637results about "Direction finders" patented technology

Access control system (1) for buildings (2) with a stationary unit (20) and a mobile unit (10), wherein the mobile unit (10) has a mobile transceiver (11) which is designed to transmit wirelessly and encrypted signals (S) for authentication and authorization of the mobile unit (10) with respect to the stationary unit (20) and for control of the stationary unit (20) by the mobile unit (10) to a stationary transceiver (21) of the stationary unit (20), wherein the stationary unit (20) comprises a control device (22) which is designed to determine a respective position (51 - 57) of the mobile unit (10) relative to the stationary unit (20) from the signals (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21) at predetermined time intervals, to determine a movement path (50) of the mobile unit (10) from the chronologically successively determined positions (51 - 57) of the mobile unit (10) and to determine from the movement path (50) and a predetermined target position a probability with which a function is to be triggered when the mobile unit (10) approaches the target position, wherein the control device (22) is further configured to compare the probability with a predetermined threshold value and to trigger the function if the probability exceeds the threshold value.

Technologies directed to using at least three antennas and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) protocols are described. One method includes sending a first signal to a second wireless device with data that cause it to send a second signal at a plurality of times. The method receives copies of the second signal at a first time via a first pair of antennas and copies of the second signal at a second time via a second pair of antennas. The method determines first and second angle-of-arrival (AoA) values from the copies of the second signals at the first and second times, respectively. The method determines location information of the second wireless device, the location information including an identifier corresponding to a first field of view (FOV) corresponding to the first pair or a second FOV corresponding to the second pair and at least one of the first AoA value or the second AoA value.

Access control system (1) for buildings (2) with a stationary unit (20) and a mobile unit (10), wherein the mobile unit (10) has a mobile transceiver (11) which is designed to wirelessly and encryptedly transmit signals (S) for authentication and authorization of the mobile unit (10) with respect to the stationary unit (20) and for control of the stationary unit (20) by the mobile unit (10) to a stationary transceiver (21) of the stationary unit (20), which has at least a first antenna array (23A) and a second antenna array (23B), wherein the antennas (23) of the respective antenna array (23A, 23B) lie in a common antenna reference plane (E1, E2) and the antenna reference planes (E1, E2) of the antenna arrays (23A, 23B) are tilted relative to one another, wherein the stationary unit (20) comprises a control device (22) which is designed to determine a distance (r) and an angle (Φ) as a position of the mobile unit (10) relative to the stationary unit (20) from signals (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21), so that the position of the mobile unit (10) can be specified as polar coordinates of a polar coordinate system lying in a horizontal plane, in whose coordinate origin the stationary transceiver (21) is arranged, and to control a function when a control command for triggering the function is transmitted to the stationary unit (20) by a mobile unit (10) authenticated and authorized by the stationary unit (20) and / or the position of the mobile unit (10) is within a predetermined access area (30), and wherein the control device (22) is designed to determine a respective reception angle (Φ1, Φ2) specific for the respective antenna array (23A, 23B) from signals (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21) and received by the antenna arrays (23A, 23B), to determine a quadrant of the polar coordinate system in which the position lies from the reception angles (Φ1, Φ2), and to determine the angle (Φ) of the position from the reception angle (Φ1, Φ2), which lies in an angular range predetermined for the respective antenna array (23A, 23B) with a predetermined low measurement error, and the quadrant.

Access control system (1) for buildings (2) with a stationary unit (20) and a mobile unit (10), wherein the mobile unit (10) has a mobile transceiver (11) which is designed to transmit wirelessly and encrypted signals (S) for authentication and authorization of the mobile unit (10) with respect to the stationary unit (20) and for control of the stationary unit (20) by the mobile unit (10) to a stationary transceiver (21) of the stationary unit (20), wherein the stationary unit (20) comprises a control device (22) which is designed to determine a position of the mobile unit (10) relative to the stationary unit (20) from the signals (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21) and to control a function if a control command for triggering the function is transmitted to the stationary unit (20) by a mobile unit (10) authenticated and authorized by the stationary unit (20) and / or the position of the mobile unit (10) is within a predetermined access area (30), and wherein the control device (22) is designed to determine an angle (ϕ) from which the signals (S) were received from the signals (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21), to determine a measured distance (rg) between the stationary transceiver (21) and the mobile transceiver (11) from a signal (S) received at the stationary transceiver (21) from the mobile transceiver (11) and from the measured distance (rg) and a vertical distance (rv) stored as a correction value in the control device (22) between the stationary transceiver (21) and the mobile transceiver (11), to determine a horizontal distance between the stationary transceiver (21) and the mobile transceiver (11) in the polar coordinate system lying in the horizontal plane as a distance (r) from which the signals (S) were received, so that the position of the mobile unit (10) can be specified as polar coordinates of a polar coordinate system lying in a horizontal plane, in whose coordinate origin the stationary transceiver (21) is arranged.

