Orientation Or Position Patents (Class 702/150)
  • Patent number: 10471333
    Abstract: A component of a sports board may be controlled to configure the sports board. The component may be coupled with at least one layer of the sports board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Bryan Marc Failing
  • Patent number: 10474291
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving device for driving a sensing device having a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes. The driving device includes a signal processing circuit and a readout circuit. The signal processing circuit is electrically connected to the plurality of driving electrodes of the sensing device. The signal processing circuit is configured to generate a plurality of driving signal to drive the sensing device. The signal processing circuit selects a plurality of Walsh codes from a plurality of rows or columns of a Walsh matrix to serve as a plurality of driving signals. The readout circuit readouts the sensing device to generate a plurality of sensing signals and provides the plurality of sensing signals to the signal processing circuit, so that the signal processing circuit demodulates the plurality of sensing signals. In addition, a driving method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Chuan Lu, Heng-Yin Chen, Chang-Po Chao, Guan-Jung Luo
  • Patent number: 10469931
    Abstract: A system, method, and wireless earpieces for managing power settings. Sensor measurements are performed utilizing a first sensor array of the wireless earpieces to detect light and motion. Sensor measurements are performed utilizing a second sensor array of the wireless earpieces to detect light and motion. The sensor measurements are analyzed from the first sensor array and the second sensor array. A determination is made whether a change event is detected in response to the sensor measurements. The change event is confirmed as detected. The wireless earpieces enter a full power mode in response to the change event being confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: BRAGI GmbH
    Inventors: Toby Martin, Eric Christian Hirsch, Volker Klein, Christian Begusch, Matthias Lackus, Arne D. Loermann, Nikolaj Hviid
  • Patent number: 10462607
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication device for wireless communication systems and a communication method for the communication device. The communication device includes: one or more processors, configured to determine information of a reference geographical location used for the communication device, and generate, based on the information of the reference geographical location and a current absolute geographical location of the communication device, information of a relative geographical location of the communication device with respect to the reference geographical location; and a communication unit, configured to transmit the information of the relative geographical location to a predetermined communication object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinhui Chen, Yuxin Wei, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 10438081
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-readable medium stores executable code, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to: capture an image of a finder pattern using a camera; locate a predetermined point within the finder pattern; use the predetermined point to identify multiple boundary points on a perimeter associated with the finder pattern; identify fitted boundary lines based on the multiple boundary points; and locate feature points using the fitted boundary lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Do-Kyoung Kwon, Aziz Umit Batur, Vikram Appia
  • Patent number: 10438408
    Abstract: A method for generating a resolution adaptive mesh for 3-D metrology of an object includes receiving point cloud data from a plurality of sensors. The point cloud data from each sensor defines a point cloud that represents the object. Each point cloud includes a multiplicity of points and each point includes at least location information for the point on the object. The method also includes determining a resolution of each sensor in each of three orthogonal dimensions based on a position of each sensor relative to the object and physical properties of each sensor. The method further includes generating a surface representation of the object from the point clouds using the resolutions of each sensor. The surface representation of the object includes a resolution adaptive mesh corresponding to the object for 3-D metrology of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Yuri Owechko
  • Patent number: 10425772
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically updating a self-learning data repository. The method is executed in a processor of a server computing device to store a fingerprint map of an area in the self-learning data repository, the fingerprint map having positioning fingerprint data that includes magnetic spatial derivative fingerprint data, receive, at the self-learning data repository, at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data correlated with a sequence of positions along a trajectory describing a movement of a mobile device relative to the area, the sensor data including mobile device magnetic spatial derivative data, and automatically update, using the processor, the self-learning data repository by adding the at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data to the positioning fingerprint data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Eros Gulo, Sean Huberman
  • Patent number: 10386185
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining first parameter information indicating a current posture of a first body part by a first sensor among M sensors of an electronic device fixed on the first body part; judging whether the first parameter information meets a predetermined condition; determining that the current posture of the first body part is a first posture in a case that the first parameter information meets the predetermined condition; obtaining N second parameters by N sensors other than the first sensor among the M sensors, wherein 1?N<M; and determining a first posture direction that the first body part in the first posture points towards based on the N second parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xi Wan
  • Patent number: 10386481
