Patents Issued in November 29, 2018
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Publication number: 20180340755Abstract: The present disclosure provides a kinematic rail mount for mounting a device on a rail that includes a topmost surface and an under surface along opposing sides of the rail. According to an embodiment, the mount comprises a frame having a length along a first direction, a width along a second direction, and a height along a third direction; and a clamp operatively connected to the frame to be slidable along the second direction. The frame has a first end portion and a second end portion arranged along the first direction and an intermediate portion disposed between the first and second end portions. The clamp includes a guide disposed in a channel formed in the intermediate portion of the frame. The first end portion and second end portion include, respectively, a first raised pad and a second raised pad. The intermediate portion includes a third raised pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Tim J. COSENTINO
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Publication number: 20180340756Abstract: A cover for a receiver of a gun that may include an elongated member having a first longitudinal axis, the elongated member including a distal end portion which may include a leading edge which is configured and dimensioned to connect with a gun part, and a proximal end portion which is spaced from the distal end portion along the first longitudinal axis. The elongated member may include a first locking mechanism adjacent the proximal end wall. The first locking mechanism may be secured to a recoil spring guide of the gun. Also, the elongated member may include a second locking mechanism adjacent the distal end portion. The second locking mechanism may be secured to a rear sight base of the gun. The elongated member may include an accessory rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Sagi Faifer
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Publication number: 20180340757Abstract: A camouflage system for thermal and visual camouflage of a movable object comprising at least two frames and a plurality of reflective elements connected to each of the at least two frames, each of the reflective elements is made of a reflective material having a reflectivity of at least 90 percent in the electromagnetic (EM) wave length range of 3-12 microns and all of the reflective panels are positioned in a predefined angle with respect to a vertical axis, wherein the predefined angle is in the range of 6 to 25 degrees so that when installed on the object an upper part of each of the reflective panels is more distant from the camouflaged object than a lower part of the same reflective panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2015Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Fibrotex Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Adi BLUM, Itai GOMER
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Publication number: 20180340758Abstract: A patrol vehicle protection system with a quick release bullet resistant transparent panel system that requires no permanent modifications to the patrol vehicle, offers head impact safety protection, and may be used as a handheld protective shield. The system includes a bullet resistant transparent panel that temporarily attaches to a mounting mechanism mounted inside the door window opening. The mechanism includes upper and lower brackets that engage the window tracks around the door window opening. An optional vertical brace may be used to hold the brackets in place. The transparent panel is securely held between the two brackets with magnets that allow release of the panel in a side impact collision. The system includes at lateral force generating device mounted to a bracket that is activated when a side impact is detected forcing the transparent panel outward.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Joe Klingman, Sandra Higgins
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Publication number: 20180340759Abstract: The invention is a pivot support assembly for a bullet impact target. It includes a first plate and a second plate, the second plate having a pair of spaced-apart elongated slots formed therein. A pair of pivot support plates each have an extension portion sized to extend through one of the elongated slots and a base portion sized not to fit through the slot. Each of the extension portions including a pivot axis means. A clamp means secures the first and second plates together in a substantially parallel relationship. The extension portions of the pivot support plates are positioned through the slots such that the pivot axis means of each are substantially axially aligned with each other, the base portion is clamped between the first and second plates, and a bullet resistant target plate is supported for pivotal movement on the pivot axis means.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Bradley T. Brune
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Integrated Event Detection and Electrical Generator Devices For A Gravity Dropped or Ejected Weapons
Publication number: 20180340760Abstract: A method for generating power in a gravity dropped munition, the method including: winding a cable around a drum of a generator associated with the munition; attaching the cable from the generator to a portion of an aircraft; separating the munition from the aircraft to unwind the cable from the drum to release the cable from the drum after a predetermined amount of rotation of the drum; converting the rotation of the drum to energy in a spring as the cable is unwound from the drum; restricting movement of an intermediate member connecting the drum to the generator while the cable is being unwound from the drum; and ending the restricting when the cable is released from the drum allowing the intermediate member to engage the drum with the generator to produce power from the generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Omnitek Partners LLCInventors: Jahangir S. Rastegar, Jacques Fischer -
Publication number: 20180340761Abstract: A counting device for distance measuring wheel includes a housing, a transmission assembly, a counter wheel assembly, and a reset control assembly. An elastic support unit of the reset control assembly is arranged at the side of each of the transmission assembly and the counter wheel assembly so that the relative positions among the transmission assembly, the counter wheel assembly, and the reset control assembly arranged inside the housing are changed and the size of the counter wheel assembly may become larger while the size of the housing is not changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: CHING-YUAN CHEN
