Patents Issued in June 16, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160169988
    Abstract: We describe a method of detecting a voltage from a spin-current, the spin-current comprising a current having a spin predominantly aligned in a spin direction, the method comprising: flowing the spin current through a layer of organic material in a vertical direction through the layer; and detecting an electric field in a lateral direction in the layer of organic material. In a preferred embodiment the organic layer is anisotropic and has a higher electrical conductivity in the lateral direction than in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicants: CAMPBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED, TOHOKKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: HENNING SIRRINGHAUS, KAZUYA ANDO, EIJI SAITOH, SEBASTIAN MOOER, SHUN WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20160169989
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique to improve a manufacturing yield of a gas cell included in a magnetic field measuring apparatus. A gas cell GC according to an embodiment is characterized in that, for example, a cavity CAV includes an opening OP1 and an opening OP2, a plane size of the opening OP1 becomes larger than a plane size of the opening OP2 in the openings OP1 and OP2 included in the cavity CAV. Especially, according to the embodiment, the opening OP2 is included in the opening OP1 in plan view. Consequently, a width of the opening OP1 coming into contact with an upper surface of the sealing substrate 1S becomes larger than a width of the opening OP2 coming into contact with a lower surface of the sealing substrate 2S.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi SUZUKI, Taro OSABE, Yudai KAMADA, Ryuzo KAWABATA, Akihiko KANDORI
  • Publication number: 20160169990
    Abstract: A radio frequency coil unit (10) for use in a magnetic resonance imaging system, the radio frequency coil unit (10) comprising: at least one electrically insulating substrate (18); at least one radio frequency coil member (12) disposed at a first side (22) of the electrically insulating substrate (18); a first capacitor member (26) disposed at the first side (22) of the electrically insulating substrate (18) and galvanically connected to the at least one radio frequency coil member (12); a second capacitor member (28) disposed at a second side (24) of the electrically insulating substrate (18) which is opposite of the first side (22); wherein the first capacitor member (26) and the second capacitor member (28) at least partially overlap in a direction (20) perpendicular to a sur face of the electrically insulating substrate (18); and wherein the at least one radio frequency coil member (12), the first capacitor member (26) and the second capacitor member (28) are part of a radio frequency resonance circuit ha
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: OLIVER LIPS
  • Publication number: 20160169991
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a wireless RF coil; a control side oscillator configured to output a control-side clock signal used for executing a pulse sequence; and a synchronization signal transmission circuit configured to wirelessly transmit a synchronization signal to the wireless RF coil in an executing period of the pulse sequence, except an MR-signal detection period during which the wireless RF coil detects a magnetic resonance signal, wherein the synchronization signal is within a frequency band of a Larmor frequency and reflects a phase of the control-side clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sojiyuuro KATO, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Kazuyuki SOEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160169992
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a laminate panel is provided. The laminate panel comprises at least one laminate layer including at least one non-conductive layer and at least one conductive layer patterned to form at least a portion of a B0 coil configured to contribute to a B0 field suitable for use in low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Hyperfine Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Matthew Scot Rosen, Gregory L. Charvat, William J. Mileski, Todd Rearick, Michael Stephen Poole
  • Publication number: 20160169993
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of suppressing noise in an environment of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method comprising estimating a transfer function based on multiple calibration measurements obtained from the environment by at least one primary coil and at least one auxiliary sensor, respectively, estimating noise present in a magnetic resonance signal received by the at least one primary coil based at least in part on the transfer function, and suppressing noise in the magnetic resonance signal using the noise estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Hyperfine Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Rearick, Gregory L. Charvat, Matthew Scot Rosen, Jonathan M. Rothberg
  • Publication number: 20160169994
    Abstract: A medical imaging system (10) includes a magnetic resonance (MR) scanner (12), and a MR reconstruction unit (34). The MR scanner (12) applies a multi-echo ultra-short TE (UTE) with mDixon pulse sequence to a subject (16) and receives MR data (33) representing at least a portion of the subject. The MR reconstruction unit (34) reconstructs a Free Induction Decay (FID) image (120), and one or more echo magnitude images (122), one or more phase images (39), an in-phase image (39), a water image (39), and a fat image (39) from the received MR data (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Lingzhi HU, Christian STEHNING, Zhiqiang HU, Lingxiong SHAO
