G01S 3/785
Using adjustment of orientation of directivity characteristics of a detector or detector
Official title: using adjustment of orientation of directivity characteristics of a detector or detector system to give a desired condition of signal derived from that detector or detector system
G01S3/785 (Using adjustment of orientation of directivity characteristics of a detector or detector) appears on 1,578 US grants and 1,163 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for pointing photovoltaic arrays22 Sep 2026US 12,741,757 B2Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
- Systems and methods of remote object tracking22 Sep 2026US 12,742,846 B1Samsara Inc.
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- Imaging system and method for attitude determination11 Aug 2026US 12,705,793 B2Urugus S.A.
- LiDAR system including object movement detection26 May 2026US 12,638,592 B2AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
- Method and device for orienting27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251451 A1Wuhan University
- Elevated dual-axis photovoltaic solar tracking assembly30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221930 A1Stracker Incorporated
- Systems for imaging a target object moving relative to background features23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208888 A1Western Sydney University
- Method and astrophotographic apparatus for acquiring images of targets in sky area18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169277 A1Suzhou Zhen Wang Optical Co., Ltd
- Star sensor optical system and star sensor30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118465 A1Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
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By later US patents
- Vehicular position monitoring system with integral mirror video display712US 5,793,308 ASensorvision Technologies, L.L.C. · 1998
- Distance measuring apparatus of a target tracking type617US 5,515,448 AYazaki Corporation · 1996
- Motor car traveling control device367US 5,309,137 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Locating an audio source355US 6,593,956 B1Polycom, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus and method performing audio-video sensor fusion for object localization, tracking, and separation321US 7,536,029 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2009