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Publication number: 20180340762Abstract: A test jig for a door glass includes a mounting block detachably mounted on a door panel of a vehicle door, and an adjustment block that has a vertical part to which a belt weatherstrip is detachably coupled and a horizontal part connected to the mounting block so as to be adjustable relative to the mounting block.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Jin Woo Kim, Il Yeong Seo
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Publication number: 20180340763Abstract: To provide an operation method of a position measuring device capable of accurately and quickly designating a detection point of an object by intuitive operability, such as directly moving the probe with a hand. One aspect of the present invention is an operation method of a position measuring device that includes a measurement head having a probe for designating a detection point of a position of an object, and a moving mechanism for moving the measurement head, and acquires a coordinate of the detection point designated by the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Shinsaku Abe
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Publication number: 20180340764Abstract: A device for measuring container includes an elongated guide plate transversely mounted on an open top of a container. At least one elongated ruler is inserted into an interior of the container from the open top, and the end face of the distal end of the at least one elongated ruler contacts the inner end of the interior. The mediate section of the at least one elongated ruler contacts the elongated guide plate to obtain a first index. The at least one elongated ruler is moved to the exterior of the container and contacts a surface which is located on a common surface with the underside of the exterior of the container. The mediate section of the at least one elongated ruler contacts the elongated guide plate to obtain a second index. The difference between the first and second indexes is the thickness of the bottom of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Hsin-Chuen Lin
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Publication number: 20180340765Abstract: To provide a wireless communication module that implements the function to detect a human body in a conserved space and is capable of detecting a proximity to human bodies with high accuracy. A wireless communication module includes an antenna unit and a proximity detector which detects that a human body has approached the module. The antenna unit includes an antenna and a first filter which is comprised of distributed constant elements. The proximity detector for human bodies uses the antenna and the first filter as an electrode to detect capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Tatsuya SERIZAWA, Yoshihiro HAYASHI, Noriaki MATSUNO
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Publication number: 20180340766Abstract: A probe is a three-layer substrate having two faces on which paired electrodes are formed at corresponding positions and guard patterns are formed around the electrodes. The guard patterns and all electrodes are driven by a common probe signal to an equal potential, thereby commonly guarding the electrodes. Based on a clamp current of each electrode, a capacitance is found to obtain gap data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: KYOOKA Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiteru KYOOKA, Masato ABE
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Publication number: 20180340767Abstract: A measurement substrate for measuring a condition pertaining in an apparatus for processing production substrates during operation thereof, the measurement substrate including: a body having dimensions compatible with the apparatus; a plurality of sensor modules embedded in the body, each sensor module having: a sensor configured generate an analog measurement signal, an analog to digital converter to generate digital measurement information from the analog measurement signal, and a module controller configured to output the digital measurement information; and a central control module configured to receive the digital measurement information from each of the module controllers and to communicate the digital measurement information to an external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Stoyan NIHTIANOV, Ruud Hendrikus Martinus Johannes BLOKS, Johannes Paul Marie DE LA ROSETTE, Thibault Simon Mathieu LAURENT, Kofi Afoiabi MAKINWA, Jacobus NEEFS, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus VERMEULEN
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Publication number: 20180340768Abstract: A computing system includes a first hardware element having a first accelerometer and a first gyroscope, and a second hardware element having a second accelerometer and a second gyroscope. The first and second hardware elements are moveable with respect to each other. The computing system recursively generates a result signal indicative of a relative orientation of the first and second hardware elements with respect to each other. The result signal may be generated by generating a first intermediate signal indicative of a angle between the first and second hardware elements based on signals generated by the first and second accelerometers and generating a second intermediate signal indicative of the angle based on signals generated by the first and second gyroscopes. The result signal indicative of the angle may be generated as a weighted sum of the first intermediate signal and the second intermediate signal. At least one of the first and second hardware elements is controlled by on the result signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Alberto ZANCANATO, Michele FERRAINA, Federico RIZZARDINI, Stefano Paolo RIVOLTA
