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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185343 | Base station and method for detecting emplacement of improvised explosive devices An explosive device detection system includes sensors and base station that detect and report on suspected improvised explosive device (IED) emplacement activity within the area. When disposed within a geographic area, each sensor forms part of a wireless communicat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180590 | Railroad surveying and monitoring system A Railroad Surveying and Monitoring System configured on a mobile platform for surveying, monitoring, and analyzing rail position and superstructure and terrain substructure of railroad tracks (20a,b) or other structures. The system employs two or more... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170830 | Method and system for providing tolerance to interference and obstructions of line of sight Various aspects of the present invention are shown and described, each of which has stand alone utility in a navigated medical environment. A receiver position calibration system and method facilitates calibration of a reference frame prior to each navigated procedu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165843 | Method and apparatus for judging position shift Time-course data that has been obtained by measuring, in time series, a change in the density of a sample material by a color reaction thereof is input. A regression curve generation unit generates a regression curve that approximates the time-course data. A standar... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155919 | Construction modulus testing apparatus and method A system and method of determining lift deflection during construction of aggregate columns allows for real time monitoring of construction to ensure meeting defined parameters. The amount of deflection of a tamper head during tamping is determined multiple times fo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155918 | Ambulance cot system The present invention relates to ambulance cots, cot systems and methods of using the same. In particular, the present invention provides an ambulance cot comprising a hydraulic system and a tip angle monitoring, recording and alert system, and methods of using the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150650 | Systems and methods for filtering potentially unreliable visual data for visual simultaneous localization and mapping The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously, such visual techniques can be used to aut... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145448 | System and process for charting and displaying the time and position of contestants in a race A system and a process for determining the timing and position of contestants on a track. This system comprises at least one directional antenna in communication with at least one competitor communication device that can be coupled to each contestant. A remote base ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135561 | Sensing system A sensing system includes a panel, a reflective element, an image sensor, a processor, a first light guide rod, a second light guide rod and a light source module. The panel has a plane and a first area and a third area located at the plane. The third area in the fi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131500 | Pedometer To be able to measure a step number without carrying out an operation processing for selecting a walking sensor in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors having sensitivity axes different from each other. OR means converts walking signals inputted in paral... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131501 | Analyzing method for a sensor system determining the position of a shifting fork in a change gear transmission An analyzing method for a sensor system determining the position of a shifting fork in a shift transmission is suggested wherein a shifting fork can be moved from a neutral position into at least one gear position. The position of the shifting fork is determined by ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126675 | Product integrity tracking shipping label, and associated method A product integrity tracking shipping label includes a label body for attaching to a product to be shipped or to packaging containing the product. One or more movement monitoring configured with the label body detects a movement metric of the product. A microprocess... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121809 | Apparatus and method for determining the position of a device An apparatus and method are disclosed for use in a device, such as a handheld printer or scanner, having functionality that requires information of its position relative to an origin and initial orientation. The module includes two sensors to generate movement data ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121810 | Methods for reducing the receipt of multiple signals in a portable information handling system A method for reducing the receipt of multiple signals in a portable information handling system (IHS) is closed including receiving a first signal corresponding to a detected lid position of the portable IHS. The method further includes determining if a first predet... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117006 | Method for measuring position of portable terminal and indoor illuminating apparatus for the same Provided is a method of measuring the position of a portable terminal, comprising detecting indoor illuminating light, and outputting an electric signal corresponding to the detected indoor illuminating light, obtaining a plurality of data frames from the output ele... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112244 | Sensor for the detection of the position of a mechanical force-transmitting device A device for the wire-free determination of a position of a mechanical force-transmitting device, having at least one storage device for storing electrical energy, at least one sensor element which detects the position and is monitored by at least one sensor electro... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108176 | Method and apparatus for verifying two dimensional mark quality A method and system for applying a two dimensional mark on a first surface of a component and assessing mark quality, the method including the steps of positioning a component with a first surface at a first station, applying a two dimensional mark to the first surf... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099255 | System and method for measuring shaft deflection in a wind turbine A measurement system and a method for measuring a net deflection of a shaft in a wind turbine are disclosed. The measurement system includes at least one first sensor positioned proximate a first shaft component, the at least one first sensor configured to measure a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8073650 | Dimension measuring apparatus An exemplar dimension measuring apparatus includes a objective, a stage for fixing a workpiece, a projecting member located between the objective and the stage, a light source under the stage, configured for illuminating the workpiece such that a projection of the w... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069004 | System comprising a generating device and a comparing device Systems comprising generating devices comprising sensors for generating sensor signals representing orientations of the generating devices are provided with comparing devices comprising comparators for comparing the sensor signals with reference signals for interpre... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069006 | System for positioning a wire using sensor information A system for determining coordinates for nodes on a wire secured to tow lines of a floating vessel for analyzing geological formations is provided. The system can include sensors in communication with a processor to determine the coordinates of nodes and provide azi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069005 | Action recognition and interpretation using a precision positioning system To facilitate the recognition and interpretation of actions undertaken within an environment, the environment is associated with a precision positioning system (PPS) and a controller in communication with the PPS. Within the environment, an entity moves about in fur... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8046189 | Motion sensing program and electronic compass with motion sensing program A motion sensing program for executing a motion sensing based on at least a biaxial output of a magnetic sensor, which includes the steps of determining with respect to execution of the motion sensing based on the output of the specific biaxial output of the magneti... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041534 | Sensor device, and sensor system and electronic device using the sensor device A sensor device which detects a positional relationship between an first member and second member, includes a signal source generating an electrical signal, a first electrode receiving the electrical signal and storing an electrical charge at a first part on the fir... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041533 | IC device-in-pocket detection with angular mounted lasers and a camera A detection method and apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus includes at least two angular mounted lasers, a surface for receiving laser lines emitted by the angular mounted lasers, a camera for detecting a laser pattern formed by the laser lines on the sur... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036852 | Methods, systems and formats for data, such as data used in laser projection of fasteners used in manufacturing A system and method provides data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing involving fasteners. For example, the laser projection process may include projecting a laser image associated with fasteners used to assemble objects. Fastener attribute data may... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027802 | Method and apparatus for verifying two dimensional mark quality A method and system for applying a two dimensional mark on a first surface of a component and assessing mark quality, the method comprising the steps of positioning a component with a first surface at a first station, applying a two dimensional mark to the first sur... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027803 | Traveling direction measuring apparatus and traveling direction measuring method The present invention relates to a traveling direction measuring apparatus usable as a pedestrian navigation system in locations where it is difficult to obtain high positioning accuracy such as inside buildings or around multistory buildings where a GPS cannot be u... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024151 | Mobile instrument, viewing device, and methods of processing and storing information A method of transferring information stored in a mobile instrument, the information including a first information file (140) containing metadata and a pointer indicative of a first auxiliary file address; and a first auxiliary file (141) containing ima... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019569 | Method for checking a valve A valve has a valve piston, at least one coil and at least one magnetized component. An induction voltage is induced in the at least one coil, by a movement of the valve piston in the valve through a magnetic field produced by the magnetized component. A reference p... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013621 | Inspection method and program for inspecting electrical characteristics of a semiconductor wafer Disclosed is an inspection method capable of performing an inspection of high reliability even for very fine and thin-film electrode pads of a target object, by using needle traces formed on the electrode pads and making the electrode pads repeatedly contact the pro... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010314 | Methods for estimating location using signal with varying signal speed Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of sig... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000923 | Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit according to the examples of the present invention is applied to a system using a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage independent of the first power source voltage and includes a first area to which the fir... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996177 | Information display system An information display system includes a sensor which measures a state of each part of a body of a user, an active state identifying section which identifies an active state of the user based on a measurement result, an information estimating section which estimates... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987069 | Monitoring patient support exiting and initiating response The present invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring patient support exiting and initiating a response. Movement data is accessed from sensors (e.g., cameras) that are monitoring a patient resting on a support platform. A motion capture pattern summar... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970575 | Method and apparatus for determining accuracy of the estimated location for a target in a wireless system A method for determining the accuracy of the estimated position for a target device in a wireless system includes the computation of a confidence index. In the online location determining phase, after knowing the observations of the radio signal for a target device,... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970574 | Scalable sensor localization for wireless sensor networks Adaptive rule-based methods to solve localization problems for ad hoc wireless sensor networks are disclosed. A large problem may be solved as a sequence of very small subproblems, each of which is solved by semidefinite programming relaxation of a geometric optimiz... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958564 | Scanning measurement instrument A scanning measurement instrument is capable of simultaneously achieving both higher accuracy and higher speed in autonomous scanning measurement. The instrument includes a path information holding unit for holding information about the path of the center position o... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945420 | Absolute position measurement apparatus An absolute position measurement apparatus includes an output unit, a phase computing unit, a regression computing unit, a phase difference computing unit, an origin position computing unit, and an absolute position calculating unit. The output unit outputs first si... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7933739 | Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions Systems, methods, and software for analyzing the layout of computer equipment racks in a datacenter. One embodiment involves obtaining the position relative to the computer room of each of a plurality of temperature sensors distributed among a plurality of computer ... | 04/26/2011 |
