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Document | Title | Date |
20080208518 | System Comprising a Generating Device and a Comparing Device | 08-28-2008 |
20080208519 | Device and method for monitoring the position of a cable in a cable operated transportation system and a cable operated transportation system - In order to improve a cable position monitoring device for monitoring the position of a cable guided in the rollers of a roller assembly in at least one first cable roller that is to be monitored of the roller assembly of a cable operated transportation system comprising at least one first and at least one second cable roller defining a reference roller, such that a threatening cable-dislodgement of the cable from at least one cable roller of the transportation system can be recognized in a simple manner, it is proposed that a movement-magnitude detecting device be provided for determining a first movement-magnitude of the at least one first cable roller and a second movement-magnitude of the reference roller, and that an evaluating device be provided for comparing the first and second movement-magnitudes and for determining a mutual movement-magnitude deviation between the first and second movement-magnitudes which corresponds to a safe-to-operate status of the transportation system. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208520 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A HIGHLY ACCURATE POSITION OF ROUTES AND/OR OBJECTS - The invention relates to a method for determining a highly accurate position of routes and/or objects, in which the routes and/or objects to be recorded are first of all surveyed. In this case, the teaching provides for the routes and/or objects to be recorded to be surveyed repeatedly and for the positions to be determined with the aid of statistical methods using measured values obtained by the repeated surveying operation. | 08-28-2008 |
20080208521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONICALLY ALIGNING CAPACITIVELY COUPLED MNI-BARS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that electronically aligns mini-bars on different semiconductor chips which are situated face-to-face to facilitate communication between the semiconductor chips through capacitive coupling. During operation, the system selects a group of transmitter mini-bars on the first chip to form a transmitter bit position and selects a group of receiver mini-bars on the second chip to form a receiver bit position. The system then associates transmitter bit positions on the first chip with proximate receiver bit positions on the second chip. In this way, the system allows data signals transmitted by the mini-bars within a transmitter bit position on the first chip to be collectively received by the mini-bars within an associated receiver bit position on the second chip. | 08-28-2008 |
20080215286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A DEVICE - An apparatus and method are disclosed for use in a device, such as a handheld printer or scanner, having functionality that requires information of its position relative to an origin and initial orientation. The module includes two sensors to generate movement data indicative of movement direction and orientation changes of the device. The location and orientation of the device relative to the origin and initial orientation is derived based on the movement data. A handheld printer or scanner implementing the device may thus be moved in different directions across a media to print or scan images, text, or other objects. | 09-04-2008 |
20080228432 | Electrical Device with a Selected Orientation for Operation - The present invention provides methods and apparatuses for configuring an electrical device to a selected orientation. Direction information that is indicative of the orientation of the electrical device is provided by a directional detection switch. A processor selects a selected orientation from a plurality of permitted orientations by processing the direction information and instructs a display unit to operate in the selected orientation. Different adjacent contacts of a directional detection switch are activated corresponding to different orientation of the electrical device. A conductive ball may be positioned by gravity and consequently conducts an electrical current between two corresponding adjacent contacts based on the orientation of the electrical device. A display unit of an electrical device may include an output component or an input component that is configured based on the orientation of the electrical device. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228433 | Method and Device for Determining the Relative Position of a First Object with Respect to a Second Object, Corresponding Computer Program and a Computer-Readable Storage Medium - The invention is directed to a method and a system for determining the relative position of a first object in relation to a second object, as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used, in particular, to determine a spatial position and orientation of measurement devices in environments of arbitrary complexity. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228434 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CALIBRATION JIG - When a calibration jig ( | 09-18-2008 |
20080228435 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING OVERLAY MEASUREMENT ERROR - A measurement system and a measurement method, which can obtain a measurement value close to a true value considering an overlay measurement error according to a higher order regression analysis model. The measurement system and the measurement method provide a technique for determining optimal positions of shots to be measured using an optimal experimental design. When the regression analysis model and the number of shots to be measured are determined in advance, a method is used for determining an optimal number of shots to be measured according to the regression analysis model and process dispersion using a confidence interval estimating method. A dynamic sampling method is used for dynamically changing the number and positions of shots to be measured according to a change in process features by combining the above two methods. And, when erroneous data is detected, or when measured data is missing, a robust regression analysis method and a technique for filtering the erroneous data and the missing data are used. | 09-18-2008 |
20080228436 | MEASUREMENT OF VERTICAL TRACT MODULUS USING SPACE CURVES - An on-board, non-contact measurement system and method is disclosed for measuring track quality, vertical track stiffness and vertical track modulus for a portion of track underlying the rail vehicle. The system comprises two or more position sensors for determining the position profile of the track and a computation system for determining the vertical displacement of the track. | 09-18-2008 |
20080234971 | REMOTE-CONTROLLED MOTION APPARATUS WITH SENSING TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM AND REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS THEREFOR - A remote-controlled motion apparatus is controlled by a remote control apparatus. The remote control apparatus transmits a target motion signal by radio. The remote-controlled motion apparatus includes a communication module, a terrestrial magnetism sensing module, a processing module and a driving module. The communication module receives the target motion signal from the remote control apparatus. The terrestrial magnetism sensing module senses a terrestrial magnetism of the remote-controlled motion apparatus to output a terrestrial magnetism sensing signal. The processing module is coupled with the terrestrial magnetism sensing module and the communication module, and processes the terrestrial magnetism sensing signal and the target motion signal to output a driving control signal. The driving module is coupled with the processing module to receive the driving control signal, and adjusts the driving of the remote-controlled motion apparatus according to the driving control signal. | 09-25-2008 |
20080243424 | Methods for predicting warp at a given condition - Methods are provided for predicting warp of a lumber product at a given condition, such as relative humidity, temperature, moisture content, or the like. Note that this methodology may apply to any of crook, bow, twist, cup, or combinations of these quantities. The method involves measuring an original warp of a first wood product at a known condition; changing the condition of the first wood product to a new condition; measuring a second warp of the first wood product at the new condition; developing a prediction model based on data from the original warp and condition and the second warp; measuring an original warp and condition of the given wood product; and inputting data from the original warp and condition of the given wood product to the prediction model to determine warp at a given condition. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243425 | Tracking target objects through occlusions - A computerized object tracking method uses data captured from any of a number of sensor suites deployed in an area of interest to identify and track objects of interest within the area covered by the sensors. Objects of interest are uniquely identified utilizing an ellipse-based model and tracked through complex data sets through the use of particle-filtering techniques. The combination of unique object identification and particle-filtering techniques produces the ability to track any of a number of objects of interest through complex scenes, even when the objects of interest are occluded by other objects within the dataset. The tracking action is presented in real-time to a user of the system and accepts direction and requests from the system user. | 10-02-2008 |
20080255798 | WAFER CENTER FINDING WITH A KALMAN FILTER - A number of wafer center finding methods and systems are disclosed herein that improve upon existing techniques used in semiconductor manufacturing. | 10-16-2008 |
20080270067 | VOLUMETRIC PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for measuring volumes and areas using electromagnetic induction techniques. A current is generated and fed into one of two coil assemblies to induce voltage into another coil assembly to provide accurate values for volume or area. | 10-30-2008 |
20080281553 | Object-Tracking and Situation-Analysis System - A situation analysis system for detecting and tracking moving objects within a limited space over a predetermined time period and for analyzing object combinations and episodes in relation to time as well as situations during the period of time, includes at least one tracking unit which has at least one sub-unit which is arranged and oriented to detect the limited space and moving and stationary objects disposed therein, | 11-13-2008 |
20080281554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING COMPOSITE PARTS - A composite repair system and method for assisting in the repair of a cured composite part in which a damaged portion has been cut out and removed, exposing a plurality of composite plies and their corresponding composite ply edges. The composite repair system may comprise a light source to illuminate the ply edges, an image capturing device to obtain an image of the ply edges, and a computing device for processing the image of the ply edges and creating a map of the ply edges based on the image. The map may be used to manufacture filler plies having peripheral edges shaped to correspond with the composite ply edges for replacing the damaged portion of the composite part. | 11-13-2008 |
20080288205 | OPTICAL NAVIGATION DEVICE WITH SURFACE AND FREE SPACE NAVIGATION - An optical navigation device for operation in a surface navigation mode and a free space navigation mode is described. One embodiment of the optical navigation device includes a microcontroller, a surface navigation sensor, and a free space navigation sensor. The surface and free space navigation sensors are coupled to the microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to process a movement of the optical navigation device. The surface navigation sensor is configured to generate a surface navigation signal in response to a surface navigation image. The free space navigation sensor is configured to generate a free space navigation signal in response to a free space navigation image. Embodiments of the optical navigation device facilitate an integrated optical solution to provide desktop navigation and scene navigation in a single optical navigation device. | 11-20-2008 |
20080288206 | Noncontinuous resonant position feedback system - A system and method for sensing position of an oscillating moving element. The inventive position sensor includes a first arrangement for sampling the position of the element at first positions thereof and providing samples in response thereto and a second arrangement for calculating other positions of the element using the sample of the first position. In the illustrative application, the first arrangement includes an LED and a photodiode and the moving element is a piston of a long-life cryogenic cooler. A processor receives samples from the photodiode and solves an equation of motion therefor. The equation of motion is P(t)=A·sin(ωt+θ)+B, where P(t)=the position of the element; A=position waveform amplitude; B=position waveform DC Offset; ω=angular frequency of operation; t=time; and θ=position waveform phase. | 11-20-2008 |
20080294367 | Method for Measuring the Position of a Mark in a Deflector System - The present invention relates to a method for determining the coordinates of an arbitrarily shaped pattern in a deflector system. The method basically comprises the steps of: moving the pattern in a first direction (X), calculating the position of the edge of the pattern by counting the number of micro sweeps, performed in a perpendicular direction (Y), until the edge is detected, and determining the coordinates by relating the number of counted micro sweeps to the speed of the movement of the pattern. The invention also relates to software implementing the method. | 11-27-2008 |
20080300821 | SMART TETHER SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER NAVIGATION AND CABLE SHAPE MEASUREMENT - A position sensing system including a flexible tether and at least one sensor at least partially embedded within a portion of the flexible tether is disclosed. The sensor may be adapted to detect a sensor position factor. The system also includes a communication device adapted to transmit the sensor position factor from the sensor, and a signal processor adapted to receive the sensor position factor. The signal processor is also adapted to calculate at least one of the shape or orientation of the flexible tether from the sensor position factor. The sensor position factor may be relative orientation, relative depth, relative pressure, presence of a magnetic field, presence of an electric field, acceleration, or relative rate of rotation. The system may also include a probe connected to the flexible tether, and the signal processor may calculate the orientation of the probe from the sensor position factor. | 12-04-2008 |
20080319704 | Device and Method for Determining Spatial Co-Ordinates of an Object - The invention relates to a measuring device ( | 12-25-2008 |
20080319705 | Method For Reliable Position Monitoring - A method for reliable position monitoring includes: (a) transmitting two measured position values from a position measuring device to a first processing unit; (b) transmitting a setpoint value from a setpoint value generator to a second processing unit; (c) transmitting one of the two measured position values to the second processing unit; (d) transmitting the setpoint value to the first processing unit; (e) performing mutually independent comparisons between the setpoint value and the measured position values by the first processing unit and the second processing unit; and (f) monitoring the measured position values for an electronic shaft break between the position measuring device and the first processing unit. The position values are different and have a defined relationship with respect to each other, and the transmitting (a) includes alternately transmitting the two measured position values to the first processing unit. | 12-25-2008 |
20080319706 | Method for the Determination of the Wheel Geometry and/or Axle Geometry of Motor Vehicles - The invention relates to a method for determining the wheel geometry and/or axle geometry of motor vehicles by means of an optical measuring apparatus. According to said method, at least two recording points are assigned to each other and are referenced in relation to the measuring space with the aid of an image recording system, optionally taking into account reference characteristics and vehicle body characteristics, an object segment ( | 12-25-2008 |
20090006030 | Methods for estimating location using signal with varying signal speed - Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of signal propagation. Realistic prior probability distributions of pertinent variables are permitted for the locations of stations, the speed of signal propagation, and errors in measurements. Bounds and probability distributions can be obtained without making any assumption of linearity. The sequential methods used for location are applicable in other applications in which a function of the probability distribution is desired for variables that are related to measurements. | 01-01-2009 |
20090012741 | Location Device with a Gravity Measuring Device - A location device has a gravity measurement instrument in communication with a database which has the locations relative to time of an astronomical object. The location device also has a timepiece indicating the time which may be used to determine the location of the astronomical object. | 01-08-2009 |
20090024351 | Method for Determining Correction Values for the Measured Values of Positions of Structures on a Substrate - A method for allocating correction values of the degree of bending of a substrate ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090024352 | Method, Device and System For Verifying Points Determined on an Elliptic Curve - Conventional cryptographic methods that are based on elliptic curves are prone to side-channel attacks. Previously known methods for preventing side-channel attacks have the disadvantage of requiring high arithmetic capacity and a large amount of available memory space. The proposed method overcomes said disadvantage by using a process for verifying points on elliptic curves which saves arithmetic capacity and memory space. | 01-22-2009 |
20090030646 | AC magnetic tracking system with phase locking - Plural transmitter coils of a magnetic locating system are driven with widely-separated main frequencies. One of the transmitter coils is also driven with a marker frequency close to the main frequency applied to that coil. The receiver determines a phase relationship with the transmitter based on the main and marker frequencies, so that the receiver does not suffer from phase ambiguity. The main and marker frequencies may interfere with one another, and the receiver may correct for such interference based on known characteristics of the signals at the main and marker frequencies. | 01-29-2009 |
20090037137 | Displacement Detection Method, Displacement Detection Device, Displacement Detection Program, Phase Singularity Matching Method and Phase Singularity Matching Program - The present invention relates to a displacement detection method for detecting a displacement from phase singularities before and after the displacement, a displacement detection device, a displacement detection program, a feature point matching method and a feature point matching program. The displacement detection method for detecting the displacement from the phase singularities before and after the displacement acquires predetermined specifies the phase singularities based on predetermined elements by acquiring the elements from a phase structure of the phase singularities, and detects positions of the phase singularities. Hence, it is possible to reliably specify the phase singularities before and after the displacement, and easily and reliably detect the displacement. Various displacements, including rotary displacement, are detectable. | 02-05-2009 |
20090037138 | Methods, Systems and Formats for Data, Such as Data Used in Laser Projection of Fasteners Used in Manufacturing - A system and method provides data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing involving fasteners. For example, the laser projection process may include projecting a laser image associated with fasteners used to assemble objects. Fastener attribute data may be extracted from an engineer's design data and processed to generate a laser projection output file. This output file may include geometric data used to project a laser image associated with the fasteners. For example, this image may be an outline indicating the location, shape, and orientation of a fastener. The output file may also include non-geometric data associated with attributes of the objects to be assembled. Both the geometric and the non-geometric data can then be displayed in a user interface, such as a display screen of a laser projector control device, in addition to the display of the laser image in three-dimensional space. | 02-05-2009 |
20090043532 | METHOD FOR VISUALISING THE ECCENTRICITY OF CABLES IN THE ECCENTRICITY MEASUREMENT OF THE CABLES - A method for visualising the eccentricity of cables which is acquired in the eccentricity measurement of the cables, wherein eccentricity measurements take place at the same time on plural locations spaced apart across the perimeter of the cable during the transportation of the cable, and the measurement values are represented graphically on a display after being processed in a computer, characterised in that a frequency distribution of individual eccentricity values acquired during the measurement interval is represented on the display, wherein the scattering caused by measuring instruments is significantly smaller than the scattering of the individual eccentricity values. | 02-12-2009 |
20090070063 | LOCATING FERROMAGNETIC OBJECTS IN A SINGLE PASS - A ferromagnetic object is located by moving magnetic sensors along a path in an area of detection; using the sensors to measure a total magnetic field in the area of detection; using the sensors to measure all three vector components of magnetic field as the sensors travel along the path and passes the object; computing theoretical vector components of the total magnetic field in the area of detection; matching the measured vector components with the computed theoretical vector components of the total magnetic field; calculating an error measurement between matched measured vector components and computed theoretical vector components of the magnetic field; determining optimized values of parameters that minimize an error between the measured vector components and computed theoretical vector components of the magnetic field; and determining a position of the object based on the measured components of the magnetic field as a function of the optimized values. | 03-12-2009 |
20090070064 | VERTICAL TRACK MODULUS TRENDING - Systems and methods for determining a trend in vertical track modulus are disclosed in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. Vertical deflection data is collected along a particular section of railroad track. A first set of vertical track modulus is determined, based in part, on the collected vertical deflection data. At a second time, vertical deflection data is again collected along the particular section of railroad track to be used in determining a second set of vertical track modulus. At least the first and second sets of vertical track modulus are analyzed to determine a mathematical algorithm that facilitates developing a trend in the vertical track modulus of the railroad track. | 03-12-2009 |
20090076766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HOLOGRAPHIC USER INTERFACE COMMUNICATION - A system and corresponding method for provide a 3 dimensional (3-D) user interface displays images in a 3-D coordinate system. Sensors are configured to sense user interaction within the 3-D coordinate system, so that a processor may receive user interaction information from the sensors. The sensors are able to provide information to the processor that enables the processor to correlate user interaction with images in the 3-D coordinate system. The system may be used for interconnecting or communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus) within a single computer or digital data processing system. | 03-19-2009 |
20090076767 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A NEUTRAL POSITION OF TWO COMPONENTS - A device for determining a neutral position of two components ( | 03-19-2009 |
20090076768 | ABSOLUTE POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - An absolute position measurement apparatus includes an output unit outputting a plurality of first signals and a plurality of superimposed signals formed by superimposing each of plural second signals on each of the plural first signals, a phase computing unit calculating phases of the first signals during a first period in which the output means outputs the plural first signals, and calculating phases of the second signals during a second period in which the output means outputs the plural superimposed signals, a regression computing unit calculating a regression coefficient of the phase of the first signals calculated during the first period, a subtracter calculating a phase difference between the phase of the first signals and the phase of the second signals during the second period, a phase difference computing unit determining an origin position of the object to be measured based on a position where a sign of the phase difference output from the subtracter is inverted, and an absolute position calculating unit calculating an absolute position of the object to be measured based on the origin position. | 03-19-2009 |
20090076769 | Non-contact capacitive sensor with gain and offset values calculated as adjustment values - In a capacitance type of non-contact sensor for detecting the position of an object to be detected, such as dielectric material, a detection gain is changed in a first case where the object to be detected is placed in a first position and also in a second case where the object to be detected is placed in a second position, and an offset value is adjusted for each gain to bring an output value to a predetermined value. The adjusted offset values are stored in order to define a gain and an offset value at a point, where the offset values in the first and second cases are closest, as adjustment values. | 03-19-2009 |
20090076770 | POSITION INDICATOR, VARIABLE CAPACITOR, POSITION INPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A position indicator ( | 03-19-2009 |
20090082989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE DISTORTION TOLERANCE OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING SYSTEM - A system and method for improving the tolerability of metal distorters within the electromagnetic field of an electromagnetic tracking system through the use of transmission frequency optimization techniques and/or solution subset measurements. | 03-26-2009 |
20090082990 | Method and device for determining an optimum direction of projection for recording projection images - The invention relates to a method and a device for determination of an optimum direction of projection or position for recording a number of two-dimensional projection images of an object of interest, with the two-dimensional projection images being recorded by rotation or translation of an imaging system around the object. Inventively the process is as follows: a) estimating a position of the object at a point in time; b) determining at least one optimum imaging view from which the optimum direction of projection and/or position is produced, for the position estimated under a) with the aid of previously determined measurement. Preferably the measurement is expressed as a function of a transformation which is described by a spatial object-imaging system relationship. | 03-26-2009 |
20090082991 | Mobile Instrument, Viewing Device, and Methods of Processing and Storing Information - A method of transferring information stored in a mobile instrument, the information including a first information file ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090089007 | Micropositioning Apparatus - The present invention allows the simple measurement of position and orientation with low cost setup and simple calibration using a small set of transmitting nodes and a simple handheld wand. This can be used in place of measuring tools such as non contact reflection based ultrasonic measurement tools or traditional tools such as tape measures and rulers where multiple high precision measurements are needed with minimal set up time. The present invention also provides true three dimensional output and orientation calculation. | 04-02-2009 |
20090099809 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JUDGING POSITION SHIFT - Time-course data that has been obtained by measuring, in time series, a change in the density of a sample material by a color reaction thereof is input. A regression curve generation unit generates a regression curve that approximates the time-course data. A standard deviation obtainment unit obtains the value of a standard deviation representing the distribution of the approximation error of the regression curve with respect to the time-course data. A standard deviation comparison judgment unit compares the value of the standard deviation and a predetermined threshold value that is stored in a standard deviation storage unit with each other. When the value of the standard deviation is greater than the threshold value, the standard deviation comparison judgment unit judges that a position shift of the sample material with respect to a sample table is present and outputs the result of the judgment. | 04-16-2009 |
20090099810 | METHOD FOR FAULT DETECTION IN AN ACTUATOR - A method for detecting fault in an actuator. By transmitting a control value, which is generated by a control unit, to an input of the actuator a signal for the measured actuator position is produced at the output of the actuator. The signal for the measured actuator position is sent to an input of a signal conditioning unit which determines from it a measure of actuator movement. The control value is also transmitted to an input of a modeling unit, which calculates from it an expected measure of actuator movement. These movements are sent to a computer unit, which produces a corresponding status signal for the functionality of the actuator and for the functionality of the sensor for determining the actuator position. | 04-16-2009 |
20090119059 | Position Detecting System and Method for Electronic Device - A position detecting system and method for an electronic device used an audio signal input module of the electronic device and a signal receiver to connect to the audio signal input module convert an external position signal into an audio signal. A position detecting software running on the electronic device analyzes the audio signal. Accordingly, the current position of the electronic device is obtained. The audio signal input module of the electronic device is employed as an input port for the external position signal, thus saving the construction cost of the system. Besides, the current position of the electronic device with an ever-changing position can be obtained during a test process, such that the electronic device can start or stop a test item accordingly. | 05-07-2009 |
20090119060 | Spacecraft solar cell monitoring system - An onboard solar cell array current and voltage characteristic determination method is preferably used on small spacecraft and determines the solar cell orientation relative to the sun by a comparison between prelaunch solar cell characteristics with on-orbit solar cell characteristics well suited for spin axis determinations and monitoring the degradation of on-orbit solar cells over the operational life of a picosatellite. | 05-07-2009 |
20090132198 | Mobile Electronic Apparatus and Method for Processing Bearing of Mobile Electronic Apparatus - The influence of a magnetic field on a geomagnetic sensor is detected to report a highly reliable bearing, and a 3D geomagnetic sensor ( | 05-21-2009 |
20090132199 | Method for Measuring the Structural Health of a Civil Structure - Methods are disclosed wherein the structural health of a civil structure, such as, but not limited to, a bridge or the like is measured by electronic distance measurement from a plurality of stable locations to a plurality of cardinal points on the structure in a methodical manner. By measuring the coordinates of the cardinal points, the dynamic and long-term static behavior of the structure provide an indication of the health of the structure. Analysis includes; comparison to a Finite Element Model (FEM), comparison to historical data, linearity, hysteresis, symmetry, creep, damping coefficient, and harmonic terms. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138230 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AN ELEMENT OF A STRUCTURE IN AN ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENT - A system and method are provided in which an element of a structure may be reliably identified. For example, a system may include a part selection element configured to interact with at least one positional marker having a predefined location. The part selection element is also configured to select at least a portion of a structure, with the structure being positioned at a predetermined location and orientation. The part selection element may also be configured to identify a depth within the structure. The system also includes a computing device configured to identify an element of the structure based upon the position and orientation of the part selection element and the portion of the structure selected by the part selection element. In instances in which a depth is identified, the computing device may also be configured to identify the element of the structure at the depth identified within the structure. | 05-28-2009 |
20090144017 | DEVICE FOR LOCATING A RIGHT OR LEFT POSITION OF A TIRE AND WHEEL ASSEMBLY OF A VEHICLE - A location device is provided, in which the device is configured to be carried by a tire and wheel assembly so as to locate a right or left position of the assembly in a vehicle. The device includes two magnetic sensors with axes of maximum sensitivity; a measurement circuit for measuring a signal across terminals of each of the magnetic sensors, the measurement circuit being able to deliver two periodic signals phase-shifted with respect to one another and each periodic signal being representative of variations in values of a magnetic field detected by a corresponding magnetic sensor during a revolution of the tire and wheel assembly; and a calculation processor programmed to determine, based on the phase shift between the two periodic signals, a direction of rotation of the tire and wheel assembly, and to deduce from the direction of rotation and a direction of travel of the vehicle, a right or left location of the tire and wheel assembly. The two magnetic sensors have their axes of maximum sensitivity oriented in parallel, and in the two magnetic sensors are configured to be placed on the tire and wheel assembly at distinct azimuths. | 06-04-2009 |
20090157347 | Communications system for position detector - A communications system for a position detector comprises a position detector for detecting the amount of movement of a table, an A/D converter connected to the position detector, a numerical control device connected to the A/D converter and receiving a position signal converted by the A/D converter, and an information processor connected to the A/D converter via a USB capable of bidirectional communication. The information processor includes a storage section for preserving data and a program, a computing section for computationally operating the program, and a display section for indicating the results of computational operation by the computing section, and the data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090177435 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Locating a Measuring Device and for Measuring Large Objects - For the measurement of a large object, a reference point known in the coordinate system of the measuring arm is located by using an optical locating system, when the measuring arm is in the first location. The sensors of the sensor-equipped measuring arm indicate how the measuring tip moves between the different positions of the measuring arm. The sensor-equipped measuring arm is transferred to a second location, in which a new reference point is located. Also in the second location, the sensors indicate how the measuring tip moves between the different positions of the measuring arm. The information indicating the location of the points to be measured is transformed to a common coordinate system by using the information on the location of the first and second reference point and information indicating the location of the measuring tip in each position of the measuring arm. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177436 | Position Detecting Device and Position Detecting Method - The present invention relates to a position detecting device capable of canceling an error due to looseness in a vertical direction and of eliminating variation in temperature characteristics by calculating a ratio between output voltages of a plurality of Hall elements. Assuming that the Hall voltage Vhe1 of a Hall element becomes A·K·Bhe1 (A is the amplification factor of a preamplifier, K is a constant, and Bhe1 is the magnetic flux density the Hall element receives), then a PI regulator automatically adjusts the bias point of the PI output by feedback control in such a manner that A·K·Bhe1+Vref=AGND (=0) holds. The Hall voltage Vhe2 of the Hall element after amplification becomes A·K·Bhe2. Since K=−Vref/A·Bhe1, the Hall voltage Vhe2 of the Hall element is given by −Vref·Bhe2/Bhe1. | 07-09-2009 |
20090177437 | Indoor navigation system and method - This document discusses, among other things, a portable device that generates position and orientation data to facilitate movement within a building. The device can be, for example, handheld or affixed to a cane. Data for navigation is derived from reflections from interior surfaces and dead reckoning sensors. | 07-09-2009 |
20090182527 | GENERAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An information management system is intended for management of digitally represented information which is associated with absolute positions on an imaginary surface ( | 07-16-2009 |
20090204362 | INDOOR LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed are a system and a method for an indoor location determination using a matrix pencil. The system comprises a transmitter node that creates and transmits a transmission packet having a plurality of same symbols. A receiver node receives the transmission packet, calculates a delay time by using the symbols in the transmission packet and a matrix pencil algorithm, and calculates a distance between the transmitter node and the receiver node by using the delay time. The delay time estimation using the matrix pencil can reduce an error ratio and therefore can estimate more exactly the distance between the nodes. | 08-13-2009 |
20090216484 | METHOD FOR THE RELATIVE POSITIONING OF AN OBJECT TO BE MEASURED AND OF A MOTOR VEHICLE TO A MEASURING DEVICE, AND MEASURING DEVICE AND A DEVICE FOR MEASURING A CHASSIS - A method for the relative positioning of an object to be measured with respect to a measuring device, first of all the object to be measured is detected by the measuring device and the position of the object to be measured with respect to the measuring device is ascertained. Then a return message signal is generated which indicates whether the object to be measured is located in a position that is suitable for taking the measurement or not. | 08-27-2009 |
20090248351 | Contact Displacement Meter - It is an object to provide a contact displacement meter capable of performing an accurate displacement measurement even in a case where a movement speed of a contact is fast, as well as having high resistance property to optical noise. A reference light passing regions are away from each other by a distance of a unique value in a movement scale. A peak position of the reference light passing region at which s received light signal of light passed through the reference light passing region takes a local maxim is detected, and an absolute position of the reference light passing region is specified based on the distance between the adjacent peak positions. A relative position of the reference light passing region with respect to a line sensor is specified based on a received light signal of light passed through a lattice region. A displacement of the contact is calculated based on the specified absolute position and the relative position. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248352 | MOTION SENSING PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC COMPASS WITH MOTION SENSING PROGRAM - A motion sensing program for executing a motion sensing based on at least a biaxial output of a magnetic sensor, which includes the steps of determining with respect to execution of the motion sensing based on the output of the specific biaxial output of the magnetic sensor upon its rotation in a predetermined direction, and identifying the rotating direction when execution of the motion sensing is determined. | 10-01-2009 |
20090259431 | ELECTRON BEAM WRITING APPARATUS AND POSITION DISPLACEMENT AMOUNT CORRECTING METHOD - The present invention provides an electron beam writing apparatus and an image placement error correcting method each capable of calculating a high-accuracy correction amount relative to an image placement error in consideration of a difference in required unit area of height distribution data between the shape of a back surface of an EUV mask and the shape of a surface of a pin chuck. Of back surface shape data of the EUV mask necessary to perform an image placement error correction of each pattern, the back surface shape data of a position brought into contact with each pin of the pin chuck is extracted. The image placement error is calculated only from the extracted back surface shape data. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259432 | TRACKING DETERMINATION BASED ON INTENSITY ANGULAR GRADIENT OF A WAVE - Handheld device, base station, computer readable medium and method for detecting a position of a handheld device. The method includes measuring intensities of at least one beam emitted by a base station; calculating relative intensities based on the measured intensities; and determining the position of the handheld device based on the measured intensities and the calculated relative intensities. | 10-15-2009 |
20090265133 | LOCALIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE OBJECT USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to a localization system and method for a mobile object. An object of the present invention is to provide a localization system and method for a mobile object capable of obtaining precise stable position data against changes in light intensity and vibration of the mobile object and reducing operation loads of a control system disposed in the mobile object, as compared with a conventional case. Accordingly, the present invention provides a localization system for a mobile object mainly including a localization module which is mounted in the mobile object and comprises one or more optical indicators, an RF transceiving means, and a processing unit for receiving location information on the optical indicator from a sensing module and calculating a position and direction of the mobile object, and a sensing module which comprises an optical sensing means for detecting an optical signal emitted from the optical indicator of the localization module, an RF transceiving means, and a processing unit for obtaining the location information on the optical indicator from the optical signal detected by the optical sensing means. In addition, in the localization method according to the present invention, a position of the mobile object is not measured by using an own sensor disposed in the mobile object, and the localization module receives position information measured by the sensing module installed in outside through wireless communication and uses the position information to confirm a position thereof. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271143 | RADIATION MEASURING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A radiation measuring device capable of identifying the incident direction of a radiation ray and energy (segmentation) The directivity characteristics of a plurality of detectors are different from each other. A plurality of energy segmentations are set respectively for a plurality of spectra corresponding to a plurality of detectors, and actual measurement ratio information (a plurality of actual measurement counting ratios) expressing the mutual ratio between integrated counting values for each energy segmentation is computed. The actual measurement ratio information is checked against a plurality of response functions, and, when the compatibility relation between specific actual measurement ratio information and specific theoretical ratio information is found, the incident direction of a radiation ray and an energy segmentation are identified based on that relation. | 10-29-2009 |
20090281762 | IC device-in-pocket detection with angular mounted lasers and a camera - A detection method and apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus includes at least two angular mounted lasers, a surface for receiving laser lines emitted by the angular mounted lasers, a camera for detecting a laser pattern formed by the laser lines on the surface, and a processor for analyzing the laser pattern. The lasers emit orthogonal laser lines on a surface of the device. The camera detects a laser pattern on the surface of the device and the processor analyzes the laser pattern to determine whether the position of the device is in pocket based on the analysis and position algorithms. | 11-12-2009 |
20090281763 | METHOD TO ORIENT A SPHERE OR BALL - A method for aligning a sphere to a desired orientation includes imaging a non-surface alignment feature of the sphere and calculating a current orientation of the sphere based on an image of the non-surface alignment feature. Using these calculations, a relationship between the current orientation of the sphere and the desired orientation of the sphere is calculated and communicated to a motion control device, and aligning the sphere into the desired orientation using the motion control device. | 11-12-2009 |
20090281764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF PARAMETERS OF A FLAT MATERIAL - A system and method for measurement of parameters of a conductive material, include generating an oscillating electromagnetic field (EMF) interacting with a sample portion from a remotely positioned source; measuring values of components of impedance of the electromagnetic; populating a system of equations including a theory of electromagnetism-based mathematical model of the electromagnetic system; solving the system of equations to calculate values of a distance between the sample portion and the source, thickness of the sample portion in proximity to a point of projection of the source onto the sample portion and electromagnetic properties of the sample portion; outputting the calculated values as the measured values; and repeating the steps of generating, populating, solving, outputting and repeating using the calculated values for the step of populating in place of the measured component values. | 11-12-2009 |
20090281765 | METHOD OF LOCATING AN OBJECT IN 3D - Methods and devices for calculating the position of a movable device are disclosed. The device may include multiple optical detectors (ODs) and the movable device may include light sources. Optics may be above the ODs. A controller may calculate the position of the light source based on data from the ODs and properties of the optics. The device may be a game console, and the light source may be a game controller. The roles of the OD and light sources may be interchanged. The rotation of the movable device may be determined using multiple light sources and/or multiple ODs on the movable device. The movable device may calculate its position and transmit it to a console. The light sources may be modulated by time or frequency to distinguish between the light sources. There may be two or more movable devices. There may be two or more consoles. | 11-12-2009 |
20090299683 | Emitting and focusing apparatus, methods, and systems - Apparatus, methods, and systems provide emitting, field-adjusting, and focusing of electromagnetic energy. In some approaches the field-adjusting includes providing an extended depth of field greater than a nominal depth of field. In some approaches the field-adjusting includes field-adjusting with a transformation medium, where the transformation medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a metamaterial. | 12-03-2009 |
20090299684 | Method for calibrating cameras installed on vehicle - A method for calibrating vehicle cameras is simplified by providing painted patterns on a road surface and by capturing those patterns by the cameras to be calibrated. According to a predefined positional relationship of the cameras with the painted patterns, captured images of the painted patterns are bird's-eye converted and matched with reference to calculate camera positions in a vehicle, thereby enabling an automatic calibration of camera directions and the like. | 12-03-2009 |
20090299685 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSITION DETERMINATION - A method and device for position determination, in which one or more application requests a positioning method selection device for positioning data. The positioning method selection device provides an application with positioning data using one or more positioning method in accordance with settings defined by the application and/or the user. The positioning method selection device receives a positioning request from an application, forms a parameter or parameters indicating the quality of positioning requested by the application, compares the quality of positioning data provided by the positioning methods with the positioning quality required by the application, and sends the positioning data to the application in response to the positioning request. | 12-03-2009 |
20090312980 | System for detecting position of underwater vehicle - A position detection system for an underwater inspection unit (underwater vehicle) is capable of being improved in detection accuracy of its position. | 12-17-2009 |
20090312981 | ALIGNMENT MARK AND ALIGNMENT METHOD USING THE ALIGNMENT MARK - An alignment mark structure includes a first pair of first side walls and a second pair of second side walls. The first pair of first side walls faces each other and extends in a first direction. The first pair of first side walls crosses a first data detection line. The second pair of second side walls faces each other and extends in a second direction being different from the first direction. The second pair of second side walls crosses the first data detection line. | 12-17-2009 |
20090319222 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide a portable terminal device capable of always providing a precise azimuth if the distance or the direction from a magnetism generation section of a loudspeaker, etc., to a magnetism detector changes as cases are opened/closed or are rotated. A portable terminal device | 12-24-2009 |
20090319223 | Encoder with lifetime events memory - A position measuring system features a position measuring device ( | 12-24-2009 |
20100004894 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MEASURING MOTION OF SCREW MECHANISM - An electronic measuring device for measuring and displaying a linear displacement of a horizontal screw mechanism, the device comprising: a gravity acceleration sensor adapted for measuring an angle of rotation value of a horizontal rotational shaft of a screw mechanism; a data processing unit for converting the angle of rotation value into a linear displacement value according to characteristics of the linear screw mechanism; and a digital display unit for displaying the linear displacement value; in which the gravity acceleration sensor, the data processing unit, and the digital display unit are electronically or electrically connected. | 01-07-2010 |
20100010772 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A first attitude calculation means S | 01-14-2010 |
20100023297 | GEAR MESHING ANGLE DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE - Based on a left tooth surface ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100030513 | Method for Disposing Power/Ground Plane of PCB - A method for disposing power planes and ground planes of a printed circuit board (PCB), said method comprising the steps of: providing a PCB on which is disposed with a geometric layout and a via hole; providing a line on said PCB for intersecting said geometric layout to form a plurality of points of intersection; defining line segments by segmenting said line at each of said points of intersection to form a plurality of line segments; deleting some of said line segments having one end not being point of intersection for said geometric layout to form a plurality of segmented regions; searching a closed region by repeatedly searching region from any one of the points in said plurality of segmented regions; determining whether a closed region is a smallest closed region; determining whether a via hole is located within said smallest closed region. | 02-04-2010 |
20100049469 | Relative positioning - For supporting a relative positioning, information on barometric pressure at a first device and information on barometric pressure at a second device is converted into a difference in altitude between the first device and the second device. The difference in altitude between the first device and the second device is then used in determining a position of the first device relative to the second device. | 02-25-2010 |
20100063767 | Position Detector - Embodiments of the present invention provide a position detector for detecting the position of a helicopter blade comprising a sensor arranged to generate a signal in dependence on the position of a helicopter blade with respect to the sensor and a data processing module arranged to receive the signal from the sensor and generate an output indicative of the blade position from the received signal, the sensor comprising; a mask (M | 03-11-2010 |
20100076720 | ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MOVEMENT RECORD COMPUTING APPARATUS - An orientation detection method includes: a standard orientation determination step that detects a direction of an orientation determination element outside of a portable device with a direction detection device under the condition that a position of the portable device is fixed, and that determines the standard orientation of the portable device based on the result of the detection and the position of the portable device; and a relative angle detection step that computes a present orientation of the portable device based on both a result of a re-detection of the direction of the orientation decision element with the direction detection device and the position of the portable device after the determination of the standard orientation, and that detects an angle between the present orientation and the standard orientation. | 03-25-2010 |
20100082287 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING SPECTROPHOTOMETER MISALIGNMENT - This application generally relates to methods and systems for detecting spectrophotometer misalignment. In particular, the application may characterize the noise of a spectral measurement relative to a reference substrate known to exhibit a generally linear (flat) spectral output over a known spectrum. From the spectral measurement, a linear regression may be performed on a portion of the spectral output to determine a best fit line and a correlation of determination (“R-squared value”) may be determined correlated the measured data to the best fit line. Finally, the R squared value may be compared to a predetermined threshold R squared value to determine if the sensor is misaligned beyond an acceptable amount. If so, an alert may be generated. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082288 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE PATH OF AN OBJECT MOVING IN TWO DIMENSIONS - A method of reconstructing, in two dimensions, a path of a living being or of an object moving, by a repetitive movement, in a plane or a two-dimensional surface or along a plane or a two-dimensional surface, including: measuring at least two variable components of the projection of the terrestrial magnetic field on at least two axes of a biaxial or triaxial magnetometer connected to or situated on the living being or object, measuring the period, or frequency, of a signal corresponding to the measurement of at least one of the variable components along one of the axes of the magnetometer, measuring the heading, or direction, of the movement, from at least two field measurements along at least two axes of the magnetometer, and reconstituting the path from the measurements of period or frequency and of heading or direction. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082289 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING GEOMETRIC DATA OF A CONICAL MEASUREMENT OBJECT - Determining geometric data of a conical measurement object comprises determining spatial coordinates at a plurality of measurement points of the measurement object. At least six spatial coordinates are determined on at least six different measurement points. Element parameters of a tangential conical substitute element are determined by means of a system of equations which describes difference values between the spatial coordinates and the tangential conical substitute element. The difference values are modeled by means of at least two difference parameters whose sum represents a perpendicular spacing between the tangential conical substitute element and a spatial coordinate. Geometric data of the conical measurement object is determined using the substitute element. | 04-01-2010 |
20100094584 | Sensing System and Method for Obtaining Location of Pointer thereof - In a sensing system and a method for obtaining a location of a pointer, the sensing system includes a sensing area, a reflective mirror, a first image sensor and a second image sensor. The reflective mirror is configured for generating a mirror image of the sensing area. The sensing system utilizes the above two image sensors to sense the pointer disposed in the sensing area and a mirror image of the pointer for obtaining two coordinate values. And then the sensing system endues each of the two coordinate values with a weighting factor for calculating the location of the pointer. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094585 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS THAT CAN DISTINGUISH STRAY LIGHT SOURCES - Remote control systems that can distinguish predetermined light sources from stray light sources, e.g., environmental light sources and/or reflections are provided. The predetermined light sources can be disposed in asymmetric substantially linear or two-dimensional patterns. The predetermined light sources also can output waveforms modulated in accordance with one or more signature modulation characteristics. The predetermined light sources also can output light at different signature wavelengths. | 04-15-2010 |
