Giovanni Vannucci

6381464, Apr 30, 2002

Dec 16, 1999

09/464618

Giovanni Vannucci - Middletown NJ

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04Q 720

455456, 455 676, 342457

Methods and apparatus for estimating mobile location in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations. In a base-to-mobile embodiment, the system base stations periodically transmit location signals to mobile stations during a system-wide blank-and-burst interval during which normal wireless communications are suspended. The interval is made sufficiently short that disruption to normal operation is negligible. Each base station transmits a distinct location signal which can be identified by a mobile station as associated with a particular base station. A given mobile station for which a location estimate is to be generated detects location signals from at least three of the system base stations. The detected location signals are used to generate differential path delay measurements which may be further processed in accordance with a triangulation technique to generate an estimate of mobile location. The suspension of normal wireless communications permits the location signals to occupy a broad bandwidth corresponding to multiple voice data channels, such that high resolution differential path delay measurements can be generated.

6778885, Aug 17, 2004

Jul 20, 2001

09/910365

Parag Agashe - San Diego CA
Giovanni Vannucci - Red Bank NJ

Qualcomm Inc. - San Diego CA
Lucent Technologies

G06F 700

701 13, 701226, 34235702, 342358, 455 132

Apparatuses, methods, and systems of transferring correction information are described. In certain implementations, correction factors relate to stored or calculated values, and a correspondence between a correction factor and a value is indicated by a predetermined order of the correction factors. In one application, a method according to an embodiment of the invention is used to transmit correction factors relating to the positions of physical objects. For example, such a method may be used to transmit correction factors relating to the positions of space vehicles within a Global Positioning Satellite (âGPSâ) system.

6791466, Sep 14, 2004

Sep 25, 1995

08/534808

Chi-Hwey Chang - Lincoln Park NJ
Yoshitaka Utsumi - Odawara, JP
Giovanni Vannucci - Middletown NJ
Stephen A. Wilkus - Lincroft NJ
Gregory A. Wright - Colts Neck NJ

NCR Corporation - Dayton OH

H04Q 100

34082521, 370511

An apparatus for providing wireless transmission of information in electronic display systems and methods of using the same. In particular, the present invention is directed to an air interface and protocol to facilitate wireless transmission of information from a communication base station or other controlling device to individual electronic display modules.

6907252, Jun 14, 2005

Jul 3, 2002

10/189033

Constantinos B Papadias - Westfield NJ, US
Manolis Tsangaris - Piraues, GR
Giovanni Vannucci - Middletown NJ, US

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04Q007/20

4554561

A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of mobile terminals such as cell phones that are in the vicinity of one or more selected locations. The detected devices are identified and such information may then be provided to an application for its use. Specifically, a detector is installed at a selected location or locations for monitoring the transmissions of mobile terminals that come nearby. When such a transmission is detected, information from the base station with which the mobile terminal is communicating provides identification data, and based on timing relationships between the detected transmission and the data received from the base station, the detected mobile terminal may be specifically identified.

6975853, Dec 13, 2005

Feb 11, 2003

10/364146

George Fang - Cambridge MA, US
Giovanni Vannucci - Red Bank NJ, US
Jinyun Zhang - New Providence NJ, US
Tommy C. Poon - Murray Hill NJ, US

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Inc. - Cambridge MA

H04M001/66
H04M001/68
H04M003/16

455411, 4555561, 4555691, 455410, 455559, 455558

A personal identification device for use with a mobile telephone in a wireless communications network includes an connector mated to a connector of the mobile telephone normally used for a hands-free kit or a data port. In a typical application, a user of the mobile telephone calls a server. The server sends a first telephone signal to the personal identification device. The device responds with a second telephone signal, designed to simulate voice or data activity, depending on the type of connector that is used. The simulated voice activity is structured in such a way as to cause the radio signal transmitted by the mobile telephone to go on and off in response to the simulated voice activity. A nearby receiver can detect the on/off pattern. The on/off pattern is designed to convey a unique identification code.

7072587, Jul 4, 2006

Apr 19, 2002

10/126761

Paul H. Dietz - Hopkinton MA, US
William S. Yerazunis - Acton MA, US
Darren L. Leigh - Belmont MA, US
Giovanni Vannucci - Red Bank NJ, US

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. - Cambridge MA

H04B 10/00

398138, 398135

An optical communications transceiver includes an LED coupled in series with a resistor. A microprocessor has one I/O pin connected to the LED. In a first mode or transmit mode, the LED is periodically driving in forward bias to emit light to transmit data. In a second or receive mode, the LED is periodically not driven in reverse bias, e. g. , reverse bias or zero bias. Then, the LED is allowed to change charge of the capacitance of the LED's junction using a photo-current. The change in charge is measured using a timer. When the change in charge exceeds a predetermined threshold, input light is sensed. Thus, the LED can be used to receive data in the second mode.

7349365, Mar 25, 2008

Oct 22, 2002

10/277709

Giovanni Vannucci - Red Bank NJ, US

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. - Cambridge MA

H04Q 7/00
H04B 7/216

370328, 370335, 370441

A method and system communicates messages using a radio signal. The radio signal is transmitted according to an air interface standard for wireless radio communications. A baseband envelope of the transmitted radio signal is modulated while maintaining compliance with the air interface standard to encode a message in the radio signal. A receiver demodulates the baseband envelope to decode the message. The transmitter and receiver can be part of a cellular telephone network including mobile telephones and base stations.

7628074, Dec 8, 2009

Mar 15, 2007

11/686507

Giovanni Vannucci - Red Bank NJ, US
Wojciech Matusik - Lexington MA, US
Daniel Vlasic - Cambridge MA, US

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. - Cambridge MA

G01H 5/00

73597, 738654

A system captures motion data in natural environments. A set of sources and a set of sensors are arranged on an object such as a human body. Each source emits ultrasonic signals detected by the sensors. A driver module is also arranged on the body. The driver module generates the ultrasonic signals for the set of sources and timing signals for the set of sensors. Distances between the set of sources and the set of sensors are measured based on a time of flight of the ultrasonic signals. Three dimensional locations of the set of sources and the set of sensors are determined from the distances. The distance measurements are refined using inertial components that provide rotation rates and accelerations. All these measurements together yield poses or configurations of the object.