APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNDERGROUND OBJECTS

• US 20110148419A1
• Filed: 08/10/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: CHO, Kwang-Yun, Yun, Je-Hoon
• Application Number:
  US12/853,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20110148419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/329
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/34 with electrical or electronic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 11/136 Magnetic, electromagnetic, acoustic or radiation systems, e.g. ground penetrating radars or metal-detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/15 specially adapted for use during transport, e.g. by a person, vehicle or boat

Abstract

A wearable apparatus for detecting an underground object includes: a signal transmitter configured to transmit a predetermined signal in a predetermined direction; a reception detection sensor configured to receive a reflected wave corresponding to the transmitted signal; a wireless reception unit configured to restore the received reflected wave to a received signal; and an acknowledgement signal processing unit configured to analyze whether the underground object exists or not, based on the restored received signal, and generate first and second acknowledgement signals depending on whether the underground object exists or not.

Claims

1. A wearable apparatus for detecting an underground object, comprising:

a signal transmitter configured to transmit a predetermined signal in a predetermined direction;

a reception detection sensor configured to receive a reflected wave corresponding to the transmitted signal;

a wireless reception unit configured to restore the received reflected wave to a received signal; and

an acknowledgement signal processing unit configured to analyze whether the underground object exists or not, based on the restored received signal, and generate first and second acknowledgement signals depending on whether the underground object exists or not.

2. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a shielding unit configured to shield electromagnet waves transmitted to a user.

3. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal transmitter comprises:

a wireless transmission unit configured to generate the predetermined signal for detecting the underground object; and

a transmission detection sensor configured to transmit the signal transferred from the wireless transmission unit in the predetermined direction.

4. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a command and display device configured to command the transmission of the predetermined signal for detecting the underground object and display the underground object information analyzed from the received signal to a user.

5. The wearable apparatus of claim 2, wherein the shielding unit is implemented between the wireless reception unit and the acknowledgement signal processing unit.

6. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first acknowledgement signal is a target acknowledgement signal which is generated when the underground object exists.

7. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second acknowledgement signal is a noise acknowledgement signal which is generated when the underground object does not exist.

8. The wearable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined signal comprises an electromagnetic wave and an ultrasonic wave.

9. A method for detecting an underground object, comprising:

transmitting a predetermined signal in a predetermined direction;

when a reflected wave corresponding to the transmitted signal is a predetermined reflected wave, analyzing the predetermined reflected wave; and

generating a first acknowledgement signal corresponding to the analyzed reflected wave, and informing a user of the first acknowledgement signal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein when the predetermined reflected wave is not received, a second acknowledgement signal is generated.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the predetermined reflected wave is a reflected wave which corresponds to the transmitted signal and is generated when the ground object exists.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the first acknowledgement signal is an urgent acknowledgement signal which is generated when the underground object exists.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the second acknowledgement signal is a normal acknowledgement signal which is generated when the underground object does not exist.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the predetermined signal comprises an electromagnetic wave and an ultrasonic wave.