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8184503 |
Process measurement instrument with target rejection
A process measurement instrument with target rejection comprises a sensor circuit. The sensor circuit comprises a drive circuit for transmitting a pulse signal at a target of interest and a receive...
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8183997 |
Displaying sound indications on a wearable computing system
Example methods and systems for displaying one or more indications that indicate (i) the direction of a source of sound and (ii) the intensity level of the sound are disclosed. A method may involve...
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8179741 |
Compensation for depth finders
System and methods are disclosed for compensating a depth signal for a depth finder of a boat. In one embodiment, a compensation system is implemented between the depth finder and a transducer...
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8174931 |
Apparatus and method for providing indoor location, position, or tracking of a mobile computer using building information
An apparatus and method for providing indoor location, position, or tracking of a mobile computer using building information. The mobile computer determines the dimensions of a room in a building...
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8164982 |
Ultrasonic sensor with piezoelectric elements and acoustic matching members
An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, receiving devices arranged in an array, and a circuit device. One receiving device is configured as a reference receiving device. The circuit...
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8164981 |
Ultrasonic distance-measuring sensor with gap and partition between vibrating surfaces
An ultrasonic distance-measuring sensor assembly and an ultrasonic distance-measuring sensor thereof are disclosed. The ultrasonic distance-measuring sensor includes at least two piezoelectric...
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8151929 |
Acoustic waveguide vibration damping
An acoustic waveguide with at least two portions coupled by vibration damping structure. The vibration damping structure may be a conformable material such as closed cell foam. The vibration...
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8154438 |
Registration of latitude/longitude coordinates using range detection sensors and digital nautical charts
The present invention can find the exact location anywhere in the nautical world (latitude/longitude coordinates) by correlating or matching radar returns with maps produced by a digital nautical...
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8144544 |
Method of processing echo profile, and pulse-echo system for use with the method
An echo profile in a pulse-echo ranging system is processed by determining the relative slope at points on the profile, determining the relative area of each region of positive slope on the...
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8107319 |
Acoustic fluid height monitoring using dynamic surface perturbations
A method of determining the volume or height of fluid in a reservoir is provided. A first burst of focused acoustic energy is used to raise temporarily a protuberance on a free surface of the...
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8098545 |
Underwater vehicle guidance
The present invention relates to an underwater guidance system for guiding an underwater apparatus, for example an underwater vehicle, towards a target structure, such as a docking station. The...
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8089826 |
Ultrasonic device for detecting direction to object
A ultrasonic device detecting a direction to an object includes: a transmitting element of a ultrasonic wave; first and second receiving elements; a diffraction wave phase detector; an initial...
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8077020 |
Method and apparatus for tactile haptic device to guide user in real-time obstacle avoidance
An apparatus for providing information about a physical surrounding environment to a user includes an elongate body having first and second opposing ends and a mast, at least one sensor mountably...
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8050138 |
Ballistic-acoustic transducer system
A ballistic-acoustic transducer system includes a processor and one or more acoustic sensors. The sensors are positioned in a body of water and are in communication with the processor. The system...
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8031557 |
Method of operating an acoustic pulse echo ranging system
A method of operating an acoustic pulse echo ranging system is provided. A series of acoustic energy pulses of successively increasing or decreasing burst frequencies are transmitted through a...
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8031556 |
Obstacle detection apparatus
An obstacle detection apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensor and a controller. The ultrasonic sensor detects a presence of an obstacle around the vehicle...
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8009518 |
Ultrasonic sensor with piezoelectric elements and vibration isolator
An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, receiving devices arranged in an array, and a circuit device. One receiving device is configured as a reference receiving device. The circuit...
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8002078 |
Acoustic waveguide vibration damping
An acoustic waveguide with at least two portions coupled by vibration damping structure. The vibration damping structure may be a conformable material such as closed cell foam. The vibration...
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RE42546 |
Method and system for target localization
The present inventions comprise a A method of estimating a minimum range for a target with respect to a first point of interest, independent of actual, range to the target, comprising obtaining...
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7973705 |
Marine bump map display
A plotting system and method for plotting radar and/or sonar signals on a bump map, with a simulated height of each data point representing a corresponding signal strength. The plotting system may...
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RE42430 |
Dimensioning system and method of dimensioning
A method and apparatus for dimensioning and, optionally, weighing a cuboidal object. Four distance sensors are employed, one downwardly facing the top of the object, one facing one side thereof and...
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7957223 |
Ultrasonic ranging in the near zone
An ultrasonic ranging device for ultrasonic ranging in the near zone. The device may include a transducer for generating an ultrasonic signal and for detecting an echo signal. The device may also...
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7957224 |
Human echolocation system
A human echolocation system emits toward a target a series of sound pulses beginning at a low frequency and progressing stepwise to a high frequency. Echoes of the pulses enable the user to...
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7940602 |
Real-time system and method of underwater depth discrepancy detection, recordation and alarm notification
An underwater depth discrepancy system and method are provided. A comparator compares an actual underwater depth with a predetermined/prerecorded chart depth corresponding to a current location...
