors: Tim Dillon, Warren Elliot Lubow, Christian Matthias Muench, Paul Lin Yao, Markus Horstmann
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Patent number: 11628569Abstract: Provided are a self-movement robot, a map invoking method and a combined robot. The self-movement robot includes a robot body and a control center disposed on the body, the robot body comprising a distance sensor, the distance sensor collects two-dimensional map information of a working surface on which the self-movement robot is located, and collects spatial height information above the working surface on which the self-movement robot is located; and while obtaining the two-dimensional map information of the working surface, the control center overlays the spatial height information to the two-dimensional map information and obtains three-dimensional map information of a working region.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinju Tang
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Patent number: 11630181Abstract: The positioning capabilities of a User Equipment (UE) are stored in a core network to reduce positioning latency when the UE indicates that its positioning capabilities are stable and/or are long term valid. The UE may provide its positioning capabilities to a location server during a location session along with an indication of whether the positioning capabilities are stable. The location server may enable storage of the positioning capabilities for the UE in the core network, e.g., in the location server or another entity in the core network such as Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), if there is an indication that the positioning capabilities are stable. The AMF may include a UE identifier in location requests with which the location server may retrieve the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the location server or may include the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the AMF.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer, Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Hong Cheng
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Patent number: 11619481Abstract: A six-DOF probe includes a retroreflector, a collection of target lights, and a stylus having a probe tip. A laser tracker measures a distance, a first angle, and a second angle to the retroreflector and captures an image of the illuminated target lights. A processor determines the three-dimensional coordinates of the probe tip based at least in part on the measured distance, measured first angle, measured second angle and on a central portion of the captured image, the size of the central portion based at least in part on the measured distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.Inventors: William W. Christine, Xiaoyu Cai, Max K. Kim
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Patent number: 11614844Abstract: Disclosed is a touch input device including: a touch sensor including a plurality of electrodes; a drive unit configured to apply a driving signal to at least some of the plurality of electrodes of the touch sensor; a touch signal detection unit configured to detect a touch-position-related signal related to a touch position of an object inputted to the touch surface from at least some of the plurality of electrodes of the touch sensor; and an LGM disturbance signal detection unit configured to detect an LGM-disturbance-signal-related signal related to an LGM disturbance signal generated from the touch surface from at least some of the plurality of electrodes of the touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Jongsik Kim, Young Ho Cho
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Patent number: 11615540Abstract: Systems and methods are described for generating a three-dimensional track a ball in a gaming environment from a single camera. In some examples, an input video including frames of a ball moving in a gaming environment recorded by a camera may be obtained, along with a camera projection matrix associated with at least one frame that maps a two-dimensional pixel space representation to a three-dimensional representation of the gaming environment. Candidate two-dimensional image locations of the ball across the plurality of frames may be identified using a neural network or a computer vision algorithm. An optimization algorithm may be performed that uses a 3D ball physics model, the camera projection matrix and a subset of the candidate two-dimensional image locations of the ball to generate a three-dimensional track of the ball in the gaming environment. The three-dimensional track of the ball may then be provided to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: MAIDEN AI, INC.Inventors: Vivek Jayaram, Arjun Verma, Brogan McPartland, Vaikkunth Mugunthan
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Patent number: 11610335Abstract: A machine-vision vehicle service system, and methods of operation, incorporating at least one gimbaled sensor module configured with at least one of a camera, an optical projector, or a range finder to acquire or convey data associated with surfaces in proximity to the vehicle service system for guiding placement of vehicle service components relative to a vehicle undergoing service. The gimbaled sensor module is operatively coupled to a processing system configured with software instructions to selectively control an orientation of the gimbaled guidance system about one or more axis of rotation, enabling observation, projection of visible indicia, or displacement measurement along an associated sensor axis parallel with one of the axis of rotation during vehicle service procedures.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HUNTER ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Brian M. Cejka, Michael T. Stieff
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Patent number: 11600009Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for aligning fiducial markers that commonly exist in each of multiple different N-dimensional (N-D) data sets. Notably, the N-D data sets are at least three-dimensional (3D) data sets. A first set and a second set of N-D data are accessed. A set of one or more fiducial markers that commonly exist in both those sets are identified. Based on the fiducial markers, one or more transformations are performed to align the two sets. Performing this alignment process results in at least a selected number of the common fiducial markers that exist in the two sets being within a threshold alignment relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: INTUITIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Lee Yohe, Andrew Craig Hardwick, Kyle Jordan Russell, Chanler Megan Crowe Cantor, Charles Thomas Etheredge
