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8085389 |
Optical sensor operating on the transit time principle
The present invention relates to an optical sensor based on the transit time principle, comprising a light source for the emission of emergent light pulses into an observed region, comprising a...
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8031332 |
Layout method
The location of one of a series of construction points at an indoor construction site is established using a robotic total station and a handheld device. Construction data is inputted into the...
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8022343 |
Aiming system with integrated deviation meter
According to the invention, the system comprises an infrared detector (7) for alternately generating images (5′) of sources of light (5) in the near infrared emitted by a missile flying towards a t...
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7982866 |
Calibration of a surveying instrument
A method for calibrating a surveying instrument is disclosed, the survey instrument comprising a base element and a camera with an image sensor, the camera being rotatable about a vertical axis...
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7969558 |
High definition lidar system
A lidar-based 3-D point cloud measuring system and method. An example system includes a base, a housing, a plurality of photon transmitters and photon detectors contained within the housing, a...
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7847922 |
Method and an apparatus for capturing three-dimensional data of an area of space
In a method for capturing three-dimensional data of an area of space, a plurality of measuring beams (Ls) are sent out to a plurality of measuring points. A detector (50) receives a plurality of...
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RE41769 |
Single multiple aperture (“smart”) lens system
One version of the invention relates to a laser detection system that includes a ball lens and a plurality of fiber optic bundles placed adjacent the ball lens so that incoming light rays are...
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7764365 |
Combination laser detector and global navigation satellite receiver system
A combination laser detector and global navigation satellite antenna has a laser detector positioned in a known and fixed relationship with the nominal phase center of an included global navigation...
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7760334 |
Optical multi-discriminant LADAR
The present invention, in its various aspects and embodiments comprises a optical multi-discriminant (“OMD”) LADAR technique. The technique includes a method, comprising: receiving a dichroic, pol...
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7733469 |
Image null-balance system with multisector-cell direction sensing
A light beam is detected/localized by multisector detector—quad-cell, or 5+ sectors handling plural beams. Preferences: Beams focus to diffraction limit on the detector, which reveals origin d...
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7697126 |
Three dimensional spatial imaging system and method
A three dimensional spatial imaging system (10) for generating a three dimensional model of a scanned space includes: a laser rangefinder (42) that obtains spatial data by measuring distances to a...
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7697125 |
Scanning ladar with adjustable operational parameters
A LADAR has adjustable operational parameters to accommodate surveillance of a particular site. The LADAR includes a controller, a laser source governed by the controller to generate a laser beam...
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7652753 |
Laser-designated target simulator and method of testing a laser-seeking munition head
A laser-designated target simulator for testing laser-guided munitions and in particular the laser-seeking heads thereof. In one embodiment, the simulator includes: (1) a laser light source...
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7633610 |
Method and device for image processing in a geodetic measuring instrument
The invention relates to a method for the geodesical measurement of an object (1), using a geodesical measuring appliance (2) comprising recording means (3) for acquiring a recorded image (4) at...
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7623224 |
Calibration of a surveying instrument
A method for calibrating a surveying instrument is disclosed the survey instrument comprising a base element (3) and a camera with an image sensor (10), the camera being rotatable about a vertical...
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7612870 |
Single-lens aperture-coded camera for three dimensional imaging in small volumes
Determining instantaneously three-dimensional coordinates of large sets of points in space using apertures associated with cameras or camera parts. An embodiment associates information from the...
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7612869 |
Aperture coded camera for three dimensional imaging
A system and method for determining instantaneously the three-dimensional coordinates of large sets of points in space is disclosed. This system uses two or more CCD cameras (or any other type of...
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7518713 |
Passive-optical locator
A system comprising an imaging device and a passive-optical range-finder to focus, on the imaging device, a magnified image of a target positioned in a focal plane of the passive-optical...
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7433029 |
Method and system to calibrate a camera system using phase demodulation sensing
A preferably parametrically defined calibration target pattern definable in real-world coordinates (Xi,Yi) is used to spatially calibrate a camera system acquiring images in pixel coordinates...
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7427732 |
Method for targeting a source of an incoming laser
A system and method for laser source detection. An exemplary embodiment of the system includes a first array of lenses, a second array of opto devices (including light sources and light detectors),...
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7403295 |
Position-detecting system
A position-detecting system, which is used to detect a relative position of a movable member with respect to a fixed member, is provided. The system includes a plurality of light sources, a...
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7312862 |
Measurement system for determining six degrees of freedom of an object
A measurement system for determining six degrees of freedom (α, β, d, φ, χ, ψ) of a reflector (2) or of an object (3) on which the reflector is arranged, comprises an angle- and distance meas...
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7161686 |
Sensor for determining the angular position of a radiating point source in two dimensions and method of operation
A sensor for determining the angular position of a radiating point source in two dimensions includes a mask encoded in two skewed directions with waveforms consisting of several frequencies in...
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7161131 |
Multiple wavelength quadrant detection
A quadrant detector includes a holographic optical element and a plurality of detector elements. The holographic optical element is designated to have four quadrants, each of which directs...
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7106431 |
Sensor for determining the angular position of a radiating point source in two dimensions
Embodiments of a device and a technique are disclosed for locating the angular position of a radiating point source with respect to a detector comprising a point source of radiation, a variable...