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7924653 |
System and method of range estimation
A system and method of range estimation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises transmitting beams through a medium towards a surface, receiving reflected signals from the surface,...
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7925606 |
Monitoring physical locations using rules and events processing
A monitoring system is provided. The monitoring system comprises a first storage queue containing rules ready for processing, an event storage containing events, and a plurality of first processor...
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7911881 |
Method and apparatus for ultrasonic sensing
A distance and temperature sensing unit is used on paving vehicles. The unit has a first set of range sensors of a first diameter and a second set of range sensors of a second diameter. The unit...
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7902968 |
Obstacle detection device
An obstacle detection device has an ultrasonic sensor fixed to a first side of a mount member. The ultrasonic sensor sends/receives ultrasonic wave toward/from a second side of the mount member,...
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7894304 |
Project calculator with integral distance measurement sensor
A project calculator, including a housing, a circuit board mounted within the housing and including a processor, an input device connected to the circuit board and interfacing with the processor,...
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7869305 |
Ground vehicle collision prevention systems and methods
The present invention comprises systems and methods for preventing collisions between aircraft and ground vehicles. In one embodiment, a system includes a proximity detection unit and a transducer...
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7855674 |
Method and radar system for coherent detection of moving objects
The present invention provides a coherent radar system based on a modification of standard non-coherent radar without Moving Target Indication. Typical radars in this class are Navigation radars...
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7845847 |
Temperature sensor and extensometer for electrical power cables
A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and...
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7845848 |
Temperature sensor and extensometer for electrical power cables
A thermometer and extensometer for cables and conductors is described. The travel time of one or more acoustic signals along a conductor is used to determine the temperature along the conductor and...
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7843767 |
Object detection apparatus and method
A reflection-point estimation section constituting an object detection apparatus first calculates a rotational correction angle for each estimated reflection point Pn by using the following...
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7826309 |
Filling level measurement device and filling level measurement and monitoring method
A method for measuring a fill level of a fill substance in a container and for monitoring at least one predetermined fill level (LMIN, LMAX), using a fill level measuring device working according...
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7766298 |
Apparatus for positioning an image measuring platform
An apparatus for positioning an image measuring platform, the apparatus includes a horizontal base (11); a measuring platform (21) movable on the horizontal base; a support arm (12) extending in...
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7764840 |
System, method and apparatus for clustering features using an expansion shape
A computer-implemented method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an...
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7746220 |
Moving object detection apparatus
A moving object detection apparatus comprises a transmitter, a receiver, a detection portion, a binary conversion portion and a judgment portion. The transmitter emits energy waves with a first...
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7724609 |
Sonic cup gun
A paint spray gun and range finder for positioning the gun with respect to a target surface to be sprayed. The range finder provides a user of the gun with information about the distance between...
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7712368 |
Ultrasonic sensor having transmission device and reception device of ultrasonic wave
An ultrasonic sensor for detecting an object includes: a substrate; a transmission device for transmitting an ultrasonic wave; a plurality of reception devices for receiving the ultrasonic wave;...
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7715275 |
Start assist system for motor vehicles
A start assist system for motor vehicles, including a long-range locating system for determining the location of vehicles traveling ahead and a starting regulator for initiating and controlling a...
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7710824 |
Location monitoring and sonar determination of presence
A system is provided for location monitoring. The system includes an event sensor and a sonar sensor in communication with the event sensor. The event sensor detects an event at a location. The...
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7693007 |
Ultrasonic sensor with separate sending device and receiving device
An ultrasonic sensor includes a sending device and a receiving device. The sending device has a sending surface for sending an ultrasonic wave into a sending area. The receiving device has a...
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7688678 |
Room volume and room dimension estimation
One embodiment of the invention includes a processing subsystem (30) responsive to the detection of sound coming from a room (26) to establish an acoustic impulse response for the room (26), and...
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7688677 |
System and method for determining properties of tubular cavity
A method for determining the distance of a transceiver located within a lumen from the center of the lumen and for determining the radius of the lumen, the lumen cross-section being substantially...
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7679562 |
Target detection apparatus and system
A target detection apparatus that includes a transmission/reception device for generating a transmission signal for detection of a target, and extracting distance information about the target from...
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7679996 |
Methods and device for ultrasonic range sensing
A system and method for sensing proximity of an object includes a signal generator, which generates a plurality of signals. A transducer is in communication with the signal generator to receive the...
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7660205 |
Method for determining the depth of a parking space using ultrasonic sensors and associated system
A method for determining the depth of a parking space using at least one ultrasonic vehicle sensor. According to the method, the following steps are carried out as the vehicle drives longitudinally...
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7656750 |
Echo detection
An echo detection circuit that detects an echo by detecting the magnitude of a digitally mixed representation of the received acoustic signal and reference sine and cosine signals. That magnitude...
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7650208 |
Navigational aid for diver
A diver unit computes the direction and distance to a specified target. When the target is obstructed, the diver unit receives navigation assistance data from another diver unit. The navigation...
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