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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100215212 | System and Method for the Inspection of Structures A system and method utilizing an unmanned air vehicle to inspect structures is disclosed. An unmanned air vehicle capable of moving to a position and hovering in place is positioned using GPS coordinates. The unmanned air vehicle is able to capture images of the structu... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100188506 | SYNTHETIC WINDOW FOR LIMITED VISIBILITY VEHICLES Provided are methods, systems and devices for providing a synthetic window system for vehicles with limited visibility for passengers. Various embodiments include demountably affixing video display devices within one or more interior bulkheads such that all marginal edg... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100157056 | TRACKING AND IMAGING DATA FUSION A method of monitoring a target, which includes tracking the target using a tracking modality, thereby obtaining an estimated track of the target, imaging the target using an imaging modality, thereby obtaining an image of the target, associating the estimated track wit... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100157055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PERFORM OPTICAL MOVING OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING OVER A WIDE AREA A method for moving object detection, comprising generating a time series of multi-exposures of scenes, each multi-exposure of a scene comprising a sequence of at least two at least partially overlapping images of that scene captured in rapid succession, wherein the tim... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100141555 | Real-time image scanning and processing An apparatus for displaying at least one image with respect to a line-of-sight (LOS), with an image source, a display processor and a displaying unit. The display processor is coupled with the image source and the displaying unit. The image source provides at least one ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100110187 | COMPENSATION FOR OVERFLIGHT VELOCITY WHEN STABILIZING AN AIRBORNE CAMERA A method and system for maintaining the line of sight of an airborne camera fixed on a target by compensating for overflight velocity of the aircraft. The compensation system automatically commands an angular velocity of the line of sight to maintain the camera pointing... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103260 | WIND TURBINE INSPECTION A method for inspecting wind turbines remotely using a remotely controlled vehicle capable of controlled flight with a camera amounted to the vehicle. The vehicle is positioned near the wind turbine and the camera captures images of the wind turbine for visual inspectio... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100080548 | COVERT CAMERA WITH A FIXED LENS A covert camera for surveillance in an aircraft comprises a front panel that can have an appearance other than a conventional camera. The front panel can include at least one aperture therethrough. A lens can be in or near the aperture, the lens having a field of view. ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100013927 | Systems and Methods of Capturing Large Area Images in Detail Including Cascaded Cameras and/or Calibration Features A method and system are presented in which images are captured from overview and detail imaging devices such that overview images are created with a first degree of redundancy, and detail images are captured with less overlap and a second degree of redundancy.... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100014709 | Super-resolving moving vehicles in an unregistered set of video frames A method is provided for accurately determining the registration for a moving vehicle over a number of frames so that the vehicle can be super-resolved. Instead of causing artifacts in a super-resolved image, the moving vehicle can be specifically registered and super-r... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090322877 | Cellular Control of Airborne Equipment A manned or unmanned aircraft, and equipment aboard the aircraft, are controlled through a cell phone network or other public package switched network. Some of the information downlinked from the aircraft may include video imagery acquired by sensors integrated with the... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090273671 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCAPSULATING DIGITAL AERIAL SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ON ANALOG VIDEO SIGNAL An aerial surveillance apparatus for processing an analog video signal is described. The aerial surveillance apparatus includes a first input configured to receive an analog video signal from a video camera, a processor coupled with the analog video signal and configure... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090256909 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CAPTURING LARGE AREA IMAGES IN DETAIL INCLUDING CASCADED CAMERAS AND/OR CALIBRATION FEATURES Systems and methods are disclosed relating to acquisition of images regarding large area objects or large areas. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of obtaining or capturing, via a first system that includes one or more first image capturing devices... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090251540 | TRANSVERSE VERTICAL PROFILE DISPLAY FOR AERONAUTICAL ROUTES A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for presenting terrain along a route on an aircraft display. A display is presented of a top view, a side view, and a transverse vertical profile view of terrain data along the route on the aircr... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090225165 | Precision optical systems with performance characterization and uses thereof A camera for aerial photography includes a reference projector that projects collimated beams of light into the optical system entrance aperture which are imaged by an image recording device. The beams produce fiducial images present in every image captured by the imagi... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090219393 | TRAFFIC AND SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD A method for monitoring a geographic area that using a plurality of unmanned mobile vehicles. Each unmanned mobile vehicle may be programmed with an operational plan to cover a specific subregion of said geographic area. Each unmanned mobile vehicle may be used to obtai... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090207250 | AERIAL CAMERA SYSTEM An aerial camera system including a plurality of main reels, a camera interface/safety reel and a stabilized camera head. The camera head is supported from main cables from the main reels with a safety reel cable providing power, data and video communication between the... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090094079 | EVALUATING COMMODITY CONDITIONS USING AERIAL IMAGE DATA Various tools, strategies and techniques are provided for evaluating the condition of one or more commodities in one or more regions of interest. Collection of image data associated with the commodities can be facilitated through use of an aircraft traveling a predeterm... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090040305 | Video With Map Overlay A system and method for placing reference locators on a streaming video image taken from a camera mounted on a vehicle. Sensors monitoring the camera field of view and direction of the optical axis along with sensors monitoring the vehicle's position are use(l to genera... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090015674 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE An optical imaging system and associated methods for capturing images from an aircraft, such as a UAV. A camera unit on-board the aircraft is remotely controlled from an image control station. The image control station receives image data from the camera unit, and also ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090009602 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF SCANNING STEPS IN AN AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEM, AND A RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEM OPERATING ACCORDING TO SAID METHOD An airborne reconnaissance system which comprises: (a) A focal plane array positioned at a focal plane of an optical unit, said focal plane array having an area A, and comprises a plurality of optical pixels sensitive to light; (b) Optical unit for acquiring light rays ... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080231700 | Computer System for Continuous Oblique Panning A computer system for continuously panningoblique images. More particularly, the computer system uses a methodology whereby separate oblique images are presented in a manner that allows a user to maintain an understanding of the relationship of specific features between... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080211913 | Surveillance television camera A surveillance television camera including a camera base which is mounted on an installation surface and to which a surveillance television camera is mounted, a dome cover which is detachably attachable to the camera base and a locking device including a movable locking... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080211912 | AIRBORNE RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEM An airborne reconnaissance system comprising: (1) Gimbals having at least two degrees of freedom; (2) At least one array of light sensors positioned on the gimbals, for being directed by the same within at least two degrees of freedom; (3) Map storage means for storing ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080181600 | Photographing Device in Particular For Video Surveillance and Working Methods of Same The invention concerns a device (D) for managing and starting at least one photographing means (100), characterized in that it consists of a housing (200) which, forming a protective chamber around at least one photographing means (100), is mounted ... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080143832 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF AN AIRCRAFT The device comprises an intrusion detection module (6), an image acquisition module (14), an energy management module (13) and an autonomous power source (9), the said detection module (6) being designed to furnish a detection signal h... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080084475 | System for Target Designation and/or Illumination and for Air Reconnaissance The invention relates to a system for target designation and/or illumination in a scene, that is designed to be attached to an aircraft comprising one optical path fitted with a matrix sensor forming an image of the scene, each image corresponding to an instantaneous fi... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080043103 | Video Data Transmitting Apparatus Using a Metallic Body The present invention relates to video data transmitting apparatus using a metallic body, comprising: an observation camera part in which is transmitted through metallic body of a motor such as automobile, ship, aircraft, and etc. to amplify modulated signal by wideband... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20070242135 | Airborne Reconnaissance System The present invention relates to an airborne reconnaissance system for capturing images in a wide field of regard which comprises: (a) An array of a plurality of n prisms being one next to the other, each prism having an essentially flat and rectangular front surface, a... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070188610 | SYNOPTIC BROAD-AREA REMOTE-SENSING VIA MULTIPLE TELESCOPES A synoptic, broad-area remote-sensing system using multiple sensors mounted on an airborne platform. Commercially available optical telescopes can be used as the sensors and can be mounted to the platform with fixed location and orientation to collectively view a wide s... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070085907 | Video storage uplink system A video storage uplink system includes a controller, a power input, an external input, a first and second memory partition, a switching interface, a communications unit and a data retrieval interface. The external camera input is configured to receive image data acquire... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070035624 | Lidar with streak-tube imaging, including hazard detection in marine applications; related optics The system and method relate to detection of objects that are submerged, or partially submerged (e. g. floating), relative to a water surface. One aspect of the invention emits LIDAR fan-beam pulses and analyzes return-pulse portions to determine water-surface orientati... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20060215027 | Picked-up image display method An image display method in which a position of a shot image of the ground surface having been taken from the air is specified three-dimensionally, a photographic area on the ground surface having been shot is obtained by computation, and a shot image is transformed in c... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060158548 | Method and Apparatus for Sensor or Transducer Nodes on a Common Signal Conductor A sensor node capable of sampling a physical measurement of its environment and capable of sharing a common signal conductor with other sensor nodes is provided. Additionally, a transducer node capable of converting an electrical signal into a human perceptible output a... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060114325 | System and method to locate terrorists and criminals A system and methods to determine the point of origin of a moveable unit of interest, such as a car bomb in a large geographic area such as Bagdad. The system comprises of a high-flying platform such as an aircraft or satellite with the capability to obtain imagery of v... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060114324 | Method and apparatus for collaborative aggregate situation awareness A surveillance method comprises the steps of: sending information requests to one or more of a plurality of unmanned airborne platforms, each carrying one or more sensors for gathering information; coordinating processing of the requests among the plurality of airborne ... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060028549 | Real-time composite image comparator An apparatus and method for preparing a composite image from a video data stream and for identifying changed features in two composite images. Frames from the video data stream are transformed to a projected 2D image, aligned with adjacent frames and overlapping areas a... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050259150 | Air-floating image display apparatus To provide an image display apparatus capable of displaying images on arbitrary places while freely moving in the air. Furthermore, to allow images including a predetermined length of data to come into sight of a moving person or persons, in as natural a state as possib... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050257241 | Media asset management system for managing video segments from an aerial sensor platform and associated method A method for managing video segments from an aerial sensor platform using a media asset management system includes collecting the video segments from the aerial sensor platform, associating corresponding geospatial data with each video segment, and creating a search the... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050083412 | Internet interactive realtime video image acquisition system based in low earth orbit A system, method, and apparatus for obtaining and distributing live and real-time video imagery of the Earth, Earth's local space environment, the Moon, celestial bodies and any events or objects that are visible to a Low Earth Orbiting space based video imaging system ... | 04/21/2005 |