20100106452 | MOVING DIRECTION DETECTOR - In detecting the position and the moving direction of a magnetic moving body, there is provided a moving direction detector that can accurately detect the position, regardless of the moving direction. The moving direction detector is provided with groups of sensor elements that face a moving body ( | 04-29-2010 |
20100106453 | ACTION RECOGNITION AND INTERPRETATION USING A PRECISION POSITIONING SYSTEM - To facilitate the recognition and interpretation of actions undertaken within an environment, the environment is associated with a precision positioning system (PPS) and a controller in communication with the PPS. Within the environment, an entity moves about in furtherance of one or more tasks to be completed within the environment. The PPS determines position data corresponding to at least a portion of the entity, which position data is subsequently compared with at least one known action corresponding to a predetermined task within the environment. Using a state-based task model, recognized actions may be interpreted and used to initiate at least one system action based on the current state of the task model and correspondence of the position data to the at least one known action. In an embodiment, an entity recognition system provides an identity of the entity to determine whether the entity is authorized to perform an action. | 04-29-2010 |
20100114521 | VARIABLE SHAFT SIZING FOR MEASUREMENT TARGETS - A measurement targeting apparatus comprises a target body, a vessel with a channel, a fluid located within the channel in the vessel, and a pressurization system. The target body is selected from one of a photogrammetry target, a theodolite target, a construction ball, a touch probe target, a coordinating measurement machine probe target, a laser tracker target, and a laser projector target. The vessel has a centerline, has a substantially cylindrical portion capable of being received in a hole in a part, and is comprised of a material selected from steel, aluminum, and plastic. The vessel is capable of expanding when the fluid within the channel in the vessel is pressurized. The pressurization system is capable of pressurizing the fluid within the channel to cause the vessel to expand around the centerline. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114522 | PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED ALIGNMENT CORRECTION METHODS - Several embodiments of photolithography systems and associated methods of alignment correction are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for correcting alignment errors in a photolithography system includes detecting a first alignment error at a first location of a first microelectronic substrate and a second alignment error at a second location of a second microelectronic substrate. The second location generally corresponds to the first location. The method also includes deriving a statistical dispersion between the first alignment error and the second alignment error and associating the first and second locations with an alignment procedure based on the derived statistical dispersion. | 05-06-2010 |
20100125432 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, COMPUTER, PROGRAM, AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS - A measurement apparatus includes an interferometer, and a computer configured to calculate a phase distribution and an amplitude distribution by Fourier-transforming a first interference signal detected by the photoelectric conversion element of the interferometer, to correct the phase distribution using a correction-use phase difference distribution, to calculate a second interference signal by reverse-Fourier-transforming the phase distribution that has been corrected and the amplitude distribution, and to calculate the position of the target surface based on the second interference signal. | 05-20-2010 |
20100138183 | Surgical Navigation Enabled Imaging Table Environment - A system for integrating radiolucent tracking sensors in a medical table, table mat, or surgical drape of a surgical navigation system, allowing the surgical navigation system to be less obtrusive in a surgery environment. A plurality of radiolucent magnetoresistance sensors are integrated into a table, table mat, or surgical draping of a surgical navigation system for improving surgical navigation workflow and eliminating image artifacts from intraoperative images. The plurality of radiolucent magnetoresistance sensors may be located within a table or adjacent to a table surface. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138184 | Likelihood Map System for Localizing an Emitter - A system and a method for displaying an emitter location are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of receivers at different locations in a field. Each receiver generates a receiver signal that depends on the magnitude of a signal from the emitter. The system also includes a processor that receives the receiver signal and generates a likelihood map indicative of an approximation of a probability as a function of position in the field of the emitter location. The likelihood map includes a plurality of receiver maps. Each receiver map includes a probability as a function of position in the field of the emitter location based on the signal magnitude for at least one of the receiver signals. Each receiver map may depend on a ratio of the signal magnitudes from a corresponding pair of the receivers, or on one of the signal magnitudes from a corresponding one of the receivers. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153058 | GEOMETRIC INSPECTION OF MACHINED OBJECTS - A method and apparatus may be present for inspecting an object. A plurality of locations associated with a plurality of operations performed by a tool on the object may be tracked. The plurality of locations is tracked while the plurality of operations is performed on the object. A path for the tool may be mapped using the plurality of locations to form a tool path. The tool path may be compared to a model of the object. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153059 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE POSITIONS OF MARKS ON A MASK - An apparatus for measuring the positions of marks on a mask is provided, said apparatus comprising a mask holder for holding the mask, a recording unit for recording the marks of the mask held by the mask holder, an actuating module for moving the mask holder and the recording unit relative to each other, and an evaluating module, which numerically calculates the gravity-induced sagging of the mask in the mask holder and determines the positions of the marks on the mask, based on the calculated sagging, the recordings made by the recording unit and the relative movement between the mask holder and the recording unit, wherein, prior to calculating said sagging, the present position of the mask in the mask holder is determined and is taken into consideration in said numerical calculation, and/or the geometrical dimensions of the mask are taken into consideration in said numerical calculation of sagging. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153060 | Multidimensional Sensor Data Analyzer - A multidimensional sensor data analyzer that includes: discretizing values in multidimensional sensor data at index locations in value surfaces that reside in a multidimensional value space; deriving surface components resulting from the intersection of a geometric beam shape function that describing the sensor beam with the value surfaces; determining minimum-maximum index location limits for the surface components; determining surface component index points by identifying the index locations that are located within the minimum-maximum index location limits for the surface components; and generating a beam value by performing a beam function using the values at the surface component index points. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161272 | PHYSICAL AMOUNT MEASURING DEVICE AND PHYSICAL AMOUNT MEASURING METHOD - Even if a measurement data group is not a measurement data group that is obtained in a space where the magnitude of a vector physical quantity to be measured is uniform, an offset with high reliability is estimated. The reliability of the estimated offset is further improved. A vector physical quantity comprised of a plurality of components is repeatedly detected and vector physical quantity data group is obtained, and a difference vector group is calculated from the obtained vector physical quantity data group. A reference point included in the vector physical quantity data group is estimated based on a predetermined evaluation formula using the calculated difference vector group. Whether the calculated difference vector group is suitable for the estimation of the reference point is determined. Only a predetermined difference vector group is output for the estimation of the reference point based on the determination result. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ILLUSTRATIVE INFORMATION OF MEASURED DATA - A method for dynamically displaying illustrative information of measured data of a manufactured part, obtained by a coordinate measuring machine, defines measured characteristics of the measured data. Graphical aides are created. Each of the defined measured characteristics is related to one of the graphical aides. If one of the defined measured characteristics is to be illustrated, the related graphical aide is retrieved and displayed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100179786 | METHOD FOR MEASURING POSITION OF PORTABLE TERMINAL AND INDOOR ILLUMINATING APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - Provided is a method of measuring the position of a portable terminal, comprising detecting indoor illuminating light, and outputting an electric signal corresponding to the detected indoor illuminating light, obtaining a plurality of data frames from the output electrical signal, and calculating a position of the portable terminal based on information regarding the position of a corresponding reference light source included in each data frame and an identifier corresponding to the reference light source included in said each frame and a reception time of said each data frame. | 07-15-2010 |
20100185411 | OBJECT MONITOR - An object monitor including two or more sensors for detecting two or more objects on two or more paths. Each sensor operates to detect location values of an object traveling along one of the paths. A processor receives first location values of a first object and calculates a first arrival time of the first object at a collision point. The processor receives second location values of a second object and calculates a second arrival time of the second object at the collision point. The processor operates to provide an alarm signal when the first arrival time and the second arrival time are within a safety difference value of being equal. | 07-22-2010 |
20100191500 | ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL MANIPULATORS - A method of determining the positions and orientations of the base ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100191501 | Traveling direction measuring apparatus and traveling direction measuring method - The present invention relates to a traveling direction measuring apparatus usable as a pedestrian navigation system in locations where it is difficult to obtain high positioning accuracy such as inside buildings or around multistory buildings where a GPS cannot be used. An acceleration detecting section (1) detects 3-axes acceleration of the traveling direction measuring apparatus, which varies with the walking of the pedestrian. An acceleration data acquiring section (2) obtains 3-axes acceleration data repeatedly by the number of prescribed times or more, said 3-axes acceleration data varies with the walking of the pedestrian. A first gravity acceleration calculating section (3) calculates, when the pedestrian is walking with holding the traveling direction measuring apparatus in a generally fixed attitude, gravity acceleration by averaging acceleration data sets during several steps obtained by the acceleration data acquiring section (2). A first moving direction estimating section (4) estimates the moving direction of the pedestrian from frequency components corresponding to the duration of one step of the acceleration data sets projected on a plane perpendicular to the gravity acceleration calculated by the first gravity acceleration calculating section (3). | 07-29-2010 |
20100198551 | Sensor for the Detection of the Position of a Mechanical Force-Transmitting Device - A device for the wire-free determination of a position of a mechanical force-transmitting device, having at least one storage device for storing electrical energy, at least one sensor element which detects the position and is monitored by at least one sensor electronic unit, including at least one radio transmitter, and at least one photovoltaic energy supply device supplying the storage device with electrical energy. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198552 | Camber Tracking System - An edge detection system including an elongated sheet defining a longitudinal axis and having at least one edge and a sensor positioned relative to the elongated sheet, the sensor defining a scan field having a null zone, wherein the sensor is moveable relative to the sheet in a direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis to align the null zone with the edge. | 08-05-2010 |
20100204953 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD AND PROGRAM - A gesture recognition apparatus includes: first and second one-dimensional sensor means for detecting movement corresponding to a motion of an object in a one-dimensional direction along one detection axis and outputting a signal corresponding to the detected movement; a normalization processing means for executing processing of normalization of first and second signals outputted from the first and second one-dimensional sensor means; a phase plane mapping processing means for forming a signal track corresponding to the first and second signals in time series by plotting coordinates on a phase plane using x- and y-coordinate values based on the normalized first and second signals; a correlation coefficient calculation means for calculating a correlation coefficient with respect to the first and second signals using coordinate values forming the signal track; and a motion determination means for determining whether the detected movement is a motion in the first or second direction based on the value of the correlation coefficient. | 08-12-2010 |
20100211351 | GLOBAL POSITIONING USING PLANETARY CONSTANTS - The disclosed invention is generally comprised of a device capable of measuring the vector sum of the centripetal acceleration of the rotation of the Earth (or that of any other planet in a planetary system) around its axis (a | 08-19-2010 |
20100211352 | MARK ARRANGEMENT INSPECTING METHOD, MASK DATA, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of inspecting a mark arrangement according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating mask data in which mark seed data that includes an inspection mark that includes vector information and is not drawn on a mask and mark data is arranged on a scribe line of the mask, calculating coordinates of the inspection mark from a reference position of the mark seed data, detecting an arrangement state of the inspection mark with respect to the reference position by using the coordinates and vector information, and judging whether the mark seed data is correctly arranged by comparing the arrangement state of the inspection mark with an arrangement check rule. | 08-19-2010 |
20100217560 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A system for smoothly executing information processing in the case where information processing is executed to all of the information in relation to a target area, and at the same time other information processing is executed in parallel thereto. In information processing system | 08-26-2010 |
20100223026 | Methods for Reducing the Receipt of Multiple Signals in a Portable Information Handling System - A method for reducing the receipt of multiple signals in a portable information handling system (IHS) is closed including receiving a first signal corresponding to a detected lid position of the portable IHS. The method further includes determining if a first predetermined amount of time has elapsed and if the first predetermined amount of time has not elapsed, preventing the receipt of an additional signal corresponding to a change in the detected lid position. Further, a portable information handling system may include a lid, a base coupled to the lid and a sensor disposed on the lid or base, wherein the sensor detects a lid position. The system further includes a processor coupled to the sensor, wherein the processor generates a first signal corresponding to the lid position and the processor is operable to generate an additional signal corresponding to a change in the lid position. | 09-02-2010 |
20100235137 | ABSOLUTE POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An absolute position measurement apparatus measures an absolute position of an object to be measured using a first light source and a second light source which has coherency lower than that of the first light source. The absolute position measurement apparatus includes a measurement part which measures a point where phases of interference signals from the first and the second light sources coincide with each other or a point where an intensity of the interference signal from the second light source is maximized, an origin defining part which defines the point measured by the measurement part as an origin position, a phase storing part which stores the phase of the interference signal from the first light source at the origin position, an origin redefining part which redefines the origin position, and a position calculating part which calculates the absolute position of the object to be measured. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TOLERANCE TO INTERFERENCE AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF LINE OF SIGHT - Various aspects of the present invention are shown and described, each of which has stand alone utility in a navigated medical environment. A receiver position calibration system and method facilitates calibration of a reference frame prior to each navigated procedure. A concept and application of confidence weights is introduced. Confidence weights can be applied to distance calculations to mitigate the effects of interference and increase the tolerance of the navigated medical system. Multi-path interference is minimized through the transmission of a signal having a pattern of unique frequencies and filtering of the distance calculations for each frequency to identify the “best” distance in the presence of multi-path interference. A position determination method and system that transmits a signal having multiple frequency components permits positions to be identified with high resolution over a large area. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241393 | SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING AXIAL DEFORMATION OF TURBINE ROTOR - A system calculates axial deformation of a turbine rotor. The system includes: an input part that sets measurement points of a rotor disk that constitutes the turbine rotor; a deflection amount detection part that derives radial displacement amounts of the turbine rotor for at least four or more measurement points along an outer surface in a circumferential direction of the turbine rotor based on measured values measured by a displacement gage; a storage part that stores the radial displacement amounts derived by the deflection amount detection part and measured angles at the measurement points; and a calculation part that calculates misalignment data of a most probable circle of the turbine rotor based on data stored in the storage part. At least four or more measurement points are set in the circumferential direction of the turbine rotor. The calculated circle is calculated from the displacement amount and the measured angle measured at each measurement point. The most probable circle is determined from the calculated circle, and the misalignment data of the most probable circle is calculated from the most probable circle, thereby allowing axial deformation to be calculated by a simpler method than conventional methods. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250183 | INTERACTIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIMENSIONING - The present disclosure relates to interactive systems and methods for dimensioning with a mobile device. The mobile device can include an accelerometer, imager, and a corresponding algorithm configured to compute dimensions based on a plurality of inputs from the accelerometer, imager, etc. Specifically, the accelerometer allows the mobile device to measure acceleration and time, and the algorithm is configured to convert these measurements into distances. Additionally, with a three-axis accelerometer, the user can move the device off an axis being measured and still receive an accurate measurement, i.e. the algorithm can compensate for off-axis movement. Further, the present invention can incorporate an imager on the mobile device to provide additional compensation supplementing the algorithm and allowing the user additional freedom to be positioned away from the starting and end-point of a measurement. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262400 | IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION OF RADIOISOTOPES USING LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION - A radiation detection, localization, and identification system uses a searching algorithm to identify hypothetical solutions to Compton scatter data. Model based representations of the physical data collection yield the identity and location of radiation sources when correct associations of gamma ray energies and locations are made with detected data events. The system's detector is an array of radiation detectors networked to act as a single detection system. This network has wide area of view and high sensitivity to radiation sources since no collimation is required. | 10-14-2010 |
20100280790 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING END EFFECTOR ALIGNMENT USING AT LEAST A LIGHT SOURCE - A method for calibrating alignment of an end effector with respect to a chuck in a plasma processing system is provided. The method including providing a first light beam from the end effector to said chuck. The method including moving the end effector along a predefined calibration path such that the first light beam traverses a surface of the chuck. The method also includes receiving a set of reflected light signals, the set of reflected light signals being generated at least when the surface reflects the first light beam during the moving. The method including analyzing the set of reflected light signals to identify three or more discontinuities. The three or more discontinuities are related to three or more reflected light signals generated when the first light beam encounters an edge of the chuck. The method also including determining three or more coordinate data points based on the three or more discontinuities, the three or more coordinate data points representing three or more points on the edge of the chuck. The method includes determining a center of the chuck based on the three or more coordinate data points. | 11-04-2010 |
20100286946 | ORIENTATION CALCULATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING ORIENTATION CALCULATION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - A game apparatus calculates an orientation of an input device including an acceleration sensor and a gyroscope based on at least acceleration data and angular rate data acquired from the input device. The game apparatus includes reflection rate setting means, first orientation calculation means, and second orientation calculation means. The reflection rate setting means sets a reflection rate representing a degree by which an acceleration indicated by the acceleration data is reflected in the orientation. The first orientation calculation means calculates the orientation of the input device based on the acceleration indicated by the acceleration data when the reflection rate is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold. The second orientation calculation means calculates the orientation of the input device based on an angular rate indicated by the angular rate data when the reflection rate is less than a predetermined second threshold equal to or less than the first threshold. | 11-11-2010 |
20100286947 | RESILIENCE AND DISPLACEMENT MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD - A resilience and displacement measuring device is disclosed, which is configured with a shaft having a displacement detection module and a force detection module disposed respectively at the two ends thereof. When the shaft is moved for driving a probe of the force detection module to press on a tested press-key, a reflective panel in the displacement detection module will be caused to displace along with the moving of the shaft for allowing a light sensor to measure the displacement of the shaft, and the same time that the pressing of the probe on the press-key will force a detection film to deform for allowing a stain gauge to measure a resilience. The device is capable of dividing a measurement range into a plurality of sub-ranges while designing calculation models specifically for the sub-ranges, by that a precise distance can be obtained from the measured distance information of calculation models. | 11-11-2010 |
20100286948 | MAGNETIC POLE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD FOR AC SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - If there is static friction, the magnetic pole position estimation is completed at the time when error torque used for magnetic pole position estimation becomes less than the friction, so that there remains magnetic pole error. A problem has been that when the error torque becomes less than a forward static friction, there remains a positive magnetic pole deviation and when the error torque becomes less than a backward static friction, there remains a negative magnetic pole deviation. By shifting in the negative direction and the positive direction initial values for estimating a magnetic pole error in operation sets, a true pole-error estimation value is estimated in the use of a pole-error estimation value having a positive magnetic pole error obtained by the positive shift operation and a negative one obtained by the negative shift operation, which can reduce estimation error due to the static friction. | 11-11-2010 |
20100286949 | POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND RECEPTION DEVICE, AND POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD - Positions of a plurality of transmission devices are precisely detected by a direct wave arriving first at a reception device without being affected by other ultrasonic signals from the transmission device. | 11-11-2010 |
20100299101 | Method, Apparatus, And System For Computer-Aided Tracking, Navigation And Motion Teaching - Methods, apparatuses, and systems for computer-aided tracking, navigation, and motion tracking. In one embodiment, a system for determining a spatial position, including a tracking device and a processor. The tracking devices has a working end, a reference end, a plurality of links connecting the working end to the reference end, wherein each link has at least one degree of freedom relative to an adjacent link, and a plurality of sensors measuring the orientation of the links in a plurality of degrees of freedom, wherein X is a minimum number of degrees of freedom about which information is required to define the spatial position. The processor receives information from the sensors and determine the spatial position of the working end of the tracking device relative to the reference end of the tracking device based on information from the sensors measuring Y degrees of freedom, wherein Y is greater than X. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299102 | Location Device with a Gravity Measuring Device - A location device has a gravity measurement instrument in communication with a database which has the locations relative to time of an astronomical object. The location device also has a timepiece indicating the time which may be used to determine the location of the astronomical object. | 11-25-2010 |
20100318318 | Methods for Estimating Location Using Signal with Varying Signal Speed - Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of signal propagation. Realistic prior probability distributions of pertinent variables are permitted for the locations of stations, the speed of signal propagation, and errors in measurements. Bounds and probability distributions can be obtained without making any assumption of linearity. The sequential methods used for location are applicable in other applications in which a function of the probability distribution is desired for variables that are related to measurements. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318319 | PROJECTION APPARATUS - The invention relates to an apparatus ( | 12-16-2010 |
20100318320 | Method for the Computer-Aided Calculation of the Movement of an Object Using Sensor Data - A method for the computer-aided calculation of the movement of an object using sensor data from a sensor arranged on the object is provided. The sensor data comprise measuring point set measured at different time points, and the movement of the object is determined between different measuring point sets. From the measuring point sets, initially structural information is extracted and stored together with the measuring points that are not to be associated with any structural type. Subsequently, associations between the structural elements with the same structure type are determined and a corresponding transformation for representing the structural elements is performed. An association of the unassignable measuring points and the structural elements is created and a corresponding transformation of the superimposed associated measuring points and structural elements is performed. The structural elements or measuring points are associated preferably by a statistic method taking into account a measuring noise of the sensor. | 12-16-2010 |
20100324859 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REGISTERING THE TIME AND LOCATION OF WEAPON FIRINGS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth an apparatus for registering time and location of a weapon firing of a weapon. The apparatus includes a microcontroller, a pressure sensor located in proximately to the weapon and adapted to determine pressure data based on air pressure in proximity to the weapon and provide the pressure data to a microcontroller, an accelerometer located in proximity to the weapon and adapted to determine acceleration data based on movement of the weapon and provide the acceleration data to the microcontroller; a time device adapted to keep time and provide the time to the microcontroller; a location sensor located in proximity to the weapon and adapted to determine a location of the weapon and provide the location of the weapon to the microcontroller; and a memory coupled to the microcontroller. | 12-23-2010 |
20100324860 | Signal Emitting or Receiving Pointer - A signal emitting or receiving pointer and method for its use to enable the determination of the geometrical center of a rotating gantry. The pointer has emitters or receivers installed on the pointer and the signals sent or received as the gantry is rotated allow the calculation of the geometrical center of a rotating gantry. | 12-23-2010 |
20100324861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIORAL MONITORING AND CALIBRATION - Systems and methods for the analysis of the diverse behaviors of animal subjects in defined areas are provided, including tools for filtering and analysis of high-resolution behavioral data. These systems and methods provide an opportunity to examine behavioral patterns with levels of precision and quantization that have not been previously achieved. Methods and systems for managing and analyzing the very large and unique datasets produced by behavioral monitoring systems, including quality assessment and control, archiving, data query, data reduction, analytical procedures and visualization techniques are provided. Such detailed analyses of spontaneous behavior provide fundamental insights into the neural organization of behavior and enable detection of genetic, pharmacological and environmental influences on brain function with high sensitivity. | 12-23-2010 |
20100324862 | AZIMUTH PROCESSING DEVICE, AZIMUTH PROCESSING METHOD, AZIMUTH PROCESSING PROGRAM, DIRECTION FINDING DEVICE, TILT OFFSET CORRECTING METHOD, AZIMUTH MEASURING METHOD, COMPASS SENSOR UNIT, AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An azimuth processing device is designed for outputting azimuth data based on measurement data sequentially output from a compass sensor. In the device, an accumulation section selectively accumulates substantially new pieces of the measurement data. An offset data updating section updates offset data of the compass sensor based on plural pieces of the measurement data accumulated by said accumulation section. An azimuth data output section outputs the azimuth data based on substantially newest measurement data and the offset data. | 12-23-2010 |
20110004438 | COMMON MODE VOLTAGE ENUMERATION IN A BATTERY PACK - An apparatus and method for these embodiments of the present invention, useful in manufacturing for example, includes a plurality of battery modules serially intercoupled together, each module including a housing with an anode connector and a cathode connector, each housing including a memory for storing a module identifier and wherein an anode connector of a first module is coupled to a cathode connector of a second module; and a processing system, coupled to each the module, for determining a plurality of positional attributes of each the module, one positional attribute associated with each the module of the plurality of modules, the processing system writing an ID into the memory of each particular module responsive to the associated positional attribute for the particular module. | 01-06-2011 |
20110015893 | ULTRASONIC DIGITIZER AND HOST - A computing system comprises a processor and internal peripheral devices, and a system bus connecting the internal peripheral devices to the processor. One of the internal peripheral devices is an ultrasonic digitizer that digitizes ultrasonic signals from at least two associated microphones into a digitized audio signal carrying a corresponding location and outputs the digitized audio as a signal on the system bus. | 01-20-2011 |
20110022350 | System for Detecting Orientation of Magnetically Coupled Devices - A device includes a receiving surface to magnetically retain the orientation-dependent device in any one of a plurality of possible orientations. The detection device includes circuitry that detects the relative orientation of the orientation-dependent device based on a magnetic orientation of the orientation-dependent device relative to the detection device. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022351 | CAPACITIVE POSITION SENSOR - A sensor for determining a position for an adjacent object in two dimensions is described. The sensor comprises a substrate with a sensitive area defined by a pattern of electrodes, wherein the pattern of electrodes includes a first group of drive elements interconnected to form a plurality of row electrodes extending along a first direction, a second group of drive elements interconnected to form a plurality of column electrodes extending along a second direction, and a group of sense elements interconnected to form a sense electrode extending along both the first and second directions. The sensor further comprises a controller comprising a drive unit for applying drive signals to the row and column electrodes, and a sense unit for measuring sense signals representing a degree of coupling of the drive signals applied to the row and column electrodes to the sense electrode. Thus a 2D position sensor requiring only a single sense channel is provided. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029277 | METHODS AND APPLICATIONS FOR MOTION MODE DETECTION FOR PERSONAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus of detecting and using motion modes in a mobile device is described. Movement data is collected from an inertial motion unit (IMU) of the mobile device and compared to two or more sets of training data, each set of training data corresponding to a different motion mode. Then, a motion mode is determined to be the current mode of the mobile device on the results of the comparison. The motion mode is used by the mobile device in a variety of applications. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029278 | OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM, OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD AND OBJECT POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM - ID likelihoods and position likelihoods of an object are detected by a first observation device ( | 02-03-2011 |
20110029279 | METHOD FOR POSITION-CALIBRATION OF A DIGGING ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRIC MINING SHOVELS - The present invention relates generally to the field of positioning mechanical equipment, and particularly to the likes of mechanical excavation and electric mining shovels. In one embodiment, there is disclosed a system for calibrating the sensors that measure hoist and crowd motions for an electric mining shovel, enabling the position of a bucket to be known with greater accuracy than can be achieved using previously known approaches. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035183 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTING POSITION - Sonic wave speed at a part is calculated considering the environment surrounding the part, sonic wave speed around the part is measured, and the accuracy of the position detection is improved. An ultrasonic wave transmitting device is arranged at a robot hand tip, hexahedrons which can contain the tip are set, and the ultrasonic wave transmitting-receiving devices are arranged at the top points thereof. Upon detecting the tip position, a top point that is close to the tip is selected as a specific point, and sonic wave speeds from other top points to this specific point are calculated. Based on these sonic wave speeds, sonic wave speed along a route from the tip to the specific point is calculated. Based on this sonic wave speed value and spread time of ultrasonic waves between the tip and the specific point, distance from the specific point to the tip is calculated. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040520 | TRACK DETECTION DEVICE AND TRACK DETECTION METHOD THEREOF - A track detection device includes an insulating spherical housing including an inner surface, a plurality of electrostatic induction units embedded within the insulating spherical housing and evenly spaced around a center of the insulating spherical housing, a charged ball moveably attracted to the inner surface of the insulating spherical housing, and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of electrostatic induction units. The plurality of electrostatic induction units generate electrical signals when the charged ball rolls along the inner surface at a portion of the insulating spherical housing where the electrostatic induction unit is embedded. The processor is configured for detecting a track of the charged ball moving inside the insulating spherical housing according to the electrical signals. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING AN AREA - There are provided a method of evaluating an area located behind a structure and a system thereof. The system includes: at least one source of electro-magnetic radiation adapted to illuminate a structure portion and to illuminate a area portion via openings formed between elements of the structure while a relative movement is introduced between the structure and the system; multiple detectors adapted to detect electro-magnetic radiation returned from the structure portion and from the area portion; a computing unit adapted to: (i) generate, in response to the detected electro-magnetic radiation, a simplified representation the area portion; and (ii) evaluate the area portion in response to a relationship between the simplified representation of the area portion and a reference simplified representation of the area portion. | 02-17-2011 |
20110046915 | USE OF POSITIONING AIDING SYSTEM FOR INERTIAL MOTION CAPTURE - The invention provides robust real-time motion capture, using an inertial motion capture system, aided with a positioning system, of multiple closely interacting actors and to position the actor exactly in space with respect to a pre-defined reference frame. It is a further object of the invention to use such positioning systems to aid the inertial motion capture system that the known advantages of using inertial motion capture technology is not compromised to a great extent. Such positioning systems include pressure sensors, UWB positioning systems and GPS or other GNSS systems. It is a further object of the invention to avoid the use of the earth magnetic field as a reference direction as much as possible, due to the known problems of distortion thereof. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046916 | Pyrometer - A position sensitive pyrometer includes a sensor. | 02-24-2011 |
20110046917 | MEASURING METHOD FOR AN ARTICULATED-ARM COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE - The invention relates to a measuring method for determining a measurement position of a probe element | 02-24-2011 |
20110054833 | PROCESSING MOTION SENSOR DATA USING ACCESSIBLE TEMPLATES - Systems and methods for processing motion sensor data using data templates accessible to an electronic device are provided. Each data template may include template sensor data and template event data. Template sensor data of one or more templates may be compared by the electronic device to motion sensor data generated by a motion sensor. A particular template may be distinguished based on the similarity between the motion sensor data and the template sensor data of the particular template. The template event data of the distinguished particular template may then be used to control a function of the electronic device. The motion sensor data and/or the template sensor data may be associated with a user stepping event, and the template event data of the distinguished particular template may then be used to record the occurrence of the stepping event to track a user's workout history. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054834 | DETERMINING USER COMPASS ORIENTATION FROM A PORTABLE DEVICE - Apparatus and methods are provided for determining a person's compass orientation from data generated by one or more sensors embedded within a portable device transported by the person. Such sensors may include an accelerometer, a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver, a magnetometer (e.g., a compass), a barometer, etc. In some scenarios (e.g., when the person is walking), the person's initial orientation is directly determined and is used to calculate an initial orientation delta describing a difference between the person's initial orientation and an initial orientation of the device. In other scenarios, the person's current orientation is calculated based on an initial orientation of the device and a known or assumed orientation delta. Later in time, the orientation delta can be applied to the device's current orientation to determine the person's current orientation. As events involving the person and/or the device are observed, an orientation delta may be updated. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054835 | METHOD OF EVALUATING PRECISION OF OUTPUT DATA USING ERROR PROPAGATION - Method of evaluating precision of output data using error propagation includes performing numerical differentiation using input data in data processing, and thereby obtaining a Jacobian matrix J of the data processing; estimating variance-covariance of errors of the input data, and thereby obtaining an error matrix D of the input data; and calculating an error matrix from the Jacobian matrix J and the error matrix D of the input data, the error matrix R representing variance-covariance of errors of output data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054836 | NAVIGATION TRAJECTORY MATCHING - Among other things, first data is received from an inertial tracking device worn by a first person, the first data approximating locations along a first path that was traversed by the first person. Second data is received from an inertial tracking device worn by a second person, the second data approximating locations along a second path, similar to the first path, that is being traversed by the second person. A determination is made about how to guide the second person to reach the first person by using the first data and the second data to correlate locations along the first path and corresponding locations along the second path. | 03-03-2011 |
20110066398 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects are disclosed. According to one system, a locating device can be configured to determine a location of an object. According to another system, an identifying device can be configured to determine the identification of an object. Further, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the object. A communications system can be configured to communicate a signal to a remote computer device that identifies the location of the object and includes the tracking information associated with the object. | 03-17-2011 |
20110077900 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHECKING THE ATTITUDE OF A VEHICLE - An apparatus ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110077901 | MULTI-FACE, MULTI-EVENT, ORIENTATION SENSOR - An apparatus and a computer implemented method for monitoring and recording the orientation data for an object. The orientation apparatus comprises an outer casing. Inside the outer casing is an orientation device that comprises six chambers, with a ball sensor in each chamber, and a ball. The orientation apparatus also comprises a data recorder for recording an event history of the orientation device, and a communicator for conveying the event history. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082664 | METHOD OF PREDICTING POSITION OF OBJECT - A method of predicting a position of an object includes the steps of ( | 04-07-2011 |
20110082665 | STICK-SLIP DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD - A diagnosing operation controlling portion compares the magnitude of change of a control instruction value that controls the dislocation of a valve stem to a reference value that has been set in advance, and stops the malfunction evaluation operation in a diagnosing portion if the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds a reference value. If the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds the reference value, then the evaluation may be the same as for a case wherein a stick-slip has occurred, even if the operation is functioning properly. In contrast, it is possible to prevent incorrect stick-slip evaluations by stopping the operation of the diagnosing portion when the magnitude of change per unit time in the control instruction value exceeds a reference value. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087455 | Method and device for analyzing positions - The method and device for analyzing position are disclosed. By analyzing sensing information with at least one zero-crossing, each position can be analyzed. The number of analyzed positions may be different from the number of zero-crossings. When the number of analyzed positions is different from the number of zero-crossing, the number of analyzed positions is more than one. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093237 | WAFER CENTER FINDING WITH CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES - A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances. | 04-21-2011 |
20110098969 | POST SLEEVE POSITIONING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A post sleeve installation device includes a standing structure, a structure coupled to the standing structure and configured to support a post sleeve below the standing structure, and a mechanism configured to enable selective translation of the support structure in three axes and rotation around a vertical axis. Locks are provided to lock the post sleeve at a selected position and orientation relative to the standing structure. A beam extending from one installation device to another measures or controls the relative spacing, orientation, and elevation of associated post sleeves, and related data is collected for off-site manufacture of fence panels. Additionally, a repository is provided, to which the data is transmitted for retention, and from which the data can be retrieved for manufacture of replacement fence panels. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106488 | ENCODER - An encoder includes a scale, an encoder head, and a multiplication processing circuit. The encoder head includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a substantially sine-wave signal, and an output unit configured to output one of the substantially sine-wave signal and the center voltage of the substantially sine-wave signal to the multiplication processing circuit. The multiplication processing circuit includes a mode switching unit configured to switch a processing mode to one of an offset voltage detection processing mode in which an offset voltage serving as a difference between a predetermined reference voltage and the center voltage is corrected, and a displacement amount detection processing mode in which displacement detection processing is performed, an offset voltage detection unit configured to detect the offset voltage, and an offset voltage correction unit configured to correct an offset voltage of the substantially sine-wave signal output from the output unit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112794 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PROFILING SYSTEM - The invention provides a head-mounted display to visualize a medium through a surface by displaying an image characterizing the medium under the surface provided by a profiling system and referenced in the real environment of the user. An image of the medium under the surface is projected in front of one or both eyes of a person wearing the head-mounted display, in superimposition with the real environment of the user. The head-mounted display comprises a positioning sensor, such as an inertial positioning sensor, for determining its position and orientation in the real environment. As the user moves around the medium, the image of the medium is updated to display the medium as if it could be seen through the surface. In one embodiment of the invention, the image of the medium under surface is displayed in stereoscopy, the user thereby visualizing the medium in three dimensions. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119023 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SENSE RELATIVE PARTIAL-POSE INFORMATION USING A SHAPE SENSOR - A shape-sensing segment traverses through at least a portion of a kinematic chain of a tele-operated slave surgical instrument in a tele-operated minimally-invasive surgical system. The shape-sensing segment includes a pre-set perturbation. Shape information from the pre-set perturbation allows determination of relative partial-pose information for at least one link in the kinematic chain. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119024 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING POSITION OF MOBILE NODE IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - There is provided a method for estimating a position of a mobile node in a wireless sensor network. The method includes estimating a frequency offset between anchor nodes and estimating a difference between times when ranging frames from a mobile node are received by two anchor node, without use of a separate synchronization unit, such as a network synchronized clock supply unit that supplies a network synchronized clock via a cable, in a wireless sensor network, unlike a conventional method of estimating Time of Flight (TOF) using Two-Way Ranging (TWR) and Symmetric Double Sided-TWR (SDS-TWR) schemes. The estimated receiving time difference is directly applied to a Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm in order to estimate the position of the mobile node. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131006 | PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM FOR CHECKING MECHANICAL COMPONENT PARTS - A system for checking dimensions of mechanical component parts includes a checking probe ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110131007 | Measurement Of Overlay Offset In Semiconductor Processing - A system for overlay offset measurement in semiconductor manufacturing including a radiation source, a detector, and a calculation unit. The radiation source is operable to irradiate an overlay offset measurement target. The detector is operable to detect a first reflectivity and a second reflectivity of the irradiated overlay offset measurement target. The calculation unit is operable to determine an overlay offset using the detected first and second reflectivity by determining a predetermined overlay offset amount which provides an actual offset of zero. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137608 | Position Estimation Apparatuses and Systems and Position Estimation Methods Thereof - A position estimation system is provided, including at least one measurement unit, a plurality of evaluation units and a particle filter. The at least one measurement unit obtains a first information, wherein the first information at least includes a motion information and a corresponding noise model of a traced object. Each of the evaluation units has a corresponding evaluation model, wherein each evaluation model generates a corresponding unit displacement estimation according to the first information. The particle filter samples and generates a plurality of displacement estimations according to the unit displacement estimations and the corresponding noise models respectively. | 06-09-2011 |
20110144940 | Sensor and Method for the Detection of Local Displacements and Rotations | 06-16-2011 |
20110153263 | POINTER DETECTION APPARATUS AND POINTER DETECTION METHOD - A pointer detection apparatus and a pointer detection method of the cross point electrostatic coupling type are disclosed, by which a pointer on a conductor pattern can be detected at a higher speed. The pointer detection apparatus includes a conductor pattern, a spread code supplying circuit, a reception conductor selection circuit, an amplification circuit, an analog to digital conversion circuit, and a correlation value calculation circuit. The spread code supplying circuit supplies a plurality of spread codes at the same time. The correlation value calculation circuit determines correlation values between signals output from the analog to digital conversion circuit and the correlation calculation codes respectively corresponding to the spread codes. A pointer is detected based on the determined correlation values. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153264 | LOCATION DETERMINATION FOR INDIVIDUAL TIRES OF A MULTI-TIRE - An apparatus and a method are provided for ascertaining the relative position of a first tire and a second tire in a multiple tire. The apparatus may include a first electromechanical transducer providing a first sensor signal indicating a contact area length of the first tire in the multiple tire, and a second electromechanical transducer providing a second sensor signal indicating a contact area length of the second tire in the multiple tire. The apparatus includes a reception unit configured for receiving the first and second sensor signals; a contact area characteristic ascertainment unit ascertaining the contact area lengths characteristic of the first and second tires based on the first and second sensor signals; and a position finding unit ascertaining the position of the first tire relative to the second tire by evaluating the contact length characteristics of the first and second tires during cornering. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153265 | METHOD OF MEASURING PROPERTIES OF DYNAMIC POSITIONING ERRORS IN A LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Movements of a lithographic apparatus include dynamic positioning errors on one or more axes which cause corresponding errors which can be measured in the applied pattern. A test method includes operating the apparatus several times while deliberately imposing a relatively large dynamic positioning error at different specific frequencies and axes. Variations in the error in the applied pattern are measured for different frequencies and amplitudes of the injected error across a frequency band of interest for a given axis or axes. Calculation using said measurements and knowledge of the frequencies injected allows analysis of dynamic positioning error variations in frequency bands correlated with each injected error frequency. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153266 | AUGMENTED VEHICLE LOCATION SYSTEM - A system comprises a mobile vehicle, a global positioning system (GPS) based vehicle position and heading system, at least one two-dimensional (2D) velocity sensor, a yaw rate system, and a vehicle position and heading estimator. The GPS based vehicle position and heading system is supported on the vehicle and measures global easting and global northing (measured position) of the vehicle, and determines a heading (measured heading) of the vehicle. The 2D velocity sensor measures the velocity of the vehicle with respect to the ground, over which the vehicle travels, in two orthogonal directions (measured velocity). The yaw rate system is supported on the vehicle and measures a yaw rate of the vehicle (yaw rate measurement). The vehicle position and heading estimator comprises at least one processor that computes a position of the vehicle (estimated position) and a heading of the vehicle (estimated heading) based on the measured position, the measured heading, the measured velocity and the yaw rate measurement. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153267 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - A location tracking unit for use with a location based service system is presented. The location tracking unit comprises: a navigation receiver adapted to implement a location tracking function; data processing means adapted to determine an occupied location according to a first location matching process, the first location matching process using navigation data from the navigation receiver and a first set of geographic data; and data processing means adapted to verify the integrity of the first location matching process based on a second location matching process using navigation data and a second set of geographic data. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161044 | Wireless Location-Based System for Detecting Hazardous Conditions - A method and apparatus are provided for estimating the location of a portable device. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of location anchor transceivers and a plurality of enhanced location anchor transceivers within a region, each of the plurality of location anchor transceivers and enhanced location anchor transceivers operating from respective predetermined locations, a portable transceiver within the region detecting and measuring a signal parameter of a signal from at least some of the plurality of location anchor transceivers and enhanced location anchor transceivers within the region, a location engine determining a location of the portable transceiver based upon the signal measurements of the portable transceiver and the respective predetermined locations of the plurality of location anchor transceivers and enhanced location anchor transceivers within the region, each of the plurality of enhanced location anchor transceivers detecting and measuring a signal parameter of a signal from at least some of the plurality of location anchor transceivers and other enhanced location anchor transceivers, the location engine receiving the measured signal parameters from each of the plurality of enhanced location anchor transceivers, the location engine calculating an estimated location for each of the plurality of enhanced location anchor transceivers from the measured signal parameters and the location engine calculating a location error for each of the plurality of enhanced location anchor transceivers based upon the estimated location and predetermined location of the enhanced location anchor transceiver. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161045 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING STOPPED STATE OF VEHICLE, AND ALIGNMENT ADJUSTING DEVICE - Provided are a device and a method for detecting a stopped state of a vehicle which are capable of precisely detecting the stopped state of the vehicle in order to automate an operation which is externally provided to the stopped vehicle such as an alignment adjusting operation; and an alignment adjusting device to which the device and the method for detecting a stopped state of a vehicle are applied. An arithmetic unit detects, with respect to the left-front tire, for example, an evaluation point of the left-front tire on the basis of the gravity point of a triangle comprising, as vertexes, a point A, a point B, and a point C which are detected by a group of distance sensors; detects an evaluation point of the left-front fender on the basis of a point detected by the group of distance sensors; and detects the stopped state of the vehicle on the basis of the respective evaluation points of the respective tires and the respective evaluation points of the respective fenders. | 06-30-2011 |
