650 results about "Reference distance" patented technology

Microelectronic imager assemblies comprising a workpiece including a substrate and a plurality of imaging dies on and / or in the substrate. The substrate includes a front side and a back side, and the imaging dies comprise imaging sensors at the front side of the substrate and external contacts operatively coupled to the image sensors. The microelectronic imager assembly further comprises optics supports superimposed relative to the imaging dies. The optics supports can be directly on the substrate or on a cover over the substrate. Individual optics supports can have (a) an opening aligned with one of the image sensors, and (b) a bearing element at a reference distance from the image sensor. The microelectronic imager assembly can further include optical devices mounted or otherwise carried by the optics supports.

In an apparatus and a method for processing a calling tone of a wire / wireless telephone, if an RF signal corresponding to a ring receiving generation control signal is transmitted to a portable device from a fixed device after a ring signal is received in the fixed device of the wire / wireless telephone, the portable device measures the distance between the fixed device and the portable device according to electric field strength of the RF signal transmitted by the fixed device. If the measured distance is less than a preset reference distance, the portable device disables generation of the calling tone and the calling tone is generated in the fixed device only. Thus, when the fixed device is near the portable device, only the fixed device processes the calling tone for receiving a ring signal, and the problem of user inconvenience caused by lack of harmony between melody chords generated in the fixed device and the portable device is solved.

An apparatus for monitoring a spatial area, in particular for safeguarding a hazardous area of an automatically operated installation, comprises an illumination device which at least temporarily emits light signals into the spatial area. A first image recording unit records a first image of the spatial area. The first image recording unit comprises an image sensor having a plurality of pixels. An evaluation unit determines a distance value for at least one spatial area point, which is located in the spatial area and is imaged on at least one pixel, by means of a propagation type measurement. The propagation type measurement suffers from a limited unambiguity range. Therefore, a test device is designed to check the distance value by means of a reference distance value determined from a second image of said spatial area.

A wall area estimation system generates an estimated wall area measurement of a building based on the received roof measurements (e.g., those generated by, received from or found in a three dimensional model of the roof) and a reference distance. The reference distance is a measurement indicative of a distance between a reference point on the roof and a ground surface. This reference distance may be used to determine how for down to extend the walls of the building (e.g., to a ground level) when building a three dimensional digital model of the building to aid in generating wall area measurements. The resulting wall measurements, roof measurements, measurements of areas missing from the wall used to generate a wall estimate report, or a combined roof and wall estimate report including various different identifiers indicating the different features and measurements based on the three dimensional model.

Provided is a method of spatially referencing a plurality of images captured from a plurality of different locations within an indoor space by determining the location from which the plurality of images were captured. The method may include obtaining a plurality of distance-referenced panoramas of an indoor space. The distance-referenced panoramas may each include a plurality of distance-referenced images each captured from one position in the indoor space and at a different azimuth from the other distance-referenced images, a plurality of distance measurements, and orientation indicators each indicative of the azimuth of the corresponding one of the distance-referenced images. The method may further include determining the location of each of the distance-referenced panoramas based on the plurality of distance measurements and the orientation indicators and associating in memory the determined locations with the plurality of distance-referenced images captured from the determined location.

In a system for evaluating an image, a processing device includes an input for receiving image data representing the image and another input for receiving distance information on a distance of an object relative to an image plane of the image. The distance information may be determined based on a three-dimensional image including depth information captured utilizing a 3D camera device. The processing device is configured for resampling at least a portion of the image data based both on the distance information and on a pre-determined reference distance to generate resampled image data, the portion of the image data to be resampled representing at least part of the object.

An image information-inputting unit inputs image information including position information indicating a position where an image was shot. A reference distance-calculating unit calculates a reference distance from a predetermined reference position utilizing the image information. An image information-classifying unit classifies the image information based on the reference distance.