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Patent number: 11589625Abstract: A smart glove includes a glove for housing and triggering electronic modules having a sensor; a triggering member for triggering the electronic modules; and a slide provided on the glove for partially or completely enclosing the electronic modules. The slide is made of a flexible material and comprises a base; two side walls extending from two side portions of the base; two channels extending starting from a first end of the base towards a second end of the base; a protrusion connected to the base from a connection end of the protrusion and extending between a channel; a lock end located at an end of the protrusion not connected to the base and extending from the protrusion perpendicularly or in an angled manner; a slot provided on an opposite end of the base without the lock end, comprising a hollow and extending from the base towards a roof.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: TIM AKILLI KIYAFETLERI VE BILISIM TEKNOLOJISI ANONIM SIRKETIInventors: Rahim Oner, Kadir Erten, Kadir Demircioglu
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Patent number: 11586437Abstract: Techniques for program verification are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to evaluate code based on a customized rule, the customized rule comprising one or more conditions for which the customized rule is applicable and one or more postconditions to indicate at least one check to perform for a given node in a graph for the code, wherein an application of the customized rule performs one or more of: an interleave between a backward analysis and forward analysis based on user-specified conditions, an analysis between sub-graphs by a query from a first sub-graph to a second sub-graph, and an operation on a sub-graph, storage of a result of the operation on the sub-graph, and usage of the stored result in a subsequent operation; generating a graph for the code; and evaluating the code by applying the customized rule to the generated graph.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Omer Tripp, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Michael Wilson, Yingjun Lyu
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Patent number: 11571607Abstract: A shoe includes: a heel portion; a toe portion; a sole portion; and an electrical assembly. The electrical assembly includes at least: a magnetometer configured to determine a direction of movement of the shoe; and an accelerometer configured to determine acceleration of the shoe. Direction and acceleration data are used to generate a display of a map indicating traversal of a route by a wearer of the shoe at user interface of a user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.Inventors: F. Grant Kovach, Jeffrey Allen
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Patent number: 11564768Abstract: A force sensed surface scanning system (20) employs a scanning robot (41) and a surface scanning controller (50). The scanning robot (41) includes a surface scanning end-effector (43) for generating force sensing data informative of a contact force applied by the surface scanning end-effector (43) to an anatomical organ. In operation, the surface scanning controller (50) controls a surface scanning of the anatomical organ by the surface scanning end-effector (43) including the surface scanning end-effector (43) generating the force sensing data, and further constructs an intraoperative volume model of the anatomical organ responsive to the force sensing data generated by the surface scanning end-effector (43) indicating a defined surface deformation offset of the anatomical organ.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek, Aleksandra Popovic
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Patent number: 11566890Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for determining locations of telecommunication ground stations. In one aspect, the method includes creating heat map data set representing air traffic volume at grid units of a geographic region, determining a ground station location at one of the grid units having air traffic volume greater than that of others of the grid units, modifying the heat map data by excluding data representing one or more of the grid units surrounding the ground station location, and repeating the determining and modifying steps until a predetermined quantity of ground station locations is determined.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLCInventor: James W. Herriot
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Patent number: 11561294Abstract: A laser safety system adapted to prevent inadvertent illumination of people and assets. The laser safety system configured to emit a laser beam with a laser and determine a path of a target object relative to the laser safety system. The laser safety system configured to cause the laser beam to illuminate the target object while the target object moves along the path.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Vision Engineering Solutions, LLCInventors: John Stryjewski, William B. Griffis
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Patent number: 11550034Abstract: Provided is a target instrument including a pole, a prism provided on the pole, and a terminal device provided on the pole, wherein the terminal device comprises an image pickup module, a tilt sensor which detects tilts in two axial directions, and an arithmetic control module, wherein the image pickup module acquires an image which includes a reference object, the tilt sensor detects a tilt angle of a target instrument, and the arithmetic control module calculates a tilt direction of the target instrument from a position of the reference object in the image, calculates a tilt direction of the target instrument based on tilt angles in the two axial directions of the tilt sensor, acquires a deviation between the two tilt directions, and corrects the tilt angles in the two axial directions of the tilt sensor to tilt angles in directions parallel to an optical axis of the image pickup module and orthogonal to the optical axis based on the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TOPCON CorporationInventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Minoru Chiba, Akinobu Sugiura