20110166822 | REED TESTING DEVICE FOR SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT - Objective index is indicated with respect to the characteristic comparison between the front and the back sides of the reed, the right and left balance, and the hardness characteristic compared to the reference reed. A holder guiding member | 07-07-2011 |
20110172953 | SENSING SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION OF DIRECTION OF MOVING BODY - The present invention relates to an apparatus for recognizing an entry/exit direction of a moving body, and more particularly, to an apparatus for recognizing an entry/exit direction of a moving body, comprising: a first moving body detection sensor positioned at an entrance side of a specific object space or a portion adjacent thereto; a second moving body detection sensor positioned in an inner side direction of the specific object space from a position where the first moving detection sensor is positioned; and a control means connected to the first and second moving body detection sensors by wire/wireless so as to recognize as an entry of a moving body only when, after moving body detection signals of the first and second moving body detection sensors are received simultaneously or together for a first predetermined time, the moving body detection signal of the second moving detection sensor is not lastly received, and to recognize as an exit of a moving body only when, after moving body detection signals of the first and second moving body detection sensors are received simultaneously or together for a first predetermined time, the moving body detection signal of the first moving detection sensor is not lastly received. | 07-14-2011 |
20110172954 | FENCE INTRUSION DETECTION - A compact, inexpensive, and reliable fence intrusion detection system may detect activity on a fence and determine the type of activity based on discrimination. The hardware may include a 3-axis accelerometer and a RISC microprocessor. The system may be equipped with a wireless device which enables the system to work remotely and communicate with a base station. An algorithm may detect activity vs. no-activity on the fence. The algorithm may thereafter recognize the type of the activity; such as whether it is due to rattling caused by strong wind or a breach such as a person climbing the fence. The recognition algorithm may be computationally inexpensive and therefore also may be embedded inside a local RISC microcontroller. The system has been tested on different fences and demonstrated an over 90% correct recognition rate. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178761 | Pattern For Identifying A Location On A Surface - Provided is a method ( | 07-21-2011 |
20110178762 | Portable Articulated Arm Coordinate Measuring Machine with Multiple Communication Channels - A portable articulated arm coordinate measuring machine (AACMM) with multiple communication channels that includes a manually positionable articulated arm portion having opposed first and second ends, the arm portion including a plurality of connected arm segments, each of the arm segments including at least one position transducer for producing a position signal. The portable AACMM also includes a measurement device attached to a first end of the portable AACMM and a plurality of communication channels. The portable AACMM also includes an electronic circuit for receiving the position signals from the transducers and for providing data corresponding to a position of the measurement device. The portable AACMM also includes executable by the electronic circuit for receiving a request from a user to communicate via a selected one of the plurality of communication channels, and for configuring the portable AACMM to communicate via the selected communication channel. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184690 | POSITION DETECTING SYSTEM AND POSITION DETECTING METHOD - A position detecting system that detects the position of a body-insertable apparatus inserted into a subject includes: a driving-magnetic-field generating unit that generates a driving magnetic field in a detection space in which the subject into which the body-insertable apparatus, which generates a resonant magnetic field induced by the driving magnetic, is inserted is surrounded; a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic field generated in the detection space; a position detecting unit that detects, based on the magnetic field detected by the sensor, a position and a direction of the body-insertable apparatus; a guiding unit that guides at least one of the position and the direction of the body-insertable apparatus to at least one of a position and a direction set as targets; a predicting unit that predicts, using the position and the direction detected by the position detecting unit, a position and a direction at certain time of the body-insertable apparatus; and a control unit that controls the driving-magnetic-field generating unit and the position detecting unit based on the position and the direction at the certain time predicted by the predicting unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191060 | METHOD FOR MEASURING A WORK PIECE, CALIBRATION METHOD AND COORDINATE MEASURING DEVICE - A work piece is measured by at least one point of a surface of the work piece being sampled by a feeler. The feeler exerts a probing force on the surface and the feeler is deflected relative to a mounting of the feeler. On the basis of the deflection, a position of the point of the surface is determined. A directional dependence of a flexibility of the feeler is determined and/or is known. The feeler and the work piece are positioned and/or oriented relative to each other, while taking into consideration the directional dependence, such that during sampling of the point of the surface unintentional slipping of the feeler on the surface does not occur, or occurs only with low probability, or an unintentional deviation of the feeler from an intended path on the surface does not occur, or occurs only with low probability. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING OBJECTS USING A MECHANICAL ARM - A system and method for testing objects using a mechanical arm sets one or more first positions. When a user selects one or more second positions of the mechanical arm, a distance between each of the second positions and each of the first positions is calculated. A nearest first position of each of the second positions is determined. Each of the second positions is stored in a test list corresponding to each of the nearest first positions. The mechanical arm is controlled to move to each of the nearest first positions, and tests objects located at the second positions stored in each test list corresponding to each of the nearest first positions. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196646 | Alignment System, Lithographic System and Method - A lithographic system includes a lithographic apparatus comprising a projection system which projects a patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of a substrate and an alignment system which measures the position of a feature of the pattern on the substrate at a number of locations over the substrate. A controller compares the measured positions with points on a grid of values and extrapolates values for intermediate positions on the substrate based on values of corresponding intermediate points on the grid, so as to provide an indication of the intermediate positions on the substrate and their displacements relative to the grid. The grid is based on at least one orthogonal basis function, the measurement on the substrate being performed at positions corresponding to the root values of the at least one orthogonal basis function. | 08-11-2011 |
20110196647 | STATE VECTOR ESTIMATION USING A CONSTRAINT DERIVED FROM A MAP - It is disclosed to estimate a state vector of an object, wherein the state vector comprises a state variable related to a position or an orientation of the object, based on at least one of a probability density function of the state vector truncated under consideration of a constraint for the state variable, wherein the constraint is derived from a map, and properties of the truncated probability density function. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202306 | Adjustable Virtual Reality System - Disclosed are virtual reality systems, in particular immersive virtual reality systems, their parts, construction and use. The systems and/or parts thereof may be used by adults or children, and may be adapted to support, often within a single device, a large range of users of different sizes and medical condition. Users with physical disabilities have difficulties using existing immersive technologies such as those using accessories like head-mounted displays and data gloves. Such users are provided with immersive virtual reality outputs that allow them to see virtual representations of their body parts which appear in a correct spatial position relative to the users' viewpoint. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202307 | Method and System for Recognizing the Working Range of a Mobile Tool - A method for recognizing the operating range of a mobile, autonomous implement, in which the operating range assigned to the implement is limited by a border which can be used as an electrical conductor loop, and the implement recognizes the operating range by detecting signals from the conductor loop, wherein an additional, non-wired, external signal is used for controlling the implement. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208474 | INSTALLATION ERROR ESTIMATING DEVICE AND INSTALLATION ERROR ESTIMATING METHOD - The installation error estimating device is capable of enabling error-free high-precision positioning with simple installation. The device has a predicted pattern acquisition unit (an observation point setting unit ( | 08-25-2011 |
20110213583 | FAST CLUSTERING OF POSITION DATA FOR USER PROFILING - A method of position clustering includes maintaining a set of clusters by storing a rectangular boundary of each cluster in the set of clusters, a centroid within each cluster, and a number of the points within each cluster. The method further includes adding a point to a cluster in the set of clusters when the cluster bounds the point by adjusting the rectangular boundary of the cluster, the centroid within the cluster, and the number of the points within the cluster. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213584 | Calibration of Lithographic Apparatus - System parameters are checked through self-assessment of a production wafer without a reference or a monitor wafer. In particular, exposure errors and substrate table positioning errors can be corrected for. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213585 | Utility Mapping and Data Distribution System and Method - A system and method of mapping underground utilities and other subsurface objects involves one or more of acquiring utility location data using a number of different detectors and sensors, processing the multiple detector/sensor output data to produce mapping data, storing the mapping data in a database, and providing access to and use of the stored mapping data by subscribing users on a usage fee basis. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213586 | Device and Method for Transmitting Data Between a Position-Measuring Device and Sequential Electronics - In a device and a method for transmitting data between a position-measuring device and sequential electronics via a data-transmission channel, the position-measuring device includes an interface unit and a processing unit, the interface unit being connected first of all to the data-transmission channel, and secondly, to the processing unit for the purpose of an internal data exchange with the aid of a request channel and a response channel. The interface unit includes a command interpreter by which, using conversion rules, commands which arrive via the data-transmission channel are convertible into internal requests and are able to be fed via the request channel to the processing unit, and response data which arrives from the processing unit via the response channel is convertible into output data. The interface unit further includes a rules memory for storing the conversion rules, which is at least partially modifiable. | 09-01-2011 |
20110218759 | SCALABLE SENSOR LOCALIZATION FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - Adaptive rule-based methods to solve localization problems for ad hoc wireless sensor networks are disclosed. A large problem may be solved as a sequence of very small subproblems, each of which is solved by semidefinite programming relaxation of a geometric optimization model. The subproblems may be generated according to a set of sensor/anchor selection rules and a priority list. The methods scale well and provide improved positioning accuracy. A dynamic version may be used for estimating moving sensors locations in a real-time environment. The method may use dynamic distance measurement updates among sensors, and utilizes subproblem solving for static sensor localization. Methods to deploy sensor localization algorithms in clustered distributed environments are also provided, permitting application to arbitrarily large networks. In addition, the methods may be used to solve sensor localizations in 2D or 3D space. A preprocessor may be used for localization of networks without absolute position information. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218760 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CORRECTING ERROR OF SCALE USED FOR DISPLACEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS - A displacement detection apparatus includes a scale | 09-08-2011 |
20110224945 | METHOD OF PERFORMING ETCH PROXIMITY CORRECTION, METHOD OF FORMING PHOTOMASK LAYOUT USING THE METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD, AND MASK IMAGING SYSTEM - A method of performing etch proximity correction, taking into account an orientation-dependent component, includes providing a layout, selecting a target point on an edge of the layout, defining a proximity range from the target point, defining a probability function including a distance-dependent component, an orientation-dependent component, or both a distance-dependent component and an orientation-dependent component with respect to the proximity range, and calculating a surface integral of the probability function over the proximity range. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231147 | RADIATION DETECTOR AND VERIFICATION TECHNIQUE OF POSITIONING ACCURACY FOR RADIATION DETECTOR - The present invention provides, at low cost, a multilayer radiation detector whose position relative to a beam axis can be verified. The radiation detector includes a plurality of sensors that react to radiation and are stacked in parallel inlayers in a traveling direction of the radiation. The sensors are each sectioned into a central region including the center of the sensor and another region surrounding the central region. The radiation detector independently measures signals measured by the central regions and signals measured by the other regions. Thus, the position of the radiation detector can be verified. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231148 | MOTION DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND MOTION DETERMINATION METHOD - According to an aspect of the invention, a motion determination apparatus, acquires, at regular intervals, detection information indicating a change in a position of and/or a posture of a motion sensor and/or a device including the motion sensor, and stores the detection information with time information of acquisition time of the detection information mapped thereto; calculates from the detection information a plurality of feature quantities indicating features at a plurality of different time points; and determines a motion applied to the motion sensor and/or the device including the motion sensor in response to a feature quantity. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231149 | BORING TOOL TRACKING FUNDAMENTALLY BASED ON DRILL STRING LENGTH, PITCH AND ROLL - A boring tool moves having a pitch orientation, a yaw orientation and a roll orientation and is steerable underground using the roll orientation. A maximum drill string curvature is established for steering. The boring tool is advanced over a path segment. An averaged roll characteristic is determined for movement of the boring tool along the path segment. A path segment pitch orientation is established based on at least one measured pitch orientation along the path segment. Using the maximum drill string curvature in combination with the averaged roll characteristic and the path segment pitch orientation, the yaw orientation is determined. The averaged roll characteristic is determined based on a series of incremental roll measurements that are spaced across the path segment. A set of coupled ordinary differential equations is used to characterize movement of the boring tool. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238365 | Diffraction Based Overlay Linearity Testing - An empirical diffraction based overlay (eDBO) measurement of an overlay error is produced using diffraction signals from a plurality of diffraction based alignment pads from an alignment target. The linearity of the overlay error is tested using the same diffraction signals or a different set of diffraction signals from diffraction based alignment pads. Wavelengths that do not have a linear response to overlay error may be excluded from the measurement error. | 09-29-2011 |
20110238366 | Joint motion sensing to make a determination of a positional change of an individual - An apparatus in one example comprises one or more sensors that produce one or more signals based on one or more joint motions of an individual, and one or more processing components that employ one or more of the one or more signals to make a determination of a positional change of the individual. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246129 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system not depending on an operator who operates the apparatus is provided. The system includes a measuring unit (coordinate calculation section | 10-06-2011 |
20110246130 | Localization in Industrial Robotics Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering - Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for determining a pose of a probe relative to an object by probing the object with the probe, comprising steps of: determining a probability of the pose using Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering, wherein a probability of a location of the pose is represented by a location of each particle, and a probability of an orientation of the pose is represented by a Gaussian distribution over orientation of each particle conditioned on the location of the particle, wherein the determining is performed for each subsequent probing until the probability of the pose concentrates around a particular pose; and estimating the pose of the probe relative to the object based on the particular pose. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SHAFT DEFLECTION IN A WIND TURBINE - A measurement system and a method for measuring a net deflection of a shaft in a wind turbine are disclosed. The measurement system includes at least one first sensor positioned proximate a first shaft component, the at least one first sensor configured to measure at least one first deflection of the first shaft component, and at least one second sensor configured to measure at least one reference deflection. The measurement system further includes a base, wherein the at least one first sensor and the at least one second sensor are coupled together and configured on the base, and a processor configured to calculate the net deflection of the shaft utilizing the at least one first deflection and the at least one reference deflection. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246132 | MACHINE MOTION TRAJECTORY MEASURING DEVICE, NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED MACHINE TOOL, AND MACHINE MOTION TRAJECTORY MEASURING METHOD - A machine motion trajectory measuring device for measuring the motion trajectory of a machine used in an apparatus which controls the position of the machine by feeding back a detected position obtained by converting the rotation angles of motors for a plurality of movable axes and then driving the motors such that the detected position follows a commanded position is provided. The machine motion trajectory measuring device includes accelerometers for measuring the acceleration of the machine; and a motion trajectory measuring unit that measures the motion trajectory of the machine by obtaining the position of the machine by integrating the acceleration twice and correcting the position of the machine such that the profile of the position of the machine coincides with the profile of the detected position or the profile of an estimated position estimated using a model for simulating the response of the position of the machine to the commanded position. | 10-06-2011 |
20110257927 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM FAULTS - An inertial navigation system (INS) includes a primary inertial navigation system (INS) unit configured to receive accelerometer measurements from an accelerometer and angular velocity measurements from a gyroscope. The primary INS unit is further configured to receive global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals from a GNSS sensor and to determine a first set of kinematic state vectors based on the accelerometer measurements, the angular velocity measurements, and the GNSS signals. The INS further includes a secondary INS unit configured to receive the accelerometer measurements and the angular velocity measurements and to determine a second set of kinematic state vectors of the vehicle based on the accelerometer measurements and the angular velocity measurements. A health management system is configured to compare the first set of kinematic state vectors and the second set of kinematic state vectors to determine faults associated with the accelerometer or the gyroscope based on the comparison. | 10-20-2011 |
20110257928 | SENSING DEVICE - A sensing device including a sensor, a triggering mechanism and a covering is provided. The covering is positioned in contact with a body such that the triggering mechanism extends from a moving segment to a reference segment and across a joint center located therebetween. Movement of the moving segment activates the triggering mechanism to provide a force input to the sensor, actuating the sensor to generate an output defining at least one measurement of the movement. The measurement may be one or more of rotation, translation, velocity, acceleration, and joint angle. An intermediate mechanism may be interposed between the triggering mechanism and the sensor. The sensing device may include a means to process or record measurements corresponding to movement of the moving segment and joint center. A system and method of measuring the movement of a moving segment is also provided. | 10-20-2011 |
20110257929 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION AND/OR ORIENTATION OF A DISPLACEABLE LOAD - The invention relates to a method for determining a position and/or orientation of a movable load. The invention also relates to a position and orientation determining system for a group which comprises a towing vehicle and at least one load which can be moved by the towing vehicle. | 10-20-2011 |
20110257930 | Method and an Apparatus for Manufacturing an Optical Lens - A method of manufacturing an optical lens, the method comprising the steps of blocking a lens member at a first positioning on a blocker; determining the first positioning of the lens member with respect to the blocker; comparing the first positioning of the lens member with a predetermined positioning in order to determine a positioning error between the first positioning and the predetermined positioning; determining a surface positioning of the surface to be manufactured with respect to the blocker according to the positioning error; and configuring operational parameters of a lens manufacturing tool in order to manufacture a surface according to the determined surface positioning such that the desired optical properties of the optical lens are respected. The invention further relates to an apparatus for manufacturing an optical lens. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264402 | COURSE OF MOTION DETERMINATION - A computer-implemented method for determining a course of motion between an artefact ( | 10-27-2011 |
20110264403 | CLEARANCE MEASURING METHOD AND MEASURING UNIT - The present invention provides a method for measuring a clearance ( | 10-27-2011 |
20110264404 | IDENTIFICATION METHOD OF DATA POINT DISTRIBUTION AREA ON COORDINATE PLANE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disclosed identification method of identifying a data point distribution area on a coordinate plane includes selecting a data point as a first representative point, setting the first representative point as an initial reference point, setting a direction passing through the initial reference point as an initial representative point selection direction, selecting an initial data point direction having a smallest angle relative to the initial representative point selection direction in a predetermined rotation direction when viewed from the initial representative point selection direction, selecting a data point corresponding to the initial data point direction as a second representative point of the data point distribution area, and determining whether there is an overlapping area where a distribution representative point area overlaps a determination area. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270570 | MEASURING SYSTEM - Measuring system including a coordinate measuring machine having a processing unit and a moveable support, and one or more actuators for positioning said movable support relative to a reference surface, the moveable support having a support connector, a scanning probe, detachably connected with the moveable support, for measuring points lying on a scanning path on a surface of a workpiece positioned on the reference surface, a modular rotation fitting, comprising a first connector, arranged to interoperate with the support connector for connecting the modular rotation fitting to said moveable support, and a second connector, arranged to interoperate with the probe connector, for connecting the scanning probe to the modular rotation fitting, and an actuator, for rotating the second connector relative to said first connector, wherein the first and said second connector contain a plurality of signal connections for transmitting driving signals to the actuator of said modular rotation fitting. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270571 | SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLING AIRCRAFT - A system automatically moves large scale components of a vehicle such as an airplane, into final assembly alignment. A noncontact measurement system determines the locations of aerodynamically significant features on each of the components. The measured locations of the components are used to control an automated jacking system that includes assembly jacks for individually moving the components into assembly alignment. A system is provided for calculating the cruise configuration of the vehicle “as-built” and for transferring the cruise configuration into the vehicle where it is recorded in the form of a physical monument. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276306 | Display element manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus - The display element manufacturing apparatus has a transporting part, which transports a substrate in a first direction, a first alignment system, which detects fiducial marks, a second alignment system, which is arranged at a prescribed distance from the first alignment system in the first direction and detects fiducial marks, calculating parts, which detect the fiducial marks and calculate the expansion/contraction of the substrate in the first direction or the transport speed of the substrate, and a processing part, which processes a prescribed position of the substrate based on at least one of the expansion/contraction of the substrate in the first direction or the transport speed of the substrate and the fiducial marks. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276307 | Method and System for Registering an Object with a Probe Using Entropy-Based Motion Selection and Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering - A probe is registered with an object by probing the object with the probe at multiple poses, wherein each pose of the probe includes a location and an orientation. A probability distribution of a current location of the probe is represented by a set of particles, and a probability distribution of a current orientation of the probe is represented by a Gaussian distribution for each particle conditioned on the current location. A set of candidate motions is chosen, and for each candidate motion, an expected uncertainty based on the set of particles is determined. The candidate motion with a least expected uncertainty is selected as a next motion of the probe, the probe is moved according to the next motion, and the set of particles is updated using the next pose of the probe. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282622 | Systems and methods for processing mapping and modeling data - A method for post-processing georeferenced mapping data includes providing positioning data indicating a position of a data acquisition system in a defined space at specific moments in time, providing ranging data indicating relative position of objects in the defined space with respect to the data acquisition system at the specific moments in time, performing a smoothing process on the positioning data to determine smoothed best estimate of trajectory (SBET) data for trajectory of the data acquisition system, performing a scan matching process on the SBET data and the ranging data to identify objects and/or object features in the defined space, performing a process to revise the SBET data so that the SBET data aligns with the identified objects and/or object features and storing the revised SBET data with the range data. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282623 | Control System And Method Using An Ultrasonic Area Array - A computer control system and method is disclosed. Such a system may include a processor and an ultrasonic area-array sensor configured to receive a ridged surface, such as one or more digits of a hand. The processor may be configured to:
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20110288813 | COORDINATE MEASURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a coordinate measuring apparatus and method. Path equations of individual photodetection units relative to each light emitting unit are calculated using a plurality of photodetection units and a small number of light emitting units, and the coordinates of one or more actual targets are obtained using the calculated path equations. Accordingly, there are advantages in that, since a small number of light emitting sensors are used, installation costs can be reduced, maintenance costs can be reduced, and the lifespan of products can be extended. | 11-24-2011 |
20110288814 | TIRE APPEARANCE INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A tire appearance inspection apparatus and method employing image processing is capable of performing tire appearance inspection with great accuracy. The tire appearance inspection apparatus includes a sectional shape acquiring device for acquiring cross-sectional shapes of a tire in the radial direction along the circumference of the tire, an arc fitting device for fitting an arc to each of the cross-sectional shapes, an arc center position calculating device for calculating the center positions of the arcs, and a sectional shape aligning device for aligning the cross-sectional shapes using the center positions of the arcs for the cross-sectional shapes. | 11-24-2011 |
20110288815 | POSITION DETECTOR AND POSITIONING DEVICE - A position detector ( | 11-24-2011 |
20110295550 | MEASURING DEVICE OF THREAD PARAMETERS FOR THREADED JOINTS - Thread parameters for a threaded object are determined. Spatial reference systems (X, Y, Z) and (X′, Y′, Z′) are respectively identified for a position sensor and the threaded object. A transformation matrix describing a quadratic form representing the threaded object in (X, Y, Z) may be determined to relate the reference systems. For example, a sensor trajectory on the threaded object may be determined, along with measurement points on the threaded object. The measurement points may be selected so the matrix, evaluated on these values, has maximum rank. Position data at measurement points in the second reference system may be transformed into the first reference system, yielding first results. After coating the threaded object, position data at the measurement points may be acquired again and transformed into the first reference system, yielding second results. Comparisons between the first and second results may provide thickness of the coating and quality verification. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295551 | LOCATION-BASED NOVELTY INDEX VALUE AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention is a system and method for computing a result for a location, wherein the result indicates how novel it is for a wireless device to occupy a specific location. After determining the location of a wireless device through various means, a Novelty Index Value (NIV) is calculated for the location, and the NIV is then stored into a database. The NIV may then be subsequently used by application programs to compute a desired result from the NIV. Multiple users may utilize and/or share the same NIV values. The NIV may also be used to alter the configuration of a wireless device as well. A recommendation system is also disclosed, wherein user context is utilized along with NIV values to compute particular results for a user. | 12-01-2011 |
20110301912 | PROVIDING LOCATION ESTIMATES BASED ON A LOCATION CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY - In an example embodiment, there is described herein an apparatus comprising an interface and logic operable receive data from a device via the interface. The logic is operable to estimate a location of the device based on data received via the interface based on a first (e.g. default) location classification. The logic is further operable to estimate a location of the device based on data received via the interface based on a second location classification responsive to a predefined trigger. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING A MOBILE NODE - Techniques for tracking the position and movement of a mobile node within a field of fixed nodes are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, positional information generated from neighboring nodes in the field of nodes along with positional information obtained from the mobile node itself is compiled and used to track the location of the mobile node. The field of fixed nodes may relay positional information to interested nodes within the field in order to communicate the movement of the mobile node. Based on the positional information of the mobile node, the mobile node can be tracked, and an estimated time of arrival and a likelihood of reaching a defined point or a fixed node can be computed. Additionally, fixed nodes may use the estimated time of arrival and likelihood calculations to initiate anticipatory processing if the mobile node is likely to encounter the fixed node. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307211 | Method For Measuring The Position Of A Mark In A Deflector System - The present invention relates to a method for determining the coordinates of an arbitrarily shaped pattern in a deflector system. The method basically comprises the steps of: moving the pattern in a first direction (X), calculating the position of the edge of the pattern by counting the number of micro sweeps, performed in a perpendicular direction (Y), until the edge is detected, and determining the coordinates by relating the number of counted micro sweeps to the speed of the movement of the pattern. The invention also relates to software implementing the method. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313718 | Construction Modulus Testing Apparatus and Method - A system and method of determining lift deflection during construction of aggregate columns allows for real time monitoring of construction to ensure meeting defined parameters. The amount of deflection of a tamper head during tamping is determined multiple times for each lift. When the amount of deflection matches a predetermined value, tamping is stopped. | 12-22-2011 |
20110313719 | BELT-TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - A belt-type continuously variable transmission that is able, using a simple structure, to accommodate size reduction and to accurately determine an actual transmission ratio. A belt-type continuously variable transmission includes a measurement surface formed on an outer circumferential end of a movable sheave, and a displacement sensor provided isolatedly from the outer circumferential end for measuring the distance between the measurement surface and the displacement sensor. The measurement surface is formed such that the distance H between the measurement surface and the displacement sensor is changed as the movable sheave moves in the axial direction. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320162 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING ELECTRICAL POSITIONING INFORMATION OF A FINAL CONTROL ELEMENT - In a method for communicating electrical positioning information of an actuator-positioned final control element such as a valve element, the positioning information resulting from continually sensing the position of the final control element, a binary signal is formed or received signalling a condition 0 (zero) when the final control element has attained a predefined position and a condition 1 (one) when the final control element has not attained the predefined position or the predefined position range. For forming a positioning signal, the corresponding signal condition of the binary signal and the associated continually sensed positioning information are combined such that the corresponding signal condition of the binary signal or the positioning information or both can be optionally invoked from the positioning signal. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320163 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ROAD DATA - A method, a system and a computer program are provided for determining road data including the steps of: (i) measuring variables suitable for determining an actual trajectory (A) of the vehicle; (ii) determining the actual trajectory from the measured variables; (iii) estimating road geometry values based on the determined actual trajectory; and (iv) determining a virtual road the vehicle is following based on the estimated road geometry data and the actual trajectory. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320164 | BIAS ESTIMATING METHOD, POSTURE ESTIMATING METHOD, BIAS ESTIMATING DEVICE, AND POSTURE ESTIMATING DEVICE - A bias estimating method includes: calculating a virtual posture angle which is a posture angle with a bias which is assumed to be zero by the use of detection values of a plurality of axes in a calibration posture where one axis of a multi-axis acceleration sensor is parallel to the vertical direction; and estimating a bias value contained in the detection value of the axis using the detection value of the axis and the virtual posture angle. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320165 | ELECTRONIC PEN SYSTEM, POSITIONAL VARIATION MEASURING DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an electronic pen system wherein re-calibration can be easily carried out when a receiver is re-attached or when the position of the receiver is varied after calibration to adjust the position of the pen with respect to the receiver to the position of the pen on the image projected by a projector or the like. The system comprises a measuring means for measuring the angle of variation from the initial setting of the receiver for measuring the position of the electronic pen to the re-setting of the receiver and the amounts of movement in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction from the initial setting to the re-setting and a display means for reflecting the measured angle of variation and the measured amounts of movement in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction on the trace of the electronic pen after the re-setting. | 12-29-2011 |
20120004884 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE SPACE-COLORIMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT - The disclosure relates to a device and a method for the space-colorimetric measurement of a three-dimensional object, in order to digitally model the low-relief and the colorimetric coordinates of this object according to multiple analysis points. In order to do so, the measuring device of the disclosure combines a lighting means with at least four optical detection means, including at least two twin detection means sensitive to substantially identical light wavelength ranges, in order to determine by stereoscopic effect the low-relief of the object analysed. The disclosure thus proposes a device for the space-colorimetric measurement of a three-dimensional object, that comprises a detection head including a lighting means for the object and at least four detection means for detecting the light reflected by the object, wherein said device further includes a unit for processing the information received by the detection means. At least two twin detection means are sensitive to substantially identical light wavelength ranges. | 01-05-2012 |
20120004885 | SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF THE POSITION OF A MECHANICAL FORCE-TRANSMITTING DEVICE - A device for the wire-free determination of a position of a mechanical force-transmitting device, having at least one storage device for storing electrical energy, at least one sensor element which detects the position and is monitored by at least one sensor electronic unit, including at least one radio transmitter, and at least one photovoltaic energy supply device supplying the storage device with electrical energy. | 01-05-2012 |
20120004886 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING DIMENSIONS - Measuring system having a plurality of probes for measuring lengths, each probe including a probe tip connected in removable fashion relative to a casing, a transducer supplying an electric signal that is representative of the position of said probe tip relative to the casing, a digital processing unit for sampling the signal from said transducer and transforming it into a digital representation of said position, and a bidirectional interface for a wireless communication network connecting said probes with a control unit. A method including a step during which the clocks of the digital processing units of the probes are synchronized through said bidirectional wireless interface and a step during which the control unit transmits commands determining the instant at which said electric signals are sampled. | 01-05-2012 |
20120004887 | ACTION ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ACTION ANALYSIS METHOD - A motion analysis apparatus is provided that enables an analysis result presentation quantity to be easily adjusted. A motion analysis apparatus ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120010847 | ADJUSTABLE HIGH PRECISION SURVEYING DEVICE - Methods and devices for use in surveying operations are provided. A device is provided for selectively connecting to surveying equipment, such as a surveying pole, and is adapted for accurately adjusting a reference point in at least two axes. The device is adapted to work in conjunction with additional surveying equipment, such as theodolites and transits as well as one or more central processing units for analyzing, storing, and providing data. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016625 | LINEAR POSITION SENSOR SYSTEM - A position sensor measures a magnetic flux of a magnetic field produced by a magnet system in a first direction and a second direction. Values associated with the measured magnetic flux in the first direction are adjusted based on a first gain and a first offset that are determined based on the measured magnetic flux and a reference magnetic flux in the first direction. Values associated with the measured magnetic flux in the second direction are adjusted based on a second gain and a second offset that are determined based on the measured magnetic flux and a reference magnetic flux in the second direction. A position of the magnet system with respect to the position sensor at a given time may then be determined based on the adjusted values of the magnetic flux in the first and second directions at the given time. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016626 | UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD OF POSITION REFERENCE DATA - An apparatus, a method and a computer program, the apparatus comprising: collection circuitry configured to collect position reference data, wherein the collected position reference data is for assisting another apparatus to determine a position of the another apparatus based upon wireless signals received by the another apparatus; receiver circuitry configured to receive control data relating to controlling the transmission of collected position reference data by the apparatus; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit collected position reference data; and processing circuitry configured, in dependence upon the received control data, to selectively control transmission of collected position reference data by the transmitter circuitry. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016627 | APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION OF VEHICLE AND PROGRAM EXECUTED THEREBY - An on-vehicle apparatus adapted to estimate a location of a subject vehicle, in which the apparatus acquires vehicle-information including a location, a velocity and a running direction of the subject vehicle at a reference time and a factor that changes the velocity of the subject vehicle. The on-vehicle apparatus predicts a location of the subject vehicle at an object time which is advanced from the reference time based on the acquired factor | 01-19-2012 |
20120016628 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING POSITIONS - The method and device for analyzing position are disclosed. By analyzing sensing information with at least one zero-crossing, each position can be analyzed. The number of analyzed positions may be different from the number of zero-crossings. When the number of analyzed positions is different from the number of zero-crossing, the number of analyzed positions is more than one. | 01-19-2012 |
20120022825 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION OF A DEVICE - A relative bearing sensor for determining an orientation of a device. The relative bearing sensor including a ferromagnetic housing, and wherein the ferromagnetic housing includes a ferromagnetic ball configured to roll with respect to an orientation of the ferromagnetic housing, a magnetic flux sensor, a permanent magnet configured to emit a plurality of magnetic flux lines through the magnetic flux sensor, the plurality of magnetic flux lines steered by a location of the ferromagnetic ball, and a processor programmed. The processor is programmed to determine a flux angle of the plurality of magnetic flux lines, compare the determined flux angle with a predefined flux angle, and determine an orientation of the relative bearing sensor based on the comparing. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A MOVABLE OBJECT, ARRANGEMENT OF GENERAL LIGHTING LED AND LIGHT SENSOR FOR A POSITION DETERMINATION OF A MOVABLE OBJECT - A system for determining a position of a moving object is described, having: an arrangement having at least three general lighting LEDs, wherein each of the general lighting LEDs is implemented to transmit one light signal each with a transmission time information and a transmitter information, wherein the wavelength ranges of the general lighting LEDs for the signal transmission overlap, wherein the transmitter information enables at least a determination of a position of the respective general lighting LEDs and the transmission time information is information on a point in time when the respective signal was transmitted; a light sensor mounted to the moving object and implemented to receive the light signals and allocate one signal receive time each; and an evaluation unit which is implemented to determine the position of the object based on the transmitter information, the transmission time information and the receive time information. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022827 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT AND FOR TEACHING-IN OF LOCATION POSITIONS OF OBJECTS WITHIN A SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM BY MEANS OF SENSOR CARRIERS AND ASSOCIATED SENSOR CARRIER - The invention relates to a method for automatic measurement and for teaching-in of location positions of objects ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120029867 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED TIMING MEASUREMENTS - A method and system for determining the location of a mobile appliance in a communications system having a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes are tasked to measurement the time of arrival (TOA) of the signal transmitted by the mobile appliance in an assigned time slot across multiple frames of data. TOA measurement data may be derived from ones of the multiple frames of data where the derived TOA measurement data is non-coherently integrated across the ones of the multiple frames of data. A location estimate of the mobile appliance may then be determined as a function of the derived TOA measurement data. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029868 | POSITION DETECTOR - A position detector includes detection coils for outputting two sinusoidal signals that have phases shifted from each other by 90 degrees; subtractors for eliminating offset components included in output signals DCA and DSC output from the detection coils; an interpolation calculator for converting the two signals DCA and DSC in which the offset components have been eliminated into position information IP; a radius calculator for calculating a root-sum-square of the two signals DC and DS output from the detection coils; correlation calculators for respectively multiplying a fluctuation component RDA of an output from the radius calculator by the signals DCA and DSC in which the offset components have been eliminated; low-pass filters (LPFs) for extracting DC components of output values output from the correlation calculators; and an outputter for outputting offset components including offset displacement fractions based on output values COMDC and SOMDC output from the LPFs. | 02-02-2012 |
20120035882 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR IMBALANCE COMPENSATION - Provided are apparatus and methods for compensation of mechanical imbalance in a measurement apparatus, that provides options for increased accuracy and/or less expensive manufacture of a torsion balance. Orientation measurements are taken and an imbalance torque about the torsion spring's axis of rotation is determined, and used to calculate a compensation. The measurement apparatus of one embodiment includes a test body and a set of magnets for generating a first disturbing force on the test body in response to a paramagnetic gas. A conductor element in the magnetic field receives an electrical current that generates a second opposing force to the test body, under feedback control that varies the current until the test body achieves a balanced null position. The control signal required to achieve the fixed null position is measured. Corrections are then made for an imbalance mass by measuring the orientation of the apparatus relative to an acceleration or gravitational field and determining the imbalance torque resulting from the imbalance mass. Use of the invention can improve accuracy or reduce the cost of manufacture of a torsion balance, by enabling compensation for imbalances. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035883 | METHOD OF DETECTING AN OBJECT WITH A PROXIMITY SENSOR - The disclosure relates to a method of detecting an object using a detection signal supplied by a proximity sensor. The method comprises the steps of generating a reference signal by filtering the value of the detection signal, defining a first detection threshold, and going from an object non-detecting state to an object detecting state when the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first detection threshold. When the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first detection threshold, the value of the reference signal is readjusted in a manner such that the value of the detection signal again becomes less than or respectively greater than, the first detection threshold. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041709 | CONCEPT FOR MAKING GOAL DECISIONS BY MEANS OF MAGNETIC FIELDS - A method for deciding whether a movable object has been brought through a goal having a goal area defined by the goal, an internal magnetic field being measurable, within the goal area or in parallel with the goal area, which is larger than an external magnetic field present outside the goal area, the method including a step of generating the internal magnetic field within the goal, a step of providing information about a magnetic field experienced by the movable object, and a step of evaluating the information about the magnetic field to provide a goal statement by means of a detection that the movable object has passed through the internal magnetic field. | 02-16-2012 |
20120041710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DISPOSITION OF VIA HOLE ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A method for determining disposition of via hole on printed circuit board (PCB), said method comprising the steps of: providing a PCB on which is disposed with a geometric layout and a via hole; providing a line on said PCB for intersecting said geometric layout to form a plurality of points of intersection; defining line segments by segmenting said line at each of said points of intersection to form a plurality of line segments; deleting some of said line segments having one end not being point of intersection for said geometric layout to form a plurality of segmented regions; searching a closed region by repeatedly searching region from any one of the points in said plurality of segmented regions; determining whether a closed region is a smallest closed region; determining whether a via hole is located within said smallest closed region. | 02-16-2012 |
20120046904 | SUBSTRATE CARRYING MECHANISM, SUBSTRATE CARRYING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM INCLUDING SET OF INSTRUCTIONS TO BE EXECUTED TO ACCOMPLISH THE SUBSTRATE CARRYING METHOD - A substrate carrying mechanism includes: a base; a substrate holding member placed on the base and capable of holding a substrate and of being advanced and retracted relative to the base; four or more detecting units respectively for detecting different parts of the edge of a substrate held by the substrate holding member when the substrate holding member holding a substrate is retracted; and a controller that determines whether or not a notch formed in the edge of the substrate has been detected by one of the detecting units, on the basis of measurements measured by the four or more detecting units and corrects an error in a transfer position where the substrate is to be transferred to the succeeding processing unit on the basis of measurements measured by the detecting units excluding the one detecting unit that has detected the notch of the substrate. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046905 | Direction Processing Based on Multi-State Inputs - A computer-implemented method for determining the direction of a moving object across a sensor having a plurality of inputs is disclosed. The invention determines the direction of a moving object, such as a vehicle on a roadway, based on inputs provided by sensors along the object's path. The methods involve monitoring state changes of the inputs as the object passes the sensor and comparing the magnitude of state changes in the order in which a forward-moving object would cause inputs to switch to a particular state. For each state change comparison, a direction variable is adjusted to indicate forward or reverse movement. After passage of the object, a direction of movement is assigned to the moving object on the basis of the final value of the direction variable. The invention provides a high degree of accuracy, is simple to reconfigure, and more economical than other methods. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046906 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING DIRECTIONAL PROXIMITY SENSORS BASED ON DEVICE ORIENTATION - A portable electronic device having one or more proximity sensors. The portable electronic device comprises a housing, one or more signal emitters to direct source signal(s) based on the orientation of the housing, and one or more signal receivers to receive return signals corresponding to the source signal(s). The device may include multiple signal emitters and a sensor to identify an orientation of the housing. The appropriate signal emitter may be selected based on the orientation of the housing as identified by the sensor. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059621 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCALIZING OBJECTS - A method for localizing an object moving in an unknown environment. The method includes providing k position marks at undetermined positions p | 03-08-2012 |