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Publication number: 20180340769Abstract: An apparatus may include a processor and memory unit, including a control routine having a measurement processor to determine, based upon a first set of scatterometry measurements, a first change in a first dimension of a first set of substrate features along a first direction. The first set of substrate features may be elongated along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The measurement processor may be to determine, based upon a second set of scatterometry measurements, a second change in dimension of a second set of substrate features along the second direction, wherein the second set of substrate features is elongated along the first direction. The apparatus may include a control processor to generate an error signal when a figure of merit based upon the first change and the second change lies outside a target range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: Morgan D. Evans, Simon Ruffell, Tristan Y. MA, Kevin Anglin
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Publication number: 20180340770Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for determining the tomography and/or topography of an object. A light source generates light, and an optical element generates a 2D pattern from the light and directs the 2D pattern toward the object. An objective lens focuses the 2D pattern at an image plane, and a 2D imager acquires at least one image of the 2D pattern. The image has variable image contrast that varies according to displacement of a surface of the object from the image plane, such that maximal image contrast of the 2D pattern is achieved when the surface of the object and the image plane are coincident. A processing unit, operatively coupled to the 2D imager, derives the object's tomography and/or topography at least partially responsively to the variable image contrast of the image. Other applications are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Yoel Arieli, Yoel Cohen
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Publication number: 20180340771Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser device for supporting work on a construction site and a laser beam detector for detecting light of a laser beam rotating around a rotation axis of a laser device. There is a need that the detector is able to identify the laser device which emitted the light that the detector detects. This can be achieved by a laser device comprising a laser unit configured to emit a laser beam; an optical element arranged to rotate the laser beam around a rotation axis; and a transmitter configured to transmit a communication signal over an interface to a receiver of a laser beam detector, wherein the communication signal provides information about a rotation pattern of the rotating laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Lars Schumacher, Karsten Woll
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Publication number: 20180340772Abstract: A vehicle wheel alignment system has a plurality of cameras, each camera for viewing a respective target disposed at a respective wheel of the vehicle and capturing image data of the target as the wheel and target are continuously rotated a number of degrees of rotation without a pause. The image data is used to calculate a minimum number of poses of the target of at least one pose for every five degrees of rotation as the wheel and target are continuously rotated the number of degrees of rotation without a pause. At least one of the cameras comprises a data processor for performing the steps of preprocessing the image data, and calculating an alignment parameter for the vehicle based on the preprocessed image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Steven W. Rogers, David A. Jackson, Bradley Lewis, Adam C. Brown, Robert J. D'Agostino, Eric R. Sellers
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Publication number: 20180340773Abstract: A method of measuring an uneven shape on a three-dimensional curved surface for measuring an uneven shape present on a three-dimensional curved surface of a measurement object and finer than the three-dimensional curved surface, the method comprising: a surface shape data acquiring step of acquiring three-dimensional surface shape data representative of a surface shape of the measurement object; a dividing step of extracting data of a divided portion representative of a surface contour shape of the divided portion from the three-dimensional surface shape data, for each of the divided portions acquired by dividing a surface of the measurement object in a certain dividing direction at regular intervals by a multiplicity of straight lines orthogonal to the dividing direction; a curve equation setting step of obtaining a curve equation approximating the entire area of the surface contour shape represented by the data of the divided portion for each of the divided portions; a difference calculation step of calculaType: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takashi UEKI
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Publication number: 20180340774Abstract: A cavity sensor including: a body defining a cavity, the cavity having an opening on one end and a closed surface on other end; a reflective surface disposed in the cavity, the reflective surface being angled 45 degrees relative to a propagation direction of an incoming wave through the opening; and first and second angle probes positioned on each of two ends of the reflective surface. Also provided is a cavity sensor including: a body defining a cavity, the body having two or more conduits, each having an opening, the body having a closed surface opposing the openings, and a probe positioned in the cavity at a position common to each of the two or more conduits.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Omnitek Partners LLCInventor: Jahangir S. Rastegar
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Publication number: 20180340775Abstract: This disclosure relates to a microelectromechanical gyroscope comprising a substrate with an inertial mass suspended from a suspension structure which allows the first inertial mass to oscillate rotationally both in the device plane and out of the device plane. The suspension structures comprises one or more suspenders coated with piezoelectric transducer structures configured to detect oscillating motion out of the device plane or in the device plane. The gyroscope also comprises a synchronization structure which includes a synchronization spring attached to the first inertial mass at a first attachment point and to the second inertial mass at a second attachment point. The synchronization spring is coated with a piezoelectric transducer structure configured to detect the oscillating motion of the suspended inertial mass out of the device plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Heikki KUISMA
