序号 专利名 申请号 申请日 公开(公告)号 公开(公告)日 发明人
101 Method and an apparatus for determining a deviation between an actual direction of a launched projectile and a predetermined direction US14536827 2014-11-10 US09857459B2 2018-01-02 Fredrik Tuxen
A method and apparatus for determining a deviation between an actual direction of a launched projectile and a predetermined direction includes providing, using a camera fixed to a radar, an image representing a target area, receiving an indication of a position in the image, the indicated position corresponding to a position in the target area, determining, using a radar, the actual direction of the projectile, determining a launch position of the projectile, determining, from the launch position and the corresponding position, the predetermined direction and determining the deviation between the actual direction of the projectile and the predetermined direction. The indicating step include rotating the camera and radar to have the position in the target area presented at a center or with a predetermined offset form the center in the image.
102 Controlling transmission of pulses from a sensor US14653528 2013-12-13 US09766327B2 2017-09-19 Ashish Vijay Pandharipande; David Ricardo Caicedo Fernandez; Sriram Srinivasan
A sensor such as a presence sensor for use in a lighting system or other system that adapts to information from a plurality of active presence sensors. If transmissions from the active sensors are uncoordinated, the overall detection performance may be adversely impacted (e.g. due to potential cross-interference), which may make sensing over the detection coverage area defined by a single presence sensor (or the like) become unreliable. The disclosure presents protocols for coordinating transmissions in active sensing systems. The invention may be applied to various active modalities (e.g. ultrasound, RF), for example that find applications in indoor and outdoor lighting controls.
103 OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM US15586156 2017-05-03 US20170234982A1 2017-08-17 Hirofumi Taki; Kenichi Nagae; Toru Sato
An object information acquisition apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of transducer elements each configured to transmit an acoustic wave to an object, to receive reflected waves reflected from inside the object, and to convert the reflected waves into a time-series reception signal; and a processor configured to perform frequency domain interferometry combined with adaptive signal processing by using the reception signals output from the plurality of transducer elements and a reference signal so as to obtain acoustic characteristics at a plurality of positions located inside the object. The processor is configured to switch the reference signal to another reference signal at least once in accordance with a target position located inside the object while performing the frequency domain interferometry so as to obtain the acoustic characteristics at the plurality of positions located inside the object.
104 Piezoelectric materials and methods of property control US14352938 2012-10-18 US09728708B2 2017-08-08 Philip P. Garland; Robert B. A. Adamson; Andre B. Bezanson; Jeremy A. Brown
Among other things, piezoelectric materials and methods of their manufacture are described; particularly methods of forming regions of varying crystal structure within a relaxor piezoelectric substrate. Such methods may including heating the piezoelectric substrate above the transition temperature and below the Curie temperature such that a first phase transition occurs to a first crystal structure; rapidly cooling the piezoelectric substrate below the transition temperature at a cooling rate that is sufficiently high for the first crystal structure to persist; and applying an electric field through one or more selected regions of the piezoelectric substrate, such that within the one or more selected regions, a second phase transition occurs and results in a second crystal structure.
105 WIDEBAND SONAR RECEIVER AND SONAR SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS US15287652 2016-10-06 US20170184719A1 2017-06-29 Paul Stokes; Phil Webb
A wideband sonar receiver is provided that includes: a selectable bandpass filter adapted to filter a received sonar signal to produce a filtered signal and a correlator adapted to correlate the baseband samples with baseband replica samples to provide a correlated signal. In addition, the wideband sonar receiver may include a shaping filter to shape unshaped received pulses. Finally, a variety of sonar processing algorithms are described with regard to reducing clutter and interference, target detection, and bottom detection.
106 PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE US15310618 2015-04-17 US20170084179A1 2017-03-23 Jie Chen; Steve Kreyer; Ralf Schneider
The invention relates to a parking assistance apparatus (12) for a motor vehicle (10). The invention is based on the object of providing reliably working parking assistance that can involve computational-intensive processing of sensor signals. To this end, at least one sensor (20) for producing a sensor signal (S) that is dependent on a relative position (D) of a vehicle-external object (22) is connected to a first controller (14) that is designed to take each sensor signal (S) as a basis for producing position data (P) that describe the relative position (D) and to transmit said position data via a communication link (18) of the motor vehicle (10). A second controller (16) is designed to receive the position data (P) via the communication link (18) and, during a parking manoeuvre of the motor vehicle (10), to take the position data (P) as a basis for outputting a control signal (C) to an actuator device (26) of the motor vehicle (10).
107 Subject information obtaining apparatus, subject information obtaining method, and program US14342303 2012-08-29 US09304191B2 2016-04-05 Kenichi Nagae; Hirofumi Taki; Takuya Sakamoto; Toru Sato
A subject information obtaining apparatus according includes: plurality of conversion elements configured to convert an elastic wave from a subject into a plurality of reception signals, a delay and sum unit configured to perform a delay and sum process by using the plurality of reception signals and output a plurality of scanning line signals, a scanning line synthesis unit configured to add the plurality of scanning line signals between adjacent scanning lines and output a plurality of synthesis scanning line signals, and an FDI adaptive processing unit configured to perform a frequency domain interferometry and an adaptive signal processing by using the plurality of synthesis scanning line signals and obtain a power intensity distribution.
