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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2018
Applicants:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Pu Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);

Philip Orlik, Cambridge, MA (US);

Kota Sadamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Wataru Tsujita, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 5/00 (2006.01); B66B 1/28 (2006.01); G01D 5/30 (2006.01); B66B 1/34 (2006.01); G01D 5/347 (2006.01); G01D 5/244 (2006.01); G01P 3/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/305 (2013.01); B66B 1/28 (2013.01); B66B 1/3492 (2013.01); B66B 5/0018 (2013.01); G01D 5/24409 (2013.01); G01D 5/24428 (2013.01); G01D 5/34746 (2013.01); G01P 3/48 (2013.01);
Abstract

An encoder including an emitter to emit a waveform to a scene including a structure. A receiver to receive the waveform reflected from the scene and to measure phases of the received waveform for a period of time. A memory to store a signal model relating phase measurements of the received waveform with phase parameters, and to store a state model relating the phase parameters with a state of the encoder. Wherein the signal model includes a motion-induced polynomial phase signal (PPS) component and a sinusoidal frequency modulated (FM) component. Wherein the PPS component is a polynomial function of the phase parameters, and wherein the FM component is a sinusoidal function of the phase parameters. A processor to determine the phase parameters using non-linear mapping of the phase measurements on the signal model and to determine the state of the encoder by submitting the phase parameters into the state model.


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