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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5642293 | Method and apparatus for determining surface profile and/or surface strain A photogrammetry target (cube or other shape of known dimension with reference points in known relation to each other) is placed on or in close proximity to a surface for which surface profile and/or surface strain are to be measured. Identifiable referen... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5604817 | Tooth measurement without calbration bodies A method for the optical three dimensional measurement of a tooth without calibration bodies. An optical projection system projects a pattern onto a tooth, and an optical imaging system images the pattern projected thereon, from a first position in space ... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5594668 | Method for correcting coordinate measurement on workpieces based on bending characteristics Measured position data (Px, Py, Pz) are combined with stored correction values (DB) describing the elastic bending behavior of a coordinate measuring machine in that parameters characterizing the bending behavior are determined for several positions of th... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5572447 | Coordinate difference calculating device A device for calculating differences includes a difference circuit for generating difference signals Ɗxj =xj -xi, Ɗyj =yj -yi, and Ɗzj =zj -zi between co... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5546327 | Apparatus for calculating geometrical view factor The zenithal angle of a spherical surface is divided at regular intervals, the horizontal angle thereof is also divided at regular intervals in correspondence with each of the zenithal angles, and in addition, the intensity of each energy line emitted fro... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5530347 | Induction-based semi-automatic device and method for reading coordinates of objects with a complicated structure and inputting data thereon into a computer A device and method for reading three-dimensional information involves generating a variable magnetic field in a Cartesian coordinate system and coaxially placing first and second magnetometric sensors made up of three bi-orthogonal receiver induction coi... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528517 | Method and system for measuring the dimensions of a three-dimensional object A method and device for measuring the dimensions of a three-dimensional object (8) wherein the object is placed in a measuring corner which defines an x, y, z three-dimensional coordinate system, and wherein in connection with each coordinate at least one... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5521847 | System and method for determining airfoil characteristics from coordinate measuring machine probe center data The present invention discloses a system and method for determining airfoil characteristics from coordinate measuring machine probe center data. A coordinate measuring machine measures external coordinates along an airfoil and sends the coordinates to a c... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5491638 | Method of controlling a coordinate measuring apparatus The invention is directed to a method for automatically generating travel paths to the next geometric elements to be measured when there is a collision of the probe 25 or the probe head 10, for example, with the workpiece 22. The method utilizes safety-re... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5485403 | Method and apparatus for processing signals from photoconductive sensor A signal processing method for detecting a point of change from a first signal level to a second signal level, outputted from a line sensor having a photoconductive bit element array including setting a threshold level between the first signal level and t... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5485404 | Eye direction detecting method and apparatus including method and apparatus for detecting boundary of the iris An eye direction detecting method in which eye direction detecting light flux reflected by an eye impinges on a line sensor comprised of a photoconductive bit element array, so that the line sensor generates output signals including a first signal level c... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5428655 | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional detection of particles The position, size, structure, and the like of each particle can be accurately detected. Gray image data of a tomographic image group having a clear positional correlation in a sample where particles are distributed is obtained to obtain three-dimensional... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5412420 | Three-dimensional phenotypic measuring system for animals A system measures the three-dimensional phenotypic characteristics of an animal, such as a dairy cow. The system uses a large number of modulated laser light beams from a lidar camera to measure approximately 100 points per square inch of the animal. Each... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5396331 | Method for executing three-dimensional measurement utilizing correctively computing the absolute positions of CCD cameras when image data vary A method of measuring three-dimensional dimension of a object comprising the steps of installing two or more than two of CCD cameras, installing a plurality of reference-point members to at least four locations in the periphery of or on a measurable objec... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5394342 | Log scanning A log scanning system applies circumferentially spaced, traverse scans along the length of the log to provide a longitudinal density scan for each of the scans made. Each scan is made up of rows of density dependent pixels sensed by specific detector (sca... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5390128 | Robotic processing and inspection system Automated system for trimming and inspecting complex composite aircraft parts. A straight firing abrasive water jet head with integral catcher mounted on a first Z axis slide is numerically controlled on a six axis gantry/water jet manipulator (X, Y, Z, C... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5388059 | Computer vision system for accurate monitoring of object pose A sensing system for accurately monitoring the position and orientation of an object (28). At least 4 point light sources (26) are mounted on the surface of the object (28). A single electronic camera (20) captures images (92) of the point light sources (... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5387863 | Synthetic aperture array dipole moment detector and localizer A synthetic array comprising a moving magnetic sensor that provides a signal representative of an array of magnetic sensors is coupled to a digital signal processor is used to break a magnetic dipole field into its components, and a magnetic signature of ... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5361217 | Position measuring/plotting apparatus A position measuring/plotting apparatus and a position indicator are used in plotting a plan view representing a situation, for example, the site of a traffic accident. The position measuring/plotting apparatus generally includes a position detector to de... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5359542 | Variable parameter collision avoidance system for aircraft work platforms A system for determining the position of an airplane in a hangar and for limiting the motion of a plurality of gantry cranes around the airplane, the system including a plurality of movable scanners which ascertain locations of a plurality of collinear po... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5347289 | Method and device for measuring the position and orientation of objects in the presence of interfering metals A method of measuring the position and orientation of an object is disclosed in conjunction with an apparatus to achieve this method. The method and apparatus reduce the metal effects caused by metal objects which are in close proximity to a magnetic fiel... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5337259 | Dipole detection and localization processing Dipole detection and localization systems and methods employing improved processing techniques. The first processing technique provides for higher spatial resolution by implementing maximum likelihood beamforming processing to detect and locate a dipole i... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5331577 | Aircraft wing position indicator An apparatus for use with aircraft to detect the position of the aircraft relative to the fuselage in order to achieve improved safety and flight conditions. The apparatus includes a signaling device such as a laser and a sensor of any suitable configurat... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5295073 | Device for checking the position of various points of a vehicle A laser telemeter is driven on two mutually orthogonal axes by stepper motor assemblies to acquire targets mounted at predetermined points on a vehicle. The distances to the targets and the angular orientations are obtained. A computer equipped with a mic... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5264793 | Split array dipole moment detection and localization A dipole moment detection and localization process and apparatus in which the processing is applied to a single linear array adapted to sense magnetic dipoles, and wherein data from the sensors are processed as if it were derived from sets of subarrays of... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5245555 | System for measuring vector coordinates A system for measuring coordinates of a vector in x,y,z Cartesian space includes a flexible non-elastic string spirally mounted upon a selectably positively and negatively rotatably tensioned drum, the drum having an axle of rotation and being positively ... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5239474 | Dipole moment detection and localization An array of magnetic sensors and a digital signal processor are used to break a target magnetic dipole field into its components, and a magnetic signature of the present magnetic field is created. Predicted target signatures are precomputed for multiple m... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5227985 | Computer vision system for position monitoring in three dimensions using non-coplanar light sources attached to a monitored object A sensing system for monitoring the position and orientation of a rigid object (20). At least 4 point light sources (24) are mounted on the surface of the object (20) in a noncoplanar arrangement. A single electronic camera (26) captures images (59) of th... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5222034 | Measuring method and apparatus A coordinate measuring machine obtains accurate readings by analyzing the mechanical vibrations which occur between a contact point where a probe contacts a workpiece and a readout point where a position-sensing device produces signals indicative of the r... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220510 | Coordinate system correcting apparatus for machine tool A coordinate system correcting apparatus corrects a reference coordinate system set for a work space of a machine tool. A plurality of jig members are distributed on a work table of the machine tool, each of the jig members has a plurality of right-angled... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5134369 | Three axis magnetometer sensor field alignment and registration An alignment process is applied to each sensor of an array of three axis magnetic sensors to electronically align the three axes of each sensor after the array has been deployed. The alignment process compensates for each sensor not being aligned perfectl... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5050112 | Specimen coordinate automated measuring machine/fiducial automated measuring machine The Specimen coordinate Automated Measuring Machine (SCAMM) and the Fiducial Automated Measuring Machine (FAMM) is a computer controlled metrology system capable of measuring length, width, and thickness, and of locating fiducial marks. SCAMM and FAMM hav... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4991126 | Electronic-automatic orientation device for walkers and the blind The automatic orientation device according to the invention for walkers and the blind is a small light weight and easily man-carried instrument. It contains an electronic-digital-calculating for continually determining the vectorial sum of the steps made ... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4961155 | XYZ coordinates measuring system An XYZ coordinates measuring system has a slit light source for projecting a slit light beam onto the surface of a work to be measured with a predetermined angle. Furthermore a television camera takes a light line formed on the surface of the work by the ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4912663 | Sonic digitizer coil measurement system A three-dimensional measurement system for measuring stator half coils includes a sonic digitizer which makes measurements of the stator half coil. These measurements are provided to a computing apparatus which converts the measured points to correspondin... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4829250 | Magnetic direction finding device with improved accuracy A system for determining the relative orientation in three dimensions between a fixed frame of reference and an unconstrained object. Mutual coupling between three orthogonally disposed transmitting coils driven by a multifrequency source and three orthog... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4825393 | Position measuring method Points on a pair of images obtained by imaging an object are finely corresponded in order to precisely measure the three-dimensional position of the object. For this purpose, attractive forces corresponding to features of the images are calculated, and th... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4811250 | Deviation measurement system A system is disclosed for determining the positions of a set of points on a body and comparing those points to a set of reference points. The system includes a data acquisition apparatus comprised of emitters, receivers, and microprocessor controls. The e... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4796200 | Target based determination of robot and sensor alignment Target based machine vision method and apparatus are disclosed, useful for alignment of sensors and other objects affixed to structures, robots and the like. While addressed particularly to alignment of machine vision systems relative to structures, the t... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4758970 | Marine loading arm monitoring system An apparatus for monitoring the spatial position of a reference point relative to a predetermined origin, the reference point being located on an articulated marine loading arm having a plurality of pivotally interconnected fluid conduits forming pivot an... | 07/19/1988 |
