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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8018584 | Virtual walls in infrared based RTLS systems Methods and systems for locating a portable device in an enclosure having a location defining a virtual wall are provided. The system includes first and second infrared (IR) transmitters directed to opposite sides of the virtual wall. Each of the transmitters is con... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7477368 | Relayed pupil optical control system A plurality of pupil relays are configured to optically overlay a generally corresponding plurality of control points, so as to facilitate alignment of a laser beam with respect to a plurality of optical components, such as a system entrance pupil, a deformable mirr... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7359038 | Passive determination of ground target location Ground targets can be passively identified on uneven terrain from an observation point elevation above a known reference point, a line-of-sight inclination angle, an azimuth angle and a digital terrain elevation database wherein actual elevations of surrounding lati... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7311409 | Two axis independent driven single hinged gimbaled mirror beam steerer A beam steerer comprising a mirror, a joint, and two linear actuators. The joint, which is attached to a periphery of the mirror is rotatable about two perpendicular axes. The linear actuators control rotational movement of the mirror about the two axes. A laser bea... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292319 | Optical tracking device employing a three-axis gimbal An optical tracking device, includes an azimuth sub-assembly providing a 360-degree range of motion and a transducer sensing the azimuth position within this range of motion; and an elevation sub-assembly coupled to the azimuth sub-assembly and providing at least a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7246769 | Vehicles particularly useful as VTOL vehicles A vehicle including a fuselage, at least one lift-producing propeller carried by the fuselage on each side of its transverse axis a pilot's compartment formed in the fuselage between the lift-producing propellers and substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis,... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248374 | Spherically mounted light source with angle measuring device, tracking system, and method for determining coordinates A device for use in conjunction with a coordinate measuring device, a three-dimensional coordinate measuring system and a method of measuring three-dimensional coordinates are described. The device includes a light source mounted substantially within the center of a... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236299 | Compact periscopic beam director A periscopic beam director is disclosed. The periscopic beam director can be configured with a hemispheric field of regard, in a volume that minimizes external structure or dome size when mounted on a host vehicle (e.g., airplane or UAV). One embodiment combines a R... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230755 | Building with roof mounted periscope A periscope is mounted through the roof and into a room within a building, such as a house or the like, whereby people in the building can view scenes outside without leaving the building. The periscope extends from a room in the building, such as a living room of a... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7212652 | Method for tracking targets with hyper-spectral data In the present invention, the histogram model used in H-PMHT is extended to treat the problem of tracking using hyper-spectral data. Completely general spectral density functions are handled via the use of non-parametric methods. The present invention is not restric... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210392 | Autonomous weapon system An autonomous weapon system including weapon (9) and weapon mounting system (7, 8) operable to point the weapon (9) in accordance with input control signals. The weapon system includes a sensor (2) to acquire images and other data from a ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7131754 | Automatic headlamp control An automatic headlamp control system includes an image sensor and a control. The image sensor captures an image of a forward exterior scene and the control processes the image to determine if any light sources in the captured image are indicative of headlamps of onc... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124008 | System for in-situ control of the orientation of a vehicle headlamp and process for its implementation The invention relates to a system for in-situ control of the orientation of a vehicle headlamp equipped with a light source fixed on a mobile reflector, and including a camera mounted in the vehicle, an image processing unit connected to the camera, and a specific l... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7075663 | Optical device and a method for aiming and visually indicating a reading area The invention relates to an optical device for aiming along an optical axis and visually indicating a reading area, comprising at least an illuminating assembling acting on a portion of the reading area along an optical emission path. The illuminating assembly compr... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072032 | Automatic tracking apparatus for reflector The present invention comprises an illumination portion (11), a light receiving portion (12), disposed in the surveying machine body (8), having an image sensor (27) for receiving a reflection light image (MO) of the measurement light, ar... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7040772 | Vehicle mirror A mirror assembly for an articulated vehicle (1, 2) incorporates an image sensor which detects a specific image on the trailer so that as the vehicle (1, 2) turns left the image sensor maintains the image in its field of view and the mirror is automati... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7022971 | Laser measurement apparatus In a laser measurement apparatus capable of measuring a moving object or a designated object to be measured by tracking an object to be tracked and detecting the position of the tracked object as needed, optical signal processing units 103 through 105 ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023551 | Method, system and computer program product for assembling an optical module A method, system and computer program product for assembling an optical module incorporates a far field pattern (FFP) optical measurement system and optionally a near field pattern (NFP) optical measurement system to obtain information about the axis and/or the dive... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017467 | Guided missile defense method and apparatus A method of defense against optically guided missiles, said method comprising the steps of: mounting a single-ended laser adjacent the area to be protected emitting electromagnetic radiation at a frequency within the sensitive freq... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000883 | Method and apparatus for stabilizing payloads, including airborne cameras Methods and apparatuses for stabilizing payloads, including airborne cameras, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus employs a gimbal system in which the camera is mounted, together with suitable motors for pointing the camera by actuating this gimbal syste... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6947601 | Data transmission method, apparatus using same, and data transmission system A data transmission method able to maintain the quality of a transmitted image substantially same as that of one's own image and an apparatus using the method and a data transmission system, transmitting image data accommodated in a frame of a preset frame during co... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6929214 | Conformal airliner defense (CAD) system A conformal air defense (CAD) system is provided which is adapted to be attached externally to an aircraft as an appendage. The CAD system includes a conformal mounting adapter having an aircraft-to-adapter interface and upper adapter side. A mounting structure is p... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6795174 | Tracking systems A system for tracking a projectile utilizing a laser beam modulated by an acousto-optic cell. Transponders distributed on hemispheres around the rear of the projectile detect the scanned beam and actively transmit a narrow optical beam back to a ground-based receive... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6262801 | Laser reference level setting device The present invention provides a laser reference level setting device, by which it is possible to adjust irradiating positions of a laser beam in vertical and horizontal directions with a simple arrangement and without additional manpower and to measure a... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6201231 | Testing system for measuring and optimising target tracking systems Described is a testing system which has a target point light source (12), a tracking light source (18) and therebetween a projection wall (24). Associated with the target point light source (12) is a two-axis deflection device (28) which is connected toge... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5995681 | Adjustment of sensor geometry model parameters using digital imagery co-registration process to reduce errors in digital imagery geolocation data A digital image processing system reduces errors in the parameters of a sensor geometry model, through which points in a captured digital image are geolocated to the surface of the earth by means of a `real time` co-registration mechanism that refines the... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5841527 | Laser reference level setting device The present invention provides a laser reference level setting device, by which it is possible to adjust irradiating positions of a laser beam in vertical and horizontal directions with a simple arrangement and without additional manpower and to measure a... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5633710 | System for self-aligning vehicle headlamps A system for self-aligning a headlamp of a vehicle, the system comprises at least one actuator which modifies an alignment of the headlamp in response to a control signal. An infrared light source is mounted to the headlamp to emit an infrared light beam ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5623335 | Laser range finder with target quality display A laser range finder includes a circular in-sight field of view which incorporates within it a magnified "TV view" of the target area with the TV view roughly approximating the rectangular shape of a standard television picture. Also within the circular f... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5600434 | Apparatus for defending against an attacking missile Craft (11) generally and in particular the transport aircraft (11) which are used for humanitarian purposes and for supplying crisis reaction forces over militarily unknown territory and which have comparatively little manoeuverability are particularly en... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5557347 | Ballistic missile boresight and inertial tracking system and method A coarse/fine alignment system and method for boresighting high energy, laser pulses onto ballistic missiles in their boost phase. A ground based, common optical aperture laser separator, a mosaic array sensor, and a controller are cooperative to align bu... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5537200 | Electronic leveling apparatus having a leveling staff detection function, and leveling staff used with the same An electronic leveling apparatus and associated leveling staff are capable of measuring the height difference of the positions automatically through the opto-electric conversion of the image of a pattern formed on the leveling staff. The apparatus has a t... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5088818 | Optical aiming device An optical aiming device comprising optical elements providing a primary optical path by which a field of view is presented to an observer and a secondary optical assembly providing two stabilized secondary optical paths for projecting a stabilized aiming... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5054917 | Automatic boresighting device for an optronic system This system enables the boresighting of the optical axes of a system comprising, for example: an infrared distance measuring device, a television camera, sensitive in the visible band, and a laser telemeter which does not emit radiation in the ranges of s... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5013151 | Variable beam width laser radar system A high precision, high power laser-radar system whose output beamwidth can be varied from a divergent to a convergent mode thus allowing for target acquisition, its high precision tracking and ultimately its destruction is described. Essentially the inven... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5007736 | System for target designation by laser A system for target designation by laser comprises circuitry for precise alignment of the aircraft and pod lines of sight. The alignment circuitry operates digitally in a computer in which the director cosine data of the aircraft and pod lines of sight ar... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4994661 | Optical two-dimensional servo-loop for laser beam stabilization and/or position encoding The present invention pertains to an electrooptical tracking system. The invention includes means for producing a coherent beam of light and means for deflecting the beam of light. The deflecting means deflects the beam of light with respect to a first an... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4798462 | Auto-boresight technique for self-aligning phase conjugate laser A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing a self-aligning phase conjugate laser beam that is automatically boresighted with an active or passive tracking sensor. A single-transverse-mode laser oscillator 12 and a tracking sensor 14 are mounted on... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4737028 | Target loop active boresighting device The invention disclosed here is a sensor comprised of a laser designator, a and block filter and a two-dimensional sensor that can "see" the target in one band and the designator in another band, thereby giving a single sensor dual band system--something n... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4714339 | Three and five axis laser tracking systems A tracking system for measuring at least the spatial coordinates of a target and possibly the angular orientation of the target. A collimated beam is directed to the target and a mirror attached to the target reflects this beam back to a tracking point. P... | 12/22/1987 |
