Patents Issued in April 21, 2020
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Patent number: 10627202Abstract: A step gauge includes: measurement blocks each having reference measurement surfaces; interval blocks each interposed between a pair of ones of the measurement blocks to keep a distance between the pair of ones of the measurement blocks at a predetermined distance, the measurement blocks and the interval blocks being alternately aligned one by one in one direction. The measurement blocks and the interval blocks each have a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of less than 0.03×10?6(1/K) and have through holes aligned in the one direction. The step gauge further includes a tie rod inserted in the through holes and countersunk screws respectively fixed to ends of the tie rod. The tie rod is made of a material having a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of less than 0.5×10?6(1/K).Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Narumi, Akihiko Matsuura, Kentaro Yano
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Patent number: 10627203Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Woo Kim, Il Yeong Seo
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Patent number: 10627204Abstract: A step gauge and a reference gauge block are placed in a temperature-controlled chamber in parallel with each other. A temperature of the step gauge is changed to a first temperature and a second temperature using a measurement-target temperature adjuster and the temperature-controlled chamber. A distance between a first surface and a second surface of the step gauge is relatively measured at each of the first and second temperatures with reference to a distance between a first reference surface and a second reference surface of the reference gauge block. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the measurement target is calculated from the length of the measurement target at the first temperature and the length of the measurement target at the second temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Hagino, Yuichiro Yokoyama
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Patent number: 10627205Abstract: A vehicle manipulation detecting device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a shield electrode. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be attached to a window glass of a vehicle and output a detection signal corresponding to a capacitance changed in response to contact or approach of an object. The sensor electrodes include at least one first sensor electrode and at least one second sensor electrode. The shield electrode is arranged at a position corresponding to the first sensor electrode on an inner side of the first sensor electrode with reference to a passenger compartment of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Miyagi, Hiroshi Shingu, Kenichiro Kagawa, Toshihiro Kaneda
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Patent number: 10627206Abstract: A sensor module for detecting a process environment in semiconductor equipment includes: a sensor body including a first plate and a second plate; and a sensor circuit unit in the sensor body, wherein the sensor circuit unit includes a static electricity sensor between the first plate and the second plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-ho Hwang, Sang-yoon Soh, Dae-hee Lee, Dae-sung Jung, Dong-ouk Kim, Jong-min Song
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Patent number: 10627207Abstract: An aperture measuring device and aperture measuring method for measuring the size of the aperture of a through-hole in a conductive structure is described to reduce the aperture measurement time and improve the working efficiency. The aperture measuring device includes: an aperture testing component for being inserted into the through-hole, wherein the aperture measuring device includes a plurality of resistor segments with different diameters, the individual resistor segments being successively connected in series in an order of the sizes of their diameters; and a measuring module for measuring the resistance value of a resistor segment unable to be inserted into the through-hole in the aperture testing component to determine the size of the aperture of the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dingyuan Li, Ruwang Guo, Haifeng Chen, Jie Wang
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Patent number: 10627208Abstract: A system and method for testing rotor stack assemblies having a plurality of rotor disks is disclosed. A measurement system for measuring at least one electrical characteristic of the plurality of rotor disks is used with a computer electronically connected to the measurement system for capturing data from the measurement system. Software associated with the computer transforms the data into output used to determine flange joint contact topography in the plurality of rotor disks.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael E. Friedman, Jonathan Tilley, Brian Patrick Senkiw, Bryan Williams, Andrew Joseph Colletti
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Patent number: 10627209Abstract: An angle sensor system includes a magnetic field generation unit for generating a rotating magnetic field, and an angle sensor for detecting the rotating magnetic field to generate a detected angle value. The rotating magnetic field contains first and second magnetic field components orthogonal to each other. Each of the first and second magnetic field components contains an ideal magnetic field component, and an error component corresponding to the fifth harmonic of the ideal magnetic field component. The angle sensor includes first and second detection signal generation units. Each of the first and second detection signal generation units includes a magnetic layer whose magnetization direction varies according to the direction of the rotating magnetic field. The magnetic layer is provided with a magnetic anisotropy that is set to reduce an angular error resulting from the error components of the first and second magnetic field components.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Uchida, Hiraku Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 10627210Abstract: A method for interferometrically determining geometric and/or optical parameters of a cavity comprises the method steps of: tuning the frequency f of a coherent light source (10) over a frequency range ?f, deriving a target beam and a reference beam from the coherent light source (10), wherein the target beam passes through the cavity at least once, generating an interference signal I(f) which is dependent on the frequency f of the light source by superimposing the reference beam on the target beam, capturing an interference spectrum of the interference signal I(f) over the frequency range ?f of the frequency f of the coherent light source, evaluating a plurality of measurement points of the captured interference spectrum over the frequency range ?f by numerically fitting the measurement points to a mathematical function produced, and determining the geometric and/or optical parameters of the cavity (40, 45) by determining the parameters of the mathematical function produced.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Inventor: Björn Habrich