    Abstract: A method and system for gesture recognition using angle-of-arrival information. The method includes generating ultrasound waves with a transmitter; receiving the ultrasound waves at a receiver that includes two pairs of sensors that record the ultrasound waves; estimating with a processor, first and second angle-of-arrivals ?x(ti),?y(ti) for the ultrasound waves, where x and y indicate two perpendicular axes that form a plane in which the two pairs of sensors are distributed and the first and second angle-of-arrivals are defined relative to the plane; grouping N estimated first and second angle-of-arrivals ?x(ti),?y(ti) values to form a matrix g that corresponds to the predetermined path; comparing the matrix g with plural gesture templates from a gesture dictionary; identifying a gesture template from the plural gesture templates that corresponds to the predetermined path; and displaying the gesture template associated with the predetermined path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hui Chen, Tarig Ballal Khidir Ahmed, Mohamed Saadeldin, Tareq Yousef Al-Naffouri
  • Patent number: 10376717
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for treating a tumor using positively charged particles having passed through an intervening object, comprising the steps of: predetermining an energy reduction of the positively charged particles resultant from the positively charged particles traversing the intervening object along a beam treatment path as a function of relative rotation of the patient and the beam treatment path; generating a radiation treatment plan adjusting energy of the positively charged particles delivered from the synchrotron to the intervening object to yield a desired beam treatment energy of the positively charged particles entering the tumor after compensating for the energy reduction; and optionally detecting a set of the positively charged particles after traversing the intervening object to yield a signal, where the signal is used with knowledge of energy of the positively charged particles exiting the synchrotron to pre-determine the energy reduction along the beam treatment pat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventors: James P. Bennett, Susan L. Michaud, Mark R. Amato, Jillian Reno, W. Davis Lee, Nick Ruebel
  • Patent number: 10371518
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that comprises a camera module and a control and evaluation unit. The camera module is designed to be attached to the surveying pole and comprises at least one camera for capturing images. The control and evaluation unit has stored a program with program code so as to control and execute a functionality in which a series of images of the surrounding is captured with the at least one camera; a SLAM-evaluation with a defined algorithm using the series of images is performed, wherein a reference point field is built up and poses for the captured images are determined; and, based on the determined poses, a point cloud comprising 3D-positions of points of the surrounding can be computed by forward intersection using the series of images, particularly by using dense matching algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Knut Siercks, Bernhard Metzler, Elmar Vincent Van Der Zwan, Thomas Fidler, Roman Parys, Alexander Velizhev, Jochen Scheja
  • Patent number: 10365761
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing methodology is suitable for sensing touch position along a sensor track based on touch capacitance based on touch position and touch pressure. The method is operable with a capacitive sensor including first and second capacitive sensor electrodes juxtaposed in a complementary configuration to define the sensor track, the complementary first and second sensor electrodes configured such that, as touch position moves along the sensor track, the electrode capacitance CSA of one sensor electrode monotonically decreases, and the electrode capacitance CSB of the complementary other sensor electrode monotonically increases, so that the touch capacitance corresponds to a combination of CSA and CSB. Pressure-compensated touch position data is generated from touch position information generated based on position and pressure functions, where the position function generates position information based on CSA and CSB, and the pressure function generates pressure information based on CSA and CSB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Dongtai Liu
  • Patent number: 10367978
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a plurality of cameras that are arranged on at least one surface of the housing, a display that is arranged on at least one surface of the housing to display image data obtained through at least one of the cameras, a memory that is arranged inside the housing to store the image data, a processor that is arranged inside the housing and is electrically connected to the cameras, the display, and the memory, and a cover that is arranged to cover at least a portion of the housing such that the at least a portion of the housing is opened and closed to provide at least a first arrangement state or a second arrangement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hwa Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 10363939
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus (1) for estimating confidence in a vehicle reference velocity (V). The apparatus includes a controller having an electronic processor (21) having an electrical input for receiving at least one first vehicle operating parameter; and an electronic memory device (23) electrically coupled to the electronic processor and having instructions stored therein. The electronic processor (21) is configured to access the memory device (23) and execute the instructions stored therein such that it is operable to monitor the at least one first vehicle operating parameter; and to calculate a confidence value (F1) representing the confidence in the vehicle reference velocity, the confidence value (F1) being calculated in dependence on the vehicle operating parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Docker, Juan A. Herrera Tugores
  • Patent number: 10366628
