Intel Corporation

Intel IP Corporation

Yuval Amizur

Leor Banin

Uri Schatzberg

Nir Dvorecki

Jonathan Segev

Qinghua Li

Feng Jiang

Ofer Bar-Shalom

Shani Ben-Haim

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Gaby Prechner

Robert J Stacey

Chittabrata Ghosh

Adrian Paul Stephens

Itai Steiner

Yaniv Frishman

Yuan Zhu

Xiaogang Chen

Xintian Eddie Lin

Sreenivas Subramoney

Assaf Gurevitz

Dipan Kumar Mandal

Om Ji Omer

Shengbo Xu

Elad Eyal

Chulong Chen

Saiveena Kesaraju

Pradyumna S Singh

Biji George

Wenling Margaret Huang

Hao Chen

Chagai Fridman

Ivan Simões Gaspar

Leor Babin

For example, a processor may be configured to process point cloud (PC) radar information comprising radar detection information of a plurality of possible detections, wherein radar detection information corresponding to a possible detection of the plurality of possible detections comprises information of a plurality of radar attributes of the possible detection, wherein the processor is configured to determine a plurality of validity scores corresponding to the plurality of possible detections based on the radar detection information of the plurality of possible detections, a validity score corresponding to the possible radar detection to indicate whether it is more probable that the possible detection is a valid detection or a False-Alarm (FA) detection, wherein the processor is to output radar target information based on the plurality of validity scores corresponding to the plurality of possible detections.

Apparatus, system, and method of processing point cloud radar information

An apparatus for radar synchronization may include a local radar device configured to transmit and receive radar signals; a wireless device configured to wirelessly transmit and receive data; at least one processor operably coupled to the wireless device and the radar device, and the at least one processor configured to perform a method including obtaining local radar information regarding one or more radar pulses sent and/or received by the local radar device; and obtaining neighboring radar information associated with radar pulses sent and/or received from one or more neighboring radar devices; and updating a radar data structure using the obtained local and neighboring radar information, wherein the radar data structure comprises radar information for each of a plurality of radar pulses transmitted by the local radar device and/or the one or more neighboring radar devices.

Systems, devices and methods for synchronization

Some aspects relate to an apparatus, method and/or system of radar tracking. For example, a radar tracker may be configured to generate target tracking information corresponding to a plurality of targets in an environment of a radar device. For example, the radar tracker may include a processor configured to determine the target tracking information based on a plurality of multi-target density functions corresponding to a respective plurality of target types, and to update the plurality of multi-target density functions based on detection information corresponding to a plurality of detections in the environment. For example, the radar tracker may include an output to output the target tracking information.

Apparatus, system and method of radar tracking

According to various embodiments, a radar device is described comprising a processor configured to generate a scene comprising an object based on a plurality of receive wireless signals, generate a ground truth object parameter of the object and generate a dataset representative of the scene and a radar detector configured to determine an object parameter of the object using a machine learning algorithm and the dataset, determine an error value of the machine learning algorithm using a cost function, the object parameter, and the ground truth object parameter and adjust the machine learning algorithm values to reduce the error value.

High end imaging radar

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses systems and/or methods of Collaborative Time of Arrival (CToA). For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a CToA broadcasting wireless communication station (STA) (bSTA) to broadcast an announcement frame to announce a ranging-to-self sequence of a CToA measurement protocol; to broadcast a first ranging measurement frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the announcement frame; to broadcast a second ranging measurement frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the first ranging measurement frame; and to broadcast a Location Measurement Report (LMR) frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the second ranging measurement frame, the LMR frame including a Time of Departure (ToD) of the first ranging measurement frame.

Apparatus, system and method of collaborative time of arrival (CToA) measurement

For example, an apparatus may include a radar antenna including at least one Transmit (Tx) antenna to transmit a Tx radar signal; and a plurality of Receive (Rx) antennas to receive Rx radar signals based on the Tx radar signal, wherein a distance between a first Rx antenna of the planarity of Rx antennas and a second Rx antenna of the plurality of Rx antennas, which is adjacent to the first Rx antenna, is at least ten times a wavelength of a central frequency of the Tx radar signal.

