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| 181 | Method and mechanism for reduction of within-train reported data | EP96303826.0 | 1996-05-29 | EP0747726A2 | 1996-12-11 | Hassan, Amer Aref; Hershey, John Erik |
A tracking system for railcars is configured as a dynamic local area network having a master tracking unit and a plurality of slave tracking units, each tracking unit being affixed to a separate railcar. To improve reliability of communications between railcars, the distance from a master unit to a slave unit is estimated by comparing phase of a transmitted signal with that of the transmitted signal returned by another tracking unit in the network. Optionally, a determination is made as to whether the slave unit is "ahead" of or "behind" the master unit. Communication path loss between the master and slave units due to frequency selective fading may also be determined. A spectrum survey determines quality of the channel as to its capacity for passing data from the slave unit to the master unit. |
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| 182 | Verfahren zur Bestimmung der relativen Position von Fahrzeugen im Strassenverkehr | EP91118893.6 | 1991-11-06 | EP0484895B1 | 1996-01-31 | Ohler, Michael |
| 183 | Integration of telemetry and sonar technologies | EP95300045.2 | 1995-01-05 | EP0662617A2 | 1995-07-12 | Patrick, Paul H.; McKinley, Robert S.; Pach, Marek T.; Strathearn, Stewart |
A system for analyzing the behaviour of fish and fish populations comprises a sonar transceiver (12) and a telemetry transmitter (14) applied to a fish for transmitting signals to a telemetry receiver (10). In one embodiment, the sonar transceiver (12) includes switching means responsive to transmissions emitted by the telemetry transmitter. In an alternate embodiment, the telemetry transmitter includes switching means responsive to ultrasonic signals emitted by the sonar transceiver. |
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| 184 | Verfahren zur Bestimmung der relativen Position von Fahrzeugen im Strassenverkehr | EP91118893.6 | 1991-11-06 | EP0484895A2 | 1992-05-13 | Ohler, Michael |
Es wir ein Verfahren zur Bestimmung der relativen Position von Fahrzeugen im Straßenverkehr durch Aussendung von Ultraschall-Signalen und Messung der Laufzeit beschrieben. Alle zur Ausübung des Verfahrens fähigen Fahrzeuge besitzen Sender und Empfänger zum Übertragen von Datentelegrammen, Auswerteschaltungen sowie Sender und Empfänger für Ultraschall-Signale. Vor der Messung zwischen den Fahrzeugen findet eine zyklische, an alle Fahrzeuge im Umfeld der Messung gerichtete Übertragung eines Datentelegramms statt. Dieses enthält Zeitpunkte oder Zeitschlitze der Aussendung von Ultraschall-Signalen. |
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| 185 | Hydroacoustic ranging system | EP91101777.0 | 1991-02-08 | EP0447783A2 | 1991-09-25 | Rouquette, Robert E. |
Digital processing systems and methods of hydroacoustic pulse communications in offshore seismic exploration systems provide more efficient surveys with less critical equipment. Thus hydroacoustic transceiver transducers towed in a set of streamers behind a vessel are accurately positioned under variable operation conditions with a geodetic reference point for more efficiently and accurately monitoring echo points for seismically identifying underwater formations. Spacings between transducers are found by calculating from pulse arrival times the transit times of hydroacoustic pulses. Predetermined pulse shapes and carrier frequencies above 40kHz are accurately determined upon receipt by digitally sampling waveshapes to determine shape and timing the reception of identified pulse shapes at transducers which are transmitted from other transducers for computing separations between sending and receiving transducers. Pulse transit time averaging avoids precise synchronization for simpler apparatus. The carrier frequencies and associated high pass filters for received pulses eliminate hydroacoustic noise. The digital pulse sampling and timing techniques simplify communications with associated data processing systems for seismic analysis and provide compact on-location electronic systems coupled to the transducers. |
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| 186 | An acoustic transmitter and receiver, particularly for localizing casualties in avalanche rescue operations. | EP87113108.2 | 1987-09-08 | EP0261494A1 | 1988-03-30 | Rönnbäck, Sture |
An accoustic transmitter and receiver (1), particularly designed to be used to localize casualties in avalanche accidents. It comprises both an accoustic transmitter part (4b) which is arranged to emit an accoustic signal and a receiver part (4a) for reception of said accoustic signal, transforming it into electric current, amplifying the current and emitting a loud sound signal with the aid of which persons (9) buried underneath masses of snow (8) may be localized. |
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| 187 | Dispositif électroacoustique d'identification subaquatique d'un objet immergé ou flottant, notamment d'un navire | EP84810129.1 | 1984-03-20 | EP0123648A1 | 1984-10-31 | Eberlin, Philippe |
Le dispositif comprend quatre transducteurs électroacoustiques (17,18,19,20) commandés par un circuit (29) agencé pour émettre un signal codé d'identification à une fréquence située entre 3 et 12 kHz selon un programme établi, les transducteurs (17-20) et le circuit (29) étant logés dans une traîne étanche (4) reliée à l'objet immergé ou flottant par l'intermédiaire d'un câble électro-mécanique (5), la traîne présentant des moyens (25, 26) pour être immergée à une profondeur prédéterminée. |
