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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107058 | Sensor device and system having a conveyor and a sensor device A sensor device having a sensor arrangement for detecting moving objects that includes a sensor and an electronic unit. The sensor arrangement is designed to detect an object and to subsequently investigate whether there are present within the surface of the object ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8059264 | Monitoring velocities in a polymerization process Method for monitoring the velocity of growing polymer particles flowing in a two-phase stream during a polymerization process, said method comprising measuring the degree of attenuation in the propagation of light in said two-phase stream by means of a photometric i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7995193 | Measuring device A measuring device includes a VCSEL of a first-order or high-order single mode emitting laser beams, a driving part configured to drive the VCSEL, a detecting part configured to detect an electric signal relating to feedback lights generated when laser beams are pro... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995192 | Safety system for contactless measurement of paths and/or speeds An optoelectronic safety sensor (10) is set forth for the contactless measurement of paths and/or speeds of the safety sensor (10) or of a first object connected in a fixed position to the safety sensor (10) with respect to a second object (1... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7889327 | Method for non-contact measurement of the velocity and/or the length of an extrudate moved in the longitudinal direction, of a cable in particular A method for non-contact measurement of the velocity and/or the length of an extrudate moved forward in the longitudinal direction, in particular of a cable during the production. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876423 | Simultaneous noncontact precision imaging of microstructural and thickness variation in dielectric materials using terahertz energy A process for simultaneously measuring the velocity of terahertz electromagnetic radiation in a dielectric material sample without prior knowledge of the thickness of the sample and for measuring the thickness of a material sample using terahertz electromagnetic rad... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7787106 | Particle image velocimetry system having an improved hollow-waveguide-based laser illumination system An illumination system for a particle image velocimetry system has an illumination source, a hollow tapered optical funnel arranged to receive illumination light from the illumination source, a hollow optical waveguide optically coupled to an output end of the hollo... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7382900 | Method of determining a three-dimensional velocity field in a volume A method of determining a three-dimensional velocity field in a volume having particles, the particles within the volume being excited to radiate by illuminating the volume, including two or more cameras simultaneously capturing images of the observation volume at t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376250 | Apparatus, method and program for moving object detection The present invention detects a moving object by generating the distance information of the moving object, detecting the object motion, determining the object distance, detecting the object image area and the object contour from the video image that includes the obj... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7333634 | Method and apparatus for a velocity detection system using optical growth rate The present invention is a velocity detection system and method. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a series of still images of moving automobiles are taken at known intervals. An Image processor algorithm is used to determine local features of the m... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317532 | Flow sensing for determination of assay results An assay result reading device for reading the result of an assay performed using a liquid transport carrier may include at least one light source capable of emitting light incident upon at least one of two or more spatially separated zones of the carrier, a photode... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308113 | Method of detecting and measuring a moving object and apparatus therefor, and a recording medium for recording a program for detecting and measuring a moving object There are provided a plurality of units for detecting a moving object in an image from changes of an image structure in a monitor area defined in a linear strip on a single straight line consisting of a base line and its partitions, and a height of a moving object i... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295292 | Methods and systems for measuring an aberated wave front Methods and systems are described for a system for measuring aberrations in a wave front. In the improved system multiple closely-spaced, small-aperture laser beams traverse an aberrating flow that introduces deflections of small-aperture laser beams from which aber... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7282112 | Method and apparatus for an improved baffle plate in a plasma processing system The present invention presents an improved baffle plate for a plasma processing system, wherein the design and fabrication of the baffle plate advantageously provides for a uniform processing plasma in the process space with substantially minimal erosion of the baff... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7242462 | Speed detection methods and devices A speed detection method. A range finder acquires a specific number of distance measurement samples of an object during a period of time. A new unit of measurement larger than respective movement distances of the object in a first period and a second period is acqui... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239720 | Optical monitoring apparatus with image-based distance accommodation An optical monitoring system is capable of automatically identifying whether a moving body is a monitored subject based upon information in an optical (i.e., video) image. A moving body detection sub-system images a monitored region and detects a moving body from ch... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209576 | Methods, apparatus and computer program products for processing images of a golf ball Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for capturing and thereafter analyzing the images of a golf ball in a manner that permits various parameters associated with a golf shot, including the backspin and sidespin of the golf ball, to be reliab... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202979 | Optical rotational position information detecting apparatus An apparatus for optically detecting rotational position information of a rotating object, includes a light source, a detector which is located at a position to receive scattered light from the rotating object when the rotating object is irradiated with a light beam... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189575 | Method and device for determining the swelling behavior of polymer gels under pressure Disclosed is a method for determining the swellability and the swelling kinetics of superabsorbent material (9) such as polymer gels, for example, which comprises introducing a defined volume of the dry superabsorbent material (9) into a measuring vess... