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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2016
Rpx Technologies, Inc., Stillwater, OK (US);
Michael Fox, Stillwater, OK (US);
Matthew Dock, Stillwater, OK (US);
RPX Technologies, Inc., Stillwater, OK (US);
Abstract
Tracker systems are disclosed, the system mountable on a device having one or more rotary component, comprising: an optical tracker having circuitry that causes the optical tracker to transmit one or more optical signal to be deflected by, and received back from, the one or more rotary component of the device, the optical tracker having circuitry transmitting data indicative of a distance; an orientation/motion sensor having circuitry that automatically determines data indicative of the orientation and motion of the optical tracker; and one or more computer processor that utilizes the optical tracker determined distance and the orientation/motion sensor data to determine track error of the one or more rotary component of the device, and transmits data indicative of the track error.