The general field of the invention relates to a method of calculating a so-called continuous descent approach procedure for aircraft. The method comprises calculation steps making it possible to determine a minimum distance making it possible to attain the runway by using the highest possible descent angles allowed by the performance of the aircraft, a maximum distance making it possible to attain the runway by using the lowest possible descent angles allowed by the performance of the aircraft, a step of comparing the minimum and maximum distances with a reference distance, the continuous descent approach procedure being possible if this reference distance is less than the maximum distance and greater than the minimum distance. The method also envisages replacing certain indeterminate points of the flight plan by points arising from the minimum and maximum distance calculations.

A computer-implemented method for controlling a host vehicle having a vehicle control system that controls motion of the host vehicle relative to a preceding vehicle that is immediately ahead of the host vehicle. The method includes determining a relative headway distance and a relative velocity between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and an acceleration rate of the preceding vehicle. The method includes receiving message packets transmitted from a leading vehicle and the message packets contain parameters of the leading vehicle including an acceleration rate of the leading vehicle. Further, the method includes calculating an acceleration control rate for the host vehicle to maintain the headway reference distance between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, based on the relative headway distance, the relative velocity, the acceleration rate of the preceding vehicle, and the acceleration rate of the leading vehicle. The acceleration rate is output to a vehicle controller to control motion of the host vehicle.

An augmented reality (AR) system and method for remotely sharing an AR service is provided. The AR system includes a plurality of client devices and a host device. The AR system allows information related to a marker and information related an AR object to be shared between client devices participating in an AR session, which may be separated by a reference distance, through a host device. Accordingly, an AR service may be shared between the client devices.

The invention provides a system for detecting mass, mass center and mass offcenter of a cylinder, and belongs to the measurement technical field. The system for detecting the mass, the mass center and the mass offcenter of the cylinder comprises a main controller, a data acquisition module, a control interface module, a signal conditioning circuit, a motor driving circuit, a distance measuring device, a power module, a lifting motor, four weighting sensors and a lifting platform. The cylinder to be measured is clamped on a tray at one time, the lifting motor is started, the tray is landed on the weighting sensors, the distance measuring device is moved to measure a reference distance of the cylinder, and then data of the sensors are acquired twice in a front and back mode when the cylinder rotates by 90 degrees, and a detecting result of the mass, the mass center and the mass eccentricity of the cylinder can be acquired according to a four-point method. The system for detecting the mass, the mass center and the mass offcenter of the cylinder has the advantages of being compact in structure, large in measuring diameter range, high in measuring accuracy and automation degree, and capable of being used in delivery detection, factory acceptance inspection and quality characteristic detection of cylinder parts or products.

A pulsed radar system uses phase noise compensation to reduce phase noise due to drift of the reference oscillator to enable detection of micro movements and particularly human motion such as walking, breathing or heartbeat. The noise level due to A / D sampling must be sufficiently low for the phase noise compensation to be effective. As this is currently beyond state-of-the-art for high bandwidth A / D converters used in traditional receiver design, the receiver is suitably reconfigured to use analog range gates and narrowband A / D sampling having sufficiently low noise level. As technology continues to improve, the phase compensation techniques may be directly applicable to the high bandwidth A / D samples in traditional receiver designs. Whether phase compensation is applied to traditional receiver designs or a receiver configured with analog range gates, the steps are essentially the same: data is processed to position a reference range bin (either an analog range gate or a particular time sample) on a stationary reference and the phase variation of that reference range bin is used to compensate the phase of target data in range bins (either an ensemble of range gates or other time samples) near the stationary reference. This effectively moves the radar system and particularly the reference oscillator to the stationary reference thereby greatly reducing oscillator drift and phase noise and decoupling the stand-off range from the level of phase noise.

An image recording system is provided. The image recording system includes an image recording apparatus, a mobile terminal to wirelessly manipulate the image recording apparatus and including a display device, a receiver to receive a signal from one of the image recording apparatus and the mobile terminal, a distance determining unit to determine a distance between the image recording apparatus and the mobile terminal, a range determining unit to determine a range, which includes the detected distance amongst a plurality of continuously incremental ranges partitioned by a predetermined reference distance originating from the image recording apparatus, a storage to store information concerning a plurality of operation screens associated with the plurality of ranges respectively, and a display controller to control the display device to display one of the plurality of operation screens associated with one of the plurality of ranges, which includes the detected distance.