    Abstract: An athletic performance monitoring system, for motivating a user to reach a goal level of athletic activity. The system may motivate the user by calculation a deficit between a current total level of activity and the goal level of athletic activity, and suggesting activity types that the user may carry out an order to reach the goal level, wherein the suggested activity types may be based on activities that are geographically close to the user, or sporting equipment worn by, or in possession of, the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristen L. White, Michael L. Orenstein, Jenny Campbell, Christina S. Self, Elizabeth Walker, Marco Micheletti, Greg McKeag, James Zipperer, Michael Lapinsky
  • Patent number: 10359283
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that comprises a camera module and a control and evaluation unit. The camera module is designed to be attached to the surveying pole and comprises at least one camera for capturing images. The control and evaluation unit has stored a program with program code so as to control and execute a functionality in which a series of images of the surrounding is captured with the at least one camera; a SLAM-evaluation with a defined algorithm using the series of images is performed, wherein a reference point field is built up and poses for the captured images are determined; and, based on the determined poses, a point cloud comprising 3D-positions of points of the surrounding can be computed by forward intersection using the series of images, particularly by using dense matching algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Knut Siercks, Bernhard Metzler, Elmar Vincent Van Der Zwan, Thomas Fidler, Roman Parys, Alexander Velizhev, Jochen Scheja
  • Patent number: 10346797
    Abstract: Automated inventory management and material (or container) handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional task dedicated vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Inventory requests Automated vehicles plan their own movements to execute missions over a container yard, warehouse aisles or roadways, sharing this space with manually driven trucks. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed. They identify, localize, and either pick-up loads (pallets, container, etc.) or drop them at the correctly demined locations. Systems without full automation can also implement partially automated operations (for instance load pick-up and drop), and can assure inherently safe manually operated vehicles (i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Cybernet Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Jacobus, Glenn J. Beach, Steve Rowe
  • Patent number: 10345925
    Abstract: In one general aspect, systems and methods are described for determining positional data for three-dimensional interactions inside virtual reality environments. The methods may include receiving inertial measurement unit (IMU) data from at least one mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices operating in a virtual reality environment, obtaining absolute position and orientation data from at least one tracked controller, comparing the IMU data from the at least one mobile device with the absolute position and orientation data of the at least one tracked controller, detecting a correlation between the IMU data from the at least one mobile device and the absolute position and orientation data of the at least one tracked controller. Based on the detected correlation, the method may include determining absolute position and orientation for the at least one mobile device based on a determined relative orientation for the at least one tracked controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Lamont Du Bois, Patrick Ryan Hackett
  • Patent number: 10346000
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display section which displays a window for each content including an application program used for each user, and a window management section which manages a display of the window displayed on the display section, at the time when the window is displayed on the display section in a state capable of being browsed by a user not registered in a permitter list to which a user permitted to browse the window is registered, in a state not able to be browsed or difficult to be browsed for a user not registered in the permitter list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotake Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10339230
    Abstract: A computing method for a simulation in which an article, a conveyor, and a table are plotted in a three dimensional simulated space, and in which the conveyor conveys the article includes setting a priority representing a degree at which the lifter is handled as a single unit as the article higher than another priority representing a degree at which the table is handled as a single unit as the article when the lifter moves the article placed on the table upwardly, and setting the priority representing a degree at which the lifter is handled as a single unit as the article lower than the priority representing a degree at which the table is handled as a single unit as the article when the lifter conveying the article moves downwardly below the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Kawahito
  • Patent number: 10334390
    Abstract: Method and system for enhancing acoustic performances in an adverse acoustic environment, where the system comprises: an array of acoustic sensors having different directivities; and an analysis module being configured for optimizing signal enhancement of at least one source, by correlating the sensors according to respective position of the at least one source in respect to the directivity of the acoustic sensors, based on reflections from reverberating surfaces in the specific acoustic environment, wherein the optimization and sensors directivity allows maintaining the sensor array in compact dimensions without affecting signal enhancement and source separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventors: Idan Bakish, Boaz Schwartz
  • Patent number: 10323452
