161 |
Apparatus and method for automatic video recording |
US14291213 |
2014-05-30 |
US09565349B2 |
2017-02-07 |
Scott K. Taylor; Christopher T. Boyle; Alexander G. Sammons; Denes Marton |
System and methods for pointing a device, such as a camera, at a remote target wherein the pointing of the device is controlled by a combination of location information obtained by global positioning technology and orientation information obtained by line of sight detection of the direction from the device to the target. |
162 |
BEACON ARRAY |
US14748463 |
2015-06-24 |
US20160381579A1 |
2016-12-29 |
YuBo Li; Yonghua Lin; Qing Wang; Wei Dong Wang; Chao Xue |
A method comprises receiving a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a first beacon in an array of beacons and receiving a second RSSI of a second beacon in an array of beacons, calculating a RSSI of the array (r) as a function of the first RSSI and the second RSSI, retrieving a calibrated RSSI value of the array (r′) from a memory, determining whether r>r′, and outputting a signal to a user device responsive to determining that r>r′. |
163 |
EXCITATION AND USE OF GUIDED SURFACE WAVES |
US14728492 |
2015-06-02 |
US20160359335A1 |
2016-12-08 |
James F. Corum; Kenneth L. Corum |
Disclosed are various embodiments for transmitting and receiving energy conveyed in the form of a guided surface-waveguide mode along the surface of a lossy medium such as, e.g., a terrestrial medium excited by a guided surface waveguide probe. |
164 |
Methods, Apparatuses, and Devices for Camera Depth Mapping |
US14703649 |
2015-05-04 |
US20160330433A1 |
2016-11-10 |
Shizhe Shen; Francislav P. Penov; Aidymar Bigio |
The various embodiments described herein include methods and/or systems for depth mapping. In one aspect, a method of depth mapping is performed at an apparatus including a projector, a camera, one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes identifying one or more areas of interest in a scene in accordance with variation of depth in the scene as detected at a first resolution. The method also includes, for each area of interest: (1) applying, via the projector, a respective structured-light pattern to the area of interest; (2) capturing, via the camera, an image of the area of interest with the respective structured-light pattern applied to it; and (3) creating a respective depth map of the area of interest using the captured image, the respective depth map having a higher resolution than the first resolution. |
165 |
Radio with embedded RFID |
US14090680 |
2013-11-26 |
US09367786B2 |
2016-06-14 |
Igor Haskin; Pedram Djavadkhani; Mark A Keck; Chi Meng Khong; Dale J Rublaitus |
A radio (100) comprises a radio housing (102) having external radio features (104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116) located on a surface of the radio housing. At least one of the external radio features is removable and replaceable by another external radio feature having a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag (120) embedded therein for retrofitting the radio (100) with RFID capability. |
166 |
Accurate GNSS time handling in dual/multi-SIM terminals |
US14632273 |
2015-02-26 |
US09363633B2 |
2016-06-07 |
Jari Tapani Syrjarinne; Jens Christian Schwarzer |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments are disclosed for improving the speed and sensitivity of position determination by wireless communication devices using assisted Global Navigation Satellite Systems (A-GNSS). Example embodiments include multi-SIM mobile wireless devices having an A-GNSS location detection capability, with one or more RF modems that may communicate with one or more wireless carriers. |
167 |
Devices and Methods for Locating Missing Items with a Wireless Signaling Device |
US14550867 |
2014-11-21 |
US20160150375A1 |
2016-05-26 |
Karthik Yogeeswaran; Viktor Vladimirovich Passichenko; Damian Kowalewski; Georgiy Yakovlev |
A portable electronic device has a display, a device positioning module, and a wireless communication module. Using a first application, the device: determines whether predetermined locator timing criteria are satisfied; if the predetermined locator timing criteria are satisfied, searches for wireless signals transmitted from wireless signaling devices; if wireless signals, transmitted from the wireless signaling devices, are identified from the searching, determines whether the identified wireless signals satisfy predetermined locator wireless signal criteria. If the identified wireless signals satisfy the predetermined locator wireless signal criteria, the device identifies an identifier of a respective wireless signaling device of the wireless signaling devices; identifies a geographic location of the portable electronic device; and sends to a remote server system the identifier of the respective wireless signaling device and the geographic location of the portable electronic device. |
168 |
METHOD FOR SCANNING NEIGHBORING DEVICES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF |
US14925475 |
2015-10-28 |
US20160119770A1 |
2016-04-28 |
Eun-Seok RYU; Su-Ha YOON; Eui-Chang JUNG; Su-Young PARK; Cheol-Ho CHEONG; Jae-Woong CHUN; Sung-Rok YOON; Kwang-Tai KIM; Jin-Hong JEONG |
