Picturetel Corporation

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Xrf Corporation

Chicago Dial Indicator Company

Larry K Baxter

Anthony M Duys

Frank Labuski

Daniel R Phelps

Gerardus C M Meijer

John J Coffey

A dial indicator for accurately measuring displacement of a part along a measurement axis. The dial indicator includes scale electrodes of a given pitch and reader stationary scale electrodes of a given pitch. A reader carries a plurality of reader bars having a pitch of one half that of the scale electrodes. A set of drive signals of a given frequency are applied in different ways to the scale bar electrodes to achieve coarse and fine positions of the reader relative to the scale. One operating mode involves determining the position of the readerwith a coarse measurement relative to the scale, and a fine measurement. These signals can combined to obtain an accurate position over the reader and position of a spindle reading displaced.

Displacement measuring device with capacitive sensing

A radiation detection apparatus for use in noisy environments in which radiation detection and external noise generate interaction event pulses. A first interaction pulse initiates a following time interval during which the effect of received interaction event pulses is minimized. For example, the interaction event pulses produced by noise are not counted if they occur during the time interval.

Radiation detector using pulse stretcher

Sensor circuits for the measurement of small variations in the value of a sensing capacitor. An alternating voltage excites the sensing capacitor a predetermined frequency whereby the voltage on the sensing capacitor reverses polarity. This voltage on the sensing capacitor is sampled each time the voltage reverses polarity. An accumulator accumulates the sampled charges from the sensing capacitor. An output signal that represents the charge in the charge accumulating means indicates the measured capacitance.

Capacitive measurement system

A camera positioning system for rotating a video camera about a rotation axis. The system includes a camera platform to which the camera is rotatably attached; a motor mounted to a base for driving the camera platform to effect rotation of the platform about the axis and relative to the base; a drive for coupling the motor to the camera platform; an electrically driven capacitive sensor assembly for generating electrical position signals for determining a rotational position of the camera platform relative to the base; and a feedback control circuit for using the position signals from the capacitive sensor assembly to control rotational positioning of the motor, resulting in rotating the camera to a desired camera position. The capacitive sensor has a conductive guard plate which helps immunize the capacitive sensor assembly from noise and from ground potentials. The rotation axis can be horizontal or vertical with the camera rotated to effect pan or tilt respectively.

Electrically controlled camera positioning system

The invention features a video camera system where horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals and a pixel clock signal are generated and added to analog video signals from a video imaging device within an electronic camera head that is connected, via an electrical cable, to a remote host processor having digital signal processing circuitry for processing the video signals. The analog video signals generated by the video imaging device received by the host processor, over the electrical cable, are converted to digital video signals at the remote host, and are then processed by the digital signal processing circuitry.

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Gloucester, MA, United States of America

Larry K Baxter