  • Publication number: 20160169995
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for generating a phase-describing map in a firm that is usable to generate magnetic resonance (MR) image data, first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data are acquired from a region of the examination subject, at two different echo times, said first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data originating from two different chemical substance types. First and second image data sets of the defined region are reconstructed respectively from the first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data. An energy function is determined that contains at least one term that places phase-describing values of map points of a phase-describing map in relation to each other dependent on a difference of the respective phase-describing values of the respective map points. The energy function is optimized to obtain an optimized phase-describing map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Marcel Dominik Nickel
  • Publication number: 20160169996
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method of prescribing a scan plane during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of an anatomy. The method comprises acquiring a volume image of the anatomy at a first resolution and simultaneously displaying three planar images representing cross-sections through the anatomy. The three images are orthogonal to each other and intersecting at a common point in the volume. The method also comprises further displaying a pair of axes on each image showing a correspondence of the image with each of the other two images, and receiving a manipulation of one at least one of the axes on at least one of the images and automatically updating the other images to maintain the correspondences. The method also comprises acquiring a volume of the anatomy at a second resolution that is higher than the first resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Hirohito Okuda, Yoshihiro Oda, Osamu Takayama, Vivek Vaidya
  • Publication number: 20160169997
    Abstract: In a magnetic resonance facility and operating method for acquiring image data of a patient in a manner defined by acquisition parameters, the acquisition of the image data is preceded by the performance of at least one alignment operation for adjusting operating parameters of the magnetic resonance facility that influence acquisition conditions for the current patient. At least one result data item describing the result of the alignment used for an at least partially automatic determination of at least one acquisition parameter not relating to the pulse shape of a radio-frequency pulse to be used during the acquisition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Fautz, Dominik Paul
  • Publication number: 20160169998
    Abstract: Provided are methods for nuclear spin polarization enhancement via signal amplification by reversible exchange at very low magnetic fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Warren S. Warren, Thomas Theis, Eduard Y. Chekmenev, Milton Y. Truong, Aaron M. Coffey, Boyd Goodson, Fan Shi, Roman V. Shchepin
  • Publication number: 20160169999
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, comprising a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The MR scanner comprises a main magnet providing a substantially uniform main magnetic field B0 for a subject under observation, the subject represented by a spatial distribution of magnetizations; a radio frequency (RF) coil system configured to irradiate a plurality of radio frequency (RF) pulses into a region of interest of the subject and to detect a plurality of RF response signals emitted from the region of interest; a gradient coil system configured to provide a perturbation of the main magnetic field B0 using a gradient pulse sequence that causes the RF response signals to encode the spatial distribution of magnetizations in a Fourier domain on a plurality of read-out paths; and a controller in communication with the RF coil system and the gradient coil system to synchronously provide the RF coil system with the plurality of RF pulses and the gradient coil system with the gradient pulse sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Alfredo Herza, John Andrew Derbyshire
  • Publication number: 20160170000
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus to acquire magnetic resonance data from a subject and to enter the acquired data into k-space, data entered in an upper-half portion of k-space are acquired under a forward phase encoding gradient of the scanner so as to obtain a first portion of k-space data, and data in a lower-half portion of k-space are acquired under a reverse phase encoding gradient of the scanner so as to obtain a second portion of k-space data. The first portion of k-space data and the second portion of k-space data are combined to form complete k-space data, wherein the first portion of k-space data and the second portion of k-space data each constitute at least half of the complete k-space data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Kun Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160170001
