Orientation Or Position Patents (Class 702/150)
  • Patent number: 11644801
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Saurabh Kishore, Jeffrey Lairsey, Sudhir Shetty, Alex Rote
  • Patent number: 11644294
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Adriano, Lee Sanders, Richard Matthew Stubley
  • Patent number: 11639860
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jun Hyuk Choi, Joon Sung Park, Jin Hong Kim, Byong Jo Hyon, Yong Su Noh, Dong Myoung Joo
  • Patent number: 11636737
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: You Call The Play Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Dillon, Warren Elliot Lubow, Christian Matthias Muench, Paul Lin Yao, Markus Horstmann
  • Patent number: 11630181
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen William Edge, Sven Fischer, Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11628569
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ECOVACS ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinju Tang
  • Patent number: 11619481
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Christine, Xiaoyu Cai, Max K. Kim
  • Patent number: 11615540
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAIDEN AI, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Jayaram, Arjun Verma, Brogan McPartland, Vaikkunth Mugunthan
  • Patent number: 11614844
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Seyeob Kim, Bonkee Kim, Jongsik Kim, Young Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 11610335
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUNTER ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian M. Cejka, Michael T. Stieff
  • Patent number: 11600009
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTUITIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Lee Yohe, Andrew Craig Hardwick, Kyle Jordan Russell, Chanler Megan Crowe Cantor, Charles Thomas Etheredge
  • Patent number: 11589625
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TIM AKILLI KIYAFETLERI VE BILISIM TEKNOLOJISI ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventors: Rahim Oner, Kadir Erten, Kadir Demircioglu
  • Patent number: 11586437
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Omer Tripp, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Michael Wilson, Yingjun Lyu
  • Patent number: 11571607
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.
    Inventors: F. Grant Kovach, Jeffrey Allen
  • Patent number: 11566890
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventor: James W. Herriot
  • Patent number: 11564768
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek, Aleksandra Popovic
  • Patent number: 11561294
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Vision Engineering Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: John Stryjewski, William B. Griffis
  • Patent number: 11553141
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Passewall Research LLC
    Inventor: Stuart Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 11550034
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Kumagai, Minoru Chiba, Akinobu Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11537164
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jyh-Chyang Tzou, I Ta Tsai, Meng Ju Wu
  • Patent number: 11531389
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Whitmire, Wolf Kienzle, David R Perek, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 11513596
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SiliconIntervention Inc.
    Inventor: A. Martin Mallinson
  • Patent number: 11507769
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susann Marie Keohane, Scott Gerard, Aliza Heching, Samuel Scott Adams, Mohammad Arif Ul Alam
  • Patent number: 11501181
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kirk J. Krauss
  • Patent number: 11493332
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Hsueh-Tsung Lu, Ching-Wen Wang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Wu-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 11495085
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin S. Lyons, Bryan Kelly
  • Patent number: 11496860
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Narciso Faustino, Kevin Hinson, Jie Hui, Antoine Tran, Bryan Yang, Doru Culiac
  • Patent number: 11496553
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: JunKyun Choi, Nakyoung Kim, Dae-Jin Kim, Hyunseo Park
  • Patent number: 11486739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Ishikawara, Takahiro Moriya, Toshihiko Oyama
  • Patent number: 11475235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Rajkumar Bondugula, Piyush Patel
  • Patent number: 11476144
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KLA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark Ghinovker
  • Patent number: 11468292
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Danil Nagy, Daniel Noviello, James Stoddart, David Benjamin, Damon Lau
  • Patent number: 11468595
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincentius Paulus Buil, Lucas Jacobus Franciscus Geurts
  • Patent number: 11447072
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Chi-Hsiu Chen
  • Patent number: 11435186
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., LTD
    Inventors: Wenlong Chen, Yang Yang, Pengbin Yang, Jianxu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11433984
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: James Dakota Walker, Louise Kathryn Moores, Clinton Jullens
