Patent 7583071 was granted and assigned to Bosch (company) on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A locating device, in particular a hand-held locating device, for detecting objects enclosed in a medium, including an output unit for displaying at least one output variable correlated with a measuring signal of at least one sensor of the locating device, the output unit having a first dynamic range for displaying the output variable correlated with the measuring signal. At least one further dynamic range having a changed sensitivity compared to the first dynamic range is displayable via the display unit.