Patents by Inventor Yaron Kranz

Yaron Kranz 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: 10568558
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a pilot's health is provided herein. The system may include: a head mounted device mountable to a head of a pilot; at least one vital signs sensor couplable to a body portion of said pilot and configured to obtain vital signs data associated with said pilot; at least one head sensor configured to obtain head-related data associated with the head of said pilot; and a computer processor configured to receive the vital signs data and the head-related data as an input and generate as an output, an indication of pilot incompetence, based on predefined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaron Kranz, Zvi Oron, Yoav Ophir
  • Publication number: 20190008438
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a pilot's health is provided herein. The system may include: a head mounted device mountable to a head of a pilot; at least one vital signs sensor couplable to a body portion of said pilot and configured to obtain vital signs data associated with said pilot; at least one head sensor configured to obtain head-related data associated with the head of said pilot; and a computer processor configured to receive the vital signs data and the head-related data as an input and generate as an output, an indication of pilot incompetence, based on predefined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yaron Kranz, Zvi Oron, Yoav Ophir
  • Patent number: 10058277
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a pilot's health is provided herein. The system may include: a head mounted device mountable to a head of a pilot; at least one vital signs sensor couplable to a body portion of said pilot and configured to obtain vital signs data associated with said pilot; at least one head sensor configured to obtain head-related data associated with the head of said pilot; and a computer processor configured to receive the vital signs data and the head-related data as an input and generate as an output, an indication of pilot incompetence, based on predefined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Kranz, Zvi Oron, Yoav Ophir
  • Publication number: 20160242691
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a pilot's health is provided herein. The system may include: a head mounted device mountable to a head of a pilot; at least one vital signs sensor couplable to a body portion of said pilot and configured to obtain vital signs data associated with said pilot; at least one head sensor configured to obtain head-related data associated with the head of said pilot; and a computer processor configured to receive the vital signs data and the head-related data as an input and generate as an output, an indication of pilot incompetence, based on predefined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Yaron KRANZ, Zvi ORON, Yoav OPHIR
  • Patent number: 8687056
    Abstract: Enhanced vision system for assisting aircraft piloting, the system including a line-of-sight detector for determining the line-of-sight of the pilot of the aircraft, a head mounted display (HMD) worn by the pilot, and a processor which receives the determined line-of-sight from the line-of-sight detector, receives a spatial image of the external scene to the aircraft, generates symbolic information respective of the aircraft piloting, and superimposes the symbolic information onto the spatial image to produce a combined spatial and symbolic image, the HMD displaying the combined spatial and symbolic image to the pilot in real-time, in alignment with the determined line-of-sight. The spatial image may be an image combined from a sensor image and a synthetic image. A communication interface may be coupled to the HMD allowing the pilot to receive and confirm flight instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Dror Yahav, Yaron Kranz, Asaf Ashkenazi, Itai Orenstein, Tal Waisman, Mike Abrahami
  • Publication number: 20100231705
    Abstract: Enhanced vision system for assisting aircraft piloting, the system including a line-of-sight detector for determining the line-of-sight of the pilot of the aircraft, a head mounted display (HMD) worn by the pilot, and a processor which receives the determined line-of-sight from the line-of-sight detector, receives a spatial image of the external scene to the aircraft, generates symbolic information respective of the aircraft piloting, and superimposes the symbolic information onto the spatial image to produce a combined spatial and symbolic image, the HMD displaying the combined spatial and symbolic image to the pilot in real-time, in alignment with the determined line-of-sight. The spatial image may be an image combined from a sensor image and a synthetic image. A communication interface may be coupled to the HMD allowing the pilot to receive and confirm flight instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Dror Yahav, Yaron Kranz, Asaf Ashkenazi, Itai Orenstein, Tal Waisman, Mike Abrahami
  • Patent number: 7401920
    Abstract: A system for eye tracking that determines the line of sight of a user according to the relative position between the center of the pupil and a reference point, the system including an image detector that captures an image of the eye, a pupil-illuminating light source that illuminates the pupil of the user, a reference light source that illuminates a different portion of the face of the user as a reference point and an imaging processor that analyzes the captured eye image to determine the line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Kranz, Yoav Ophir, Hanan Shamir, Yosi Yaeli