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Patent number: 10627211Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention relate to a laser tracker for progressive tracking of a reflective target and for determining the distance to the target having a distance measuring unit, which is designed as an interferometer, for determining a distance change to the target by means of interferometry, a laser beam source for generating measuring radiation for the interferometer, a base, which defines a standing axis, a beam guiding unit for emitting the measuring radiation and for receiving at least a part of the measuring radiation reflected on the target, wherein the beam guiding unit is pivotable by a motor about the standing axis and an inclination axis, which is essentially orthogonal in relation to the standing axis, in relation to the base, and an angle measuring functionality for determining an alignment of the beam guiding unit in relation to the base.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventor: Thomas Lüthi
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Patent number: 10627212Abstract: A reference signal having a known induced optical delay is used for phase stabilization of optical coherence tomography (OCT) interferograms, and for correcting sampling differences within OCT interferograms, in single mode and multimodal OCT systems. The reference signal can then be used to the measure time shift or sample clock period shifts induced in the interferogram signal by the OCT system. A corresponding OCT interferogram signal can then be corrected to remove the shift induced by the system based on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCONInventors: Jonathan J. Liu, Zhenguo Wang, Jongsik Kim, Kinpui Chan
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Patent number: 10627213Abstract: A method including obtaining measurement results of a device manufacturing process or a product thereof, obtaining sets of one or more values of one or more parameters of a distribution by fitting the distribution against the measurement results, respectively, and obtaining, using a computer, a set of one or more values of one or more hyperparameters of a hyperdistribution by fitting the hyperdistribution against the sets of values of the parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B. V.Inventors: Seyed Iman Mossavat, Remco Dirks, Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer
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Patent number: 10627214Abstract: The invention relates to a method for electronically analyzing a time-variant signal (Ue(t)) having at least one extreme value, the amplitude and time of which are to be detected, by means of a detection circuit that operates as a peak value store and follows the time-variant signal after a threshold value (Us) is exceeded until the maximum amplitude is reached, wherein exceedance of the extreme value results in a peak indicator signal (Usi(t)) being generated and the maximum amplitude being stored, which is characterized in that to capture more than one extreme value in the time-variant signal, the tracking of the signal (Ue(t)) is deactivated after production of the first peak indicator signal and after a drop below the threshold value and, after the signal exceeds the threshold value again as time progresses, further tracking of the signal (Ue(t)) is activated until the next extreme value to be detected is reached and a further peak indicator signal (Usi(t)) is generated and this further maximum amplitudeType: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Nanofocus AGInventors: Johannes Frank, Gerd Jakob, Michael Spengler
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Patent number: 10627215Abstract: An optical sensor in which an optical component more inexpensive than a corner cube is used as a measurement target and which has accuracy similar to that of a case where the corner cube is used is provided. An optical sensor 1 includes a light source 2, a dividing unit 6, a retroreflection unit 4 that retroreflects first light and second light divided by the dividing unit 6, a combining unit 7, a light receiving unit 5, and a calculation unit 8.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Mitutoyo CorporationInventor: Akihide Kimura
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Patent number: 10627216Abstract: Based on a plurality of first pattern images, a first angle image with each pixel having irradiation angle information of first measuring pattern lights on the measurement object is generated, and based on a plurality of second pattern images, a second angle image with each pixel having irradiation angle information of second measuring pattern lights on the measurement object is generated. In accordance with the irradiation angle information of each pixel in the first angle image, the irradiation angle information of each pixel in the second angle image, and relative position information of a first light projection unit and a second light projection unit, the height of the measurement object in a direction of a central axis of a lighting device is measured.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Keyence CorporationInventors: Hajime Matsuda, Masashi Nakao
