Patents by Inventor Urs Steger

Urs Steger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8422032
    Abstract: Chronologically correlated position pairs are generated in a position determination method using a unit, particularly a working machine (4), that changes its own position, having a GNSS receiver (2) and an optically measurable reference point (A) disposed in a spatially stationary manner, particularly an all-around prism (3), and having a geodetic device with a distance- and angle-measuring functionality, particularly a tacheometer (1). To this end, relative positions of the reference point (A) are determined in an interior reference system by optically measuring distance and at least one angle of the geodetic device to the reference point (A) and GNSS positions of the GNSS receiver in an exterior reference system. Equal times, or relative and GNSS positions allocated to a time frame are associated with each other, particularly in pairs, thus forming position pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Leica Geosystems AG
    Inventors: Andreas Buehlmann, Werner Vitus Stempfhuber, Urs Steger, Matthew Desmond
  • Publication number: 20110109915
    Abstract: Chronologically correlated position pairs are generated in a position determination method using a unit, particularly a working machine (4), that changes its own position, having a GNSS receiver (2) and an optically measurable reference point (A) disposed in a spatially stationary manner, particularly an all-around prism (3), and having a geodetic device with a distance- and angle-measuring functionality, particularly a tacheometer (1). To this end, relative positions of the reference point (A) are determined in an interior reference system by optically measuring distance and at least one angle of the geodetic device to the reference point (A) and GNSS positions of the GNSS receiver in an exterior reference system. Equal times, or relative and GNSS positions allocated to a time frame are associated with each other, particularly in pairs, thus forming position pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Buehlmann, Werner Stempfhuber, Urs Steger, Matthew Desmond