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Search Patents by Helen Qiao

Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.

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Sketch of six-dimensional smart target

Six-Dimensional Smart Target

NIST Inventors
Craig I. Schlenoff and Helen Qiao
Patent Description A novel smart target has been designed for vision-agnostic systems to acquire six-dimensional (6-D) information of a moving object (x, y, z, pitch, yaw, and roll) with high accuracy. The smart target is motorized to constantly rotate toward the measurement instrument for non