152 results about "Sensor plane" patented technology

The method of presenting concurrent information about the electrical and mechanical activity of the heart using non-invasively obtained electrical and mechanical cardiac activity data from the chest or thorax of a patient comprises the steps of: placing at least three active Laplacian ECG sensors at locations on the chest or thorax of the patient; where each sensor has at least one outer ring element and an inner solid circle element, placing at least one ultrasonic sensor on the thorax where there is no underlying bone structure, only tissue, and utilizing available ultrasound technology to produce two or three-dimensional displays of the moving surface of the heart and making direct measurements of the exact sites of the sensors on the chest surface to determine the position and distance from the center of each sensor to the heart along a line orthogonal to the plane of the sensor and create a virtual heart surface; updating the measurements at a rate to show the movement of the heart's surface; monitoring at each ultrasonic sensor site and each Laplacian ECG sensor site the position and movement of the heart and the passage of depolarization wave-fronts in the vicinity; treating those depolarization wave-fronts as moving dipoles at those sites to create images of their movement on the image of the beating heart's surface; and, displaying the heart's electrical activity on the dynamically changing image of the heart's surface with the goal to display an approximation of the activation sequence on the beating virtual surface of the heart

The present invention relates to a method and system for obtaining a point spread function for deblurring image data captured by an imaging device comprising a motion sensor. First, motion path values indicating the motion of the imaging device during the exposure time are acquired. The motion path values of the imaging device are then projected onto the sensor plane and for each sensor pixel the projected motion path values are integrated over time. Said integrated value represents for each sensor pixel an initial estimate of the point spread function. Optionally, the size of the point spread function can also be estimated based on the distance of the focused object and taken into account during the projecting step.

A capacitance detection circuit in which detection wirings are arranged in such a manner as to intersect a plurality of driving wirings, and detection electrodes forming capacitances between the driving wirings and the detection wiring that intersect each other are formed within a sensor plane includes a column wiring driving device for driving the driving wirings; a detection wiring selection device for selecting predetermined detection wiring from among a plurality of detection wirings; a reference electrode arranged in the vicinity of the detection electrode, the reference electrode detecting the electrical potential of the piece to be detected as a reference potential; and a capacitance computation section for determining a voltage value corresponding to the capacitance change on the basis of the reference potential and the detection potential determined from the electrical current corresponding to the capacitance of the detection electrode.

An integrated gyroscope, including an acceleration sensor formed by: a driving assembly; a sensitive mass extending in at least one first and second directions and being moved by the driving assembly in the first direction; and by a capacitive sensing electrode, facing the sensitive mass. The acceleration sensor has an rotation axis parallel to the second direction, and the sensitive mass is sensitive to forces acting in a third direction perpendicular to the other directions. The capacitive sensing electrode is formed by a conductive material region extending underneath the sensitive mass and spaced therefrom by an air gap.

The invention relates to a comprehensive test sample rod for double-shaft tilting in-situ force and electric property of a transmission electron microscope, belonging to the researching field of in-situ measurement of transmission electron microscope accessories and nanometer materials. The comprehensive test sample rod comprises a self-designed transmission electron microscope sample rod, a force / electric property sensor, a pressing sheet, a front end of sample rod and a sensor carrier, wherein the force / electric property sensor is fixed on the sensor carrier at the front end of sample rod through the pressing sheet; the sensor carrier is connected to the front end of sample rod through rotating shafts located on two sides and can rotate around the two rotating shafts in a plane verticalto the front end of sample rod (namely rotating for + / -30 degrees around Y shafts); and electrodes of the force / electric property sensor are connected to the electrodes on the two sides of the front end of the sample rod through the pressing sheet and are connected to an external test device through leads in the sample rod, thereby realizing the in-plane loading (in a sensor plane) of a force / electric signal and the feedback real-time monitoring. The comprehensive test sample rod can be used for tilting a searching sample to be under a low-index positive belt shaft, thereby realizing in-situ atomic scale observation while acquiring force / electric comprehensive property parameters.

The invention is an imager assembly for a miniature camera head. The assembly comprises an imaging sensor having conductive leads; an objective lens system placed on top of the sensor; circuitry, mounted beneath the imaging sensor, for driving the sensor and amplifying the electrical signals; and conductive wires electrically linking the internal components of the assembly and for linking the assembly to remote locations. The conductive leads are bent and the circuitry and conductive wires are arranged and mounted such that the dimensions in a plane parallel to the sensor plane of the camera head are approximately equal to or less than the dimensions in the plane of the sensor. The circuitry is capable of delivering signals produced by the imaging sensor for further processing and the components of the imager, except for the imaging surface of the sensor and the objective lens system, are encapsulated by an isolating material.