Access control system (1) for buildings (2) with a stationary unit (20) and a mobile unit (10), wherein the mobile unit (10) has a mobile transceiver (11) which is designed to wirelessly and encryptedly transmit signals (S) for authentication and authorization of the mobile unit (10) with respect to the stationary unit (20) and for control of the stationary unit (20) by the mobile unit (10) to a stationary transceiver (21) of the stationary unit (20), which has a first antenna array (23A) and a second antenna array (23B), wherein the stationary unit (20) comprises a control device (22) which is designed to determine from a signal (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21) and at least partially received by the first antenna array (23A) two positions (P10, P11) of the mobile unit (10) relative to the stationary unit (20), of which a first is an actual position (P10) and a second is a first mirrored position (P11), and to determine from the signal (S) transmitted from the mobile transceiver (11) to the stationary transceiver (21) and at least partially received by the second antenna array (23B) two positions (P10, P12) of the mobile unit (10) relative to the stationary unit (20), of which a first is an actual position (P10) and a second is a second mirrored position (P12), and wherein the control device (22) is designed to compare the two positions (P10, P11) determined by means of the first antenna array (23A) with the two positions (P10, P12) determined by means of the second antenna array (23B) and to verify the matching position as the actual position (P10).

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

The invention discloses a sparse Bayesian direction of arrival estimation method based on subspace compression and dictionary optimization, and belongs to the field of array signal processing. According to the method, the data dimension is reduced through the subspace compression technology, and the noise immunity is improved; signal power and noise power are automatically estimated in combination with a sparse Bayesian model, and dependence on information source number information is avoided; the calculation efficiency and the numerical stability are improved through a support set adaptive pruning strategy; and finally, a dictionary fine tuning mechanism is introduced, direction continuous optimization is realized on the basis of an original discrete grid, an off-grid error is eliminated, and direction-of-arrival estimation with sub-resolution precision is realized. The method is a novel method combining subspace compression, sparse Bayesian inference, adaptive pruning and angle optimization, can give consideration to estimation precision, calculation efficiency and application robustness, and is especially suitable for direction estimation under the complex actual conditions of low signal-to-noise ratio, few snapshots, unknown signal source number and the like.

A deep-sea sound source localization method, a computer device and a storage medium. The method includes: deploying at least two underwater gliders in a designated sea area, so as to respectively record a broadband signal which is emitted by a broadband sound source (1); obtaining a waveform envelope of the signal, and then calculating a waveform envelope of a simulated signal (2); performing cross-correlation analysis on the two waveform envelopes (3); and determining an estimated value of a distance from the sound source, and finally obtaining an estimated position of the sound source by means of a geometrical relationship (3). By means of the method, deployment of a large-depth vertical receiving array is not required. The system has low complexity, and is easy to deploy and operate, which can be applied to a relatively large area. In addition, simple data analysis and calculation are performed without the need for manual parameter adjustment, and target localization can be achieved only by knowing an approximate azimuth of movement of a target. Underwater gliders have good maneuverability and can be deployed according to task requirements, thereby achieving target localization and tracking in a relatively large area.

The invention provides a satellite tracking method, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The satellite tracking method disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring track information and antenna attitude information of communication-in-moving equipment in real time; for the target satellite, calculating a theoretical directional angle of an antenna beam according to the orbit parameters of the target satellite and the track information of the communication-in-moving equipment; correcting the theoretical directional angle of the antenna beam according to the antenna attitude information of the communication-in-moving equipment to obtain an actual directional angle of the antenna beam; based on the actual directional angle of the antenna beam, controlling a receiving phased-array antenna in the communication-in-moving equipment to form the antenna beam; in response to the situation that the signal strength of the satellite signal is larger than or equal to a preset value, data information of the received satellite signal is obtained, and the actual directional angle of the current antenna beam is corrected; according to the corrected actual directional angle of the antenna beam, controlling the transmitting phased-array antenna to form the antenna beam; and establishing a communication link, and updating ephemeris data of the target satellite.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.

