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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157664 | Assist device A gripping assist device is removably attachable to the forearm of a user. The assist device has a sleeve with an opening sized to receive a handle or grip of an item. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8144833 | Planning for adaptive radiotherapy The present invention provides a method for updating and optimizing a treatment plan for radiotherapy. An initial treatment plan, calculated using a constraint-driven method, may be updated using a weighted-sum method, where Lagrange multipliers generated in the con... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140744 | Method and system for increasing data storage reliability and efficiency via compression A method and a system is provided for increasing reliability of data stored in storage segments by increasing redundancy data and by permitting user data to fit around defective locations in the storage segment. User data is compressed and reserved for a portion of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8068664 | Component sensor for pick and place machine using improved shadow imaging A method of sensing a component held by a nozzle of a pick and place machine is provided. The method includes engaging a source of illumination and recording a reference background image when no component is held by the nozzle. Then, a component is adhered to the no... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7959787 | Method of generating sparged, electrochemically activated liquid A method is provided, which includes generating a cleaning liquid by a combination of a sparging process and an electrochemical process that produces an anolyte and a catholye. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959399 | End effector with collision detection sensor In a robotic assembly, a body adapted for mounting on an arm is provided. A connection is adapted to couple the body and an end effector to allow deflection of the end effector with respect to the body between an open position and a closed position. A conduit allows... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941418 | Dynamic corpus generation A computer-implemented method of generating a dynamic corpus includes generating web threads, based upon corresponding sets of words dequeued from a word queue, to obtain web thread resulting URLs. The web thread resulting URLs are enqueued in a URL queue. Multiple ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7676365 | Method and apparatus for constructing and using syllable-like unit language models A method and computer-readable medium use syllable-like units (SLUs) to decode a pronunciation into a phonetic description. The syllable-like units are generally larger than a single phoneme but smaller than a word. The present invention provides a means for definin... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7665007 | Retrial and reread methods and apparatus for recording channels A method of reading a data block from a sector of a recording media is described. The data block from the sector of the recording channel is decoded with an ECC decoder (first trial). The data block is re-decoded (second trial) using an adjusted timing recovery bloc... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7601065 | System and method for playing a game A system for playing a game comprises a game unit and a number of mobile terminals which can communicate with the game unit. The game unit is arranged for sending a game code to one or more mobile terminals, and the mobile terminals are arranged for sending at least... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7598743 | Battery maintenance device having databus connection An electronic battery tester or charger for use with a storage battery includes a first and a second electrical connector configured to electrically couple to terminals of the storage battery. Circuitry operates on the storage battery. OBD communication circuitry is... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7536625 | Maintaining data integrity in a data storage system A method of recovering data on a storage medium is provided. A first error correction scheme is performed on a high risk region of the storage medium. A second error correction scheme is performed on a remaining portion of the storage medium. ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7399976 | Method and equipment for discriminating materials by employing fast neutron and continuous spectral x-ray Disclosed is a method of discriminating materials by employing fast neutron and continuous spectral X-ray and an equipment for the same. The method comprising the steps of: (a) transmitting a fast neutron beam produced by a fast neutron source and a continuous spect... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7376551 | Definition extraction A method of identifying definitions in documents includes receiving text units as an input. Which of the text units includes a cue phrase is then identified. For text units identified as including a cue phrase, localized parsing is performed around the cue phrase to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7343232 | Vehicle control system including related methods and components Embodiments are disclosed for a vehicle control system and related sub-components that together provide an operator with a plurality of specific modes of operation, wherein various modes of operation incorporate different levels of autonomous control. Through a cont... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7239267 | Microwave sealing for radar level gauges A radar level gauge system is disclosed, having a transmitter for transmitting measuring signals towards the surface of the filling material, a receiver for receiving echo signals from said surface and a fastening structure adapted to secure said transmitter and rec... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7110000 | Synthesis of progressively-variant textures and application to arbitrary surfaces Methods for synthesizing progressively-variant textures based on texton masks are provided. A first method creates a synthesized texture image guided by a sample texture, first texton mask corresponding to the sample texture and a second texton mask modified based o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7003803 | Shin-guard, helmet, and articles of protective equipment including light cure material The present invention teaches articles of apparel and protective equipment including light-cure materials having a permanent memory capability. Accordingly, the present invention can be used to make shin guards, knee pads, thigh pads, hip pads, rib guards, shoulder ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6972712 | Near zone detection in radar level gauge system A method for processing a time domain reflectometry (TDR) signal used to determine at least one process variable for a material in a tank, wherein said TDR signal has been generated by a radar level gauge system comprising a pulse generator, a probe extending into t... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6504362 | Process of measuring slide-reading of abutted-junction read heads Side-reading of an abutted-junction magnetic transducer is measured by constructing at least one microtrack having a transition density. The transducer is moved relative to the microtrack to identify a plurality of positions of the transducer relative to ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6486626 | Apparatus and a method for controlling an electric vehicle Control apparatus for an electric vehicle is described, the control apparatus comprising input means operable to generate a first signal indicative of a component of a desired motion of the vehicle and a second signal independently indicative of said comp... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6478345 | Multi point bolting mechanism A mechanism for providing a multi point bolting action to secure a door or other leaf movable within a frame is disclosed. The mechanism comprises a drive gear and an axle gear mounted to rotate about substantially the same axis. The idle gear is arranged... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6323650 | Electronic battery tester An electronic battery tester includes a calibration interface. A microprocessor is configured to calibrate the battery tester by coupling to a calibrator through the calibration interface.... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6221477 | Material and process for producing the same A material is disclosed which produced by a process in which a mold is filled of deformable shaped bodies, after which the mold is filled with a base material. The bodies are removed and the solidified base material forms a material of shell-like structur... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6216094 | Method of and apparatus for analyzing a signal A method of analyzing a signal representing a physical parameter to obtain information from said signal and to extrapolate information contained in said signal and/or to ignore an interfering component in part of said signal, said signal representing eith... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6180060 | Analyzer transport device A sample transport device for use in analyzing samples by the headspace analysis technique. The device has a cylindrical platen with counterbored chambers for accepting sample vials. The platen is heated and caused to rotate from a first vial transport po... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6101458 | Automatic ranging apparatus and method for precise integrated circuit current measurements A computer-based test method and apparatus for measuring DC current drawn by an integrated circuit. The apparatus has a plurality of current measurement ranges and is first initialized to a selected one of the measurement ranges. Next, the apparatus measu... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6070259 | Dynamic logic element having non-invasive scan chain insertion A scannable dynamic logic element includes a clock input, a test enable input, a data output, a precharge circuit, a boolean pull-down circuit and a test scan pull-down circuit. The precharge circuit is coupled between a first supply terminal and the data... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6005413 | 5V tolerant PCI I/O buffer on 2.5V technology A tri-state input-output (I/O) buffer which includes a core terminal, a pad terminal and an enable terminal. A pad pull-down transistor and pad pull-up transistor are coupled to the pad terminal and have pull-up and pull-down control terminals, respective... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5975513 | Vise with workpiece hold down force A vise has a fixed jaw mounted stationarily relative to a vise body. A movable jaw is supported on side rails that have upper way surfaces. A jaw nut that exerts a downward force on the movable jaw operated to move the movable jaw along the way surfaces. ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5695590 | Anodic bonding method for making pressure sensor A pedestal mount capacitive pressure sensor (10) is supported in a housing (11) and used to sense fluid pressures to provide air pressure data relating to the performance of air vehicles. The capacitive sensor uses a thick base plate (40) on which a diaph... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5695245 | Orthotic seat A modular orthotic seat is made up of individual shells or modules that are adjustably connected together for accommodating changes in size of the user. The modules include a pelvic module for support of the thighs, pelvis and sacrum, a thoracic module fo... | 12/09/1997 |
