259 results about "Proximity sensing" patented technology

The utility model discloses a multi-mode fusion touch fingertip module which comprises a supporting layer (107). The outer surface of the supporting layer (107) is provided with a proximity sense sensing layer (101) used for sensing the distance, a temperature site (102) used for sensing the temperature, a touch sense / slip sense sensing layer (103) used for sensing the touch sense, a control element (104), an electrode layer (105) used for transmitting signals and a force sensing layer (106) used for sensing the force. According to a three-dimensional force three-dimensional tactile sensing network, multi-mode sensor signals can be obtained, a multi-branch tactile neural network is constructed by using the signals, and a tactile fingertip module is formed, so that the shortages of two-dimensional tactile sensing can be made up, and three-dimensional characteristics of tactile sensing can be obtained; that is to say, richer haptic information such as output magnitude, direction, acting position, spatial distribution of force, dynamic force time sequence characteristics, spatial distribution of temperature and the like can be decoupled, various characteristics of the object are extracted, and the accuracy of object haptic recognition is improved.

The invention provides a data access control method and system based on zero-knowledge proof, and relates to the technical field of data access control. According to the method, a root key of a unique hardware identity is generated through a physical unclonable function of a data request equipment chip, and meanwhile, real-time running state data of equipment is collected; the two are subjected to cryptographic binding to form an equipment credible state voucher; secondly, detecting capacitance field disturbance when data holding equipment approaches through a capacitive proximity sensor array, and generating an interactive response mode; then, the equipment credible state certificate and the interactive response mode serve as private input to generate a composite zero-knowledge proof, and identity authenticity and physical proximity are proved to data holding equipment at the same time on the premise that sensitive information is not leaked; and after the data holding device passes verification, the data access permission is authorized immediately, and a temporary encryption communication channel is established, so that the reliability and instantaneity of security authentication between IoT devices can be improved.

The invention discloses a distributed multi-mode flexible sensor based on a Bragg fiber grating and a multi-mode sensing method, and the sensor comprises a dielectric layer which is used for enhancing the non-contact electric field response, and achieving the detection of the approaching distance of a target object; the optical fiber sensing layer is arranged below the dielectric layer and comprises distributed Bragg optical fiber grating sensors arranged in an S shape and an elastic silica gel layer, the optical fiber grating sensors are used for collecting distributed tactile force signals and temperature signals, and the elastic silica gel layer wraps the optical fiber grating sensors to achieve stress transmission; the conducting layer is arranged below the optical fiber sensing layer, is made of an array type flexible conducting material and is used for collecting and transmitting multi-mode electric signals; an encapsulation layer; wherein the dielectric layer, the optical fiber sensing layer and the conductive layer cooperatively realize multi-mode fusion of distributed proximity sensing, distributed force touch sensing and non-contact temperature sensing. The multi-modal flexible electronic skin can meet the requirements of accurate acquisition and real-time feedback of multi-modal information in a complex environment.

An information handling system may include a processor, a memory, a radio to transceive wirelessly via an antenna with a wireless network, and a touchpad to receive touch input via a surface of the touchpad when the information handling system is detected in a clamshell configuration, where the touch input is received by a touchpad driver and processed to a corresponding touch input command. An orientation sensor to detect when the information handling system is changed to a tablet configuration and a controller to deactivate the touchpad to receive the touch input for processing to a corresponding touch input command and to activate and operatively couple a metallic layer of the touchpad to a proximity sensor integrated circuit to detect when a user's body is close to the antenna to reduce the power for transmission via the antenna to reduce a specific absorption rate (SAR) level.

Aspects of the subject technology relate to a removable shelter that electrically and / or communicatively integrates with an electric vehicle when the removable shelter is mounted to the vehicle. The removeable shelter may leverage electrical contacts in accessory mounting ports on the roof, crossbars, and / or truck bed of the vehicle. The removeable shelter may also communicate wirelessly with the electric vehicle. The removable shelter may include any of various integrated electronic accessories that can be powered by the vehicle battery, including, but not limited to, external lighting, external proximity sensing, proximity-based external lighting, interior lighting, air temperature control, other temperature control, speakers, charging ports for mobile phones and / or other devices, and / or other features.