20120059622 | LOCATION SYSTEM FOR STREET LIGHT MONITORING - A street light monitoring system has a small fraction of the street lights in the system being anchor nodes that are configured to detect and store their own actual fixed position, thereby acting as reference points. Further, the other street lights are referred to as blind nodes and do not have their actual fixed position but can derive their position using the coordinates of the anchor nodes and estimating their distance to them. The distance estimation for any blind node can be performed using a received signal strength indication (RSSI) measured at the respective blind node for small distances of up to a threshold value and a link quantization technique takes advantage of the typical placement of the street lights. Inferred distances between the street lights can be assigned to pre-determined categories of distances for a coarse estimation and further position adjustment to a closest possible “real” position. | 03-08-2012 |
20120059623 | POSITIONING APPARATUS JUDGING MOVING METHOD TO CONTROL POSITIONING TIMING - A positioning apparatus includes: a position measuring section to obtain measured position data by measuring its own present position; a positioning controlling section to control operation timing of the position measuring section to make the position measuring section discontinuously obtain the measured position data; a movement measuring section to measure a movement operation; a moving method judging section to judge a moving method based on a measurement result of the movement measuring section; a map data storage section to store information of a rail route map; and a migration path judging section to judge a migration path in a period judged to be a moving state by an electric train by the moving method judging section based on the measured position data measured by the position measuring section and the information of the rail route map. | 03-08-2012 |
20120065927 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED POSITION VERIFICATION - An improved method for verifying a position of a sensor with respect to an object under test includes detecting a signal from the sensor that is positioned at a given location on an object under test and comparing the signal from the sensor with a historical signal that is associated with a Uniquely Identified Location (UIL) on the object under test. If the two signals are consistent, and if the position of the sensor at the given location on the object under test is the same as the UIL, it is concluded that the position of the sensor is correct. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065928 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A system for measurement of spatial coordinates and/or orientation of a probe, comprising a first spatial direction sensor associated with a pattern of targets with known positions relative to each other and to the first spatial direction sensor, a second spatial direction sensor, and | 03-15-2012 |
20120065929 | COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS - Position information of a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit is calculated using angle information of peaks calculated from a light amount distribution having a plurality of peaks detected by light-receiving unit of the second sensor unit from light emitted by light-emitting unit of the first sensor unit. The coordinates of a pointed position are calculated based on the position information of the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit and a change in a received light amount distribution that occurs due to a pointing to a coordinate input region detected by the light-receiving units. Here, the light-emitting units of the respective multiple sensor units are arranged in known positions relative to the light-receiving units. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065930 | VICINITY SENSOR SYSTEM AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of vicinity sensor systems are described herein. Other embodiments and related methods are also disclosed herein. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072166 | DEDUCED RECKONING NAVIGATION WITHOUT A CONSTRAINT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORIENTATION OF A SENSOR PLATFORM AND A DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF AN OBJECT - Systems, methods, and apparatus for performing deduced reckoning navigation without a constraint relationship between orientation of a sensor platform and a direction of travel of an object are described herein. A sensor fusion component can be configured to receive data from sensors of a sensor platform coupled to a pedestrian; and generate world coordinate information based on the data. Further, a gait recognition component can be configured to record one or more walking patterns of the pedestrian in a training database; and determine whether the world coordinate information is associated with a walking pattern of the one or more walking patterns. Furthermore, a position estimation component can be configured to estimate a position of the pedestrian based on the world coordinate information if the world coordinate information is associated with the walking pattern, regardless of an orientation of the sensor platform with respect to the position of the pedestrian. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072167 | SENSOR FUSION - Accurate and reliable techniques for determining a current status of an accessory device in relation to an electronic device are described. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072168 | SENSING DEVICE FOR DETECTING A WEARING POSITION - The invention relates to sensing device ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120072169 | POSITION MEASUREMENT ENCODER AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of operating a position encoder apparatus, including a scale having features defining position information and a readhead for reading the scale. The method includes: calculating extrapolated position information from at least one previous reading of the scale; comparing an extrapolated position with a position calculated from a reading of the scale to determine any discrepancy between them; using the extrapolated position information whether or not there is a discrepancy; and maintaining a record of any discrepancies. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072170 | VISION MEASUREMENT PROBE AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of operating a vision measurement probe for obtaining and supplying images of an object to be measured. The vision measurement probe is mounted on a continuous articulating head of a coordinate positioning apparatus, and the continuous articulating head having at least one rotational axis. The object and vision measurement probe can be moved relative to each other about the at least one rotational axis and in at least one linear degree of freedom during a measuring operation. The method includes: processing at least one image obtained by the vision measurement probe to obtain feedback data; and controlling the physical relationship between the vision measurement probe and the object based on said feedback data. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078572 | Road Surface Condition Estimating Device and Method - A road surface condition estimating device includes an undulation estimating portion for estimating undulations on the trajectory of a traveling vehicle from behavioral information about plural vehicles collected during travel of the vehicles, and a rut estimating portion for estimating undulations of ruts relative to the trajectories of the vehicles from the trajectories of traveling vehicles and from the behavioral information about the vehicles. The behavioral information includes information about positions, postures, and speeds of travel of the vehicles. Undulations on the trajectory of each traveling vehicle found by the undulation estimating portion and undulations of ruts relative to the trajectory of the traveling vehicle are superimposed for each vehicle to find road surface conditions, which are delivered to the vehicles. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084048 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING ONE OR MORE CONTACT POINTS BETWEEN A PAIR OF OBJECTS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining one or more contact points between a pair of objects. In operation, a first contact normal is identified between a pair of objects at a first position. Additionally, a relative velocity of the pair of objects is determined at the first position. Furthermore, one or more contact points between the pair of objects are determined at a second position through a translational analysis, utilizing the first contact normal and the relative velocity. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084049 | OPTICAL COMPONENT WITH A PASSIVE ALIGNMENT MEMBER - Various embodiments of machine vision systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for providing passive alignment of an optical component to an electrical device. One embodiment is a method for passively aligning an optical subassembly to an electrical subassembly. One such method comprises: a machine vision system positioning an optical subassembly relative to an electrical subassembly; the machine vision system capturing an image of the optical subassembly; the machine vision system processing the image to identify an alignment member formed on the optical subassembly; and the machine vision system determining a first position of the optical axis of the optical subassembly based on a second position of the alignment member. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084050 | Method and System for Azimuth Measurements Using a Gyroscope Unit - Methods and systems for azimuth measurements using a gyroscope unit are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a ratio value between two earth rate components orthogonal to each other by using the gyroscope unit at a measuring position; acquiring three gravity vector components orthogonal to each other at the measuring position; and determining an azimuth with respect to a reference axis predetermined in the gyroscope unit, based on the ratio value, the three gravity vector components and a geodetic latitude of the measuring position. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089363 | METHOD FOR JUDGING NUMBER OF TOUCHES - Disclosed is a method for precisely judging the number of touches. The method includes a step A of reading a touch sensing signal sensed by an i | 04-12-2012 |
20120095725 | PROGRAMMING METHOD FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE AND COMPUTING DEVICE THEREOF - In a programming method, a dimension system relating to a product can be embedded into a programming system. The dimension system includes measurement dimensions of measuring points of the product, and the serial numbers preset for the dimensions. The method arranges the serial numbers according to a predefined measuring path, and stores the serial numbers into a dimension list according to the order of the serial numbers presented in the measuring path. After importing the dimensions of the serial numbers into the programming system according to the presented order, the method converts each of the dimensions into a series of codes, and generates a measurement program for the dimensions according to the codes. | 04-19-2012 |
20120101772 | DEVICE FOR THE MAGNETIC MEASUREMENT OF THE ROTATION OF A MAGNETISED BALL AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE ROTATION OF THE BALL - A device and method for measuring rotation, the device including at least one ball, each ball being magnetized or having a temporary magnetization so as to present a dipole magnetization. The ball is free in rotation in a receptacle of a frame, the device including detection means of a magnetic field created by said at least one ball, along at least three non-coplanar axes of different directions. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101773 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING CONDUCTIVITY INFORMATION AND CORRESPONDING MARKERS - The invention provides a marker ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120109576 | NEEDLE MOVING DEVICE - The invention provides a needle moving device which can detect a fault in a signal provided by a system controller to a performing device. An X-direction driving motor ( | 05-03-2012 |
20120116711 | Portable celestial compass - A portable celestial compass (PCC) that provides a new multi-functional capability for high precision target localization. The battery-powered PCC is built around US Army's M-25 stabilized binocular and includes a miniature eye-safe laser range finder, a gyro stabilized binocular, a 3-axis tilt compensated digital compass, and a built-in specialized chip with star catalog and software for target AZ/EL determination and sight reduction. A gyro stabilized binocular rejects up to 98% of image motion caused by hand tremor and platform vibration. Laser rangefinder has the accuracy of ±2 m at 5 km range. The PCC uses celestial objects as absolute references for target azimuth and elevation determination. The azimuth and elevation accuracy is 2 mrad, or 10 m at 5 km range, which is by a factor of up to 5 better than that for a magnetic compass. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116712 | METHOD FOR TRACKING THE POSITION AND THE HEADING OF A VEHICLE USING DEAD RECKONING AND A TRACKING DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD | 05-10-2012 |
20120116713 | System and Method for Tomographic Retrieval of Parameter Profile from Traveling Path - A system for measuring a parameter of a medium with a vehicle moving in a traveling direction through the medium includes four detecting portions and a calculating portion. The four detecting portions respectively detect first through fourth values of the parameter from first through fourth lines-of-sight in first through fourth directions at first through fourth positions of the vehicle at first through fourth times. The first line-of-sight and the third line-of-sight are in a first plane and intersect at a first intersection, while the second line-of-sight and the fourth line-of-sight are in a second plane and intersect at a second intersection. The calculating portion calculates the parameter based on the first through fourth values and the first and second intersections. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116714 | Digital Data Processing Systems and Methods for Skateboarding and Other Social Sporting Activities - Systems and methods for social and other sporting activities. A system according to one such aspect of the invention comprises a sensing device that is attached to an object, such as a skateboard (by way of non-limiting example), for measuring characteristics thereof. It communicates those characteristics wirelessly, e.g., via bluetooth, to a mobile device, such as a cell phone, personal digital assistant, or the like (by way of non-limiting example). That device can log and/or display those characteristics, graphically, for study or analysis by the operator (e.g., the skateboard enthusiast) or others. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116715 | ENCODER, SERVO UNIT, AND POSITION DATA CALCULATING METHOD - An encoder includes a detector, a first position data calculator, a first data converter, an approximation device and a third position data calculator. The first data converter is configured to convert a first position data calculated by the first position data calculator into second position data whose second width in bits is longer than a first width in bits of the first position data. The approximation device is configured to calculate an approximation function that derives position data when timing data is input, based on a plurality of the second position data converted by the first data converter at a plurality of successive sampling timings, respectively. The third position data calculator is configured to calculate third position data indicating a position of a detection target at an output timing, based on the approximation function calculated by the approximation device. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116716 | Device and method of gyro sensor calibration - Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method and apparatus for calibration of gyro sensors by using magnetic sensor measurements and background computation during normal product operation. In one embodiment, magnetic sensor measurements are used to adjust gyro gain by comparing measured magnetic vector orientation with its expected orientation computed from gyro integration. The background process constantly compares this discrepancy for various values of gyro gain and selects the one that minimizes such error on average. In one embodiment, device orientation obtained by gyro integration is improved by using magnetic sensor measurements. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123734 | MISALIGNMENT INDICATION DECISION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for deciding whether or not to indicate misalignment. In some examples, an analysis of parametric data relating to tests sensitive to misalignment is performed in order to determine which data is incongruous and to identify corresponding probes or socket contacts as suspected misaligned. In some examples, additionally or alternatively, a spatial analysis quantifies the placement of a set of identified suspected misaligned probes, which were identified from pass/fail test data and/or parametric test data, with respect to a contiguous or non-contiguous area on one or more wafers. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130673 | CAPTURING BODY MOVEMENT RELATED TO A FIXED COORDINATE SYSTEM - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a kinematic sensor may be carried by or on one or more body segments of a user to obtain one or more kinematic variables based at least in part on movement of the user with respect to a fixed, global reference system. The kinematic sensor comprises a tri-axial accelerometer sensor, a gyroscope sensor, and a magnetometer sensor to define the global reference system and to obtain kinematic data. The kinematic data may be transmitted via a wireless link to a remote information handling system or device, for example to monitor a health status of the user based at least in part on movement of the user with respect to the fixed, global reference system. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136623 | LOCATING A DEVICE USING A REFERENCE POINT TO ALIGN LOCATION INFORMATION - In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving a first set and a second set of location data at a mobile device. The method includes locating a first reference point identifier that is included in the first set of location data and a second reference point identifier that is included in the second set of location data. The first reference point identifier field and the second reference point identifier field identify a common reference point. The method includes identifying first information in the first set of location data that is associated with the common reference point. The method also includes identifying second information in the second set of location data that is associated with the common reference point and spatially aligning the first set of location data with the second set of location data based on the common reference point to associate the first information with the second information. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136624 | COORDINATE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a coordinate recognition apparatus includes a detection device, a first calculation section, a second calculation section, and a setting section. The detection device detects an operation for an operation area. The first calculation section calculates coordinates of an operation position by a user on the basis of the detection result of the detection device. The second calculation section calculates the smoothed coordinates by smoothing a particular number m (m>0) of samples among the coordinates calculated by the first calculation section counted from the new one in a calculation order. The setting section sets a value of the number m of samples to be smaller as the speed of movement of the operation position is higher. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136625 | Monitoring Unit and Method for Monitoring Position Signals of Incremental Position-Measuring Devices - In a monitoring unit for monitoring position signals of incremental position-measuring devices, at least two position signals are applied on the input side that result from the scanning of an incremental graduation track by a scanning unit and that are out-of-phase with each other. The monitoring unit includes a signal logic unit with which at least two position-dependent status data words are able to be generated from different position signals, and an evaluation unit to which the status data words are supplied, in which invalid statuses are ascertainable by comparing the status data words, and an error signal is able to be generated in response to an ascertained invalid status. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136626 | METHOD FOR GENERATING POSITION DATA OF AN INSTRUMENT - A method for detecting deformations and errors and/or for generating position data of an instrument ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120143561 | ALIGNMENT DETECTION DEVICE - An alignment device provides position information for an antenna coupled to an extendable tower. The alignment device can provide position data including pitch data, roll data, and azimuth data. The position data can be collected at multiple times, and reported to a remote computing device. The position data can be reported as the raw measured data, a delta between two sets of position data, or other data. The alignment device may be solar powered and include a transceiver client for communicating with a remote computing device via a transceiver server. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143562 | LOCATING SENSOR NODES THROUGH CORRELATIONS - A method is provided for estimating distances between sensor nodes. The method includes receiving a temporal sequence of measurements of a selected local environmental condition from each of the sensor nodes. The method includes determining an amount of correlation between the measurements of the selected local environmental condition that were received from two or more of the sensor nodes. The method also includes estimating distances between the two or more of the sensor nodes based on the determined amount of correlation. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150484 | Threat detection systems and methods using position-sensing photodiodes - Threat detection systems and methods are disclosed that employ position-sensing photodiodes to locate a munitions flash within a field of view of a collection optical system. The flash is then located on a map of the monitored terrain, which map can be displayed to a system user. Processing electronics determine whether the flash is actually munitions-based or is from another non-threatening light source. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150485 | LUMINANCE SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - A luminance sensing system and method and a computer program product thereof are provided. The system includes: a first luminance sensing unit, arranged at a first position, and used for sensing a light ray luminance at the first position to generate a first illumination value; a second luminance sensing unit, arranged at a second position, having a displacement unit, and used for sensing a light ray luminance at the second position to generate a second illumination value; and a computing unit, electrically connected to the first luminance sensing unit, the displacement unit, and the second luminance sensing unit, and used for acquiring the first illumination value and the second illumination value, acquiring luminance range information by using the first illumination value, and determining whether the second illumination value conforms to the luminance range information, so as to decide whether to control the displacement unit to move. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158352 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display module, an operation module, a communication module, an obtaining module, and a calculator. The operation module obtains operation on the display screen of the display module. The communication module communicates with another electronic device. The obtaining module obtains trace information indicating a trace of operation moving from the electronic device to the other electronic device or a trace of operation moving from the other electronic device to the electronic device based on operation on the display screen of the electronic device and operation on the display screen of the other electronic device. The calculator calculates a positional relationship between the electronic device and the other electronic device based on the trace information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158353 | Proximity Sensor Apparatus For A Game Device - A proximity sensing apparatus includes a device housing, a plurality of energy emitters, an energy detector, a reflective member, and a controller system. The proximity sensing apparatus channels reflected energy to the energy detector and determines the location of the source of reflection. The channeling of energy to the energy detector may reduce manufacturing costs by utilizing less hardware while maintaining a high level of reliability. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158354 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - A system for locating and tracking an object is provided. The system includes a measuring device configured to determine a property of a paving-related material, a locating device configured to determine a location of the measuring device, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the measuring device and one or more properties determined by the measuring device, and a communications system configured to transfer, to a remote device, the location of the measuring device and the tracking information associated with the measuring device. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158355 | POSITION DETECTING METHOD - A position alignment of a transfer point of a transfer arm is performed by using a position detecting method. The method includes: detecting electrostatic capacitances in relation with a reference object for position alignment by a plurality of electrostatic capacitance detecting electrodes provided on a surface of the substrate body; communicating with each electrostatic capacitance detecting electrode and controlling a detection of each electrostatic capacitance detecting electrode; and calculating coordinates (x, y) of the reference object with respect to the substrate body based on a preset relationship between electrostatic capacitance values of multiple electrostatic capacitance detecting electrodes and a position of the reference object with respect to the substrate body. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166136 | Monitoring Method of Vertical Displacement and Vertical Deflection Change of Building Construction Elements, Especially of the Roof, and a System for Realization of this Method - The invention relates to a monitoring method of vertical displacement of selected points of building construction elements, especially roof construction elements or their parts, and vertical deflection change in these points, wherein a distance, preferably vertical, between each of monitored points of construction elements and the stable elements or stable floor is measured, and then a value of vertical displacement of each monitored point, which occurred from the moment of monitoring initiation, is calculated, and then for each monitored construction element the value of vertical deflection change in the monitored point is calculated. The invention relates also to a system for monitoring of vertical displacement of monitored points as well as vertical deflection change in these points of building construction elements. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166137 | Enhanced Position Measurement Systems and Methods - Novel solutions for position measurement, including without limitation tools and techniques that can be used for land surveying and in similar applications. One such tool is a greatly enhanced position measurement system that takes the form of a surveying rod with substantial independent functionality, which can be used with or without a total station or similar device. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173192 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZING POSITION OF WHEEL OF VEHICLE - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for automatically recognizing a position of a wheel of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a rotation sensor unit sensing a variation in rotation of the wheel of the vehicle; a pressure sensor unit sensing a rate of variation in pressure of the wheel of the vehicle; and a sensor control unit judging the position of the wheel of the vehicle by the variation in rotation and the rate of variation in pressure obtained from the rotation sensor unit and the pressure sensor unit. The sensor control unit judges the position of the wheel of the vehicle by dw/dt×dp/dt, in which dw/dt is the variation in rotation and dp/dt is the rate of variation in pressure. The wheel is judged as a front wheel when a value of dw/dt×dp/dt has a negative (−) sign and the wheel is judged as a rear wheel when the value of dw/dt×dp/dt has a positive (+) sign. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173193 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A measurement apparatus includes a platform, a base, and an observation unit. The base is slidably mounted on the platform. The observation unit is slidably mounted on the base. The observation unit comprises an image measurement assembly and a contact measure assembly. The image measure assembly measures an object supported on the platform using the image measurement assembly. The contact measurement assembly can be used to measure the object by direct contact. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179417 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR CHARTING AND DISPLAYING THE TIME AND POSITION OF CONTESTANTS IN A RACE - There is a system and a process for determining the timing and position of contestants on a track. This system comprises at least one directional antenna in communication with at least one competitor communication device that can be coupled to each contestant. A remote base station, is in communication with the positioning device, wherein the positioning device determines a contestant time as the contestant passes the projected field and also determines the position of the contestant in relation to an inside guide such as a rail. There is also a process which includes attaching at least one competitor communication device on at least one contestant, starting a race and then recording the position and time for each contestant and transmitted from the competitor communication device to a remote base station. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185206 | METHOD FOR SETTING THE GEOLOCATION OF A NON-GPS ENABLED DEVICE - A method and device for setting a geolocation of a non-GPS enabled device utilizes GPS mapping technology to allow a user to select and set an exact location for a given device within a facility. The method can include obtaining a GPS map of the site where the device is deployed, obtaining a site map of the site, determining the GPS coordinates of at least one of the corners of the site map, overlaying the site map on the GPS map, aligning the at least one corner of the site map with corresponding GPS coordinates on the GPS map, calculating a grid covering the site map, selecting a location on the site map corresponding to the position of the device, and determining the geolocation of the device by calculating the latitude and longitude of said position. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185207 | THREE WIRE TRANSFORMER POSITION SENSOR, SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUITRY, AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION CIRCUITRY THEREFOR - A three-wire transformer position sensor is provided that includes an excitation coil and an output coil. The excitation coil is adapted to be electrically excited with an excitation signal, and has a first end and a second end. The output coil includes a first coil and a second coil and is inductively coupled to the excitation coil upon electrical excitation thereof the excitation coil. The first end of the first coil is electrically connected to the second end of the second coil and to the second end of the excitation coil, and the second end of the first coil is electrically connected to the first end of the second coil. The output coil is configured, when it is balanced and the excitation coil is being electrically excited, to supply a null output signal. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185208 | Method for detecting position and arrival time of accelerated particles and apparatus for carrying out said method - The present invention refers to a method for detecting position and arrival time of accelerated particles, particularly in a linear particle accelerator, and to an apparatus for carrying out said method. When a correction is triggered, the apparatus according to the invention digitally processes a triggering signal by means of a programmable digital synthetic system being set in a manner that it is equivalent, referring to the time response, to the analogue correction signal received. The output from said synthetic system is deducted from the measurement, therefore, the correction signal is entirely deleted from the measurement. A special adaptive algorithm takes care for the time response compliance of the synthetic system with alterations in the analogue circuit generated due to the warming of the circuit itself. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING LOCATION OF WARD - A method and apparatus for managing a location of a ward, the method including: determining a ward location updating period based on a current location of the ward within a safety zone; and if the determined location updating period is about to elapse, transmitting the current location of the ward at a time when the updating period elapses. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191408 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUNTING AN ELEMENTARY MOVEMENT OF A PERSON - System for counting an elementary displacement of a person, comprising a casing and fixing means for securely tying said casing to a part of the body of said person, comprising:
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20120197590 | PHYSICAL SENSOR DEVICES HAVING A MULTI-REFERENCE VECTOR SYSTEM - Physical sensor devices, methods, and computer useable mediums for estimating an orientation of a physical sensor device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for estimating an orientation of a physical sensor device includes determining a sensed vector associated with a physical sensor and comparing the at least one sensed vector to at least a portion of a plurality of check vectors. Each check vector of the plurality of check vectors corresponds to an orientation of the physical sensor device. Additionally, a reference vector is associated with each check vector, thereby defining a plurality of reference vectors. The method further includes selecting at least one check vector that is closest to the at least one sensed vector, selecting a selected at least one reference vector associated with the selected at least one check vector, and estimating the orientation of the physical sensor device based at least in part on the selected at least one reference vector. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203498 | TAMPER DETECTION WITH TILT SENSORS - A reference relative orientation between a first component and a second component of a package is determined based on signals generated by a first tilt sensor mounted on the first component of a package and a second tilt sensor mounted on a second component of the package. After determining the reference relative orientation, tampering with the first or second components of the package can be detected by at least determining whether the orientation of the first and second components have changed relative to each other based on the reference relative orientation and signals generated by the first and second tilt sensors. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203499 | Deflection Measuring System and Method - A deflection measurement probe includes a body portion having a cavity defined by the body portion, a first positional measurement sensor disposed in the cavity of the body portion, the first positional measurement sensor including a sensor tip extending from the body portion operative to contact a measurement surface, and a second positional measurement sensor disposed in the cavity of the body portion, the first positional measurement sensor including a sensor tip extending from the body portion operative to contact a measurement surface. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203500 | OSCILLOSCOPE AND METHOD, SYSTEM THEREOF FOR COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING SIGNAL WAVEFORM - An oscilloscope and a method and system thereof for collecting and displaying signal waveform are disclosed, including a control measuring unit determining a corresponding test command and test parameter according to the selection of test points on a tested object; calculating position coordinate of each test point, and sending the test command and test parameter to an automatic collecting unit; the automatic collecting unit returning test signals of each test point collected by a collecting probe of the automatic collection unit to the control measuring unit according to the test command and test parameter; and the control measuring unit generating corresponding waveform data according to the test signals returned by the automatic collecting unit, storing and displaying the waveform data. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209561 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING A POINT OF INTEREST ON THE PERIPHERY OF AN OBJECT - Methods and systems for identifying a point of interest on the periphery of an object are disclosed. A system comprises a track, a carriage, an advancement mechanism, a non-contact measurement device, and a processor. The advancement mechanism is configured to advance the carriage along the path defined by the track. The measurement device comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a beam of radiation toward the periphery of the object and a detector configured to detect at least a portion of the radiation reflected from the periphery of the object. The processor is programmed to (i) advance the carriage along the path, (ii) measure a distance between the periphery of the object and the measurement device, (iii) calculate a center of mass of the object from the measured distances, and (iv) determine the point of interest on the periphery of the object using the calculated center of mass of the object. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215485 | PROGRAMMING METHOD FOR A COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE AND COMPUTING DEVICE THEREOF - In a programming method, a number of points measured on a product are roughly fitted into/matched with one or more geometrical elements, and a fitting value of the geometrical elements are output to a first data list. The method records the storing positions of the geometrical elements having fitting values that are within a predetermined tolerance value in a second data list, and obtains a best geometrical element type of the product by determining geometrical element types that correspond to each of the storing positions recorded in the second data list using a matching condition. After the best geometrical element type from the first data list is obtained, the method generates a measurement program and displays the measurement program on a display device. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221292 | METHOD OF ASSISTING THE PLACEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS OF A CIVIL ENGINEERING WORK - This method of assisting the placement of construction elements of a civil engineering work, comprises:
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20120226470 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL LOCATION OF TARGET LAND AREA BY MERGING IMAGES CAPTURED BY TWO SATELLITE-BASED SENSORS - Target land area is three-dimensionally located using an optical sensor and a radar sensor in satellites. The positions of the satellites are measured and images are captured when the sensors point toward land areas. The aiming direction of the optical sensor for each area is measured. The distance between each area and the radar sensor pointing thereto is measured. Images of land areas captured by the sensors and covering common areas are matched. The distance between the target area selected from the common areas and the optical sensor is accurately determined on the basis of the positions of the sensors, the distance between the target area and the radar sensor, and the aiming direction of the optical sensor, which are associated with the images covering the target area. | 09-06-2012 |
20120232834 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING ORTHOPEDIC ALIGNMENT USING TRACKING SENSORS - A method for determining orthopedic alignment is provided. The method includes monitoring a first and second sequence of signals transmitted from the first device to a second device, estimating a location of the first device from sensory measurements of the signals at respective sensors on the second device, calculating a set of phase differences, weighting a difference of an expected location and estimated location of the first device with the set of phase differences to produce a relative displacement, and reporting a position of an orthopedic instrument coupled to the first device based on the relative displacement. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232835 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING ADJOINING PARTS OF A PRODUCT - A scanner obtains point-cloud data of adjoining parts of a product. A computing device reads two point-clouds from the point-cloud data, fits two or more lines according to the two point-clouds, selects two lines that have the same ascending direction from the two or more lines, and creates a two-dimensional coordinates system base on the two selected lines. The computing device determines a highest point in each of the two point-clouds based on distances from each point in either of the point-clouds to a corresponding selected line, and determines two nearest points in the two point-clouds. A difference between Y coordinates of the two highest points is determined as a gap-height of two adjoining parts of the product, and a difference between X coordinates of the two nearest points is determined as a gap-width between two adjoining parts. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232836 | NON-CONTACT POSITION SENSING DEVICE AND NON-CONTACT POSITION SENSING METHOD - A non-contact position sensing device includes a plurality of infrared LEDs provided in different positions and each being configured to transmit an infrared light ray, a photosensor configured to receive multiple ones of infrared light rays reflected by an object, and a control section configured to calculate a position of the object based on reflected light rays received by the photosensor. The control section switches between intensity position calculation to calculate the position of the object based on intensities of the reflected light rays and phase position calculation to cause intensities of the infrared light rays transmitted from the infrared LEDs to periodically change and calculate the position of the object based on phases of intensity changes of the reflected light rays. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232837 | ENHANCED PRECISE LOCATION - A line locator includes a signal detector to detect signals from an underground line; an error modeler that models a phase error in the signal from neighboring underground lines; and an enhanced electromagnetic field modeler that provides a location of the underground line based on the signal and a result from the error modeler. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232838 | Installation of Magnetic Signal Sources for Positioning - It is inter alia disclosed to use, in a positioning process, positioning process information that is at least one of information on a detected magnetic signal, information determined based on said detected magnetic signal and information determined based on data measured to detect said detected magnetic signal. The magnetic signal stems from a magnetic signal source installed in an environment. The positioning process is for positioning the device in said environment. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239344 | POSITION REGISTRATION APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POSITION REGISTRATION APPARATUS - A position registration apparatus recording a position where an event occurs, the apparatus has a detecting unit, a first position specifying unit that specifies a first position, a movement detecting unit that detects an amount of movement of the position registration apparatus, a memory that accumulates the amount of movement as movement information at least not before the detected event occurrence, and a second position specifying unit that specifies the amount of movement of the position registration apparatus from a point of time of the event occurrence up to a point of time of the information that specifies a position is acquired from outside of the position registration apparatus, and specifies a second position of the position registration apparatus at the point of time of the event occurrence based on the first position of the position registration apparatus and from the specified amount of movement of the position registration apparatus. | 09-20-2012 |
20120245886 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING PROXIMITY SENSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic device includes a main body; at least one proximity sensor arranged in the main body to detect a motion of a user in a predetermined range from the main body. A memory arranged in the main body store a relationship table defining a relationship between an operation event and an executable function. The operation event includes: the times of the proximity of a user to the main body, the duration of a stationary state of the user relative to the main body, and the distance of the movement of a user with respect to the main body. In addition, includes a processor receiving data from the at least one sensor determining an operation event and executing an executable function according to the relationship table. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253739 | PRESENCE DECIDING APPARATUS, SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The fact that a movable object exits a specific area is judged with high accuracy. A first movement sensor detects the movement of the movable object in a first area. A second movement sensor detects the movement of the movable object in a second area including the first area. A time judgment unit judges whether or not a time difference from a time point when a measurement value obtained by the first movement sensor becomes a predetermined value or less to a time point when a measurement value obtained by the second movement sensor becomes the predetermined value or less is a first threshold value or more. An existence judgment unit judges that the movable object does not exist in the first area in the case where the time judgment unit has judged that the time difference is the first threshold value or more. | 10-04-2012 |
20120265483 | TIME SYNCHRONIZATION VIA OVER-DETERMINED MEASUREMENTS - Disclosed are a method and a system for clock synchronization estimation using position over-determination principles applied to TDOA measurements of well-tracked targets with a height of about 5 km and higher. Clock correction factors or delays can then be applied to sensor clock signals, providing accurate tracking of targets such as aircraft, even in the event of GPS failure or jamming. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265484 | ENCODER - An encoder includes a scale, a detector array that includes a plurality of detectors, and a signal processor configured to process and convert into positional information, an output signal from the detector array. The signal processor includes a first phase acquirer configured to acquire a first phase of a first modulation period from an output signal of the detector array. The encoder further includes a weighting unit configured to weight an output signal from each of a plurality of detectors using a weight in accordance with a position of the detector array. The weight is set so that in a predetermined range that contains a spatial frequency corresponding to the second modulation period in a spatial frequency response of the first phase acquirer, a value weighted by the weighting unit is equal to or smaller than a non-weighted value. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265485 | INPUT DEVICE AND POSITION DETERMINING METHOD - An input device ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120278030 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ASSEMBLY INFORMATION OF A DATA CENTER - In a method for configuring assembly information of a data center using a computing device, the data center includes racks, and each of the racks includes data nodes. Each of the data nodes includes drawers, and each of the drawers has one or more motherboards and hard disks. The method determines a placement position of each of the motherboards in each of the drawers according to the center of gravity of the motherboard and the center point of the drawer, and determines a placement position of each of the hard disks according to the center of gravity of the hard disk and the center point of the drawer. The method determines a placement position of each of the drawers in the data node, and generates a report of the data center accordingly which can be used for assembly and reference relating to the data center. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278031 | MULTI-TOUCH AND MULTI-USER DETECTING DEVICE - A system and method are provided to enable the indication positions of respective indicators (e.g., fingers) to be detected (multiple-point detection) and also to enable detection of the users of the indicators (user detection). Signal generators for generating different signals for respective users are provided, and the signals from the signal generators are supplied to a sensor section through indicators. In a multi-touch and multi-user detecting device | 11-01-2012 |
20120278032 | DETERMINATION OF CD AND/OR MD VARIATIONS FROM SCANNING MEASUREMENTS OF A SHEET OF MATERIAL - CD variations and/or MD variations in scan measurements are determined from spectral components of power spectra of scan measurements taken using two or more scanning speeds. Dominant spectral components having the same spatial frequencies identify CD variations and dominant spectral components having the same temporal frequencies identify MD variations. Dominant spectral components are extracted from a noisy power spectrum (PS) by sorting all spectral components into an ordered PS. A first polynomial representing background noise of the ordered PS is used to set a first threshold. Spectral components of the ordered PS that exceed the first threshold are removed to form a noise PS. A second polynomial representing the noise PS is used to set a second threshold. Spectral components of the PS that exceed the second threshold are identified as dominant spectral components of the PS. | 11-01-2012 |
20120283986 | System and Method for Measuring Positions - A system for measuring a position includes a scale pattern encoding the position with a first resolution; a sensor for acquiring an input signal representing a portion of the scale pattern, the portion encoding a codeword shifted with a shift; and a processor for comparing the input signal with a model signal of the codeword to determine the shift, and to determine the position based on the codeword and the shift. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290253 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR HEIGHT DETERMINATION - A method for determining a height (i.e., elevation above ground level) at which a communication device having an electronic processor and a sensor is located may include obtaining a reference height of a first location, the reference height being a known height relative to ground level, the reference height having a corresponding reference pressure; obtaining, with the sensor, a pressure measurement at a second location; and calculating, with the electronic processor, a height at the second location based on the pressure measurement, the reference height, and the reference pressure. The height may also be based on temperature data, location data, motion data, and/or the like. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290254 | INDOOR LOCALIZATION OF MOBILE DEVICES - Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to indoor localization, for example, where GPS or other localization signals are unavailable. More specifically, aspects relate to using a particle filter in conjunction with a gyroscope and/or accelerometer to identify a current location of a client device with respect to a map. In one example, the map may be based upon a map including a series of walls representing locations where a user may not walk within a building. In another example, the map may be based upon a series of rails representing locations where a user may walk within a building. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290255 | CLEAR LAYER ISOLATION - A method for optical isolation in a clear mold package is provided. The method comprises forming a substrate and mounting a first component on the substrate. The method also comprises depositing a clear layer over the first component and the substrate and fabricating a trench in the clear layer near the first component, wherein the trench extends from a top surface of the substrate to the top surface of the clear layer. Further, the method comprises depositing an opaque material within the trench. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290256 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING POSITIONING DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide not only a technical solution for calibrating a positioning device but also a technical solution for characterizing an area of interest in a space. Specifically, there is provided a system, which may comprise: a tag capable of emitting ranging signals, placed at location points which are selected as space feature points in the space; a positioning device in said space, configured to obtain relative coordinates of said space feature points in relation to the positioning device based on the ranging signals from the tag; and a server, configured to determine location parameters of said positioning device in said space based on said relative coordinates, so as to calibrate said positioning device. The positioning device can be calibrated automatically, fast and accurately using the system. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296602 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes a living body detection unit configured to detect approaching of a living body based on a detection output depending on a distance to the living body, an operation unit configured to receive an operation command from a user, a history recording unit configured to record a history of a detection output of the living body detection unit and a history of an operation performed on the operation unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a threshold value of the detection output, the threshold value being used by the living body detection unit as a determination reference value in determining whether a living body is detected, the determination of the threshold value being made based on the history recorded in the history recording unit as to the detection output of the living body detection unit and as to the operation performed on the operation unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303316 | Method of Dynamically Adjusting Threshold Values and Related Electronic Device - A method of dynamically adjusting threshold values for an electronic device is disclosed. The method comprises setting the base proximity value to a maximum proximity value; polling a detected proximity value; determining a first range where the detected proximity value falls according to a mapping table; setting the base proximity value to a largest value of the first range; determining a high threshold value and a low threshold value according to the base proximity value; and resetting the base proximity value to a default value when the proximity function is disabled. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303317 | DISPLACEMENT SENSOR - Teaching processing using a model of a workpiece is performed by accepting at least one input of a target value for a response time and a tolerance value for a detection error as a parameter representing a condition for a displacement sensor to operate. A CPU during teaching processing determines a maximum exposure time while it causes repeated detection processing by a light projecting unit and a light receiving unit, calculates variation in measurement data of an amount of displacement, and derives the number of pieces of data of moving average calculation suitable for a value for the input parameter as a result of operation processing using the maximum exposure time and variation in measurement data. This number of pieces of data is registered in a memory and used for moving average calculation in a normal operation mode. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303318 | Kinematic Predictor for Articulated Mechanisms - A predictor usable for rapid and accurate calculation of joint commands of an articulated mechanism describes relationship between the joints in the form of a differential equation. The predictor solves this differential equation by direct substitution of a power series for each of its variables and the combining of selected sets of coefficients of these power series into linear systems of equations which may be solved to determine power series coefficients to arbitrary order. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310591 | TRACKING A BODY BY NONLINEAR AND NON-GAUSSIAN PARAMETRIC FILTERING - A general framework for parametric filters is based on belief condensation (BC), which can cope with highly nonlinear and non-Gaussian system models. The methodology exploits the specific structure of the problem and decomposes it in such a way that the linear and Gaussian part can be solved in closed form, while the remaining parts are addressed by an optimization process, referred to as BC. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed BC filter is close to that of the particle filter, but with a much lower complexity. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310592 | TOUCH DEVICE AND DETECTION METHOD THEREOF - A touch device includes a plurality of sensors, a storage module and a processing module. The sensors are placed on a substrate for detecting acoustic waves and generating electrical signals. The storage module stores a plurality of templates of delay measurement for a plurality of locations on the substrate. The processing module is coupled to the sensors and to the storage module for calculating a received delay measurement and comparing the received delay measurement to the plurality of templates of delay measurement to estimate touch location. A detection method for the touch device is also provided. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310593 | TOOTHBRUSH TRACKING SYSTEM - A method of monitoring tooth brushing comprising: receiving a position signal from a position sensor ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120316825 | LENS ALIGNING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING LENS - A lens aligning device includes: a decentering detection mechanism for measuring a first lens decentering amount; a aligning position calculation control mechanism for calculating a target inter-lens decentering amount by using Formula ( | 12-13-2012 |