The invention discloses a detection method of road-surface evenness; in the measurement process, an accelerometer is utilized to detect relative displacement of a laser ranging device owning to road surface bumping, a three-dimensional gyroscope is utilized to detect the inclined angle of the laser ranging device owning to road surface bumping, and a three-dimensional synthesis attitude angle is synthesized under a two-directional coordinate system according to the attitude angles along the three directions; the relative displacement, the three-dimensional synthesis attitude angle and the distance measured by the laser ranging device are obtained, and vertical distance between the laser ranging device and the road surface is calculated; according to the detection density, all vertical distances are obtained, and a difference value with a standard reference distance is obtained, thereby obtaining a profile curve and the road-surface evenness. The method eliminates the problems that thealtitude of the laser ranging device is inclined owning to road surface bumping and data loses efficiency caused by position deviation, and solves the problem that the road-surface evenness can not bedetected under the low-speed (<25km / h) condition, thereby improving the detection efficiency, reducing the life cycle cost of highroads and improving the service life of the highroads.

The invention relates to a vision protection implementation method of electronic equipment with a display screen. A front panel of the electronic equipment is provided with a front-facing camera and a distance sensor. The vision protection implementation method comprises the following steps of: detecting a working state of the display screen, `starting the front-facing camera on back stage when the display screen is activated and capturing human face images; identifying the human face images by using a human face identification technology and capturing a frontal human face; when the system judges that the frontal human face exists in the captured images, starting the distance sensor on back stage and measuring a distance between eyes of a user and the display screen; and comparing a measured distance with a preset reference distance, and judging whether to remind a user to adjust the distance between the eyes and the display screen. According to the vision protection implementation method, the purpose of protecting eyes of the user is achieved by monitoring the distance between the eyes of the user and the mobilephone screen by two external equipments, namely the front-facing camera and the distance sensor; and because the step of judging the frontal human face is added, the monitoring accuracy is improved and the trouble brought to the user due to wrong prompt information is avoided.

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a device detection unit which detects an external device which is located within a wireless communication area that is covered by the electronic apparatus, a distance calculation unit which calculates a distance between the electronic apparatus and the detected external device on the basis of a radio-wave intensity of a wireless signal which is transmitted from the detected external device, and a connection control unit which establishes wireless connection between the detected external device and the electronic apparatus if the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit is within a predetermined reference distance.

The invention discloses a projector and an adjusting method and mobile terminal for a display picture thereof, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring the distance between the projector in the current position and a projecting plane, and acquiring an image of the surrounding environment of the projector; comparing the acquired distance with the reference distance and comparingthe acquired image with the reference image to acquire the position change of the projector, wherein the reference distance and the reference image correspond to the reference position of the projector; and the display picture of the projector is adjusted according to the position change to enable the adjusted display picture to be converted into the display picture when the projector is in the reference position. The invention can improve the applicable function of the projector and increase the user experience.

The invention relates to a multi-video coding and decoding method and a device. The method mainly comprises the following steps that: firstly, the reference distance between a reference image and a current image is determined according to the time distance and the space distance between the reference image and the current image; a reference image with at least one frame adopted by the current image is chosen and determined according to a reference distance of each candidate reference image and the reference image is adopted to code and decode the current image. Therefore, the invention can realize the optimal predicting effect by adopting the image in a current reference cache under the circumstance that an additional reference cache is not necessary, thereby raising the multi-video coding and decoding efficiency.

The invention provides a volume adjustment method and a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps: when a player of the mobile terminal plays a file with external sound, acquiring the target distance between a mobile terminal user and the mobile terminal; calculating the sound pressure level adjustment value based on the target distance and a preset reference distance; and adjusting the volume of the player based on the sound pressure level adjustment value. Through the scheme, the volume can be adjusted intelligently and automatically, the frequency that users adjust the volume manually during video call and multimedia broadcast is reduced, the user experience is enhanced, and the user need is satisfied.