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for activation of actuators based on sensed user characteristics, such as orientation. In some examples, an access control system may be configured to activate an actuator upon determining that an activation device is both in proximity to and has a similar orientation to the actuator. The access control system may be configured to determine orientation similarity by determining an orientation associated with the activation device, determining an orientation associated with the actuator, and comparing a difference between the two orientations to an activation threshold. The actuator may be associated with an entryway such as a building doorway, a room doorway, or a vehicle door, or may be associated with a container such as a safe or vehicle trunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventors: Jin Sam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Min Seok Noh, Hyun Oh Oh, Ju Hyung Son
  • Patent number: 10325411
    Abstract: A navigation system provides pose, i.e., location and orientation, solutions using best available location information from two or more location systems. One of the location systems is a fiducial-based location system, which is accurate when a sufficient number of fiducials is recognized. However, when an insufficient number of fiducials is recognized, an odometry-based location system is used. Although the odometry-based location system is subject to drift, when a sufficient number of fiducials is recognized, the fiducial-based location system is used to correct the odometry-based location system. The navigation system provides robust, accurate and timely pose solutions, such as for augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) systems, without the time-consuming requirement to establish and localize many fiducials or the computational and memory requirements of pure fiducial-based location systems, and without the inherent drift of pure odometry-based location systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: James Laney, Richard W. Madison, Robert Truax, Theodore J. Steiner, III, Eric Jones
  • Patent number: 10318659
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for detecting loop closure in SLAM applications can include accessing one or more range measurement data scans that each provide a collection of consecutively observed spatial data obtained at a given location. A relative scan pose for each range measurement data scan can be determined. Frames from each of the one or more range measurement data scans then can be aligned to frames within one or more submaps based at least in part by the determined relative scan pose. An enhanced scan pose for each range measurement data scan and an enhanced submap pose for each submap can be periodically determined and used to identify one or more closed loops within the one or more submaps. An output indicative of the identified one or more closed loops can be provided, along with optionally generated floorplan maps and/or given location determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hess, Damon Kohler, Holger H. Rapp
  • Patent number: 10313825
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed toward an enhanced LTE positioning protocol for multiple location reporting (with non-final and final fixes) that can be utilized by a user equipment (UE) to help prevent a disruption of the communication of information for a final location fix from the UE to a location server. In particular, techniques help ensure that the location server will not acknowledge receipt of the information provided by the UE in communication for a non-final fix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yongjin Jiang, Stephen William Edge, Ie-Hong Lin, Srigouri Kamarsu, Amit Jain
  • Patent number: 10309779
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to monitoring underwater organic solid buildup and related emissions, and more particularly to a monitoring system and method using a sonar-equipped drone watercraft and a monitoring controller in communication with the drone watercraft to monitor the underwater organic solid buildup and related emissions and to analyze and present results of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Ross McArthur
  • Patent number: 10311764
    Abstract: A detection device of a GOA circuit of a display panel includes a signal supply unit for supplying a test signal to the GOA circuit; an acquisition unit for determining whether each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group of the GOA circuit has an output signal, if there is an output signal, acquiring the output signal of each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group; wherein part of the GOA units in the GOA circuit constitute the GOA unit group, the GOA unit group at least includes an initial GOA unit and a distal GOA unit of the GOA circuit; a processing unit for determining whether the GOA circuit is abnormal based on the acquired output signal of each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE (HEBEI) MOBILE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Wu, Baohong Zhu, Xing Li, Jiayin Wang, Guowen Yang
  • Patent number: 10304205
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a moving object detection unit configured to detect a moving object from a moving image; a detection unit configured to detect from the moving image a line corresponding to the moving object; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the moving object is a self-moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisashi Kawabayashi
  • Patent number: 10297033
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a measurement value including an acceleration, corrects the measurement value to reduce a drift in the measurement value, acquires a first image and a second image, detects feature points in the first and the second images, identify a corresponding point among the feature points in the second image, which corresponds to one of the feature points in the first image, and estimate a relative displacement of a moving object between a time at which the first image is taken and a time at which the second image is taken, based on the corrected measurement value, the feature point in the first image and the corresponding point in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Takatani, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Manabu Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10281282
    Abstract: A method of determining the position of a mobile device uses a model. The model is constructed by obtaining a map of a geographical area, constructing the graph using the map, wherein vertices of the graph correspond to areas of the map, and two vertices are joined by an edge when the areas corresponding to the vertices are adjacent and can be travelled between by a device, and building the one or more feature functions using the graph, wherein a feature value of the one or more feature functions indicates the extent to which the observations support the device being positioned in the areas corresponding to one or more vertices of the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Niki Trigoni, Zhuoling Xiao