20120316826 | METHOD OF ALIGNING, ALIGNING PROGRAM AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROFILE EVALUATING SYSTEM - A method of aligning that aligns a measurement point group and a design point group by an arithmetic processing unit, the measurement point group including a plurality of measurement points obtained by measuring a workpiece by a measuring instrument, and the design point group including a plurality of design points specified by design data of the workpiece, comprises selecting a partial point group from the measurement point group, performing an alignment processing of the partial point group and the design point group to calculate a shift parameter, shifting the measurement point group using the shift parameter, and performing an alignment processing of the measurement point group after shifting and the design point group. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316827 | INTERNAL MEASUREMENT COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A system for measuring dimensions and/or other internal properties of a shoe, garment or other object of interest is described. The system includes a fixture having a measurement tip. When the tip is placed inside of the object of interest, a processor collects positional data from the fixture to develop a three-dimensional model of the interior of the object. If the measurement tip includes one or more pressure sensors, the processor may collect pressure data and use the pressure data to include stretch properties in the three-dimensional model. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316828 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF A PISTON OF A PISTON CYLINDER THROUGH THE USE OF MICROWAVES - A method for detecting the position of a piston of a piston cylinder is provided. A microwave transmit signal is emitted in the direction of the piston and microwaves reflected from the piston are detected. The transmit signal comprises a modulated signal with a base frequency sinusoidally modulated at a modulation frequency. An evaluation of the phase between transmit signals and receive signals is performed. A phase determination at the baseband and a simultaneous phase determination at at least one sideband are also performed. The phase determination at the baseband is used for fine determination of the piston position and the phase determination at the at least one sideband is used for coarse determination of the piston position. Bandpass filtering on receive signals and evaluation transmit signals is performed with respect to the base frequency or an intermediate frequency. Bandpass filtering is performed with respect to the modulation frequency. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316829 | METHOD FOR LOCATING THE POSITION OF WHEELS OF A VEHICLE - A method for localization the position of wheels of a vehicle includes: storing, for each wheel, an image of the intensity of the signal originating from an electronic module fitted to the wheel; controlling the emission by each electronic module of a sequence of n signals emitted with predetermined time intervals; computing for each sequence of n signals, the temporal variation of the correlation coefficients between each signal of the sequence and each of the stored images; computing the peak of correlation of the correlation coefficients of each of the n signals and the temporal position over a wheel revolution of each of the n peaks of correlation; and selecting, for each stored image, the wheel at the origin of the emission of sequences having the highest peaks of correlation associated with time intervals corresponding to the time intervals of emission of the n signals of the sequences. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323524 | COORDINATE DETECTING DEVICE AND COORDINATE DETECTING PROGRAM - A coordinate detecting device includes a detecting unit configured to detect the capacitance of each of a plurality of electrodes which are arranged in a predetermined direction, a storage unit configured to store the detected capacitance of each electrode, and an arithmetic processing unit configured to perform an arithmetic process on the basis of the capacitance of each electrode stored in the storage unit. The detecting unit sequentially detects the capacitance of the plurality of electrodes from one end to the other end of the predetermined direction. The arithmetic processing unit determines a coordinate region of a detection target in the predetermined direction on the basis of a comparison value between capacitance variations of adjacent electrodes and the magnitude of the detected capacitance variation of each electrode. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330599 | Methods and Systems to Implement a Surrogate Head Model and Directly Measure Brain/Skull Relative Displacement - A human surrogate head model (HSHM) to measure brain/skull displacement due to a physical force, such as due to an explosive, ballistic, or automotive crash type of event. A HSHM may include a plurality of magnetic field generators positioned stationary relative to a HSHM skull, each to generate a magnetic field oriented with respect to a corresponding one of multiple directions. The HSHM may include one or more electromagnetic force (EMF)-based displacement sensors, each of which may include three inductive coils oriented orthogonally with respect to one another and co-aligned about a central point. A signal processor may be implemented to separate signals generated by each coil of each EMF-based displacement sensor into a plurality of component magnitudes, each attributable to a corresponding one of the magnetic fields. A computer-implemented model may be implemented to correlate between the component magnitudes and a corresponding position and orientation of the displacement sensor. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330600 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, POSITIONING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic device, a positioning method, a positioning system, a computer program product, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The electronic device includes at least one wireless transceiver, at least one measurement unit (MU), and a processor. The processor is coupled with the wireless transceiver and the MU. The processor obtains distances between a plurality of participant devices through the wireless transceiver, wherein the participant devices include the electronic device. The processor obtains a displacement of each of the participant devices through the wireless transceiver and the MU and determines the spatial location of each of the participant devices according to the distances and the displacements. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330601 | DETERMINING TILT ANGLE AND TILT DIRECTION USING IMAGE PROCESSING - A survey instrument includes a surveying device configured to perform survey measurements and an imaging device coupled to the surveying device and having a known spatial relationship with the surveying device. The imaging device may be configured to obtain image information. The survey instrument also includes a processor in electrical communication with the imaging device. The processor may be configured to receive the image information from the imaging device, process the image information to determine a pose of the imaging device, and determine a tilt angle of the survey instrument and a tilt direction of the survey instrument in a reference frame. Tilt angle and the tilt direction of the survey instrument may be determined using the pose of the imaging device. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330602 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A SAFETY PLANE IN COORDINATE MEASUREMENTS - In a method for establishing a safety plane in coordinate measurements, the method meshes a 3D model of a workpiece and a probe by triangles, and calculates a maximum bounding box of the probe. The method further obtains a moving path of the maximum bounding box after moving the maximum bounding box from a first measuring point to a second, and obtains a maximum space box of the moving path. If the maximum space box has one or more intersections with the workpiece, the method calculates a distance between vertices of each of the triangles falling within the maximum space box and a bottom face of the maximum space box, and obtains a point in the bottom face of the maximum space box that has a maximum distance from the triangles. By correcting a plane containing the point, the safety plane is obtained. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330603 | RF Fingerprinting for Location Estimation - A method of estimation of a location of a terminal within an area of coverage of a wireless network comprising at least one fixed node. The method comprises estimating the location of the terminal on the basis of at least a comparison between data representing a first metric of a complex frequency response of a radio channel between the terminal and one of the at least one fixed node and data representing a plurality of stored metrics. Each of the plurality of stored metrics being related to one of a plurality of different locations within the network and each stored metric being of a complex frequency response measured between the one of the fixed nodes and the location within the network to which the metric relates. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006576 | TARGET TRACKING - An apparatus and a method are disclosed for tracking a plurality of targets (e.g. land-based vehicles) The method can include: for a first time-step, estimating a state of each target; at a second time-step, measuring values for a state of a target; for the second time-step, estimating a state of each target using the estimated target states for the first time-step; updating the estimated target states for the second time-step using the measured values; and performing an identity management process to estimate a probability that a particular state measurement corresponds to a particular target by providing a mixing matrix, wherein an element of the mixing matrix is based on an overlap between the updated estimated target states of targets in an underlying state space of the estimated target states. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006577 | TARGET TRACKING - An apparatus and a method are disclosed for tracking a plurality of targets (e.g. land-based vehicles). The method can include: for a first time-step, estimating a state of each respective target; at a second time-step, measuring values for a state of each target; for the second time-step, estimating a state of each target using the estimated target states for the first time-step; updating the estimated target states for the second time-step by performing a Joint Probabilistic Data Association process using the measured values; and performing an identity management process to estimate a probability that a particular state measurement corresponds to a particular. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013250 | ABSOLUTE POSITION DETECTOR WITH ABNORMALITY DETECTION FUNCTION - In an absolute position detector, a relative error calculation circuit calculates, at times indicated by a clock signal C | 01-10-2013 |
20130018628 | METHODS AND DEVICES TO DETERMINE A MOBILE DEVICE HOUSING POSITIONAANM Parco; Adam LouisAACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Parco; Adam Louis Kitchener CAAANM Holbein; Marc E.AACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Holbein; Marc E. Kitchener CAAANM Almalki; NazihAACI WaterlooAACO CAAAGP Almalki; Nazih Waterloo CAAANM Snow; Christopher HarrisAACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Snow; Christopher Harris Kitchener CA - Methods and devices to determine a mobile device housing position are described. An example device disclosed herein includes a housing having a first portion movably coupled to a second portion, the second portion to have a first position, a second position, and at least one intermediate position relative to the first portion, wherein the intermediate position is between the first and second positions; a position detector in the first portion, the position detector to measure a transitional magnetic field when the second portion is in the intermediate position and to measure a second magnetic field; and a processor to determine that the second portion is in the first position or the second position based on the transitional magnetic field and the second magnetic field. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018629 | CROWD SOURCING BASED ON DEAD RECKONINGAANM Sidhu; Gursharan S.AACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Sidhu; Gursharan S. Seattle WA USAANM Agarwal; SharadAACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Agarwal; Sharad Seattle WA US - An identification is made as to when a device is at an anchor location, which can be a proximity zone along an edge of a dead zone or a location where a signal from a beacon is detected. In response to the device being at an anchor location, recording of crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning starts. Recording crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning includes identifying one or more signals received by a device while the device is at each of multiple positions. For each of the multiple positions, both an indication of the position determined based at least in part on dead reckoning and an indication of the one or more signals received while the device is at that position are recorded. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024154 | Method and System for Evaluating Characteristics of an S-cam - A system and method for evaluating characteristics of an S-cam are provided. The inventive method includes the step of obtaining angle values and displacement values indicative of an angle of rotation of the S-cam and displacement of a cam follower caused by rotation of a lobe of the S-cam. The method further includes the step of determining a profile for the lobe of the S-cam responsive to the angle values and the displacement values. The method further includes the steps of computing a deviation of the profile from a desired profile for the lobe of the S-cam and determining a rate of change in the deviation of the profile. In addition, the system and method may evaluate characteristics such as the concentricity of the S-cam and power transfer characteristics of the S-cam. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024155 | System and Method for Tuning Geo-Location in Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) Networks - Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for determining a location estimate of user equipment in a mobile network. For example, a method may include receiving measurement data that includes a time of arrival indication of data communicated between the user equipment and base stations of the mobile network. The method may further include processing only the received measurement data that is within a particular time window and excluding some of the received measurement data outside the particular time window. The method may further include determining a sync value based on the received measurement data within the time window. The sync value may synchronize timing between at least two base stations of the mobile network. The method may include determining a location of the user equipment based on the sync value and the measurement data. The method may include geometric or linear optimization of the determined location estimate. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024156 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A MAGNETIC ELEMENT USING HALL EFFECT LINEAR SENSORS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - Method for determining the position of a magnetic element on a gearbox selector of an automobile, generating a magnetic field ({right arrow over (V)}), the speed selector moving in two directions with respect to a longitudinal axis, a main direction and a secondary direction, the magnetic element facing a position sensor including three Hall effect cells, includes measuring three voltages (V | 01-24-2013 |
20130024157 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL LOCATING METHOD OF MOTION PLATFORM BASED ON MAGNETIC STEEL ARRAY - A two-dimensional locating method of a motion platform based on a magnetic steel array involves the following steps: placing more than four linear Hall sensors at any different positions within one or more polar distances of the magnetic steel array on the surface of the motion platform in a motion system; determining a magnetic flux density distribution model according to the magnetic steel array; determining the mounting positions of the above-mentioned linear Hall sensors, which are converted into phases with respect to the mass center of the motion platform; recording the magnetic flux density measured values of the linear Hall sensors as the motion proceeds; solving the phases of the mass center of the motion platform in a plane, with the measured values being served as observed quantities and the magnetic flux density distribution model being served as a computation model; and determining the position of the mass center of the motion platform with respect to an initial phase according to the phase, so as to realize the planar location of the motion platform. The present invention provides a simple, fast and robust method for computing mass center positions for a motion system containing a magnetic steel array. | 01-24-2013 |
20130035894 | BALLONET MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for measuring a volume of a ballonet are provided. In some aspects, the system may include a plurality of sensors configured to transmit a plurality of signals toward an interior surface of the ballonet and to receive the plurality of signals reflected off of the interior surface of the ballonet, a distance calculating module configured to calculate a plurality of distances from the plurality of sensors to the interior surface of the ballonet using the received plurality of signals, and a mapping module configured to create a three-dimensional surface using the calculated plurality of distances. The system may further include a measurement module configured to calculate the volume of the ballonet using the three-dimensional surface. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035895 | Compass Heading Display for A Computerized Mobile Device - A method for displaying a compass heading implemented by a computerized mobile device includes displaying a compass heading on a display of a computerized mobile device according to a compass onboard the computerized mobile device if the computerized mobile device is traveling below a motion threshold. The method also includes displaying a compass heading on a display of a computerized mobile device according to a compass heading calculated using at least two coordinates for the computerized mobile device if the computerized mobile device is traveling above the motion threshold. | 02-07-2013 |
20130054186 | Method and Apparatus for Determining an Overlay Error - A method of, and associated apparatuses for, determining an overlay error resultant from structure defects such as asymmetry. The method comprises measuring scattering properties of a first target comprising a first structure and a second structure, constructing a model of the first structure using the measured scattering properties, the model comprising a first model structure corresponding to the first structure, modifying the model by overlaying the first model structure with an intermediate model structure, further modifying the model by replacing the intermediate model structure with a second model structure, corresponding to the second structure, calculating a second defect-induced overlay error between the first model structure and the second model structure, the first and second model structures being overlaid with respect to each other in the further modified model and determining an overlay error in a second target using the calculated second defect-induced overlay error. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054187 | ADAPTIVE MECHANISM CONTROL AND SCANNER POSITIONING FOR IMPROVED THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER SCANNING - A method of adaptively positioning a scanner [ | 02-28-2013 |
20130066587 | WIRELESS MAGNETIC POSITION SENSOR - In one example, a position sensor is provided. The position sensor comprises an integrated circuit, and a magnetic field sensor that provides a detected signal indicative of a position of a magnetic field source to the integrated circuit. The magnetic field sensor comprises a tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor. The position sensor further comprises a wireless circuit coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein the wireless circuit comprises an antenna configured to radiate a position signal based on the detected signal. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066588 | Agility Training and Assessment - A controller communicates a series of commands to a subject within a control area. A control area sensor generates movement data by monitoring the movement of the subject executing the command. Rebound surface sensor(s) generate contact data by monitoring contacts with rebound surface(s) resulting from the subject executing the commands. Performance of the subject is analyzed using the movement data and the contact data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073252 | MAGNETIC-POLE POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES - An object is to provide a magnetic-pole position detection apparatus for synchronous machines that allows a desired accuracy of magnetic-pole position detection regardless of variation in DC voltage of a DC voltage source. Calculation means ( | 03-21-2013 |
20130080109 | ACCURACY IN A CAPACITIVE SENSE ARRAY - A capacitive sense array configured to improve accuracy in detecting a presence of a conductive object is described. In one embodiment the capacitive sense array includes a first set of sense elements including a plurality of sub-sections and a second set of sense elements including a plurality of sub-sections such that the plurality of sub-sections of one sense element of the first set straddle at least one of the plurality of sub-sections of at least two of the sense elements of the second set. The straddle as defined in the present invention includes shifting and interleaving sub-section of one sense element with the sub-sections of at least two sense elements adjacent to the one sense element. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085714 | Method and device for moving a sensor close to a surface - A method and a system for positioning a sensor of an electrostatic force microscope is disclosed. In a method according to the invention, the AC bias voltage and DC bias voltage systems of the EFM are utilized to determine a sensor sensitivity “G”, which is then used to adjust the position of the sensor or the AC bias voltage in a manner that reduces the risk of arcing and/or contact between the sensor and the surface to be analyzed. | 04-04-2013 |
20130090890 | ABSOLUTE POSITION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD - Two similar incremental sensors, one with 2N+1 spatial periods or pitches over a range of 2R, or N+0.5 pitches over a range of R, and the other with 2N−1 pitches over the range of 2R, or N−0.5 pitches over a range of R, measure a common position along an axis x. Both sensors consist of a scale having spatially periodic features that define the above pitches, and a reading head. An exact absolute position over the maximum range of 2R can be computed from outputs of the two sensors with a resolution about twice that of one sensor. For a reduced absolute range of less than R, computing the correct absolute position becomes simpler and more tolerant of sensor linearity. A preferred embodiment is a compact and linear absolute gauge combining two inductive incremental sensors, replacing current analog LVDT or half-bridge inductive gauges. | 04-11-2013 |
20130096869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit, a starting point determination unit, and a coordinate conversion unit. The analysis unit analyzes an action history of a first subject, in accordance with action information obtained by detecting an action of the first subject. The starting point determination unit determines a position of a starting point of an action of the first subject, in accordance with the action history analyzed by the analysis unit. The position of the starting point is represented as a relative coordinate position. When a second subject different from the first subject has an absolute coordinate position, the coordinate conversion unit converts the relative coordinate position representing the starting point of the action of the first subject into an absolute coordinate position, in accordance with the absolute coordinate position of the second subject. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096870 | CONTROL METHOD APPLIED TO EDGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL APPARATUS THEREOF - A control method applied to an edge detection apparatus is provided, wherein the edge detection apparatus includes a light emitting device, and the edge detection apparatus receives an output light of the light emitting device driven by a driving signal in order to generate a sensed signal. The method includes determining a first intensity difference value corresponding to a difference between high and low intensities of the sensed signal; adjusting the driving signal and accordingly determining a second intensity difference value corresponding to a difference between high and low intensities of the sensed signal in response to adjusting of the driving signal; comparing the first intensity difference value and a second intensity value to generate a comparison result; and adjusting the driving signal according to the comparison result. | 04-18-2013 |
20130096871 | ENCODER SYSTEM HAVING FUNCTION OF DETECTING ORIGIN POSITION, MACHINE TOOL, AND TRANSFER APPARATUS - An encoder system includes a supporting member including a plurality of marks, first and second sensors provided to be shifted from each other by a first distance and capable of reading the marks, and a calculation processing unit that performs a calculation processing of detected signals of the first and second sensors, and the calculation processing unit calculates a first time that is required for one mark to move the first distance and a second time that is required for two adjacent marks to pass a detection position of the first or second sensor while the supporting member moves relatively to the first and second sensors, and determines that a mark pattern used to calculate a first index is an origin mark pattern when the first index calculated based on the first and second times corresponds to a second index that characterizes an origin position. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103344 | METHOD TO IMPROVE LEVELING PERFORMANCE IN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - An attitude estimator system is provided. The attitude estimator system includes a navigation system, a Kalman filter, and a form observations module. The navigation system receives input from a first accelerometer and gyroscope, a second accelerometer and gyroscope, and a third accelerometer and gyroscope. The form observations module receives input from at least one high performance accelerometer and/or gyroscope; forms and outputs at least one of velocity-derived observations and attitude-derived observations. The Kalman filter processes by at least one of: inputting the velocity-derived observations formed in the form observations module, rotating the velocity-derived observation into a sensor-frame, and zeroing gains associated with at least one low performance accelerometer and/or gyroscope; or inputting the attitude-derived observations that are based on output from at least one of the first high performance accelerometer, the first high performance gyroscope, and the second high performance accelerometer. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110453 | STEERING WHEEL AIRBAG POSITION DETECTOR | 05-02-2013 |
20130110454 | MULTI-STAGE DEAD RECKONING FOR CROWD SOURCING | 05-02-2013 |
20130110455 | Intrusion Detection System | 05-02-2013 |
20130110456 | Geolocation system and method for determining mammal locomotion movement | 05-02-2013 |
20130110457 | METHOD FOR DIRECTION CHANGES IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING | 05-02-2013 |
20130110458 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIALIZATION OF A TOOL VIA A REMOTE REFERENCE SOURCE | 05-02-2013 |
20130116965 | DATA DRIVEN COMPOSITE LOCATION SYSTEM USING MODELING AND INFERENCE METHODS - Embodiments respond to a position inference request from a computing device to determine a location of a computing device. The position inference request received from the computing device identifies a set of beacons observed by the computing device. A geographic area is estimated in which the computing device is located using the set of beacons. At least one location method is selected to identify a location of the computing device within the geographic area. In some cases two or more location methods may he employed and their results combined using, for example, a weighting function. The location of the computing device is determined within the geographic area using the set of beacons and the selected location method(s). The location that is determined is communicated to the computing device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116966 | DETERMINATION OF A LOCATION OF AN APPARATUS - A method of determining a location of an apparatus relative to a previously determined location, the method comprising: detecting a change in motion of the apparatus by use of a sensor or sensors in the apparatus; determining a first estimate of the location of the apparatus at which said change of motion is detected, the first estimate of location being relative to the previously determined location, by use of at least one of said sensor or sensors; holding information relating to a plurality of reference points at which a change in motion is expected; determining that the detected change in motion relates to a first reference point of the plurality of reference points on a basis including the first estimate of the location and at least part of said information relating to the plurality of reference points; and re-setting the first estimate of location to a location of the first reference point. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116967 | SOLAR TIMER USING GPS TECHNOLOGY - In a GPS-equipped device such as a smart phone or a tablet computer with a compatible operating system, a useful dynamic display of directional and timing information is provided based on GPS data obtained through conventional means processed according to computational modules or applications stored on the device. These displays include a solar timer, a compass dial and other date, time and location-based information. Underlying the displayable information is a database of information that is processed with input from an accurate compass employing a calculated reference line based on two time-separated GPS readings and a direction parameter. | 05-09-2013 |
20130116968 | EXTENDED FINGERPRINT GENERATION - A system for creating a representation of a location based on information sensed at the location. For example, apparatuses may comprise various sensors that sense apparatus-related information (e.g., motion, direction, etc.) while also visual, signal, field, etc. information pertaining to a location. Apparatuses may store sensed information about the apparatus while at a particular location, and about the particular location itself, in a mapping database, which may then associate the various types of sensed information with information already stored in the database in order to create a representation of the location. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124139 | METHOD AND A NETWORK NODE FOR LOCALIZATION OF A USER EQUIPMENT - A method is disclosed that includes receiving one or more first localization related measures for a user equipment node at a first localization measurement time, and receiving at least one or more second localization related measures for the user equipment node at a second localization measurement time. The localization related measurements are included in a trace of localization related measurements for the user equipment node from the first localization measurement time to the second localization measurement time. A location for the user equipment at a single time instant in a time interval between the first localization measurement time and the second localization measurement time is estimated from the trace. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124140 | Apparatus and Method for Driving Touch Sensor - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for driving a touch sensor, which is capable of improving touch sensitivity and accuracy. The touch sensor driving apparatus includes a touch sensor; a read-out circuit; and a signal processor configured to compare raw data from the read-out circuit with a predetermined primary reference value and secondary reference value so as to determine whether the touch node has been touched, wherein the signal processor collects the raw data of each touch node or each channel during a plurality of frames and resets and updates the secondary reference value of each touch node or each channel using the collected raw data. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SCANNING PLANES OF IMAGING DEVICE - This patent indicates a type of system and method for controlling scanning planes of imaging device, it comprises: tracer, on which a tracer coordinate system is built, is fixed on the target which is to be scanned; a tracking device, on which a tracking device coordinate system is built, is used to get the position and orientation of the tracer in the tracking device coordinate system and convert the known position and orientation of the target which is to be scanned from the tracer coordinate system to the tracking device coordinate system; an imaging device, on which an imaging device coordinate system is built, is used to scan the position and orientation of the said target to be scanned in the imaging device coordinate system to form images; a conversion module, which is preset in the tracking device or the imaging device, is used to convert the position and orientation of the target which is to be scanned from the tracking device coordinate system to the imaging device coordinate system; when the conversion module is preset in the tracking device, the tracking device transfers the position and orientation of the target which is to be scanned in the tracking device coordinate system to the imaging device. This patent has the ability to provide high efficiency, and high precision when scanning target image, it can be used at any type of image devices. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132025 | CENTER-OF-GRAVITY DETECTING SYSTEM - A center-of-gravity detecting system includes a motion detector for detecting a vertical motion of a travelling object and a horizontal motion of the travelling object and an arithmetic unit that calculates a center-of-gravity location of the travelling object using the frequency of a vertical motion of the travelling object, a frequency of the horizontal motion of the travelling object, a central angle of the horizontal motion of the travelling object, and the width of the traveling object. The arithmetic unit calculates a center-of-gravity location, using the frequency of the vertical motion, a frequency of the horizontal motion, the center-of-gravity location, and the length of the travelling object in the travel direction. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138391 | PLATEN WRAP DETECTION - Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to linerless printers that are configured to detect an existing or potential platen wrap condition and, in response stop printing, as well as printers that may include a relatively narrow and long landing pad configured to receive and deliver to a user media that has been printed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130158943 | Threat detection systems and methods using image intensifiers and position-sensing photodiodes - Threat detection systems and methods are disclosed that employ position-sensing photodiodes (PSDs) to locate a munitions flash within a field of view of a collection optical system. Image intensifiers are used to form intensified first and second focus spots from the focus spots formed by the collection optical system over two different wavelength bands. The intensified focus spots are then detected by corresponding PSDs. The flash is then located on a map of the monitored terrain, which map can be displayed to a system user. Processing electronics determine whether the flash is actually munitions-based or is from another non-threatening light source. | 06-20-2013 |
20130158944 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING MOTIONS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOTIONS - The present invention relates to a device for detecting motions and a method for detecting motions and includes a change rate calculation unit for calculating a change rate of signals outputted from the sensor, a decision range determination unit for determining the decision range in proportion to the change rate calculated in the change rate calculation unit, a motion decision unit for deciding the existence and inexistence of the motions from the signals outputted in the sensor based on the decision ranged determined in the decision range determination unit and an output unit for outputting the decision result of the motion decision unit. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LOW GROUND MASS CONDITIONS IN SENSOR DEVICES - A processing system for an input device includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry and is configured to acquire a first plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of a first set of sensor electrodes and a second set of sensor electrodes. The sensor module is further configured to acquire a second plurality of measurements of change in capacitive coupling between each sensor electrode of the second set of sensor electrodes and an input object. The determination module is configured to determine a first combined measurement based on the first plurality of measurements, determine a second combined measurement based on the second plurality of measurements, and determine positional information for the input object based on a low ground mass parameter. The low ground mass parameter is based on the first combined measurement and the second combined measurement. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173212 | MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD AND MOTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A motion analysis apparatus includes a sensor that is attached to an object and detects a physical value of the object, a holder that holds the object and sets the sensor in a first position, and a motion analyzer that acquires an output from the sensor and analyzes the motion of the object based on the output, the output including first output data from the sensor set in the first position and second output data from the sensor produced after the object is separated from the holder and the sensor is set in at least one known second position. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION - A computer implemented method for determining the location of a target device is disclosed. A locate request is received for the target device. The locate request is forwarded. A locate for the target device in response to the locate request is received, the locate including a location and a location accuracy. The received location accuracy is compared with an accuracy threshold, and a calculated location of the target device is forwarded when the received location accuracy is not within the accuracy threshold. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179115 | Systems and Methods That Use Magnetic Field Sensors to Identify Positions of a Gear Shift Lever - A system and an associated method provide an ability to sense, with a magnetic field sensor, a position of a plurality of gears (and neutral) selected by a gear shift lever of a vehicle. In some embodiments, the system and method use a ferromagnetic target having features, positions of which can be sensed by the magnetic field sensor. In other embodiments, the system and method use a magnet having features and characteristics that can be sensed by the magnetic field sensor. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179116 | SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VECTOR ANALYSIS IN WEARABLE DEVICES USING SENSOR DATA - Spatial and temporal vector analysis in wearable devices using sensor data are described, including evaluating a motion to determine motion signals, the motion being evaluated using data provided by one or more sensors in data communication with a wearable device, isolating motion signals into one or more motion sub-signals, determining a spatial vector and a temporal vector associated with each of the one or more motion sub-signals, and transforming the spatial vector and the temporal vector into a data structure to be used by an application configured to analyze the data structure and to generate content associated with the motion. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179117 | POSITION SENSOR - The disclosure relates in particular to a method for parameterizing a system for measuring an absolute position, the system including a permanent magnet, at least one probe that is mobile relative to the magnet over a given path, and a controller providing position information calculated on the basis of the arctangent of the ratio, wherein a correction coefficient G is assigned, between the output signals of the probe, wherein the signals are pseudo-sinusoidal and squared. The method includes an optimization operation that involves selecting the value of the coefficient G that minimizes the errors of the measurement system resulting from the pseudo-sinusoidal character of the signals output from the probe. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185017 | Method for Supervising the Correct Function of a Periodically Modulated Sensor Controlling the Position of a Rotating System and Controller Device for Performing this Method - A method for supervising the correct function of a periodically modulated sensor controlling the position of a rotating system, includes the steps of a) determining a response {right arrow over (g | 07-18-2013 |
20130197859 | Tracking Entities by Means of Hash Values - Mechanisms for tracking an entity are provided. A time is determined by a sensor having a clock, the time being within a time slot in a series of time slots. First data of the time slot is provided and shared between a plurality of sensors. The sensor receives data from the movable entity. The sensor calculates identifying data from the received data for identifying the entity. Derivative identifying data is calculated by applying a modifying function using the provided first data for modifying the identifying data. The sensor calculates a hash value by taking the derivative identifying data as input. The sensor sends a message to a central server for determining the position of the entity, the message comprising the hash value and an identifier of the sensor. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204573 | WHEEL LOCALIZER, WHEEL LOCALIZATION DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR LOCATING A POSITION OF A WHEEL - Embodiments can provide a system, a wheel localizer, a wheel localization device, a method or a computer program for locating a position of wheel. The system for locating the position of the wheel on the vehicle includes a detector for obtaining information related to a state of movement of the vehicle and a locator for determining the position of the wheel based on the information related to the state of movement of the vehicle. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204574 | Method for Estimating Positions Using Absolute Encoders - A position is determined by sensing a signal corresponding to a subsequence of marks in a non-periodic sequence of the marks on a scale. A coarse position P | 08-08-2013 |
20130211776 | BALL GRID STRUCTURE - An apparatus includes a contact grid array disposed on a substrate in a non-orthogonal row-column format with connection elements arranged in a hexagonal configuration. The contact grid array has an orientation based, at least in part, on an area available for the contact grid array on the substrate. A method to determine the orientation of the contact grid array includes identifying the area available for a contact grid array on a substrate and determining the orientation for the contact grid array based, at least in part, on the area available for the contact grid array on the substrate. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211777 | FLUID GAUGES COMPRISING MULTIPLE DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE SENSORS - The subject fluid gauges measure actual position of a workpiece relative to a target position. A gauge body that is positionable relative to the workpiece and that includes multiple differential-pressure (DP) sensors has a measurement channel and respective reference channels. Each DP sensor measures, over a respective individual dynamic pressure range, a differential pressure established by a respective fluid flow in the measurement channel relative to a fluid flow in a respective reference channel. The dynamic pressure ranges of the DP sensors substantially overlap each other. A controller is connected to and monitors the DP sensors. The controller is configured to select, for obtaining a differential pressure indicative of the position of the workpiece, a DP sensor sensing the smallest magnitude of DP. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211778 | METHOD FOR REALIZING A SPACE SURVEY SYSTEM FOR MONITORING NEAR-EARTH SPACE - A method for realizing a space survey system for the LEO zones of the Earth orbit includes positioning and placing network stations of optical survey systems over the surface of the globe according to a grid designed to offer an effective daily cycle of the system close to 24 hours and a chosen revisit period for the LEO zone observed. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211779 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A ROTATION AXIS - In a system having a substrate holding means for holding a substrate, wherein the substrate holding means is rotatable about an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to an X-Y coordinate system, a method for determining position of the axis of rotation in the X-Y coordinate system, comprising the steps of:
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20130218516 | COORDINATE SENSING SYSTEM, COORDINATE SENSING METHOD AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A coordinate sensing system includes a magnetic member, a direction sensor, a first magnetic sensor and a processor, wherein the processor communicates with the direction sensor and is electrically connected to the first magnetic sensor. The magnetic member has a magnetic dipole moment. The direction sensor is used for sensing a direction of the magnetic dipole moment. The first magnetic sensor is used for sensing a first magnetic field of the magnetic member. The processor is used for calculating a first distance between the magnetic member and the first magnetic sensor and calculating a direction of the first distance according to a value of the magnetic dipole moment, the direction of the magnetic dipole moment and the first magnetic field. The processor is further used for calculating a coordinate of the magnetic member according to the first distance and the direction of the first distance. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226509 | Depth Sensing Using Active Coherent Signals - Reflectors in a scene are reconstructed using reflected signals. First, signals are transmitted to the scene, and the reflected signals are received by receivers are arranged in an array. The reflected signals are then processed to reconstruct the reflectors in the scene, wherein the processing enforces a model that a reflectivity of the scene in front and behind any reflector is equal to zero. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226510 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION TYPE POSITION DETECTOR - A control unit of a linear scale includes: excitation current supplying means for causing excitation currents each having two different angular frequencies to flow through slider coils; sampling means for sampling induced voltage V induced in a scale coil, at a timing of t=(2j+1)π/(2ω) (j: an integer); position detecting means for calculating Va(j) which is a sum of samples of the induced voltage at multiple sampling points, calculating an excitation position α at which the Va(j) is equal to 0, and setting the α as a detected position X; and abnormality detecting means for calculating Vb(j) which is a sum of absolute values of the induced voltage at multiple sampling points, comparing the Vb(j) with a threshold value, and determining that the electromagnetic induction type position detector is in an abnormal state when the Vb(j) is equal to or lower than the threshold value. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226511 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - A system for locating and tracking an object is provided. The system includes a measuring device configured to determine a property of a paving-related material, a locating device configured to determine a location of the measuring device, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the measuring device and one or more properties determined by the measuring device, and a communications system configured to transfer, to a remote device, the location of the measuring device and the tracking information associated with the measuring device. | 08-29-2013 |
20130238279 | FREQUENCY FIELD SCANNING - A system and method for scanning a number of frequencies in a test environment. A transmitter and a receiver are moved together to a number of locations in a scanning space. Signals are transmitted at the number of frequencies from the transmitter at the number of locations. Reflected signals are received by the receiver at the number of locations. The reflected signals are reflections of the signals transmitted at the number of frequencies from the transmitter. The number of locations in the scanning space is identified. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NORTH FINDING - A payload including a gimbal assembly and gyro assembly that includes a gyro assembly control associated with the gyro assembly and operable to trigger the gyro assembly to obtain deviation measurements and process the measurements in a first dynamic range for stabilizing the payload utilizing the gimbal assembly. The gyro assembly control is operable to trigger the gyro assembly to obtain instantaneous measurements and process the measurements in a second dynamic range having different sensitivity than the first dynamic range, for finding deviation of the payload from the magnetic north of the earth. | 09-12-2013 |
20130245988 | MACHINE FOR MOUNTING LEDS TO A CIRCUIT BOARD - A mounting machine for mounting LEDs on predetermined positions of a circuit board. The circuit board includes two positioning points. Each LED includes an optical identification point. The mounting machine includes a mounting area and a precise adjusting area located downstream of the mounting area and consisting of a sensor, a processing unit and an adjusting unit. The mounting machine places the LEDs on the circuit board. The precise adjusting area precisely adjusts the position of the LED to a predetermined position of the precise adjusting area finds that the LED is deviated from the predetermined position. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245989 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - In accordance with an embodiment, a signal processing method includes scanning a pattern on a substrate with a charged particle beam, detecting secondary charged particles emitted from the substrate by using a detector, outputting a signal, and filtering the signal. The detector is separated or divided into a plurality of regions, and the secondary charged particles are detected separately in each region of the detector. Intensity of the filtering is defined in dependence on a function f(θ) of an angle θ between a reference axis and a direction along which the secondary charged particles enter a detector plane. The reference axis is an arbitrary direction in a plane parallel to a surface of the substrate. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING BURIED OR HIDDEN OBJECTS USING SHEET CURRENT FLOW MODELS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining an estimated depth of a buried object using sheet current flow models are disclosed. In one embodiment a buried object locator may process magnetic signals emitted from the buried object using a closed form sheet current flow model taken from three or more sensor positions to determine, store, and/or display estimated depth information of the buried object. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245991 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE REMAINING LIFE OF A THERMAL MASS IN A SHIPPING PACKAGE WHILE IN TRANSIT - A shipping container is described for use with methods for monitoring and controlling shipment of a temperature controlled material and determining the remaining useful life of a Thermal Source contained within the shipping container. The container comprises an inner enclosure adapted to carry one or more commodities during shipment, a bladder conformed to the inner surface of the inner chamber, or a plate upon which commodities are place, and instrumented with at least one transducer and at least one processing device configured to receive measurements from the at least one transducer. The processing device communicates the measurements to a networked device upon detecting the presence of a network. The networked device may transmit commands to the processing device that causes the processing device to adjust a configuration parameter. | 09-19-2013 |
20130245992 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A MAGNETIC ELEMENT USING LINEAR HALL-EFFECT CELLS - A device for determining the position of a magnetic element ( | 09-19-2013 |
20130253879 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND CHECKING PARKING PLACES OF A PARKING ARRANGEMENT - Method and system for automatically detecting and checking the use of parking places of a parking arrangement, which is provided with a parking network and a central computer, the parking places being each provided with an electronic parking sensor module, which has an identification code and a vehicle sensor for detecting vehicles in the respective parking places, wherein use is made of electronic license devices, carried along with the vehicles and each having a unique identification number and motion sensor means, which can determine at what time a vehicle comes to a standstill, and wherein information about said time together with the identification number is transmitted to the central computer, which can compare said time with times at which the parking places become occupied, to determine in which parking place the vehicle is parked. | 09-26-2013 |
20130253880 | Managing Power Consumption of a Device with a Gyroscope - A processing apparatus having one or more processors and memory generates navigational state estimates for a device having a gyroscope. The processing apparatus has a gyroscope-assisted mode of operation in which measurements from the gyroscope are used to estimate the navigational states and an alternate mode of operation in which measurements from other sensors are used to estimate the navigational state of the device. For a first time period and a subsequent transition time period, the processing apparatus estimates the navigational state of the device without sensor measurements from the gyroscope. At an end of the transition time period, the processing apparatus starts to use measurements from the gyroscope to estimate the navigational state of the device. For a second time period, after the transition time period, the processing apparatus estimates the navigational state of the device using sensor measurements from the gyroscope. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262024 | ORIENTATION DETECTION DEVICE, ORIENTATION DETECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In the preset invention, in an initial stationary state of a drumstick section, a CPU stores each axis component of geomagnetism obtained by a magnetic sensor in a RAM, and obtains each axis component of geomagnetism obtained by the magnetic sensor which is changed by a motion provided to the drumstick section at every predetermined timing. Then, the CPU accumulates each axis component of geomagnetism obtained at every predetermined timing, for each predetermined interval, and conforms each axis component of geomagnetism accumulated thereby to each axis component of geomagnetism stored in the RAM. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268232 | Informative Display for Statistical Positioning System - System and method for providing informative display for statistical positioning system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a statistical distribution of user locations in an area, where the statistical distribution of user locations includes a plurality of points representing likelihood of a user at corresponding locations, generating a weighted statistical distribution of user locations using an inverse distance weighting function, determining one or more estimated locations of the user using the weighted statistical distribution, and displaying the one or more estimated locations of the user, or a representation of the weighted statistical distribution of user position in a display. | 10-10-2013 |