An optical object detection apparatus and associated methods. The apparatus may comprise a lens (e.g., fixed-focal length wide aperture lens) and an image sensor. The fixed focal length of the lens may correspond to a depth of field area in front of the lens. When an object enters the depth of field area (e.g., sue to a relative motion between the object and the lens) the object representation on the image sensor plane may be in-focus. Objects outside the depth of field area may be out of focus. In-focus representations of objects may be characterized by a greater contrast parameter compared to out of focus representations. One or more images provided by the detection apparatus may be analyzed in order to determine useful information (e.g., an image contrast parameter) of a given image. Based on the image contrast meeting one or more criteria, a detection indication may be produced.

A multi-imaging device includes a multiplexed optical system and a filter fixture. The multiplexed optical system forms multiple optical images of an object. These multiple optical images are interleaved at the sensor plane. The filter fixture is configured to allow a user to change filter assemblies. The filter assemblies can include different filter regions, which apply different filtering to the optical images.

A device for use in detecting structural damage comprises at least one piezoelectric wafer including a sensor, and an actuator in-plane with the sensor. At least one of the sensor and the actuator at least partially surrounds the other of the sensor and the actuator such that the piezoelectric wafer provides radial detection of structural occurrences in a material.

The invention relates to a sensor system comprising a sensor array, the sensor array comprising a substrate layer and a plurality of individual first sensor elements for measuring a desired parameter, which first sensor elements are arranged on said substrate layer and define a sensor plane, wherein the sensor array further comprises one or more second sensor elements for measuring a further desired parameter, and wherein the sensor system is configured to process sensor data from the first sensor elements in dependency of sensor data from the one or more second sensor elements.

A pressure sensor of the MEMS and / or NEMS type is disclosed, including:at least one first deformable cavity (20) to receive pressure variations from an ambient atmosphere, this first deformable cavity being made in a first substrate and including at least one mobile or deformable wall (25), arranged at least partially in the plane parallel to the first substrate, called plane of the sensor, pressure variations from an ambient atmosphere being transmitted to said cavity,a detector (24, 24′) for detecting a displacement or deformation, in the plane of the sensor, of said mobile or deformable wall, under the effect of a pressure variation of the ambient atmosphere.

The invention relates to a device for generating or recovering acoustic energy, including:at least one first deformable cavity (20) for receiving an ambient atmosphere, made in a first substrate, delimited by at least one wall including at least one mobile or deformable wall (25), and a means for making the cavity communicate with an ambient atmosphere,a means (24, 24′, 241, 24′1) for actuating a displacement or deformation, in the plane of the sensor, or to recover energy resulting from a displacement or deformation, in the plane of the sensor, of said mobile or deformable wall.

For an optical sensor, a simple approach to obtain a mapping function that transforms sensor coordinates of a generic imaging system to coordinates of a virtual, projective camera. The sensor plane of this virtual camera is established using a planar calibration object and does not require known features on the object. Two in-plane motions are sufficient to establish the distortion-free virtual camera. The sensor plane of the virtual projective camera is used to calibrate all subsequent images obtained by the optical sensor. For a generic sensor, the present method is a simple approach to obtain a mapping function that transforms sensor measurements into a virtual sensor system. The virtual sensor system is established using a uniform bias. The virtual sensor system is used to calibrate all subsequent measurements obtained by the sensor.

The present invention comprises methods and apparatuses for causing a single imaging lens system to simultaneously form multiple high resolution images on multiple imaging sensor planes. The images are preferably substantially identical, with no parallax error, except for different light levels so that the multiple images are of sufficient quality and similarity that they may be compared and / or combined (typically pixel-by-pixel) to create a single instantaneous high dynamic range (HDR) image. The invention may be used to create high-resolution HDR snapshots of moving subjects, as well as high-resolution HDR moving pictures (e.g. cinematographic films, movies, or other video) in which the subject and / or camera is moving. Alternatively, the images are substantially identical except for different focuses.