  • Patent number: 10276047
    Abstract: A vehicle position estimating apparatus may include a position estimation device that maps objects recognized by a sensor of the vehicle and located around of the vehicle to a parking lot map and estimates a position of the vehicle based on movement information related to the vehicle, a weight setting device that predicts a mapping accuracy of the objects using a detected result of a landmark mapped to the parking lot map by the sensor and gives a weight to each particle corresponding to an interest point of each object based on the predicted mapping accuracy of the objects, and a position correction device that corrects the estimated position of the vehicle using the each weighted particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Min Wook Seo, Dae Hie Hong, Yun Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 10264397
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method to determine a user equipment (UE) location in a wireless network using signals from a wireless local-area network are disclosed wireless communication network entity may be configured to send WLAN assistance data to a UE. The WLAN assistance data may include a list of one or more WLAN access points (APs). The wireless communication network entity may receive location information from the UE. The location information may be based on measurements of signals from one or more of the WLAN APs. The wireless communication network entity may determine an estimate of the location of the UE based on the location information and stored information at the wireless communication network. The wireless communication network entity may determine the estimate of the location of the UE based on the measurements of the signals of the WLAN APs and a geographic position of the WLAN APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Jong-Kae Fwu, Gregory Morozov
  • Patent number: 10259495
    Abstract: An electronic control unit for a steer-by-wire vehicle steering system includes a data storage component that stores a desired lateral acceleration versus steering angle profile with regard to a range of vehicle speeds and a processor operably and electronically coupled with a steering wheel angle sensor and a yaw sensor. The data storage component includes electronic instructions that causes the processor to receive steering wheel angle data over a range of vehicle speeds, receive vehicle yaw data over the range of vehicle speed correlated to the steering wheel angle data, generate an observed lateral acceleration versus steering angle profile with regard to the range of vehicle speeds, and generate a steering ratio correction based on a comparison of the desired lateral acceleration versus steering angle profile and the observed lateral acceleration versus steering angle profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Ibrahim A. Badiru
  • Patent number: 10257658
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically updating a self-learning data repository. The method is executed in a processor of a server computing device to store a fingerprint map of an area in the self-learning data repository, the fingerprint map having positioning fingerprint data that includes magnetic spatial derivative fingerprint data, receive, at the self-learning data repository, at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data correlated with a sequence of positions along a trajectory describing a movement of a mobile device relative to the area, the sensor data including mobile device magnetic spatial derivative data, and automatically update, using the processor, the self-learning data repository by adding the at least one of mobile device signal data and mobile device sensor data to the positioning fingerprint data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Eros Gulo
  • Patent number: 10247748
    Abstract: A method includes generating motion data by receiving a gyroscope data from a gyroscope sensor, performing integration using the gyroscope data and generating an integrated gyroscope data using a first processor. The method further includes receiving a data from one or more sensors, other than the gyroscope sensor, and performing sensor fusion using the integrated gyroscope data and the data to generate motion data using a second processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Invensense, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kerry Keal, James Lim, Sinan Karahan
  • Patent number: 10247564
    Abstract: A method and a system for recommending a pedestrian route based on crowd-sourced pedestrian navigation associated with an indoor area. The method comprises displaying a set of graphical icons representing a respective route traversal profile option, the set rendered within a graphical user interface (GUI) of a mobile device, the GUI depicting a layout of the indoor area, receiving a selection of a graphical icon from the set, storing route activity data in association with the selected graphical icon during traversal, by the mobile device, of a route within the layout, adding the route activity data to accumulated route navigation data associated with the selected graphical icon, and based on a predetermined threshold associated with the adding, deploying the respective route traversal profile option represented by the selected graphical icon, the profile option recommending the pedestrian route based at least in part on the route activity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Paramvir Singh Nagpal, Kathleen M. Chapman, Saeedeh Hamidifar
  • Patent number: 10242152