20130268233 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ALIGNMENT HEAD SYSTEM - In a method for operating an alignment head system ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130275081 | Elevator Rope Sway Estimation - A method and a system determine a position of at least one sway sensor in an elevator system for sensing a lateral motion of an elevator rope between a first boundary location and a second boundary location. An operation of the elevator system is simulated with a model of the elevator system to produce an actual shape of the elevator rope caused by the operation. At least one sway location is determined, such that an error between the actual shape of the elevator rope and an estimated shape of the elevator rope is minimized. The estimated shape of the elevator rope is determined by interpolation of the first boundary location, the second boundary location, and the sway location. The position of the sway sensor is determined, such that the sway sensor senses the lateral motion of the elevator rope at the sway location. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282327 | DETERMINING ABSOLUTE POSITION IN DRIVE SYSTEMS - A method determines a position of at least one element that can be moved by a drive belt of a drive unit. A system is made of such components. A program carries out the method. In order to determine an absolute position of the movable element in a simple manner, the drive belt is expanded over a measurement interval and a force required to do so is determined via an efficiency of the drive unit. An effective length of the drive belt is determined from the measurement interval and the force and from a modulus of elasticity and a cross-section. The position is determined from the effective length. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282328 | ERROR MEASURMENT DEVICE AND ERROR MEASUREMENT METHOD - The present invention has a rotation-axis geometric-deviation measuring step of measuring a position and a tilt of a rotation-axis center line by measuring a position of a point on a surface of a workpiece fixed to a rotation axis, a geometric-deviation-parameter setting step of setting a correction amount of the measured position and tilt of the rotation-axis center line in a numerical control device, a workpiece-installation-error measuring step of measuring an installation position and a tilt of the workpiece with reference to the position of the rotation-axis center line, and a workpiece-installation-error parameter setting step of setting the measured installation position and tilt of the workpiece in the numerical control device, and accordingly enables measurement of a position and a tilt of the rotation axis center by measuring the position of a point on the workpiece surface in a state where the workpiece is fixed to the rotation axis. | 10-24-2013 |
20130289935 | Control System and Method Using an Ultrasonic Area Array - A computer control system and method is disclosed. Such a system may include a processor and an ultrasonic area-array sensor configured to receive a ridged surface, such as one or more digits of a hand. The processor may be configured to:
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20130297251 | System and Method For Determining High Resolution Positional Data From Limited Number of Analog Inputs - A system and method for determining the position of an object in a space includes positioning the object within the overlapping detection fields of a plurality of analog proximity sensors, wherein the proximity sensors produce an output signal having a signal strength related to the proximity of the object to the sensors. The strength of the output signal produced by each analog proximity sensor can be detected and a position for the object established based on the relative signal strengths produced by the proximity sensors. The system and method have particular application with devices for gestural control, for example gestural controlled dimmer switches, where some data manipulation is required to generate high-resolution positional data to activate the device. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304415 | FENCE WITH LOCALIZED INTRUSION DETECTION - The invention relates to a system for detecting and locating an attempted intrusion into a perimeter defined by a fence. The invention comprises a management unit (UG), impact or vibration detectors (D), and a station (P) for processing data (UG). According to the invention: each detector is connected on one side to another detector and on the other side either to another detector or a management unit; each detector transmits data to the detector(s) and/or management unit to which it is directly connected; each detector receives data from the detector(s) and/or management unit to which it is connected; and a detector that receives data on one side transmits said data to the detector or management unit to which it is connected on the other side, in addition to transmitting data about events that it has detected. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311131 | Gear Position Detecting Device and Cycle Computer - A gear position detecting device includes a sensor device that senses an amount of displacement of a shift cable, and a cycle computer that calculates a gear position corresponding to a sprocket being used, based on the amount of displacement of the shift cable sensed by the sensor device, and displays the gear position. The cycle computer and the sensor device can be attached to and detached from a bicycle. The cycle computer has a function of converting a voltage drop across a variable resistor into a gear position of the bicycle. The sensor device has a housing fixed to the bicycle, the variable resistor accommodated in the housing, and an arm that is attached to the variable resistor and moves relative to the housing along with displacement of the shift cable. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311132 | WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - Wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover at least a part of a head of a user, at least one sensor for providing input data, a processing unit that is coupled to the at least one sensor for processing said input data, and a communication interface that is coupled to the processing unit for communicating with a second computing device. The at least one sensor, the processing unit and the communication interface are arranged in the wig and at least partly covered by the wig in order to be visually hidden during use. | 11-21-2013 |
20130317778 | Method and apparatus for transmitting indoor context information - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for determining indoor context information relating to a location of a mobile device. Indoor context information may be utilized by a mobile device or a network element to obtain an estimate of a location of the mobile device within an indoor environment. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325393 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING COORDINATES - A method for determining the coordinates of a point on the surface of an object is provided. A source system, such as an OBIRCH system, is used to analyze and detect faults in an integrated circuit on a semiconductor die. The die includes three reference points and the detected fault(s) are defined with reference to the reference points. When the die is transferred to a FIB or other system for fault analysis, a processor determines the coordinates of the fault(s) for the FIB system using the three reference points. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325394 | Methods and Systems for Processing Social Interactive Data and Sharing of Tracked Activity Associated with Locations - A method includes determining a location of a first monitoring device used while performing an activity. The first monitoring device is worn by a first user. The method includes determining a location of a second monitoring device used while performing an activity. The second monitoring device is worn by a second user. The method further includes determining whether the locations of the first and second monitoring devices are within a range and whether the activities are similar. The method includes sending a prompt to the first monitoring device upon determining that the activities are similar and the locations are within the range. The prompt includes a request for permission from a first user account to allow a second user account to access information from the first user account regarding the activity performed using the first monitoring device. | 12-05-2013 |
20130346017 | DATA FUSION ARCHITECTURE - A data fusion architecture with a plurality of sensors, optionally position measuring equipment (PMEs), is described. Each sensor supplies measurement data x | 12-26-2013 |
20130346018 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING DATA OF SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SENSOR SUBSTRATE - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a data obtainment method for obtaining data on gas flow directions in a plurality of measurement regions in a surface of a substrate loaded onto a loading unit of a substrate processing apparatus is provided. The method includes loading a sensor substrate onto the loading unit in a first direction, and changing the first direction into a second direction. Further, it is obtained a vector data of a gas flow in a first straight direction and a vector data of a gas flow in a second straight direction from each first sensor of the sensor substrate loaded in the first and second directions. Also, the method includes calculating a gas flow direction at each starting point in the first and second measurement regions by combining the vector data. | 12-26-2013 |
20140005975 | Measurement Device and Method for Measuring | 01-02-2014 |
20140019084 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A RECOGNITION THRESHOLD - A method for determining a recognition threshold for recognizing the presence of a tooth or a tooth gap of a position sensor in front of a sensor is presented. The method includes a step of reading in a sensor signal which represents a variation over time of a measured magnetic field when the teeth and the tooth gaps of the position sensor are passed by the sensor. In addition, the method includes a step of ascertaining from the sensor signal a first value based on a minimum value of the sensor signal and a first value based on a maximum value of the sensor signal within a predefined time interval. The method also includes a step of computing a differential absolute value which represents a predetermined percentage of a difference between the value based on the at least one maximum value and a value based on the at least one minimum value of the sensor signal. Lastly, the method includes a step of determining the recognition threshold, so that the recognition threshold represents a value that corresponds to a result of adding the differential absolute value to the first value based on the minimum value of the sensor signal. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025332 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREON, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND ATTITUDE CALCULATION METHOD - An example information processing device calculates an attitude of an input unit having a magnetic sensor. The information processing device repeatedly obtains detected magnetic vectors detected by the magnetic sensor. The information processing device repeatedly estimates a center position of a spherical body having a curved surface which is estimated based on end point positions of the detected magnetic vectors. The attitude of the input unit is calculated based on a direction vector representing a direction from the center position to the end point position of the detected magnetic vector. Each time a detected magnetic vector is obtained, the information processing device updates the center position so that at least some of lengths from the center position to end points of the detected magnetic vectors used for the estimation of the center position are brought closer to an average between the lengths. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025333 | POSITION MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, POSITION MEASUREMENT METHOD, ANDNON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A position measurement apparatus includes a reference value acquisition unit that obtains a plurality of reference geomagnetism information pieces, the plurality of reference geomagnetism information pieces being geomagnetism information pieces measured at a plurality of reference positions, an association information generation unit that generates association information that associates the plurality of reference positions with the plurality of reference geomagnetism information pieces, a measurement value acquisition unit that obtains measurement geomagnetism information, the measurement geomagnetism information being geomagnetism information measured at a measurement position and a position specifying unit that specifies a position corresponding to the measurement geomagnetism information based on association between the plurality of reference positions and the plurality of reference geomagnetism information pieces obtained by the association information. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025334 | TERMINAL AND SERVER FOR MODIFYING MAGNETIC FIELD AND METHOD THEREOF - A method of estimating a location of a terminal includes measuring a magnetic field value at a location of the terminal, estimating the location of the terminal using the measured magnetic field value, and transmitting the measured magnetic field value and information associated with the estimated location to a server. A method of modifying a magnetic field map includes receiving, from a terminal, a magnetic field value estimated at a location of the terminal, and information associated with a location of the terminal estimated based on the magnetic field value, and modifying a magnetic field map using the measured magnetic field value and the information associated with the estimated location. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032163 | CALIBRATION FREE DISTANCE SENSOR - One or more embodiments are directed to a magnet configured to be coupled to an object under test, an array of sensors configured to measure a magnetic field associated with the magnet, and a circuit configured to obtain voltage readings based on the measured magnetic field from the array of sensors and compute a distance between the array of sensors and the magnet based on the obtained voltage readings. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032164 | IDENTIFYING AND LOCATING PLURAL SIGNAL EMITTERS - A system includes plural emitters each associated with a stylus or other entity. Each emitter is independently displaceable over an area, and emits an electromagnetic signal modulated in accordance with a distinct pattern. A single sensor is configured to detect the plural emitters. Associated signal processing determines the identity and location of each emitter. Corresponding data is communicated to a computer for traversed pathway determination, recording, writing or character recognition, or other operations. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032165 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF SENSOR PLACEMENT - A location of a sensor is determined by: (1) receiving time series data including components in a plurality of dimensions, wherein the time series data correspond to measurements of the sensor that is applied to a subject; (2) determining a plurality of subsequences associated with the time series data, wherein each of the plurality of subsequences represents a characteristic pattern projected along one of the plurality of dimensions; (3) identifying a correlated subset of the plurality of subsequences as at least one instance of an activity of the subject; and (4) based on features of the correlated subset, determining the location of the sensor as applied to the subject. | 01-30-2014 |
20140046624 | LOCATION MAPPED BY THE FREQUENCY OF THE LIGHT EMITTED BY AN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE - A mobile device may determine its location within an environment having a plurality of light sources in response to the unique frequencies and the predetermined locations of the light sources. For some embodiments, the mobile device can determine its location by detecting the frequencies of light signals emitted from the light sources, providing the determined frequencies as search keys to retrieve the predetermined locations of the light sources from a look-up table, detecting the intensity of light signals emitted from the light sources, correlating the light intensities to distances, and then calculating the position of the mobile device in response to the correlated distances and the predetermined locations of the light sources. | 02-13-2014 |
20140067315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMODAL BIDIRECTIONAL CROWD SHAPING - A method, apparatus, computer program product and system are provided for facilitating multimodal bidirectional crowd shaping. In this regard, a method is provided that includes receiving at least two types of positional information. The method further includes determining respective weights for the at least two types of positional information and then determining an estimated number of users located at one or more positions based on the positional information and respective weights. According to a further embodiment, one or more statuses may also be determined and the weights may be determined based at least in part on the status, such that the respective weights may be adjusted in accordance with changes in the one or more statuses. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067316 | MEASURING APPARATUS, DETECTOR DEVIATION MONITORING METHOD AND MEASURING METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, a measuring apparatus includes a stage, an electromagnetic wave applying unit, a detector, a monitor, a detector location adjusting unit, and a measuring unit. The stage supports a substrate comprising a periodic structure on a main surface thereof. The electromagnetic wave applying unit generates electromagnetic waves and applies the electromagnetic waves to the substrate. The detector detects the intensity of the electromagnetic waves scattered or reflected by the substrate with the use of two-dimensionally arranged detection elements, and then outputs a signal. The monitor processes the signal from the detector to acquire a first scatter profile, and measure a positional deviation of the detector in accordance with the first scatter profile. The detector location adjusting unit corrects the positional deviation of the detector in accordance with the measured positional deviation. The measuring unit calculates a surface shape of the periodic structure. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074425 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY SWINGING A GOLF CLUB - A method, system, and computer program product for remote golf club swinging is provided. The method can include receiving in a robotic golf club swing fixture from a remote operator over a computer communications network a set of swing parameters defining different aspects of a golf club swing. The method also can include directing a plurality of robotic arms of the fixture to swing a coupled golf club according to the received swing parameters. The method yet further can include sensing a result of the swinging of the coupled golf club. Finally, the method can include transmitting data derived from the sensed result to the remote operator over the computer communications network. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074426 | PROXIMITY DETECTOR IN HANDHELD DEVICE - Proximity based systems and methods that are implemented on an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes sensing an object spaced away and in close proximity to the electronic device. The method also includes performing an action in the electronic device when an object is sensed. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081594 | Systems and Methods for Inspecting and Monitoring a Pipeline - Disclosed are systems and methods for inspecting and monitoring an inner surface of a pipeline. One system includes a pig arranged within the pipeline, the pipeline being divided into first and second radial divisions, and first and second sets of optical computing devices arranged on the pig adjacent the inner surface of the pipeline, the first set being configured to monitor a first substance on the first radial division and the second set being configured to monitor a second substance on the second radial division. Each optical computing device includes an integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the first or second substance and thereby generate optically interacted light, and at least one detector arranged to receive the optically interacted light and generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the first or second substance. | 03-20-2014 |
20140088915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING MEASURING POINTS TO A SET OF FIXED POINTS - Assigning measuring points to fixed points includes calculating fixed point distances between fixed points in a fixed point coordinate system; determining coordinates of measuring points in a measuring point coordinate system; calculating measuring point distances between the measuring points; comparing at least two measuring point distances with the fixed point distances and identifying at least two pairs each consisting of a measuring point distance and a fixed point distance; determining a reference point in the measuring point coordinate system or in the fixed point coordinate system; determining first and second reference point parameters of the measuring points or fixed points corresponding to the pairs; determining second reference point parameters of the fixed points corresponding to the pairs in the fixed point coordinate system; identifying correspondences between the first reference point parameters and the second reference point parameters and assigning the corresponding measuring points to the corresponding fixed points. | 03-27-2014 |
20140107970 | GEOLOCATION USING HIGH ORDER STATISTICS - A specific emitter identification (SEI) method and apparatus is capable of identifying and tracking objects within a geographical area of interest wherein the system and method has not been preprogrammed to look for particular signals. The system and method receives all of the emitted electromagnetic signals emitted from area of interest. The system and method next performs high order statistical analysis on the received signals and determines which signals emanate from possible targets of interest and which likely emanate from background clutter/noise by comparing the relative degrees of Gaussianness of the signals (for example using entropy measurements). The least Gaussian signals are deemed to likely be signals from potential targets of interest while those which are more Gaussian are deemed to be likely from background clutter or noise. | 04-17-2014 |
20140107971 | System, Device And Method For Tracking Position And Orientation Of Vehicle, Loading Device And Cargo In Loading Device Operations - The present invention generally relates to a system, device and a method for loading and/or unloading a cargo to and/or from a second vehicle where a loading device is mounted on a first vehicle. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for a sensor system (with sensor platform deployed at the crane tip) used for heave compensation and 3D positioning of cargo and second vehicle during loading and unloading process of cargo to/from a ship where a crane is mounted on an oil rig. | 04-17-2014 |
20140107972 | DISPLACEMENT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TOWER AND MONITORING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a displacement monitoring system for a tower, the displacement monitoring system includes a tower displacement monitoring terminal and an underground displacement monitoring terminal electrically connected to the tower displacement monitoring terminal, the tower displacement monitoring terminal is arranged on the tower and includes a main control module, an overground tower displacement sensor, a power supply module and a communication module, wherein the overground tower displacement sensor, the power supply module and the communication module are electrically connected to the main control module respectively, the underground displacement monitoring terminal is arranged on an underground bedrock and includes a controlling module and an underground displacement sensor electrically connected to the controlling module. According the technical solution, displacement sensors are used to monitor the displacement values of the tower and the bedrock respectively, then the displacement value of the tower relative to the bedrock is computed based on the displacement values of the tower and the bedrock, this technical solution overcomes the one-sidedness of only monitoring the incline angle of the tower, and is a more comprehensive monitoring solution. Thus the displacement value of the tower can be accurately monitored on line, the actual state of the tower can be monitored, and therefore it is beneficial for further plan and build of national grid. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114605 | Method And Apparatus For Sensing Position - An encoding sequence is configured to detect the position and direction of motion of an actuator. The actuator includes at least two members where one of the members moves with respect to the other. Two sets of binary indicators are either affixed to or integrally assembled along one of the members. Each pair of indicators defines a position of the actuator and each binary indicator is configured to identify one of two states, such as a magnetic pole or a graphical mark where each state corresponds to a logical zero or a logical one. The indicators are arranged on the actuator such that at least one of the indicators transitions between one of the two states at each position along the actuator. At least one sensor is provided to detect the state of the binary indicators as the two members of the actuator move with respect to each other. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114606 | Systems and methods for locating ground and air radio antennae for ground-to-air and air-to-air communication networks - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for determining locations of telecommunication ground stations. In one aspect, the method includes creating heat map data set representing air traffic volume at grid units of a geographic region, determining a ground station location at one of the grid units having air traffic volume greater than that of others of the grid units, modifying the heat map data by excluding data representing one or more of the grid units surrounding the ground station location, and repeating the determining and modifying steps until a predetermined quantity of ground station locations is determined. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114607 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DUAL-DIFFERENTIAL SENSING - A method and device for dual-differential sensing is disclosed. The sensing information can be generated from signals provided by a sensing device with a plurality of sensors. Each value of the sensing information corresponds to signals of three sensors, respectively. The sensing device is flexible and configured on a display. The noise effect of the display on the signal of each sensor corresponds to the distance between the display and the sensor. Besides, the noise effect of the display on each value of the sensing information corresponds to the distances between the display and the three sensors, respectively. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122017 | FLUORESCENT SOCKET CONNECTOR HAVING BEACON MODULE FOR INDOOR POSITIONING, AND INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A fluorescent socket connector having a beacon module for indoor positioning and an indoor positioning system using the same are provided. The fluorescent socket connector includes a power supply unit, an AC/DC converter, and an indoor positioning beacon module. The power supply unit supplies an Alternating Current (AC) power source to power source terminals of a fluorescent lamp. The AC/DC converter receives an input of the AC power source, converts the AC power source into a Direct Current (DC) power source, and supplies a driving power source to the indoor positioning beacon module. The indoor positioning beacon module periodically wireless transmits a beacon signal including a beacon IDentifier (ID) to the external. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122018 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBSERVATION - A system and method for monitoring presence, location, movement and/or attitude of one or more objects in a monitored space. The system includes sensors, which are arranged to certain part of the monitored space, e.g. to floor, wall or ceiling. The sensors are distance measuring ultrasonic sensors which produce measurement results and the system is configured to determine presence, location, movement and/or attitude of an object based on the measurement results. | 05-01-2014 |
20140136143 | MUSCULAR-SKELETAL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - At least one embodiment is directed to a tracking system for the muscular-skeletal system. The tracking system can identify position and orientation. The tracking system can be attached to a device or integrated into a device. In one embodiment, the tracking system couples to a handheld tool. The handheld tool with the tracking system and one or more sensors can be used to generate tracking data of the tool location and trajectory while measuring parameters of the muscular-skeletal system at an identified location. The tracking system can be used in conjunction with a second tool to guide the second tool to the identified location of the first tool. The tracking system can guide the second tool along the same trajectory as the first tool. For example, the second tool can be used to install a prosthetic component at a predetermined location and a predetermined orientation. The tracking system can track hand movements of a surgeon holding the handheld tool within 1 millimeter over a path less than 5 meters. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136144 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND ABSOLUTE ENCODER - A measurement apparatus includes: a detector which detects modulated light from the target object and outputs a periodic pattern signal; and a calculation unit which determines positions of two extreme values from the signal output from the detector, calculates a first total sum by multiplying the signal by first reference data in a region between the positions of the two extreme values, and adding the multiplication results, calculates a second total sum by multiplying the signal by second reference data with a phase difference of 90° with respect to the first reference data in the region, and adding the multiplication results, calculates a phase of the signal based on the first and second total sums, and calculates the position of the target object based on the calculated phase. | 05-15-2014 |
20140142888 | MITIGATING WIND TURBINE BLADE NOISE GENERATION - Described embodiments include a wind turbine system. In this embodiment, the system includes a rotor blade attached to a rotor hub drivingly coupled to an electric generator. The system includes a sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the rotor blade relative to a surface of the ground. The system includes a noise controller configured to implement a noise mitigation measure responsive to the detected rotational position of the rotor blade relative to the surface of the ground. In an embodiment, the system further includes a support structure mounted on or in the ground and maintaining the rotor hub a sufficient distance above the surface of the ground to allow the rotor blade to rotate about the rotor hub without contacting the surface of the ground. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149068 | CALIBRATION APPARATUS - A calibration apparatus is disclosed herein. An example includes a printing mechanism, a media control mechanism, a sensor, and a processor. The processor controls the printing mechanism to print a first pattern of first elements on a print medium and a second pattern of second elements on the print medium that are interleaved with the first elements. The processor also actuates the media control mechanism to advance the print medium, determines a centroid of at least one of the first elements based on a first measured reflectance by the sensor, and determines a centroid of at least one of the second elements based on a second measured reflectance by the sensor. The processor also determines a print medium advance error based on the at least one determined centroid of the first elements and the at least one determined centroid of the interleaved second elements. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149069 | Indoor Map Data as a Recalibration Source for Low-Cost MEMS Inertial Navigation - A computer-implemented method for determining an estimated user location performed on a computer system programmed to perform the method includes determining in physical sensors, movements in response to movement of the computer system, determining in a processor a physical context, in response to the movements, determining in the processor whether the physical context is substantially similar to a map-based context associated with a location on the map, when a map-based context is substantially similar to the physical context, the method includes determining in the processor the location on the map associated with the map-based context, determining in the processor a graphical user interface in response to the location on the map, and displaying the graphical user interface on a display of the computer system. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149070 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING MOVEMENT TRAJECTORIES - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for analyzing movement trajectories. The method comprises: recording a plurality of movement trajectories and each movement trajectory includes a position coordinate generated by at least two signals with different accuracies and classification; generating a plurality of Regions of Interest (ROIs) according to the movement trajectories; generating a plurality of corresponding relationships and a multi-level data according to the plurality of ROIs; and comparing the multi-level data with a historical data. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF MARKER DEPTH COORDINATES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF GEOLOGICAL MODEL OF DEPOSIT - The invention relates to the method, device, and a machine-readable data carrier used for building a geological model of oil or other mineral deposit. In particular, the invention refers to the method, device, and machine-readable data carrier used for determining the position of marker depth coordinates in wells W from a reference group of wells at the building of a geological model. A technical result is the improved accuracy of the evaluation of parameters used in the building of a geological model describing the location of oil or other deposits. The invention makes it possible, for markers chosen as an initial solution, to calculate the marker depth in each well to maximize the total correlation. For each marker in the set, a functional is defined as the sum of correlation coefficients of a set of well-logging methods for pairs of wells located within a specified distance from one another. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156218 | METHOD OF MOTION TRACKING - A motion of a model including a joint, at least one body part that rotates with respect to the joint, and a plurality of inertial sensors attached to each body part and measuring a rotational motion of the body part is tracked by obtaining a rotational matrix of a sensor coordinate system fixed to each of the inertial sensors with respect to an inertial coordinate system fixed to ground, by using a signal measured by the inertial sensor attached to each body part; obtaining a rotational matrix of the sensor coordinate systems with respect to a body part coordinate system fixed to each body part, by using an obtained rotational matrix value of the sensor coordinate system; obtaining a rotational matrix of each body part coordinate system with respect to the inertial coordinate system, by using a calculated rotational matrix of the sensor coordinate systems; and calculating a joint variable with respect to each body part, by using a calculated rotational matrix of the body part coordinate system. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156219 | DETERMINING TILT ANGLE AND TILT DIRECTION USING IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of determining a tilt angle and a tilt direction of a survey instrument includes capturing first images at a first location that include features from an environment around the survey instrument and capturing second images at a second location that include a portion of the features. A pose of the imaging device is determined at the second location using observed changes in location of a common portion of the features between the first images and the second images. The tilt angle and the tilt direction of the survey instrument at the second location are determined using the pose of the imaging device. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156220 | Magnetic Field Measuring Device - The present invention provides a magnetic field measuring device comprising first to fourth magnetoelectric transducers, magnetic convergence plates, and a calculation unit that calculates the strength of a magnetic field applied in a horizontal direction and/or a vertical direction with respect to a magneto-sensing surface of the magnetoelectric transducers, wherein the magnetic convergence plates are placed in the vicinity of the first to fourth magnetoelectric transducers so as to convert magnetic field vectors, and the calculation unit includes a first calculation block that adds or subtracts output from the first to fourth magnetoelectric transducers, and outputs a calculation result. | 06-05-2014 |
20140172353 | Method and Apparatus for Estimating Position of a Ferromagnetic Object - A method and apparatus for detecting a magnetic object comprising detecting change in a total magnetic field of an area along a first path and a second path of a magnetic sensor, fitting data points of the detected change from the first path and the second path to a curve by varying a first plurality of variables and a second plurality of variables until a best fit is achieved, calculating a first circle based on the first plurality of variables and a second circle based on the second plurality of variables and determining a position of the magnetic object at the intersection of the first and second circle. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172354 | INCANDESCENT SOCKET CONNECTOR HAVINGBEACON MODULE FOR INDOOR POSITIONING, ANDINDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An incandescent socket connector having a beacon module for indoor positioning and an indoor positioning system using the same are provided. The incandescent socket connector includes a power supply unit, an AC/DC converter, and an indoor positioning beacon module. The power supply unit supplies an Alternating Current (AC) power source input from a main socket, to an electrode part of an incandescent lamp or a clip type Tri-phosphor lamp. The AC/DC converter receives an input of the AC power source from the power supply unit, converts the received AC power source into a Direct Current (DC) power source, and supplies a driving power source to the indoor positioning beacon module. The indoor positioning beacon module periodically wireless transmits the beacon signal including the beacon ID to the external. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172355 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Correlation calculation is performed on a received signal of a GPS satellite signal as a positioning signal based on a given predicted frequency. Then, an erroneous frequency of the predicted frequency is estimated using carrier phase of the GPS satellite signal based on a result of the correlation calculation. Then, whether or not the erroneous frequency satisfies a predetermined allowable condition is determined, and whether or not an electronic apparatus is in a non-translational movement state in which the electronic apparatus moves while changing the location thereof with respect to a body of the user is determined. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172356 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION OF USER TERMINAL USING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUE NORTH AND MAGNETIC NORTH AND THE USER TERMINAL THEREOF - A method of estimating a location of a user terminal is provided. It is based on a difference between a true north and a magnetic north that may estimate a location of a user terminal on a magnetic field map based on a difference between a true north and a magnetic north corresponding to each location of the magnetic field map, and the user terminal thereof. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172357 | ANALYSIS OF SENSOR DATA - The present disclosure provides a method, system and a computer program product for remote sensing. The method, system and the computer program product include a vehicle including a plurality of sensors configured to measure position and pose of the vehicle and to collect spatial data of a discovered object. In addition, the method, system and a computer program product include a storage having an object model database, a processor and a memory. The memory includes a comparison engine configured to compare the discovered object spatial data with spatial data in the object model database and a position and pose calculator arranged to calculate position and pose of the vehicle from the discovered object spatial data when the discovered object spatial data matches spatial data of a model object in the object model database. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172358 | Package Management System For Tracking Shipment And Product Integrity - A product integrity tracking shipping label includes a label body for attaching to a product to be shipped or to packaging containing the product. One or more movement monitoring configured with the label body detects a movement metric of the product. A microprocessor configured with the label body and in communication with the one or more movement monitoring devices time-tags the movement metric when the movement metric exceeds a pre-selected threshold. A product integrity tracking system includes a movement monitoring device with one or more sensors for attachment to a product or packaging containing the product. The movement monitoring device senses at least one movement event during handling of the product. A processor compares the movement event with a pre-selected event threshold, and time-tags and stores above-threshold movement events in a memory. Information in the memory is readable via an interrogation device during shipment or at product delivery. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180627 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND/OR DEVICES FOR APPLYING MAGNETIC SIGNATURES FOR POSITIONING - Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for application of measurements obtained from a compass or magnetometer in estimating a location of a mobile device. In specific implementations, expected signatures of local magnetic fields at locations are provided to a mobile device as positioning assistance data. In other implementations, magnetic measurements obtained by multiple mobile devices at identifiable locations in an indoor area may be combined for deriving expected signatures of local magnetic fields for use in positioning assistance data. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180628 | Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Package - Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving one or more wireless signals indicative of a presence of a sensor within a portion of a region to be monitored; storing location data associated with the portion of the region to be monitored; and wirelessly transmitting one or more sensor operation activation signals to one or more sensors according to the location data. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180629 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE GEOMETRY AND/OR THE LOCALIZATION OF AN OBJECT - A method for determining the geometry and/or the localisation of an object comprising the steps of:
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20140180630 | Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Package - Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with communicating with one or more sensors in an ad-hoc sensor network may implement operations including, but not limited to: receiving electrical power via at least one structurally integrated electrically conductive element; and powering one or more sensing operations of one or more sensors via the electrical power. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180631 | CONTACT SENSOR - A method of detecting a contact | 06-26-2014 |
20140188428 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING A PROBE CONFIGURATION USING A PROBE CONFIGURATION TOOL - A method for defining a probe configuration using an interactive probe configuration tool is provided. The probe configuration tool comprises a shaft icon displayed on the probe configuration tool, and a probe position indicator configured to display an orientation of at least one first probe icon relative to the shaft icon. The probe position indicator is further configured to modify the orientation of the at least one first probe icon based on input from a user. The probe configuration tool further comprises a probe type indicator configured to display a type of the at least one first probe icon, wherein the probe position indicator and the probe type indicator are simultaneously displayed on a presentation interface. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188429 | MEASUREMENT METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF A PROFILE COMPONENT APPLIED TO A SHELL COMPONENT - A measurement method for determining the position of an omega profile component placed on a shell component of an aircraft, in which the ACTUAL position of the omega profile component relative to the shell component is optically acquired in a contactless manner, so as to subsequently compare the latter with a defined DESIRED position, wherein several adjacently spaced apart measuring points are established at two mutually opposing flank sides of the profile cross section of the omega profile component, through which a regression line is run according to the path measurement principle based on coordinates, whose point of intersection is drawn upon to determine the orthogonal position of the omega profile component relative to the shell component. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195193 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTING DEVICE AND SCALE - A scale has marks whose pitch interval changes along a measurement direction in a manner that can be approximated to a quadratic or higher-order polynomial. A comparing unit calculates a difference between first relative position information and second relative position information per unit displacement in a position where a first displacement detecting unit is arranged. Then, an absolute position computing unit computes an absolute position in the measurement direction with respect to the scale based on absolute position information and the relative position information of at least one of the first relative position information and the second relative position information, and outputs the absolute position. | 07-10-2014 |
20140207406 | SELF-DIRECTED INSPECTION PLAN - In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes determining a current state within an inspection process, and determining a first portion of an inspection process that corresponds to the current state within the inspection process, wherein the inspection process comprises a plurality of steps that correspond to an inspection process. The method further includes presenting a first instructional aide associated with the first portion, and automatically presenting a second instructional aide that corresponds to a second portion of the inspection process when the current state corresponds to the second portion. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207407 | NEAR-SURFACE OBJECT SENSING DEVICE AND SENSING METHOD - Disclosed is a near-surface object sensing device, including a printed circuit board, a plurality of magnetic sensors arrayed on the printed circuit board to sense the magnetic field of an external magnetic object and generate a magnetic sensing signal, a multiplexer connected to the magnetic sensors for selecting and outputting the magnetic sensing signal, and a microprocessor connected to the multiplexer for receiving the magnetic sensing signal, wherein the microprocessor includes a sampling algorithm module for converting the magnetic sensing signal into a magnetic field distribution image, and a six-dimensional coordinate-calculating module for calculating six-dimensional coordinates of the external magnetic object. The sensing device of the invention is compact, low energy consuming and can accurately provide users with a convenient and intuitive user interface with three dimensional locations and position information in a near-surface space. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207408 | Methods and Systems for Geo-Location Optimized Tracking and Updating for Events Having Combined Activity and Location Information - A method includes obtaining a first geo-location and a second geo-location. The first and second geo-locations are associated with a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to be used by a user. The first geo-location is determined at a first time and the second geo-location is determined at a second time. The first time and the second time are associated with a rate of obtaining geo-location data. The method includes calculating a difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations and changing the rate of obtaining a third geo-location associated with the monitoring device based on the difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207409 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION DETERMINATION - Embodiments of the invention provide a method of determining a position of an object with respect to incident radiation, comprising iteratively determining at least one of an object function indicating one or more characteristics of an object and a probe function indicative of one or more characteristics of incident radiation, iteratively determining the position of the object, wherein the iteratively determining the position of the object comprises cross correlating first and second estimates of the object function or the probe function, determining a location of a peak of the cross correlation, and determining a translation deviation indicative of a difference in position of the object between the first and second estimates based on the location of the peak. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214357 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE ADAPTED TO PROVIDE AN IMPROVED ATTITUDE MATRIX - According to one aspect, a method of determining an attitude matrix on a portable electronic device. The method includes determining a first attitude matrix gradient using data from at least one of an accelerometer and a magnetometer, determining a second attitude matrix gradient using data from a gyroscope, fusing the first attitude matrix gradient and the second attitude matrix gradient based on a mixing coefficient to generate a fused gradient, and based on the fused gradient, updating a fine attitude matrix for the portable electronic device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222369 | SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE ORIENTATION OF AN OBJECT, AND ATTITUDE SENSOR IMPLEMENTING SUCH A METHOD - A system and method for estimating the orientation of an object in space at the instant k using measurements of the total acceleration (y | 08-07-2014 |
20140222370 | RAPID DENSE POINT CLOUD IMAGING USING PROBABILISTIC VOXEL MAPS - A system, device and method include a sensing enabled device ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140222371 | INSPECTION OF HIDDEN STRUCTURE - An inspection apparatus determines information indicative of structure that may be hidden behind an obscuring boundary, such as a wall. A processor collects measurements of properties characterizing the hidden structure and measurements of location of the apparatus. The collected data are mapped to produce an image of intensity in the characteristic measurements. Each intensity value in the image reflects a measure of density, of material type, or of some other specific information by which hidden structure can be discerned. The intensity changes indicating the hidden structure are displayed to a user via color-coded pixels or the like. | 08-07-2014 |
20140244207 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE IN-AISLE LOCATIONS IN MONITORED ENVIRONMENTS - Apparatus and methods to determine in-aisle locations in monitored environments are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first and second sensors in communication with a location meter. The first sensor is to detect (1) a first sequence of position indicators when the location meter is moving along an aisle of a monitored environment in a first direction, or (2) a second sequence of the position indicators when the location meter is moving along the aisle in a second direction opposite the first direction. The second sensor is to detect (1) the second sequence of position indicators when the location meter is moving along the aisle in the first direction, or (2) the first sequence of the position indicators when the location meter is moving along the aisle in the second direction. An in-aisle position of the location meter is to be determined based on the first and second sequences of position indicators. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244208 | Method And Device For Determining An Area Cut With A Cutting Roll By At Least One Construction Machine Or Mining Machine - In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140244209 | Systems and Methods for Activity Recognition Training - Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying an activity. A sensor tracks motion by a user and a classifier recognizes data output sensor as corresponding to an activity. The classifier may be trained or otherwise modified using received information, which may include data from the sensor or information from an external source, such as a remotely maintained database. The device may update a local or remote database using sensor data when in a training mode. The training mode may be implemented automatically when there is sufficient confidence in the activity identification or manually in response to a user input. | 08-28-2014 |
20140249771 | LOCATION ESTIMATION USING A MOBILE DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for location estimation using a mobile device. An example method may include receiving, at a device, one or more signature measurements associated with an indoor environment. Additionally, the device may be associated with a user. The method may also include receiving, at the device, one or more motion tracking measurements to measure relative motion associated with the device and the user. Furthermore, the method may include associating the one or more signature measurements with one or more virtual landmarks identified within the indoor environment. The method may further include determining a location of the user based on the one or more signature measurements, the one or more motion tracking measurements, and the one or more virtual landmarks. | 09-04-2014 |
