Patents for G01S 15 - Systems using the reflection or reradiation of acoustic waves, e.g. sonar systems (17,242)
03/1999
03/25/1999WO1999014083A1 Vehicle occupant sensing apparatus
03/25/1999DE19740549A1 Method to measure flow characteristic of medium in open gutter or partly filled pipe
03/24/1999EP0903960A1 Antenna formed by a plurality of acoustic detectors
03/24/1999EP0767623A4 System for imaging a region
03/23/1999US5886950 Auto focusing process for synthetic antenna sonars
03/23/1999US5886648 Automated vehicle wash system with vehicle type recognition
03/23/1999US5886245 Simulator for testing/calibrating ultrasound diagnostic medical equipment comprising hermetically sealed, fluid-filled enclosure having hollow sonolucent regions
03/23/1999US5885218 Method and apparatus for spatial filtering in an intravascular ultrasound imaging system
03/17/1999EP0834172B1 Towed acoustic transmitter
03/17/1999EP0619717A4 Method and apparatus for processing images.
03/16/1999US5882309 Multi-row ultrasonic transducer array with uniform elevator beamwidth
03/16/1999US5882307 Method and apparatus for receive beamformer system
03/16/1999US5882306 Ultrasound imaging methods and systems
03/10/1999EP0901022A2 Ultrasonic color flow mapping (CFM) system and ultrasonic doppler signal filtering method
03/10/1999EP0901021A1 Method and device for detecting intrusion into a vehicle by means of transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves
03/09/1999US5880359 Container inspecting apparatus
03/09/1999US5879303 Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging of response frequency differing from transmit frequency
03/04/1999WO1999010836A1 Real-time multimedia transmission
03/04/1999WO1999010755A2 Optical pulse induced acoustic mine detection
03/03/1999EP0899581A2 Automatic alignment of forward looking sensor in a vehicle
03/03/1999EP0899579A1 Method for improving the acoustical detection and positioning of small targets
03/02/1999US5877997 Pulse echo distance measurement
03/02/1999US5877996 Transducer arrangement
03/02/1999US5877688 Thermal object measuring apparatus
03/02/1999US5876345 Ultrasonic catheter, system and method for two dimensional imaging or three-dimensional reconstruction
03/02/1999US5876343 Methods and apparatus for blood speckle detection in an intravascular ultrasound imaging system
03/02/1999US5876341 Removing beam interleave effect on doppler spectrum in ultrasound imaging
02/1999
02/25/1999WO1999009430A2 A sensor apparatus, as well as a method of determining the position of an object, in particular a teat of an animal to be milked
02/25/1999WO1999008600A1 Ultrasonic harmonic imaging system and method using waveform pre-distortion
02/24/1999EP0898177A2 Ultrasonic sensor module
02/24/1999EP0898176A2 Method for determining the range and velocity of a water-craft
02/24/1999EP0898175A1 Multilobe ultrasonic scanning method
02/24/1999EP0897544A1 Radar/sonar system concept for extended range-doppler coverage
02/24/1999EP0834086B1 Fmcw distance measurement process
02/18/1999DE19750572A1 Ultrasound measuring method for measuring positions of sound reflecting points in or on test piece
02/17/1999CN1207889A Method and apparatus for optimizing ultrasound color imaging of flow
02/16/1999US5872743 Method and apparatus for locating the user of a computer system
02/16/1999US5872628 Noise pair velocity and range echo location system
02/16/1999US5872507 Process for non-contact distance measurement
02/16/1999US5871446 Ultrasonic medical system and associated method
02/16/1999US5871019 Fast cardiac boundary imaging
02/11/1999DE19732125C1 Verfahren zur Aufnahme von Ultraschallbildern bewegter Objekte Method for recording ultrasound images of moving objects
02/10/1999EP0895603A1 Personal object detector
02/09/1999US5869764 Ultrasonic sensor
02/09/1999US5868676 Interactive doppler processor and method
02/09/1999US5868673 System for carrying out surgery, biopsy and ablation of a tumor or other physical anomaly
02/04/1999WO1999005542A1 Method for recording ultrasound images of moving objects
02/03/1999EP0895094A1 Ultrasound bidimensional imaging method with equipment having power Doppler examination facilities
02/03/1999EP0894473A2 Medical diagnosis, treatment and imaging systems