The present invention discloses a radio orientation method. A radio positioning device includes a radio receiver (hereinafter referred to as the receiver), an antenna, a signal generating module, an external crystal oscillator and a signal processing module. The receiver transmits the collected radio signal data to the signal processing module through USB, Ethernet, WIFI, Bluetooth or other communication interfaces (hereinafter collectively referred to as communication interfaces). The signal processing module performs data processing based on MUSIC, ESPRIT, WSF, ISM, a new DOA estimation algorithm based on Bayesian compressed sensing learning or other DOA estimation algorithms (hereinafter collectively referred to as DOA estimation algorithms) to obtain the direction of the signal source and complete orientation. The method disclosed by the present invention improves the efficiency of radio orientation, visualizes the orientation results, simplifies the structure of the orientation device, and can be applied to a variety of working conditions, which is a technical advancement in this field.

The invention discloses a low-redundancy high-order direction finding method and system based on co-prime characteristics and a computer storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: receiving signals from a plurality of signal sources through employing a low-redundancy array obtained through improvement based on a co-prime array, and obtaining a received signal; calculating a fourth-order cumulant matrix of the received signal according to the received signal; obtaining a covariance matrix according to the fourth-order cumulant matrix; according to the covariance matrix, calculating to obtain a characteristic value and a characteristic vector of the covariance matrix; dividing the feature vector into a signal subspace and a noise subspace according to the size of the feature value; constructing a spectral function according to the projection of the steering vector on the noise subspace; and searching peak values of the spectral function in all possible directions, and determining the direction of the signal source. According to the low-redundancy array obtained based on improvement of the co-prime array, on the basis that the number of receiving array elements is reduced, the number of estimated signal sources is increased, the fourth-order cumulant is adopted, and the positioning precision in a non-Gaussian noise environment can be improved.

The invention relates to a method for obtaining a position of a sound source relative to a dedicated reference point. A first and a plurality of second sound signals are recorded which are synchronized in time. The position can be obtained by applying an estimated filter to a correlated signal derived by correlation of the first sound signal with at least one of the plurality of second sound signals in the frequency domain. Two timing values are derived in the at least one filtered and correlated signal exceeding a dedicated threshold in the time domain. Then the distance between the dedicated reference point and the sound source based on the respective obtained first timing value and second timing value.

In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving ambient sound; determining if the ambient sound includes a siren; in accordance with determining that the ambient sound includes a siren, determining a first location associated with the siren; receiving a camera image; determining if the camera image includes a flashing light; in accordance with determining that the camera image includes a flashing light, determining a second location associated with the flashing light; 3D data; determining if the 3D data includes an object; in accordance with determining that the 3D data includes an object, determining a third location associated with the object; determining a presence of an emergency vehicle based on the siren, detected flashing light and detected object; determining an estimated location of the emergency vehicle based on the first, second and third locations; and initiating an action related to the vehicle based on the determined presence and location.

The invention relates to the technical field of array signal processing, in particular to an out-of-lattice DOA estimation method and system based on deep learning under array errors, and the method comprises the steps: receiving a narrowband signal sent by a narrowband target through an observation array, obtaining a corresponding array receiving signal, and obtaining a covariance matrix based on the array receiving signal; and inputting the array receiving signal and the covariance matrix into a pre-trained DOA estimation model, and obtaining a DOA estimation result of the narrowband target by using the DOA estimation model, the DOA estimation model comprises a first feature extraction network used for extracting array signal features, a second feature extraction network used for extracting covariance matrix features, and a full-connection network used for fusing the array signal features and the covariance matrix features and obtaining a narrowband target DOA estimation result. According to the method, the influence of the array error on the DOA estimation performance can be effectively suppressed, and the DOA estimation effect of the narrowband target is improved.

The present invention relates to a method for obtaining a position of a sound source relative to a dedicated reference point, where a first audio signal and a number of second audio signals are recorded synchronously in time. The position can be obtained by applying an estimated filter to a correlation signal derived by correlation of the first audio signal with at least one of the number of second audio signals in the frequency domain. Two timing values ​​are derived for at least one filtered correlation signal that exceeds a dedicated threshold in the time domain. Then, a distance between the dedicated reference point and the sound source is based on each obtained first and second timing value.