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Patent number: 11553141Abstract: A system includes a video device for capturing, at a viewing time, a first video image corresponding to a foundation scene at a setting, the foundation scene viewed at the viewing time from a vantage position. A memory stores a library of image data including media generated at a time prior to the viewing time. A vantage position monitor tracks the vantage position and generating vantage position of a human viewer. A digital video data controller selects from the image data in the library, at the viewing time and based on the vantage position data, a plurality of second images corresponding to a modifying scene at the setting, the modifying scene further corresponding to the vantage position. A combiner combines the first video image and the plurality of second images to create a composite image for display.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Passewall Research LLCInventor: Stuart Wilkinson
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Patent number: 11537164Abstract: An electronic device is provided, including first and second bodies, a processing module, a touch display panel, and at least one sensing unit. The second body is rotatably connected to the first body. The processing module is disposed in the first body or the second body. The touch display panel is disposed on the second body, is coupled to the processing module, and has a main display part, and first and second display parts. The sensing unit is disposed in the first body or the second body and coupled to the processing module. When the sensing unit detects the first and second bodies are folded relative to each other, the processing module is switched to a first mode. In the first mode, the first and second display parts are adapted to synchronously display or individually display a first message, a second message, or a third message.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Jyh-Chyang Tzou, I Ta Tsai, Meng Ju Wu
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Patent number: 11531389Abstract: A system may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The system may also include an energy measuring device incorporated into the wearable. The energy measuring device may measure an electrical energy differential between a body of the user and a surface. The system may further include at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the energy measuring device. The processing device may detect, based at least in part on the electrical energy differential measured by the energy measuring device, an interaction between the user and the surface. In response to this detection, the processing device may generate an input command for the artificial reality system based at least in part on the interaction detected between the user and the surface. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Whitmire, Wolf Kienzle, David R Perek, Hrvoje Benko
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Patent number: 11513596Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for controlling a computing system by an AI network based upon an electroencephalograph (EEG) signal from a user. The user's EEG signals are first detected as the user operates an existing controller, during which time the associated artificial intelligence (AI) system learns by correlating the EEG signals with the commands received from the controller. Once the AI system determines that there is sufficient correlation to predict the user's actions, it can take control of the computing system and initiate commands based upon the user's EEG signal in place of the user's actions with the controller. At this point, weights in the AI network may be locked so that further commands from the controller, or the lack thereof, do not reduce correlation with the EEG signals. In some embodiments, the AI network may initiate commands faster than the user would be able to do.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SiliconIntervention Inc.Inventor: A. Martin Mallinson
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Patent number: 11507769Abstract: A method and system to interpret sensor transmission patterns to analyze anomalies in a smart environment include obtaining a map of the smart environment, the map including an indication of obstructions and openings. The method includes determining an initial location of each sensor of a plurality of sensors in the smart environment. Each sensor emits a transmission after each detection. The method also includes identifying an initial transmission pattern associated with each sensor, and identifying a change in the initial transmission pattern of a sensor among the plurality of sensors. The change is interpreted to determine whether the change in the initial transmission pattern of the sensor among the plurality of sensors is due to movement or obstruction of the sensor. Action is taken based on a determination that the sensor among the plurality of sensors is obstructed or removed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Scott Gerard, Aliza Heching, Samuel Scott Adams, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam
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Patent number: 11501181Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method to determine relationships between entities where an interface receives a first data set representing observations of a first entity and observations of a second entity, and a second data set representing a relationship between the first entity and the second entity. An entity analytics engine applies a first candidate rule to the first data set to generate a first candidate relationship between the first entity and the second entity. A processor determines whether according to a criterion the first candidate relationship matches the relationship represented in the second data set. The entity analytics engine replaces the first candidate rule with a second candidate rule by when the first candidate relationship does not match the relationship represented in the second data set.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Kirk J. Krauss
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Patent number: 11496860Abstract: Techniques are described herein for developing a fingerprint map that may be used for 3D indoor localization. In one example, a network server may leverage a building footprint from an open source database with signal measurements taken by probing user devices from signal sources such as access point (AP) devices. The network server may use the signal measurements to remotely calculate corresponding 3D positions of the AP devices in a particular building. Further, the network server may use the building footprint and the calculated 3D positions of the AP devices as references for developing the fingerprint map for 3D indoor localization.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Narciso Faustino, Kevin Hinson, Jie Hui, Antoine Tran, Bryan Yang, Doru Culiac
