Google Inc.

Andrew William Goldenson

Anthony Michael Fadell

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Nicholas Unger Webb

Matthew Lee Rogers

John Benjamin Filson

Daniel Adam Warren

Michael D Dixon

Dongeek Shin

Yoky Matsuoka

Anurag Gupta

Dietrich Ho

David Hendler Sloo

Fred Bould

William Raeming Dong

Sophie Le Guen

Mathias W Schmidt

Jeffery Theodore Lee

Shigefumi Honjo

Ian C Smith

Edwin H Satterthwaite, Jr

Lawrence F Heyl

Eric Marschalkowski

Brian Mitchell Silverstein

Eden Sherry

Tyler Moore

Yash Modi

Eric B Daniels

Maj Isabelle Olsson

Sung Kyun Bai

Justin Richard Wodrich

Mark Kraz

Lauren Von Dehsen

Amber Luttmann Volmering

Lawrence Chang

Nina F Shih

Julia R Deluliis

Steven Clark

Ben Manuto

Samuel W Kortz

Aj Minich

Mikko Pekka Sannala

Dongkyu Lee

Ranhee Chung

Carlos Urrutia

Jake Garrison

Eli Sangha

Sathya Kurcharlapati

Jeffrey Yu

Ajay Kannan

Nick Webb

Chikezie Ejiasi

Morakinyo John Aina

Prathik Muppidi

Eyal Ron

Marci Meingast

Ashton Udall

Jung Ook Hong

Tony Fadell

David Carl Janssens

Julia Deiuliis

Reena Singhal Lee

Adam Cutbill

Ken Mixter

Desmond Chik

Edwin H Satterthwaite

Ben Filson

Jeff Lee

Lawrence Frederick Heyl

Logan Schneider

Shiney Joseph Rossi

Various arrangements for monitoring for contactless human interactions and health using a single radar transmission modulation mode are provided. Radar chirps may be output by a radar sensor operating in a burst mode. The burst mode radar data stream may be monitored for a contactless human interaction performed by an active user. The burst mode radar data stream may be converted to a virtual continuous mode radar data stream. Health monitoring of an inactive user may be performed using the virtual continuous mode radar data stream.

Smart home device using a single radar transmission mode for activity recognition of active users and vital sign monitoring of inactive users

The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for determining locations of an electronic device. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes obtaining device identification information for the electronic device; broadcasting a request based on the device identification information that the electronic device be enabled to transmit or reflect location information using a radar technique; receiving a signal from the electronic device, the signal indicating a location of the electronic device using a radar technique; and determining the location of the electronic device based on the received signal.

Systems, methods, and devices for utilizing radar with smart devices

Various devices, systems and methods for performing contactless monitoring of the sleep of multiple users over a same time period are presented herein. Clustering may be performed based on data received from a radar sensor. Based on the clustering performed on the data received from the radar sensor, a determination may be made that two users are present within the region. In response to determining that two users are present, a midpoint location may be calculated between the clusters. A first portion of the data may be mapped to a first user and a second portion of the data may be mapped to a second user based on the calculated midpoint. Separate sleep analyses may be performed for the first user and the second user.

Contactless sleep detection and disturbance attribution for multiple users

Various systems, devices, and methods for contactless sleep tracking are presented. Based on data received from a contactless sensor, such as a radar sensor, determine that a user has entered a sleep state. A transition time may be determined at which the user transitions from the sleep state to an awake state. An environmental event, based on data received from an environmental sensor, may be identified as occurring within a time period of the transition time. The user waking may be attributed to the environmental event based on the environmental event occurring within the time period of the transition time. An indication of the attributed environmental event as a cause of the user waking may be output.

Contactless sleep detection and disturbance attribution

Various arrangements for performing an initial setup process of a sleep tracking device are presented. User input may be received that requests a sleep tracking setup process be performed. In response to the user input, a detection process may be performed based on data received from the radar sensor to determine whether a user is present and static. In response to the detection process determining that the user is present and static, a consistency analysis may be performed over a time period to assess a duration of time that the user is present and static. Based on the consistency analysis, sleep tracking may be activated such that when the user is detected in bed via the radar sensor, the user's sleep is tracked.

Initializing sleep tracking on a contactless health tracking device

Various devices, systems and methods for performing targeted sleep tracking are presented herein. Multiple digital radar data streams from multiple antennas may be received. A direction optimization process may be performed to determine a first weighting and a second weighting. The first weighting may be applied to a first digital radar data stream. The second weighting may be applied to a second digital radar data stream. The weighted first digital radar data stream and the weighted second digital radar data stream may be combined to create a first directionally-targeted radar data stream. A sleep analysis can be performed based on the first directionally-targeted radar data stream. Sleep data may be output for a user based on the performed sleep analysis.

Precision sleep tracking using a contactless sleep tracking device

Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.

Thermostat control using touch sensor gesture based input

Methods, devices, and systems for contactless cough detection and attribution are presented herein. Audio data may be received using a microphone. A cough may be identified as having occurred based on the received audio data. Radar data may be received indicative of reflected radio waves from a radar sensor. A state analysis process may be performed using the received radar data. The detected cough may be attributed to a particular user based at least in part on the state analysis process performed using the radar data.

Contactless cough detection and attribution

Systems and techniques are provided for presence and directional motion detection. Signals may be received from a sensor positioned in a structure. An indication of directional motion may be generated based on the signals from the sensor. The indication of directional motion may be generated without using signals from additional sensors. A control signal for a device in the structure may be generated in response to the indication of directional motion. The control signal may be sent to the device in the structure to be implemented by the device.

Presence and directional motion detection

The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for determining locations of a plurality of electronic devices within a home. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes: (1) obtaining device identification information for a plurality of electronic devices; (2) broadcasting, via a standard wireless communication protocol, a request based on the device identification information that a particular electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices be enabled to transmit or reflect location information using a radar technique; (3) receiving a signal from the particular electronic device, the signal indicating a location of the particular electronic device using a radar technique; and (4) determining the location of the particular electronic device based on the received signal.

The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for utilizing radar in smart devices. In one aspect, an electronic device includes: (1) circuit boards; (2) a housing encasing the circuit boards; (3) a communications module coupled to the circuit boards, including one or more antennas and configured for communicating with remote devices; (4) a radar module coupled to the circuit boards, configured for generating radar data for a home environment and including: (a) low power radar transmitters; and (b) radar receivers; (5) one or more processors mounted to one of the circuit boards, the processors configured to: (a) govern operation of the communications module and the radar module; (b) determine location and/or movement of detected objects in the home environment; and (c) detect anomalies associated with the detected objects; and (6) a power source coupled to the processors, the communications module, and the radar module.

Hazardous or dangerous conditions may be monitored. A mode may be set to a state indicative of the condition being present. It may then be determined that the hazardous or dangerous condition has eased. An indication of the hazardous or dangerous condition easing may be output in response to the determination. Such an indication may be output as synthesized speech.

Smart-home device providing follow up communications to condition detection events

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Andrew William Goldenson