Abstract:
A personal inertial surveying system includes an inertial sensor and processing equipment adapted to be mounted to or carried by a person walking through a region being surveyed. As the person walks inaccuracies in position measurement due to drifts in the inertial sensor can be conveniently corrected. Corrections can be performed often during brief pauses as the person paces though the region, resulting in improved accuracy in the survey.
Abstract:
Errors introduced into ac waveform measurements based on discrete amplitude samples because the waveform period is not an integral number of sampling intervals are substantially averaged out by computing the aggregate average of the set averages of sets of samples. Each set is taken over approximately an integral number of waveform cycles, and the set terminations are spread uniformly over approximately an integral number of cycles. Each set may overlap the previous set by all but one sample. As a short cut to the computation, each sample of the first set may be weighted with a weighting factor that is a respective member of an arithmetic series, starting at one and increasing in steps of one. Each remaining sample may be weighted by a factor that is a member of symmetrical series decreasing in steps of one and ending in one. The sum of all the weighted samples is accumulated and divided by the sum of all the weighting factors to produce the average of averages, or dc value of the waveform. The rms value can be produced by squaring the samples before weighting and taking the square root of the average of averages.
Abstract:
A system for reducing a fixed number of data buses and connections in a computer system having a number of modules connected to the data bus utilizing the internal circuits of the various processing units or modules to transmit data from one unit to another via the data bus when the normal function of a unit can be interrupted, with the data routing and module control being under the control of a command bus.
Abstract:
A cabinet is disclosed having recesses receiving sliding insulated plug-in modules, the modules having front connectors for receiving input signals and rear coupling portions, each module having printed circuit boards and a shield therefor.
Abstract:
A gating device which may be used with an image recording apparatus in connection with patient monitoring. The device gates a blanking bar with a recording of analogue signals on the picture screen of an oscilloscope.
Abstract:
A tomography scanning system in which the intensity of radiation for each exposure is adjusted to obtain at the system detectors a minimum signal which results in a desired minimum signal-to-noise ratio to provide an image of acceptable quality with minimum radiation dosage to a patient.