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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2000
Norman L. Owsley, Gales Ferry, CT (US);
Andrew J. Hull, Newport, RI (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, a device for acquiring contoured human body surface vibration signals is provided. The device comprises a first component for sensing the displacements of a skin surface as a function of time at multiple points on the human body, with the first component having a plurality of sensing elements, a second component for measuring time average displacements of the skin surface at nominal locations of the sensing elements in the first component; and a third component for correcting for the effect of positional error from a set of nominal displacement sensor locations.