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Publication number: 20180340776Abstract: The disclosure describes a microelectromechanical gyroscope comprising a substrate and at least one inertial mass suspended from an anchor points by a suspension structure configured to allow the first inertial mass to oscillate rotationally both in the device plane and out of the device plane. The suspension structure comprises a set of first suspenders coated with piezoelectric transducer structures configured drive or detect the oscillating motion of the suspended inertial mass in the device plane, and a set of second suspenders coated with piezoelectric transducer structures configured to drive or detect the oscillating motion of the suspended inertial mass out of the device plane. The set of first suspenders and set of second suspenders are concatenated in the suspension structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Heikki KUISMA
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Publication number: 20180340777Abstract: A method includes obtaining a moving track shape of a second device that is presented before and after a wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken, and a moving track of the second device presented before the wireless communication coupling between the second device and the first device is broken, and matching the moving track shape of the second device presented before and after the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken and the moving track of the second device presented before the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken to determine a moving track of the second device presented after the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Xiaoping Zhang
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Publication number: 20180340778Abstract: A method of determining a mode of transportation includes: collecting trip data utilizing sensors included in a mobile device during a trip; receiving contextual data related to a transportation system; forming one or more segments using the collected trip data; determining that at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with an airplane; determining that the at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with a train; determining that the at least one of the one or more segments is not associated with a bus; marking the at least one of the one or more segments as associated with a car.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: TRUEMOTION, INC.Inventors: Brad Cordova, Sanujit Sahoo
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Publication number: 20180340779Abstract: An inertial measurement system comprising: a first, roll gyro with an axis oriented substantially parallel to the spin axis of the projectile; a second gyro and a third gyro with axes arranged with respect to the roll gyro; a controller, arranged to: compute a current projectile attitude from the outputs of the first, second and third gyros; operate a Kalman filter that receives a plurality of measurement inputs including at least roll angle, pitch angle and yaw angle and that outputs at least a roll angle error; initialise the Kalman filter with a roll angle error uncertainty representative of a substantially unknown roll angle; generate at least one pseudo-measurement from stored expected flight data; provide said pseudo-measurement(s) to the corresponding measurement input of the Kalman filter; and apply the roll angle error from the Kalman filter as a correction to the roll angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Nicholas Mark FAULKNER, John Keith SHEARD
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Publication number: 20180340780Abstract: An information processing device includes a display configured to display a mesh of mesh information based on longitude and latitude. A mesh is composed of a plurality of blocks. The mesh information includes area information about a traveling area where a moving body can travel. The area information is the additional information added to each of the plurality of blocks. The additional information is the display information that is weighted and sorted, based on the number of overlapping points of the plurality of locus logs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: MICWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto ITO, Michihiro NISHIDA
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Publication number: 20180340781Abstract: Embodiments include apparatus and methods for generating a localization geometry or occupancy grid for a geographic location. Point cloud that describes a vicinity of a pathway is collected by a distance sensor and describing a vicinity of the pathway. The point cloud data is reduced or filtered to a predetermined volume with respect to the roadway. The remaining point cloud data is projected onto a two-dimensional plane including at least one pixel formation. A volumetric grid is defined according to the at least one pixel formation, and a voxel occupancy for each of a voxels forming the volumetric grid is determined. The arrangement of the voxel occupancies or a sequence of data describing the voxel occupancies is a localization geometry that describes the geographic location of the pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: David Doria, Xin Chen
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Publication number: 20180340782Abstract: A computer determines that a rate of travel value for a route segment being traversed by a first vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold. A maneuver is planned for the first vehicle to depart from the route segment based on collected vehicle operating data from one or more second vehicles previously traversing the route segment. The first vehicle is instructed to execute the maneuver to depart the route segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Fling Finn Tseng, Shiqi Qiu, Pankaj Kumar, Hassene Jammoussi, Fakhreddine Landolsi, Imad Hassan Makki