The invention relates to a method for receiving and analyzing received signals. The method is characterized by the steps of: receiving each received signal by means of a respective receiving antenna of at least two receiving antennas (A); allocating a respective receiving chain of at least two receiving chains (EK) to each receiving antenna of the receiving antennas and allowing a signal path between each receiving antenna of the receiving antennas and the receiving chain allocated to the respective receiving antenna by switching a selection circuit (SS); and ascertaining a phase difference between the received signals.

The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.

An apparatus including multiple antennas and means for converting measurements of time of arrival of a positioning reference signal at the multiple antennas to a compensation value and using the compensation value to produce a compensated time of arrival measurement for the positioning reference signal. The apparatus also includes means for providing compensated time of arrival measurements for a plurality of positioning reference signals from different reference points to enable positioning of the apparatus.

The technology disclosed relates to relates to providing command input to a machine under control. It further relates to gesturally interacting with the machine. The technology disclosed also relates to providing monitoring information about a process under control. The technology disclosed further relates to providing biometric information about an individual. The technology disclosed yet further relates to providing abstract features information (pose, grab strength, pinch strength, confidence, and so forth) about an individual.

A communication device for determining a position of a communication partner, wherein the communication device has a first circular antenna, at least one further circular antenna, a circuit board, and a communication module situated at the circuit board. The circuit board includes at least one first copper layer and a second copper layer. The first antenna has a first recess that is formed in the first copper layer, a first ground plane, and a first excitation structure. The at least one further antenna has a further recess that is formed in the first copper layer, a further ground plane, and a further excitation structure. The first ground plane is spaced apart from the further ground plane to electromagnetically decouple the first antenna from the at least one further antenna.

The invention provides a DOA estimation confrontation and defense method based on Transform disturbance filtering, belongs to the technical field of array signal processing, and solves the problem that an existing DOA estimation mode is poor in robustness. The method comprises the following steps: preprocessing an array signal sample to obtain a standard signal sample; summarizing standard signal samples corresponding to the array signal samples and DOA angle labels, and constructing a data sample set; training and verifying the target model by using the data sample set; applying disturbance to the array signal sample to obtain an adversarial sample, and preprocessing to obtain a standard adversarial sample; combining the standard signal samples and the corresponding standard adversarial samples to construct a mixed data sample set; training a Transform network by using the mixed data sample set; the Transform network and the target model are connected in series, and a DOA estimation defense model is obtained; and performing DOA estimation on the real-time array signal by using the DOA estimation defense model.

The invention belongs to the technical field of communication signal processing, and more specifically relates to a DOA estimation method based on self-supervised contrast learning under a non-ideal array. The invention provides a two-stage cascade DOA (direction of arrival) estimation framework. The framework is composed of two modules which are respectively a control reconstruction network (CRN) and a direction of arrival (DOA) estimation network (DEN), and the two modules are respectively a control reconstruction network (CRN) and a direction of arrival (DOA) estimation network (DEN). The CRN adopts self-supervised contrast learning to recover a covariance matrix, so that the network has robustness when facing array defects. And the DEN takes the reconstructed covariance matrix output by the CRN as input to complete a DOA estimation task. In order to improve the generalization ability of the network, non-ideal enhancement modes such as amplitude disturbance, phase disturbance and random array element shielding are introduced into a training sample, and a two-stage training strategy is adopted to optimize CRN and DEN network parameters respectively.

An estimation method includes: receiving, by first and second antennas, radio waves including reflected radio waves that are radio waves transmitted from a transmitting antenna and reflected by a target; calculating a phase difference between first received radio waves that are radio waves received by the first antenna in the receiving and second received radio waves that are radio waves received by the second antenna in the receiving; calculating an amount of correction based on the amplitude of the first received radio waves and the amplitude of the second received radio waves, adding the calculated amount of correction to the phase difference calculated in the calculating of the phase difference, and obtaining a corrected phase difference resulting from correction of the phase difference; and estimating, based on the corrected phase difference and the distance between the first and second antennas, a direction in which the target is located.