    Abstract: The present invention obtains high-quality images even in a case of measurement with a radial sampling method. For this purpose, pre-measurement is performed to extract only a component different for each blade from among shift amounts from among echo signals, and a shift amount in k-space of an echo signal by the said component is reflected to a reconstruction process. In the pre-measurement, echo signals are obtained respectively by applying readout gradient magnetic field pulses that change the polarity to the positive and negative and that have the same pulse shape as readout gradient magnetic field pulses to be used in an image acquisition sequence. A shift amount is obtained for each axis of X, Y, and Z of an MRI apparatus as a variation amount of a phase difference between both the echo signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Hanada, Miyuki TAKAHASHI, Kuniharu OKA, Masahiro TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160170002
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a gradient magnetic field controller which applies a spatial encoding gradient to a plurality of slices and applies a gradient magnetic field in a first direction with respect to the plurality of slices, a radio frequency (RF) receiver which receives respective magnetic resonance signals from each of the plurality of slices undersampled in a second direction different from the first direction, and an image processor which generates a respective magnetic resonance image of each of the plurality of slices based on the magnetic resonance signals received from the plurality of slices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyun-wook PARK, Dong-chan KIM, Chang-heun OH, Hyun-seok SEO
  • Publication number: 20160170003
    Abstract: The present invention is a solar light aligning apparatus that uses optics and optical physics to align sun light. The solar light aligning apparatus can determine the tilt of any planar surface such that the planar surface is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the sun. The apparatus can be used as a guide to adjust the tilt angle of solar energy collection apparatus such as solar photovoltaic or solar thermal energy collectors. The solar light aligning apparatus can determine the optimal tilt angle for high efficiency solar energy collection on a daily basis, for any latitude, seasonal movement of the sun, east-west orientation of solar energy collector, and pitch of the surface upon which solar energy collectors are mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: James Howard BUSHONG, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160170004
    Abstract: A method for estimating location of an electronic device is provided. The method includes collecting from a transmitter, transmitter information including time information that is proportional to distance between the electronic device and the transmitter; obtaining location information of the electronic device at a point where the transmitter information is collected; and transmitting the transmitter information and the location information to a server to be used to estimate the location of the transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jin-Woo KIM, Seok-Hwan PARK, Sung-Rae CHO, Chae-Man LIM
  • Publication number: 20160170005
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for assisting positioning determination of a mobile device. The method may include receiving signal measurements, reported by a plurality of different sources within a service area of a communication network, for signals generated by communication network transceivers that are detectable in the service area of the communication network. The method may also include determining quality of the signals generated by the communication network transceivers for mobile device positioning based on an accumulation of the received signal measurements from the plurality of different sources over a period of time. The method may also include generating a prioritized listing of communication network transceivers based on the determined quality of signals generated by the communication network transceivers, and providing the prioritized listing to a mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Rayman Wai Pon, Mayur Nitinbhai Shah
  • Publication number: 20160170007
    Abstract: An example of a system including a plurality of lighting devices, each lighting device including a light source, a modulator and a processor. Each processor is configured to control the respective light source to emit light for general illumination and control the respective modulator to modulate the intensity of the emitted light to broadcast a respective signal modulated on the emitted light within a respective range of frequencies. A first lighting device and a second lighting device modulate emitted light within the same range of frequencies when the first lighting device is set at a distance from the second lighting device such that modulated light emitted by the first lighting device appears in a first portion of an image sensor of a mobile device and modulated light emitted by the second lighting device appears in a second portion of the image sensor separate from the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Ryan, Kelby Edward Green, Emanuel Paul Malandrakis, Konstantin Klitenik
  • Publication number: 20160170008
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a variety of improved techniques including methods and apparatus for coordinating a plurality of devices, and more specifically, a method and apparatus for coordinating a plurality of devices to estimate or calculate various distances, relative positions, device attitudes, and other absolute and/or relative kinematic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Stanislav Vonog, Tara Lemmey, Nikolay Surin, Maxim Bykov
  • Publication number: 20160170009