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Patent number: 10627217Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the thickness of a contaminating layer and/or the type of a contaminating material on a surface (7) in an optical system, in particular on a surface (7) in an EUV lithography system, comprising: irradiating the surface (7) on which plasmonic nanoparticles (8a,b) are formed with measurement radiation (10), detecting the measurement radiation (10a) scattered at the plasmonic nanoparticles (8a,b), and determining the thickness of the contaminating layer and/or the type of the contaminating material on the basis of the detected measurement radiation (10a). The invention also relates to an optical element (1) for reflecting EUV radiation (4), and to an EUV lithography system.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: CARL ZEISS SMT GMBHInventors: Irene Ament, Moritz Becker
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Patent number: 10627218Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first imaging element that receives light having passed through a first optical element and outputs an image which has a luminance value corresponding to intensity of the light and is processed as a reference image. A second imaging element receives light having passed through a second optical element and outputs an image which has a luminance value corresponding to intensity of the light and is processed as a reference image. A distance calculation device calculates a distance image on the basis of the reference image and the comparison image, and recognition device recognizes an object on the basis of the distance image calculated by the distance calculation apparatus, in which the optical elements or the imaging elements satisfy at least one of conditions in which transmittance of the first optical element is higher than transmittance of the second optical element.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Aoki, Yoshiyuki Sasada, Mirai Higuchi
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Patent number: 10627219Abstract: A system for measuring movement of a structural component of a structure includes a projector which directs a laser or other trackable beam from an origin having a fixed location relative to the structure to a target surface configured to be fixed to the structural component. The beam strikes the target surface to produce a trackable spot at an incidence location on the target surface. A camera coupled to the target surface tracks the position of the incidence location as it moves on the target surface over time in response to relative movement between the structural component and the origin. A computer processor receives data from the camera and calculates the magnitude of movement of the structural component relative to the origin.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Intelligent Structures, Inc.Inventor: Brian Westcott
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Patent number: 10627220Abstract: An apparatus for checking tires described as a linear camera having an objective line lying on an optical plane; a first, a second and a third light source for emitting respectively a first, a second and a third light radiation; a command and control unit for selectively activating at least one from among the first, second and third light source and activating the linear camera in order to acquire a two-dimensional image of a linear surface portion of the tire synchronously with the activation of the first, second and third source. The first and second light source lie on opposite sides of the optical plane. Furthermore, the first, second and third light source include each one or more sub-sources each having a respective main extension direction parallel to the optical plane and the distance of the sub-sources of the third light source from the optical plane is less than the distance of the first and second light source from the optical plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.Inventors: Vincenzo Boffa, Alessandro Held, Valeriano Ballardini, Giuseppe Casadio Tozzi
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Patent number: 10627221Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of measuring a shape based on reflected light from a surface of an object irradiated with light from a measurement head, includes: acquiring a first measurement result by setting a measurement condition suitable for the measurement of a first region of the object and by measuring a first scanning range of the surface with a first scanning pitch; determining a second region of the surface except the first region from the first measurement result; and acquiring a second measurement result by setting a measurement condition suitable for the measurement of the second region and by measuring a second scanning range of the surface narrower than the first scanning range with a second scanning pitch finer than the first scanning pitch.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Sakai, Tomonori Goto
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Patent number: 10627222Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a cylinder and a cylindrical converging lens are disclosed. In particular, a method for non-contact interference detection of a cylindrical shape is disclosed. Two converging lenses which modulate parallel light into cylindrical waves are combined with a to-be-tested cylinder respectively. Wavefront error data of the combination of the converging lens and the to-be-tested cylinder and wavefront error data of the combination of the two cylindrical converging lenses are obtained. Shape error data of the to-be-tested cylinder, the two cylindrical converging lenses is obtained respectively by using a difference algorithm and a wavefront recovery algorithm. In the technical solution, a detection light path is simple, and shape detection of a cylinder with relatively high precision can be implemented without using a high-precision detection tool calibrated in advance. The technical solution is particularly suitable for cylinder processing in the field of optical processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITYInventors: Peiji Guo, Xi Chen, Jianbin Fan