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Patent number: 11495085Abstract: A method and apparatus to automatically calibrate one or more attributes of a gaming system. For instance, the gaming system detects, via electronic analysis of an image by a neural network model, one or more objects (e.g., one or more coded, fiducial markers) that are planar with a surface of a gaming table. The gaming system further determines, via an isomorphic transformation associated with the one or more objects, a difference (e.g., in position and orientation) between the one or more objects and one or more physical features of the gaming table visible in the image. The gaming system automatically calibrates the gaming system based on the difference.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Martin S. Lyons, Bryan Kelly
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Patent number: 11496553Abstract: A coding and Incentive-based distributed computing management system includes: a parameter server that publishes a gradient descent computation task to update parameters of distributed computing, sends the published task to end devices, and groups end devices into clusters by receiving related information from the plurality of end devices, determines the number of stragglers in each cluster and sends the number of stragglers to the end devices, along with an encoding scheme for gradient descent computation, and distributes incentive to the end devices based on encoded results and the end devices that receive the published task from the parameter server, sends an intention to participate in the published task and related information to the parameter server, determines CPU-cycle frequencies by receiving information on the grouping of the end devices and related information from the parameter server, and performs encoding for gradient descent computation and send a computed gradient to the parameter server.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: JunKyun Choi, Nakyoung Kim, Dae-Jin Kim, Hyunseo Park
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Patent number: 11493332Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) sensing system for determining a 3D profile of an object and a method are provided. The 3D sensing system includes a liquid crystal lens, a structure light source and a control circuit. The structure light source is configured to emit a structure light pattern with a plurality of dots on the object through the liquid crystal lens. The control circuit is configured to control the liquid crystal lens to separate the plurality of dots under a separating mode, and the control circuit is configured to control the liquid crystal lens to overlap the plurality of dots under an overlapping mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Hsueh-Tsung Lu, Ching-Wen Wang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Wu-Feng Chen
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Patent number: 11486739Abstract: A position detection device includes a magnetic scale and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic scale includes a plurality of magnets arranged along a first reference direction. The magnetic sensor includes a plurality of detectors that detect a composite magnetic field. The plurality of detectors are each arranged to satisfy AG=N(M?W)/(n?1), where n is the number of magnets of the magnetic scale, M is a distance from a first end to a second end, W is the width of each of the plurality of magnets and is greater than 0 and less than or equal to M/n, AG is a gap between each of the plurality of magnets and each of the plurality of detectors in a second reference direction, and N is a number greater than or equal to 0.4 and less than or equal to 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Ishikawara, Takahiro Moriya, Toshihiko Oyama
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Patent number: 11476144Abstract: Metrology targets and methods are provided, which comprise at least two overlapping structures configured to be measurable in a mutually exclusive manner at least at two different corresponding optical conditions. The targets may be single cell targets which are measured at different optical conditions which enable independent measurements of the different layers of the target. Accordingly, the targets may be designed to be very small, and be located in-die for providing accurate metrology measured of complex devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: KLA CORPORATIONInventor: Mark Ghinovker
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Patent number: 11475235Abstract: In some aspects, systems and methods for efficiently clustering a large-scale dataset for improving the construction and training of machine-learning models, such as neural network models, are provided. A dataset used for training a neural network model configured can be clustered into a first set of clusters and a second set of clusters. The neural network model can be constructed with a number of nodes in a hidden layer that is based on the number of clusters in the first set of clusters. The neural network can be trained based on training samples selected from the second set of clusters. In some aspects, the trained neural network model can be utilized to satisfy risk assessment queries to compute output risk indicators for target entities. The output risk indicator can be used to control access to one or more interactive computing environments by the target entities.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.Inventors: Rajkumar Bondugula, Piyush Patel