Apparatus, system and method of communicating radar signals

For example, a processor may be configured to determine a plurality of potential targets based on radar data; and to identify one or more true targets in the plurality of potential targets by identifying a first potential target and a second potential target, which are at a same angle relative to the radar antenna; classifying the first potential target as a first true target based on a determination that a range between the first potential target and the radar antenna is shorter than a range between the second potential target and the radar antenna; and classifying the second potential target as a second true target or as a ghost target of the first true target according to a classification criterion.

Apparatus, system, and method of generating radar target information

An apparatus comprising an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas to receive a plurality of radar signals reflected by a plurality of objects responsive to a transmitted radar signal; a doppler measurement module to determine, for a first reflected radar signal of the plurality of reflected radar signals, a first doppler measurement indicating a velocity component based on a comparison of the first reflected radar signal to the transmitted radar signal; a phase offset measurement module to determine a first phase offset of the first reflected radar signal received at a first antenna of the plurality of antennas relative to a phase of the first reflected radar signal received at a reference antenna of the plurality of antennas; and a phase offset calibration module to determine, for the first antenna, a first phase offset calibration error based on the first doppler measurement and the first phase offset.

Online radar phase calibration through static environment measurements

Apparatus, system and method of collaborative time of arrival (CTOA) measurement

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses systems and/or methods of ranging measurement. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a first wireless communication station (STA) to receive from a second STA a sounding transmission for a range measurement of a range between the first STA and the second STA; to determine a channel response estimation based on the sounding transmission from the second STA; to determine a timing value based on the channel response estimation; and to transmit a feedback message to the second STA, the feedback message including the timing value.

Apparatus, system and method of ranging measurement

For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a wireless communication station (STA) to determine a plurality of uplink (UL) sounding groups of STAs; transmit at least one trigger frame to at least one UL sounding group of the plurality of UL sounding groups to trigger a measurement procedure with the UL sounding group, the trigger frame including one or more Identifiers (IDs) to identify one or more STAs of the UL sounding group; to receive one or more UL Null Data Packet (NDP) sounding frames from the one or more STAs of the UL sounding group in response to the trigger frame; to transmit a downlink (DL) NDP Announcement (NDP-A) frame to the plurality of UL sounding groups; and to transmit a DL NDP sounding frame to the plurality of UL sounding groups.

Apparatus, system and method of trigger-based ranging measurement

Embodiments of an access point (AP), a user station (STA), and a method for range estimation in a wireless network are generally described herein. For example, the AP may encode a common information field of a first trigger frame to include a trigger frame type configured to check the readiness of associated and unassociated STAs. The AP may transmit the first trigger frame to STAs and receive feedback from the STAs. The AP may further encode, based on the feedback, a common information field of a second trigger frame to include one of: a trigger frame type that solicits negotiation packets from associated and unassociated STAs using an association identifier (AID) and a pre-AID; or a trigger frame type that solicits channel sounding packets from associated and unassociated STAs using an AID and a pre-AID. The AP may further transmit the second trigger frame to the STAs.

Trigger frames for range estimation in wireless local area network (WLAN)

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Fine Timing Measurement (FTM). For example, a first wireless station may be configured to transmit an FTM request message to a second wireless station; to transmit a first Non Data Packet (NDP) to the second wireless station; to process an FTM response message from the second wireless station; and to process a second NDP from the second wireless station.

Apparatus, system and method of fine timing measurement (FTM)

Devices and methods of estimating the AoD of a STA are generally described. The STA receives comparison symbols from a first AP antenna. The comparison symbols are received prior to and after switching of transmitter chains from a first set of antennas to a second set of antennas. AoD symbols are received immediately after the comparison symbols. A phase and amplitude correction is determined based on a phase and amplitude change between the comparison symbols and the second AoD symbol corrected based thereon. The AoD is subsequently estimated based on the symbol measurements.

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Yuval Amizur