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Publication number: 20180340783Abstract: A vehicle reach area presentation device sets a unit area in which a start point exists as a start area among unit areas into which a region on map data is divided and extracts pieces of probe data including records of past travels within a certain range from the start area. The device sets the unit areas, including goal points recorded in the extracted pieces of probe data, as reach areas, calculates energy consumptions from the start area to the reach areas by using the pieces of probe data, and presents the reach areas to a user while changing display of the reach areas depending on the calculated energy consumptions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayasu Suzuki, Hirofumi Inoue
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Publication number: 20180340784Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for maintaining a database with details of frequently travelled routes and selecting a travel route for a vehicle from the database based on particulate filter regeneration requirements. In one example, a method may include selecting one or more routes from the database based on a current particulate filter soot level, fuel efficiency, travel time, operator behavior, etc., ranking the routes based on the particulate filter regeneration efficiency of each of the one or more routes. At vehicle key-off, the database may be updated with information regarding the travelled route including a level of particulate filter regeneration achieved during the drive cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Devesh Upadhyay, Michael Brendan Hopka
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Publication number: 20180340785Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selecting a first travel route for a vehicle from a database based on particulate filter regeneration requirements and an inferred initial driver state of mind. In one example, the initial driver state of mind may be selected based on a past driver history, and during travel along the first travel route, the driver state of mind may be updated based on the driver interactions with traffic. The route selection may also be updated based on the updated driver state of mind.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Devesh Upadhyay, Michael Brendan Hopka
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Publication number: 20180340786Abstract: There is provided a route guidance apparatus including a route search unit which searches for at least one route, to a predetermined destination, which is to be traveled by an electric vehicle propelled by electric power stored in a secondary battery provided within the vehicle, and a power consumption calculation unit which calculates power consumption of the electric vehicle when a route to a destination, which was searched for by the route search unit, is traveled by the electric vehicle, based on information on electric power to be consumed when the electric vehicle travels and geographical information relating to the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Yoshihito Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20180340787Abstract: An authoritative candidate is selected for determining a location of a point of interest (POI). Source data including name, address, and location for POIs is received from multiple data sources. The received data is normalized for ease of comparison, and coordinates for each candidate are compared to coordinates of other candidates to determine which candidate if any is an authoritative location for the POI. The candidate locations are compared using two models a metric-based scoring system and a machine learning model that may utilize a gradient boosted decision tree. The authoritative candidate can be used to render digital maps that include the POI. In addition, the authoritative candidate's location can be used to provide vehicle route guidance to the POI.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Chandan Prakash Sheth, Sheng Yang, Vasudev Parameswaran, Shivendra Pratap Singh, Jane Alam Jan
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Publication number: 20180340788Abstract: An apparatus configured to: based on a plurality of geographical position data points associated with the position of a moving object; and based on a plurality of visual location data points obtained from a plurality of image frames captured from the moving object, the image frames showing a field of view of the moving object; determining a multi-modal trajectory by: matching the plurality of visual location data points with corresponding geographical navigation position data point of the plurality of geographical position data points; and determining the multi-modal trajectory as a best-fit trajectory having a deviation from the matched plurality of visual location data points and the plurality of geographical position data points within a predetermined tolerance; and smoothing the determined multi-modal trajectory to obtain a stable moving object trajectory indicative of a position and a heading of the moving object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2015Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Xiaobai LIU, Stephanie ZHU
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Publication number: 20180340789Abstract: The invention relates to a method for assisting a user of a motor vehicle when driving the motor vehicle. A travel route is provided by a navigation apparatus, and a route actually being driven by the motor vehicle is ascertained. A comparison is made between the actual driving route ascertained and the travel route provided, and if a deviation criterion is met, it is ascertained that the motor vehicle has left the travel route provided. As a function of the ascertained departure from the travel route provided, at least one geo-object from a predefined category of geo-objects is established, the established geo-object is predefined as a geo-object having a user-specific interest and, as a function of the predefined geo-object, the established travel route is changed to an alternative route to the destination with the predefined geo-object as an intermediate destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Viktor Bader
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Publication number: 20180340790Abstract: A transportation management system can maintain a set of driver logs for drivers operating throughout a given region, where each driver log indicates driving characteristics of a respective driver. The system can determine a destination for the respective driver operating a vehicle from an initial location to the destination, and determine a set of routes between the initial location and the destination. Based at least in part on the driving characteristics of the respective driver, the system can determine an individualized risk value for the respective driver for each route of the set of routes, and select an optimal route from the set of routes based, at least in part, on the individualized risk value for each route.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Dima Kislovskiy, David McAllister Bradley