  • Patent number: 11438861
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Henri Nurminen, Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola, Pavel Ivanov, Matias Mikkola
  • Patent number: 11422056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventors: Marcin Osiniak, Edward Antoszkiewicz, Zbigniew Pioro, Stanislaw Wierzbicki
  • Patent number: 11408737
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hailiang Xu, Weihuan Shu
  • Patent number: 11408959
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Maite Brandt-Pearce, Hamid Hosseinianfar, Mohammad Noshad
  • Patent number: 11403826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11403956
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Metal Raptor, LLC
    Inventor: Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 11400600
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongki Noh, Jaekwang Lee, Seungwook Lim, Kahyung Choi, Gyuho Eoh
  • Patent number: 11378525
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yaobin Feng
  • Patent number: 11371847
    Abstract: Systems and methods for use in aiding an inertial navigation system during a GNSS signal outage. An ultrasonic transceiver is positioned adjacent a wheel of a vehicle and reflections of the emitted signal are used to determine changes of direction and/or to determine a distance traveled by the vehicle. For changes of direction, the transceiver is adjacent to a front wheel such that left or right turns cause the wheel to interrupt a signal path from the transceiver to a reflector. For distance estimates, the transceiver is adjacent a back wheel of the vehicle. The ultrasonic signal is reflected off of solid sections of the wheel or passes through void sections of the wheel. The measurements obtained can be processed in various ways to estimate number of rotations of the wheel and, accordingly, the distance traveled by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Mohamed Moussa, Adel Moussa, Naser El-Sheimy
  • Patent number: 11372101
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for determining a relative pose, a device, and a medium. The method comprises: obtaining millimeter-wave data for obstacles in a scene collected by a millimeter-wave radar sensor in a vehicle and first data for the obstacles in the scene collected by a first sensor in the vehicle, wherein, at least one millimeter-wave radar signal booster is disposed in the scene as a target obstacle and the obstacles comprise the target obstacle; determining first obstacle data for the target obstacle in a millimeter-wave radar coordinate system and second obstacle data for the target obstacle in a first sensor coordinate system according to the millimeter-wave data and the first data for the obstacles in the scene; and determining the relative pose between the millimeter-wave radar sensor and the first sensor according to the first obstacle data and the second obstacle data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xun Zhou, Yuanfan Xie, Shirui Li, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11373532
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Subrata Kumar Kundu, Naveen Kumar Bangalore Ramaiah
  • Patent number: 11366203
    Abstract: An adaptive lag angle compensation scheme for coherent high-speed scanning LiDAR that accommodates diffraction-limited LiDAR beams and also accommodates mixing of return signals with the corresponding local oscillator signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: INSIGHT LIDAR, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Wood, Jason Ensher
  • Patent number: 11360160
    Abstract: An electronic device, the electronic device includes: a printed circuit board PCB substrate (201, 31); a magnetometer (202, 32), where the magnetometer (202, 32) is mounted on the PCB substrate (201, 31); and a protection apparatus (203, 33), where the protection apparatus (203, 33) is mounted on the PCB substrate (201, 31) and is disposed at a periphery of the magnetometer (202, 32), and is configured to protect the magnetometer (202, 32). According to the electronic device, sensitivity of the magnetometer (202, 32) can be improved, and the magnetometer (202, 32) can be protected from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingqiu Liu, Jin Tu
  • Patent number: 11353539
    Abstract: Anchor base stations are arranged around an area in which positions for radio transmitter tags are to be determined. The anchor base stations have known locations, and the location of an intermediate base station added to the system is determined by: arranging the intermediate base station between first and second anchor base stations; determining, based on propagation-delay measurements of a signal emitted by the intermediate base station and using the global time reference a first calculated distance between the first anchor base station and the intermediate base station, and a second calculated distance between the second anchor base station and the intermediate base station (BSI5); obtaining an elevation indicator specifying whether the intermediate base station is located in level with, above or below the common plane; and determining the location of the intermediate base station based on the first and second calculated distances and the elevation indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DeLaval Holding AB
    Inventor: Keld Florczak