108 Ultrasound system for providing an ultrasound image optimized for posture of a user US13306339 2011-11-29 US09295451B2 2016-03-29 Jung Soo Kim
Embodiments of an ultrasound system for detecting a posture of a user and providing an optimal ultrasound image for the posture of the user are disclosed. The ultrasound system includes a display unit including a sensing unit installed in one side of a monitor. The sensing unit detects a position of a user, a distance between the user and the monitor, a height of the user with respect to the monitor and a viewing angle of the user toward the monitor to thereby form and output sensing signals corresponding thereto. The ultrasound system further includes a processing unit coupled to the sensing unit. The processing unit forms the ultrasound image by using ultrasound data and performs optimal image processing for the posture of the user upon the ultrasound image based on the sensing signals.
109 CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF PULSES FROM A SENSOR US14653528 2013-12-13 US20150338510A1 2015-11-26 ASHISH VIJAY PANDHARIPANDE; DAVID RICARDO CAICEDO FERNANDEZ; SRIRAM SRINIVASAN
A sensor such as a presence sensor for use in a lighting system or other system that adapts to information from a plurality of active presence sensors. If transmissions from the active sensors are uncoordinated, the overall detection performance may be adversely impacted (e.g. due to potential cross-interference), which may make sensing over the detection coverage area defined by a single presence sensor (or the like) become unreliable. The disclosure presents protocols for coordinating transmissions in active sensing systems. The invention may be applied to various active modalities (e.g. ultrasound, RF), for example that find applications in indoor and outdoor lighting controls.
110 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND EVALUATING ULTRASOUND SIGNALS, PARTICULARLY FOR DETERMINING THE DISTANCE OF A VEHICLE FROM AN OBSTACLE US14409436 2013-06-17 US20150198714A1 2015-07-16 Egbert Spiegel
In the device and method for generating and evaluating ultrasound signals, particularly for determining the distance of a vehicle from an obstacle, an ultrasound received signal is received by at least one ultrasound receiver subscriber of a data bus, after a burst transmission signal comprising a plurality of ultrasound pulses and having a burst length has been transmitted by at least one ultrasound transmitter subscriber of the data bus. The ultrasound received signal is subdivided into time sections which are substantially equal to half the burst length. The peak value for each time section of the ultrasound received signal is transmitted via the data bus to a central control and evaluation unit. On the basis of the peak values of the received signal for each time section, taking into account threshold value tracking, it is determined in the control and evaluation unit whether the ultrasound received signal has time sections in which the ultrasound received signal is greater than the tracked threshold value or equal to the tracked threshold value.
111 VOLTAGE DROP PROTECTION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND VOLTAGE DROP PROTECTION SYSTEM US14549378 2014-11-20 US20150138922A1 2015-05-21 Yohei Kinoshita
A voltage drop protection apparatus is provided. The voltage drop protection apparatus includes a power source, a controller electrically connected with the power source and configured to control electronic device by using a power supplied from the power source, a transmission capacitor electrically connected with the power source and configured to accumulate a transmission power to be used when transmitting either one of an electromagnetic wave and a sound wave, and a voltage detector configured to detect a value of voltage applied from the power source toward the electronic device. When the voltage value detected by the voltage detector is lower than a predetermined threshold, the transmission capacitor applies the voltage at least to the controller.
112 Programmable wavelet tree US13603217 2012-09-04 US09030908B2 2015-05-12 Domingo G. Garcia; Mohamed Mansour; Murtaza Ali
An apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, a demultiplexer is configured to receive an input signal, and each of a plurality of sample buffers are coupled to the demultiplexer. A first multiplexer is coupled to each of the sample buffers. A filter is coupled to the first multiplexer. A bypass delay circuit is coupled to the first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer is coupled to the filter and the bypass delay circuit.
113 PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS AND METHODS OF PROPERTY CONTROL US14352938 2012-10-18 US20140306581A1 2014-10-16 Philip P. Garland; Robert B.A. Adamson; Andre B. Benzanson; Jeremy A. Brown
Among other things, piezoelectric materials and methods of their manufacture are described; particularly methods of forming regions of varying crystal structure within a relaxor piezoelectric substrate. Such methods may including heating the piezoelectric substrate above the transition temperature and below the Curie temperature such that a first phase transition occurs to a first crystal structure; rapidly cooling the piezoelectric substrate below the transition temperature at a cooling rate that is sufficiently high for the first crystal structure to persist; and applying an electric field through one or more selected regions of the piezoelectric substrate, such that within the one or more selected regions, a second phase transition occurs and results in a second crystal structure.