The invention discloses a high-sensitivity proximity sense and three-dimensional pressure sense flexible capacitive sensor. The capacitive sensor comprises a plurality of sensing units which are distributed in an array mode, and each sensing unit comprises a contact layer, a hierarchical porous composite sensitive conductive unit and an induction electrode unit which are sequentially arranged in a stacked mode. Dual-mode measurement of proximity sense and three-dimensional pressure sense is achieved through a single-sensing-body mechanism, when a measured object is not contacted, the sensing unit completely works in a dielectric state, proximity sense measurement can be achieved, after the measured object is contacted, the sensing unit works in a common electrode state, three-dimensional pressure sense measurement can be achieved, and the sensing unit can be used for measuring the proximity sense and the three-dimensional pressure sense. Compared with a traditional flexible dielectric material, the hierarchical porous composite material is used as the sensitive unit, so that the dielectric constant and the deformation capability of the sensitive unit are greatly improved, and high sensitivity of flexible proximity sense and three-dimensional pressure sense measurement is ensured.

The invention discloses a visual tactile sensing system and method based on visual-magnetic fusion, and the method comprises the steps: isolating an external light source through a surface coating, reconstructing the surface texture of a sensed object, and obtaining the texture deformation information; the texture deformation information of the surface coating is received based on a camera, image information is obtained, force measurement is carried out through mark points arranged between the surface coating and the transparent silica gel, and standard force is obtained; magnetic field intensity change information caused when the postures of the marking points change is collected through a Hall sensor; based on the image information, the standard force and the magnetic field intensity change information, force measurement of the sensed object is achieved, and a force measurement result is obtained. The method provided by the invention can measure the high-precision multi-dimensional displacement of the mark point, has faster response or frequency, and realizes the functions of high-precision force measurement, high response and proximity sense of the visual tactile sensor.

The invention discloses a tactile sense and proximity sense sensor and a detection method, and relates to the technical field of sensors, the sensor comprises a tactile sense and proximity sense sampling unit; the antenna comprises an upper substrate, a middle dielectric layer and a lower substrate from top to bottom in sequence. A bristle adhesion material is integrated on the surface of the lower substrate and is used for picking up a target object; the upper substrate comprises a first bottom interdigital electrode layer; the lower-layer substrate sequentially comprises a top-layer interdigitated electrode layer and a second bottom-layer interdigitated electrode layer from top to bottom; the first bottom-layer interdigitated electrode layer, the top-layer interdigitated electrode layer and the middle dielectric layer form a touch sensing layer; tactile information of the bristle adhesion material and the target object is determined according to the capacitance value of the tactile sensing layer; the second bottom interdigitated electrode layer is used as a proximity sense sensing layer, and the distance attitude information between the bristle adhesion material and the target object is determined by the capacitance values of the two proximity sense sensing layers in the same plane. According to the invention, the sensitivity of measuring tactile information and proximity information is improved.

The bobbin yarn taking and placing device comprises a bobbin replacing conveying line, the two ends of the bobbin replacing conveying line communicate with a bobbin conveying line between the automatic winder and a spinning frame, and a bobbin taking mechanism and a bobbin placing mechanism are arranged on the side face of the bobbin replacing conveying line; proximity sensing devices are arranged below the bobbin taking mechanism and the bobbin placing mechanism to sense the positions of bobbins, and the bobbin taking mechanism drives a bobbin clamping jaw to take the bobbins through a translation mechanism and a lifting mechanism; a pipe guiding groove is formed below a stock bin of the pipe discharging mechanism, and bobbins are discharged one by one and overturned to be in a vertical state through the material pushing and overturning mechanism. The device realizes automatic taking-out of bobbins containing residual yarns and automatic putting-in of empty bobbins, improves the production efficiency, reduces the labor cost, and is suitable for modern textile production.

An electronic device and an antenna structure are provided. The electronic device includes a housing and an antenna structure which includes a first radiating element with a first radiating part, a feed part, and a grounding part, a second radiating element with five branches, a grounding element connected to the grounding part, a feed element connected to the feed part, a switching circuit electrically connected to the third branch, and a proximity sensing circuit electrically connected to the fourth branch. The first branch and the second branch intersect at a first branching point, the third branch and the fourth branch intersect at a second branching point. The fifth branch is connected between the first branching point and the second branching point. The first radiating part extends between the first branch and the second branch so the first radiating part and the second radiating element couple with each other.

