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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170366 | Image processing using optically transformed light Processing image information includes receiving light having image information. A first optical transform is performed on the light to yield a first optically transformed light, and a second optical transform is performed on the light to yield a second optically tra... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165730 | Flight recorder having integral reserve power supply within form factor of enclosure and method therefor A flight recorder includes an enclosure having a notch formed on one side or corner of the enclosure. An electronic interface is disposed within the enclosure. The electronic interface is coupled for receiving flight data, video data, and audio data. A memory unit i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8140001 | Methods of suppressing GSM wireless device threats in dynamic or wide area static environments using minimal power and collateral interference Techniques for detecting wireless devices that are signaling in high proximity to a convoy or other operation and preventing messages from reaching the wireless devices. One class of the techniques uses surgical jamming methodologies that minimize power consumption ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8065585 | High data throughput turbo product encoder A source controller provides a block of n×a information bits as n separate rows each with a information bits. A row encoder has an input coupled to an output of the source controller and includes a plurality of accumulators arranged to process m of the information ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063936 | Modular immersive surveillance processing system and method According to an aspect of the invention, a system for providing immersive surveillance a site has a plurality of cameras each producing a respective raw video of a respective portion of the site. A processing component receives the raw video from the cameras and gen... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7969462 | Digitally enhanced night vision device A user portable viewing device includes a plurality of non-coaxially aligned sensors for sensing a scene. A processing element combines electronic images into a single electronic image. A display displaying the combined electronic image is adaptable for mounting in ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7912156 | Digital communications method and system for communicating over channels with block fading and burst jamming Method and apparatus are disclosed for obtaining improved performance when using Forward Error Correction (FEC) with channels experiencing block fading or burst jamming over some number of contiguous symbols. One suitable application is when the channel is periodica... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911211 | Electromagnetic shielding defect monitoring system and method for using the same An embodiment disclosed herein is directed to a method of monitoring an electromagnetic shield effectiveness including transmitting a first electromagnetic field toward a first surface of an electromagnetic shield, detecting a second electromagnetic field transmitte... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7836180 | Secure segregation of data of two or more domains or trust realms transmitted through a common data channel A system for transporting data comprising a first domain comprising a first plurality of filters in a first communication channel, the first communications channel including a common portion, the first plurality of filters employing a first plurality of filtering cr... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7760697 | Fast and long range node discovery in spread spectrum networks A first node seeking entry into a secure spread spectrum communications network sends a discovery burst at a low rate, and sends traffic bursts at a higher rate to exchange data rate for range. A receiving node receives discovery bursts via an omni-directional link ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747666 | Parallel filter realization for wideband programmable digital radios A block polyphase filter is constructed of a set of filter blocks having different filter functions, and being arranged for parallel processing of portions of an input sequence of signals. Signals of the input sequence are divided among the blocks by a demultiplexer... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7719484 | Vehicle simulator having head-up display A vehicle simulator having a projection system for projecting a generated scene and symbology onto a common viewing screen. Tracking apparatus is provided for providing position and/or angular orientation signals representative of the eye of a person viewing the pro... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7718965 | Microbolometer infrared detector elements and methods for forming same Microbolometer infrared detector elements that may be formed and implemented by varying type/s of precursors used to form amorphous silicon-based microbolometer membrane material/s and/or by varying composition of the final amorphous silicon-based microbolometer mem... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7705743 | Self-assembling wireless network, vehicle communications system, railroad wheel and bearing monitoring system and methods therefor A low power self-organizing network is made up of a plurality of wireless communication nodes communicating wirelessly with each other. The nodes each have a sensor providing a respective sensor data value indicative of a physical parameter in the environment of tha... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7701996 | Methods and apparatus implementing short and long code channel overlay for fast acquistion of long PN codes in spread spectrum communications systems The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for use in a spread spectrum communications system. In particular, in a method of the present invention information useful for acquiring a target signal is selected; the information is incorporated in an acquisiti... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7655909 | Infrared detector elements and methods of forming same Infrared detector elements and methods for forming infrared detector elements in which the top metal layer of CMOS circuitry of the detector element is employed as a lead metal reflector for the infrared detector. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650253 | Accelerometer and method for error compensation An accelerometer has an acceleration transducer producing uncorrected analog acceleration signals representing vertical, lateral, and longitudinal components of acceleration. An error correction system is connected to the acceleration transducer for receiving the un... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7633520 | Method and apparatus for providing a scalable multi-camera distributed video processing and visualization surveillance system A scalable architecture for providing real-time multi-camera distributed video processing and visualization. An exemplary system comprises at least one video capture and storage system for capturing and storing a plurality of input videos, at least one vision based ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7609751 | Method and apparatus to initiate communications between an unknown node and an existing secure network A first node initiating communications with a second node already in a secure network sends a discovery burst having a preamble portion and a payload portion. The preamble portion is sent at a varying frequency between high and low thresholds that are reflective of ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7609749 | Method and apparatus for generating non-recursive variable rate orthogonal spreading codes A method for constructing and selecting non-recursive orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) codes is provided. The method includes: defining a variable B=SFmax/SFmin, where SFmax is a maximum desired spreading factor and SF | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606292 | Sub-sequence accumulation filter and method A parallel correlator and method includes temporarily storing in a series of P sequence registers, each of length R1, serial bit-sequences of a code of length N=P*R1. In a first-level of processing, certain unique bit sequences are inverted to ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602835 | Multi-rate spread spectrum composite code A correlator despreads a P/N long code constructed from two or more constituent codes A, B, C having N, M and L elements respectively. In a third stage, L filter taps decorrelate elements of the third constituent code from the input received signal, leaving elements... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7602193 | RF waveguide mode suppression in cavities used for measurement of dielectric properties The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide techniques that assist in the absorption, reduction or elimination of the resonance of unwanted cavity modes in a cavity measurement system, such as a cylindrical TE0,n cavity measurement system used to m... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7593026 | Dynamic display optimization method and system with image motion A system displays video to a user and has a display device with a field of pixels. It displays video to the user in the form of a series of discrete sequential frame images each made up of a first predetermined number of bit planes in which the pixels of the display... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7570196 | Apparatus, method, computer program product and system providing asynchronous transmission of communications data using time-gated techniques A method, computer program product, apparatus and system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving at a second unit periodic energy bursts transmitted by a first unit; blanking a transmitter of the second unit in accordance with the rec... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7558238 | Hybrid multiple access waveform, method, and apparatus A method for partitioning communication resource among multiple users partitions a portion of an available communication resource into a series of time-frequency slots, and allows multiple users to transmit in one of at least two available modes within a time-freque... | 07/07/2009 |
| D595706 | Handheld electronic communications device | 07/07/2009 |
| 7545878 | Efficient circular clipping implementation using simplified CORDIC rotators A system for the efficient use of CORDIC rotators is provided. The system includes at least one first rotator operating in vector mode and includes a sign storage buffer. The system also includes at least one bit inverter coupled between the first rotator and a seco... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7539239 | Apparatus for rapid PN code acquisition An apparatus and method of determining a signal code. The method comprising steps of acquiring and correlating a signal with a first code sequence. In response to the timing lock is achieved. Also in response to the signal correlation, an acknowledge from a receiver... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7528061 | Systems and methods for solder bonding Systems and methods for solder bonding that employ an equilibrium solidification process in which the solder is solidified by dissolving and alloying metals that raise the melting point temperature of the solder. Two or more structure surfaces may be solder bonded, ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526010 | Doped multi-rate spread spectrum composite code A composite code is made for example by exclusive-OR'ing each real element of a first constituent code A with each element of a second constituent code B to obtain a basic composite code. To suppress autocorrelation, differing numbers of doping code elements are ins... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522186 | Method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance A method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance wherein a remote security guard may monitor a scene using a variety of imagery sources that are rendered upon a model to provide a three-dimensional conceptual view of the scene. Using a view selector, the ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7514684 | Surface mounted infrared image detector systems and associated methods An infrared image detector system mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed for use with an infrared imaging system such as an infrared camera. A semiconductor die having an infrared detector array and connection points on a first surface is mounted to a... | 04/07/2009 |
| D586823 | Electronic device to be worn on the arm | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486747 | Digital timing recovery operable at very low or less than zero dB E/N A receiver (20) for performing timing recovery over at least one complex channel at low or less than zero SNR (signal power to noise power, in dB) has at least one receive element such as an antenna, an analog-to-digital converter 21 (ADC), a fractiona... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485989 | Tunable electrical transient generator for electromagnetic pulser A system for generating a high voltage energy pulse comprises a capacitive energy storage arrangement that is coupled to a direct current (DC) power supply. The capacitive energy storage arrangement stores energy from the power supply. The system also includes a pul... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7482894 | Radial power divider/combiner using waveguide impedance transformers A radial power divider-combiner is disclosed. Such a radial divider-combiner may include a plurality of waveguides, each of which extends between a central monopole antenna and a respective peripheral monopole antenna. Such a waveguide may have a central portion wit... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7462831 | Systems and methods for bonding Systems and methods for bonding semiconductor devices and/or multiple wafers, in the form of a first segmented wafer and a second unsegmented wafer which may have different temperature coefficients of expansion (TCE), and which may be bonded together, with or withou... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459916 | Electromagnetic shielding defect monitoring system and method for using the same An embodiment disclosed herein is directed to an electromagnetic shielding defect monitoring system that includes a transmit system adapted to transmit a first electromagnetic field toward a first surface of an electromagnetically shielded enclosure, thereby generat... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459686 | Systems and methods for integrating focal plane arrays Systems and methods for providing multi-spectral image capability using an integrated multi-band focal plane array that, in one example, may be employed to simultaneously image in the visible spectrum and infrared spectrum using an integrated dual-band focal plane a... | 12/02/2008 |
