Ultrasonic sensing systems and associated methods provide side-lobe reduction to improve the acoustic detection of small objects, the signature envelope peaks of which can otherwise be obscured by subsidiary envelope peaks in side lobes that result from residual correlation between a signal received by an ultrasonic transducer and a template signal corresponding to a burst signal emitted by the ultrasonic transducer. A shaping signal by which the amplitude of the burst signal can be varied with respect to time is taken into account in the template signal, and correlator circuitry correlates a signal derived from the ultrasonic transducer with the template signal to produce a correlated output exhibiting the desired side-lobe reduction. The distance from the transducer to the detected object can thereby be determined with enhanced accuracy and responsiveness.

In an ultrasonic detection system that uses frequency-modulation or phase-modulation coding to distinguish emitted bursts from multiple transducers, a receiver associated with a transducer uses peak search, peak buffer, and peak rank stages in one or more receiver signal processing paths to identify valid received ultrasonic signal envelope peaks in correlator outputs. The peak rank stage can support different modes respectively designed to handle one code, two or more codes, or two or more codes with support for Doppler frequency shift detection. Valid peak information (e.g., amplitude and time) can be reported to a central controller and/or stored locally in a fusion stage to generate more intelligent information for targets or obstacles using peaks from multiple bursts.

One aspect of the invention relates to method and system for increasing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and suppressing range lobe artifacts in ultrasound imaging or sensing, active sonar, LIDAR, and/or radar. The method includes forming a coded excitation waveform with a chip waveform and a binary sequence; transmitting the coded excitation waveform into a medium of interest, and receiving signals generated from the medium of interest responsive to excitation of the coded excitation waveform; and performing pulse compression on the received signals using a decoding filter to increase the SNR and suppress the range lobe artifacts.

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.

Smart glasses including a first audio device, a second audio device, a frame including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the second portion and the third portion are moveable in relation to the first portion, the second portion including the first audio device and the third portion including the second audio device, and a processor configured to cause the first audio device to generate a signal, receive the signal via the second audio device, estimate a distance based on the received signal, and determine a configuration of the frame.

The present application provides a ranging method, apparatus and system, an intelligent device and a computer-readable storage medium. The ranging method is applicable to a first device, and the ranging method includes: transmitting a first acoustic positioning signal; receiving the first acoustic positioning signal. Regardless of whether the clock timestamps between devices are synchronized and whether the response time of software processing is different, the present application can achieve high positioning accuracy.

An object detection device includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission wave; a reception unit configured to receive a reception wave, which is the transmission wave reflected by and returned from an object, until a predetermined measurement time elapses after the transmission wave is transmitted; a detection unit configured to detect the object based on distance information based on the reception wave received by the reception unit; and a reception control unit configured to set the measurement time after the detection of the object to be shorter than the measurement time after a non-detection of the object.

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.

A transducer system with a transducer and circuitry for applying a waveform to excite the transducer during an excitation period. The applying circuitry also comprises circuitry for changing a frequency of the waveform during the excitation period.

An apparatus including a uniplanar sonar head. The uniplanar sonar head includes at least one probe element being configured to output cooperatively a unipolar spiral probe signal. The uniplanar sonar head includes at least one reference element being configured to output a circular reference signal. The uniplanar sonar head includes an acoustic receiver comprising an input channel being configured to receive a reflected unipolar spiral probe signal and a reflected circular reference signal. The apparatus includes a plurality of amplifiers communicating with the at least one probe element, the at least one reference element, and the acoustic receiver. The apparatus includes a processor cooperating with the plurality of amplifiers. The apparatus includes a computer-readable medium storing instructions including a target-detection method, which includes determining an angular position of the target based on the plurality of acoustic echoes received via the input channel.