The invention provides a proximity sense and touch sense collaborative mechanical gripper sensing system for self-adaptive grabbing, and belongs to the technical field of robot sensing. The proximity sense and touch sense collaborative mechanical gripper sensing system comprises a sensing module, an execution module and a data transmission and processing module; the sensing module comprises a flexible transparent fingertip, a proximity sensor array and a multiplexer; the execution module comprises a three-finger manipulator and a mechanical arm; the data transmission and processing module comprises a controller and an upper computer. Compared with a traditional proximity sense-touch sense grabbing perception scheme, a proximity sense-touch sense collaborative perception framework with space consistency is established, information alignment errors are effectively reduced, the time-space consistency and fusion efficiency of perception are remarkably improved, the multi-dimensional characteristics of a target object can be represented more comprehensively, and the method has the advantages of being high in robustness, high in robustness and the like. And the grabbing posture and force are adjusted in a self-adaptive mode, and high-precision and high-robustness grabbing in the dynamic environment is achieved. In addition, soft grabbing is achieved through the flexible fingers, object damage is avoided, and the grabbing efficiency is improved.

Monitoring systems and methods incorporating wearable personal protection items with intelligent sensor units configured to communicate with one another and determine proximity of individuals to one another while also monitoring personal wellness and safety protocol compliance across a community of persons.

The present invention provides a blower device, which includes a signal receiving module for receiving work signals from an external expansion device when it's connected to the blower device; a proximity sensing module for detecting an identification signal of the external expansion device; a hot and cold air generation module, coupled with the signal receiving module, provides output wind force. When the external expansion device is connected, the hot and cold air generation module adjusts the working temperature and air volume of the output wind force based on the work signals; a power module, connected with the proximity sensing module, determines whether to provide power required to drive the blower device based on the identification signal; and an expansion device power supply module, connected to the power module, provides power required to drive the external expansion device when it's connected to the blower device.

An exemplary method and system is disclosed that facilitates the monitoring of worker's productivity and safety, for example, at a construction site and other like labor-intensive occupation and settings. The exemplary method and system provides wearable-based motion sensing and / or proximity sensing between worker and construction equipment. A study discussed herein suggests that sensing at two or more torso locations can provide 95% accuracy in classifying worker's action or motion at a construction site. In some embodiments, as discussed herein, the acquired sensed data are transmitted, over a mesh network, e.g., established between the wearable devices, to a cloud infrastructure to facilitate the real-time monitoring of action and actions that such sites.

The invention discloses a capacitance-piezoresistive type dual-mode flexible skin-like system with high stretchability. According to the invention, the sponge composite sensing unit presents two different states of an insulator and a conductor under the action of pressure, dual-mode measurement of proximity sense and pressure sense is realized by adopting a single-sensing-body mechanism, and when a measured object is not contacted, the sensing unit works in a high-resistance-state dielectric state, so that capacitive proximity sense measurement can be realized; after a measured object is contacted, the sensing unit generates a percolation phenomenon under the action of pressure and is adjusted to be in a low-resistance state conductor state, piezoresistive pressure touch measurement can be realized, the sensing electrode layer adopts a snakelike island-bridge structure, the tensile deformation of a skin-like system is limited in a snakelike wire part, and on the premise that the structural flexibility and stretchability of the measurement unit are ensured, the measurement precision is improved. And the coupling response between units in the array is reduced.

The invention discloses an intelligent household equipment rapid identification and configuration method based on an NFC technology, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, starting NFC identification: enabling a user to enable a mobile terminal supporting an NFC function to approach an NFC induction region of unconfigured intelligent household equipment, enabling the mobile terminal to activate the NFC function, immediately starting an identification process, and preparing to read the information of the intelligent household equipment; according to the invention, information exchange is carried out by establishing close-range induction between devices by using the NFC technology, so that the configuration process of the smart home device is effectively simplified, the seamless joint effect is realized, the operation complexity and user errors are reduced, the device is ensured to be configured according to expectation, the reliability of the system and the efficiency of device configuration are improved, and the user experience is improved. The configuration efficiency and the user experience of the smart home equipment can be remarkably improved, centralized management of the access equipment is realized by using the central control screen, the coordination and the management efficiency of the system are improved, and the overall safety and the user experience of the smart home system are improved.

The invention relates to a self-adaptive proximity sensing method, a full-screen building terminal and a storage medium, and the method comprises the following steps: under the condition that no object approaches, the following steps are executed at set intervals: obtaining external environment parameters, analyzing the external environment parameters, dynamically generating parameters in a smoothing algorithm according to the analysis result of the external environment parameters, and outputting the parameters in the smoothing algorithm; a dynamically adjusted smoothing algorithm is obtained; predicting a preset number of ADC values at a future moment; smoothing a preset number of ADC values through the dynamically adjusted smoothing algorithm to obtain a smoothed ADC value array, and dynamically generating an induction trigger threshold through the smoothed ADC value array; and performing infrared induction monitoring according to the dynamically generated induction triggering threshold.

