Hand-held radar device with direct printing based on radar input
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1. A RADAR transmission and marking device, comprising:
- a bottom side and a top side opposite said bottom side;
a radar antenna operative from said bottom side transmitting radar signals into a substrate beneath a surface;
a processor;
a distance measurement tool attached to said RADAR transmission and marking device measuring a distance traveled for said RADAR transmission and marking device from a starting point to a second point; and
a printing mechanism operative from said bottom side;
wherein said printing mechanism prints indicia on a surface in contact with said bottom side of said device at the same time as said transmission and marking device is moving and as a function of a received response of said radar antenna such that said printing mechanism is instructed to print in a manner that said indicia on said surface matches a location, determined by way of said distance measurement tool and said radar antenna of said received response.
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Abstract
The disclosed technology includes a device and method of use for direct printing and ink or other marking, in conjunction with GPR techniques. In a most basic embodiment of the disclosed technology, a relevant date, time, filename, and other parameters are printed or otherwise physically exhibited on the measurement surface, so that RADAR files can be later attributed to a specific data collection site. In a more advanced embodiment of the disclosed technology, actual RADAR target information is printed, or otherwise physically exhibited, on the measurement surface, such as while measuring, or substantially while measuring, the surface and substrate beneath with GPR.
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1. A RADAR transmission and marking device, comprising:
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a bottom side and a top side opposite said bottom side; a radar antenna operative from said bottom side transmitting radar signals into a substrate beneath a surface; a processor; a distance measurement tool attached to said RADAR transmission and marking device measuring a distance traveled for said RADAR transmission and marking device from a starting point to a second point; and a printing mechanism operative from said bottom side; wherein said printing mechanism prints indicia on a surface in contact with said bottom side of said device at the same time as said transmission and marking device is moving and as a function of a received response of said radar antenna such that said printing mechanism is instructed to print in a manner that said indicia on said surface matches a location, determined by way of said distance measurement tool and said radar antenna of said received response. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of marking a surface, based on RADAR measurements, comprising the steps of:
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rolling or pushing a combination radio frequency transmitter and printing mechanism device from a start point to an end point; transmitting radar signals by way of said transmitter into a substrate beneath a surface; making a determination of at least one target in said substrate beneath a point of said surface; measuring a distance of movement from said one target that said device continues to move using one of a flywheel, dead reckoning, camera, global position system, laser distance measuring equipment or equivalent thereof; printing, using said printing mechanism, a mark at said point on said surface while said combination radio frequency transmitter and printing mechanism device is moving from said start point to said end point and said printing mechanism prints while passing over said location on said surface calibrated based on print speed of said printing mechanism and said measuring of distance from said target. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A device comprising:
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a handle on a top side; a display on a top side; at least one button adapted to convert mechanical pressure into electrical impulses; a print head aimed such that ink exiting from said print head exits past a bottom side of said device, opposite said top side; a radar transmitter aimed such that radar is transmitted, at least, mostly in a direction away from said top side; wherein while said device is moved over a surface, based on a response to said transmitted said radar, a processor instructs said print head to print at a location of said response simultaneous to continued said transmitted said radar. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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