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6876945 |
Seamless sensory system
The Seamless Sensory System (3S), the invention, integrates state-of-the-art sensor technology with modern software engineering practices to create seamless positioning. The invention can include...
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6871157 |
Method for automatically locating a motor vehicle wheel and corresponding locating unit
A method for automatically locating a motor vehicle wheel comprises the following steps: transmission by the wheel unit ( 12 a to 12 d ) of high-frequency signals representing, at least, the...
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6868356 |
Method of and apparatus for correction of coordinate measurement errors due to vibrations in coordinate measuring machines (cmms)
Accelerations of a probe or probe head due to vibrations of a machine during a measuring operation are measured using accelerometers placed in the probe or probe head. The acceleration signals are...
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6868360 |
Small head-mounted compass system with optical display
A system and method indicate the direction faced by an operator. A waterproof housing has a mounting mechanism to engage a part of a headgear worn by an operator to position the housing in a...
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6868359 |
Method and system for CAD engine independence
An exemplary embodiment is a system providing CAD engine independence for a coordinate measurement system. The system includes an interface between a coordinate measurement system application and a...
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6862544 |
Vehicle wheel alignment data by rotating vision sensor
A device and method for measuring vehicle wheel alignment characteristics, and in particular measuring wheel camber and toe, uses a rotating vision sensor such as a laser sensor to map a portion of...
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6856935 |
Camera tracking system for a virtual television or video studio
A camera tracking system for a virtual television or video studio is provided. The camera tracking system is used to determine the position and/or orientation of recording cameras and comprises...
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6856931 |
Mark detection method and unit, exposure method and apparatus, and device manufacturing method and device
In view of a specific area having a characteristic surface state in a mark-formed area or a surrounding area thereof, an area calculation unit has a window having a dimension corresponding to the...
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6853946 |
Air flow sensing and control for animal confinement system
An environmental monitoring and controlling system for a ventilated cage and rack system that monitors and measures air flow in the rack at either the rack or cage level. At the rack level, two...
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6845338 |
Telemetric contextually based spatial audio system integrated into a mobile terminal wireless system
A telemetric contextually based spatial audio system is integrated into a mobile terminal including a headset and antenna. The headset includes an electronic compass which determines head...
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6836729 |
Method of and apparatus for detecting vehicle speed pulse drop, on-vehicle navigation system, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave
An on-vehicle navigation system is provided with a radio wave positioning apparatus ( 18 ) and a vehicle speed sensor ( 13 ) for a dead reckoning positioning. A method of detecting a vehicle speed...
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6836690 |
High precision substrate prealigner
A prealigner includes a light source and light detector that detects the position of the periphery of a substrate as a rotary chuck rotates the substrate. The prealigner includes a processor that...
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6836745 |
Method for determining the position of a sensor element
A method for determining the position of a sensor element which is used to measure a magnetic alternating field emitted by at least one generator unit. The sensor element receives a signal....
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6834254 |
Monitor system of vehicle outside and the method thereof
When a vehicle travels on an approximately straight lane, a distance data diagnosing section determines a distance measuring capability in a survey area in which the field of view of a laser radar...
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6834250 |
Position and orientation determining method and apparatus and storage medium
A viewing transform matrix indicating a position and a orientation of an HMD is generated according to a signal indicating the position and the orientation of the HMD. On the other hand, a landmark...
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6834251 |
Methods and devices for identifying, sensing and tracking objects over a surface
Methods and devices are disclosed for identifying objects over a surface and for tracking the position of said objects in relation to the sensing surface. The methods include the steps of providing...
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6834252 |
Method of and apparatus for analyzing population distribution, and computer product
The population distribution analyzing apparatus is provided with the area setting unit which sets an area in which population distribution of a plurality of users respectively carrying a portable...
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6829557 |
Method and device for incremental position determination
A method for the incremental position determination of two objects, which are movable in relation to each other. The method including generating at least one pair of position-dependent incremental...
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6819362 |
Disposition device for auto-detecting the holding condition of a digital camera
The invention provides a digital camera with a disposition device for automatically converting a picture to an appropriate image meeting the vision via the viewfinder, wherein the disposition...
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6816804 |
System and method for estimating velocity using reliability indexed sensor fusion
A method and system for vehicle velocity estimation. The method and system effectively combine vehicle kinetic and kinematic models to determine the noise covariance or reliability of vehicle...
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6816806 |
Method of characterizing a semiconductor surface
A method of characterizing a sample surface having a surface anomaly region includes the steps of profiling the sample surface to generate surface characteristic data, and generating a histogram...
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6810311 |
Method and device for determining offset values by a histogram method
A method is for determining the offset value of the output signal of a vehicle sensor. The values of the output signal of the vehicle sensor are determined. The value range of the output signal of...
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6810351 |
Position detector
A position detector includes a position indicator. Transmission/reception of electromagnetic waves relative to the position indicator is performed at least twice while the same loop coil is being...
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6807510 |
Model predictive controller for coordinated cross direction and machine direction control
A process for coordinated control of machine direction MD and cross direction CD actuators in a sheetmaking machine for manufacturing a sheet of material is disclosed. The process involves...
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6801874 |
Position measuring device and method for the start-up of a position measuring device
A position measuring device for determining the position of two elements, which are movable with respect to each other, the device including a voltage source and a scanning unit that includes one...
