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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170041 | Message passing with parallel queue traversal In message passing implementations, associative matching structures are used to permit list entries to be searched in parallel fashion, thereby avoiding the delay of linear list traversal. List management capabilities are provided to support list entry turnover sema... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7851973 | Using piezo-electric material to simulate a vibration environment A target object can be vibrated using actuation that exploits the piezo-electric (“PE”) property. Under combined conditions of vibration and centrifugal acceleration, a centrifugal load of the target object on PE vibration actuators can be reduced by using a cou... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7795770 | Passive levitation in alternating magnetic fields Stable levitation of an object in an alternating magnetic field can be achieved by eliminating coupling between the rotational and translational forces acting on the object. Stable levitation can also be achieved by varying the coupling between the rotational and tr... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7760128 | Decreasing range resolution of a SAR image to permit correction of motion measurement errors beyond the SAR range resolution Motion measurement errors that extend beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be corrected by effectively decreasing the range resolution of the SAR in order to permit measurement of the error. Range profiles can be compared across the sl... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7653155 | Using convolutional decoding to improve time delay and phase estimation in digital communications The time delay and/or phase of a communication signal received by a digital communication receiver can be estimated based on a convolutional decoding operation that the communication receiver performs on the received communication signal. If the original transmitted... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7551119 | Flight path-driven mitigation of wavefront curvature effects in SAR images A wavefront curvature effect associated with a complex image produced by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be mitigated based on which of a plurality of possible flight paths is taken by the SAR when capturing the image. The mitigation can be performed differentl... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7498968 | Synthetic aperture design for increased SAR image rate High resolution SAR images of a target scene at near video rates can be produced by using overlapped, but nevertheless, full-size synthetic apertures. The SAR images, which respectively correspond to the apertures, can be analyzed in sequence to permit detection of ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7436349 | Controlling data collection to support SAR image rotation A desired rotation of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image can be facilitated by adjusting a SAR data collection operation based on the desired rotation. The SAR data collected by the adjusted SAR data collection operation can be efficiently exploited to form ther... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7397418 | SAR image formation with azimuth interpolation after azimuth transform Two-dimensional SAR data can be processed into a rectangular grid format by subjecting the SAR data to a Fourier transform operation, and thereafter to a corresponding interpolation operation. Because the interpolation operation follows the Fourier transform operati... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391357 | Correction of motion measurement errors beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar Motion measurement errors that extend beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be corrected by effectively decreasing the range resolution of the SAR in order to permit measurement of the error. Range profiles can be compared across the sl... | 06/24/2008 |
| 6911932 | Two antenna, two pass interferometric synthetic aperture radar A multi-antenna, multi-pass IFSAR mode utilizing data driven alignment of multiple independent passes can combine the scaling accuracy of a two-antenna, one-pass IFSAR mode with the height-noise performance of a one-antenna, two-pass IFSAR mode. A two-antenna, two-p... | 06/28/2005 |