20140257746 | MAGNETIC POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM - In a magnetic position detection system designed to detect a target object in a detection space using an array of magnetic sensors, the position of the target object can be determined by fitting a model of the target object's magnetic field to the sensor measurements. A robust determination of whether a target object is present can be obtained by fitting the model to the sensor measurements and determining the remaining differences between the fitted model and the sensor measurements. If the differences are high then the model is not fitting well, suggesting that the target object is not present. If the differences are low, the model is fitting well and the target object can be determined as being present. Measurements made when the target object is determined as not being present can be regarded as background field measurements including any stray fields. These stray fields can then be deducted from subsequent sensor measurements to eliminate the effect of stray fields and allow more accurate determination of the position of the target object. A user indicator may be included to indicate whether stray fields are not present, or present and accurately detected, or whether stray fields are varying. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257747 | CONFIGURABLE POINT OF INTEREST ALERTS - Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257748 | POSITIVE LOCATION SYSTEM FOR A LOCOMOTIVE CONSIST - A positive location system is disclosed for a locomotive consist including at least two locomotives. The system may include a first locator element on a first locomotive and a second locator element on a second locomotive. Each locator element may include a receiving device and a transmitting device communicatively coupled with each other locator element. Each locator element may be configured to determine its own location, relay information on its location to at least one other locator element on another locomotive, receive location information on the at least one other locator element, and determine its own location relative to the location of the at least one other locator element. Each locator element may also provide location information for the at least one other locator element as though it were the at least one other locator element when the at least one other locator element is non-functional. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278209 | Method for Tracking Defects on a Photomask Across Repeated Inspections - This invention allows tracking of a defect across multiple inspections. The inventive solution translates every inspection record into a common set of fields that are first archived into a relational database. Then the defect coordinates from the inspection records of the same mask are all transformed into a common reference frame having the same origin and orientation with respect to the mask coordinate system. Following this, the defect having coordinates within a given tolerance distance are paired up and reported to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278210 | Real-time Spatial Path Comparison - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing motion paths for physical entities. For each physical entity among several physical entities, several representations are received of positions of the physical entity. In response to detecting that a number of physical entities among the physical entities traverse a similar motion path, a path record is generated, which represents the motion path traversed by the number of physical entities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278211 | Methods and Systems for Enhanced Tip-Tracking and Navigation of Visual Inspection Devices - A computer-implemented system for enhanced tip-tracking and navigation of visual inspection devices includes a visual inspection device. The system further includes a plurality of spatially sensitive fibers. The system includes a computing device. The computing device includes a memory device and a processor. The system includes a storage device. The storage device includes an engineering model representing the physical asset. The computing device is configured receive an insertion location from the visual inspection device. The computing device is configured to receive fiber information associated with the visual inspection device. The computing device is configured to determine the real-time location of the visual inspection device using the fiber information. The computing device is configured to identify the real-time location of the visual inspection device with respect to the engineering model. The computing device is configured to navigate the visual inspection device from a first location to a second location. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278212 | LOCATION-BASED TRACKING SYSTEM - Geoposition data is gathered from financial transactions, digital communications, or digital files that have been exchanged between individuals, within a detention facility and individuals who are not subject to a detention environment. The geoposition data is visually represented allowing the geographical relationships between outside parties and individuals within detention facilities to be seen. A system and method of visually representing relationships, such as transactions, communications, associations or other commonalities, between individuals in detention environments (such as prisons or detention facilities) with one or more individuals within or external to such detention environments. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278213 | Overlay Sampling Methodology - One embodiment relates to a method to achieve enhanced overlay control while maintaining manufacturing throughput for a fabrication process. Locations of a plurality of alignment structures on a wafer comprising a plurality of reticle fields are determined with a layout tool to define a layout-based wafer map. The topography of the wafer is then measured as a function of wafer position by a surface measuring tool. The layout-based wafer map is then projected onto the measured wafer topography to define a modeled wafer map. A subset of alignment structure locations are measured with an alignment tool in an in-line fabrication flow so as not to delay subsequent fabrication steps. Disagreement between the measured alignment structure locations and modeled alignment structure locations is then minimized mathematically to enhance overlay control while maintaining manufacturing throughput. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278214 | FREQUENCY DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (FDOA) FOR GEOLOCATION - A method for determining a FDOA of a pulsed waveform received by two sensors includes obtaining a respective plurality of in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) samples indicative of a pulse envelope of the received pulsed waveform. The method includes determining a TDOA responsive to a leading edge of a pulse of the pulsed waveform and obtaining a first cross correlation of IQ samples at a delay (d | 09-18-2014 |
20140278215 | METHOD TO REDUCE DATA RATES AND POWER CONSUMPTION USING DEVICE BASED ATTITUDE GENERATION - A method includes generating motion data by receiving a gyroscope data from a gyroscope sensor, performing integration using the gyroscope data and generating an integrated gyroscope data using a first processor. The method further includes receiving a data from one or more sensors, other than the gyroscope sensor, and performing sensor fusion using the integrated gyroscope data and the data to generate motion data using a second processor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278216 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTING DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a displacement detecting device including a displacement sensing module, an input module, a distance sensing module, and a processing module, and a power saving method thereof. The processing module is electrically connected to each module. The input module is used to supply non-contact operation. The distance sensing module is used to detect the distance between a body and the displacement detecting device, and then produces a sensing value. The processing module selectively control the displacement sensing module and the input module to be turned on or turned off according to the sensing result of the distance sensing module. The displacement detecting device turns on the displacement sensing module when the sensing value is less than a first default value, and turns on the input module and turns off the displacement sensing module when the sensing value is greater than a second default value. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278217 | METHOD TO REDUCE DATA RATES AND POWER CONSUMPTION USING DEVICE BASED ATTITUDE QUATERNION GENERATION - A method includes generating motion data by receiving a gyroscope data from a gyroscope sensor, performing integration using the gyroscope data and generating an integrated gyroscope data using a first processor. The method further includes receiving a data from one or more sensors, other than the gyroscope sensor, and performing sensor fusion using the integrated gyroscope data and the data to generate motion data using a second processor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278218 | Capturing and Analyzing Boardsport Maneuver Data - Systems and methods are provided for visualizing motion by a sports participant. A system includes a motion detection module that comprises an accelerometer positioned on sports participant configured to measure one or more metrics associated with motion of the sports participant and a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the one or more metrics. A data processor is configured to access the one or more metrics and provide a visualization of the motion of the sports participant based on the one or more metrics. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278219 | System and Method For Monitoring Movements of a User - A motion tracking system monitors the motions performed by a user based on motion data received from one or more sensors. The motion tracking system may include a motion tracking device with one or more sensors, a smart device with one or more sensors and/or a server. As the user interacts with the motion tracking system or smart device the motion data generated by one or more sensors is processed by a software application. The software application may be present on the smart device, the server, and/or the motion tracking device. The software application generates interpreted data based on the motion data and contextual data such as the equipment being used by the user. The interpreted data is then provided to the user during and/or after the user has performed a motion or a set of motions. The feedback provided to the user may be visual, audio or tactile. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278220 | FITNESS MONITORING DEVICE WITH ALTIMETER - Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques for utilizing altimeters in biometric monitoring devices are provided. Such techniques may, in some implementations, involve recalibrating a biometric monitoring device altimeter based on location data; using altimeter data as an aid to gesture recognition; and/or using altimeter data to manage an airplane mode of a biometric monitoring device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297220 | VEHICULAR OCCUPANCY ASSESSMENT - Systems, devices, and techniques are provided for occupancy assessment of a vehicle. For one or more occupants of the vehicle, the occupancy assessment establishes position and/or identity for some or all of the occupant(s). | 10-02-2014 |
20140297221 | LOCATING SYSTEM AND LOCATING METHOD USING PRESSURE SENSOR - A locating system includes a plurality of pressure sensors, a storage unit, and an analysis unit. The pressure sensors are located at different locations under a floor of a room to sense pressures. Each pressure sensor has a sensor identification (ID). The storage unit stores a location of each pressure sensor to correspond to the sensor ID of each pressure sensor. When a pressure sensor senses a pressure from a user, the analysis unit determines where the user is located in the room according to the location stored in the storage unit corresponding to the sensor ID of the pressure sensor. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297222 | Actuator Position Calculation Device, Actuator Position Calculation Method, and Actuator Position Calculation Program - A device for calculating a position of an actuator, the actuator including a movement mechanism configured to move in one direction in proportion to a control signal generated for each minimum movement amount ΔM and a movement amount detection sensor configured to detect a movement amount of the movement mechanism in a minimum resolution ΔS, where A=ΔS/ΔM≧2, and the device includes a position calculation unit configured to calculating a position SA of the movement mechanism at a target position from the control signal at a time point T1, at which the sensor signal becomes (S0+m×ΔS) or (S0−m×ΔS), where m is a natural number of 1 or more, the control signal at the target position of the movement mechanism is denoted by M0, and the sensor signal is denoted by S0. | 10-02-2014 |
20140309962 | ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN CONGESTION - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for providing a measure of pedestrian congestion in a given area. In one embodiment, the method comprises collecting data from a pedestrian moving in the area, and using the data to determine one or more specified parameters representing a pattern of movement of the pedestrian in the area. These specified parameters are used to determine a sinuosity of pedestrian traffic in the given area. In one embodiment, the pattern of movement is a walking pattern of the pedestrian, and the data collected from the pedestrian identifies a multitude of positions of the pedestrian's feet. In an embodiment, the specified parameters include a lateral gap between the feet of the pedestrian, and a length of a stride of the pedestrian. A sequence of values may be collected for each of these parameters. | 10-16-2014 |
20140309963 | POSITIONING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM - A positioning apparatus for measuring a position of a mobile object in a target area, the positioning apparatus includes: an estimation unit configured to estimate a first position, the first position being a relative to a reference position of the mobile object; an acquisition unit configured to acquire power information of an electrical appliance provided in the target area; and a correction unit configured to correct the first position for a second position on the basis of the power information of the electrical appliance and positional information indicating the second position of the electrical appliance. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316738 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING POSITION OF LIGHT - An apparatus and a method for measuring a position of a light are disclosed. The apparatus for measuring a position of a light includes: an inputting unit configured to receive position information on a building and a floor in which a user is positioned; a position coordinate calculating unit configured to measure distances between a position of the user and wall surfaces in the building in each direction and calculate a position coordinate of the user based on the distances in each direction; a position determining unit configured to apply the position coordinate to a plan view corresponding to the position information to determine an initial position of the user; and a position information combining unit configured to receive a light identifier depending on movement of the user and store position information of the light corresponding to the light identifier. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316739 | Direction Processing Based on Multi-State Inputs - A computer-implemented method for determining the direction of a moving object across a sensor having a plurality of inputs is disclosed. The invention determines the direction of a moving object, such as a vehicle on a roadway, based on inputs provided by sensors along the object's path. The methods involve monitoring state changes of the inputs as the object passes the sensor and comparing the magnitude of state changes in the order in which a forward-moving object would cause inputs to switch to a particular state. For each state change comparison, a direction variable is adjusted to indicate forward or reverse movement. After passage of the object, a direction of movement is assigned to the moving object on the basis of the final value of the direction variable. The invention provides a high degree of accuracy, is simple to reconfigure, and more economical than other methods. | 10-23-2014 |
20140336977 | MOVING BODY PLACEMENT DETERMINING METHOD, MEASURING APPARATUS, MACHINING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided, is a method for determining a placement of a moving body that, moves to face an object, and performs processes at a plurality of target points en the object. The method includes a first step of setting a plurality of processable areas capable of the processes by the moving body to a plurality of the target points; a second step of determining candidates regarding the placement of the moving body for each of the processable areas set in the first, step; and a third step of determining the placement of the moving body and the moving path of the moving body by solving a Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem using the candidates regarding the placement of the moving body determined in the second step. | 11-13-2014 |
20140336978 | MOVING BODY PLACEMENT DETERMINING METHOD, MEASURING APPARATUS, MACHINING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a method for determining a placement of a moving body that moves to face an object and perform a process at a plurality of target points on the object. The method includes the following steps executed by a processor: a step of setting candidates regarding the placement of the moving body for each of the plurality of target points; a step of obtaining a processable area, which is capable of being processed by the moving body in the object, corresponding to each of the set candidates; and a step of determining the candidate corresponding to a combination of the processable areas as the placement of the moving body by obtaining the combination of the processable areas satisfying the plurality of target points from among the obtained plurality of processable areas. | 11-13-2014 |
20140336979 | POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE - A position-measuring device includes a measuring transducer configured to carry out a position measurement. The position-measuring device has at least one memory having stored parameter data defining an active configuration under which the position-measuring device is operable. The at least one memory further has data and instructions useable to activate at least one further configuration under which the position-measuring device is operable. | 11-13-2014 |
20140336980 | Methods and Systems for Processing Social Interactive Data and Sharing of Tracked Activity Associated with Locations - A method includes determining a location of a first monitoring device used while performing an activity. The first monitoring device is worn by a first user. The method includes determining a location of a second monitoring device used while performing an activity. The second monitoring device is worn by a second user. The method further includes determining whether the locations of the first and second monitoring devices are within a range and whether the activities are similar. The method includes sending a prompt to the first monitoring device upon determining that the activities are similar and the locations are within the range. The prompt includes a request for permission from a first user account to allow a second user account to access information from the first user account regarding the activity performed using the first monitoring device. | 11-13-2014 |
20140343890 | HANDHELD MEASURING AID FOR USE WITH A SIX-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM LASER TRACKER - Some embodiments of the invention relate to a handheld measuring aid for use in a system—having a station for position and orientation determination of the handheld measuring aid—for surveying an object surface. the handheld measuring aid has in this case on a body, visual markings which are arranged in a defined spatial relationship, forming a pattern, on the body in a marking region, a measuring probe, which is arranged on an orifice of the body in a defined spatial relationship in relation to the pattern, for the object surface, an operating element, an electronic circuit for generating a measurement triggering signal—occurring as a function of an actuation of the operating element—and wireless communication means for transmitting the measurement triggering signal to the station. | 11-20-2014 |
20140343891 | DISTRIBUTED REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM SENSING DEVICE - A vehicle detection sensor apparatus including a frame and a dual mode sensor connected to the frame, the dual mode sensor having an active and a passive sensing mode wherein at least one of the active and passive sensing mode is automatically cycled between on and off states when providing a positive reading condition. | 11-20-2014 |
20140343892 | Methods and Systems for Geo-Location Optimized Tracking and Updating for Events Having Combined Activity and Location Information - A method includes obtaining a first geo-location and a second geo-location. The first and second geo-locations are associated with a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to be used by a user. The first geo-location is determined at a first time and the second geo-location is determined at a second time. The first time and the second time are associated with a rate of obtaining geo-location data. The method includes calculating a difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations and changing the rate of obtaining a third geo-location associated with the monitoring device based on the difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations. | 11-20-2014 |
20140350885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING SATELLITE POSITIONING QUALITY - A method for evaluating satellite positioning quality and a satellite receiver are disclosed. Satellite information is obtained from one or more satellites of the set of satellites. The satellite information includes an observed value of a parameter of each of the one or more satellites. An estimated value of each observed value is determined based on the satellite information. A set of residual values between the estimated values and the observed values is obtained. A positioning quality associated with the set of satellites is determined based on the set of residual values. | 11-27-2014 |
20140350886 | GEODETIC SURVEYING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH MULTIPLE TARGET TRACKING FUNCTIONALITY - A surveying system for surveying and tracking a movable target object that defines a target point includes a surveying device with a sighting unit defining a target axis and a detector for generating a continuously current amount-of-deviation signal dependent on a deviation from an optimal target orientation. A second unit on the target object side enables continuous determination of movements and/or positions of the target object with reference to an external coordinate system. The surveying system includes a target point tracking mode in which respective first measurement data currently generated by the first unit and the respective current amount-of-deviation signal and respective second measurement data currently generated by the second unit are continuously aggregated. On the basis thereof, a control signal is derived for continuous automatic motorized modification of the target axis orientation such that the target axis continuously aims at the target point. | 11-27-2014 |
20140365166 | BLADE TIP TIMING - A method of analysing blade tip displacements (dijk) derived from a rotor having an array of blades that rotate at a rotational speed (ω). The blades are monitored by an array of stationary timing probes for at least two revolutions (j) of the rotor. Define asynchronous displacement (dijk_A) as a sum of a sinusoidal term (Va) and an offset per probe term (Oo). Define synchronous displacement (dijk_S) as a sum of a sinusoidal term (Vs) and a common offset term (Cc). Solve the asynchronous displacements (dijk_A) using the blade tip displacements (dijk) to give asynchronous amplitude (|a|), offset per probe (ok) and asynchronous residuals (rijk_A). Solve the synchronous displacements (dijk_S) using the blade tip displacements (dijk) to give synchronous amplitude (|s|), common offset (cj) and synchronous residuals (rijk_S). | 12-11-2014 |
20140372072 | Methods and Devices for Transmitting/Obtaining Identification Information and Positioning by Visible Light Signal - The present invention discloses methods and devices for transmitting/obtaining identification information and positioning by visible light signal. The method for transmitting identification information of a light source by visible light signal, the method comprising: modulating, on the basis of the identification information to be transmitted, a driving signal of the light source to obtain a modulated driving signal for driving the light source to emit visible light signal having its level changed between a peak level and a bottom level with varied frequencies at different time points; and emitting the visible light signal having its level changed between a peak level and a bottom level with varied frequencies at different time points on the basis of the modulated driving signal, so as to transmit identification information corresponding to the varied numbers of bright or dark stripes shown in one or more images obtained from the visible light signal at one or more time points, which numbers are corresponding to the varied frequencies. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379296 | METHOD OF TRACKING MOVEABLE OBJECTS BY COMBINING DATA OBTAINED FROM MULTIPLE SENSOR TYPES - Method of tracking moveable objects (typically tagged objects that are moved by actors e.g. people, vehicles) by combining and analyzing data obtained from multiple types of sensors, such as video cameras, RFID tag readers, GPS sensors, and WiFi transceivers. Objects may be tagged by RFID tags, NFC tags, bar codes, or even tagged by visual appearance. The system operates in near real-time, and compensates for errors in sensor readings and missing sensor data by modeling object and actor movement according to a plurality of possible paths, weighting data from some sensors higher than others according to estimates of sensor accuracy, and weighing the probability of certain paths according to various other rules and penalty cost parameters. The system can maintain a comprehensive database which can be queried as to which actors associate with which objects, and vice versa. Other data pertaining to object location and association can also be obtained. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAGNETOMETER CALIBRATION AND COMPENSATION - A system comprises an inertial measurement unit comprising one or more gyroscopes configured to measure angular velocity about a respective one of three independent axes and one or more accelerometers configured to measure specific force along a respective one of the three independent axes; a magnetometer configured to measure strength of a local magnetic field along each of the three independent axes; and a processing device coupled to the inertial measurement unit and the magnetometer; the processing device configured to compute kinematic state data for the system based on measurements received from the magnetometer and the inertial measurement unit. The processing device is further configured to calculate magnetometer measurement calibration parameters using a first technique when position data is unavailable and to calculate magnetometer measurement calibration parameters using a second technique when position data is available. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019160 | ABSOLUTE DISTANCE LASER INTERFEROMETER - A device for absolute distance measurement includes a first tunable light source for emitting a first wavelength light of a first tunable frequency modulated by a first modulating frequency and a second light source for emitting a second wavelength light of a second frequency modulated by a second modulating frequency. An optical coupler couples the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light into an interferometer cavity. An interferometer detector provides an interference measurement signal based on a detected interference pattern. A demodulator unit generates a first demodulation signal based on the interference measurement signal by demodulation with the first modulating frequency and a second demodulation signal based on the interference measurement signal by demodulation with the second modulating frequency. A computation unit computes an absolute distance by evaluating the first demodulation signal acquired during a sweep of the first tunable frequency and the second demodulation signal. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019161 | MOVEMENT LINE INFORMATION GENERATION SYSTEM, MOVEMENT LINE INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD AND MOVEMENT LINE INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM - Even when lacking an accurate association between the trajectory and identification of a moving body, the association between trajectory and identification of the moving body is estimated and the ambiguity quantified. An identification information association unit associates an individual trajectory link included in a trajectory link candidate with likely moving body identification information per trajectory link candidate. An association trend quantification unit quantifies a trend of the number of times when trajectory information is associated with moving body identification information per individual moving body identification information for individual trajectory information based on an association result between a trajectory link and moving body identification information. An association score calculation unit calculates an association score indicating ambiguity of an association between a trajectory indicated by trajectory information and a trajectory of a moving body identified by moving body identification information for each item of moving body identification information per trajectory information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019162 | USING SPATIAL INFORMATION WITH DEVICE INTERACTION - The amount of resources needed for an electronic device to track and/or interact with a user is reduced by utilizing a predicted relative position of that user. In some embodiments, a full 360° scan is performed using at least one image capture element to locate a primary direction to a user of the device. Once this direction is determined, a smaller range (e.g., 45°) centered around that direction can be used to capture, analyze, or provide information for the user. As the user moves, the determined direction is updated and the range adjusted accordingly. If the user moves outside the range, the device can increase the size of the range until the user is located, and the range can again be decreased around the determined direction. Such approaches limit the amount of image or audio information that must be captured and/or analyzed to track the relative position of a user. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025838 | POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A position estimation device includes: a position estimation unit that estimates current position coordinates of the position estimation device; a pointing direction detection unit that detects a pointing direction pointed by a user using the position estimation device; a pointing target detection unit that detects a pointing target pointed by the user, based on the detected pointing direction; a concentration calculation unit that specifies, as a concentrated area, an area in which a position pointed in the detected pointing direction in a predetermined time period immediately before the pointing target is detected is included for at least a threshold time period and in which the pointing target is not present, and calculates a concentrated direction which is from the position of the position estimation device in the predetermined time period to the concentrated area; and a position correction unit that corrects the current position coordinates using the calculated concentrated direction. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025839 | POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF FOR AN OBJECT AT HOME - A positioning system adapted to be assembled in an enclosed space, includes a positioning device having a directional arithmetic unit and a positional arithmetic unit; and a plurality of sensors, each sensor electrically connected to the directional arithmetic unit and the positional arithmetic unit of the positioning device. Under this arrangement, the directional arithmetic unit and the positional arithmetic unit of the positioning device accurately measures a current position of an object in the enclosed space, via a time difference between the sensors and an output value of a voltage of each sensor. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025840 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MOTION PROCESSING - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a motion sensor and a processor. The motion sensor is configured to perform a sampling at a sampling rate. In each sampling, the motion sensor generates a sample by sampling an angular velocity or an acceleration of the electronic device. The motion sensor is further configured to store each sample in a buffer of the motion sensor. The processor is coupled to the motion sensor and is configured to perform a polling at a polling rate. In each polling, the processor fetches a plurality of the samples from the buffet The processor is further configured to perform a numerical integration based on the fetched samples. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025841 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PATROL INSPECTING AND POSITIONING A RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE - A method for patrol inspecting and locating a radioactive substance, comprising: providing a background radioactive intensity value of environment; collecting radioactive intensity values from a inspecting region by a detector at a plurality of sampling points on a patrol inspection route; calculating a radioactive intensity distribution in the inspecting region on basis of the collected radioactive intensity values and the background radioactive intensity value; and determining a position of the radioactive substance on basis of the radioactive intensity distribution. Furthermore, a device for patrol inspecting and locating a radioactive substance comprises: two or more detectors configured to collect radioactive intensity values from a inspecting region around a patrol inspection route, at each of a plurality of sampling points on the patrol inspection route; and a movable carrier configured to carry the detector and to move along the patrol inspection is route to pass by the sampling points. The method and device can obtain the position and the radioactive intensity distribution of the radioactive substance within the inspecting region on basis of the multiple-point observation on the patrol inspection route. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025842 | Method and Apparatus for Determining and Retrieving Positional Information - An apparatus for determining and retrieving positional information including a surface having a plurality of first elements and a plurality of second elements, a first detection element connected to at least one of the plurality of first elements, and a second detection element connected to at least one of the plurality of second elements. The detection elements may include light detection elements or impact sensing circuits. | 01-22-2015 |
20150039262 | MULTI-SENSOR INDOOR LOCALIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON LIGHT INTENSITY - The present disclosure relates to a multi-sensor indoor localization method and device. The method includes: an optical signal is received from a point light source using an optical sensor group having N optical sensors; the light intensity of the optical signal is obtained, the optical sensor group includes a polyhedron-shaped base where the normal vectors of each three faces are linearly independent, the N optical sensors are located on the faces of the base, and N≧6; the current heading is obtained by a magnetic sensor group; a current unit normal vector is obtained; a system of at least three equations is established; the system of equations is solved to obtain an approximate solution of minimum residual, the approximate solution is regarded as the coordinates of the optical sensor group. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046116 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Motion of a Body in a Selected Frame of Reference - A method and apparatus for monitoring impacts on or between bodies is disclosed. In one application, head impacts and the performance of a helmet during impacts are monitored by determining head motion and helmet motion relative to a common origin and/or frame of reference in response to sensed head motion and sensed helmet motion. The head motion in the common frame of reference is compared with helmet motion in the common frame of reference to determine performance of the helmet. The apparatus may include a surface-mountable motion sensor having a reusable sensing circuit and a disposable mounting structure. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051866 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNIT PLACEMENT - A method for optimizing phasor measurement unit placement includes two phase, calculating a degree of each node of a power system; selecting a node with maximum degree as a center and propagate to the entire power system so as to form a spanning tree; selecting a feasible power dominating set (PDS) of minimum cardinality for the spanning tree in the Phase I. In phase II, use the Artificial Bees Colony Algorithm. According to the minimum PDS, calculating a fitness functions by the equation | 02-19-2015 |
20150057967 | POWER EFFICIENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED DEVICES - The systems and methods described herein relate to the power efficient measurement of physical activity with a wearable sensor. More particularly, the systems and methods described herein enable the continuous activity tracking without compromising battery life. In some implementations, the wearable sensor detects movement and enters predefined power states responsive to the type of movement detected. | 02-26-2015 |
20150057968 | WEARABLE DEVICE FOR FISHING - Various implementations described herein are directed to a wearable device used to record fishing data. The wearable device may include a housing. The housing may include a sensor or sensors to detect motion. The housing may include a computer system with a processor and memory. The memory may have a plurality of executable instructions. When the executable instructions are executed by the processor, the processor may receive motion data from the sensor or sensors and determine whether a cast has been made. | 02-26-2015 |
20150057969 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCATING A MAGNETIC OBJECT - A method for locating a moving magnetic object, comprising: determining the position or the orientation of the magnetic object from measurements of an array of N (an integer greater than 5) tri-axial magnetometers mechanically linked to one another with no degree, the method also comprises the reiteration of the following steps. Estimating the position of the magnetic object relative to the array of magnetometers from measurements of the magnetometers made in a preceding iteration or from a measurement of a sensor distinct from the magnetometers of the array of magnetometers so that this estimation is obtained before making a new measurement using the magnetometers of the array; computing the distance between each magnetometer and the estimated position of the magnetic object; eliminating the Ni magnetometers closest to this estimated position, where Ni is a positive integer number strictly less than N; making a new measurement, by each non-eliminated magnetometer, of the magnetic field generated or modified by the magnetic object; and determining a new position or a new orientation of the magnetic object from the new measurements of the magnetometers which have not been eliminated and without taking into account new measurements made by the eliminated magnetometers, so as to obtain a new location of the magnetic object. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066423 | DISPLAY TERMINAL WITH FLIP COVER - A display terminal includes a first body having a Hall sensor and a second body having a magnetic element. The area of the magnetic element may correspond to a maximum horizontal moving distance and a maximum vertical moving distance of the second body. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066424 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING POSITION CHANGE - An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by a first processor using at least one sensor, whether a state change occurs, if it is determined that there is the state change, determining, by the first processor, whether to transmit state information to a second processor, and determining, by the second processor, whether to measure a changed position at each of set periods using a position measuring module on the basis of whether the state information is received. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066425 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING FLATNESS OF OBJECT - In a method for measuring flatness of an object placed on a detection device using a computing device, point cloud data in a specific range of the object is acquired from a laser scanning device of the detection device. The acquired point cloud data is fitted to be a plane, and a flatness value of the plane is calculated. The calculated flatness value is compared with a predetermined threshold value, and a determination result of whether the flatness of the object is qualified is output on a display screen of the computing device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073746 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A CYCLIC MOVEMENT AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A device identifying a cyclic movement type of a physical system from a set of possible cyclic movements types includes: a movement sensor providing an observation data sequence concerning the physical system; a storage storing at least one statistical hidden-state Markov model; and a computer programmed to analyze the observation data sequence and select one cyclic movement type based on the stored statistical model. The storage includes least one statistical hidden-state Markov model for each possible cyclic movement type and the computer is programmed to analyze compatibility of the observation data sequence with each possible cyclic movement type based on the statistical model associated with this cyclic movement type. The computer is further programmed to provide a sequence of hidden states of the statistical model associated with the selected cyclic movement type, based on the observation data sequence and the statistical model associated with the selected cyclic movement type. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073747 | Device and Method for Ascertaining a Suitable Position of a Sensor Device - A device for ascertaining a suitable position of a sensor device for detecting a measured variable includes: a detection device for detecting environmental data in a surrounding area of the sensor device; a computing unit for ascertaining the suitable position of the sensor device based on the detected environmental data and the measured variable; and an output device for displaying the ascertained suitable position of the sensor device. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073748 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TRAFFIC FLOW IN A BUILDING - The invention relates to a method for measuring the traffic flow in a building having a people mover system, in which method the following succession of steps is performed:
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20150081246 | DISPLACEMENT SENSOR FOR CONTACTLESSLY MEASURING A RELATIVE POSITION BY MEANS OF A MAGNETIC FIELD SENSOR ARRAY ON THE BASIS OF THE HALL EFFECT - The present invention relates to a displacement sensor for contactlessly measuring a relative position of a magnetic field source ( | 03-19-2015 |
20150081247 | SYSTEM FOR MOTION AND ACTIVITY CORRELATION WITH DOSE FOR OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DOSIMETRY - Described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data when an individual wearing a dosimeter is active. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data whether an individual was wearing a dosimeter when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data whether a dosimeter was in a particular location when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data where on the body of an individual the individual was wearing a dosimeter when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data the probability that an individual is wearing a dosimeter that is assigned to the individual. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088451 | ABSOLUTE POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE - A position-measuring device includes: a first subassembly having a measuring standard on which at least one coded track is provided, and a scanning unit, which is able to generate position signals that may be used to generate an absolute digital position value by scanning the at least one coded track in a measuring direction; a second subassembly having at least one peripheral unit adapted to execute a supplementary or an auxiliary functionality of the position-measuring device; and a plurality of electrical lines, which connect the first subassembly and the second subassembly to each other for the transmission of electrical signals. The position-measuring device is able to be operated in an initialization mode and in a standard operating mode. All components of the first subassembly required for the operation in the standard operating mode are components that are suitable for use in a radiation region of a machine. Furthermore, an initialization memory is provided in the first subassembly, which includes the data required for the operation in the standard operating mode and which is not suitable for use in a radiation region of a machine. In the initialization mode, the content of the initialization memory is transmittable to a memory unit situated outside the radiation region. Only the content of the memory unit is used for the operation in the standard operating mode. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088452 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - A system for locating and tracking an object is provided. The system includes a measuring device configured to determine a property of a paving-related material, a locating device configured to determine a location of the measuring device, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the measuring device and one or more properties determined by the measuring device, and a communications system configured to transfer, to a remote device, the location of the measuring device and the tracking information associated with the measuring device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150100268 | TRACKING SYSTEM APPARATUS - A system for tracking a cinematography target comprises an emitter configured to attach to a target and to emit a tracking signal that is directionally identifiable by a tracker. The emitter comprising an output module configured to emit the tracking signal. The tracking signal comprises a non-continuous electromagnetic signal according to a specified pattern, which specified pattern is selectable from a collection of distinct patterns. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100269 | AUTOMATED LOCALIZATION FOR GNSS DEVICE - Systems and methods for performing automated localization are provided. In one example method, a plurality of coordinates representing positions of a plurality of locations may be received. The plurality of coordinates may be from two or more different coordinate systems. The numerical values of each of the plurality of coordinates may be evaluated to determine the coordinate system to which the coordinate belongs. The coordinates may be grouped into sets of coordinates based on their determined coordinate systems. Coordinates from one coordinate system may be paired with coordinates that represent the same locations from another coordinate system. A shape matching algorithm may be used to determine coordinates from different systems that represent the same locations. A localization process may then be used to convert the coordinates of the first coordinate system into coordinates of the second coordinate system based on the paired coordinates. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100270 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GEO-LOCATION OPTIMIZED TRACKING AND UPDATING FOR EVENTS HAVING COMBINED ACTIVITY AND LOCATION INFORMATION - A method includes obtaining a first geo-location and a second geo-location. The first and second geo-locations are associated with a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to be used by a user. The first geo-location is determined at a first time and the second geo-location is determined at a second time. The first time and the second time are associated with a rate of obtaining geo-location data. The method includes calculating a difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations and changing the rate of obtaining a third geo-location associated with the monitoring device based on the difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100271 | PROVIDING POINTS OF INTEREST TO USER DEVICES IN VARIABLE ZONES - Receiving point of interest zones and alerts on user devices comprises communicating, by a user computing device to a remote computing device, a request for point of interest data corresponding to points of interest within a proximity of the user device; presenting the received point of interest data; identifying a particular point of interest; and outputting an alert regarding the particular point of interest. Receiving point of interest zones on user devices comprises communicating a request for point of interest data; receiving the point of interest data from the remote network device wherein a size of the point of interest zone is determined based on a density of points of interest in the proximity of the user, and wherein the shape of the point of interest zone is expanded in a direction of travel and contracted in the opposite direction; and presenting the received point of interest data. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106051 | OPERATION POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS AND VEHICULAR APPARATUS - An operation position detection apparatus includes: an operation body including front and back side operation surfaces; a casing; three strain generating bodies on each operation surface, wherein each strain generating body includes a connection section connected to the operation body, a fixed section fixed to the casing, and a displacement transmission surface displaceable by a pushing pressure to each operation surface; a distortion detection section arranged on each displacement transmission surface and detecting a distortion of the displacement transmission surface; and an operation position calculation section detecting which of the front side operation surface and the back side operation surface is pushed, the magnitude of the operation force generated by the pushing pressure, and an operation position of the pushing pressure, according to a detected distortion. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106052 | Calculating Pace and Energy Expenditure from Athletic Movement Attributes - Systems and methods configured to process motion data associated with a user. The systems and methods are configured to receive motion data from a sensor, calculate motion attributes from the data, and classify the motion data using one or more mathematical models. Further, the systems and methods are configured to identify and quantify, using the one or more mathematical models, the motion data as linear travel motion associated with the user running or walking. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106053 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF AN OBJECT - A method for determining the location of a transmitter (respectively a receiver) in a space defined by one or more reflective surfaces, including the steps of sending a signal from the transmitter (respectively from a set of transmitters); receiving by a set of receivers (respectively by a receiver) the transmitted signal and echoes of the transmitted signal reflected by the reflective surfaces; finding by a first computing module the location of the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) of the echoes; mirroring by a second computing module the virtual sources (respectively virtual receivers) into the space and obtained mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers); combining by a third computing module the mirrored virtual sources (respectively mirrored virtual receivers) so as to obtain location of the transmitter (respectively the receiver). This method makes use of echoes for localizing the source (respectively receiver) when there is no line of sight between the transmitter(s) and the receiver(s). | 04-16-2015 |
20150120237 | STAYING STATE ANALYSIS DEVICE, STAYING STATE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND STAYING STATE ANALYSIS METHOD - A staying state analysis device measuring a stay frequency of moving objects in a target area and generating a heat map visualizing a state of distribution of the stay frequency includes: a position information sorter sorting pieces of position information of the moving objects according to a degree of possibility that the pieces of position information may include an error due to a missing part that may be in traffic lines of the moving objects; a missing part position detector detecting a position of the missing part in the traffic lines based on at least two groups of pieces of position information sorted by the sorter; a corrected distribution information generator generating corrected distribution information representing the stay frequency of the moving objects corrected based on a result of detection by the missing part position detector; and a heat map generator generating the heat map based on corrected distribution information. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127295 | MOVING-BODY-ABNORMAL-NEARING DETECTION SYSTEM AND MOVING-BODY-ABNORMAL-NEARING DETECTION METHOD - There is provided a moving-body-abnormal-nearing detection system capable of determining whether abnormal nearing between moving bodies will occur in a short processing time. A projection matrix calculation means | 05-07-2015 |
20150127296 | Method for Estimating Elevation Changes Traveled by a User - A method for estimating the elevation change traveled by a user, said method using a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor, the pressure sensor being adapted to be held fixed to the user, the method comprising:
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20150142372 | PROSTHETIC PLACEMENT TOOL AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A method for estimating an orientation for placement of a prosthetic implant comprises receiving information indicative of a first virtual axis established between estimated positions of two anatomic landmarks in the anatomical area of interest. The method also comprises calculating an orientation of a first virtual plane, the first virtual plane being perpendicular to the first virtual axis. The method further comprises receiving information indicative of a second virtual axis established between at least one of the estimated positions of the first two landmarks and a third anatomic landmark in the anatomical area of interest. The method also comprises calculating an orientation of a second virtual plane based, at least in part, on the first virtual axis and the second virtual axis. The method further comprises estimating an angle between the orientation sensor and at least one of the first virtual plane or the second virtual plane. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142373 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING A ZONE - A method is provided for inspecting a zone, termed the zone of interest, whose characteristics are known at least partially, to detect at least one element included in the zone of interest, the method including: a first detection providing, through a time reversal method, a first signal relating to the position of the element for a first emission point, and at least one second detection providing, through a time reversal method, at least one second signal relating to the position of the element for a second emission point different from the first emission point. The method furthermore includes a multiplication of the first detection signal with the second detection signal to provide a third detection signal which is more accurate than the first and the second detection signal. A system implementing this method is also provided. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142374 | MOTION ANALYZING METHOD AND MOTION ANALYZING APPARATUS - A motion analyzing method includes: acquiring location information of at least one of a sporting tool and a subject in swing motion based on an inertial force generated by the swing motion in time series; acquiring analysis information of the swing motion based on the inertial force; acquiring a time when the analysis information is switched with respect to a preset threshold value; and correlating information of the time with the location information and outputting the information. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142375 | MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD AND MOTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A motion analysis apparatus specifies a movement of at least one of a subject and a sporting gear operated by the subject to be used as an indicator of supplementary information for motion analysis of the sporting gear, and the movement is detected using an output from an inertial sensor. The motion analysis apparatus can include an indicator detection unit which detects the indicator from the output from the inertial sensor, and an analysis data generation unit which generates analysis data in which supplementary information data corresponding to the indicator and motion analysis data from the inertial sensor correspond to each other. | 05-21-2015 |
20150294941 | LTPS MULTILAYERED STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING MISALIGNMENT IN THE SAME STRUCTURE - The present application provides an LTPS multilayered structure, which includes: a first stack layer having a reference pattern structure formed thereon and provided with uniformly distributed first references; and a second stack layer disposed on the first stack layer and having an alignment pattern structure formed thereon and provided with uniformly distributed second references each selectively aligning with one of the first references so that misalignment between the first stack layer and the second stack layer is precisely calculated by markings attached to each of the first references. The present further provides a method for measuring misalignment between a plurality of stack layers in the LTPS multilayered structure. | 10-15-2015 |
20150308831 | APPARATUS FOR INFERRING PEDESTRIAN POSITION BASED ON PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT DETECTION, AND METHOD THEREFOR - Disclosed are an apparatus for estimating a pedestrian position based on pedestrian motion recognition, and a method therefor. The method for estimating the pedestrian position based on pedestrian motion recognition includes recognizing a specific motion of a plurality of motions of the pedestrian, performing a unique pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR) technique corresponding to the recognized specific motion among unique PDR techniques for each of the plurality of motions of the pedestrian, and estimating the pedestrian's position by the performed unique PDR technique. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309126 | WIRELESS POSITION SENSING USING MAGNETIC FIELD OF SINGLE TRANSMITTER - A positioning system for determining the location of a receiver relative to a transmitter. The system includes a transmitting coil having a known orientation with respect to the earth's coordinate system and configured to transmit a periodic signal during a positioning event, at least one receiver including a sensing unit for measuring the magnetic field vector produced by the transmitting coil and the orientation of the receiver with respect to the earth's coordinate system, and at least one computing unit configured to estimate a position and orientation of the receiver with respect to the transmitter's coordinate system using the measured magnetic field vector, the measured orientation with respect to the earth's coordinate system, and the known orientation of the transmitting coil with respect to the earth's coordinate system. | 10-29-2015 |
