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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120106298 | GESTURE RECOGNITION APPPARATUS AND METHOD The disclosure provides a gesture recognition apparatus and method. The gesture recognition apparatus includes an ultrasound transmitter, an ultrasound receiver, a dividing module, a computing module, a gesture library, and a recognition module. The dividing module is c... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120020187 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a plurality of vibration elements (1) that transmit and receive an ultrasonic beam; a plurality of transmission circuits (2) that are connected to the respective vibration elements and output a transmission driv... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013498 | EXPANDABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE INSTRUMENT NODE ARRAYS An expandable and reconfigurable instrument node includes a feature detection means and a data processing portion in communication with the feature detection means, the data processing portion configured and disposed to process feature information. The instrument node f... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110311944 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OBJECT The present invention relates generally to a system and method for measuring the structural characteristics of an object. The object is subjected to an energy application processes and provides an objective, quantitative measurement of structural characteristics of an o... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110292201 | UNDERWATER SCOUTING CAMERA An underwater scouting camera comprising: an outer cover, a door, a memory storage, a battery, and an internal housing which includes a flash, a shutter, a display frame, and a sonar sensor. When the sonar sensor emits a pulse in order to detect any fish, upon detection... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110273962 | Transducer Array Arrangement and Operation for Sodar Applications An array of transducers for a sodar system, and the operation of the array in a monostatic sodar system. The array is made up of a number of individual sound transducers. Each transducer emits sound into the atmosphere and senses emitted sound that has been reflected by... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110242305 | Immersive Multimedia Terminal Various embodiments of the present invention teach an advantageous means of conducting and controlling multimedia communication. Real-world communication involving sight, sound and body language is fully supported, without requiring that the user wear or touch any speci... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110213234 | System and method for using orthogonally-coded active source signals for reflected signal analysis A system and method for using orthogonally-coded active source signals for reflected signal analysis, such as in seismic exploration, sonar, and/or ultrasound applications. One method comprises inputting an orthogonally-coded active source signal to a target site, where... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110202302 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN HUMAN BEING AND ANIMAL USING SELECTIVE STIMULI An apparatus and method for identifying a human being and an animal are disclosed to properly identifying whether or not a target is a human being or an animal. The apparatus for distinguishing between a human being and an animal includes: a target stimulation unit gene... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110196568 | VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS Safety systems and methods are provided for use in a vehicle with a closure that defines a pivoting range when open. The safety system includes a sensor configured to collect data associated with an object in a target zone at least partially surrounding the vehicle; and... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110176388 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY The patent application describes a switching power supply, wherein the supply has a first output voltage, wherein the first output voltage was generated by a first working voltage with a first frequency and a first phase, wherein the supply is adapted to configure the f... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110160582 | WIRELESS ULTRASONIC SCANNING SYSTEM A wireless ultrasonic scanning system comprises an ultrasonic sensor, a motor, an ultrasonic transceiver, a high-speed data sampling module, a motor controller and a master control module. The ultrasonic sensor, which moves in accordance with control of the motor contro... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110149688 | Conduit Monitoring A method for monitoring a fluid carrying conduit by introducing an acoustic pulse into the conduit, and interrogating an optic fibre positioned along the path of said conduit to provide distributed acoustic sensing. By measuring the response at each of a plurality of lo... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110096629 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL GENERATION SYSTEM USING MOVING REFLECTING SURFACE An acoustic signal generation system may include a cylindrical-like object having a cylindrical-like surface which is configured to reflect an acoustic signal directed to a location on the surface in substantially different directions as the cylindrical-like object is r... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110063950 | VIBRATION GENERATION AND DETECTION IN SHEAR WAVE DISPERSION ULTRASOUND VIBROMETRY WITH LARGE BACKGROUND MOTIONS A method for measuring a mechanical property of a subject includes using an ultrasonic transducer to apply ultrasonic vibration pulses to a vibration origin in the subject in an on-off time sequence in order to impart a harmonic motion at a prescribed frequency to the s... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110052495 | USE OF FULLERENES IN PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING Fullerenes, when irradiated with electromagnetic radiation, generate acoustic waves. A photoacoustic tomography method using a material comprising fullerenes is disclosed that includes irradiating the material with a radiation beam such as a laser. The resultant photoac... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110051554 | INSONIFICATION DEVICE THAT INCLUDES A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK OF EMITTERS ARRANGED IN AT LEAST TWO CONCENTRIC SPIRALS, WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO GENERATE A BEAM OF HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSSED WAVES The invention concerns a device (1) for the insonification of an environment or medium, which is designed to generate a beam of focussed waves around a point in a so-called focus zone (20), used for imaging the medium or changing the properties of the medi... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044133 | ULTRASOUND APPARATUS A storage unit (106) stores pieces of information regarding intensities of ultrasound waves detected by multiple oscillators (101) in time series. The multiple oscillators (101) receives an ultrasound wave reflected on an object (107), to whi... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110005374 | Restraint Device For Use in an Aquatic Environment A method and device for impeding the progress of a swimmer or a diver included a plurality of tendrils that can be launched into the path of a target and entangle the target.... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002191 | Active sonar apparatuses and methods An active sonar detection system may include a transmitter, which may project into the transmissive medium signals of any frequency, amplitude or phase using one or more transducers. A transmit beamformer to provide transmission directionality may also be included. Gene... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100322033 | MAST-MOUNTED SONAR The present invention relates to a sonar surveillance system for coastal protection and port surveillance comprising: an anchoring structure; a support mast designed to be mounted on the structure and arranged on the latter so as to adopt a substantially vertical positi... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100307251 | Detailfunction Based Measurement Methods and apparatuses for finding, extracting and for providing of echoes with detail functions are described. In particular, an echo extraction method for extracting an echo from an echo function is described. The method comprises receiving the echo function and deco... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100290314 | Process measurement instrument with target rejection A process measurement instrument with target rejection comprises a sensor circuit. The sensor circuit comprises a drive circuit for transmitting a pulse signal at a target of interest and a receive circuit receiving reflected echoes of the pulse signal and developing an... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100278008 | ACOUSTIC AND ULTRASONIC CONCEALED OBJECT DETECTION An acoustic/ultrasonic detection system can detect, for example, an object concealed under the clothing of a subject. The system includes a signal generator configured to output an electrical signal. An acoustic/ultrasonic transducer can be configured to convert the ele... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100214874 | MULTIBEAM, MULTIFREQUENCY SONAR METHOD AND APPARATUS The present invention relates to a sonar method and apparatus of tracking objects underwater. Specifically, the method and apparatus can be used to acoustically track a multitude of objects in a hemi-spherical volume 360° azimuth and 180° elevation relative to the loc... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100195443 | Transducer Array Arrangement and Operation for Sodar Application An array of transducers for a sodar system, and the operation of the array in a monostatic sodar system. The array is made up of a number of individual sound transducers. Each transducer emits sound into the atmosphere and senses emitted sound that has been reflected by... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100188931 | DESIGN AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF SUBMARINE AND OTHER WATER CRAFT SONAR SENSORS, ARRAYS AND/OR HYDROPHONES Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of devices to attach to submarines or other water craft to enable a sonar array to function better at higher water speeds. When operated, the devices slow down or fully offset the mounted array's (hydrophones' or arrays') relat... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100149920 | Clutter Signal Filtering For Doppler Signal Embodiments for filtering clutter signal from Doppler signal in an ultrasound system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Doppler signal acquiring unit may transmit and receive ultrasound signals to and from a target object to acquire Doppler signal. A signal processing ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100128566 | System and method for enhancing weak target signals for a sensor array A method for enhancing weak target signals for a sensor array, the method including: a) determining the locations of weak candidate target signals using one or more adaptive thresholding processes, b) extracting a wave profile of a center beam signal of a weak candidate... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100046325 | SODAR SOUNDING OF THE LOWER ATMOSHERE A monstatic sodar system using long chirps and send-while-listening techniques employs transmitter-receiver pairs (Tw, Rw; Tv, Rv; Te, Re) that have coincident main lobes (Twm, Rwm; ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100046326 | Method and apparatus for detection and classification of a swimming object A method and apparatus for detecting and classifying submerged swimming object from a passive signal generated by, and an active signal reflected from the object. In a first input of a passive mode branch a first signal representative of the passive signal is received. ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100034054 | Enviromentally Assisted Processor in Sonar An environmentally assisted processor that includes an environmental characterization module, an echo prediction module and an acoustic consistency module. The environmental characterization module obtains surrounding environmental characteristics, and provides inputs o... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100020647 | SEISMIC SENSOR HOUSING An example of a cable positioning mechanism for directing a cable into a seismic sensor housing for connection with the seismic sensor includes a member sized to connect with a seismic sensor housing, the cable passing through the member at opposing anchor points for op... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100017174 | Method and system for processing echo signals In a pulse-echo measuring system, echo signals are compared by a difference calculator with the output of a model simulating the system. The detected differences are used to re-calculate parameters in the model. Other parameters are directly measured and applied to the ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090257310 | Method of processing echo profile, and pulse-echo system for use with the method An echo profile in a pulse-echo ranging system is processed by determining the relative slope at points on the profile, determining the relative area of each region of positive slope on the profile, identifying within the region having the largest relative area a point ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090224962 | Apparatus And Method For Sensors Having Improved Angular Resolution An imaging or echolocation system has a source of coherent waves, such as acoustic and electromagnetic waves, that are transmitted towards any target or targets of interest. Any waves reflected or echoed by the target or targets are received by a receiver further having... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090201763 | Airborne Laser-Acoustic Mine Detection System A system and method is provided for using acoustical pulses generated from an airborne laser source to locate objects under water. An array of acoustic sensors, such as passive sonobuoys at the ocean surface, is deployed in known or determinable locations by aircraft. E... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090196121 | ULTRASOUND SENSOR, IN PARTICULAR, A MOTOR VEHICLE ULTRASOUND SENSOR Ultrasound sensor (2), in particular motor vehicle ultrasound sensor, having a housing (4), having a diaphragm (6) which is mounted in or on a section (12) of the housing (4), and having a decoupling element (10) which extends a... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090168603 | Ultrasonic sensor An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, receiving devices arranged in an array, and a circuit device. One receiving device is configured as a reference receiving device. The circuit device includes a reference signal generator and first and second synchrono... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090067289 | Communicating using sonar signals at multiple frequencies An embodiment of an apparatus includes a communication circuit and a transducer array coupled to the communication circuit. The communication circuit is operable to generate first and second information signals, and the transducer array is operable to generate in respon... | 03/12/2009 |
