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7627450 |
Movement distance measuring apparatus and method
An apparatus and method for determining a location of a movement distance measuring apparatus are provided. The apparatus and method determine whether the movement distance measuring apparatus is...
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7620518 |
Distance measuring device an method for testing the operation of a distance measuring system
A distance measuring device for measuring a distance of a vehicle to an obstacle and a method for testing the operation of a distance measuring system. Two measuring systems are provided, each...
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7617071 |
Monitoring activity of a user in locomotion on foot
A user in locomotion during an outing may support at least one device to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete one or more distance intervals. The user device may...
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7616217 |
Dynamic exploration of electronic maps
A mapping engine receives map data from a map server and displays electronic maps. The mapping engine also receives one or more templates that specify metrics to show with the map. The templates...
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7596467 |
Pedometer that avoids step-counting errors when switching between different display modes
A pedometer measures the walk of a person and has an operating portion operated by the person to change the display mode. When operation of the operating portion is detected, a CPU proceeds to a...
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7595482 |
Standard component for length measurement, method for producing the same, and electron beam metrology system using the same
A standard component for length measurement includes a first diffraction grating and a second diffraction grating. Each of components of the second diffraction grating is disposed between...
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7561048 |
Methods and system for reduced attenuation in tracking objects using RF technology
A method and system for a Radio Frequency (RF)-based identification, tracking and locating of objects. The method and system use a narrow bandwidth signal in VHF of lower frequency range, which...
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7555401 |
Sensorless measurement of positioning travel, especially on an electromotively operated parking brake
The invention relates to a method for establishing the position of an actuating unit which is operated by an electric motor, in which a motor speed is determined from a motor model, the speed is...
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7548829 |
Hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device
A hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device ( 1 ) with an algorithm ( 3 ) which controls a microcontroller ( 2 ) and which serves to calculate the distance (X) to a measurement object ( 4 )...
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7532998 |
Cable length detection apparatus and method for a keyboarding video mouse switch
A cable length detection apparatus is provided to detect the length of a cable having at least three pairs of wires for transmitting video signals. The cable length detection apparatus has a signal...
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7532110 |
Air spring distance indicating system and method
A distance indicating system includes a transmitting portion, a transceiver spaced a distance from the transmitting portion, and a receiving portion supported in spaced relation to the transceiver....
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7529153 |
Positional information detecting method and device
In a positional information detecting device, a tone-burst signal propagating unit causes a tone-burst signal to propagate through a path. The tone-burst signal is composed of a continuous wave...
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7525089 |
Method of measuring a critical dimension of a semiconductor device and a related apparatus
A method and apparatus for measuring a critical dimension (CD) are provided. Image data of a measurement pattern are generated. The measurement pattern may include a first surface and a second...
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7505865 |
Velocity detection, position detection and navigation system
As an embodiment of the present invention, in a navigation system using an acceleration sensor, when position information cannot be obtained from a GPS processing section, a velocity detecting unit...
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7502711 |
Error compensation method for a 3D camera
A method for determining a distance value d in a scene from an output of a four-tap 3D imager sensor is disclosed wherein said distance value d is determined based on the charge accumulated in a...
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7502703 |
Calibration of the fundamental and harmonic once-around velocity variations of encoded wheels
A method of calibrating once-around and harmonic errors of encoded nips is provided. An encoder with an index pulse is used to measure the velocity and rotation of the driven wheel or idler. The...
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7499815 |
Machine radial stack gap generation and clearance management system and method
A system and method for readily generating radial clearance data for a radial clearance between locations on at least two parts in a rotating machine includes rendering an image of a cross section...
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7475581 |
Method of increasing the control precision of the path of a product in a levelling machine with interlocking rollers, and levelling installation used to implement same
A method of increasing control precision of a path of a product in a leveling machine including: a fixed support cage; two leveling assemblies with parallel rollers, which are placed above and...
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7457721 |
Method and apparatus for measuring small displacement
Without using an interferometer, small displacement and/or three-dimensional shape of an object is detected in a noncontact way with high accuracy using pseudo-phase information calculated from...
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7451060 |
Method of producing aerial photograph data
A method of producing aerial photograph data is provided which is capable of positively utilizing stored photograph data and an image of a desired object included in a photographed image. The...
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7430490 |
Capturing and rendering geometric details
A method and system for implementing capturing and rendering geometric details for mesostructure surfaces is described herein. A mesostructure distance function is defined as a function of a given...
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7418363 |
Micropattern measuring method, micropattern measuring apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium on which a micropattern measuring program is recorded
A micropattern measuring method disclosed herein includes acquiring an image of a micropattern including plural layers; extracting a rough outline of the micropattern in the image as a sequence of...
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7414528 |
Apparatus and method for improving ski jump safety
An apparatus and method for the improving of ski jump safety comprises a first detector for detecting a skier entering a jump site, wherein the first detector produces a first signal, a second...
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7409256 |
Footwear measurement and footwear manufacture systems and methods
Foot measurement and footwear manufacture systems and methods. A three-dimensional foot frame of a foot and pressure data corresponding to a bottom of the foot are measured, and a first and a...
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7392155 |
Distance calculation device and calculation program
It is intended to accurately calculate the distance between a movable body and a subject on the basis of various quantities of state, such as the azimuth angle between the movable body and the...