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Patent number: 10627223Abstract: A system can include an axis, a motor coupled with the axis and configured to rotate the axis, an optical modulator coupled with the axis and configured to be rotated by the axis, a lens element, a projection surface, a light source configured to shine light through the optical modulator to project structured light onto the projection surface through the lens element, and a sensor configured to capture an image of a sample and structured light that is reflected from the projection surface and the sample surface. The system can also include a computing system having a synchronization module configured to phase lock the system by coordinating the light source and the sensor and an analysis module configured to compute a three-dimensional (3D) object based on the structured light that is reflected from the projection surface and the sample surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: ALLAGI INCORPORATEDInventor: Michael John Darwin
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Patent number: 10627224Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquire measurement success/failure information indicating whether or not measurement by a measurement unit has been successful in a case where a measurement process is executed of emitting directional light, which is light having directivity, toward a subject within a specific imaging range among a plurality of imaging ranges serving as imaging targets in panoramic imaging of the subject, and receiving reflected light of the directional light to cause the measurement unit to measure a distance to the subject, and an execution unit that executes a measurement suppressing process of suppressing the measurement by the measurement unit which is performed on the subjects within the plurality of imaging ranges, in a case where the measurement success/failure information acquired by the acquisition unit indicates that the measurement by the measurement unit has been successful.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Tomonori Masuda
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Patent number: 10627225Abstract: An alignment inspection apparatus and a lamination inspection system are provided. An alignment inspection apparatus includes: a camera configured to photograph an alignment between an upper plate and a lower plate which are laminated to generate image data of the alignment; an alignment calculator configured to calculate horizontal distances and vertical distances in a non-overlapping area where the upper plate and the lower plate do not overlap with each other using the image data to generate alignment data; and a misalignment detector configured to detect true defect data in which noise data is filtered using the horizontal distances and the vertical distances.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jae Woo Lee
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Patent number: 10627226Abstract: A sensor calibration tool, in particular for calibrating sensors on a vehicle, includes a vertical rail defining a first axis, and first and second carriage assemblies. The first carriage assembly is supported by the vertical rail, movable along the first axis, and has a horizontal rail defining a second axis transverse to the first axis. The second carriage assembly is supported by the horizontal rail, movable along the second, and has a target mount that releasably supports a calibration target. A calibration tool includes a horizontal rail defining a first axis, a first carriage assembly movable along the first axis, a mounting bar defining a second axis and pivotable about a pivot axis transverse to the first and second axes, and a target mount positioned on the mounting bar. The first carriage assembly and the mounting bar move independently.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Reiner Leikert
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Patent number: 10627227Abstract: The invention relates to an optical device for characterization of a sample (3) comprising —a source (5) of parallel or collimated light, having an emission spectrum that is continuous over an observation wavelength range of at least 50 nm width, for illuminating the sample (3), —a detector (7) of light scattered by the sample (3), operating in said observation wavelength range, —a filter (9) for specific spectral weighting arranged on an optical path upstream of the detector (7) of the scattered light, and —a processing unit (11) for processing the measurement signal in order to extract a characterization parameter of the sample (3).Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNIVERSITÉ D'AIX-MARSEILLEInventors: Myriam Zerrad, Michel Lequime, Claude Amra
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Patent number: 10627228Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an object detection device conducive to carrying out control in an appropriate manner according to the surrounding environment, with consideration to the accuracy of locations of detected objects. The device is characterized by being provided with: a parallax information generation unit for generating parallax information from a plurality of parallax images acquired from a plurality of imaging units; an object detection unit for detecting objects contained in the parallax images; a location information generation unit for generating location information about the objects, on the basis of the parallax information; and a location accuracy information generation unit for generating location accuracy information pertaining to the accuracy of the location information, on the basis of the condition of generation of the parallax information.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Takemura, Takuma Osato, Takeshi Shima, Yuji Otsuka
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Patent number: 10627229Abstract: An electronic device may include a motion sensor for detecting movement of the electronic device and a pressure sensor for detecting changes in elevation of the electronic device. Applications that run on the electronic device such as health and fitness applications may use motion sensor and pressure sensor data to track a user's physical activity. For example, processing circuitry in the electronic device may use the motion sensor to track a user's steps and the pressure sensor to track changes in the user's elevation. The processing circuitry may determine whether the user is climbing stairs based on the user's step rate and the user's changes in elevation. When the processing circuitry determines that the user is climbing stairs, the processing circuitry may use the pressure sensor and motion sensor to track and store the number of flights of stairs climbed by the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen P. Jackson, Hung A. Pham, Anh N. Phan, Shameek P. Ganguly