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed method involves splitting a signal into low power portions. The method further involves coding the low power portions to produce coded low power portions, where the coding comprises convolving each low power portion with a respective different code. Also, the method involves summing the coded low power portions to produce a resultant coded signal. In addition, the method involves transmitting the resultant coded signal towards a target object. Additionally, the method involves receiving a reflected resultant coded signal, where the resultant coded signal reflects off the target object to produce the reflected resultant coded signal. Also, the method involves decoding the reflected resultant coded signal to produce a decoded signal. Further, the method involves correlating the decoded signal to produce a complete received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Atul Jain, David A. Whelan
  • Publication number: 20160170010
    Abstract: A device for radar applications includes a computing engine, a radar acquisition unit connected to the computing engine, a timer unit connected to the computing engine, a cascade input port, and a cascade output port. The cascade input port is configured to convey an input signal to the computing engine and the cascade output port is configured to convey an output signal from the computing engine. Further, an according system, a radar system, a vehicle with such radar system and a method are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Romain Ygnace, Andre Roger
  • Publication number: 20160170011
    Abstract: A method can be used for operating an optoelectronic proximity sensor. The proximity sensor includes a radiation-emitting component, a radiation-detecting component and a control unit. The radiation-emitting component is operated by means of a pulsed current. During each measurement period, the pulsed current of the radiation-emitting component has an on-time and an off-time. The pulsed current has a pulse current intensity during the on-time, and the control unit evaluates a detector signal of the radiation-detecting component and lowers the pulse current intensity for a subsequent measurement period, when the detector signal exceeds a threshold value during at least one measurement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Hubert Halbritter
  • Publication number: 20160170012
    Abstract: A sonar system to image the seabed, comprises at least one emission antenna to emit an acoustic beam covering a useful angular sector delimited by a first direction and a second direction, the distance between the antenna and the seabed being more significant in the first direction than in the second direction. The emission device is configured to form an emission pattern whose maximum is situated substantially in the first direction and which decreases from the first direction to the second direction and from the first direction in the sense opposite to the second direction, the energy attenuation being faster in the sense opposite to the second direction than toward the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Pierre GUTHMANN, Nicolas MANDELERT, Patrick FERRARA
  • Publication number: 20160170013
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to sense deployment of a transducer in water based on receiving sonar data from the transducer. The computer may automatically trigger at least one event upon receiving the sonar data. The at least one event may include recording the sonar data generated by the transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Matthew Laster
  • Publication number: 20160170014
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless identification receives position information on recognition objects searched by a radar from the radar and identifies recognition objects within a communication area of antennas using signals responding to wireless frequency signals which are transmitted while changing beam directions of the antennas, for the recognition objects searched by the radar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Juderk PARK, Yong Sun KIM, Wun-Cheol JEONG, Tae Joon PARK, Hoyong KANG, CHEOL SIG PYO
  • Publication number: 20160170015
    Abstract: In 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 real path is determined and the deviation is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Fredrik Tuxen
  • Publication number: 20160170016
    Abstract: A plurality of antenna elements may receive a plurality of signals. Each of the plurality of antenna elements may correspond to at least one of a plurality of sectors of a sectorized antenna. A receiver may process each of the plurality of signals in parallel, including decoding one or more messages from the plurality of signals. The receiver may output at least one of the one or more messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jan Bilek, Petr Kejik, Milan Sopata
  • Publication number: 20160170017
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-contact monitoring system, including: a radar detection module, an infrared sensing module, a micro control unit and a communication module. The radar detection module transmits a radar detection signal via the radar antenna to an area, receives a radar reflection signal from the area, and transmits the radar reflection signal to the micro control unit. The infrared sensing module detects a heat source of an organism in the area, and transmits an infrared sensing signal to the micro control unit. The micro control unit receives and processes the radar reflection signal transmitted by the radar detection module and the infrared sensing signal transmitted by the infrared sensing module, and transmits an alarm signal to the communication module. The communication module receives the alarm signal transmitted by the micro control unit, and transmits the alarm signal to a remote monitoring end via the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Chien-Ting Ho, Yen-Liang Kuo
