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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7248344 | Surface profile measurement An imaging system scans a light source output over an object to be imaged, and receives the reflected signal in a multi-region light detector, wherein different regions of the object to be imaged are imaged onto different regions of the detector by the receiving opt... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7164468 | Lidar system controlled by computer for smoke identification applied, in particular, to early stage forest fire detection This invention relates to a method and an active system for detection and localization of early stage forest fires using lidar. In the simplest configuration the system includes a lidar and a control computer that operates the beam-scanning system and performs autom... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154591 | Laser range finding apparatus The laser range finding apparatus includes an optical relaxation oscillator assembly, outcoupling optics, a photodetector and a controller. The optical relaxation oscillator assembly produces relaxation oscillations. The relaxation oscillations are a series of optic... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145562 | Integration of three dimensional scene hierarchy into two dimensional compositing system A hierarchy of 2D visual objects and 3D scene objects are integrated for seamless processing to render 2D images including a 2D view of a 3D scene on a 2D computer display. The processing of the 3D model objects and 2D visual objects in the visual hierarchy is integ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7019883 | Dynamic optical filter having a spatial light modulator An dynamic optical filter 10 is provided to selectively attenuate or filter a wavelength band(s) of light (i.e., optical channel(s)) or a group(s) of wavelength bands of an optical WDM input signal 12. The optical filter is controllable or programmable... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6842189 | Road monitoring method for a vehicle and a system thereof In order to measure an actual distance from a vehicle to a target, the target is detected from a picture signal generated by a camera mounted on a vehicle, a horizontally estimated distance of the target is calculated, variables including a vertical angle of the tar... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6807497 | Laser measurement system with digital delay compensation A method and system for determining and compensating for phase and time errors in an optical receiver. The method and system includes use of a measurement and reference signal; deriving phase and time errors; and providing compensation values to the optical receiver... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6613441 | Boron- and/or aluminum-containing mixtures, hybrid materials, and coatings The present invention relates to mixtures prepared from (A) at least one linear, branched, or cyclic monomeric organosilane having at least two silicon atoms with hydrolyzable and/or condensation-crosslinking groups in which the silicon atoms are bonded to... | 09/02/2003 |
| 5828459 | Apparatus and method for scanning laser microscopy A method for determining the fine structure of materials by means of a nonlinear scanning laser microscope, including the steps of forming an image of a specimen by scanning selected points thereof with a focusable laser beam of a predetermined fundamenta... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5555662 | Laser range finding apparatus A laser range finder that is modular so that it can mounted on different weapon platforms. A pulsed infrared laser beam is reflected off the target. The timed return signal is then used to measure the distance. Another laser, either a visible laser or ano... | 09/17/1996 |
| 4492471 | Arrangement for checking dimensional accuracy An arrangement for checking the dimensional accuracy and/or measuring the dimensions of large objects (1), such as car bodies or the like, where the object is provided with checking points such as bolt heads, suspended measuring rods (2-7). At least one m... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4421407 | Image combining sextant or the like An improved optical measuring instrument having an image combining mirror which reflects part of the light from one source and transmits part of the light from another source and superimposes such reflected and transmitted light over the entire surface of... | 12/20/1983 |
