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US 12,748,941 B2Granted
Electronic tags for weighing objects
AssigneePosition Imaging, Inc.
InventorsNarasimhachary Nallana Chakravarty, Guohua Min, Edward L. Hill
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Abstract
An electronic tag coupled to a piece of luggage comprising a computer processor; a memory in communication with the computer processor, the memory storing inertial data; and at least one sensor that captures the inertial data of the motion of the luggage in response to an external stimuli and outputs the inertial data to the memory, wherein the computer processor determines a mass of the luggage from the captured inertial data.
Claims20
A luggage tag comprising:
- a computer processor;
- a memory in communication with the computer processor, the memory storing inertial data and program code for calculating a weight of luggage in communication with the luggage tag;
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- at least one sensor that captures the inertial data of the motion of the luggage in response to an external stimuli and outputs the inertial data to the memory, wherein the computer processor executes the program code to determine a mass of the luggage from the captured inertial data in accordance with Newton's law of motion.
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An electronic tag comprising:
- a computer processor;
- a memory in communication with the computer processor, the memory storing inertial data and program code for calculating a weight of an object in communication with the electronic tag;
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- at least one sensor that captures inertial data in response to a motion of the object and outputs the inertial data to the memory, wherein the computer processor executes the program code to determine a mass of the object from the captured inertial data in accordance with Newton's law of motion.
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A weight measuring system, comprising:
- a wearable smart device comprising at least one sensor that captures impact and movement data of an object, the wearable smart device positioned on a user applying a force to the object;
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- a tag coupled to the object for registering the impact and movement as a consequence of the force applied by the user to the object, wherein the wearable smart device and the tag each comprise an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and wherein inertial data from the wearable smart device is combined with inertial data from the tag to determine a mass of the object in accordance with Newton's law of motion, and wherein a weight of the object is calculated from the mass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.