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Patent number: 10627230Abstract: Methods and systems are described for determining the elevation of tracked personnel or assets (trackees) that can take input from mounted sensors on each trackee (including barometric, inertial, magnetometer, radio frequency ranging and signal strength, light and GPS sensors), external constraints (including ranging constraints, feature constraints, and user corrections), and terrain elevation data. An example implementation of this method for determining elevation of persons on foot is described. But this method is not limited to computing elevation of personnel or to on foot movements.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TRX SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: John Karvounis, Jared Napora, Benjamin E. Funk, Daniel Hakim, Christopher Giles, Carole Teolis
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Patent number: 10627231Abstract: An adherent level. The level includes a level body. At least one level detector is coupled to the level body. A foam tape includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is adhered to the level body. The outer surface includes a plurality of micro suction cups. The at least one level detector is operable to display a level reading of a surface when the level body is adhered to the surface by the plurality of micro suction cups.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Inventor: Charles Edward Wilkes
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Patent number: 10627232Abstract: A method for aerial image processing preferably includes receiving ground control point (GCP) information, receiving a set of images, determining spatial information associated with the images, and determining GCP image locations; and can additionally or alternatively include determining aerial map information, training an automated GCP detector, and/or any other suitable elements. A system for aerial image processing preferably includes one or more computing devices, and can additionally or alternatively include one or more GCPs, aerial vehicles, and/or any other suitable elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Infatics, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Pilkington, Jonathan James Millin
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Patent number: 10627233Abstract: An inertia measurement unit including a housing assembly, a weight block assembly, a circuit board, and a signal line. The housing assembly includes a cavity and a first opening in communication with the cavity. The weight block assembly is arranged in the cavity of the housing assembly. The weight block assembly includes an inner chamber and a second opening in communication with the inner chamber. The circuit board is arranged in the inner chamber of the weight block assembly. The signal line is coupled to a first edge of the circuit board and extends out of the weight block assembly through the second opening and out of the housing assembly through the first opening. At least one of the first opening or the second opening is located proximal to a second edge of the circuit board that is different from the first edge of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiangang Feng, Yin Tang
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Patent number: 10627234Abstract: A gyro sensor includes: a substrate; a first drive section; and a first detection section and a second detection section that detect angular velocity. The first detection section includes a first movable body including a first movable electrode that vibrates by vibration of the first drive section and is displaced in response to the angular velocity, and a first fixed electrode fixed to the substrate and facing the first movable electrode. The second detection section includes a second movable body including a second movable electrode that vibrates by vibration of the first drive section and is displaced in response to the angular velocity, and a second fixed electrode fixed to the substrate and facing the second movable electrode. The first movable body and the second movable body are coupled together by a first coupling section.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takayuki Kikuchi, Kei Kanemoto
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Patent number: 10627235Abstract: Micromachined inertial devices are presented having multiple linearly-moving masses coupled together by couplers that move in a linear fashion when the coupled masses exhibit linear anti-phase motion. Some of the described couplers are flexural and provide two degrees of freedom of motion of the coupled masses. Some such couplers are positioned between the coupled masses. Using multiple couplers which are arranged to move in linearly opposite directions during linear anti-phase motion of the coupled masses provides momentum-balanced operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Igor P. Prikhodko, Jeffrey A. Gregory
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Patent number: 10627236Abstract: In a position measurement apparatus, to maintain accuracy of a trajectory even when the frequency of acquisition of absolute position information is reduced, a movement information generation unit generates movement information including a movement distance and a movement direction of a device of interest based on a sensor value, and a reliability generation unit generates reliability information indicating a reliability value of the movement information. An amount of distance correction and an amount of angle correction to be made every predetermined number of steps are determined based on the reliability information and the movement information, and the distance and the angle are corrected every predetermined number of steps starting from the latest already-corrected position information.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Kubota, Yoshihisa Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 10627237Abstract: An offset correction apparatus for a gyro sensor includes an acceleration sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, a stationary determination unit that determines, by using an output value of the acceleration sensor and an output value of the geomagnetic sensor, whether the gyro sensor is stationary, a difference calculation unit that calculates an offset value of the gyro sensor by using an output value of the gyro sensor, and an offset-value update unit that assumes, as a new offset value, an offset value calculated by the difference calculation unit by using an output value of the gyro sensor determined to be stationary by the stationary determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeo Ohyama