A scanning probe microscope has an XY scanner for making a probe scan a sample surface, an approach and separate drive element for making the probe approach to the sample surface at a sampling position and separate the probe from the sample surface during movement between the sampling positions, and a servo controller for holding the distance between the probe and the sample surface at a reference distance during measurement at the sampling position. A plurality of scattered measurement locations are set away from each other as sampling positions. The approach and separation movements are performed at each sampling position. When measuring the surface by the probe at a sampling position and while making the probe move between sampling positions, servo control by the servo controller is continued. This makes it possible to quickly measure the surface by a simple controller and possible to measure a wide area or measure a high aspect ratio. When making the probe approach to the sample surface for measurement at the sampling position, it is also possible to cause a scan motion for tandem movement at an equal speed and in the same direction as the scan motion by the XY scanner.

A wall area estimation system generates an estimated wall area measurement of a building based on the received roof measurements (e.g., those generated by, received from or found in a three-dimensional model of the roof) and a reference distance. The reference distance is a measurement indicative of a distance between the roof and a model ground surface placed on an image of the building where the walls of the building meet the ground. This reference distance may be used to determine how for down to extend the walls of the building (e.g., to a ground level) when building a three-dimensional digital model of the building to aid in generating wall area measurements. The resulting wall measurements, roof measurements, measurements of areas missing from the wall used to generate a wall estimate report, or a combined roof and wall estimate report including various different identifiers indicating the different features and measurements based on the three-dimensional model.

A printer includes a spectroscope including a light source, an integrator optical system that irradiates a predetermined area of irradiation of a medium with illumination light from the light source, a spectroscopy device on which light from a measurement target is incident and in which a wavelength-selective interference filter is disposed, and a light receiver that receives light emitted from the spectroscopy device. The integrator optical system irradiates with the illumination light the area of irradiation that includes a reference area of measurement and is larger than the reference area of measurement by at least an allowable amount of change in the distance between the medium and the spectroscope or more, the reference area of measurement in which the distance between the medium and the spectroscope is equal to a reference distance.

The invention discloses an intelligent isolation device forming a tidal lane and a using method. The isolation device comprises four metal piles and two side-by-side end head piers; a plurality of intermediate piers are arranged between the two end head piers; every two adjacent piers are connected through an isolation chain and a spring cable; and a microcontroller, an infrared sensor, a speed detecting and counting sensor module, a deceleration motor and a rolling shaft are arranged in each pier. The end head piers conduct self judgment after receiving lane changing signals, one of the end head piers is the main control pier, the main control pier sends out test information and starts to move after receiving response information, when the moving distance of the main control pier is equal to the preset reference distance of one ends judged to be started of the intermediate piers, the intermediate piers adjacent to the main control pier start to move, and the rest piers can be conducted in the same manner till all the piers move to the lane line after lane changing. According to the isolation device, the problems that in a current tidal lane design and the process of achieving lane changing, flexibility is low, self-adaptability is low, and cost is greatly high are solved, manpower and financial resources are saved, and larger road resources utilization is achieved.

An image processing apparatus has: a depth map acquiring unit configured to acquire a depth map that records information indicating a depth distance corresponding to each point on a photographed image; an in-focus position acquiring unit configured to acquire an in-focus position on the photographed image; a reference distance determining unit configured to acquire a depth distance corresponding to the in-focus position from the depth map and sets the acquired depth distance as a reference distance; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing on the photographed image by using the depth map and the reference distance.

A mobile, hand-held communication device with a display screen and a camera is programmed to perform a postural screening method. An image of a patient is acquired on the display screen having an array of pixels. A pixel to distance ratio of the displayed image is determined. A postural displacement of the patient in the displayed image is calculated using the determined ratio. A gyroscope, accelerometer and / or a level of the device is used to level the camera before capturing the image with the camera. Reference lines are overlaid on the display screen and the image to enable alignment of the image. A reference line on the display screen is used for normalizing a known distance in the aligned image to a reference distance of a known number of pixels on the screen for determining the ratio.