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...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127013 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR DETECTING OBJECT OF INTEREST, AND RADAR DEVICE This disclosure provides a radar device, which detects an object of interest from image data produced based on an input signal containing echo signals caused by transmitted signals reflecting on objects. The radar device includes a memory module for storing template ima... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120068876 | Control of an electronic apparatus using micro-impulse radar A computer or entertainment system is configured to respond to data received from a micro impulse radar configured to detect movement, physiology, posture, presence, and/or absence of a person in one or more regions near the computer or entertainment system.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120001767 | WARNING HORN CONTROL SYSTEM, RADAR SYSTEM, AND METHOD There is provided a radar system that includes an emitter system (e.g., an antenna), configured to emit electromagnetic pulses and detect electromagnetic pulses, and a reflection target, placed opposite the emitter system. The emitter system and the reflection target de... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316733 | Method and Apparatus for Locating a Golf Ball with Doppler Radar A method comprises transmitting a radar signal into an target area, receiving reflected portions of the radar signal from the target area, and processing the reflected portions of the radar signal. The step of processing comprises windowing analog signals representative... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110285571 | SENSOR AND ALIGNMENT ADJUSTING METHOD Disclosed is alignment adjustment technology for a sensor, and more particularly a sensor having an antenna structure of a specific form, which enables the alignment of the sensor to be simply and accurately adjusted even without a separate mechanical adjustment device ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110273320 | RADIOMETRIC IMAGING DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING METHOD The present invention relates to a radiometric imaging device and a corresponding method for scanning a scene. The proposed device comprises a radiometer for detecting radiation emitted in a predetermined spectral range from a spot of said scene and for generating a rad... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110273321 | Method and System for Tracking Objects Using Radio Tomographic Imaging New systems and methodologies that use radio tomography for object tracking.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110260907 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A BIRD OR A FLYING OBJECT A method detects a bird or an object flying level with a single wind turbine, using a device for radio wave detection of at least one bird or another flying object, in the form of at least one radar. The analog image from each radar is transformed into a digital image a... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110260906 | PULSE RADAR DEVICE A radiation type oscillator including a radiation type oscillator substrate including a microwave transistor for generating negative resistance by short-duration operation and a resonant cavity structure; a high-frequency pulse signal of an oscillation frequency/frequen... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110240750 | PERSON-SENSITIVE SENSOR AND AIR CONDITIONER PROVIDED WITH THE SAME In one embodiment, a person-sensitive sensor is provided. The person-sensitive sensor has a Doppler sensor module, a storage unit, a signal intensity comparison unit, a variance value comparison unit and a presumption unit. The storage unit stores signal intensities of ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110241924 | PROJECTION DETECTING APPARATUS AND PROJECTION DETECTING METHOD A projection detecting apparatus according to the present invention is that for detecting a projection on a surface of a running metal object, and includes a transmission antenna for radiating electromagnetic waves; a reception antenna for receiving reflected electromag... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110199251 | RADIO WAVE SENSOR The object of the present invention is to provide a low power consumption, compact radio wave sensor capable of accurately detecting the presence and mobile status of a detected object present within a detection area, and having a superior S/N ratio. The radio wave sens... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193738 | Radar for Aerial Target Detection Fitted to an Aircraft Notably for the Avoidance of Obstacles in Flight A radar being carried by an aircraft includes means for transmitting an RF wave towards a target, said wave having a double form, a first waveform being composed of at least two sinusoids of different frequencies transmitted simultaneously, the radar comprising receptio... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187579 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEPTION, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING TARGET OBJECT This disclosure provides a transmission device, which includes a signal generating module for generating two or more kinds of pulse-shaped signals of mutually different pulse widths, and an antenna for emitting the pulse-shaped signals to the exterior. For the two or mo... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187578 | Conductive line communication apparatus and conductive line radar system and method A conductive line radar comprising at least one signal surface wave launcher, which comprises a signal surface wave transceiver, which is physically attached to a power line. The signal surface wave transceiver transmits a wave signal along the power line with another s... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181455 | CLUTTER REDUCTION IN DETECTION SYSTEMS The present invention relates to a system (300) for reducing or cancelling unwanted signals when detecting objects of interest with a detection system (200). The detection system thereby is an antenna based system using two or more receive beams as echo re... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110163906 | RADAR APPARATUS, ANTENNA APPARATUS, AND DATA ACQUISITION METHOD A radar apparatus, an antenna apparatus, and a data acquisition method are provided, which can reduce the size of a radar apparatus as well as maintaining angular resolution.... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110166940 | Micro-impulse radar detection of a human demographic and delivery of targeted media content A micro-impulse radar (MIR) may be configured to provide information about at least one person in a region. A media output device may be driven responsive to the information to output media content to the at least one person.... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110148689 | PASSIVE RADAR FOR PRESENCE AND MOTION DETECTION A passive detector (10) includes a receiver (11) configured to collect passive radiation (12) in an environment, where detailed information about a portion of the passive radiation is estimated as a baseline of the passive energy. The passive energy... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148687 | ADJUSTABLE ANTENNA A device includes a compressible conductive element including a first end and a second end, and an adjustment element coupled to the compressible conductive element, the adjustment element configured to adjust the compressible conductive element to a state of compressio... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110095936 | WIRELESS SENSOR APPARATUS A wireless sensor apparatus controls, in a case where wireless waves are radiated by feeding pulse signals generated by a signal generation circuit to antennas, an operation timing of the signal generation circuit and a path from the signal generation circuit to the ant... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110084869 | Multiple Beam Directed Energy System A method and apparatus for transmitting beams of electromagnetic energy. A plurality of beams having a first number of frequencies and a number of beams having a second number of frequencies are transmitted. The plurality of beams and the number of beams overlap each ot... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110068969 | PULSE DOPPLER COHERENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SNR ENHANCEMENT A method and system for SNR enhancement in pulse-Doppler coherent target detection. In accordance with the method of the invention, complex signals are obtained for each of two or more sub-intervals of the time-on-target interval, allowing simultaneous range and Doppler... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110063158 | Array antenna apparatus and radar apparatus An array antenna apparatus includes a transmission-array-antenna including transmission-antenna-elements, a transmission-side directivity control unit controlling a directivity of the transmission-array-antenna by controlling phases of at least part of the transmission-... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110050481 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, RADAR DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM A signal processing device performs object detection processing in which peak signals each representing a differential frequency between a transmitted signal in which a frequency thereof changes in a predetermined cycle and a received signal are derived in a first perio... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110050480 | Method and Device For The Spatially Resolved Detection and Reconstruction of Objects By Means of Microwaves A method and a device for the spatially resolved detection and reconstruction of objects using microwaves is described, in which at least one object to be detected is subjected to microwaves that are generated by a plurality of microwave antennas and microwave fractions... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100328137 | LOCATING DEVICE The invention relates to a locating device, in particular a hand-guided locating device, with a locating unit (36) for detecting the presence of an object (16, 18) arranged in an examination object (14) by means of an examination signal (38),... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100271254 | ELECTRONIC SCANNING TYPE RADAR DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD OF DIRECTION OF RECEPTION WAVE, AND PROGRAM ESTIMATING DIRECTION OF RECEPTION WAVE An electronic scanning type radar device mounted on a moving body includes: a transmission unit transmitting a transmission wave; a reception unit comprising a plurality of antennas receiving a reflection wave of the transmission wave from a target; a beat signal genera... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271255 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING AN EVIDENCE GRID TO ELIMINATE AMBIGUITIES IN AN INTERFEROMETRIC RADAR A system includes an Interferometric radar that transmits a first detection signal over a first spatial region and a second detection signal over a second spatial region. The second region has a first sub-region in common with the first region. The system further includ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100265119 | 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... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100265118 | SENSOR FOR PARKING AREA A proximity sensor for a parking area designed to detect the presence of an obstacle constituted by a parked vehicle, comprises a transmitting radar, designed to send electromagnetic pulses towards the obstacle, a receiving radar, designed to receive the pulses reflecte... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100201561 | GONIOMETRIC SYSTEM COMPRISING NETWORKS OF MINI DOPPLER SENSORS FOR PERIMETER SURVEILLANCE The present invention relates to the detection of intruders (human beings, vehicles or animals) in a protected zone and the departure of individuals from this zone. One or more embodiment of the invention relates to a device which includes a plurality of individual stan... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100164780 | EVENT DETECTING APPARATUS An event detecting apparatus capable of high-precision detection of an event even by use of a narrow-band signal comprises: a plurality of antennas 21 that receive radio waves transmitted from a transmitter, a correlation matrix operation unit 22 that expr... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100141503 | SENSING/EMITTING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD A number of apparatuses are provided, for sensing and/or emitting energy along one or more desired apparatus line of sights (LOS) with respect to the respective apparatus. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus includes an assembly that is rotatably mounted on a base... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100090880 | OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS An object detecting apparatus including: an object detecting device that causes electromagnetic waves to be reflected from an object and receives the reflected waves to detect the object while scanning a predetermined scan range; a rotating device that changes a directi... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100018830 | MACHINE TOOL MONITORING DEVICE The invention relates to a machine tool monitoring device. It is proposed that the machine tool monitoring device comprises at least one signal unit for an ultra wide band operation.... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090303099 | Method for the Detection of Surroundings A method for the detection of surroundings is performed using a source which emits pulsed signals. Signals backscattered from an object are detected by a sensor. When performing the method, a presence of the object is detected during coarse sampling. To determine a vari... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090295619 | Object Detection An object is detected by generating a binary signal having an irregular sequence of states and in which transitions between states occur at varying time offsets with respect to a nominal regular clock. The binary signal is transmitted, and a reflection of the transmitte... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090251355 | AUTOMOTIVE DRIVE ASSIST SYSTEM WITH SENSOR FUSION OF RADAR AND CAMERA AND PROBABILITY ESTIMATION OF OBJECT EXISTENCE FOR VARYING A THRESHOLD IN THE RADAR An ACC system (1) includes: a millimeter radar (10); a stereo camera (11); a preceding vehicle recognition ECU (20) that determines object type information indicating the detection status of these components; and a cruise control ECU (30 | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090219188 | METHOD FOR OPERATION OF A RADAR SENSOR A method for close-proximity operation of a radar sensor for the generation of a usable detection field, for the recognition of people and/or stationary objects by an antenna, whereby the detection field can be altered or adjusted electronically.... | 09/03/2009 |