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Publication number: 20180340791Abstract: A method for presenting a journey route by way of a navigation system, in particular a navigation system of a two-wheeled or four-wheeled motor vehicle, in which a graphical presentation of a digitized map and the course of the journey route already traveled is presented on a display of the navigation system, includes, given an unchanged scale of the presentation with the traveling of sections of the journey route, the sections of the journey route that have already been traveled are fully or partly faded out and further sections of the journey route that are still to be traveled, which were absent in the presentation before sections of the journey route that have already been traveled were faded out, are faded in or presented graphically on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Wolfgang HAHN
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Publication number: 20180340792Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for adaptive download of map information are presented which include obtaining a route from a start location to a destination location for a vehicle, acquiring projected environmental information associated with a first portion in the route the vehicle is expected to traverse, acquiring projected network availability information associated with a second portion in the route the vehicle is expected to traverse; and determining whether to download map information associated with the first portion of the route based on (1) the projected environmental information and (2) the projected network availability information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Sethu Hareesh Kolluru, Luke Michael Ekkizogloy, Yunwei Liu, Michael Lambertus Hubertus Brouwer
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Publication number: 20180340793Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a display screen viewable by a driver of the motor vehicle. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the display screen. The electronic processor wirelessly receives status information regarding battery recharging stations nearest to the motor vehicle. The electronic processor presents on the display screen the received status information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: DANIEL D. WILCOX
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Publication number: 20180340794Abstract: An obstacle data providing system includes a data processing apparatus that includes an electronic data providing unit that refers to an obstacle data storage unit that stores obstacle data generated by synthesizing a plurality of obstacle factors each of which becomes an obstacle in travelling of a low-speed vehicle, and sends, upon receiving a request for an electronic map from a terminal device, the obstacle data to the terminal device with an electronic map via a network; and the terminal device that includes a receiving unit that receives the electronic map and the obstacle data, and a display unit that displays the obstacle data with the electronic map, received by the receiving unit, on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Hideki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180340795Abstract: A device for monitoring and estimating parameters relating to the flight of an aircraft includes an estimation module 4 for determining an estimation of the values of the parameters relating to the flight of the aircraft and for generating residues, a detection module for determining the statuses associated with each of said sensors C1, C2, . . . , CN and with a parameter P1 corresponding to the weight of the aircraft, a transmission module for transmitting the statuses associated with each of said sensors C1, C2, . . . , CN to a user device and, on the next iteration, to the estimation module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicants: Airbus Operations S.A.S., Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA)Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Martin Delporte, Cedric Seren, Georges Hardier, Guillaume Alcalay
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Publication number: 20180340796Abstract: The system with branched optical fibers provides diagnostics and measurement of static and/or dynamic parameters in structures and structural elements. The system includes a structural material or element having a branched optical fiber embedded therein. The branched optical fiber includes a primary optical fiber segment and at least one secondary optical fiber segment branching therefrom. One or more fiber Bragg grating sensors are arranged on, and are in optical communication with, the primary optical fiber segment and the at least one secondary optical fiber segment. A signal analyzer receives signals generated by the fiber Bragg grating sensors representative of a magnitude of the physical parameter of the structural element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventor: Samir MEKID
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Publication number: 20180340797Abstract: The system with branched optical fibers provides diagnostics and measurement of static and/or dynamic parameters in structures and structural elements. The system includes a structural material or element having a branched optical fiber embedded therein. The branched optical fiber includes a primary optical fiber segment and at least one secondary optical fiber segment branching therefrom. One or more fiber Bragg grating sensors are arranged on, and are in optical communication with, the primary optical fiber segment and the at least one secondary optical fiber segment. A signal analyzer receives signals generated by the fiber Bragg grating sensors representative of a magnitude of the physical parameter of the structural element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventor: Samir MEKID