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Patent number: 10627238Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated navigation system and its positioning method, and it pertains to the technical field of satellite navigation.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: COMNAV TECHNOLOGY LTD.Inventors: Yongquan Wang, Liduan Wang
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Patent number: 10627239Abstract: Methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products directed to dead reckoning for pedestrian navigation (“pedestrian dead reckoning”) and robust heading estimation in pedestrian dead reckoning. Pursuant to the methodologies and technologies provided herein, a walking direction may be derived or otherwise determined using a robust heading estimation mechanism in connection with, for example, step detection and step length determination. The robust heading estimation mechanism may be based on device orientation (e.g., on changes in device orientation). The device orientation may be obtained based on (e.g., by way of) fusion of accelerometer and gyroscope measurements.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: IDHL Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Zhanlue Zhao, Bryan A. Cook
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Patent number: 10627240Abstract: Disclosed is a feature for a vehicle that enables taking precautionary actions in response to conditions on the road network around or ahead of the vehicle, in particular, a curved portion of a road where the curvature increases between adjacent curved sections. A database that represents the road network is used to determine locations where curvature between adjacent curved sections increases. Then, precautionary action data is added to the database to indicate a location at which a precautionary action is to be taken about the location where curvature increases. A precautionary action system installed in a vehicle uses this database, or a database derived therefrom, in combination with a positioning system to determine when the vehicle is at a location that corresponds to the location of a precautionary action. When the vehicle is at such a location, a precautionary action is taken by a vehicle system as the vehicle is approaching a location where the curvature increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Robert Denaro
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Patent number: 10627241Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to process probe data in accordance with a map-centric map matching technique. In the context of a method, a plurality of vertices are defined along a polyline representative of a road segment such that the polyline includes one or more edges. Each edge extends between a pair of neighboring vertices. For each vertex of a respective edge, spatial searches are conducted to identify each probe point within a region about a respective vertex. For each probe point identified within a region about a respective vertex, a determination is made as to whether the probe point satisfies a projection criteria in order for the probe point to be projected onto the edge or one of the neighboring vertices between which the edge extends.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Ole Henry Dorum
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Patent number: 10627242Abstract: A method for identifying missing map features in an electronic map, involving receiving telemetry probes indicating a geographic location of a mobile computing device, and identifying a subset of telemetry probes corresponding to an existing map feature. The identified subset is then removed from an aggregation of telemetry probes, and the remaining telemetry probes used to generate a density map and identify missing clusters of telemetry probes. A geometry of the missing clusters is determined, and a missing map feature defined from the geometry of the missing cluster. An electronic map may be updated with the missing map feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Mapbox, Inc.Inventors: Sajjad Koonari Muhammed Anwar, Bhargav Kowshik K R, Aaron Lidman
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Patent number: 10627243Abstract: A map data structure and method and system for obtaining geographic information. Raw map data is converted into map data structure by generating an attribute layer for each geographic attribute according to a defined line pattern and line width, and defining a bit-array of fixed bit-length for each element of a grid representing geographic coordinates, where a bit value of “1” is assigned if a respective attribute is present at the grid element location and a bit value of “0” is assigned if the respective attribute is absent. A map image depicting selected geographic attributes may be generated and displayed from map data structure, by sequentially scanning each bit in bit-array in descending order of priority, for each grid element of selected location, and if binary value of scanned bit is “1” then attribute layer associated with bit is displayed according to assigned color value if attribute selected for display.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.Inventor: Arnon Shaked
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Patent number: 10627244Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for image assisted delivery. A computing device may identify a delivery location based at least in part on an image file received from a first client device. The computing device may then generate a series of directions from a current location of a second client device to the delivery location. The computing device may subsequently send the series of directions to the second client device. Finally, the computing device may send the image file received from the first client device to the second client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wesley Scott Lauka, Lara Chatterjee Rogers, Kristopher William Bell, Ryan Scott Russell, Alwin Yu-Hang Lee