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| 188 | SONAR REFLECTIVE FISHING TACKLE | US18508607 | 2023-11-14 | US20240156073A1 | 2024-05-16 | Robert V. Terrell |
| A fishing tackle device including a body configured to be drawn through the water and an attachment point configured to connect to a fishing line from a fishing platform (e.g., a boat, dock, or shoreline). The fishing tackle device further includes a sonar reflector affixed to the body. The sonar reflector is configured to receive sonar waves from and direct sonar waves back toward a transducer of a fish finder on the boat. | ||||||
| 189 | Underwater work system | US17590201 | 2022-02-01 | US11964745B2 | 2024-04-23 | Noriyuki Okaya; Koichi Fukui |
| An underwater work system of the present disclosure acquires a relative position of an underwater vehicle relative to a surface ship at the start of searching work, the relative position being measured based on a sound wave transmitted from a wave transmitter. The underwater work system calculates a position of the underwater vehicle based on the acquired relative position. When a measurement error region whose center corresponds to the calculated position of the underwater vehicle and an expected laid region of a pipeline extending in a predetermined direction overlap each other, the underwater work system moves the underwater vehicle to such a position that the measurement error region and the expected laid region do not overlap each other, and then, makes the underwater vehicle perform crossing detection in which the underwater vehicle detects the presence or absence of the pipeline while crossing the expected laid region. | ||||||
| 190 | Acoustic Transponder, Use of an Acoustic Transponder, Method for Producing a Transponder, and Acoustic Transmission System | US18252788 | 2021-11-09 | US20240017293A1 | 2024-01-18 | Michael Gebhart |
| An acoustic transponder (1) for an acoustic transmission system is described, comprising a transponder chip (2) and a piezoelectric element (4) for converting a carrier frequency into an electric voltage, the transponder (1) having a miniaturized design. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a miniaturized transponder, the use of a miniaturized transponder, and an acoustic transmission system comprising the miniaturized transponder are described. | ||||||
| 191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A VEHICLE DRIVER USING AT LEAST PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SIGNALS | US17670339 | 2022-02-11 | US20220167118A1 | 2022-05-26 | Bennett Smith |
| A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map. | ||||||
| 192 | Systems and methods for determining a vehicle driver using at least peer-to-peer network signals | US17100118 | 2020-11-20 | US11252532B2 | 2022-02-15 | Bennett Smith |
| A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map. | ||||||
| 193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTACT AVOIDANCE FOR PREVENTING EPIDEMICS | US17228116 | 2021-04-12 | US20210319912A1 | 2021-10-14 | William R. Bandy; Michael R. Arneson |
| Embodiments described herein are directed to a contact avoidance system for preventing epidemics. A database maintains a record for each person enrolled in the system. The record comprises a risk level identifier that indicates a disease infection risk for the user. When devices carried by users are proximate to each other, the devices exchange identifiers that uniquely and anonymously identify the users. At least one device provides the identifier received thereby to the database, which retrieves the record associated with the identifier and determines a risk level for the user associated with the identifier. The risk level is returned to the device, which issues an alert if the risk level indicates that the other user is or may be infected with a disease. The database also updates the risk level associated with users that were determined to be proximate to a user determined to be infected with the disease. | ||||||
| 194 | UNDERWATER OPTICAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | US17093932 | 2020-11-10 | US20210141085A1 | 2021-05-13 | Carl W. Embry; Neil Manning; Derek D. Pierce; Mark Hardy |
| Systems and methods for positioning objects in underwater environments are provided. The geolocation of a target for an object is determined, and a light source provided as part of a positioning system is operated to project a visible target at that location. The determination of the target location relative to the positioning system can include determining a location of the positioning system using information obtained from a laser system included in the positioning system. The light source used to project the visible target can be the same as a light source included in the laser system. A location of an object relative to the target location can be tracked by the laser system as the object is being moved towards the target location. The described methods and systems utilize one or more non-touch subsea optical systems, including but not limited to laser systems, for underwater infrastructure installation, measurements and monitoring. | ||||||
| 195 | System for determining distance between fixed and mobile endpoints and related methods | US16015813 | 2018-06-22 | US10948593B2 | 2021-03-16 | Jacob Jared Summers |