114 WIDEBAND SONAR RECEIVER AND SONAR SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS US14261316 2014-04-24 US20140286131A1 2014-09-25 Paul Stokes; Phil Webb
A wideband sonar receiver is provided that includes: a selectable bandpass filter adapted to filter a received sonar signal to produce a filtered signal and a correlator adapted to correlate the baseband samples with baseband replica samples to provide a correlated signal. In addition, the wideband sonar receiver may include a shaping filter to shape unshaped received pulses. Finally, a variety of sonar processing algorithms are described with regard to reducing clutter and interference, target detection, and bottom detection.
115 PROGRAMMABLE WAVELET TREE US13603217 2012-09-04 US20130077879A1 2013-03-28 Domingo G. Garcia; Mohamed Mansour; Murtaza Ali
An apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, a demultiplexer is configured to receive an input signal, and each of a plurality of sample buffers are coupled to the demultiplexer. A first multiplexer is coupled to each of the sample buffers. A filter is coupled to the first multiplexer. A bypass delay circuit is coupled to the first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer is coupled to the filter and the bypass delay circuit.
116 ULTRASONIC SENSOR US13425460 2012-03-21 US20120174673A1 2012-07-12 Makiko Sugiura; Yasuyuki Okuda; Takaaki Kawai; Takahiko Yoshida; Hisanaga Matsuoka; Toshiki Isogai; Mitsuyasu Matsuura
An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, a receiving device, and a circuit device. The circuit device determines that the receiving device receives an ultrasonic wave reflected from an object, when an output voltage of the receiving device is equal to or greater than a first threshold. The circuit device includes a humidity detection section configured to detect an ambient humidity of the transmitting and receiving devices and a threshold adjustment section configured to calculate, based on the detected ambient humidity, a sound pressure of the ultrasonic wave that is received by the receiving device after propagating over a round-trip distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the object. The threshold adjustment section reduces the first threshold, when the output voltage corresponding to the calculated sound pressure is less than a second threshold that is greater the first threshold.
117 ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE OPTIMIZED FOR POSTURE OF A USER US13306339 2011-11-29 US20120136254A1 2012-05-31 Jung Soo KIM
Embodiments of an ultrasound system for detecting a posture of a user and providing an optimal ultrasound image for the posture of the user are disclosed. The ultrasound system includes a display unit including a sensing unit installed in one side of a monitor. The sensing unit detects a position of a user, a distance between the user and the monitor, a height of the user with respect to the monitor and a viewing angle of the user toward the monitor to thereby form and output sensing signals corresponding thereto. The ultrasound system further includes a processing unit coupled to the sensing unit. The processing unit forms the ultrasound image by using ultrasound data and performs optimal image processing for the posture of the user upon the ultrasound image based on the sensing signals.
118 SONAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD US12537887 2009-08-07 US20120014220A1 2012-01-19 Louis DePasqua
A method for pre-determining an underwater objects GPS position using a forward scan sonar unit linked to a boat trolling motor, magnetic compass and GPS receiver. This system determines the underwater objects GPS position using the objects distance, compass heading and a GPS receiver/sonar on a boat. This system will provide real time longitude and latitude positions of underwater objects seen with sonar at a distance from a boat, and will allow for precise autopilot navigation or fixed position fishing. The system can also be used to correct for GPS errors when using previously stored waypoints positions of an object. The computer determines an objects underwater GPS position using a forward scan sonar transducer and compass mounted on a 360 degree movable mechanism such as a trolling motor unit, and formulates the objects position based on the distance and heading of the object in relation to the boats current GPS position.
119 Method and apparatus for determining a deviation between an actual direction of a launched projectile and a predetermined direction US11630904 2005-07-01 US20090295624A1 2009-12-03 Fredrik Tuxen
A method of determining a deviation of a path of a projectile from a predetermined path. The method uses an image of a target area in which the desired path or direction is pointed out. Subsequently, the real direction or path is determined and the deviation determined.
120 Ultrasonic sensor US12385714 2009-04-16 US20090260422A1 2009-10-22 Makiko Sugiura; Yasuyuki Okuda; Takaaki Kawai; Takahiko Yoshida; Hisanaga Matsuoka; Toshiki Isogai; Mitsuyasu Matsuura
An ultrasonic sensor includes a transmitting device, a receiving device, and a circuit device. The circuit device determines that the receiving device receives an ultrasonic wave reflected from an object, when an output voltage of the receiving device is equal to or greater than a first threshold. The circuit device includes a humidity detection section configured to detect an ambient humidity of the transmitting and receiving devices and a threshold adjustment section configured to calculate, based on the detected ambient humidity, a sound pressure of the ultrasonic wave that is received by the receiving device after propagating over a round-trip distance between the ultrasonic sensor and the object. The threshold adjustment section reduces the first threshold, when the output voltage corresponding to the calculated sound pressure is less than a second threshold that is greater the first threshold.
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