  • Publication number: 20160170018
    Abstract: Disclosed is a radar signal processing device 2 including frequency domain convertors 201-1 to 201-M to convert raw data 11-1 to 11-M showing observation results acquired by a radar device 1 into those in a frequency domain, a signal restorer 202 to synthesize the raw data 11-1 to 11-M whose domain is converted into the frequency domain according to a least square method, a time domain convertor 203 to return a signal series after synthesis to that in a time domain, and an image reproducer 204 to acquire a reproduced image 12 by performing image reproduction on the signal series whose domain is returned to the time domain,
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160170019
    Abstract: A radar signal target detection and display system employs feedback to produce improved detection and tracking. Portions of the radar images for each antenna channel to search for the target of interest are defined using the track state to define the center of the search region and using the track covariance matrix to define the size of the region. Moving reference processing (MRP) is performed. MRP employs a search centered on the motion state derived from the detection sent to the tracker on the previous coherent processing interval (CPI). Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is employed on each CPI using a unique set of adaptive degrees of freedom (DOFs) derived from pre-MRP and post-MRP complex radar image amplitudes for each antenna channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Gregory J. Owirka, Douglas A. Page, Thomas J. Kragh, Howard E. Nichols
  • Publication number: 20160170020
    Abstract: An on-board radar apparatus includes a transmitter/receiver that transmits a radar signal to a detection range every frame and receives one or more reflected signals which are the radar signal reflected by one or more objects; a detector that detects, every frame in each direction within the detection range, a position of a reflection point closest to the on-board radar apparatus as a boundary candidate position, which serves as a boundary with a region where no object exists within the detection range, among one or more reflection points detected on the basis of the one or more reflected signals; a calculator that calculates movement amount concerning an amount of movement of the on-board radar apparatus; an estimator that generates, every frame in each direction within the detection range, an estimated boundary position by converting the boundary candidate position detected in a past frame into a boundary position in a current frame on the basis of the movement amount; and a smoother that performs, every fr
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: ASAKO HAMADA, HIROFUMI NISHIMURA, KIYOTAKA KOBAYASHI, MAIKO SHIKATANI
  • Publication number: 20160170021
    Abstract: A collision warning apparatus, mountable in a vehicle to detect collision threat levels between the host vehicle and an object or target detected forward of the host vehicle. All processing and signal generation takes place in a controller in the housing without reliance on external signals, except for input power, from the host vehicle. The controller activates visible and/or audible indicators on the housing to alert the driver of the collision threat level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Charles Rashid, Steve A. Safie
  • Publication number: 20160170022
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive sonar data from a transducer after deployment of the transducer in a body of water. The computer may process the sonar data to detect a bottom of the body of water based on the sonar data received from the transducer. The computer may automatically trigger at least one event upon detecting the bottom of the body of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Matthew Laster
  • Publication number: 20160170023
    Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of Doppler lidars intended to measure the speed of a target. The lidar according to the invention comprises: First means for modulating the optical frequency of the transmission signal, said frequency being the sum of a constant frequency and of a variable frequency of determined amplitude modulated by a periodic temporal function; Second means for computing the spectrum of the measured heterodyne signal and for creating two measurement spectra obtained by shifting the spectrum of the heterodyne signal by a positive and negative frequency value, said realignment frequency equal to the difference between the instantaneous frequency of the transmission signal and the frequency of a signal transmitted at a time shifted by the round-trip travel time between the lidar and the target; Third means for comparing the two measurement spectra, the difference in amplitude between the two spectra at the Doppler frequency determining the direction of the speed of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe Rondeau, Jean-Pierre Schlotterbeck, Xavier Lacondemine
  • Publication number: 20160170024
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention include a coordinate measuring machine for detecting the position and alignment of a spatially movable measuring aid. The coordinate measuring machine may include a retroreflector; a base; a support, which is fixed on the base rotatably about a first rotation axis; a beam directing unit, which is fixed to the support rotatably about a second rotation axis substantially orthogonal to the first rotation axis; means for detecting a rotation angle of the support relative to the base; and means for detecting a rotation angle of the beam directing unit relative to the support. In some embodiments, the beam directing unit comprises a laser emission and reception optical unit and a first optical distance measuring unit having at least one first distance measuring device for measuring the distance to a retroreflector of the measuring aid by means of a first measurement radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Burkhard BÖCKEM, Thomas LÜTHI, Simon FUCHS