20150316370 | INTERACTIVE ADVISORY SYSTEM - A method for locating at least one individual located remotely from a broadcast network. An analysis unit compares user profiles, dynamic locations stored in the communicator location database, and/or fixed locations entered into the analysis unit. A data set of at least one matching individualized locatee user profile is generated and the individualized locatee user profile is transmitted to the locator via the locator's communicator device. | 11-05-2015 |
20150316577 | MOTION DIRECTION DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION - This disclosure provides devices, computer programs and methods for determining a motion direction. In one aspect, a mobile device includes sensors for measuring acceleration data. The mobile device also includes a processor and memory that implement a plurality of motion direction estimation modules for calculating a plurality of respective motion directions. Each of the motion direction estimation modules uses a respective set of parameters and calculates the respective motion direction based on the acceleration data and the respective set of parameters. The modules also include a plurality of reliability metric computation modules for determining a plurality of respective reliability metrics for the respective estimated motion directions. The modules also include a selection module for identifying the reliability metric that indicates the greatest reliability, identifying the corresponding motion direction, and generating a resultant motion direction. In some implementations, the selection module selects the identified motion direction as the resultant motion direction. | 11-05-2015 |
20150316578 | MOTION DIRECTION DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION - This disclosure provides devices, computer programs and methods for determining a motion direction. In one aspect, a mobile device includes sensors for measuring acceleration data. The mobile device also includes a processor and a memory that implement a motion direction estimation module configured to determine a primary axis of motion. The motion direction estimation module also determines a motion direction along the primary axis. The determination includes fitting the acceleration data, or data derived therefrom, to a bimodal distribution. A first peak of the bimodal distribution corresponds to a first motion direction along the primary axis, and a second peak corresponds to a second motion direction opposite the first. The motion direction estimation module is configured to estimate the motion direction based on the bimodal distribution. In some implementations, the motion direction estimation module selects the motion direction corresponding to the higher of the peaks as the estimated motion direction. | 11-05-2015 |
20150316579 | MOTION DIRECTION DETERMINATION AND APPLICATION - This disclosure provides devices, computer programs, and methods for estimating reliability metrics. In one aspect, a mobile device includes sensors for measuring acceleration data, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that implement a plurality of modules. The modules include a motion direction estimation module for estimating a motion direction based on the acceleration data. The modules also include a reliability metric computation module for estimating reliability metrics. For example, the reliability metric computation module can estimate a first reliability metric based on a process used to estimate the motion direction, a second reliability metric based on a measure of stability of the device, and a third reliability metric based on a measure of consistency in the estimated motion direction over a period. The reliability metric computation module calculates a composite reliability metric that indicates a measure of certainty in the estimated motion direction based on the estimated reliability metrics. | 11-05-2015 |
20150323316 | Signal Response Metrology For Scatterometry Based Overlay Measurements - Methods and systems for creating a measurement model based only on measured training data are presented. The trained measurement model is then used to calculate overlay values directly from measured scatterometry data. The measurement models receive scatterometry signals directly as input and provide overlay values as output. In some embodiments, overlay error is determined from measurements of design rule structures. In some other embodiments, overlay error is determined from measurements of specialized target structures. In a further aspect, the measurement model is trained and employed to measure additional parameters of interest, in addition to overlay, based on the same or different metrology targets. In some embodiments, measurement data from multiple targets, measurement data collected by multiple metrologies, or both, is used for model building, training, and measurement. In some embodiments, an optimization algorithm automates the measurement model building and training process. | 11-12-2015 |
20150330778 | TRACKING DYNAMIC ON-STAGE OBJECTS - Methods and systems for dynamic tracking of on-stage objects using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) presented herein do not require illumination to track a randomly moving object and are easily configurable for various stage sizes and for stages movable relative to the ground. In some instances, a tracking method includes determining an initial state of an MEMS motion tracker carried on a dynamic object, such as a performer. Acceleration and orientation information gathered by the motion tracker is monitored. A change of state in response to the monitored acceleration and orientation information is then determined. An instant state is calculated using the change of state and the initial state. Actuation signals based on the calculated instant state are generated for actuating a gimbal. The gimbal faces a device supported thereby toward the dynamic object. | 11-19-2015 |
20150330780 | LOCATION DETERMINATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A location determination processing device includes: an accepting section as defined herein; an atmospheric pressure information accepting section as defined herein; a computation result accepting section as defined herein; an identification result accepting section as defined herein; a detection result accepting section as defined herein; a determination result accepting section as defined herein; a correcting section as defined herein; and an outputting section as defined herein. | 11-19-2015 |
20150330790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AMBIENT GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION FROM A MOVING THREE-AXIS ACCELEROMETER DATA - A method based on separating ambient gravitational acceleration from a moving three-axis accelerometer data for determining a driving pattern is presented. A server may receive telematics data originating from a client computing device and combine the telematics data. The server may estimate a gravitational constant to the combined telematics data and generate a function for pitch and a roll angle from the combined telematics data. The server may further determine a driving pattern using at least the pitch and the roll angle. | 11-19-2015 |
20150330791 | INERTIAL DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An inertial device is disclosed that includes an inertial sensor unit configured to generate an output representing motion of a target holding the inertial device; a storage unit configured to store factors which are associated with different outputs to be generated by the inertial sensor unit, respectively; a generation unit configured to generate a waveform which represents variation of velocity of the inertial device in a predetermined period by using one of the factors corresponding to the output generated by the inertial sensor unit; a combination unit configured to combine the waveform with one or more previous waveforms which have been generated by the generation unit; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a position where the inertial device is currently located using a velocity obtained from the combined waveform. | 11-19-2015 |
20150345925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A CYCLIST IS SITTING OR STANDING - A method and apparatus for determining a bicyclist's bodily position, such as sitting or standing, while riding a bicycle. Sensors measure a force applied by the bicyclist to the pedals. The measurement data is analyzed to identify a feature, such as whether a radial force is higher or lower than a tangential force or whether a total vertical force is high or low, which is indicative of the bicyclist's bodily position. A series of changes in the bicyclist's bodily position during the ride is recorded. A series of changes in the geographic location of the bicyclist and/or a series of changes in one or more performance metrics while riding the bicycle may also be recorded. The series of changes in the bicyclist's bodily position, the geographic location, and the performance metrics may be correlated, graphically communicated in real-time or post-ride, and used to improve the bicyclist's performance. | 12-03-2015 |
20150354949 | ARM-DETECTING OVERHEAD SENSOR FOR INVENTORY SYSTEM - Inventory systems may include one or more sensors capable of detecting spatial positioning of inventory holders and an arm of a worker interacting with the inventory holder. Data can be received from a sensor, a gesture of the arm can be determined from the data, and a bin location or other information can be determined based on the gesture. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354952 | OBJECT DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND OBJECT DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS METHOD - In one embodiment, an object distribution analysis apparatus includes a coordinate acquiring module configured to acquire coordinate data on plural objects, and an object pair generator configured to generate plural object pairs, each of which includes two objects among the plural objects. The apparatus further includes an azimuth calculator configured to calculate an azimuth of a line segment connecting the objects of each object pair, and a first factor calculator configured to calculate a first factor which depends on azimuths of line segments of the plural object pairs. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354967 | INERTIAL DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An inertial device having sensors operable to output accelerations in a horizontal and a vertical direction is disclosed that includes a detection unit configured to detect a turning point in a waveform representing the acceleration in the vertical direction with respect to time and to detect time at the turning point; a calculation unit configured to calculate a velocity in the horizontal direction using the acceleration in the horizontal direction in a predetermined period centering on the time at the turning point; a determination unit configured to determine whether the velocity is less than or equal to a threshold value; and an estimation unit configured to estimate a direction to which a target having the inertial device moves using the velocity in response to a determination by the determination unit that the velocity is less than or equal to the threshold value. | 12-10-2015 |
20150362315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITION INFORMATION USING ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining position information for a mobile device by correlating patterns of data obtained with environmental sensors. A pattern of sensor data associated with an environmental condition may be detected at known location and then matched with a pattern of sensor data detected by the mobile device to determine position information. | 12-17-2015 |
20150362334 | METHOD OF DETECTING THE RECIPROCAL POSITION BETWEEN A CYLINDER AND A PISTON IN A HYDRAULIC OR PNEUMATIC CYLINDER-PISTON UNIT. AS WELL AS CYLINDER-PISTON UNIT FOR IMPLEMENTING SUCH METHOD - A method for detecting the reciprocal position between a cylinder and a piston in a cylinder-piston unit, including the following phases: setup of a cylinder-piston unit featuring at least one tubular body ( | 12-17-2015 |
20150369583 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SUBSTRATE PLACEMENT IN A PROCESS CHAMBER - Methods for determining substrate placement in a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for determining substrate placement in a process chamber includes receiving sensor readings from a plurality of sensor arrays attached to the calibration substrate, calculating locations of a plurality of edge locations of a support member beneath the sensors based on the sensor readings, calculating a center point location of the support member based on the locations of the plurality of edge locations of the support member and determining an offset between the center point location and a location of the center of the calibration substrate. | 12-24-2015 |
20150369918 | LASER ALIGNMENT AND TRACKING SYSTEM - A laser alignment system for determining received pulse shape characteristics is provided. An exemplary laser alignment system may include a multi-channel optical detector including a plurality of light sensitive regions, each light sensitive region being associated with a respective one of a plurality of channels of the multi-channel optical detector and being configured to detect energy of an incident laser pulse. The system may include a signal processing unit configured to determine a plurality of data points associated with a detected laser pulse and determine whether the plurality of data points correspond to an expected laser pulse response of a designator laser. The signal processing unit may then perform other post-processing operations and in some embodiments may output an alignment command based at least in part on the plurality of data points associated with the laser pulse when the detected laser pulse corresponds to the expected laser pulse response. | 12-24-2015 |
20150377654 | Method and System for Estimating Positions Using Absolute Encoders - A position is determined by sensing a signal corresponding to a subsequence of marks in a non-periodic sequence of the marks on a scale. A coarse position P | 12-31-2015 |
20160003624 | Athlete Attend Class Monitoring System - A system and method for monitoring and verifying athlete attendance in a classroom is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment defines a GPS-based fence in association with a classroom as well as defines a class start time and a class end time. GPS coordinates associated with a portable computing device (“PCD”) associated with a given athlete are received and determined to be within a range of coordinates associated with the fence. Also, a time associated with the receiving of the GPS coordinates is determined to be within a window of time comprising the class start time. Subsequently, a picture of a user is captured with a camera of the PCD. Next, from the picture the user is verified to be the given athlete. Finally, the given athlete is marked as “present” within the class. | 01-07-2016 |
20160008661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE MOTION OF A SUBJECT | 01-14-2016 |
20160011009 | POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, MOTOR DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE, AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
20160018225 | SIGNAL PROCESSING TO EXTRACT A PEDESTRIAN'S MOVING DIRECTION - Disclosed here are methods and systems that relate to determining a moving direction of a mobile device user. The methods and systems relate to using an inertial navigation system such as an accelerometer and gyroscope to aid in the determination of the moving direction of the user. The methods and systems may receive an acceleration reading associated with the mobile device, and determine a step frequency of the user based on the acceleration reading. The methods and systems may determine a theoretical model to fit the acceleration reading, and may determine the moving direction of the user based on the theoretical model. | 01-21-2016 |
20160025765 | CONTROL DEVICE POSITION FEEDBACK WITH ACCELEROMETER - An accelerometer wireless position transducer or sensor is physically coupled to a control device in a process control system and includes an accelerometer that generates a signal based on a position of the control device or its actuator. The transducer converts the accelerometer signal into a wireless signal that includes a value indicative of the actuator position, and causes the wireless position feedback signal to be transmitted over a wireless channel to a valve controller, e.g., by using a short-range wireless protocol. The controller controls the valve based on the value included in the wireless signal. In some configurations, the feedback signal is received at a device paired with the transducer, and the paired device transmits the feedback signal to the controller. The paired device may be paired with multiple transducers and/or sensors, and may transmit various feedback signals to multiple recipient controllers and other devices. | 01-28-2016 |
20160030006 | CHARACTERISTIC-VALUE CALCULATING DEVICE, CHARACTERISTIC-VALUE CALCULATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - [Object] To provide a characteristic-value calculating device, a characteristic-value calculating method, and a recording medium that can extract a characteristic value for more accurately recognizing the state of a moving object, such as a human, from a Doppler signal. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033260 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIGNALS ORIGINATING FROM ONE OR MORE SENSORS, IN PARTICULAR PROXIMITY SENSORS, FOR THE RECOGNITION OF A MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE - The method for processing signals originating for example from several proximity sensors for the recognition of a movement of an object, comprises first respective samplings of the said signals delivered by the sensors so as to obtain a first set of first date-stamped samples, the generation, from the first set of first date-stamped samples, of new sampling times comprising a start of movement time, an end of movement time, and times regularly spaced between the start of movement time and the end of movement time, a re-sampling of the signal delivered by each sensor between the start of movement time and the end of movement time at the said new sampling times using the first samples, in such a manner as to generate a second set of second date-stamped samples, and a processing of the said second set of date-stamped samples by a movement recognition algorithm. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033265 | Determining Quality of a Location-Determination Algorithm Associated with a Mobile Device by Processing a Log of Sensor Data - Methods and systems for evaluating the quality of a location-determination algorithm of a mobile device are described. An example method may involve receiving a log of sensor data that may include sensor values output by given sensors of a mobile device over a time period, and at least one location estimate for at least one respective point in time within the time period. One or more processors may then determine, using the sensor values, an estimated trajectory that includes a plurality of computed ground-truth locations of the mobile device over the time period. Further, the method may involve determining a difference between a given location estimate and a computed ground-truth location of the plurality of computed ground-truth locations. And the method may involve providing an output indicative of whether the determined difference satisfies a predetermined threshold. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033266 | Construction of a Surface of Best GPS Visibility From Passive Traces Using SLAM for Horizontal Localization and GPS Readings and Barometer Readings for Elevation Estimation - A system includes one or more processors, and data storage configured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform functions. In one example, the functions include receiving logs of data, wherein respective data in the received logs of data are collected by one or more sensors of a device over one or more locations and over a time period. In the present example, the functions also include determining location estimates of the device by performing a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) optimization of the location estimates using barometer data and GPS elevational data available in the logs of data, wherein the location estimates indicate elevational locations of the device over the time period. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033276 | MERGING INTENSITIES IN A PHD FILTER BASED ON A SENSOR TRACK ID - In one embodiment, a method of tracking multiple objects with a probabilistic hypothesis density filter is provided. The method includes generating a first intensity by combining a first one or more measurements, wherein a first set of track IDs associated with the first intensity includes track IDs corresponding to respective measurements in the first one or more measurements. A second intensity is generated by combining a second one or more measurements, wherein a second set of track IDs associated with the second intensity includes track IDs corresponding to respective measurements in the second one or more measurements. The first set of track IDs is compared to the second set of track IDs, and the first intensity is selectively merged with the second intensity based on whether any track IDs in the first set of track IDs match any track IDs in the second set of track IDs. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033282 | TWO STEP PRUNING IN A PHD FILTER - In one embodiment, a method of tracking multiple objects with a probabilistic hypothesis density filter is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of intensities. The plurality of intensities are pruned based on their respective weight to remove lower weighted intensities and produce a first set of intensities. Intensities in the first set of intensities that are identified as corresponding to the same object are then merged to produce a second set of intensities. The second set of intensities is then pruned again to produce a final set of intensities, wherein pruning the second set of intensities includes in the final set of intensities, up to a threshold number of intensities having the largest weights in the second set of intensities and excludes from the final set of intensities any remaining intensities in the second set of intensities. | 02-04-2016 |
20160033284 | POSITION CALCULATION METHOD AND POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE - In a position calculation device, an inertial navigation arithmetic unit calculates the position, the velocity, and the posture angle of the device by performing inertial navigation arithmetic using a detection value of an IMU, and a Kalman filter unit presumptively calculates the position, the velocity, the posture angle, or the like of the device by performing Kalman filter processing using an arithmetic result of the inertial navigation arithmetic unit. In addition, a KF initial parameter setting unit sets an initial value of an error covariance matrix which is an error index value used in the Kalman filter processing according to a difference with respect to an environment of the previous use. | 02-04-2016 |
20160047647 | SAFETY MONITORING FOR A SERIAL KINEMATIC SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method for monitoring the safety of a joint ( | 02-18-2016 |
20160047836 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING THE ORIENTATION OF AN APPARATUS - A method, system and computer program for determining the orientation of an apparatus relative to a vehicle in which the apparatus is installed is disclosed. Acceleration data of the apparatus along three mutually orthogonal axes at a first time interval is recorded ( | 02-18-2016 |
20160047878 | COMBINED ORBIT AND ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and methods for calculating an attitude and a position of an object in space are disclosed. Measurements in relation to an object, stars, and a signal timing are received at a combined orbit and attitude determination system to provide received measurements. An estimated separation angle error, an estimated position error, and an estimated attitude error are estimated based upon the received measurements to provide estimated errors. | 02-18-2016 |
20160047891 | HYPERFINE INTERPOLATED RANGE FINDING FOR CW LIDAR, RADAR, and SONAR USING REPEATING WAVEFORMS AND FOURIER TRANSFORM REORDERING - Systems, methods, and devices may enhance the apparent sample rate of data collected using Nyquist sampling from a system, such as Continuous Wave (CW) Light detection and ranging (“Lidar”), Radio detection and ranging (“Radar”), or Sound Navigation and Ranging (“Sonar”), that has been modulated with a repeating waveform, such as linear swept frequency, by reordering of the data in the frequency domain. The enhancement of the apparent sample rate may result in a highly interpolated range profile where the data resolution may be enhanced by a factor equal to the number of repeats in the signal being processed, and may result in a highly detained range measurement with a high precision. The various embodiments may combine data from multiple modulation repeats into a single highly interpolated pulse, which may result in a real-time finer range measurement from CW Lidar, Radar, or Sonar systems. | 02-18-2016 |
20160051342 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING A DENTAL TEMPLATE - A dental template to position an object on a patient's tooth includes digitizing the patient's tooth; adding virtual objects to predetermined locations on the digitized tooth; and fabricating the dental template to locate the object on the patient's tooth. The template can be used for etching or for positioning brackets on teeth. | 02-25-2016 |
20160054146 | SYSTEM OF POWER-SAVING IN MEMS SENSOR APPLICATIONS - A system comprises a plurality of sensors, a sensor processor, and a sampling rate engine. The sensor processor is coupled to an output of each sensor of the plurality of sensors. The sensor processor estimates user dynamics in response to a first output signal of a first sensor of the plurality of sensors. The sampling rate engine is coupled to an output of the sensor processor./ The sampling rate engine determines a sampling rate value of a second sensor of the plurality of sensors in response to a user dynamics value from the sensor processor. The second sensor comprises a selectable sampling rate. The selectable sampling rate is configured in response to the sampling rate value determined by the sampling rate engine. | 02-25-2016 |
20160054197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERRELATION PROFILE ANALYSIS - A method of analyzing a polarization-maintaining (PM) optical fiber includes illuminating a side of the PM optical fiber, physically rotating the PM optical fiber and measuring light intensity of light transmitted through the PM optical fiber to obtain an image profile, mathematically shifting the image profile at incremental rotation angles, expanding the image profile at each rotational angle into a Fourier series profile, and determining points of symmetry of the PM optical fiber based on the Fourier series profiles. | 02-25-2016 |
20160054430 | MULTI-SENSOR TARGET TRACKING USING MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TESTING - Disclosed a multi-sensor multiple hypotheses testing tracking system. The multi-hypothesis testing system associates measurements from multiple sensors with tracks. Measurements are incorporated using a Kalman Filter and the same filters are used to propagate the trajectories of the tracks. | 02-25-2016 |
20160061599 | LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING OF AN OBJECT - This disclosure relates to localization and tracking of an object. As one example, measurement data can be stored in memory to represent measured electrical signals at each of a plurality of known measurement locations in a given coordinate system in response to an applied signal at an unknown location in the given coordinate system. A dipole model cost function has parameters representing a dipole location and moment corresponding to the applied signal. A boundary condition can be imposed on the dipole model cost function. The unknown location in the given coordinate system, corresponding to the dipole location, can then be determined based on the stored measurement data and the dipole model cost function with the boundary condition imposed thereon. | 03-03-2016 |
20160061600 | ADAPTIVE DETECTION OF USER PROXIMITY - This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for implementing adaptive detection of user proximity. These techniques and apparatuses enable a device to detect, via environmental variances, proximity of a user and then trigger functions of the device based on the user proximity. The device may also determine if conditions of an environment caused false detection of an environmental variance, in which case, the environmental variance may be disregarded to prevent false triggering of the device functions. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062252 | Breakdown Analysis of Geometry Induced Overlay and Utilization of Breakdown Analysis for Improved Overlay Control - Systems and methods for providing improved measurements and predictions of geometry induced overlay errors are disclosed. Information regarding variations of overlay errors is obtained and analyzed to improve semiconductor processes as well as lithography patterning. In some embodiments, a cascading analysis process is utilized to breakdown the wafer geometry induced overlay into various components. The breakdown analysis may also be utilized to determine effectiveness factors for the various components, which in turn may improve the prediction accuracy of the impact of wafer geometry on wafer overlay. Furthermore, the measurements and/or predictions of the wafer geometry induced overlay errors may be utilized to provide overlay monitoring and correction solutions. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062949 | Coarse Location Estimation for Mobile Devices - Coarse location estimation for mobile devices is disclosed for detecting mobile device presence at general locations of interest and switching operating modes and services for one or more location context aware applications. In some implementations, sensor data is received from a plurality of data sources at a location. For each data source, a first probability is estimated that the mobile device is at the location based on sensor data from the data sources. A second probability is estimated that the mobile device is not at the location based on sensor data from the data sources. The first and second estimated probabilities are statistically combined to generate a third estimated probability that the mobile device is at the location. | 03-03-2016 |
20160069674 | Underwater Signal Conversion - Various embodiments associated with signal conversion while underwater are described. A source can transmit an alternating current signal with a relatively high frequency over a relatively long distance. The alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency can be converted to an alternating current signal with a relatively low frequency. An example of this conversion can be done by converting the alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency into a direct current signal. The direct current signal can then be converted into the alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency. The alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency can be transmitted from a transmission coil to a pick-up coil. After reception by the pick-up coil the alternating current signal with the relatively low frequency can be processed, such as processed to determine a direction of the source of the alternating current signal with the relatively high frequency. | 03-10-2016 |
20160076883 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING WHETHER A POINT LIES ALONG A CURVE IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE - There is disclosed a computer-implemented method for determining whether a point lies along a first curve in a multidimensional space and program instructions executable for carrying out the method. The method comprises appreciating first curve coordinates defining each of a position and a form of the first curve in the multidimensional space; identifying regions of the multidimensional space each encompassing a respective portion of the first curve while generating a second curve approximating the first curve; and storing, in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, region coordinates of at least one of the regions; whereby an analysis of the region coordinates and point coordinates defining a position of the point in the multidimensional space is executable to provide to a user either an indication that the point lies along the first curve or an indication that the point does not lie along the first curve. Some implementations comprise executing said analysis and providing said indication. | 03-17-2016 |
20160076914 | Absolute Position Measuring System And Method - In a method for determining the absolute position (φ) of a carrier ( | 03-17-2016 |
20160077123 | STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a state determination device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a kinetic state of a moving object existing in a target space; a setting unit configured to set a plurality of subspaces in the space; a storage unit configured to store statistical information of kinetic states of the moving object acquired by the acquisition unit from the respective subspaces set by the setting unit; a model estimation unit configured to estimate a kinetic model of the moving object on the basis of the statistical information stored in the storage unit; and a determination unit configured to determine a state of the moving object by comparing the kinetic states of the moving object acquired by the acquisition unit with the kinetic model estimated by the model estimation unit. | 03-17-2016 |
20160077166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIENTATION PREDICTION - Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting a future orientation of a device. A future motion sensor sample may be predicted using a plurality of motion sensor samples for the device up to a current time. After determining the current orientation of the device, the predicted motion sensor sample may be used to predict a future orientation of the device at one or more times. | 03-17-2016 |
20160084070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIALIZATION OF A WELLBORE SURVEY TOOL - A method and an apparatus are provided for determining an orientation of a tool with respect to a reference direction. The tool is configured to be moved along a wellbore and to generate information usable to determine an orientation of the tool. At least one first signal is indicative of an orientation of a directional reference system with respect to the reference direction. Information regarding a relative orientation of the tool with respect to the directional reference system is used to determine the orientation of the tool with respect to the reference direction in response at least in part to the at least one first signal. | 03-24-2016 |
20160084646 | METHODS FOR INDOOR POSITIONING AND APPARATUSES USING THE SAME - The invention introduces a method for indoor positioning, executed by a processing unit of a first reference node, which contains at least the following steps. Broadcast signals of second reference nodes are listened. Signal measurements of the broadcast signals are obtained. Identification information is obtained from broadcast messages sent by the second reference nodes. A distance associated with each identification information is obtained. A MLM (Machine Learning Model) is updated according to the signal measurements and the distances, where the MLM describes a linear function between signal measurements and distances. | 03-24-2016 |
20160084659 | MAGNETIC FIELD MAPPING AND INDOOR LOCATION SENSING - Aspects of the disclosure relate to location sensing based at least on magnetic measurements within an environment. In certain aspects, the location sensing contemplates several environment and/or operational conditions of an electronic device that conducts the sensing, including soft iron variations, motion characteristic of the device, and/or the elevation of the device. In other aspects, magnetic mappings for the environment can be generated in accordance with one or more of such conditions, and accurate location sensing can be achieved based at least on such mappings and magnetic measurements at a location of the device within the environment. | 03-24-2016 |
20160089566 | SENSOR, MOTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF MOTION MEASUREMENT - A sensor unit includes: a measuring unit; a first buffer which saves measured data measured by the measuring unit when outputting the measured data outside; a second buffer; and an output mode switching unit which switches an output mode for outputting the measured data outside. The output mode includes a real-time mode (first mode) in which the first buffer is overwritten with the measured data if there is no free space in the first buffer, and a buffering mode (second mode) in which the measured data is written in the second buffer if there is no free space in the first buffer and in which the measured data written in the second buffer is transferred to the first buffer if a free space is generated in the first buffer. | 03-31-2016 |
20160091297 | OPERATING DEVICE, OPERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A position at which evaluation of a defect was performed is easily identified. Relative positional relationships between three-dimensional coordinates of feature points of a photographed object and positions of a panoramic camera | 03-31-2016 |
20160091313 | Virtual Gyroscope Using Dual Magnetometers For Electronic Devices - In one example a magnetometer unit comprises logic to receive first magnetic response data from a first magnetic sensor and second magnetic response data from a second magnetic sensor displaced from the first magnetic sensor, generate a composite response surface representation from the first magnetic response data and the second magnetic response data, and store the composite response surface representation in a non-transitory memory. Other examples may be described. | 03-31-2016 |
20160091609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ACCURATE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT VEHICLE LANE DETECTION - Knowledge of the vehicle's lane position is required for several location-based services such as advanced driver assistance systems, driverless cars, and predicting driver's intent, among many other emerging applications. We present LaneQuest: a system and method that leverages the ubiquitous and low-energy inertial sensors available in commodity smart-phones to provide an accurate estimate of the vehicle's current lane. LaneQuest leverages the phone sensors about the surrounding environment to detect the vehicle's lane. For example, a vehicle making a right turn most probably will be in the right-most lane, a vehicle passing by a pothole will be in a specific lane and the vehicle angular velocity when driving through a curve reflects its lane. The ambiguous location, sensors noise, and fuzzy lane anchors; LaneQuest employs a novel probabilistic lane estimation algorithm. Furthermore, it uses an unsupervised crowd-sourcing approach to learn the position and lane span distribution of the different lane-level anchors. | 03-31-2016 |
20160102961 | UNEVEN SURFACE DEFLECTION AND AMPLITUDE MEASUREMENT TOOL - A first aspect of the invention provides an apparatus to indicate an amplitude of an uneven measurement surface. The apparatus may include a frame slidingly supporting a set of pins, each pin including a high point stop and a low point stop; a low point isolator member moveable relative to the frame, the low point isolator member indicating a lowest point of the uneven measurement surface by a respective low point stop of a first; a high point isolator member moveable relative to the frame, the high point isolator member indicating a highest point of the uneven measurement surface by a respective high point stop of a second pin; a low point displacement sensor for identifying a low point displacement; a high point displacement sensor for identifying a high point displacement; and a calculator for calculating a difference between the low point displacement and the high point displacement. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103244 | TANK SENSOR ARRAY FOR INVENTORY SIGNALING IN A TANK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A tank inventory signaling apparatus that has gas cylinder tanks stored on a pad having an array of spots to mark tank placement. Tanks are placed directly over the spots in a grid of rows and columns. Sensors below each spot act as weight or proximity sensors indicating the presence or absence of a tank. The sensors are connected to logic that monitors the state of all sensors. Tank inventory is inferred by changes of state of the sensor grid since it is necessary to change sensor state to remove a tank. Sensor states are reported to a remote server having associated tank management and supply software and route management software. In this manner, local tank usage can be tracked at remote locations for resupply of tanks and delivery of replacement tanks can be optimized. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104103 | GAS CYLINDER COUNTING SYSTEM - A gas cylinder counting apparatus that has bins with aligned parallel rows of industrial gas cylinders stored in a cage having upright posts with gas cylinder movement detectors. Gas cylinders in each bin are separated from each other to form a cylinder array. Proximity sensors attached to posts count cylinder removals by changes of state of the cylinder array and report removal of a cylinder from the bin to a local server. When gas cylinders are removed from other cages, local servers report to a remote server and to the management software for gas cylinder ordering and delivery. | 04-14-2016 |
20160116274 | MOBILITY BASED LOCATION DETERMINATION - A determination as to whether a device is within a region may be based on an accuracy of a determined location of the device and on a mobility status of the device. For example, upon a determination that a device is moving, the device may be removed from candidate devices that may otherwise be determined to be at or within a particular location. In example aspects, a location may be a geographic spatial location, a geofence, a logical fence, or any appropriate combination thereof. | 04-28-2016 |
20160123738 | Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Position Tracker - In an embodiment, a method and system are provided for determining a pedestrian position via dead reckoning on a portable device carried by the pedestrian (or “user”). The device has at least a processor, a 3D accelerometer, and a 3D gyroscope. The 3D accelerometer, and a 3D gyroscope are sampled to calculate device orientation, and then 3D accelerometer samples are gathered during a sensor time frame and an average step frequency is calculated. The user's speed and direction of movement are estimated and a device velocity is calculated relative to a prior device velocity via dead-reckoning. The estimated device velocity is corrected for drift and the pedestrian position is calculated based on the corrected estimated current device velocity. | 05-05-2016 |
20160138913 | DETACHABLE PROTECTIVE COVERINGS AND PROTECTION METHODS - A detachable hazard detection device includes a protective covering configured to detachably couple to an article. A plurality of proximity sensors are coupled to the protective covering. Each of the plurality of proximity sensors is configured to gather proximity information. Electronics are embedded in the protective covering, and the electronics include a controller coupled to the plurality of proximity sensors. The controller is configured to determine a proximity of the article to an object based on the proximity information. The controller is further configured to initiate a notification based on the proximity. | 05-19-2016 |
20160138935 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COLLECTING ACTIVITY DATA VIA A REMOVABLE APPARATUS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for collecting activity data with a removably attached mobile device. The mobile device may be moved to various holders configured to be used in different activities. The data is collected according to a determined activity. The start and end of a session is automatically detected based on connectivity to the holder. Metrics may be tracked for specific gear, as well as various spans of time such as sessions, seasons, and/or lifetimes. Milestones and highlights may be determined for various combinations of the various activities, gear and/or terms. | 05-19-2016 |
20160139244 | DISTANCE OR POSITIION DETERMINATION - A device, method and computer program for determining the distance or position of a camera relative to a light source based on an image of that light source captured by the camera. The device comprises a coded light detection module for detecting a coded light signal modulated into the light from the light source. The coded light detection module is configured to retrieve one or more physical dimensions of the light source based on the coded light signal from that light source. Further, the device comprises an image analysis module configured to determine a distance of the camera from the light source, by performing a geometric perspective calculation to compare the one or more retrieved physical dimensions with one or more apparent dimensions of the image of the light source. | 05-19-2016 |
20160146591 | MOVING AMOUNT ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS MOBILE BODY, AND MOVING AMOUNT ESTIMATING METHOD - A moving amount estimating apparatus includes a position data obtaining unit, an estimating unit, and an evaluating unit. The position data obtaining unit obtains a plurality of position data. The estimating unit estimates a moving amount of a parallel movement and/or a moving amount of a rotational movement of a plurality of moving position data calculated when a first projection object image matches with a moving projection object image, with respect to a plurality of second position data. The evaluating unit evaluates a data moving amount based on a maximum travelling amount, and adopts the data moving amount evaluated as being adequate as a moving amount of a mobile body. | 05-26-2016 |
20160146600 | NOVEL TECHNIQUE OF DISPLACEMENT AND ROTATION MEASUREMENT - A simple and reliable novel method providing the ability to measure the spatial relative displacement and rotation of objects as well as the measurement of the different degrees of freedom of each object (i.e. rotations and translations) relative to an inertial frame. This novel technique relies on the measurement of the center of an energy pattern emanating from a source to a detector. Our technique can be used in diverse applications like remote sensing, as it applies to earth/planetary and geo sciences, oil/gas exploration, and mining, civil, structural, medical engineering, and homeland security & defense, among others. | 05-26-2016 |
20160146613 | ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN CONGESTION - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for providing a measure of pedestrian congestion in a given area. In one embodiment, the method comprises collecting data from a pedestrian moving in the area, and using the data to determine one or more specified parameters representing a pattern of movement of the pedestrian in the area. These specified parameters are used to determine a sinuosity of pedestrian traffic in the given area. In one embodiment, the pattern of movement is a walking pattern of the pedestrian, and the data collected from the pedestrian identifies a multitude of positions of the pedestrian's feet. In an embodiment, the specified parameters include a lateral gap between the feet of the pedestrian, and a length of a stride of the pedestrian. A sequence of values may be collected for each of these parameters. | 05-26-2016 |
20160153777 | MOVEMENT-TRACE SENSING SYSTEM AND MOTION MODEL CONSTRUCTING METHOD BY USING THE SAME | 06-02-2016 |
20160161240 | Use of Comparative Sensor Data to Determine Orientation of Head Relative to Body - Methods and systems are described that involve a wearable computing device or an associated device determining the orientation of a person's head relative to their body. To do so, example methods and systems may compare sensor data from the wearable computing device to corresponding sensor data from a tracking device that is expected to move in a manner that follows the wearer's body, such a mobile phone that is located in the wearable computing device's wearer's pocket. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161301 | Workwear Unit, Bracelet, Connecting Piece, Glove, Sensor Module and Method of Detecting, Documenting, Analyzing, Monitoring and/or Teaching Processes - A workwear unit for detecting, documenting, analyzing, monitoring and/or teaching processes has a portable control system and at least one functional module that detachably connected with the control system. The functional module comprises at least a sensor module and/or a peripheral device. The unit includes at least a glove and/or a bracelet which can be worn on the hand or on the arm and fastens the control system and/or the functional module to the user's body. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161339 | HUMAN MOTION DETECTION - A system configured to collect sensor data and compare the sensor data to a first template profile comprising data indicative of an approach of a user or compare the sensor data to a second template profile comprising data indicative of a departure of a user, or a combination thereof to determine whether the sensor data indicates the approach of a user or a departure of a user. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161592 | Frequency Transformed Radiomap Data Set - It is disclosed to obtain a frequency transformed radiomap data set by applying a discrete frequency transform to an original radiomap data set. It is also disclosed to obtain a reconstructed radiomap data set by applying an inverse discrete frequency transform to a frequency transform to original RMDS transformed radiomap data set. | 06-09-2016 |
20160161606 | VARIATIONAL TRACK MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods are provided for tracking moving objects from a set of measurements. An estimate of a posterior probability distribution for a plurality of track states is determined from an estimate of the posterior probability distribution for a plurality of possible assignments of the set of measurements to a set of tracks representing trajectories of the plurality of moving objects and the set of measurements. A new estimate of the posterior probability distribution for the assignments is determined from the measurements and the estimate of a posterior probability distribution for the track states. A variational lower bound is determined from the new estimate of the posterior probability distribution for the assignments, the estimate of the posterior probability distribution for the track states, and the set of measurements. These steps are iteratively repeated until the variational lower bound is less than a threshold value. | 06-09-2016 |
20160169930 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADAPTIVE DISPLAY AND FILTERING OF SENSORS AND SENSOR DATA | 06-16-2016 |
20160178408 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING POSITIONS OF OBJECTS IN AN ENVIRONMENT | 06-23-2016 |
20160179748 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING WAVEFORM ONSET TIME | 06-23-2016 |
20160180289 | Concepts for Locating Assets Utilizing Light Detection and Ranging | 06-23-2016 |
20160187127 | BLOCKED SENSOR DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION - Systems and techniques are provided for blocked sensor detection and notification. A signal may be received from a sensor. The sensor may be determined to be producing anomalous output based on checking the signal from the sensor against a signal from a second sensor on the same sensor device as the sensor, checking the signal from the sensor against signals from sensors on additional sensor devices, and checking the signal from the sensor against a slow temporal model for the sensor. In response to the determination that the sensor is producing anomalous output, a notification may be generated indicating the sensor is producing anomalous output, and a confidence level in the sensor may be degraded. | 06-30-2016 |
20160187128 | MOBILE DEVICE IN-VEHICLE LOCALIZATION USING INERTIAL SENSORS - A peak angular velocity time, at which a peak value of an angular velocity around a vertical axis of a vehicle occurs while the vehicle is turning, may be determined. A peak lateral acceleration time, at which a peak value of linear acceleration along a lateral axis occurs while the vehicle is turning, also may be determined. The peak angular velocity time and the peak lateral acceleration time may be determined according to input from inertial sensors of a mobile device. The lateral axis may be perpendicular to the vertical axis and perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. A first time difference between the peak angular velocity time and the peak lateral acceleration time may be calculated. Based at least in part on the time difference, it may be determined whether the mobile device is in a front area of the vehicle. | 06-30-2016 |
20160187482 | ENHANCEMENT OF RANGE MEASUREMENT RESOLUTION USING IMAGERY - This invention provides a method for computing hybrid range measurements wherein range measurements of a target are obtained along with at least two images of the target and the location and the orientation of the images. Hybrid range measurements are computed based on the range measurements and the images. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191854 | Deployment Strategy For Sensors With Sensing And Sensed Regions - The invention teaches an effective deployment strategy for sensors based on finding a set-cover solution of computational geometry. The system and methods of the invention teach embodiments to deploy sensors of varying capabilities in a workspace with real-world constraints. Sensor capabilities include having sensing stations and sensed stations with different types of sensors operating simultaneously to provide sensing, network or other types of coverages. Constraints include having range and directional constraints on the sensors, requiring sensing stations to be placed only within certain predetermined regions or locations of the workspace, and having a limited number of a certain type of sensors available. The invention finds a variety of real-world applications including tracking, coverage, and social media. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191855 | Sensor Deployment With Target Regions - The invention teaches an effective deployment strategy for sensors based on finding a set-cover solution of computational geometry. The system and methods of the invention teach embodiments to deploy sensors of varying capabilities in a workspace with real-world constraints. The workspace comprises a set of target regions or cells that are required to be observed. Sensor capabilities include having sensing stations with different types of sensors operating simultaneously to provide sensing, network or other types of coverages. Constraints include having range and directional constraints on the sensors, requiring sensing stations to be placed only within certain predetermined regions or locations of the workspace, and having a limited number of a certain type of sensors available. The invention finds a variety of real-world applications including tracking, coverage, and social media. | 06-30-2016 |
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20160249856 | ENHANCED MOTION TRACKING USING A TRANSPORTABLE INERTIAL SENSOR | 09-01-2016 |
20160252352 | DISCOVERABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF A REFERENCE SENSOR | 09-01-2016 |
20160252438 | METHOD FOR LOCATING IMPACT AREA OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURE BASED ON ENERGY WEIGHTED FACTOR | 09-01-2016 |
20160377429 | AIRBORNE PARTICULATE SOURCE DETECTION SYSTEM - A method comprises receiving data associated with a detection of the odor, the data associated with the detection of the odor comprising a location of the detection of the odor and a time of the detection of the odor, retrieving weather data corresponding to the detection of the odor, the weather data including a wind speed and direction in the location of the detection of the odor at the time of the detection of the odor, calculating a location of the source of the odor as a function of the location of the detection of the odor, the time of the location of the odor and the wind speed and direction in the location of the detection of the odor, and outputting to a user on a display a graphical representation of a likely area that includes the location of the source of the odor. | 12-29-2016 |
20160377430 | AIRBORNE PARTICULATE SOURCE DETECTION SYSTEM - A method comprises receiving data associated with a detection of the odor, the data associated with the detection of the odor comprising a location of the detection of the odor and a time of the detection of the odor, retrieving weather data corresponding to the detection of the odor, the weather data including a wind speed and direction in the location of the detection of the odor at the time of the detection of the odor, calculating a location of the source of the odor as a function of the location of the detection of the odor, the time of the location of the odor and the wind speed and direction in the location of the detection of the odor, and outputting to a user on a display a graphical representation of a likely area that includes the location of the source of the odor. | 12-29-2016 |
20160377438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRID-BASED GEO-FENCING SERVICE - Disclosed are a system and method for a grid-based geo-fencing service. A grid-based geo-fencing service system includes a storage unit configured to store area information including one or more grids and a determination unit configured to receive location coordinates of a moving object and determine whether the moving object is present in an area with reference to the area information. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to effectively reduce the amount of calculation needed by a geo-fencing service system to determine whether location-tracking data corresponds to a specified area and thus effectively respond to the processing of a large amount of location-tracking data collected in real time. | 12-29-2016 |
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