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Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Steven Lavache, Ware Hertfordshire, GB;

Richard Baxter, Aylesbury, GB;

Inventors:

Steven Lavache, Ware Hertfordshire, GB;

Richard Baxter, Aylesbury, GB;

Assignee:

Performance Designed Products LLC, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 21/26 (2006.01); G01S 5/06 (2006.01); G01S 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 17/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 21/26 (2013.01); G01S 5/06 (2013.01); G01S 11/00 (2013.01); G06F 19/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of filtering noise in a three-dimensional position measurement system comprising receiving distance data representative of the respective distances between at least four spatially dispersed known points and an unknown point, performing triangulation calculations to determine at least two solutions to the three dimensional position of the unknown point relative to the known points, calculating a symmetrical bounding surface such as a sphere or cube which just encloses the said solutions, comparing the maximum dimension of the bounding surface with a first predetermined error threshold, and if the maximum dimension is less than the first error threshold, determining the center position of the bounding surface and outputting the center position as a noise-filtered position for the unknown point.


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