A method and electronic device implementing the same is disclosed. The electronic device includes an antenna, a communication module, and at least one processor. The processor may implemented the method, including determining, by at least one processor, directional information associated with a certain orientation of transmission or reception, transmitting, by a communication module, a scan request message comprising the directional information through wireless communication, and receiving a scan response message responding to the scan request message through the wireless communication. |
169 |
DEVICE ASSOCIATION-BASED LOCATING SYSTEM AND METHOD |
US14987572 |
2016-01-04 |
US20160117639A1 |
2016-04-28 |
Andrew Weiss; Scott Hotes; Joseph Anakata; Costandino Dufort Moraites; Tasos Roumeliotis |
A device locating method includes broadcasting by a first mobile device a signal comprising an identifier associated with the first mobile device. A second mobile device receives and measures the signal broadcast by the first mobile device to produce one or more signal measurements. The second mobile device transmits the identifier associated with the first mobile device and the one or more signal measurements to a computing system. The computing system receives the identifier associated with the first mobile device and the one or more signal measurements from the second mobile device. The computing system estimates a location of the first mobile device based on the one or more signal measurements, and the location is transmitted to a user associated with the first mobile device. A traffic flow determination method, product ordering method and associated systems are also provided. |
170 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination |
US14709360 |
2015-05-11 |
US09311760B2 |
2016-04-12 |
Jonathan Downey; Bernard J. Michini; Joseph Moster; Donald Curry Weigel; James Ogden |
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes maintaining, in a datastore, flight operation information associated with UAV flight operations. A request to generate a risk assessment report is received, with the request including aspects of a UAV flight operation, with the risk assessment report describing risk associated with each aspect. Flight operation information accessed from the datastore is analyzed. Performance characteristics are determined based at least in part on the analysis of the flight operation information, with the performance characteristics including information that can inform, or affect, a safe or functional UAV flight operation. Risk assessments for each aspects in the request are determined using the performance characteristics. The risk assessment report is generated using the determined risk assessments. |
171 |
Densifying and colorizing point cloud representation of physical surface using image data |
US14700224 |
2015-04-30 |
US09269188B2 |
2016-02-23 |
Richard James Pollock; Alastair Nigel Jenkins; Douglas Jared Parent |
Image data obtained from an image sampling of a physical surface is integrated with position data obtained from a three-dimensional surface sampling of the same physical surface by combining data from the images with the measured surface points from the surface sampling to create additional “implied” surface points between the measured surface points. Thus, the originally obtained point cloud of measured surface points is densified by adding the implied surface points. Moreover, the image data can be used to apply colors to both the implied data points and the measured data points, resulting in a colored three-dimensional representation of the physical surface that is of higher resolution than a representation obtained from only the measured surface points. |
172 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination |
US14709364 |
2015-05-11 |
US09256994B2 |
2016-02-09 |
Jonathan Downey; Bernard J. Michini; Joseph Moster; Donald Curry Weigel; James Ogden |
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a cloud system in wireless communication with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), allocated geofence envelopes for one or more of the UAVs, with each geofence envelope being a virtual barrier for a real-world geographic area. A request for approval of an updated geofence envelope is received from a first UAV in flight. The cloud system determines that the updated geofence envelope has not been allocated and/or the updated geofence envelope does not interfere with allocated geofence envelopes. In response to the determination, a response indicating approval of the request is generated. The generated response is provided to the first UAV. |
173 |
Lateral vehicle contact warning system |
US14089411 |
2013-11-25 |
US09251709B2 |
2016-02-02 |
Florian Dupont |
A vehicle contact warning system includes a detector system, a controller and a warning indicator. The detector system detects a distance between a remote vehicle and a host vehicle and whether a signal indicator on the remote vehicle is activated. The controller determines whether at least one of a signal indicator on the host vehicle is activated by a driver of the host vehicle and a speed at which the distance between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle is decreasing is greater than a predetermined speed. The warning indicator notifies the driver of the host vehicle upon the detector system detecting the signal indicator on the remote vehicle and the controller determining that at least one of the signal indicator of the host vehicle is activated and the speed at which the distance between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle is decreasing is greater than the predetermined speed. |
174 |
POSITIONING WITH ACCESS NETWORK QUERY PROTOCOL NEIGHBOR REPORTS |