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7389200 |
Incremental encoding and decoding apparatus and method
An incremental encoding and decoding apparatus and method are provided. The incremental encoding and decoding apparatus comprises current converters, which respectively receive the pair of analog...
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7388968 |
Method and device for length measurement of packaging webs
The present invention concerns a method and a device for absolute measurement of a print repeat length and/or at least one package length of a moving packaging web ( 1 ) in line with a printing...
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7349820 |
Method and device for determining the position of at least one point of reflection on an obstacle
The invention relates to a method for determining the position (x, y) of at least one point of reflection (R 1-2 ) on an obstacle. According to traditional methods of this kind a first distance (r...
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7333913 |
Clearance measurement system and method of operation
A clearance measurement system is provided. The clearance measurement system includes a reference geometry disposed on a first object having an otherwise continuous surface geometry and a sensor...
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7333911 |
Method for operating a position-measuring device and position-measuring device
In a method for operating a positional measurement device and a corresponding positional measurement device, the device includes a signal generation unit configured to generate positional data and...
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7286955 |
Ship proximity measurement display system including the remotely viewable billboard and bridge display with data communication and attachment framing
This invention allows personnel located on two different structures, such as two ships, to continually monitor the separation distance between the two structures, with all of the necessary...
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7283926 |
Counter circuits and distance estimation methods
Counting circuits applied to distance estimation for ultra wideband (UWB) application, in which a first counting unit generates a sequence of pseudo-random number series not including zero, a first...
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7280938 |
Method for determining a negative sequence component
The invention relates to a method for determining properties of a negative sequence component of a space vector quantity in an electrical network. The method according to the invention includes the...
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7275014 |
Distributed graph layout for sensor node networks
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, comprising: in a sensor node network comprising a plurality of sensor nodes, each sensor node from the plurality of sensor nodes having location...
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7248994 |
Digital method and apparatus for sensing position with a linear variable differential transformer
An apparatus and method for determining a linear position from a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) including a primary coil driven by an excitation signal, and two secondary coils...
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7246032 |
Multimode electronic calipers having ratiometric mode and simplified user interface
A multimode electronic measuring instrument is provided that includes a ratiometric mode of operation. During the ratiometric mode, a desired dimension is established as a stored reference...
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7209858 |
Precision position determining method
A method for generating a surface profile of a microstructure. The profile is processed to determine positions of at least two edges and an approximate center point of the profiled surface....
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7197425 |
Road surface state estimating system and road surface state measuring apparatus
Provided is a road surface state estimating system for carrying out measuring along a plurality of measuring lines on a paved road surface, which improves the reliability of texture estimation of...
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7158690 |
Enhancing the resolution of measurement systems employing image capturing systems to measure lengths
Two scales having unequal pitches are used to measure lengths with a greater resolution than that offered by an image capturing system operating alone. In an embodiment, the different pitches are...
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7155364 |
Measuring instrument
A measuring instrument ( 1 ) has an arm ( 4 ) having a detector at a distal end thereof, and an arm guide ( 53 ) supporting the arm ( 4 ) in a manner movable in the axial direction thereof, the...
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7152467 |
Parallel seismic depth testing using a cone penetrometer
A parallel seismic tester utilizing a cone penetrometer to test the depth of a foundation or the like comprises three important elements: the cone penetrometer which houses a receiver, an impactor...
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7123997 |
Gap adjustment apparatus and gap adjustment method for adjusting gap between two objects
A first stage and a second stage are disposed to face each other. A first object is fixed on the first stage. A first displacement sensor attached on the first stage is used to measure a distance...
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7120524 |
System for measuring points on a vehicle during damage repair
A carriage moves back and forth under a vehicle and three cameras or laser fixed along one axis pivot in a common plane, utilizing two cameras at time to locate a target fixed to a reference point...
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7106247 |
Radar level gauge with antenna arrangement for improved radar level gauging
The present invention relates to a radar level gauge ( 1 ) comprising an antenna ( 2 ), a tank sealing ( 3 ), an electronics unit ( 4 ) and a waveguide feed ( 5 ) between the electronics unit ( 4 )...
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7103500 |
Apparatus and method for distance measurement with controlled modulation of emitted pulses
Pulse transit time-based method for distance measurement employs a complex multi-parametric modulation of emitted pulses with adaptive control of the parameters of modulation. An evaluation of the...
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7098645 |
Method and device for cable length measurement based on reflected phase shifts
An offline phase of a cable length measuring method involves a determination of a plurality of preset frequency test signals for facilitating the length measurement of the cable based on a maximum...
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7085673 |
Displacement estimation system and method
A displacement estimation system including a data acquisition system and a processing system is provided. The data acquisition system is configured to capture a first frame from a first substrate...
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7079974 |
System and method for detecting an object using pulsed light
A system and method for detecting an object is provided. The method includes emitting a light pulse. The method further includes receiving a reflection of the light pulse. The method further...
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7065851 |
Fiducial calibration method for measuring a workpiece
Fiducial calibration systems and methods for precisely and accurately manufacturing a part from a workpiece, inspecting or measuring a part, and/or assembling a plurality of manufactured parts...
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7050926 |
Method of surveying a track
In a method of surveying a track ( 9 ), a first or mobile measuring vehicle ( 1 ) and a second or stationary measuring vehicle ( 2 ) are placed at a distance apart from one another on a track...
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