The invention relates to an aviation geophysic magnetic type exploration data processing method. The method is characterized in that the baseline direction unit vectors and sensor plane normal vectors, corresponding to an inertia navigation coordinate system, and the sensor plane normal vectors, corresponding to a three-component magnetic instrument coordinate system, of five plane superconductive magnetic gradient sensors can be accurately obtained, and then the premise is provided for accurately obtaining five independent components of a full-tensor magnetic gradient corresponding to a geographic coordinate system; the five independent components of the full-tensor magnetic gradient are calculated by a coordinate system conversion method, the middle process of calculating the attitude angles, corresponding to the coordinate system, of the five plane superconductive magnetic gradient sensors is not needed, the inertial navigation coordinate system is used as the coordinate system of the measurement system, and the attitude data measured by inertial navigation are converted by the one-time coordinate system, so as to obtain the five independent components of the full-tensor magnetic gradient corresponding to the geographic coordinate system. The method has the advantages that the calculation difficulty is decreased, the calculation efficiency is improved, and the method is more suitable for measuring the attitude time varying of measuring platforms, such as aviation magnetic measuring.

A three dimensional pixel super-resolution microscopic imaging method is characterized by comprising the following steps: carrying out space vector scanning on a sample, wherein the scanning vector can form a non-right-angle spacial deflection angle with the plane horizontal direction X and vertical direction Y of an image collection device sensor or a Z axis direction of a microscope, so as to make that two neighbored image slices can be scanned by a step size of a sub pixel displacement along the X, Y, and Z directions; collecting the original three dimensional image sequence A by the image collecting device, cutting the original image sequence A into a plurality of groups of three dimensional image sequences Bi according to the lossless sampling principle, carrying out a super-resolution treatment on Bi to generate a three dimensional high resolution image E, and carrying out a deblurring treatment on E so as to obtain a clear high resolution image F. The spacial reflection angles formed by the scanning vector with the horizontal direction X, the vertical direction Y, and the Z axis of the microscope can be identical or different.

The invention relates to a magnetic angular position sensor. A magnetic angular position sensor system is described herein. According to one exemplary embodiment the angular position sensor system comprises a shaft rotatable around a rotation axis, wherein the shaft has a soft magnetic shaft end portion. The system further comprises a sensor chip spaced apart from the shaft end portion in an axial direction and defining a sensor plane, which is substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis. At least four magnetic field sensor elements are integrated in the sensor chip, wherein two of the magnetic field sensor elements are spaced apart from each other and are only sensitive to magnetic field components in a first direction and two of the magnetic field sensor elements are spaced apart from each other and are only sensitive to magnetic field components in a second direction, and therefore the first and the second direction are mutually non-parallel and the first and second directions are perpendicular to the rotation axis.

The present invention comprises methods and apparatuses for causing a single imaging lens system to simultaneously form multiple high resolution images on multiple imaging sensor planes. The images are preferably substantially identical, with no parallax error, except for different light levels so that the multiple images are of sufficient quality and similarity that they may be compared and / or combined (typically pixel-by-pixel) to create a single instantaneous high dynamic range (HDR) image. The invention may be used to create high-resolution HDR snapshots of moving subjects, as well as high-resolution HDR moving pictures (e.g. cinematographic films, movies, or other video) in which the subject and / or camera is moving. Alternatively, the images are substantially identical, or substantially identical except for different focuses.

The present invention relates to a method and system for obtaining a point spread function for deblurring image data captured by an imaging device comprising a motion sensor. First, motion path values indicating the motion of the imaging device during the exposure time are acquired. The motion path values of the imaging device are then projected onto the sensor plane and for each sensor pixel the projected motion path values are integrated over time. Said integrated value represents for each sensor pixel an initial estimate of the point spread function. Optionally, the size of the point spread function can also be estimated based on the distance of the focused object and taken into account during the projecting step.

The present invention creates a virtual sensor plane by arraying two one-dimensional light sensors at right angles to one another wherein the shaft of a joystick extends perpendicularly through the virtual sensor plane. With this configuration, the sensor plane can detect traditional joystick rotation around a point along its axis as well as a herein-disclosed true rotation of the joystick around the joystick axis itself. Between the light sources and lenses which enable light detection and the optical, rather than mechanical or electromechanical, nature of the light sensors, wear surfaces in the joystick are minimized or eliminated everywhere except, where applicable, in the universal joint at the base of joystick configurations which include such a universal joint.

In a magnetic encoder (1), a permanent magnet (20) as a magnetic scale is provided with three rows of tracks (21) wherein N poles and S poles are alternately arranged along a shift direction. In the permanent magnet (20), at end portions (211) in the width direction of the tracks (21A, 21B, 21C), a rotating magnetic field wherein a planar direction changes is formed, and a sensor plane (16) of a magnetic sensor (15) faces a boundary portion (212) between the tracks (21A, 21B, 21C). Thus, detection accuracy of the magnetic encoder of the rotating magnetic field detection type is improved.