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171028 | Method and apparatus for covertly determining the rate of relative motion between two objects Apparatus and methods for covertly determining the rate of motion between a pixel-based imaging device and a target being viewed by the pixel-based imaging device. The method involves using the pixel-based imaging device to acquire a first and a second digital image... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146024 | Swiped aperture capacitive fingerprint sensing systems and methods A fingerprint sensing system includes an image sensor, a rate sensor and a sensor circuit. The image sensor includes a linear array of capacitive sensors for capacitive sensing of ridge peaks and ridge valleys of a fingerprint on a swiped finger. The rate sensor sen... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7113817 | Optical imaging of blood circulation velocities New devices and methods are provided for noninvasive and noncontact real-time measurements of tissue blood velocity. The invention uses a digital imaging device such as a detector array that allows independent intensity measurements at each pixel to capture images o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7088367 | Methods and system for general skinning via hardware accelerators Complex computer graphics forms and motions can be constructed either by hand or with motion or geometry capture technologies, once they are created, they are difficult to modify, particularly at runtime. Interpolation provides a way to leverage artist-generated sou... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6999601 | Method for visual tracking using switching linear dynamic systems models A target in a sequence of measurements is tracked by modeling the target with a switching linear dynamic system (SLDS) having a plurality of dynamic models. Each dynamic model is associated with a switching state such that a model is selected when its associated swi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6963658 | Method of detecting and measuring a moving object and apparatus therefor, and a recording medium for recording a program for detecting and measuring a moving object There are provided a plurality of units for detecting a moving object in an image from changes of an image structure in a monitor area defined in a linear strip on a single straight line consisting of a base line and its partitions, and a height of a moving object i... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6959104 | System and method for scanning a region using a low discrepancy sequence A system and method for scanning for an object within a region using a Low Discrepancy Sequence scanning scheme. The system may comprise a computer which includes a CPU and a memory medium which is operable to store one or more programs executable by the CPU to perf... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6944317 | Method for motion classification using switching linear dynamic systems models Portions of an input measurement sequence are classified into a plurality of regimes by associating each of a plurality of dynamic models with one a switching state such that a model is selected when its associated switching state is true. In a Viterbi-based method,... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931146 | Method and apparatus for detecting moving object For automatically detecting a moving object in an input image taken using a monitor camera or the like, an apparatus includes an input image extracting section, an input image retaining section, a background image retaining section, a background difference calculati... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6894179 | Metallocene compositions This invention relates to metallocene compositions and their use in the preparation of catalyst systems for olefin polymerization, particularly propylene polymerization. The metallocene compositions are generally those of the bridged bis(2-R3-4-phenylinde... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6860350 | CMOS camera with integral laser ranging and velocity measurement The invention provides a method and system for adjusting vehicle speed, beginning with a modulated laser pulse being emitted. A reference portion of the emitted modulated laser pulse is extracted, a reflected portion of the emitted modulated laser pulse is received,... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6829118 | Optical rotational position information detecting apparatus An apparatus for optically detecting rotational position information of a rotating object, includes a light source, a detector which is located at a position to receive scattered light from the rotating object when the rotating object is irradiated with a light beam... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6636577 | Laser induced fluorescence water measurement system for nuclear reactors A water monitoring system for a nuclear reactor is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the water monitoring system includes a fiber optic cable having a first end and a second end, with the first end configured to optically couple to the reactor cooling... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6618127 | Spray plume characterization system The density of a spray plume generated by an aerosol delivery system ("ADS") may be characterised by illuminating a face of the plume with light and then imaging the plume. The shape of the plume may be characterised by operating the ADS in a controlled m... | 09/09/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6610975 | Optical encoder In an optical linear encoder, light from an LED 2 passes through a moving grating 31 formed in a semiconductor moving plate 3 and is reflected by a reflective grating 41 of a reflective grating plate 4. An image of the reflective grating is detected by ph... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6580812 | Methods and systems for automatically adding motion lines representing motion to a still image Systems and methods that add motion lines that indicate motion in a still image include selecting two or more video fields or frames, compensating for global motion in the selected fields or frames, determining the difference between positions of pixels i... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6556854 | Blood vessel imaging system using homodyne and heterodyne effects A homodyne interference system splits first and second light beams from a common light source and causes the first and second light beams to impinge upon an irradiating point of an organism at different directions. An optical heterodyne system splits a th... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6539342 | Sorting objects based on physical characteristics In this invention, the detection result indicating physical characteristics obtained from sensor sections and associated with a to-be-detected object for which it is determined that determination of detection thereof by a high-speed detecting process is d... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6452535 | Method and apparatus for impact crash mitigation A pre-crash sensing system is provided for sensing an impact of a target vehicle (46) with a host vehicle (12). The target vehicle (46) has side transponders that generate side identification signals. The host vehicle (12) has a remote object sensor (20) ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6345106 | Gradient based motion estimation A technique for generating motion vectors in video and film signal processing uses constraint equation based motion estimation. Simplifications of the processing and hardware are made possible by generating motion vectors based on the normalized constrain... | 02/05/2002 |
