公开(公告)号：US10094651B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-09

申请号：US14995739

申请日：2016-01-14

申请人： CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA-Recherche et Développement

发明人： Charles Baur ,  Amina Chebira ,  Edoardo Franzi ,  Eric Grenet ,  David Hasler

IPC分类号： G01B11/00 ,  A61B90/30 ,  G01S5/16

摘要： A positioning system, in particular, six-dimensions positioning system of a shadow sensor with respect to a constellation of light sources is provided. The sensor can be a shadow sensor and has a mask and a 2D imager. By recording the shadow of the mask cast by each light source on the imager, and by properly multiplexing the light sources, the system can compute the 6D position of the shadow sensor with respect to the constellation of light sources. This computation is based, in part, on treating the shadow of the mask cast on the imager as the equivalent of the projection of light in a pinhole or projective camera. In one embodiment, the system is applied in a surgical domain. In another embodiment, the system is rapidly deployed.