"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."
T. Craven, FCC Commissioner ; 1961
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20110102237 | Fusion Algorithm for Vidar Traffic Surveillance System This invention is related to a fusion algorithm for a video-Doppler-radar (Vidar) traffic surveillance system comprising of (1) a robust matching algorithm which iteratively matches the information from a video camera and multiple Doppler radars corresponding to a same ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110037640 | Object sensing system An object sensing system includes a radar system including at least one aperture through which a radar signal is transmitted and at least one aperture through which reflected radar signals are received. The sensing system also includes a stereo vision system including a... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100328140 | Video-Doppler-Radar Traffic Surveillance System This invention is related to a Video-Doppler-Radar Traffic Surveillance System comprising of multiple Doppler radars and video cameras, circuitry for processing radar and video signals, and data recording and displaying devices. Although the system is mainly designed fo... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100265117 | System and method for imaging objects An active imaging system for imaging a target is described. The system includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, an antenna arrangement coupled to the transmitting unit and/or the receiving unit via a front end unit, and an image processing unit coupled to the rec... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20080198221 | Satellite-receiver equipped video monitoring device A satellite-receiver equipped video monitor primarily comprises a housing, a signal output device, a satellite receiver module and a video camera module, which implements the satellite receiver module to acquire satellite signals and utilizes a software tool to integrat... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080191926 | Threat Detection System An optical detection system for detecting launch of an offensive projectile. The detection system includes an image detector array, an optical arrangement for focusing on to the image detector array, and a processing system associated with the image detector array. The ... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20070171121 | Inter-Vehicle Distance Detecting Device And Inter-Vehicle Distance Detecting Method There are provided an inter-vehicle distance detecting device and an inter-vehicle distance detecting method which can precisely measure an inter-vehicle distance from a user's own vehicle to a neighboring vehicle even if a radar becomes unable to detect the neighboring... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070146195 | Multi-sensor system An avionics system including a radar system being capable of automatically tracking a radar target, an optical image producing system, a radar monitor, an optical image monitor, a decision support unit having a connection to the radar system and to the optical image pro... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070090989 | SYSTEM OF SUBTERRANEAN ANOMALY DETECTION AND REPAIR USING INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY AND GROUND PENETRATING RADAR Method and system to identify, verify and remediate subterranean anomalies. Infrared (IR) thermographic scanning [10] of a selected surface area obtains image area data [12, 14] inferring such an anomaly. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is used [22] ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070080850 | Object detection system and object detection method An object detection system includes a radar detection means (2), an image detection means (3), and a collating means (4). The collating means (4) performs a collation between an object detected by the radar detection means (2) in a pre... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070075892 | Forward direction monitoring device A forward direction monitoring device has a camera to take an image of road condition in front and a back-projection image is generated. A radar part receives reflected waves from objects in front and obtains their relative position data. These relative positions are ma... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070057837 | Detection system, method for detecting objects and computer program therefor A detection system (1) having an optical sensor (3), a radar device (2) and a signal processor (4) communicatively connected with the optical sensor and the radar device. The signal processor comprises: a first detector (41, 410-413... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070035436 | Method to Provide Graphical Representation of Sense Through The Wall (STTW) Targets A method to present easily understood images that represent targets that are detected through walls or other opaque barriers is disclosed. This method is particularly well suited for sense-through-the-wall radar systems. One of the main challenges of evolving STTW syste... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20060227041 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for calibrating image transform parameter, and obstacle detection apparatus A calibration apparatus includes an obstacle detection unit that detects an obstacle on an arbitrary surface in a three-dimensional space in one of a plurality of images obtained by taking an image pickup subject from a plurality of directions, by using a transform para... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060125679 | Image processing system for mounting to a vehicle An image processing system to be mounted to a vehicle includes a radar adapted to measure distance and direction to an object based on reflected electromagnetic waves which are outputted to scan the exterior of the vehicle, an image-taking device such as a camera for ob... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060055584 | Sensor fusion for model-based detection in pipe and cable locator systems Line locator systems that fuse traditional sensors used in a combined pipe and cable locator (electromagnetic coils, magnetometers, and ground penetrating radar antennas) with low cost inertial sensors (accelerometers, gyroscopes) in a model-based approach are presented... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20050270225 | Obstacle recognition system and obstacle recognition method The present invention relates to an obstacle recognition system and an obstacle recognition method. A radar detects existence of an object around a vehicle, an image taking part such as a camera takes an image of the object around the vehicle, a determination threshold ... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050225475 | Monitoring system for land-based navigational and landing systems The present invention relates to a monitoring system for land-based navigational and landing systems. A monitoring system of this type monitors the functions that are carried out by the navigational and landing system, especially the information that is transmitted to t... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050206553 | Object detection apparatus, object detection method, object detection program, and distance sensor An electrophotographic apparatus using a liquid developer of the present invention includes a photosensitive member which holds an electrostatic latent image, a plurality of developing unit which supply liquid developers including toner particles and carrier liquid to t... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050146458 | Vehicular electronics interface module and related methods An interface module for interfacing on-board electronics in a vehicle with a radar device and/or camera. A plurality of data busses are configured for different signaling protocols, such as variable pulse width, pulse width modulated and ISO 9141. A data processor activ... | 07/07/2005 |