IMAGING METHOD USING GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR AND ASSOCIATED GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR

    公开(公告)号:US20240288573A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18573104

    申请日:2022-06-23

    IPC分类号: G01S13/88 G01S7/41 G01S13/00

    摘要: A method for imaging an area of interest on the ground uses a georadar equipped with a plurality of transmitter antennas and a plurality of receiver antennas. A bistatic RCS matrix is calculated at each point of a grid based on the matrix representing the MIMO channel modelling the propagation and the reflection in the area of interest, a matrix representing the losses along the propagation paths of the channel, and a phase-shifter matrix representing the delays on these same propagation paths. The bistatic RCS matrices relating to discrete frequencies belonging to the same coherence sub-band are summed and the elements of the matrices thus obtained are then summed incoherently to provide an overall backscatter coefficient for each point of the grid. Afterwards, an image representing this backscatter coefficient at each point of the grid is generated. A method for detecting a ground target-uses the same principle.

    HAPTIC READING DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE BRAILLE-PERKINS METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20240212522A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18557397

    申请日:2022-04-28

    IPC分类号: G09B21/00

    CPC分类号: G09B21/004

    摘要: A haptic device for reading using the Braille-Perkins method includes a plate provided with a surface with which the index finger, the middle finger and the ring finger of each hand of the user are intended to come into contact, actuators fastened to the plate, a control unit for controlling the actuators and computing the control signals implementing an inverse filtering operation, and configured to send control signals to the actuators, the control unit being configured to make n areas of the surface vibrate, n being an integer between 1 and 6, to stimulate the index finger, the middle finger and the ring finger of each hand of the user and reproduce by haptic stimulation the Braille characters using the Braille-Perkins method, each area corresponding to a dot of a Braille character.