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Patent number: 10627245Abstract: A system, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to determine a fluid level of a fluid in a vehicle determine a planned vehicle route; and after and in response to uploading the fluid level and the planned vehicle route to a server, actuating a vehicle component to replenish the fluid according to a command from the server.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: David J. Schmidt, Harry Lobo, Vankatesh Krishnan, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam
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Patent number: 10627246Abstract: Techniques for modifying and presenting instructions for traversing a route include obtaining original instructions and receiving input to modify the instructions. The instructions may be modified and/or annotated based on the input received to provide more intuitive and helpful instructions for traversing a route. The modified instructions may be presented to a user of a computing device as the computing device traverses the route. The modifications and/or annotations to the original instructions may be presented as the computing device traverses the route based at least in part on the location and/or speed of the computing device on the route.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Felix Andrew, Silvana Moncayo, Katherine Anne Maertens, Myron Thomas
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Patent number: 10627248Abstract: A method for routing a vehicle includes receiving a current location for the vehicle and a destination location for the vehicle and identifying candidate navigation routes extending between the current location and the destination location. The method also includes determining a cognitive load parameter for each candidate navigation route and determining a cost value for a cost function for each candidate navigation route. Each cost value is based on the cognitive load parameter for the respective candidate navigation route. The method also includes selecting the navigation route from the candidate navigation routes based on the cost values for the candidate navigation routes.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Byron B. Han, Jamie P. Carlson, Robert J. Gough
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Patent number: 10627249Abstract: Dynamic customization of an autonomous vehicle experience is presented herein. A dynamic recommendation engine can comprise a subscriber interface component, a data component, and a configuration component. The subscriber interface component can receive, from a subscriber of an autonomous vehicle service, a request specifying a route of transport by an autonomous vehicle; and based on the request, the data component can obtain, via a network slice comprising a virtual network function of the autonomous vehicle service, profile information for the subscriber and route information for the route. Further, the configuration component can determine, via the network slice based on the profile information and the route information, configuration data for the autonomous vehicle, and send, via the network slice, the configuration data directed to the autonomous vehicle to facilitate the transport by the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah
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Patent number: 10627250Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for identifying, via a processor, a plurality of causes for a vehicle to record data on a blockchain, wherein one cause in the plurality of causes is a repetition of a previous journey. The system generates route comparison data by comparing, via a processor as the vehicle is moving, current journey data for a current journey to previous journey data of at least one previous journey by: comparing a current journey start time to a previous journey start time; comparing a current journey travel time to a previous journey travel time; and comparing current journey route coordinates to previous journey route coordinates. Then based on the route comparison data, the system generates a side block which references the previous block in the block chain but contains only distinctions from the previous block. The side block is then added to the block chain.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Daniel W. Young, Vinay Rao, Dhivya Ganesan, Jennifer Northrup, Richard C. Mcsorley, Christopher R. Heeney, Steven Lewis, Joseph Jurich
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Patent number: 10627251Abstract: A computer-implemented method and computer system are proposed which suggest a multi-destination travel itinerary to a user, who is typically a payment card holder. The itinerary is generated using information about earlier multi-destination journeys made by the user and other payment card holders, as identified based on payment transaction data relating to payment transactions made by the card holders. The other payment card holders may be ones having payment transaction characteristics similar to the user, and the suggested travel itinerary may be selected to have properties consistent with previous journeys the user has made.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Sharan Bakshiram, Amit Singh, Sheetanshu D. Gupta
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Patent number: 10627252Abstract: A device, system, and method for assisting a pilot of an aircraft. The device includes a processing unit which: acquires flight parameters of the aircraft, transmitted by a communications unit of the aircraft and records these flight parameters in a memory of the pilot assistance device; acquires behavioral information corresponding to a model of behavior of the aircraft, transmitted by a ground station, and records this behavioral information in the memory of the pilot assistance device; determines an indicator of the quality of flying of the aircraft as a function of at least a portion of the flight parameters recorded in the memory and of at least a portion of the behavioral information recorded in the memory; and control the display of the flying quality indicator.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Airbus SASInventors: Lionel Delle-Vedove, Simon Szydlowski