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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7697073 | Image processing system with horizontal line registration for improved imaging with scene motion An image processing system and method. The image processing system acquires a first set of scan lines in at first field of image data and a second set of scan lines in a second field of image data; the second set of scan lines are interlaced relative to the first se... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7679057 | Antenna-coupled-into-rectifier infrared sensor elements and infrared sensors An infrared sensor element having an antenna coupled directly into a rectifier. Infrared radiation impinging the antenna induces an alternating current. The rectifier converts the alternating current into a rectified signal. The rectified signal corresponds to a mag... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675952 | Articulated glaze cladding for laser components and method of encapsulation A glaze encapsulated solid-state laser component. The novel laser component includes a core and a cladding of ceramic glaze disposed on a surface of the core. In an illustrative embodiment, the core is fabricated from a laser gain medium and the cladding material is... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675066 | Erase-on-demand memory cell An erase-on-demand memory cell 10(1) includes a memory layer 110 and a heating layer 130 that can heat memory layer 110 to at least an erase-effective temperature, to erase its data contents. Memory chips 270(1) and e... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671792 | Global positioning receiver with system and method for parallel synchronization for reducing time to first navigation fix A global positioning system receiver with a system and method for parallel synchronization. The novel receiver includes a correlator having plural demodulator channels for receiving a signal from a first satellite, and a processor for processing the signal from the ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7646796 | Solid-state suspension laser with separate excitation and extraction A laser. The novel laser includes a gain medium, a pump source adapted to optically excite the gain medium in a first location, and a resonator adapted to extract energy from the gain medium in a second location distinct from the first location. In an illustrative e... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636455 | Digital image edge detection and road network tracking method and system A system and method for finding edge orientation and magnitude, and extracting a road path from an image. An image is segmented into at least a first window and a second window. A first road segment having plural parameters within the first window is specified. Plur... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635761 | Water-soluble group III polyether acid salt complexes and thin films from same A water-stable and water-soluble ceramic precursor is provided, containing at least one Group III element. Also, a metal acid salt complex is provided comprising (1) bismuth, lanthanum, and titanium, and (2) a polyether acid. In addition, methods are provided for pr... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633981 | Reverse oxidation post-growth process for tailored gain profile in solid-state devices A laser rod is provided having a tailored gain profile such that the quality of the output beam is enhanced. The laser rod has a concentration of active substitutional ions that is relatively high at the center of the rod and decreases to the surface of the rod. The... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630423 | Glaze soldered laser components and method of manufacturing A glaze soldered solid-state laser active medium. The novel laser active medium includes a first section of a first material, a second section of a second material, and a layer of ceramic glaze joining the two sections. The first and second materials may be identica... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7629582 | Dual band imager with visible or SWIR detectors combined with uncooled LWIR detectors A dual band imager includes a radiation absorbing layer for absorbing light of a first wavelength coupled to a readout circuit (ROIC), and at least one radiation detector for detecting light of a second wavelength coupled to the ROIC via a corresponding opening exte... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626759 | Outcoupler with Bragg grating and system and method using same An outcoupler having a wavelength selective, angle sensitive element or Bragg grating and an arrangement for maintaining the element in a predetermined orientation relative to an incident beam of electromagnetic energy. The Bragg grating may be reflective or transmi... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626460 | Low noise, low power and high bandwidth capacitive feedback trans-impedance amplifier with differential FET input and bipolar emitter follower feedback A differential amplifier topology includes circuitry to create a higher bandwidth output using less current than an existing Capacitive Trans-Impedance Amplifier (CTIA) using an all Field Effect Transistor (FET) circuit design. A bipolar npn emitter follower in the ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626152 | Beam director and control system for a high energy laser within a conformal window A beam control system and method. The system includes an illuminator for providing a first beam of electromagnetic energy at a first wavelength; a source for providing a second beam of electromagnetic energy at a second wavelength; and an arrangement for compensatin... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624666 | Obscuration method for reducing the infrared signature of an object An object such as an aircraft in flight is obscured from infrared detection when viewed from an external viewing location. The method includes providing the object having an externally viewable hot region associated therewith, wherein the hot region has a temperatur... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7595760 | Airship mounted array A space-fed conformal array for a high altitude airship includes a primary array lens assembly adapted for conformal mounting to a non-planar airship surface. The lens assembly includes a first set of radiator elements and a second set of radiator elements, the firs... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7589896 | Optical pulse-width modifier structure An optical pulse-width modifier structure includes a first diffraction grating and an optically unpowered reversing mirror. An optical path extends between the first diffraction grating and the optically unpowered reversing mirror. A second diffraction grating lies ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7589890 | Conductively cooled liquid thermal nonlinearity cell for phase conjugation and method A thermal nonlinear cell and method. The cell includes a substantially planar nonlinear medium and a mechanism for removing thermal energy from the medium in a direction substantially orthogonal to said medium. In one embodiment, the mechanism for removing thermal e... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586075 | Method for analyzing output data of array subelements of an imaging segmented array A position of a feature in a scene is located by forming an image of the feature using a segmented array having a plurality of array subelements. Each of the array subelements has an output signal. The output signals from at least two spatially adjacent array subele... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7586074 | Multi-mode high capacity dual integration direct injection detector input circuit A unit cell (20) is disclosed that has an input node for coupling to an output of a detector (D1) of electromagnetic radiation, such as IR or visible radiation. The unit cell includes a first capacitor (CintA) switchably coupled to the input... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7562908 | Flexible fluid conduit joint and method A flexible fluid conduit joint includes two or more flexible sections that preferentially bend about respective preferential bend axes of the sections. The sections each include a flexible bellows coupled at longitudinal ends to a pair of annular collars, and a pair... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562501 | Clamping apparatus An apparatus for clamping a module within a structure, e.g. a cold-wall structure, is presented. The apparatus includes a plurality of aligned, movable members defining a plane and having at least one beveled surface in contact with a beveled surface of an adjacent ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7556389 | Pointable optical system with coude optics having a short on-gimbal path length A coude gimbal structure includes a two-axis gimbal system having an outer gimbal pivotable about a first rotational axis, and an inner gimbal supported on the outer gimbal and pivotable about a second rotational axis which intersects the first rotational axis at an... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7545625 | Electrode for thin film capacitor devices A method of forming a conductor on a substrate including steps of depositing tantalum on a glass layer of the substrate; oxidizing the tantalum; and depositing a noble metal on the oxidized tantalum to form the conductor. The method can be used to form a ferroelectr... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545562 | Common-aperture optical system incorporating a light sensor and a light source A common-aperture optical system includes a reflective telescope having a common boresight, an entrance pupil, an exit pupil, and a beam path extending from the entrance pupil to and beyond the exit pupil. A beam splitter intersects the beam path so that the beam pa... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7544532 | Infrared photodiodes and sensor arrays with improved passivation layers and methods of manufacture InSb infrared photodiodes and sensor arrays with improved passivation layers and methods for making same are disclosed. In the method, a passivation layer of AlInSb is deposited on an n-type InSb substrate using molecular beam epitaxy before photodiode detector regi... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7535947 | Enhanced beam quality from a laser rod using interstitial dopants A laser rod is provided having a tailored gain profile such that the quality of the output beam is enhanced. The laser rod has a concentration of dopant ions having a first valence that is relatively high at the center of the rod and decreases to the surface of the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532242 | Pipelined amplifier time delay integration A series of time delay integration TDI stages each integrate a photocurrent from a separate detector such as detectors in an array. In a first stage 20, a first integrator is initialized with a fixed bias 30, and integrates a signal from a first detect... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532170 | Conformal end-fire arrays on high impedance ground plane A conformal end-fire antenna with a high impedance ground surface structure and an array of radiating elements formed thereon. The ground surface structure includes an array of metal protrusions on a electrically conductive sheet, the metal protrusions arranged in a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532163 | Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms A phased array antenna adapted to be mounted in a helmet. In the illustrative embodiment, the antenna comprises a substrate and an array of radiating elements disposed on said substrate, each of the elements including a-resonant cavity and a mechanism for feeding th... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532150 | Restoration of signal to noise and spatial aperture in squint angles range migration algorithm for SAR A moving radar generates a search mode synthetic aperture image of a patch having a principal scatterer. The boundaries of the patch are from R0 to R1 slant range and θ0 to θ1 azimuth angle. A computer motion compensates... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531349 | Standoff bioagent-detection apparatus and method using multi-wavelength differential laser-induced fluorescence A standoff bioagent-detection apparatus and method use a direct ultraviolet source to detect bioagents. In some embodiments, a standoff bioagent-detection apparatus and method use laser-induced fluorescence to determine the presence of a biological agent having an a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7525498 | Antenna array An antenna array includes a folded thin flexible circuit board with a thin dielectric layer and a conductor layer pattern formed on a first surface of the dielectric layer. The circuit board may be folded in a plurality of folds to form a pleated structure. An array... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522337 | Compact multi-entrance-pupil imaging optical system An imaging optical system includes a subtelescope array, with at least two subtelescopes, each having a single entrance pupil and an exit light beam. Each subtelescope has an optical pointing axis, and the pointing axes for the subtelescopes are parallel. An imager ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7505488 | Synthetic aperture ladar with chirped modelocked waveform The present invention uses an intra-cavity modulation approach to modulate a laser transmitter at bandwidths greater than a few gigahertz (GHz) in a non-ambiguous waveform by chirping the laser and simultaneously mode locking. Accordingly, the inventive system inclu... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504970 | Data encoder A data encoder. The novel encoder includes a first circuit for generating a fundamental sequence coded data stream from an incoming input data stream, a second circuit for generating a k-split data stream from the incoming data stream, and a third circuit for combin... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504609 | Phased-array light telescope A phased-array light telescope includes at least two non-obscured light subtelescopes. Each of the light subtelescopes is aimed along a common boresight. The phased-array light telescope further includes a non-obscured combining imager that receives and combines the... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504277 | Method for fabricating a high performance PIN focal plane structure using three handle wafers The present invention concerns, in part, a method for fabricating a silicon PIN detector component wherein three handle wafers are bonded to the wafer at varying points in the fabrication process. The utilization of three handle wafers during fabrication significant... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7474263 | Electronically scanned antenna An electronically scanned antenna may include a plurality of space-fed, contiguous subarrays arranged in an annular region, each subarray including an inner set of radiating elements facing inwardly, an outer-facing set of radiating elements, and a feed system for i... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472741 | Foil slot impingement cooler with effective light-trap cavities A slot impingement cooler is formed of a plurality of sets of foils in a stacked and registered array. In each set of foils, a first foil has supply slots that direct a flow of coolant, a second foil has a plurality of effective light-trap cavities, a third foil has... | 01/06/2009 |