A touch panel display configured to improve touch panel detection for sensor panels embedded in display modules. Touch panel detection can be improved by arranging an optically anisotropic cover over a display module within which an optical sensor panel is embedded. Since the optically anisotropic cover comprises light-guiding channels through which light is guided by total internal reflection, the cover can effectively shift the sensor plane from an outer surface of the cover, near the location of an object to be detected, to an inner surface of the cover, near the location of the sensor panel. In additional, the optically anisotropic cover can effectively shift the image plane from the inner surface of the cover, near the display module, to the outer surface of the cover, near the viewing surface.

A wireless touch-control panel and an information process system applied to the touch-control panel. The information process system has a portable information process device, such as a notebook computer, a personal data assistance or other similar products, a touch-control panel providing a sensor plane allowing the user to touch, a sensor circuit to receive and identify the input signal, generated when the user touches the touch-control panel, an output corresponding signal, and a wireless module to transmit the signal output via the sensor circuit to a wireless receiving module of the portable information process device through a built-in antenna.

A lens compound for connecting to an interchangeable lens mount of a digital camera having a single image sensor, the lens compound including a body; a single mount connecting ring mounted on the body for connecting to the lens mount of the digital camera; at least two lenses of substantially identical focal length mounted in the body; and a different single or multi bandpass filter associated with each of the lenses, allowing the passage of at least one visible band and one non-visible band, selected from the group consisting of near infra-red bands and ultra violet bands of light, through the filters to the sensor; wherein the lenses are of substantially identical field of view and substantially identical image circle at a sensor plane of the image sensor.

The invention provides methods and systems for determining the position of a remote object such as an in vivo medical device such as capsule or probe within a medical patient. Integrated computer and computer executable remote permanent magnetic dipole position and orientation detection system monitors remote object movement. User interface displays remote permanent magnetic dipole location and orientation in a 3-dimensional view. Database stores object position movement in association with time. Magnetic sensor planes detect remote objects with permanent magnetic dipole and generate magnetic field information signal. Computer stores and searches location and posture information use a file.

A whiteboard view camera, which in one embodiment is mounted on a boom, which is fixed above the whiteboard. However, the whiteboard view camera can also be wall or table mounted. The whiteboard view camera differs from an ordinary camera by allowing the lens to tilt with respect to the sensor plane, and shift with respect to the central ray. When the tilt angle α is zero, then the resolution of whiteboard is uniform (e.g., the top and bottom of the whiteboard have the same resolution). In addition, the focus plane is equal to the whiteboard plane, so depth of field issues are not a problem (e.g., a large aperture can be used). Hence, no image noise is introduced. A key contribution of the whiteboard view camera configuration according to the invention is the use of a view camera to capture whiteboard images at uniform resolutions. One embodiment of the whiteboard view camera employs a microphone array of the invention and uses a computer to optimize the image data and audio signals.

The invention belongs to the technical field of the sensors and relates to a thermal convecting one-chip three-axial accelerating sensor. Basic principles of the invention are that air inside a sealed cavity body is inducted to do thermal convection through a heat-sensitive component, and an accelerating signal is transmitted through calculations. The invention comprises a packing cavity which is located on the surface of a heating wire temperature sensor and an etching cavity which is located under the surface of the heating wire temperature sensor. The packing cavity and the etching cavity are arranged in symmetry in four groups of sensors around center. The invention applies for a plurality of fields as automobile, game industry, aviation, ship navigation system, product for civilian use, military, and the like. The invention adopts thermal convection principles to test accelerating information, and has no mass block, and can work under high-g. The invention has impact resistance without adhesions or granules, low cost, low failure rate, high rate of good product, high sensibility, and strong anti-interference. Compared with original one-chip three-axial accelerating sensors of MEMSIC Company, a test for accelerating inside a three-dimensional space is available.

Provided herein are sondes having a pressure sensor that is separated from active sensing portions of the other sonde sensor or sensors by a longitudinal distance along the sonde. The pressure sensor may be positioned in the base portion of the sonde, with removable sensors connected thereto with a sensor plane at a distal end of the sensors that measures any number of parameters associated with the liquid in which the sonde is immersed. An orientation sensor positioned in the base portion determines an orientation angle of the sonde that, in combination with the depth determined at the pressure sensor location by the pressure sensor, provides the ability to determine the actual depth of the sensor plane, irrespective of orientation angle. Accordingly, improved depth measurement is achieved, without having to confine placement of the pressure sensor at the sensor plane.