| A system may include a fixed communications device and a mobile communications device each configured to wirelessly communicate at a first frequency and also at a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The fixed communications device and the mobile communications device may cooperate to establish a wireless link via the second frequency, exchange a location signal via the first frequency responsive to establishing the wireless link, communicate via the wireless link using the second frequency and determine respective transmit and receive delays associated with transmission and reception of the location signal via the first frequency, and determine a distance between the fixed communications device and the mobile communications device based upon a time of arrival of the location signal, the transmit and receive delays, and a signal speed associated with the second frequency. | ||||||
| 196 | Underwater optical positioning systems and methods | US16031812 | 2018-07-10 | US10871567B2 | 2020-12-22 | Carl W. Embry; Neil Manning; Derek D. Pierce; Mark Hardy |
| Systems and methods for positioning objects in underwater environments are provided. The geolocation of a target for an object is determined, and a light source provided as part of a positioning system is operated to project a visible target at that location. The determination of the target location relative to the positioning system can include determining a location of the positioning system using information obtained from a laser system included in the positioning system. The light source used to project the visible target can be the same as a light source included in the laser system. A location of an object relative to the target location can be tracked by the laser system as the object is being moved towards the target location. The described methods and systems utilize one or more non-touch subsea optical systems, including but not limited to laser systems, for underwater infrastructure installation, measurements and monitoring. | ||||||
| 197 | Methods and system to assist search and interception of lost objects | US15997815 | 2018-06-05 | US10871566B2 | 2020-12-22 | Thomas Danaher Harvey |
| Devices and methods for aiding a large area search for objects. A searcher transmits interrogation signals of long range relative to the return range to be received by a device at the target object. The target device responds with a ping signal modified to be more easily found by means of information contained in the interrogation signal. The information may be in the nature of the received signal or data encoded and embedded. The target device may use a microprocessor to do complex operations using the information from the interrogation signal and other information. Detection of a weak ping is facilitated by such means as being beamed in the direction of the interrogation, arriving at a predictable time, or having parameters adapted to values requested by the searcher. The object is then intercepted with help of the ping or other signals from the device. | ||||||
| 198 | User positioning method, information push method, and related apparatus | US16284724 | 2019-02-25 | US10757537B2 | 2020-08-25 | Nan Wang; Zhijun Du |
| Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for locating a client terminal are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining, by an audio signal playing terminal, identification information of an object associated with the audio signal playing terminal; watermarking, by the audio signal playing terminal, a to-be-played audio signal based on the identification information to obtain an audio signal having a watermark; and playing, by the audio signal playing terminal, the audio signal having the watermark for a client terminal to collect the audio signal having the watermark and send the audio signal having the watermark or the identification information to a server to enable the server to obtain the identification information and determine a position of the object based on a correspondence between the identification information and the position of the object and thereby to determine a position of the client terminal. | ||||||
| 199 | Underwater acoustic leaky wave antenna | US15711178 | 2017-09-21 | US10466353B2 | 2019-11-05 | Jeffrey Rogers; Katherine Woolfe; Matthew David Guild; Theodore P. Martin; Christina Jeanne Naify; Charles Alan Rohde |
| A leaky-wave antenna for fluid environments includes a waveguide cavity defined by a waveguide wall. The waveguide cavity is filled with a waveguide fluid. The waveguide walls are made of either an anisotropic material that utilize one of orthotropic stiffness of the anisotropic material to control mode conversion, a band gap material to approximate an acoustically rigid boundary, and a combination of the two materials. | ||||||
| 200 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AERIAL SYSTEM DISCRIMINATION AND ACTION | US16266993 | 2019-02-04 | US20190295422A1 | 2019-09-26 | Jasminder S. Banga |
| An aerial system discrimination system includes an aerial system disruption system, an aerial system identification system, and a permissions module. The discrimination system can additionally include or use an identifier transmission system configured to mount to the aerial system. The discrimination system functions to determine whether an aerial system is authorized or unauthorized to be in the airspace. The discrimination system can additionally function to prevent, disrupt, remove, or otherwise interact with an unauthorized aerial system within the airspace. | ||||||