  • Publication number: 20160170025
    Abstract: An integrated, externally-mounted Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) device comprising in one embodiment a 1030 MHz transmitter, a 1030 MHz antenna, a 1090 MHz receiver, a 1090 MHz antenna, a GNSS receiver, at least one GNSS antenna, a 978 MHz transmitter, and a 978 MHz antenna, wherein these components are integrated into a single enclosure, and wherein the GNSS antenna is placed at least partially into a projection extending out from the main enclosure body, such that the GNSS antenna has improved visibility to GNSS signals originating from altitudes above the current altitude of aircraft when the ADS-B device is mounted on the bottom of an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Johnson, Bradley R. Thurow
  • Publication number: 20160170026
    Abstract: The invention, in some embodiments, relates to the field of global navigation satellite systems, and more particularly to the field of methods and devices for identifying whether a satellite in a global navigation satellite system has a line of sight to a specific global navigation satellite system receiver (LOS satellite) or does not have a line of sight to the global navigation satellite system receiver (NLOS satellite).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Boaz BEN MOSHE, Nir SHVALB
  • Publication number: 20160170027
    Abstract: Described herein is a receiver for a navigation system, which receives a navigation signal modulated with a pseudorandom sequence along a line-of-sight path and reflected paths. The receiver includes a delay-locked loop, which generates a local sequence, and a first correlator and a second correlator, which operate in open-loop mode and generate a first correlation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Finmeccanica - S.P.A.
    Inventors: Davide MARGARIA, Emanuela FALLETTI, Francesco PARIZZI, Alberto BAGNASCO, Augusto TORCHI
  • Publication number: 20160170028
    Abstract: Processing GPS drifting. A method and system for processing GPS drifting is included. The method includes: determining predicted error information on position correction of a device within a region; obtaining a GPS initial position and a corrected position of the device within the region; and determining GPS drifting of the region based on the predicted error information, the GPS initial position, and the corrected position of at least one device within the region. The method and system of the present application can effectively ameliorate GPS drifting issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Min Gong, Yun Jie Qiu, Yu Wang, Junchi Yan
  • Publication number: 20160170029
    Abstract: A device and method for tracking satellites and handing off from one satellite to another includes a linear phased array antenna capable of generating and receiving a radio signal beam and electronically pointing the beam, a first motor for tilting the antenna to mechanically point a radio signal beam generated with the antenna, a second motor for spinning or rotating the antenna to mechanically point the beam, and a controller for controlling the electronic and the mechanical pointing of the beam. The directions of the electronic and mechanical pointing of the beam is performed by selecting a certain angular profile for the second motor from the start point to the end point of the path and calculating a path of a satellite to be tracked from a start point to an end point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Gregory Thane Wyler, Melvin S. Ni
  • Publication number: 20160170030
    Abstract: Technology for measuring orientation is described. Signals can be received from a signal source having a known location via at least two antennas of the interferometer that are separated by a predefined distance. A delay between receiving the signals from the signal source at the at least two antennas of the interferometer can be calculated. A line of bearing (LOB) of the interferometer with respect to the signal source can be determined based on the delay between receiving the signals at the at least two antennas from the signal source. The orientation of the interferometer can be measured in a global coordinate system using the LOB of the interferometer with respect to the signal source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin Dolgin, Sarah E. Law, Joanne M. Attridge, Preethi Pratap, David C. Fisher
  • Publication number: 20160170031
    Abstract: A device for determining the position and orientation of a first body with respect to a second body uses a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters on the first body to transmit a short range signal to one or more RF antennas on the second body. The first and second body are near each other and can be moveably coupled. A receiver circuit on the second body uses the plurality of RF signals received by the RF antennas to determine the position and orientation of the first body with respect to the second body. In some embodiments one or more GNSS antennas mounted to the second body will provide the GNSS coordinate system and location such that the position and orientation of both the first body and the second body can be referenced to the GNSS global coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: HEMISPHERE GNSS INC.