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the attitude of an object is provided herein. The method for determining the attitude of the object comprises: receiving a gravity acceleration signal and a geomagnetic field signal, the gravity acceleration signal and the geomagnetic field signal changing with the attitude of the object accordingly; determining a gravity field representation in an object coordinate system according to the gravity acceleration signal, and determining a geomagnetic field representation in the object coordinate system according to the geomagnetic field signal; calculating a conversion parameter of coordinate system between to the object coordinate system and a terrestrial coordinate system according to the gravity field representation and the geomagnetic field representation in the object coordinate system; and determining the attitude of the object according to the conversion parameter of coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (China) Investment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Travis Tu
  • Patent number: 10231628
    Abstract: A process for detecting activity of a person, in which movements of the person are measured by at least one sensor attached to the person, and respective components of the movements due to external activity and due to physiological activity are separated. The process obtains a signal of the sensor, filters the signal to derive a filtered signal, the filtering including partitioning the signal of the center into a low frequency component and high frequency component, and subtracts the filtered signal from the signal of the sensor. The filtering further variably extracts portions of the high frequency component according to a criterion of either a minimal level or a minimal instability of the signal of the sensor, and the filtered signal includes the low frequency component and the extracted portions of the high frequency components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Regis Guillemaud, Yanis Caritu
  • Patent number: 10234293
    Abstract: An inertial device having sensors operable to output accelerations in a horizontal and a vertical direction is disclosed that includes a detection unit configured to detect a turning point in a waveform representing the acceleration in the vertical direction with respect to time and to detect time at the turning point; a calculation unit configured to calculate a velocity in the horizontal direction using the acceleration in the horizontal direction in a predetermined period centering on the time at the turning point; a determination unit configured to determine whether the velocity is less than or equal to a threshold value; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a direction to which a target having the inertial device moves using the velocity in response to a determination by the determination unit that the velocity is less than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10216265
    Abstract: A system and related method for hybrid headtracking receives head-referenced pose data from a head-mounted IMU and platform-referenced or georeferenced position and orientation (pose) data from a platform-mounted IMU, determines error models corresponding to uncertainties associated with both IMUs, and performs an initial estimate of head pose relative to the platform reference frame based on the head-referenced and platform-referenced pose data. A numerically stable UD factorization of the Kalman filter propagates the estimated head pose data forward in time and corrects the initial head pose estimate (and may correct the error models associated with the head-mounted and platform-mounted IMUs) based on secondary head pose estimates, and corresponding error models, received from an optical or magnetic aiding device. The corrected head pose data is forward to a head-worn display to ensure high accuracy of displayed imagery and symbology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Kirchner, Bobby D. Foote, Christopher L. George, Ramachandra J. Sattigeri
  • Patent number: 10205887
    Abstract: An information communication method is provided for obtaining information from a subject using a terminal device that includes an image sensor having a plurality of exposure line. The method includes setting an exposure time of the image sensor so that, in an image obtained by capturing the subject by the image sensor, a bright line corresponding to each of the plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, obtaining identification information of the subject, and sending the identification information to a server. The method further includes obtaining reservation information related to the identification information from the server, the reservation information related to a content displayed by the subject, and displaying the reservation information on a display of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Koji Nakanishi, Hideki Aoyama, Ikuo Fuchigami, Hidehiko Shin, Tsutomu Mukai, Yosuke Matsushita, Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada
  • Patent number: 10184558
    Abstract: A control unit (10) includes a microcontroller (100) that sets a duty ratio corresponding to a target current value of a linear solenoid (7a) and an ASIC (200) that supplies electricity to the linear solenoid (7a) based on the duty ratio. The microcontroller (100) includes a correction unit (110) that corrects a driving current value detected by a current sensor (300). The ASIC (200) includes a correction unit (206) that corrects the driving current value detected by the current sensor (300). A feedback amount selection unit (112) selects either one of the driving current value corrected by the correction unit (110) or the driving current value corrected by the correction unit (206) as a feedback amount corresponding to the target current value. A dual correction system is provided in a feedback control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nomura, Koji Yuasa
  • Patent number: 10178744
    Abstract: A street light management method includes: receiving from a server at predetermined intervals and updating at least one of information about a node that is at least one street light, information about a gateway that communicates with the node and the server, and information about a communication channel between the node and the gateway; displaying the node in a corresponding position on a digital map displayed on a screen using position information included in the information about the node and displaying the gateway in a corresponding position on the digital map using position information included in the information about the gateway; and displaying corresponding information in at least one of information display windows on the screen according to the received information or a user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: GIGATERA INC.