US14494411 |
2014-09-23 |
US20150341892A1 |
2015-11-26 |
Carlos Horacio ALDANA |
Techniques for determining the position of a client station based on Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) neighbor reports are disclosed. An example of a wireless transceiver system for providing a neighbor report in an ANQP query response message a memory, at least one processor operably coupled to the memory and configure to determine neighbor position information, receive an ANQP query request from a client station prior to performing a wireless client association process, generate a neighbor report, and send an ANQP query response including the neighbor report to the client station. The neighbor report may be ordered and the client station may be configured to initiate Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) sessions based on the order of the station within the neighbor report. |
175 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE |
US14695348 |
2015-04-24 |
US20150312719A1 |
2015-10-29 |
Sung-Rae CHO; Chae-Man LIM; Tae-Yoon KIM; Dong-Ryeol RYU |
An electronic device apparatus and method are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a processor. The processor may execute the method, which includes detecting a first location and a movement velocity of the electronic device, estimating a second location of the electronic device based on the detected movement velocity of the electronic device, comparing the first location of the electronic device and the estimated second location of the electronic device to determine a location measurement error, and correcting the detected first location of the electronic device based on the determined location measurement error. |
176 |
System and method of monitoring and controlling motorized passenger carts |
US14297402 |
2014-06-05 |
US09145067B1 |
2015-09-29 |
Shane J Dahlen |
In accordance with one embodiment, a system is provided for safely conveying passengers indoors using a steerable motorized passenger cart, the maximum speed of which is limited based on its location within the interior space. In particular embodiments, the present invention further includes an interchangeable vehicle skin affixed to the motorized passenger cart. |
177 |
Infrastructure for location discovery |
US13742944 |
2013-01-16 |
US09125066B2 |
2015-09-01 |
Miodrag Potkonjak |
Techniques are generally described for determining locations of a plurality of communication devices in a network. In some examples, methods for creating a location discovery infrastructure (LDI) for estimating locations of one or more of a plurality of communication nodes may comprise one or more of determining a plurality of locations in the terrain to place a corresponding plurality of beacon nodes, determining a plurality of beacon node groups for the placed beacon nodes, and determining a schedule for the placed beacon nodes to be active. Additional variants and embodiments are also disclosed. |
178 |
Using multiple sources of location-aid data to determine position information |
US13797599 |
2013-03-12 |
US09110157B2 |
2015-08-18 |
Tirosh Levin; Tomer Daniel |
A wireless location/position computation system, device, and method are directed to multiple aid-data sources each providing location-related aid information, a wireless device configured to communicate with the aid-data sources, and a location computation module either integrated with or external to the wireless device. The wireless device may include a transceiver to communicate wireless, data and other signals. The wireless device may receive a position request to compute a position of the wireless device, and in response, initiate a compute-position session. In the compute-position session, the wireless device sends aid requests to and retrieves the location-related aid information from the aid-data sources and processes the location-related aid information from the aid-data sources to generate integrated location information. The location computation module may compute the position of the wireless device based on the integrated location information and satellite location information received from a satellite. |
179 |
Geo-location signal fingerprinting |
US13726364 |
2012-12-24 |
US09107178B2 |
2015-08-11 |
Jaroslaw J. Sydir; Anthony G. LaMarca |
Disclosed herein is a technology related to low-power, accurate location estimation for mobile devices (such as a smartphone). More particularly, the disclosed technology facilitates estimation of a physical or “real world” location (e.g., geo-location) without relying on the conventional always-on and battery-draining approaches of Global Positioning Systems (GPSs) or some form of telemetry based upon multiple radio signals (e.g., cellular). This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
180 |
Generating a search set of television white space channels based on location information |
US13526499 |
2012-06-18 |
US09065688B2 |
2015-06-23 |
Vincent K. Jones; Hemanth Sampath; Stephen J. Shellhammer; Tevfik Yucek; Santosh Paul Abraham |
A method includes determining, at an electronic device, information associated with a location of the first electronic device. An initial set of television white space channels is filtered based on the information to generate a search set of television white space channels. A passive scan of the search set of television white space channels is performed at the electronic device to identify a television white space access point. |