Invention Application
- Patent Title: LINEAR OPTICAL SENSOR ARRAYS (LOSA) TRACKING SYSTEM FOR ACTIVE MARKER BASED 3D MOTION TRACKING
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Application No.: US15709766Application Date: 2017-09-20
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Publication No.: US20180081027A1Publication Date: 2018-03-22
- Inventor: Pinhas Ben-Tzvi , Anil Kumar
- Applicant: Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
- Applicant Address: US VA Blacksburg
- Assignee: Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
- Current Assignee: Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Blacksburg
- Main IPC: G01S5/16
- IPC: G01S5/16 ; G01S3/786 ; G01S3/781 ; H04N13/02

Abstract:
The present invention is a standalone motion tracking device using Linear Optical Sensor Arrays (LOSA). The invention constitutes a tracker module and an active marker, which communicate with each other wirelessly. The motion tracking device uses optical tracking along with inertial sensing to estimate the position and attitude of the active marker relative to the tracker module. The system determines the position of the active marker using stereovision triangulation through multiple views emanating from different LOSA modules. The present invention also features novel use of a multi-slit aperture for LOSA sensors in order to increase the field of view and resolution of the position estimates. The system uniquely leverages the structural geometry of the active marker, along with inertial sensing, to estimate the attitude of the active marker relative to the tracker module without relying on magnetic sensing that may often be unreliable.
Public/Granted literature
- US10295651B2 Linear optical sensor arrays (LOSA) tracking system for active marker based 3D motion tracking Public/Granted day:2019-05-21
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