The invention discloses a novel non-uniform array-based signal source positioning method, which comprises the following steps of: determining an actual array element position through flexible array distribution according to environmental characteristics when a target signal reaches the ground; calculating a virtual domain differential common array, determining the position of a virtual array element, constructing a signal model, and calculating a covariance matrix; vectorizing the covariance matrix, and removing redundancy to obtain an equivalent receiving signal of the virtual domain; performing spatial smoothing processing on the equivalent covariance matrix of the virtual domain to obtain a smoothed data correlation matrix; after characteristic decomposition, constructing a signal subspace; and finally, dividing signal subspaces based on an ESPRIT algorithm idea, and calculating a rotation matrix to obtain an estimated angle. The designed non-uniform array can flexibly adjust the array element layout according to complex environment characteristics, the flexible array layout strategy improves the freedom degree of the array, the spatial sampling and signal analysis efficiency is optimized, meanwhile, the calculation path is simplified, and the algorithm complexity is reduced.

A method of estimating a relative position of a first robot with respect to a second robot at a current timestamp, wherein a first ultra-wideband (UWB) tag is installed on the first robot, the first UWB tag being a rotating tag configured to move in a circular path about a centre of rotation on the first robot, wherein a second UWB tag is installed on the second robot, the method comprising: receiving an estimate of the relative position of the first robot with respect to the second robot calculated at an earlier timestamp; obtaining rotating tag offset values of the first UWB tag with respect to the first robot at the earlier timestamp and at the current timestamp; obtaining a velocity value of the first robot at the earlier timestamp; obtaining a velocity value of the second robot at the earlier timestamp; obtaining distance values between the first UWB tag and the second UWB tag at the earlier timestamp and at the current timestamp; and calculating the relative position of the first robot with respect to the second robot at the current timestamp according to: the estimate of the relative position calculated at the earlier timestamp, the rotating tag offset values of the first UWB tag with respect to the first robot at the earlier timestamp and at the current timestamp, the velocity values of the first robot at the earlier timestamp, the velocity values of the second robot at the earlier timestamp, and the distance values between the first UWB tag and the second UWB tag at the earlier timestamp and at the current timestamp.

A device includes a multiple-wavelength (e.g., dual wavelength) vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array including a first VCSEL set including one or more first VCSEL to emit first VCSEL radiation at a first wavelength, and a second VCSEL set including one or more second VCSEL to emit second VCSEL radiation at a second wavelength different than the first wavelength. The device includes upstream optics to upstream optics to (a) collimate the first VCSEL radiation emitted by the first VCSEL set and (b) collimate the second VCSEL radiation emitted by the second VCSEL set. The device also includes a vapor cell to receive the collimated first VCSEL radiation and the collimated second VCSEL radiation and to provide an output beam as a function of the received collimated first VCSEL radiation and collimated second VCSEL radiation, and measurement circuitry to analyze the output beam provided by the vapor cell.

A method for signal processing includes receiving via first and second antennas respective first and second input signals in response to an output signal that is transmitted from a wireless transmitter and encodes a predefined sequence of symbols. A temporal correlation function is computed over the first and second input signals with respect to one or more of the symbols in the predefined sequence so as to identify respective first and second correlation peaks and extract respective first and second carrier phases of the first and second input signals at the first and second correlation peaks. A phase difference between the first and second signals is measured based on a difference between the first and second carrier phases extracted at the first and second correlation peaks. Based on the measured phase difference, an angle of arrival of the output signal from the wireless transmitter is estimated.

A method for signal processing includes receiving via first and second antennas (34) respective first and second input signals in response to an output signal that is transmitted from a wireless transmitter (27, 28, 30) and encodes a predefined sequence of symbols. A temporal correlation function is computed over the first and second input signals with respect to one or more of the symbols in the predefined sequence so as to identify respective first and second correlation peaks and extract respective first and second carrier phases of the first and second input signals at the first and second correlation peaks. A phase difference between the first and second signals is measured based on a difference between the first and second carrier phases extracted at the first and second correlation peaks. Based on the measured phase difference, an angle of arrival of the output signal from the wireless transmitter is estimated. There is additionally provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method for location finding, which includes receiving radio signals transmitted between a plurality of fixed transceivers having multiple antennas at different, respective first locations and a mobile transceiver at a second location. A respective phase difference is detected between the received radio signals that are associated with each of the multiple antennas of each of the fixed transceivers. Multiple loci are computed, corresponding respectively to respective angles between each of the fixed transceivers and the mobile transceiver based on the respective phase differences. Location coordinates of the mobile transceiver are found based on the angles and the transmit locations of the transmitters by identifying an intersection of the loci as the second location of the mobile transceiver.