    Inventor: Walter J. Feller
  • Publication number: 20160170032
    Abstract: A sensor board for a detector module is disclosed. It includes, in a stack construction, at least one reader unit and a sensor layer arranged spaced from the reader unit in the direction of the stack. A gap formed by the spacing between the sensor layer and the reader unit is filled with a cured filling material such that at least one edge region of the sensor layer is free of the filling material. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a corresponding sensor board, and a detector module is disclosed for an X-ray detector having a number of sensor boards which are arranged to be mutually adjacent on a module carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ludwig DANZER, Harald GEYER, Miguel LABAYEN DE INZA, Jan WREGE
  • Publication number: 20160170033
    Abstract: Described is a method and system that facilitates triage of thousands to millions of potential patients within a relatively short period of time by scanning of a substrate of a designated card issued to a victim. The method and the system comprise a plurality of noninvasive self-testing test devices located at a plurality of remote peripheral self-testing sites, and each one of the plurality of noninvasive self-testing test devices facilitates self-testing of the substrate of the designated card. Each of the plurality of noninvasive self-testing test devices provides test results of the scan of the substrate of the designated card, and the potential patients are identified, then subsequently screened and triaged based upon the test results of the scan of the substrate of the designated card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Robert M. Gougelet, James Robert White
  • Publication number: 20160170034
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a casing and a camera disposed inside the casing. A first field of view through the casing exposes the camera to light from outside of the casing. An image plate is disposed inside the casing, and a second field of view through the casing to the image plate exposes the image plate to high-energy particles produced by a radioisotope outside of the casing. An optical reflector that is substantially transparent to the high-energy particles produced by the radioisotope is disposed with respect to the camera and the image plate to reflect light to the camera and to allow the high-energy particles produced by the radioisotope to pass through the optical reflector to the image plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: John T. Bobbitt, III, David M. Immel, Matthew D. Folsom, Jean R. Plummer, Michael G. Serrato
  • Publication number: 20160170035
    Abstract: Apparatus, techniques and systems are described for facilitating identification of a target area during a probe-guided radio-localization surgical procedure. The described apparatus, techniques and systems can be used to implement a nuclear-uptake mode controller integrated into a probe to allow a user to instantly switch between multiple nuclear-uptake modes directly from the probe hand-piece. For example, a nuclear-uptake mode controller integrated into the probe can be used to instantly switch between a high-sensitivity nuclear-up take mode and a high-resolution nuclear-uptake mode to effectively identify the target area in the presence of interfering nuclear signals by better matching the probe's nuclear detection parameters to a search task for that target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen Yarnall, Joel Kindem, Richard Conwell
  • Publication number: 20160170036
    Abstract: In the present invention, a battery box is provided on the lower side of a survey meter body so as to protrude downwardly. Four primary batteries are accommodated inside the battery box with inclined postures. A stepped structure is formed between the front surface of the battery box and the lower surface of the body. The survey meter can be held by a hand while an index finger, or the like, is hooked on the stepped structure. It is also possible to remove the battery box and dispose a plate-like secondary battery in an accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI ALOKA MEDICAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Yoshida, Toshikazu Tanino
  • Publication number: 20160170037
    Abstract: Preprocessing is conducted on a unipolar pulse output from a photomultiplier tube, to thereby generate a bipolar signal (bipolar pulse). In the bipolar signal, the falling waveform portion (back slope) of the initial peak waveform is steep, and also cuts across the baseline, whereby it is possible to accurately identify the falling point as the zero crossing point. The accuracy of identification of the pulse width “t” can be improved thereby. In addition to the pulse width, further reference may be made to the crest value of the unipolar pulse, the crest value of the bipolar signal, and the like, when determining line type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI ALOKA MEDICAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiraku Katsuyama, Toru Kato, Toshiro Obata
  • Publication number: 20160170038
    Abstract: A detector system for a CT scanner is provided. The detector system may include a plurality of detector modules. Each of the detector modules may include a supporting frame, two or more detectors and an interface board. A supporting frame may be connected to a casing of the detector system. Detectors may be mounted onto a supporting frame and may convert an X-ray beam within a CT scanner into an electrical signal. An interface board may be disposed in an outer side of a supporting frame away from the focus of an X-ray tube, and may be electrically connected to a plurality of detectors through a connector, so as to provide a control signal and a power supply to the detectors, and to transmit a digital signal outputted by the detectors to a backplane of the detector system through an output line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Jun Yu