摘要:
The industry practice to detect and identify objects such as wires, cables, pipes and tuned coils is to inject a known tone from a tone generator into the object by conduction or induction, occasionally with tagging information. The invention is a tone detection apparatus, also known as the tone probe, to detect the presence of such injected tones that makes use of a microphone or audio electrical input of a mobile computer and software application running on the mobile computer such as a contemporary “smart-phone”. The use of a mobile computer reduces the cost of this tone probe and provides the ability to use mobile internet connection to communicate and store the tagging and location information about object under detection. The display of the mobile computer allows providing more information than a typical tone probe.
摘要:
A passive electronic marker comprising a single tuned LC circuit, having an inductance and one capacitance element, that respond substantially uniformly to a marker locating instrument irrespective of the orientation the marker was installed in. The inductance is split among more than one electrically contiguous coils; each of the coils is oriented in different axes along the three dimensional space to achieve the substantially uniform response to a marker locating instrument. The tuned circuit is enclosed in a protective housing that may or may not help in the orientation of the marker during burying. The passive marker is of a type that is buried relative to portions of an object for use in locating such objects when necessary.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for contactless measurement of the characteristics of patients' eyes and eyewear without using any reference device for scaling measurements. The non-contact system comprises of a measurement device having an array of proximity sensors for contactless distance measurement, which is embracing a mobile device having a digital camera, a processor, gyroscope or 3-axis accelerometer sensors, and wireless transceivers. The wireless transceivers support fast and real-time communication between the mobile device and the measurement device. The mobile device is configured to obtain information of distance between the patient face the measurement device at the same time as the digital camera is capturing images of the patient. Such distances assist the processor of the mobile device to re-construct actual eye and eyewear characteristics from the captured image of the digital camera. The built-in gyroscope sensors may be used to correct errors caused by inadequate orientation of the patient's face and/or the mobile device. The method thus enables fast, accurate and reference less measurement, and reduces the responsibilities of users.
摘要:
The invention is an augmented stop sign that functions more like a traffic signal light commonly used on road junctions in place of existing passive stop signs. The cost of the stop sign is extremely less than a typical existing traffic signal system at a junction and the time and effort involved in installation and maintenance is similar to that of installing an existing stop sign.