The present invention discloses a medicinal material grinding and filtering system, which is characterized in that it includes: a base, a shell, a screen, a swivel assembly, a first roller pressing assembly, a scraper, a second roller pressing assembly, a control assembly, and a proximity sensor assembly; the shell, the swivel assembly, the first roller pressing assembly, and the second roller pressing assembly are all fixedly mounted on the base, and the shell has a cylindrical and horizontally arranged first chamber, a feed port and a discharge port are provided on the shell, the discharge port is located at the bottom of the shell, and the screen is adapted to be arranged at the discharge port; the swivel of the swivel assembly has a cylindrical and horizontally arranged second chamber, the first chamber and the second chamber are coaxially arranged, and filter holes are uniformly provided on the swivel. The medicinal material grinding and filtering system proposed by the present invention can prevent the screen from being blocked; and can further crush the medicinal materials, and can also prompt the medicinal materials to move back and forth on the screen to promote further filtering of the medicinal materials; and can also realize continuous feeding of the medicinal materials.

The invention relates to the technical field of robots, and provides a robot and a safety control method, device and equipment thereof, a storage medium and a product, the robot comprises electronic skin, the electronic skin comprises a first detection unit and a second detection unit, and the method comprises the following steps: responding to an obstacle approaching the robot, and detecting the approaching speed of the obstacle through the first detection unit; in response to the approaching speed being greater than or equal to a preset speed threshold value, controlling the robot to perform obstacle avoidance path planning and / or speed reduction; detecting a contact force and a contact moment of the obstacle through a second detection unit in response to the obstacle contacting the robot; and determining safety braking parameters of the robot based on the approaching speed, the contact force and the contact moment. Safety speed monitoring based on proximity detection and power and force limitation based on contact detection in man-machine cooperation can be achieved at the same time, a dual protection mechanism of proximity sensing and contact sensing of the robot is achieved, and safety is further improved.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to an analytics function apparatus for proximity sensing in wireless communication. The apparatus comprises: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the analytics function apparatus to: receive a request from a consumer for proximity sensing analytics, the request including: a list of target entities for which analytics information should be provided, the target entities including target UEs and target non-UE objects; filter information including conditions for which proximity information of each target entity should be generated; and a reporting destination for the generated proximity information; determine proximity information of the targeted UEs and / or target non-UE objects; and send the generated proximity information to the reporting destination.

The present invention provides a method for ambient light detection, proximity sensing, and ambient light charging applied to a panel. The method includes: providing a display panel, wherein the display panel comprises a plurality of pixels with PN junctions units in a display area; and providing a driving circuit, wherein the driving circuit drives each display pixel or each PN junction unit through a display mode, a standby mode, and a blanking time, so that part of each display pixel or each PN junction unit is used to perform a display function and part of each display pixel or each PN junction unit is used to carry out the ambient light detection, proximity sensing, or ambient light charging.

A proximity sensing system on a marine vessel includes a main IMU positioned on the vessel at a main installation attitude and a main location, a first proximity sensor configured to measure the proximity of objects from a first sensor location on the vessel, and a first sensor IMU positioned on the vessel at the first sensor location and at a first installation attitude. A control system is configured to receive main IMU data from the main IMU and first IMU data from the first sensor IMU, wherein the main location of the main IMU on the marine vessel is known and at least one of the first sensor location and the first installation attitude of the first sensor IMU on the marine vessel are initially unknown, and calibrate the proximity measurements from the first proximity sensor based on the main IMU data and the first IMU data.

A display driver includes a driver circuit and a sensing controller. The driver circuit is configured to drive a display panel according to display information. The display panel defines a sensing region. The sensing controller interface circuit is configured to transmit an output vertical sync signal to a proximity sensing controller. The proximity sensing controller is configured to generate positional information of an input object based at least in part on a resulting signal received from a sensor electrode disposed in the sensing region. The output vertical sync signal comprises encoding the display information in the output vertical sync signal.

A system and a method are disclosed for proximity detection using a phased antenna array including multiple antenna elements. A method includes transmitting, via a first antenna element and a second antenna element among the multiple antenna elements, a transmission signal; determining, for the first antenna element, a first power of a first injected signal and a second power of a first reflected signal corresponding to the transmission signal; determining, for the second antenna element, a third power of a second injected signal and a fourth power of a second reflected signal corresponding to the transmission signal; calculating, for the first antenna element, a first power metric based on at least one of the first power of the first injected signal or the second power of the first reflected signal; calculating, for the second antenna element, a second power metric based on at least one of the third power of the second injected signal or the fourth power of the second reflected signal; comparing the first power metric with a first threshold value; comparing the second power metric with a second threshold value; and determining whether an object is detected within a proximity range of the phased antenna array, based on the comparison of at least one of the first power metric with the first threshold value or the second power metric with the second threshold value.