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Patent number: 11468292Abstract: A design application is configured to generate a latent space representation of a fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application encodes vehicle designs associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles into the latent space representation to generate a first latent space location. The first latent space location represents the characteristic style associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application encodes a sample design provided by a user into the latent space representation to produce a second latent space location. The design application then determines a distance between the first latent space location and the second latent space location. Based on the distance, the design application generates a style metric that indicates the aesthetic similarity between the sample design and the vehicle designs associated with the fleet of pre-existing vehicles. The design application can also generate new vehicle designs based on the latent space representation and the sample design.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: Danil Nagy, Daniel Noviello, James Stoddart, David Benjamin, Damon Lau
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Patent number: 11468595Abstract: There is provided an apparatus (100) for determining a location of a personal care device on a user. The apparatus (100) comprises a processor (102) configured to detect a location of one or more parts of the body of a user, detect motions of at least one of the parts of the body of the user induced by the personal care device when the personal care device is in use and determine the location of the personal care device on the user based on the detected motions of the at least one part of the body of the user in relation to the detected location of the at least one part of the body of the user. The processor (102) is configured to acquire images of the user from an imaging sensor (108) directed at the user, and detect the location of the one or more parts of the body of a user and the motions of the at least one part of the body of the user induced by the personal care device from the acquired images of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Vincentius Paulus Buil, Lucas Jacobus Franciscus Geurts
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Patent number: 11447072Abstract: A multifunctional rearview mirror includes a casing having first and second receiving spaces. A mirror is mounted to one side of the casing that is formed with the first receiving space. The second receiving space is located under the first receiving space and has a front surface formed with first through-holes. A distance detection and alarm unit is arranged in the second receiving space and includes an ultrasonic distance detection module, an alarm light module, and a buzzer. The ultrasonic distance detection module is eclectically connected with the alarm light module and the buzzer. The alarm light module is arranged in the first through-holes. The ultrasonic distance detection module emits an ultrasonic wave, which is returned to the ultrasonic distance detection module by an object, so that a distance to the object is calculated and the alarm light module and the buzzer are activated according to the distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Inventor: Chi-Hsiu Chen
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Patent number: 11435186Abstract: The present application discloses a dead reckoning method for a vehicle, an apparatus, an apparatus and a storage medium, and relates to the fields of vehicle control, intelligent driving and automatic driving. The specific implementation solution is as follows: obtaining a position and attitude increment of the vehicle on the basis of wheel speed information of the vehicle; and carrying out dead reckoning on the position and attitude of the vehicle at a current moment, on the basis of the position and attitude increment of the vehicle and the position and attitude at a previous moment.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., LTDInventors: Wenlong Chen, Yang Yang, Pengbin Yang, Jianxu Zhang
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Patent number: 11438861Abstract: Described is a method that includes taking radio measurements of radio node signals observable at a mobile device; obtaining motion measurement data indicative of motion of the mobile device; determining, based on the motion measurement data, a motion state of the mobile device; and providing the radio measurements taken or information representative thereof and the motion state or information representative thereof. Described is also a method that includes obtaining radio measurements of radio node signals observable at a mobile device or information representative thereof obtaining a motion state of the mobile device, the motion state having been determined based on motion measurement data indicative of motion of the mobile device, or information representative thereof determining a position estimate of the mobile device at least based on at least some radio measurements or information representative thereof and the obtained motion state of the mobile device or the information representative thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.Inventors: Henri Nurminen, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Pavel Ivanov, Matias Mikkola
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Patent number: 11433984Abstract: An airship includes a ballonet, a ballonet tracking system, and a vehicle management system. The ballonet is disposed within the airship and includes a ballonet surface. The ballonet tracking system includes one or more light emitters disposed within the ballonet at one or more fixed locations and one or more light detectors disposed within the ballonet at the one or more fixed locations. The ballonet tracking system measures a plurality of distances between one or more fixed locations and one or more locations on the ballonet surface. The ballonet tracking system also calculates differences between a predetermined set of expected distances and the plurality of measured distances. Based on the calculated differences, the ballonet tracking system calculates a volume of the ballonet. The vehicle management system is communicatively coupled to the ballonet tracking system and controls the operation of the airship using the calculated volume of the ballonet.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: James Dakota Walker, Louise Kathryn Moores, Clinton Jullens
