Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Acoustic image conversion
Patent
1983-06-27
1989-09-26
Tarcza, Thomas H.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Acoustic image conversion
367103, G01S 1502
Patent
active
048706230
ABSTRACT:
An acoustic sensing system to measure a geometry parameter such as, for example, position, orientation and/or shape of an object. The system includes a transmitter for transmitting acoustic wave energy at a single frequency, which acoustic wave energy, in an operating system, interacts with the object in a sensing region to provide reflected or scattered wave energy. A sensor mechanism consisting of many acoustic transducers is positioned to receive the reflected or scattered wave energy, each transducer being operable to convert the received acoustic wave energy to an electrical signal. A processor is connected to receive the electrical signals from the plurality of acoustic transducers; the processor is operable to obtain amplitude and phase information with respect to the electrical signal from each of the transducers, the amplitude and phase information from each of the plurality of transducers being combined and analyzed to derive a geometric parameter of the object.
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Brown Steven W.
Buckley Bruce S.
Reichwein Roy H.
Cochlea Corporation
Pihulic Daniel T.
Shaw Robert
Tarcza Thomas H.
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