Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090209278 | ACCESS TERMINAL BATTERY LIFE THROUGH SEARCH RATE CONTROL - The method and apparatus as described are directed toward techniques and mechanisms to improve access terminal battery life through search rate control. Controlling the rate at which access terminals search for alternate networks in a cell, and more particularly reducing unnecessary attempts, significantly increases the battery life of the access terminal. | 08-20-2009 |
20090258658 | Location Services Based on Positioned Wireless Measurement Reports - Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in a wireless signaling environment to provide certain location services. The location services may, for example, be based at least in part on positioning information associated with positioned wireless signaling measurements associated with wireless terminals. The location services may comprise location using signal pattern matching, location using observed timing differences, location using fine time assistance, location of significant network events and location distribution of terminals over a certain coverage area. | 10-15-2009 |
20110090081 | MAPPING WIRELESS SIGNALS WITH MOTION SENSORS - A displacement device for mapping wireless signal fingerprints includes motion sensors and at least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) sensor and a round trip time (RTT) sensor. The motion sensors may include a pedometer and one or more sensors to receive turn information. The start position of the displacement device is initialized and as the displacement device is moved through an environment, the position of each measurement location is determined using the initialized position and data from the motion sensors. The measurement position along with the RSSI and/or RTT measurement is stored in a database, from which a map can be generated. The position of the access point may be determined using the RSSI measurement or RTT measurement. Additionally, accumulated errors in the measurement position may be monitored and when greater than a threshold, a user may be prompted to reinitialize the position of the displacement device. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106474 | ACCURATE MAGNETIC COMPASS IN MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods and apparatus are described herein for calibration and correction of non-constant sensor errors, and in particular non-constant compass errors, that are based in part on changing software and hardware modes of a host device. The non-constant errors induced in the sensor by each mode and combination of modes is determined in a calibration that may be determined during pre-production testing of one or more host devices. The calibration results can be incorporated into software and/or hardware of the host device. During normal operation, a sensor correction can be applied to sensor measurements based in part on the active mode or combination of modes. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106477 | CALIBRATING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SENSOR FOR OFFSET, SENSITIVITY, AND NON-ORTHOGONALITY - A multi-dimensional sensor, a magnetometer or accelerometer, is calibrated based on the raw data provided by the sensor. Raw data is collected and may be used to generate ellipse or ellipsoid parameters, for a two-dimensional or three-dimensional sensor, respectively. An offset calibration factor is calculated based on the raw data, e.g., the determined ellipse or ellipsoid parameters. A sensitivity calibration factor is then calculated based on the offset calibration factor and the raw data. A non-orthogonality calibration factor can then be calculated based on the calculated offset and sensitivity calibration factors. Using the offset, sensitivity and non-orthogonality calibration factors, the raw data can be corrected to produce calibrated data. | 05-05-2011 |
20110117924 | POSITION DETERMINATION USING A WIRELESS SIGNAL - A mobile station determines its position using measured parameters of a wireless signal to improve a satellite positioning system (SPS) enhanced dead reckoning based position estimate. The mobile station uses SPS enhanced dead reckoning to estimate a current position. The mobile station receives wireless signals and measures, e.g., received signal strength and/or round trip time, which is compared to a database to derive a wireless signal based position estimate. The SPS enhanced dead reckoning position estimate and the wireless signal based position estimate may then be fused using corresponding confidence levels. The database may be generated and stored in the mobile station. In another embodiment, the database is generated and stored on an online server that may be accessed by mobile stations. | 05-19-2011 |
20120296603 | SENSOR ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT WITH RESPECT TO PEDESTRIAN MOTION DIRECTION - Systems and methods are described for measuring orientation of sensors associated with a mobile device with respect to pedestrian motion of a user of the mobile device. An example technique described herein includes obtaining acceleration information associated with the mobile device, partitioning the acceleration information according to respective detected pedestrian steps of the user, identifying a forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device based on the acceleration information and the detected pedestrian steps, and computing a misalignment angle between the forward motion direction of the user of the mobile device and an orientation of the mobile device. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006573 | REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OR ERROR OF DIGITAL COMPASS - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for reducing power consumption or error of a digital compass. | 01-03-2013 |
