39 results about "Binary sensors" patented technology

A sensor wire count reduction system having various features is disclosed. Signals from multiple sensors may be combined together to reduce the number of wires implemented to convey the signals to a remote location. Multiple binary sensor outputs may be represented on a single wire as a multi-level signal, and may be decoded at a remote location.

A shifter for controlling a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a rotatably mounted actuation element, a sensor assembly including a first element having a plurality of binary sensors and a second element having a trigger device. A control unit determines an angular position of the actuation element based on an input signal from the sensor assembly. The binary sensors and the trigger device are arranged such that each binary sensor corresponds to one trigger line comprising a plurality of trigger elements. The trigger elements are distributed along the trigger line such that at least one the binary sensors is able to detect a presence of a trigger element for each angular position of the actuation element. At least one trigger element from each trigger line together form a trigger pattern, and the trigger pattern is repeated at least twice on the trigger device to initiate a shift command.

The present invention relates to the use of binary pixels to form images. A binary pixel is a pixel that has only two states, the white state when the pixel is exposed and the black state when the pixel is not. Binary pixels have color filters on top of them, and the setting of the color filters may initially be unknown. Settings using statistical methods can be used to determine color filter settings to produce the correct output image. The color filter information can then be utilized with the binary pixels to generate an image from the input image recorded by the binary pixel array.

A method for estimating blood oxygen content based on binary sensor Kalman fusion, establishing a dynamic physiological model of blood oxygen content and a binary measurement model, analyzing the effective information in binary sensor measurement according to the blood oxygen content model, and obtaining the actual Measurement model; design a robust local Kalman estimator, give the recursive calculation process of the upper bound of the estimated error covariance, and obtain the optimal local estimated gain by minimizing the upper bound of the estimated error covariance; designed for blood oxygen content The estimated distributed fusion Kalman filter adopts the covariance insertion fusion criterion and obtains the optimal fusion weight matrix by solving the optimization problem. The invention provides a distributed fusion Kalman estimation method of blood oxygen content based on a binary sensor to realize real-time non-invasive estimation of blood oxygen content.

The invention relates to a method for determining an available fluid volume in a tank (2) for brake fluid of a brake system (1), wherein the brake system (1) has a pressure generator (4, 9) which is fluidically connected to the tank (2) on the one hand and to at least one brake circuit (8) on the other hand. The pressure generator can be controlled to generate hydraulic pressure in the brake system (1) under the condition that brake fluid is extracted from the tank (2); a predetermined limit value (F) below a filling level for the brake fluid in the tank (2) is monitored by means of a binary sensor (11) assigned to the tank (2). The following operations are regulated: monitoring the actuation of the pressure generator (4, 9); when the current filling level falls below the limit value (F), determining the available liquid volume as a function of the actuation of the pressure generator (4, 9).

A method for estimating blood oxygen content based on binary sensor bounded recursive optimization fusion, establishing a dynamic physiological model of blood oxygen content and analyzing the effective information in binary sensor measurement to obtain the actual measurement model; designing local bounded recursive optimization Estimator, which gives an upper bound of the square of the local estimation error, ensures that this upper bound holds and minimizes the upper bound of the square of the local estimation error to construct an optimization problem with constraints, and designs the optimal local estimation gain by solving this optimization problem; design A distributed bounded recursive optimization fusion estimator for blood oxygen content estimation, which minimizes the upper bound of the estimated error square to design the optimal fusion weight matrix; the invention provides a blood oxygen sensor based on bounded recursive optimization and binary sensors The content distributed fusion estimation method realizes real-time non-invasive estimation of blood oxygen content.

An apparatus includes an array containing N sub-diffraction limit light sensors each having an associated light absorption activation threshold for switching from a reset state to an activated state, where the light absorption activation values lie within a range of values. The apparatus further includes a processor connected with a memory including computer program code, where the memory and computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform estimating an intensity of light that illuminates the array based on electrical outputs of the array.

A sensor device comprising a passive matrix array of electroactive sensor elements arranged in rows and columns. In one example, each sensor element generates a binary sensor signal such that a total signal at each row and at each column enables any pattern of external inputs to be determined. This provides a first way to determine a pattern of sensor elements which are sensing an input using a passive matrix addressing scheme. In another example, each sensor element generates a sensor signal with a different frequency characteristic. This provides another way to enable any pattern of external inputs to be determined.