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METHOD FOR PROCESSING FRAME LOSS OF ULTRASONIC WAVE, MOBILE TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM
20220196815 · 2022-06-23 ·

Method for processing frame loss of an ultrasonic wave, mobile terminal and storage medium are provided. The method is applied to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes an ultrasonic receiving module and an ultrasonic proximity-calculating module. In the method, the ultrasonic receiving module receives ultrasonic data of the ultrasonic wave, and transmits the ultrasonic data to the ultrasonic proximity-calculating module. In addition, a load rate of the mobile terminal is acquired, and a frame loss rate of the ultrasonic data in the transmission process of transmitting the ultrasonic data from the ultrasonic receiving module to the ultrasonic proximity-calculating module is acquired. A parameter adjustment mode is determined based on the load rate and the frame loss rate, and system efficiency of the mobile terminal is adjusted based on the determined parameter adjustment mode, to cause the frame loss rate to be less than a target frame loss rate.

ULTRASOUND RECEIVER CIRCUITRY AND RELATED APPARATUS AND METHODS

Methods and apparatus are described for implementing a coding scheme on ultrasound signals received by a plurality of ultrasonic transducers. The coding, and subsequent decoding, may allow for multiple ultrasonic transducers to be operated in a receive mode simultaneously while still differentiating the contribution of the individual ultrasonic transducers. Improved signal characteristics may result, including improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

Target positioning device and method based on plecotus auritus double-pinna bionic sonar
11346942 · 2022-05-31 · ·

A target positioning device and method based on a plecotus auritus double-pinna bionic sonar. An echo positioning device based on bionic pinnae of a bat can determine an azimuth and an elevation of a target to locate the spatial location of the target by using echoes obtained by two array elements, resolving a problem that two array element antennas cannot locate the space coordinates. In a positioning method based on bionic pinnae of a bat according to filtering characteristics of bat ears, a method for estimating a spatial location by a neural network is used, and a pulse string estimation method is used to reduce the error of estimated angles, to obtain a precise azimuth and elevation.

Object detection device
11327173 · 2022-05-10 · ·

An object detection device includes: a transmission unit transmitting a first transmission wave; a reception unit receiving a first reception wave reflected by an object; a signal processing unit sampling a first processing target signal according to the first reception wave and acquiring a difference signal based on a difference between the first processing target signal for at least one sample at a certain detection timing, and the first processing target signal for a plurality of samples in at least one of first and second periods; a threshold setting unit setting a threshold as a comparison target with the value of the difference signal, based on variation in the values of the first processing target signal for the plurality of samples; and a detection unit detecting information about the object at the detection timing based on a comparison result between the value of the difference signal and the threshold.

COMPUTING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PROSPECTING AND ELIMINATING SURFACE-RELATED MULTIPLES IN THE BEAM DOMAIN WITH DEGHOST OPERATOR
20220137248 · 2022-05-05 ·

A computing program product and method for prospecting and eliminating surface-related multiples in the beam domain with deghost operator, are disclosed. The method and system are based on the compress-sensing theory, which decompose the common shot data into sparse shot beams, then convolve the sparse beams instead of dense traces, to construct the surface related multiples. Those constructed multiples can be either subtracted from the data domain or the image domain, and surface-related-multiple-free images, can thereafter be generated to help illuminate and interpret the targets.

METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS, CORRESPONDING CIRCUIT AND DEVICE
20220128674 · 2022-04-28 · ·

A method of operating electro-acoustical transducers such as PMUTs involves applying to the transducer an excitation signal over an excitation interval, acquiring at the transducer a ring-down signal indicative of the ring-down behavior of the transducer after the end of the excitation interval, and calculating, as a function of said ring-down signal, a resonance frequency of the electro-acoustical transducer. A bias voltage of the electro-acoustical transducer can be controlled as a function of the resonance frequency. An acoustical signal received can be transduced into an electrical reception signal and a damping parameter of the electro-acoustical transducer can be calculated as a function of the ring-down signal so that a cross-correlation reference signal can be synthesized as a function of the resonance frequency and the damping ratio of the electro-acoustical transducer. Such a cross-correlation reference signal can be used for cross-correlation with the electrical reception signal to improve the reception quality.

System and method for ultrasonic signal noise removal using a deep neural network
11719796 · 2023-08-08 · ·

The present disclosure provides a system and method for removing noise from an ultrasonic signal using a generative adversarial network (GAN). The present disclosure provides three input formats for the neural network (NN) in order to feed one-dimensional (1D) input data to the network. The system is generalizable to multiple noise sources, as it learns from different motion functions and noise types. The end-to-end system of the present disclosure is trained on raw ultrasonic signals with very little pre-processing or feature extraction.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT ESTIMATE

A method for providing an estimate of a time-of-flight between an ultrasonic signal emitted by a device and an ultrasonic echo signal returned by a target object hit by the ultrasonic signal and received at the device. The method includes acquiring the ultrasonic echo signal thereby obtaining an electric echo signal; determining a noise power of the electric echo signal; determining an envelope signal indicative of an envelope of the electric echo signal; determining a portion of the envelope signal based on at least one operative parameter, the at least one operative parameter being determined according to Particle Swarm Optimization; processing the portion of the envelope signal and the noise power of the echo ultrasonic signal according to an Unscented Kalman Filter to obtain an estimate of the envelope signal, wherein the estimate of the envelope signal is a regenerated version of the envelope signal being regenerated from the portion of the envelope signal, the processing being based on at least one Unscented Kalman Filter parameter determined according to the Particle Swarm Optimization, and providing the estimate of the time-of-flight according to the estimate of the envelope signal.

ACOUSTIC-ENVIRONMENT MISMATCH AND PROXIMITY DETECTION WITH A NOVEL SET OF ACOUSTIC RELATIVE FEATURES AND ADAPTIVE FILTERING

A method of performing distance estimation between a first recording device at a first location and a second recording device at a second location includes: estimating acoustic relative transfer function (RTF) between the first recording device and the second recording device for a sound signal, e.g., by applying an improved proportionate normalized least mean square (IPNLMS) filter; and estimating the distance between the first recording device and the second recording device based on the RTF. The at least one acoustic feature extracted from the RTF estimated between the first recording device and the second recording device includes at least one of clarity index, direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR), and reverberation time. A distributed-gradient-boosting algorithm with regression trees is used in combination with signal-to-reverberation ratio (SRR) and the at least one acoustic feature extracted from the RTF to estimate the distance between the first recording device and the second recording device.

METHOD FOR USING AN ACTIVE SONAR WITH A WIDE SPECTRAL EMISSION BAND AND SONAR SYSTEM
20210356574 · 2021-11-18 ·

A method for using an active sonar includes an acoustic antenna exhibiting a continuous bandwidth having a spectral emission width of at least two octaves and an electronic system for generating control signals for the acoustic antenna, the method comprising: dynamically selecting a plurality of distinct sonar functioning or operating modalities chosen from escort, surveillance, pursuit, dissuasion and communication, each using a different fraction of the emission bandwidth of the acoustic antenna, referred to as a channel; and using the electronic system to generate a plurality of control signals for the acoustic antenna corresponding to the selected functioning modalities, the electronic system being suitable for allowing the sonar to function according to a plurality of independent and simultaneous operating modalities. And sonar system for implementing such a method is also provided.