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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 4/00 (2006.01); G01S 17/66 (2006.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 17/66 (2013.01); G01S 7/4813 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 27/0149 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/015 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for leveraging emitted polarized electromagnetic radiation as a means to track relative orientation and position of an object with regard to another object. Six basic degrees of freedom including three angular and three translational are determined based on making multiple polarization-based measurements and then determining the corresponding geometry that would yield those measurements.