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Patent number: 11422056Abstract: A method is shown for measuring the utilization of the load carrying capacity of a building structural element subject to variable action, including measurements of the rotation angles of cross-sections of this building structural element, wherein the rotation is caused by the variable action, wherein the rotation angles ?1 and ?2 of the cross-sections of the building structural element around the axis (Z) perpendicular to the longitudinal section of this building structural element are measured in two points (A) and (B) of this building structural element, located symmetrically relative to its transverse axis of symmetry, and subsequently the greater of the measured values of the angles ?1 and ?2 is used as the measure of the utilization of the load carrying capacity of the building structural element.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Inventors: Marcin Osiniak, Edward Antoszkiewicz, Zbigniew Pioro, Stanislaw Wierzbicki
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Patent number: 11408959Abstract: A positioning system and method includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The transmitter includes at least one energy source configured to emit an optical or quasi-optical electromagnetic signal as a channel communication. The receiver includes at least one detector element configured to receive the channel communication. The controller is connected to the receiver and configured to estimate a position of the transmitter within a space using a reference map of the space and one or more diffuse components of an impulse response of the channel communication.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: Maite Brandt-Pearce, Hamid Hosseinianfar, Mohammad Noshad
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Patent number: 11408737Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for determining a vehicle orientation. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for determining a vehicle orientation may include receiving a first set of satellite signals associated with a connected device positioned relatively stationary with respect to a vehicle. The method may also include determining that the first set of satellite signals is insufficient to determine the vehicle orientation. The method may further include determining the vehicle orientation based on a first relative orientation of the connected device relative to the vehicle and a second relative orientation of the connected device relative to a reference object.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hailiang Xu, Weihuan Shu
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Patent number: 11400600Abstract: A mobile robot includes a traveling unit configured to move a main body, a LiDAR sensor configured to acquire geometry information, a camera sensor configured to acquire an image of the outside of the main body, and a controller. The controller generates odometry information based on the geometry information acquired by the LiDAR sensor. The controller determines a current location of the mobile robot by performing feature matching between images acquired by the camera sensor based on the odometry information. The controller combines the information obtained by the camera sensor and the LiDAR sensor to accurately determine the current location of the mobile robot.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dongki Noh, Jaekwang Lee, Seungwook Lim, Kahyung Choi, Gyuho Eoh
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Patent number: 11403956Abstract: Passenger drone air traffic control and monitoring systems and methods implemented by a consolidated system include communicating with an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system which is executed on a plurality of servers, wherein the ATC system is configured to communicate with a plurality of passenger drones in a geographic or zone coverage; consolidating data from the plurality of servers to provide a visualization of a larger geography comprising a plurality of geographic or zone coverages; providing the visualization via a Graphical User Interface (GUI); and performing one or more functions via the GUI for air traffic control and monitoring at any of a high-level and an individual passenger drone level.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Metal Raptor, LLCInventor: Lee Priest
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Patent number: 11403826Abstract: A management system includes a measuring device including a communication unit and a coordinate measuring unit, an eyewear device including a communication unit, a display, a relative position detection sensor, and a relative direction detection sensor, a storage unit configured to store CAD design data of a management site, and an arithmetic processing unit including a synchronous measuring unit configured to synchronize coordinate spaces of the measuring device, the eyewear device, and the CAD design data, wherein the synchronous measuring unit acquires information of a wire frame viewed from a point at the position in the direction of the eyewear device from the CAD design data, and the eyewear device displays the information of the wire frame that the eyewear device received on the display by superimposing the information on an actual construction product.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11378525Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating critical dimensions of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first layer comprising a first set of overlay markings and a second layer comprising a second set of overlay markings. The second layer is higher than the first layer. The first set of overlay markings includes a plurality of diffraction gratings. Each of the plurality of diffraction gratings has a first period. The second set of overlay markings includes a plurality diffraction grating clusters. Each of the plurality of diffraction grating clusters has a plurality of diffraction grating units. The plurality of diffraction grating units in at least one of the plurality of diffraction grating clusters have the first period. At least one of the plurality of diffraction grating units includes a diffraction grating having a second period that is smaller than the first period.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Yaobin Feng
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Patent number: 11373532Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to depression detection on roadways (e.g., potholes, horizontal panel lines of a roadway, etc.) through using vision sensor to realize improved safety for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD). Example implementations described herein detect candidate depressions in the roadway in real time and adjust the control of the vehicle system according to the detected depressions.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Subrata Kumar Kundu, Naveen Kumar Bangalore Ramaiah