An automatic tracking system includes an analog/digital converter for converting an envelope signal detected by scanning a track during reproduction into a digitized envelope signal; a first track center detecting part for processing the entire track as a block and determining a track center value for the track using the digitized envelope signal; a part track center detecting part for dividing the track into a plurality of minute blocks, summing digital data of the digitized envelope signal cor...

A medium bears a deformable model configured to enable a machine to estimate positions of four points defined by X and Y coordinates, each of the points representing a facial element position in a digital image.

A method of tracking a target. The method includes the steps of acquiring a first spectral image of a scene that includes the target, designating a spectral reference window, in the first spectral image, that includes a respective plurality of pixel vectors, acquiring a second spectral image, of the scene, that includes a respective plurality of pixel vectors, and hypercorrelating the spectral reference window with the second spectral image, thereby obtaining a hypercorrelation function, a maxim...

A system uses a large loop antenna, connected with a transceiver operating below 1 MHz. The loop antenna is deployed from a spool to surround a crime scene, and may carry indicia communicating that it is a crime scene boundary. The system interrogates devices, including evidence bags and badged personnel, as they enter and leave the scene. The system can optionally log the time of salient events. A second loop antenna can log evidence bags as they enter a vehicle. The devices can be silenced by ...

Methods and systems for tracking objects. Systems of the present invention include a base station capable of transmitting and receiving signals at multiple frequencies. Each object to be tracked has attached to it what for the purpose of the present specification is referred to as an electronic tag ("E-Tag"). Each E-Tag can transmit signals that can be received and interpreted by the base station and each E-Tag can receive and interpret signals transmitted by the base station. The transmitting (...

Tracking circuit for tracking the voltage potential of an insulation well for the insulation of an integrated component (1) embedded in the insulation well, the voltage potential of the insulation well being tracked in a manner dependent on a signal voltage output by the integrated transistor (1) in such a way that the voltage difference between the output signal voltage and the tracked voltage potential is lower than a predetermined breakdown voltage (U.sub.DA) between the integrated transistor...

A system for tracking a projectile utilizing a laser beam modulated by an acousto-optic cell. Transponders distributed on hemispheres around the rear of the projectile detect the scanned beam and actively transmit a narrow optical beam back to a ground-based receiver in response to a detection of the scanned beam. IFF information can be modulated onto beam actively transmitted from the transponder. The system provides active two-way communications with comparatively simple components.

A method for tracking transitions in a bit stream of a signal includes taking a first sample of said bit stream at a first sampling point of a first sampling sequence, taking a second sample of said bit stream at a second sampling point of said first sampling sequence, and taking a third sample of said bit stream at a third sampling point of said first sampling sequence, wherein said second sampling point is adjusted so that within a first time period, defined by said first and said second sampl...

The present invention provides a tracking system in which a mobile tag having an unknown position, which tag is to be tracked in space over time, transmits a signal comprising a pair of tones at different frequencies. The transmitted signal is received at each of three receivers, each having a known location, where the phase of each of the tones within the signal is measured. The measured phases are passed to a processing unit which determines the position of the tag at the time of transmission ...

A tracking system for tracking an object, the system having a first axis and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The first axis is at an angle to the vertical such that the object (or equivalently its path) does not intersect the first axis.