02/03/1999EP0760625A4 Method of tissue characterization by ultrasound
02/02/1999US5867800 Method and device for sensing of obstacles for an autonomous device
02/02/1999US5867125 Incremental phase and distance measurement through digital phase signature comparison
02/02/1999US5865752 Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging using normalized difference between successive frames
01/1999
01/28/1999WO1999004289A1 Ultrasonic harmonic imaging system and method
01/28/1999WO1999004288A1 Method and device for sensing ultrasound images
01/28/1999WO1999004287A1 Method and apparatus for acoustic detection of mines and other buried man-made objects
01/28/1999WO1999004279A2 An ultrasonic imaging system
01/28/1999WO1999003400A1 Ultrasound imaging method and apparatus for generating pulse width modulated waveforms with reduced harmonic response
01/27/1999EP0591368B1 Mode suppression in fluid flow measurement
01/26/1999US5864285 Method and apparatus for controlling the approach of a vehicle to an obstacle
01/21/1999WO1999003080A1 Intruder detector system
01/20/1999EP0891269A1 Vehicle occupant position sensor
01/20/1999EP0671015B1 Parking aid including a wheel-coupled sensor
01/19/1999US5860930 Energy weighted parameter spatial/temporal filter
01/19/1999US5860928 Method and system for selectively smoothing color flow images in an ultrasound system
01/19/1999US5860927 Diagnostic ultrasound Doppler imaging system and Doppler imaging method for ultrasonic diagnosis
01/19/1999US5860926 Method and ultrasound apparatus for fast acquisition of two dimensional images
01/19/1999US5860924 Three dimensional ultrasonic diagnostic image rendering from tissue and flow images
01/13/1999EP0890849A1 Acoustic lobe pattern combination method for improving mapping quality
01/13/1999EP0890825A1 Method to estimate planar flow from doppler velocity distribution in an observation plane
01/13/1999EP0835460A4 Improved optical ranging camera
01/13/1999EP0733231B1 Method and apparatus for operating compacting machinery relative to a work site
01/12/1999CA2157313C Ultrasonic diagnostic scanning for three dimensional display
01/07/1999WO1999000675A1 System and method for the dynamic display of three-dimensional image data
01/07/1999DE19819793A1 Apparatus for segmenting colour-flow (CF) mode data in medical ultra-sound esp. for heart studies
01/05/1999US5856955 Method and apparatus for transmit beamformer system
01/05/1999US5856953 Processing echoes in ultrasonic liquid gauging systems
01/05/1999US5856793 Motor vehicle display system and ranging device
01/05/1999US5855556 Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus
12/1998
12/30/1998EP0887659A2 Acoustic vision
12/30/1998EP0887657A2 Process for horizontally aligning the receiving plane of an active sonar
12/30/1998EP0886790A2 Telecentric 3d camera and method
12/29/1998US5853367 System for controlling complex equipment
12/29/1998CA2098284C Multi-dimensional data processing and display
12/23/1998WO1998058148A1 Door opening control apparatus
12/23/1998WO1998057583A1 Method and apparatus for frequency control of an ultrasound system
12/23/1998WO1998057581A1 Continuous wave transmitting-receiving ultrasonic imaging device and ultrasonic probe
12/23/1998WO1998057580A1 Intravascular ultrasound enhanced image and signal processing
12/23/1998EP0885594A2 Intravascular ultrasound enhanced image and signal processing
12/23/1998EP0885593A2 Ultrasonic diagnosing apparatus
12/22/1998US5851187 Method and apparatus for ultrasonic beamforming with spatially encoded transmits
12/22/1998US5851186 Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system with universal access to diagnostic information and images
12/19/1998CA2240651A1 Intravascular ultrasound enhanced image and signal processing
12/17/1998DE19725904A1 Arrangement for detecting skier motion parameters
12/16/1998EP0884606A2 Ultrasonic diagnostic image flash suppression technique
12/16/1998EP0883860A1 Multiple ultrasound image registration system, method and transducer
12/16/1998CN1202096A Improvements in or relating to ultrasound imaging
12/15/1998US5848968 Ultrasonic imaging method and apparatus
12/15/1998US5848802 In a motor vehicle
12/10/1998WO1998055882A1 Imaging system having numerical residual focusing