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6799138 |
Breaklock detection system and method
A tracking system controls an aimed device ( 32 ) to keep it aimed at a target ( 34 ). A control system ( 10 ) determines when the tracker has lost its lock on the target ( 34 ) by comparing the...
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6793585 |
Swing measurement method, golf swing analysis method, and computer program product
A swing measurement method of directly measuring a swing behavior without being influenced by flexure of an impact implement, such as a golf club or baseball bat is provided. In addition, a golf...
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6792381 |
Apparatus and method for locating devices using an acoustic gyroscope
Accurately determining a location of a device by using an acoustic gyroscope within the device The acoustic gyroscope is periodically adjusted using information from external sources.
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6792383 |
Passive ranging system and method
A system and method for ascertaining the range of a noise-jamming target. The system includes a receiver; a data processor coupled to the receiver; and software adapted for execution by the data...
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6789042 |
Position encoder using statistically biased pseudorandom sequence
A position sensor encodes absolute position via n consecutive members of a pseudorandom sequence of bits, where each bit ( 30 a -30 k ) comprises a region of high transmission or reflectivity...
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6789043 |
Magnetic sensor system for fast-response, high resolution, high accuracy, three-dimensional position measurements
The position, orientation, velocity and acceleration of remote sensors is determined using magnetic fields. Multiple, arbitrarily oriented magnetic field transmitters are placed in one reference...
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6789044 |
Method and apparatus for determining a neck movement pattern
A pattern is determined of the neck movement of a subject. The head/body movement of the subject is recorded with markers placed on the shoulders and on the head and thus moving with the subject....
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6785635 |
Apparatus and method for predicting failures of spinning disks in turbo-machinery
An apparatus is described for detecting the early signs of cycle-induced fatigue and thereby predicting failure of the rotating disk in turbo-machinery. It identifies change in shape of the entire...
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6782257 |
Method for modeling an information capacity of a multiantenna wireless system
Methods of designing, installing and operating communications systems including multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna arrays are disclosed. The methods account for the diffusive nature, the...
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6782334 |
Method and system for calibration of time delay integration imaging devices
Methods and systems for calibrating and aligning Time Delay Integration (TDI) Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensors. A TDI sensor for linear imaging (line sensor) is calibrated by generating a two...
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6772087 |
Absolute position measuring device
The absolute position measuring device comprises a main body, a spindle provided movably in the main body, two sets of rotary encoders, an arithmetical operation section, and a display section. The...
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6772101 |
Position detection apparatus and arithmetic processing unit
Angle data ranging from 0° to 360° obtained by performing polar conversion with respect to a periodic signal are input to a low pass filter having: a phase accumulator for outputting smoothed...
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6772088 |
Position transducer
A position transducer capable of accurately detecting an n-bit code by a small number of ABS detectors when there is provided one ABS track. In an ABS head, the ABS detectors 10 1 to 10 n+m are...
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6772086 |
Process to determine impact location
A process to determine the impact location of a transmitter-bearing object which is released for tracking purposes or to hit a target within a geographical area, wherein data obtained from the...
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6768964 |
Method and apparatus for determining dot-mark-forming position of semiconductor wafer
Illumination light of an illumination device irradiates a part of a peripheral surface of a semiconductor wafer from a side of the semiconductor wafer. Then, a shape of a side surface of a rim of...
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6768963 |
Geo-location systems
In a geo-location system, the location of an object in space is determined by transmitting polarized signals towards the object. To prevent erroneous determinations due to signals which reach the...
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6766270 |
Gravity-reference vision system
An efficient approach to extract an object's position and orientation in a 3 dimensional space is disclosed. This approach combines inertial sensor data with ranging and imaging devices and...
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6766271 |
Infrared out-of-position detection system and method for a vehicle restraint system
An improved infrared occupant detection system that provides accurate and reliable occupant intrusion information at a speed sufficient to timely inhibit or otherwise control deployment of occupant...
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6763317 |
Safety feature for an injection molding machine
In a method of safeguarding an injection molding machine against execution of a faulty operation, a movement state of a moveable component, e.g. a moveable mold mounting plate of an injection...
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6762600 |
Method and apparatus for electromagnetic position and orientation tracking with distortion compensation employing a modulated signal
A bounding box or volume of interest is flooded with a modulated AC electromagnetic signal from a source. Different types of modulated signals may be used, including single-tone AM and FM. One or...
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6760682 |
Position-measuring device
A position measuring device that includes a scanning device and a measurement representation that is scanned by the scanning device. The measurement representation includes a code of a succession...
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6754609 |
Magnetic device and method for determining orientation
The invention relates to a device for measuring the position and the orientation of a mobile object with respect to a fixed structure, in a disturbed magnetic environment, of the type...
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6748340 |
Cable position information management system, facility information management system, cable core wire management system, and methods and programs thereof
There is provided a cable position information management system, management method and program which efficiently perform cable position measurement, and manage the measurement information....
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6741948 |
Method and apparatus for fixing a location
A method is disclosed for fixing at least one location in an examination field ( 9 ) with respect to a coordinate system ( 13 ). The method includes determining, in response to a request ( 65 ),...
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6728632 |
Navigation devices, systems, and methods for determining location, position, and/or orientation information based on movement data generated by a movement detector
A navigation system includes a navigation device that communicates with a data processing system. The navigation device includes one or more movement detectors that are configured to generate data...
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