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Publication number: 20180340798Abstract: There is provided a surface texture measuring apparatus in which a measurement device is replaced easily and safely. A measurement device is replaceable by attaching and detaching the measurement device to and from a drive mechanism part. The measurement device includes a bracket, and the bracket includes a first connector for transmitting and receiving a signal to and from the measurement device and feeding to the measurement device. The drive mechanism part includes a support frame to which the bracket is detachably attached, and the support frame includes a second connector electrically connected to the first connector. The signal is transmitted and received between the first connector and the second connector, and the first connector is fed from the second connector while the first connector and the second connector are connected. Insertion and removal between the first connector and the second connector to attach and detach the measurement device to and from the drive mechanism part is hot swappable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Toshihiko Kajihara, Nobuyuki Hama, Tatsuki Nakayama, Toshihiro Kanematsu, Hiroomi Honda
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Publication number: 20180340799Abstract: Provided is an encoder apparatus that is free from battery maintenance or has low frequency of battery maintenance. The encoder apparatus includes: a position detection system including: a scale; a light emitter that irradiates the scale with light; a light detector that changes a relative position thereof with the scale in response to movement of a mover; and a detector that detects position information on the mover based on a detection result of the light detector. The encoder apparatus also includes an electric signal generator that generates an electric signal in response to the movement of the mover; and a light emission adjuster that adjusts emission of light from the light emitter based on the electric signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20180340800Abstract: Provided is an encoder apparatus capable of reducing frequency of maintenance of a battery. An encoder apparatus includes: a position detection system including a detector that detects position information on a mover; an electric signal generator that generates an electric signal in response to movement of the mover; and a battery that supplies at least a part of power consumed by the position detection system in accordance with the electric signal generated by the electric signal generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Masahiko GOTO
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Publication number: 20180340801Abstract: This application describes methods and apparatus for tracking targets (105) in a fibre optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) network (100). The DAS network comprises a plurality of interrogator units (103) interrogating sensing fibres (102) deployed along paths of interest to provide DAS sensors. Targets are tracked (303) at each of a plurality of tracker nodes (106-1, 106-2, 106-3) of the DAS network, where each tracker node receives measurement signals from one or more DAS sensors and applies a tracking algorithm to track any targets in a respective tracker zone. Each tracker node maintains, for each target, a tracking dataset of target properties for tracking that target. The method involves identifying (307) when a first target in a first tracker zone of a first tracker node is approaching a second tracker zone of a second tracker node and supplying (308) from the first tracker node to the second tracker node a Target Descriptor for the first target.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2016Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: John Kelley, Andrew Lewis
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Publication number: 20180340802Abstract: An electrical process control sensor assembly 10 for sensing a process or machine parameter, the assembly 10 including a sensor body 12 and a head 14, the body 12 defining a body interior 20. The assembly includes a sensing device 22 at least partially located in the body interior 20. The head 14 defines a head interior 24 which communicates with the body interior 20. The assembly 10 includes a connector arrangement 26 located in the head interior 24. The assembly 10 includes internal communicating members 28 extending between the sensing device 22 and the connector arrangement 26, the connector arrangement 26 connecting, in an installed condition, the internal communicating members 28 to external communicating members 30 to permit electrical communication therebetween. The head 14 defines a port 34 through which the external connecting members 30 are located in the installed condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Ben Hiron-Jones, Nathan Dear
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Publication number: 20180340803Abstract: The present disclosure is aimed at correcting a frequency of a clock signal of a sensor based on a clock signal input from a microcomputer. A detection system includes a sensor and a microcomputer. The sensor is configured to be able to output sampling data generated by performing analog/digital conversion on an analog signal sampled based on a clock signal. The microcomputer generates a clock signal and outputs the clock signal to the sensor, and reads out the sampling data from the sensor. The sensor corrects the frequency of the clock signal based on the clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: Tadashi IMOKAWA, Norio Okada
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Publication number: 20180340804Abstract: A technique for dynamically controlling performance parameters in a six degrees-of-freedom non-line-of-sight sensor subsystem disclosed. In certain embodiments, a magnetic field sensor is mounted on or proximate to an object to measure a parameter that varies with a position or orientation of the object, where the magnetic field sensor is part of a sensor calibration subsystem. The position or an orientation of the object is determined based on the parameter as indicated in an output of the magnetic field sensor. A receiver bandwidth and/or other operation parameter of the subsystem is dynamically adjusted during operation of the subsystem based on, for example, a transmitter-receiver distance or an operational state of the subsystem.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2017Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventor: Lev CHERKASHIN