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7057716 |
White cell antenna beamformers
A merged dual flipped White Cell including a White Cell having upper and lower cell regions; an optical deflector array for selectively deflecting light to either an upper image plane associated...
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RE39102 |
Optical fiber probe for position measurement
Improved point source electromagnetic radiation emitters including a dispersing element that radiates electromagnetic radiation over a vary wide conical angle of approaching about 180°. This light ...
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6882409 |
Multi-spectral LADAR
A multi-spectral detector for use in a passive/active system and a method for use in identifying an object in a field of view are disclosed. The multi-spectral detection system comprises an...
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6856388 |
Optical sensor for measuring the distance and/or inclination of a surface
An optical sensor for measuring the distance and/or inclination of a surface, particularly relative to a reference plane, or for detecting the distance and/or change in inclination of a surface,...
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6847435 |
Laser distance measuring apparatus
A laser distance measuring apparatus, for measuring the distance between objects existing in two directions at least as seen from the apparatus by using laser light, comprises two projectors for...
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6839133 |
Opto-electronic sensor
An opto-electronic sensor for the optical detection of objects in a monitored zone. The sensor is coupled to a position measuring device for the production of at least one position detection signal...
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6791673 |
Ground surveillance system
The invention is a method and apparatus for exercising surveillance over a surface from an observation point above the surface utilizing three-dimensional map data pertaining to the surface. The...
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6734952 |
Process and device for the automatic location of reference markers
In geodetic measuring systems and measuring devices (14) there exists a need to find and detect, rapidly and automatically, marker points to be measured that are provided with a marker (retro...
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6727984 |
Multichannel receiver system for angularly resolved laser ranging measurement
The invention relates to a multichannel receiver system (1) for angularly resolved laser ranging measurement, in which a laser light pulse from a laser (7) using the pulse travel time method is...
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6690458 |
Methods and apparatuses for reconstructing angle information
Methods and apparatuses for determining angular information from a target. A plurality of sensors on an image plane are used to obtain measured amplitude data. An azimuth and elevation may be...
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6646732 |
Position determination and adjustment system and light sensing device used for the same
A position determining system is disclosed, which has a simplified configuration capable of producing a plurality of phantom planes simultaneously. The improved system according to the present...
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6630993 |
Method and optical receiver with easy setup means for use in position measurement systems
Positions can be precisely and accurately fixed instantaneously within a three-dimensional workspace. A system of two or more transmitters each continuously sweep the workspace with two fanned...
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6618133 |
Low cost transmitter with calibration means for use in position measurement systems
An improved, low-cost optical transmitter and method useful in a three-dimensional measurement system wherein a plurality of operational parameters of said transmitter are calibrated during...
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6597443 |
Spatial tracking system
A spatial tracking system tracks movements of sources of radiated energy. In the one embodiment of the invention, three sensor sets are included each containing a pair of sensors. Movements of a...
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6559935 |
Sensors of relative position and orientation
An optical position and orientation determining system determines yaw, pitch, roll, lateral translation and longitudinal translation of a body with respect to a direction and intensity sensing...
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6507392 |
Single multiple aperture (“SMART”) lens system
One version of the invention relates to a laser detection system that includes a ball lens and a plurality of fiber optic bundles placed adjacent the ball lens so that incoming light rays are...
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6501543 |
Apparatus and method for determining position
An improved receiver for use in a robotic theodolite spatial positioning apparatus that allows a single user to determine elevation and azimuth angle data. To determine elevation angle of the...
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6396047 |
Sensor for detecting a quantity of light incident on a vehicle
A sensor for detecting a quantity of light has a housing, which has an axis along a direction in which light enters with an azimuth of 0°. A right side photodetector is disposed on a left side of ...
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6335789 |
Optical radar system
A laser beam transmitted from a laser diode is run for scanning laterally as a transmitted-beam elongated vertically with a lateral width thereof limited. A wave of the transmitted-beam reflected...
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6323941 |
Sensor assembly for imaging passive infrared and active LADAR and method for same
A sensor assembly for imaging passive infrared (IR) scenes and active laser radar (LADAR) scenes and for generating multi-dimension image data sets, and a method for same. A two-dimensional...
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6281970 |
Airborne IR fire surveillance system providing firespot geopositioning
A system for airborne detection of fires and transmission of fire location and characteristic data to the system ground station. The system includes an airborne pod and an associated ground...
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6229601 |
Coordinate input apparatus and method, and storage medium
This invention provides a high-resolving-power, compact, lightweight, low-cost coordinate input apparatus which suppresses the influence of disturbance light. Signals in light emission and...
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6219133 |
Spatial optical transmission device and method of spatial optical transmission
A spatial optical transmission device and method of spatial optical transmission of a beam type that allow tracking of a light beam by simple control. A plurality of divergent type tracking beams...
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6211951 |
Boresight alignment method
A boresight alignment method is used for aligning a laser with an optical sighting system in a laser designator or the like. The method includes selecting a target formed of a flat sheet of...
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6081257 |
Control stick rotatably positionable in three axes
To determine the position of a control stick which can be adjusted in three axes, reliably and accurately in all three axes in a constructionally simple, compact and light-weight manner by means of...
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