    Inventors: Seok Sung, Jae-Woo Choi, Young-Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 10178019
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in an anchorless network receives an update message from a first neighbor of the device. The update message indicates a movement of a node in the network to a new position in the network. The device updates a forwarding table of the device to reverse a link direction associated with the node, in response to receiving the update message. The device sends the update message to a second neighbor of the device towards a prior position of the node in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanna Carofiglio, Jordan Augé, Pascal Thubert
  • Patent number: 10152162
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a first signal from a first sensor of the device, the first signal indicative of a grounding condition of the device; setting one or more touch detection thresholds based on the grounding condition; receiving a touch signal from a touch sensor of the device, the touch signal indicative of a touch by an object; and determining whether one or more parameters of the touch signal exceeds the one or more touch detection thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Louis W. Bokma, Sean E. O'Connor
  • Patent number: 10151839
    Abstract: Systems, and methods for controlling a modular system for improved real-time yield monitoring and sensor fusion of crops in an orchard are disclosed. According to some embodiments of the invention, a modular system for improved real-time yield monitoring and sensor fusion may include a collection vehicle, a modular processing unit, a volume measurement module, a three-dimensional point-cloud scanning module, an inertial navigation system, and a post-processing server. As the collection vehicle travels through an orchard, the volume measurement module calculates volume measurements of the windrow, the three-dimensional point-cloud scanning module assembles point-clouds of each plant in the orchard, and the inertial navigation system calculates geodetic positions of the collection vehicle. The modular processing unit may fuse the collected data together and transmit the fused data set to a post-processing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: AGERpoint, Inc.
    Inventor: K. Thomas McPeek
  • Patent number: 10145956
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for developing a fingerprint database for and determining the geographic location of an end-user device (e.g., vehicle, mobile phone, smart watch, etc.) with the database. A fingerprint database may be developed by receiving a depth map for a location in a path network, and then identifying physical structures within the depth map. The depth map may be divided, at each physical structure, into one or more horizontal planes at one or more elevations from a road level. Two-dimensional feature geometries may be extracted from the horizontal planes. At least a portion of the extracted feature geometries may be encoded into the fingerprint database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Leo Modica, Leon Stenneth, James Lynch
  • Patent number: 10137362
    Abstract: Motion capture and haptic glove systems/methods and devices are provided in this invention. In one embodiment of the invention a motion capture and haptic glove system is described, comprising: A glove portion to be worn on top of a user's hand, the glove having finger portions for the fingers and thumb of the user; a plurality of anchoring finger caps circumscribed around the extremities of the finger portions; a plurality of anchor points configured to generate sensor data identifying a flexion/extension and an abduction/adduction of the finger portions; a plurality of tendon-like cables configured to transmit the flexion/extension and the abduction/adduction data to a plurality of measuring devices for processing; a plurality of return force providers to ensure flexion and tension in the tendon-like cable elements; and a housing structure residing on the forearm and connected to the glove portion via the plurality of tendon-like cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas F Buchanan, IV, Timothy Meyer
  • Patent number: 10127650
    Abstract: The disclosed method checks the state of degradation of the suspension of a vehicle without having to carry out tests that immobilize the vehicle or to use non-objective expertise. The method processes data provided by at least one front camera in an on-board visual system. The checking method includes steps for periodically acquiring images provided by the camera or cameras, followed by storage of the positional data of the three-dimensional road in relation to a flat road and basic positional parameter data for the path of the vehicle. The error between the ideal values of the suspension parameters of a chosen suspension model and the values of these parameters corresponding to the stored path data from the positional data is then minimized. By iteration, the accuracy ? of the error reaches a predetermined value sufficient to diagnose a state of the suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Lucien Garcia
  • Patent number: 10078218
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes a first camera and a second camera capturing image data of an environment of the VR headset. Each camera has a field of view, and a portion of the fields of view of the first and second cameras overlap while a portion of the fields of view do not overlap. A processor receiving the image data from the first and second cameras is configured to identify a first observation of a position of the VR headset in the environment and positions of a plurality of features based on the image data captured by the first camera. The processor also identifies a second observation of the position of the VR headset in the environment and the positions of the features based on the image data captured by the second camera. Based on the first and second observations, the processor determines a model of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Dov Katz, Oskar Linde, Kjell Erik Alexander Sjoholm, Rasmus Karl Emil Simander