20130046505 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USE IN CLASSIFYING A MOTION STATE OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in a mobile device to establish an orientation invariant reference frame based, at least in part, on measurement values from a three-dimensional accelerometer fixed to the mobile device; transform subsequent inertial sensor measurements to the reference frame; and classify a motion state of the mobile device relative to the reference frame based, at least in part, on the transformed inertial sensor measurements. | 02-21-2013 |
20130063589 | RESOLVING HOMOGRAPHY DECOMPOSITION AMBIGUITY BASED ON ORIENTATION SENSORS - A homography between two captured images of a planar object is decomposed into at least one possible solution, and typically at least two ambiguous solutions. The ambiguity between the two solutions is removed, or a single solution validated, using measurements from orientation sensors. The measurements from orientation sensors may be used by comparing at least one of the yaw, pitch, and/or roll angles derived from a relative rotation matrix for the one or more solutions to a corresponding at least one of the yaw, pitch, and/or roll angles derived from the measurements from the orientation sensors. | 03-14-2013 |
20130117769 | SENSOR API FRAMEWORK FOR CLOUD BASED APPLICATIONS - An apparatus and method for a framework exposing an API (application programming interface) to web-based server applications on the internet or in the cloud is presented. The API allows server applications to retrieve sensor data from a mobile device via a low-power sensor core processor on a mobile device. This API eliminates effort and cost associated with developing and promoting a new mobile device client application. The API framework includes APIs that web-based application may use to fetch sensor data from one or more particular sensors on the mobile device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130335554 | ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION OF FRAME TIME STAMP LATENCY - A mobile device compensates for a lack of a time stamp when an image frame is captured by estimating the frame time stamp latency. The mobile device captures images frames and time stamps each frame after the frame time stamp latency. A vision based rotation is determined from a pair of frames. A plurality of inertia based rotations is measured using time stamped signals from an inertial sensor in the mobile device based on different possible delays between time stamping each frame and time stamps on the signals from the inertial sensors. The determined rotations may be about the camera's optical axis. The vision based rotation is compared to the plurality of inertia based rotations to determine an estimated frame time stamp latency, which is used to correct the frame time stamp latency when time stamping subsequently captured frames. A median latency determined using different frame pairs may be used. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335562 | ADAPTIVE SWITCHING BETWEEN VISION AIDED INS AND VISION ONLY POSE - A mobile device tracks a relative pose between a camera and a target using Vision aided Inertial Navigation System (VINS), that includes a contribution from inertial sensor measurements and a contribution from vision based measurements. When the mobile device detects movement of the target, the contribution from the inertial sensor measurements to track the relative pose between the camera and the target is reduced or eliminated. Movement of the target may be detected by comparing vision only measurements from captured images and inertia based measurements to determine if a discrepancy exists indicating that the target has moved. Additionally or alternatively, movement of the target may be detected using projections of feature vectors extracted from captured images. | 12-19-2013 |
20140064601 | ROBOT CONTROL INFORMATION - Vision based tracking of a mobile device is used to remotely control a robot. For example, images captured by a mobile device, e.g., in a video stream, are used for vision based tracking of the pose of the mobile device with respect to the imaged environment. Changes in the pose of the mobile device, i.e., the trajectory of the mobile device, are determined and converted to a desired motion of a robot that is remote from the mobile device. The robot is then controlled to move with the desired motion. The trajectory of the mobile device is converted to the desired motion of the robot using a transformation generated by inverting a hand-eye calibration transformation. | 03-06-2014 |
20140104445 | GYROSCOPE CONDITIONING AND GYRO-CAMERA ALIGNMENT - An apparatus and method for generating parameters for an application, such as an augmented reality application (AR app), using camera pose and gyroscope rotation is disclosed. The parameters are estimated based on pose from images and rotation from a gyroscope (e.g., using least-squares estimation with QR factorization or a Kalman filter). The parameters indicate rotation, scale and/or non-orthogonality parameters and optionally gyroscope bias errors. In addition, the scale and non-orthogonality parameters may be used for conditioning raw gyroscope measurements to compensate for scale and non-orthogonality. | 04-17-2014 |
20140126771 | ADAPTIVE SCALE AND/OR GRAVITY ESTIMATION - Systems, apparatus and methods for estimating gravity and/or scale in a mobile device are presented. A difference between an image-based pose and an inertia-based pose is using to update the estimations of gravity and/or scale. The image-based pose is computed from two poses and is scaled with the estimation of scale prior to the difference. The inertia-based pose is computed from accelerometer measurements, which are adjusted by the estimation for gravity. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129170 | METHOD FOR ALIGNING A MOBILE DEVICE SURFACE WITH THE COORDINATE SYSTEM OF A SENSOR - An accelerometer in a mobile device is calibrated by taking multiple measurements of acceleration vectors when the mobile device is held stationary at different orientations with respect to a plane normal. A circle is calculated that fits respective tips of measured acceleration vectors in the accelerometer coordinate system. The radius of the circle and the lengths of the measured acceleration vectors are used to calculate a rotation angle for aligning the accelerometer coordinate system with the mobile device surface. A gyroscope in the mobile device is calibrated by taking multiple measurements of a rotation axis when the mobile device is rotated at different rates with respect to the rotation axis. A line is calculated that fits the measurements. The angle between the line and an axis of the gyroscope coordinate system is used to align the gyroscope coordinate system with the mobile device surface. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129176 | ESTIMATING THE GRAVITY VECTOR IN A WORLD COORDINATE SYSTEM USING AN ACCELEROMETER IN A MOBILE DEVICE - An accelerometer located within a mobile device is used to estimate a gravity vector on a target plane in a world coordinate system. The accelerometer makes multiple measurements, each measurement being taken when the mobile device is held stationary on the target plane and a surface of the mobile device faces and is in contact with a planar portion of the target plane. An average of the measurements is calculated. A rotational transformation between an accelerometer coordinate system and a mobile device's coordinate system is retrieved from a memory in the mobile device, where the mobile device's coordinate system is aligned with the surface of the mobile device. The rotational transformation is applied to the averaged measurements to obtain an estimated gravity vector in a world coordinate system defined by the target plane. | 05-08-2014 |
20140176418 | DISPLAY OF SEPARATE COMPUTER VISION BASED POSE AND INERTIAL SENSOR BASED POSE - A mobile device determines a vision based pose using images captured by a camera and determines a sensor based pose using data from inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. The vision based pose and sensor based pose are used separately in a visualization application, which displays separate graphics for the different poses. For example, the visualization application may be used to calibrate the inertial sensors, where the visualization application displays a graphic based on the vision based pose and a graphic based on the sensor based pose and prompts a user to move the mobile device in a specific direction with the displayed graphics to accelerate convergence of the calibration of the inertial sensors. Alternatively, the visualization application may be a motion based game or a photography application that displays separate graphics using the vision based pose and the sensor based pose. | 06-26-2014 |
20150092048 | Off-Target Tracking Using Feature Aiding in the Context of Inertial Navigation - A Visual Inertial Tracker (VIT), such as a Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) system based on an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) framework (EKF-SLAM) can provide drift correction in calculations of a pose (translation and orientation) of a mobile device by obtaining location information regarding a target, obtaining an image of the target, estimating, from the image of the target, measurements relating to a pose of the mobile device based on the image and location information, and correcting a pose determination of the mobile device using an EKF, based, at least in part, on the measurements relating to the pose of the mobile device. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092985 | UPDATING FILTER PARAMETERS OF A SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for estimating one or more parameters in a system. A device obtains measurements corresponding to a first set of features and a second set of features. The device estimates the parameters using an extended Kalman filter based on the measurements corresponding to the first set of features and the second set of features. The measurements corresponding to the first set of features are used to update the one or more parameters, and information corresponding to the first set of features. The measurements corresponding to the second set of features are used to update the parameters and uncertainty corresponding to the parameter. In on example, information corresponding to the second set of features is not updated during the estimating. Moreover, the parameters are estimated without projecting the information corresponding to the second set of features into a null-space. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094089 | HYBRID PHOTO NAVIGATION AND MAPPING - Embodiments disclosed obtain a plurality of measurement sets from a plurality of sensors in conjunction with the capture of a sequence of exterior and interior images of a structure while traversing locations in and around the structure. Each measurement set may be associated with at least one image. An external structural envelope of the structure is determined from exterior images of the structure and the corresponding outdoor trajectory of a UE. The position and orientation of the structure and the structural envelope is determined in absolute coordinates. Further, an indoor map of the structure in absolute coordinates may be obtained based on interior images of the structure, a structural envelope in absolute coordinates, and measurements associated with the indoor trajectory of the UE during traversal of the indoor area to capture the interior images. | 04-02-2015 |
20150094952 | EXTERIOR HYBRID PHOTO MAPPING - Embodiments disclosed pertain to the use of user equipment (UE) for the generation of a 3D exterior envelope of a structure based on captured images and a measurement set associated with each captured image. In some embodiments, a sequence of exterior images of a structure is captured and a corresponding measurement set comprising Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) measurements, wireless measurements (including Global Navigation Satellite (GNSS) measurements) and/or other non-wireless sensor measurements may be obtained concurrently. A closed-loop trajectory of the UE in global coordinates may be determined and a 3D structural envelope of the structure may be obtained based on the closed loop trajectory and feature points in a subset of images selected from the sequence of exterior images of the structure. | 04-02-2015 |