A mobile phone may include an enclosure including a housing component and a front cover coupled to the housing component and defining a front exterior surface of the mobile phone. The mobile phone may further include a display positioned below the front cover and a sensor module positioned below a front-facing sensor region of the front cover and including a biometric sensing system. The biometric sensing system may include a first lens, a light emitter positioned below the first lens and configured to emit light onto an object, a second lens, and a light sensor below the second lens and configured to capture an image of the object. The sensor module may further include a proximity sensing system positioned between the first lens of the biometric sensing system and the second lens of the biometric sensing system.

A robot system comprising movable parts, a casing element, a force limiting sensor, a joint position sensor, and one or more processors, wherein the casing element comprises a vibration actuator. Multiple embodiments are introduced for the implementation of the casing element include haptic warning and proximity sensing. Furthermore, means to use the casing element to guide the robot and generate haptic effect by the vibration actuator to assist the user in a human-robot collaboration and / or guiding function are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a wearable tactile perception reconstruction system and method, and the system comprises a myoelectric prosthetic hand, a flexible arm band, a vibration feedback array, and a feedback controller, and the flexible arm band is used for binding the system to the big arm of a subject; the myoelectric prosthetic hand is located at the tail end of the limb of the subject, is connected with the feedback controller and transmits data of the pressure sensor, the distance sensor and the motor encoder to the feedback controller; the vibration feedback array is located on the inner side of the flexible arm band and makes direct contact with the skin of a subject. The feedback controller is located on the outer side of the flexible arm band and at least comprises a control box and a circuit board, and the circuit board is fixed in the control box; in the system, the myoelectric prosthetic hand obtains body sense, force touch sense and proximity sense perception information data, the feedback controller receives the perception information data of the myoelectric prosthetic hand, processes the perception information data and converts the perception information data into stimulation coding instructions, and the vibration feedback array receives the stimulation coding instructions and conducts vibration touch sense feedback to achieve touch sense perception reconstruction.

A system comprises a dongle and a diagnostic tool. The dongle includes a vehicle communication transceiver (VCT), a first wireless transceiver, and a vehicle connector. The diagnostic tool includes a processor, a proximity sensing component, an output device, and a second wireless transceiver. The proximity sensing component outputs an output signal. The processor receives the output signal and make a determination that indicates whether the output signal indicates an object is in spatial proximity to the proximity sensing component. The processor outputs using the output device a notification based on the determination. The VCT performs a vehicle communication directly with a vehicle while the vehicle connector is connected to an on-board diagnostic connector (OBDC) of the vehicle. The first and second wireless transceivers communicates with each other to trigger a vehicle communication from the dongle to the vehicle while the vehicle connector is connected to the OBDC.

The invention provides an isolation device, and relates to the technical field of infectious disease prevention and control isolation, the isolation device comprises an isolation monitoring base, the top end surface of the isolation monitoring base is provided with a treading groove, and the center of the bottom surface of the inner end of the treading groove is fixedly provided with a proximity sensing assembly; through fixed installation of a matching strip block and a door plate of a room door, when an isolated person opens the room door of the room for prevention and control isolation of infectious diseases, first, information is wirelessly transmitted to a monitoring center, and second, information is transmitted to the monitoring center; therefore, an isolation prevention and control worker in the monitoring center can know the current behavior of opening the door of the isolated person at the first time, and the problem that key behaviors such as approaching or opening the door cannot be found and processed in time due to the lack of behavior supervision on the isolated person when the person is isolated in a single room is solved. And the hidden danger of virus transmission caused by isolation failure exists.

An auxiliary number calling device comprises a main control module, a key module and a voice module, the key module is connected with the main control module to input numbers or control commands, the voice module is connected with the control module to circularly broadcast the numbers, the auxiliary number calling device further comprises a proximity sensing module and a display module, and the display module is connected with the control module to display the numbers. The proximity sensing module is used for detecting whether a person approaches, and the master control module is connected with the proximity sensing module to control the voice module to stop broadcasting the number and control the display module to stop displaying the number when the person approaches. The system can effectively prevent users from missing numbers, and is simple in structure, low in cost and easy to popularize.