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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
May. 01, 2008
Mark R. Ayres, Boulder, CO (US);
Larry Fabiny, Boulder, CO (US);
Keith W. Malang, Longmont, CO (US);
Curtis Alan Shuman, Boulder, CO (US);
Mark R. Ayres, Boulder, CO (US);
Larry Fabiny, Boulder, CO (US);
Keith W. Malang, Longmont, CO (US);
Curtis Alan Shuman, Boulder, CO (US);
Inphase Technologies, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
In one aspect of the present invention, a device for sensing an absolute position of an encoded object, comprising: a position tracking module comprising: a track illumination module configured to illuminate the encoded object with one more light beams, and to detect one or more light beams resulting from said illumination of said encoded object; and an absolute position determinator configured to determine the absolute position of the encoded object based on said one or more light beams resulting from said illumination of said encoded object.