20150319577 | POSITION DETERMINATION USING A WIRELESS SIGNAL - A mobile station determines its position using measured parameters of a wireless signal to improve a satellite positioning system (SPS) enhanced dead reckoning based position estimate. The mobile station uses SPS enhanced dead reckoning to estimate a current position. The mobile station receives wireless signals from a plurality of access points and determines the round trip time. The estimated position of the mobile station is improved based on estimated positions of the plurality of access points and wireless signal based distance estimates from the plurality of access points that are determined using a channel model and the round trip time for the wireless signals. | 11-05-2015 |
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20130181595 | Plasma Cell for Providing VUV Filtering in a Laser-Sustained Plasma Light Source - A plasma cell for use in a laser-sustained plasma light source includes a plasma bulb configured to contain a gas suitable for generating a plasma, the plasma bulb being substantially transparent to light emanating from a pump laser configured to sustain the plasma within the plasma bulb, wherein the plasma bulb is substantially transparent to at least a portion of a collectable spectral region of illumination emitted by the plasma, and a filter layer disposed on an interior surface of the plasma bulb, the filter layer configured to block a selected spectral region of the illumination emitted by the plasma. | 07-18-2013 |
20130342825 | DIODE LASER BASED BROAD BAND LIGHT SOURCES FOR WAFER INSPECTION TOOLS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for performing inspection or metrology of a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a plurality of laser diode arrays that are configurable to provide an incident beam having different wavelength ranges. The apparatus also includes optics for directing the incident beam towards the sample, a detector for generating an output signal or image based on an output beam emanating from the sample in response to the incident beam, and optics for directing the output beam towards the detector. The apparatus further includes a controller for configuring the laser diode arrays to provide the incident beam at the different wavelength ranges and detecting defects or characterizing a feature of the sample based on the output signal or image. | 12-26-2013 |
20140060792 | Method and Apparatus to Reduce Thermal Stress by Regulation and Control of Lamp Operating Temperatures - A fluid input manifold distributes injected fluid around the body of a bulb to cool the bulb below a threshold. The injected fluid also distributes heat more evenly along the surface of the bulb to reduce thermal stress. The fluid input manifold may comprise one or more airfoils to direct a substantially laminar fluid flow along the surface of the bulb or it may comprise a plurality of fluid injection nozzles oriented to produce a substantially laminar fluid flow. An output portion may be configured to facilitate fluid flow along the surface of the bulb by allowing injected fluid to easily escape after absorbing heat from the bulb or by applying negative pressure to actively draw injected fluid along the surface of the bulb and away. | 03-06-2014 |
20140168740 | FLEXIBLE OPTICAL APERTURE MECHANISMS - A system for providing flexible optical aperture shapes in an optical inspection system (e.g., an optical wafer inspection system) is described. The system includes one or more mechanisms for providing multiple optical aperture shapes along an optical beam path in the optical wafer inspection system. The multiple optical apertures shapes are stacked or overlapped to combine the shapes and form a single combined optical aperture shape along the optical beam path. | 06-19-2014 |
20150015874 | WAFER AND RETICLE INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING ILLUMINATION PUPIL CONFIGURATIONS - In an optical inspection tool, an illumination aperture is opened at each of a plurality of aperture positions of an illumination pupil area one at a time across the illumination pupil area. For each aperture opening position, an incident beam is directed towards the illumination pupil area so as to selectively pass a corresponding ray bundle of the illumination beam at a corresponding set of one or more incident angles towards the sample and an output beam, which is emitted from the sample in response to the corresponding ray bundle of the incident beam impinging on the sample at the corresponding set of one or more incident angles, is detected. A defect detection characteristic for each aperture position is determined based on the output beam detected for each aperture position. An optimum aperture configuration is determined based on the determined defect detection characteristic for each aperture position. | 01-15-2015 |
20150042979 | DIODE LASER BASED BROAD BAND LIGHT SOURCES FOR WAFER INSPECTION TOOLS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for performing inspection or metrology of a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a plurality of laser diode arrays that are configurable to provide an incident beam having different wavelength ranges. At least some of the laser diode arrays form two dimensional stacks that have different wavelength ranges from each other. The apparatus also includes optics for directing the incident beam towards the sample, a detector for generating an output signal or image based on an output beam emanating from the sample in response to the incident beam, and optics for directing the output beam towards the detector. The apparatus further includes a controller for configuring the laser diode arrays to provide the incident beam at the different wavelength ranges and detecting defects or characterizing a feature of the sample based on the output signal or image. | 02-12-2015 |