| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 073384000 | BAROMETER (E.G., ALTIMETER) | 24 |
| 20080202234 | SELF-CALIBRATING BAROMETER - Methods and systems for adjusting a pressure value to account for an altitude-induced pressure effect. One method includes determining an average pressure value experienced at a first altitude, determining a ratio based on the average pressure value and a reference pressure value, determining a current pressure value experienced at the first altitude, and adjusting the current pressure value based on the ratio to obtain an altitude-adjusted pressure value. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080289415 | Calibration method and apparatus for a mobile device - The invention relates to a method and a mobile device. In accordance with the method—pressure data is measured, the pressure data is used as atmospheric-pressure data and/or for the definition of altitude, and the magnetic field of the Earth is measured by a magnetic sensor ( | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090217754 | BAROMETRIC-PRESSURE-SENSOR DEVICE WITH ALTIMETER FUNCTION AND ALTIMETER-SETTING FUNCTION - A barometric-pressure-sensor device for a portable electronic device, having a pressure sensor of a MEMS type designed to supply a barometric-pressure measurement, and with a processing circuit coupled to the pressure sensor that is designed to supply an altitude measurement as a function of the barometric-pressure measurement. The pressure sensor and the processing circuit are integrated in a single chip, and the processing circuit is a dedicated circuit of a purely hardware type. The processing circuit executes altimeter-setting operations through a plurality of reference registers containing respective pressure references. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20100170337 | BAROMETRIC PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The invention relates to a device and method for measuring atmospheric pressure and processing atmospheric-pressure information. The invention is based on the idea that the atmospheric pressure is measured at several moments in time, the atmospheric-pressure data is stored in a memory and, and the measured atmospheric-pressure data is displayed on a display unit with the aid of special atmospheric-pressure indicators ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100212421 | WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEM - The invention consists of a barometric pressure sensor, coupled to a processor for recording changes in the pressure over time, this is coupled to a GPS device providing an accurate measurement of the altitude which allows for the barometric pressure measurements to be normalized, typically to mean sea level. Once the measurements have been normalized the effects of the vertical motion of the sensor are effectively removed and the resulting trend shows the absolute atmospheric pressure which can then be used for weather prediction. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110247412 | BAROMETER - A barometer which is rotatable and a method of using a barometer which is rotatable is presented comprising a barometer tube retaining barometric fluid that is shorter than that required by non-rotatable barometers. The provision of a rotatable barometer allows the use of a barometric fluid of a density lower than that of mercury to be used, thereby enabling the use of mercury to be avoided. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20120118060 | HEAT CONDUCTION-TYPE BAROMETRIC SENSOR UTILIZING THERMAL EXCITATION - A heat conduction type barometric sensor has high sensitivity and high accuracy that has simple structure and circuit configuration and can measure a barometric pressure in the range of a very low barometric pressure to ≧1 atm using one sensor chip. The sensor includes a cantilever-shaped thin film provided with a thin-film temperature sensor, a heating element, and an excitation element. The excitation element utilizes warpage and bending based on a difference in thermal expansion between two main layers constituting the thin film during intermittent heating by a thin-film heater as the heating element. The two main layers are a silicon layer and a thermally oxidized film of silicon which are significantly different from each other in the coefficient of thermal expansion. A circuit in which the sensitivity is enhanced by the integration of a seebeck current for a predetermined period of time can be also provided. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120152018 | ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ESTIMATION METHOD AND ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ESTIMATION DEVICE - An atmospheric pressure estimation method is disclosed. The method includes: controlling an oscillation frequency of a predetermined oscillator to match an oscillation frequency of an atmospheric pressure measurement oscillator; detecting a phase difference between an oscillation signal of the predetermined oscillator and an oscillation signal of the atmospheric pressure measurement oscillator; and estimating atmospheric pressure using the oscillation frequency of the predetermined oscillator and the phase difference. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120285242 | ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE TENDENCY INFORMING APPARATUS AND ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE TENDENCY INFORMING METHOD - An atmospheric pressure tendency informing apparatus and atmospheric pressure tendency informing method inform atmospheric pressure tendency. In one implementation, the atmospheric pressure tendency informing apparatus includes: an informing section, an atmospheric pressure measuring section, an atmospheric pressure inflection point judging section and an informing control section. The atmospheric pressure inflection point judging section judges whether there is an inflection point of atmospheric pressure, based on atmospheric pressure values of at least three points of time including an atmospheric pressure value measured at present. The informing control section controls the informing section to inform the inflection point of atmospheric pressure as the atmospheric pressure tendency based on a judgment result when the atmospheric pressure inflection point judging section judges there is an inflection point of atmospheric pressure. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20140157892 | MEMS ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A MEMS element includes a substrate and a plurality of resonators which are formed above a first surface of the substrate, the substrate includes at least one flexible portion and at least one non-flexible portion, and resonators corresponding to the flexible portion and the non-flexible portion are disposed. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140157893 | MEMS ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A MEMS element includes a substrate which includes a flexible portion, a fixation electrode which is provided on a principal surface of the substrate, and a movable electrode which includes a movable portion which is separated from the fixation electrode, overlaps with at least a portion of the fixation electrode in a plan view of the principal surface, and is driven in a direction intersecting the principal surface, and a fixation end connected to the principal surface. The fixation electrode and the movable electrode is disposed to correspond to the flexible portion. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140174175 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ALTITUDE OF TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for measuring an altitude of a terminal which can correct an altitude error according to temporal and spatial changes are provided. The apparatus includes an atmospheric pressure measuring unit for measuring an atmospheric pressure from a barometer included in the terminal, a position determiner for measuring position information of the terminal, and a controller for, when a reference atmospheric pressure reception period is not generated, predicting a current reference atmospheric pressure by using previously received reference atmospheric pressures and measuring a current altitude by using the predicted reference atmospheric pressure and the measured atmospheric pressure. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140196539 | INTERCHANGEABLE CASES FOR BIOMETRIC MONITORING DEVICES - A biometric monitoring device and multiple carrying cases for same are provided. In some implementations, the case may be made from a flexible viscoelastic material and the biometric monitoring device may be slipped into a receptacle in the case through an opening in the case; the opening may become distended during the insertion of the biometric monitoring device. In some implementations, the case may feature a display window that, in combination with materials of the biometric monitoring device, may mask a display of the biometric monitoring device from view when the display is off and may allow the display to be seen when the display is displaying content. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140260606 | Recording Barometer Horological Complication - An improved system for the recording and display of barometric pressure information, comprising a timekeeper, barometric sensor, memory system, and display, integrated to form an instrument or horological complication for the display of the current barometric pressure and past pressure history by use of an animated display. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140311241 | MEMS PRESSURE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A MEMS pressure sensor includes a diaphragm portion that becomes displaced according to a pressure, and a resonator arranged on a main surface of the diaphragm portion. The resonator includes: a first fixed electrode provided on the main surface; and a drive electrode having a second fixed electrode provided on the main surface, a movable electrode spaced apart from the first fixed electrode, overlapping with the first fixed electrode, as viewed in a plan view seen from a normal direction to the main surface, and driven in a direction that intersects the main surface, and a supporting electrode supporting the movable electrode and connected to the second fixed electrode. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150122018 | FITNESS MONITORING DEVICE WITH ALTIMETER AND GESTURE RECOGNITION - 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. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150292885 | BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER AND BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER FOR INDOOR USE - There is provided a barometric altimeter to detect a floor number at the current position in especially a high-rise building, and to calculate a height or a floor number more precisely. To this end, a barometric altimeter ( | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150369682 | Physical Quantity Sensor Apparatus, Altimeter, Electronic Apparatus, And Moving Object - A physical quantity sensor apparatus includes a physical quantity sensor including a flexurally deformable diaphragm including a pressure receiving surface and a temperature sensor disposed on the pressure receiving surface side of the diaphragm to be spaced apart from the diaphragm. The pressure sensor includes a hollow section, which is a pressure reference chamber, on a surface side opposite to the pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160091309 | DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING CHANGE IN VERTICAL DIRECTION BY USING AIR PRESSURE MEASUREMENT VALUE - An identifying device includes a vertical direction speed calculation unit configured to calculate a speed in a vertical direction of an air pressure measurement unit from an air pressure value measured by the air pressure measurement unit, the vertical direction speed determination unit configured to determine a magnitude of the speed in the vertical direction, a vertical direction continuous distance calculation unit configured to calculate a continuous distance of movement in the vertical direction based on the speed in the vertical direction calculated by the vertical direction speed calculation unit and the determination result of the vertical direction speed determination unit, and a vertical direction movement determination unit configured to determining whether the air pressure measurement unit is moving in the vertical direction or not in accordance with whether or not the vertical direction continuous distance is more than a predetermined threshold value. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160138989 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR, PRESSURE SENSOR, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate, a piezoelectric resistive element that is disposed on one surface side of the substrate, a wall portion that is disposed on the one surface side of the substrate so as to surround the piezoelectric resistive element in a plan view of the substrate, and a ceiling portion that is disposed on an opposite side to the substrate with respect to the wall portion and forms a cavity along with the wall portion, in which an inner circumferential edge of an end portion of the wall portion on an opposite side to the substrate includes curved portions which are curved in the plan view. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160153856 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR, PRESSURE SENSOR, VIBRATOR, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160195445 | MICROBAROMETER WITH A BELLOWS AND WITH AN INTERFEROMETRIC TRANSDUCER | 07-07-2016 |
| 073386000 | Aneroid | 2 |
| 20140373624 | PORTABLE OBJECT PROVIDED WITH A DEVICE FOR MEASURING ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE - Portable object provided with a mechanism for measuring atmospheric pressure, the atmospheric pressure measuring mechanism including an atmospheric pressure sensor whose geometric dimensions vary with atmospheric pressure fluctuations, the variations in the geometric dimensions of the atmospheric pressure sensor being applied to a device displaying a barometric tendency connected to the atmospheric pressure sensor via a coupling mechanism actuated by a user, the coupling mechanism being capable of being switched between a first position, in which the kinematic connection between the atmospheric pressure sensor and the barometric tendency display device is interrupted, and a second position in which the barometric tendency display device is kinematically coupled to the atmospheric pressure sensor. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150090029 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR, PRESSURE SENSOR, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A physical quantity sensor includes: a substrate that has a diaphragm section that is deformed to be deflected by receiving a pressure; a fixed electrode that is provided in the diaphragm section; and a movable electrode that has a movable section that is away from the fixed electrode and is disposed opposite to the fixed electrode, in which a shape of the diaphragm section in a plan view is a longitudinal shape extended in a predetermined direction, and in which a shape of the fixed electrode in a plan view is a longitudinal shape extending along a predetermined direction. | 04-02-2015 |
