公开(公告)号：US12146951B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US18236291

申请日：2023-08-21

Applicant: 3D at Depth, Inc.

Inventor： Carl W. Embry ,  Neil Manning ,  Ian Roberts

IPC: G01S15/87 ,  B63G8/00 ,  B63G8/38 ,  G01C13/00 ,  G01C21/20 ,  G01S15/74 ,  G01S15/86 ,  G01S17/42 ,  G01S17/74 ,  G01S17/86 ,  G01S17/88 ,  G01S17/93

Abstract: Described herein are methods and devices for improved location of any and all underwater structures or equipment installed underwater. In particular, systems are disclosed that combine optical and acoustic metrology for locating objects in underwater environments. The systems allow for relative positions of objects to be determined with great accuracy using optical techniques, and support enhanced location of devices that utilize acoustic location techniques. In addition, location information can be provided by the system even in conditions that make optical metrology techniques impossible or impractical.

公开(公告)号：US20230045608A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17683175

申请日：2022-02-28

Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kai WANG ,  Runyu SHI

IPC: G01S15/74 ,  G01S13/74 ,  G01S17/74

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a method and device for measuring a distance and a storage medium. The method for measuring the distance includes determining a distance between a first device and a second device based on a first time difference and a second time difference, where the first time difference is between a time of receiving a first detection signal by the first device and a time of receiving a second detection signal by the first device, and the second time difference is between a time of receiving the first detection signal by the second device and time of receiving the second detection signal by the second device.

公开(公告)号：US20220167118A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17670339

申请日：2022-02-11

Applicant: BlueOwl, LLC

Inventor： Bennett Smith

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W76/14 ,  G01S15/74 ,  H04W4/80

Abstract: A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map.

公开(公告)号：US11252532B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-15

申请号：US17100118

申请日：2020-11-20

Applicant: BlueOwl, LLC

Inventor： Bennett Smith

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W76/14 ,  G01S15/74 ,  H04W4/80 ,  G06Q40/08

Abstract: A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map.

公开(公告)号：US10948593B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-16

申请号：US16015813

申请日：2018-06-22

Applicant: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.

Inventor： Jacob Jared Summers

IPC: G01S15/74 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: A system may include a fixed communications device and a mobile communications device each configured to wirelessly communicate at a first frequency and also at a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The fixed communications device and the mobile communications device may cooperate to establish a wireless link via the second frequency, exchange a location signal via the first frequency responsive to establishing the wireless link, communicate via the wireless link using the second frequency and determine respective transmit and receive delays associated with transmission and reception of the location signal via the first frequency, and determine a distance between the fixed communications device and the mobile communications device based upon a time of arrival of the location signal, the transmit and receive delays, and a signal speed associated with the second frequency.

公开(公告)号：US10597128B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-24

申请号：US15845646

申请日：2017-12-18

Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy

Inventor： Lonnie A. Hamme ,  Vladimir Djapic

IPC: G01S15/87 ,  G01S19/14 ,  G01C21/00 ,  B63C11/26 ,  G01S15/74 ,  G01S15/88

Abstract: A diver navigation, information and safety buoy system and method. The system and method incorporate a float device, and an ultra-short baseline acoustic array in communication with a diver transponder. The system and method also include a GPS system having a GPS antenna device mounted on the float device. The system also includes an AIS system having an AIS antenna mounted on the float. A diver processor permits a diver's location information to be calculated, and the diver can be navigated to a desired destination.

公开(公告)号：US20190279067A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-12

申请号：US16412294

申请日：2019-05-14

Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Inventor： Amy L. KUKULYA ,  Thomas Austin ,  Frederic Jaffre ,  Robin Hunter Littlefield

IPC: G06K19/077 ,  G01S15/89 ,  G01S15/74 ,  G01S7/521 ,  G06K19/00

Abstract: A submersible tag device configured to operate within a liquid medium, including a liquid-tight housing defining a chamber that remains isolated from the liquid medium when the housing is immersed in the liquid medium, and an attachment mechanism configured to attach to a target selected by a user. A communication module is disposed in the chamber, the module including a receiver, a controller configured to receive input from the receiver, a power source operatively connected to at least the controller, and data storage. When the tag device is immersed in the liquid medium, the receiver is configured to receive a command signal through the liquid medium.

公开(公告)号：US10304142B1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US16052707

申请日：2018-08-02

Applicant: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Inventor： Justin Davis ,  Kristopher Keith Gaudin ,  Craig Benjamin Cope

IPC: G06Q40/08 ,  G01S15/74 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/20

Abstract: The systems and methods may transmit a plurality of locationing pulse requests from a mobile device in a vehicle to an audio system of the vehicle during a period of operation of the vehicle. The audio system may have an array of speakers disposed inside the vehicle, and the locationing pulse requests may include a request to emit a locationing pulse from the array of speakers. The systems and methods may further receive the locationing pulse at a microphone of the mobile device; and determine, based upon receiving the locationing pulse, that the vehicle was in service of a TNC company, or otherwise operating as a TNC vehicle, during the period of operation based upon passengers entering and leaving the vehicle during the period of operation. Insurance covering the operation of the vehicle for TNC use may be verified, and/or alternatively, offered to facilitate insuring TNC vehicle operation.

公开(公告)号：US10168427B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-01

申请号：US15962418

申请日：2018-04-25

Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

Inventor： Li-Wen Hung ,  Reinaldo Vega

IPC: G01S15/04 ,  G01S15/02 ,  G01S15/12 ,  G06K7/10 ,  H04B11/00 ,  G01S15/74

Abstract: A system and method are provided. The system includes a data reader having a processor for performing a signal frequency analysis, an ultrasound transmitter for transmitting ultrasound signals, and an ultrasound receiver for receiving reflected ultrasound signals. The system further includes a movable reflector for receiving the ultrasound signals and reflecting the ultrasounds signals back to the ultrasound receiver (a) as the reflected ultrasound signals without modulation when the movable reflector is stationary and (b) as the reflected ultrasound signals with modulation when the movable reflector is mobile. The system also includes a chip for storing a specification of motion states for the movable reflector.

公开(公告)号：US20180306913A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US15768538

申请日：2016-08-24

Applicant: Oliver Mark Bartels

Inventor： Oliver Mark Bartels

IPC: G01S13/76 ,  G01S13/87 ,  G01S15/74 ,  G01S17/74

CPC classification number: G01S13/767 ,  G01S7/023 ,  G01S7/03 ,  G01S7/4008 ,  G01S13/76 ,  G01S13/878 ,  G01S15/74 ,  G01S17/74

Abstract: The invention describes a novel system for measuring short distances using the propagation time of radio signals between at least one interrogation unit and a transponder, whereby a disturbance of the transponder's response signal by its own request signal is excluded by means of a highly precise delay of the request in the transponder. The delay is realized with quartz accuracy and the necessary precision in that it takes place in a digital or analog register chain, whose register clock is kept phase synchronous with the interrogation signal, that a variable delay of the interrogation signal takes place in the interrogation unit and that this delay is adjusted by one register clock period at the synchronous time preferably by means of a binary search by means of the recognizable jump of the total running time-round trip.