Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable transmitter array for electromagnetic tracking systems
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Application No.: US17031350Application Date: 2020-09-24
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Publication No.: US11953349B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Mark Robert Schneider
- Applicant: Northern Digital Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo
- Assignee: Northern Digital Inc.
- Current Assignee: Northern Digital Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01D5/20
- IPC: G01D5/20 ; G06T7/70 ; H04N5/33

Abstract:
A magnetic tracking system is configured to determine an object pose of a tracked object in an environment of the magnetic tracking system. The tracking system includes a transmitter assembly that includes a transmitting coil configured to generate a magnetic signal indicative of an object pose of a tracked object with respect to the transmitter assembly and a marker that visually identifies a pose of the transmitter assembly with respect to a camera device. The camera device captures at least one image of the transmitter assembly. A computing device determines, based on the image, a pose for the transmitter assemblies in the image. Based on the magnetic signal and the pose associated with the transmitter assembly, the computing device determines the object pose of the tracked object in the environment.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210096001A1 RECONFIGURABLE TRANSMITTER ARRAY FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TRACKING SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2021-04-01
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