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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4490849 | Correlation plane recognition processor An automatic processing circuit is associated with an optical matched filter system which supplies correlation imagery representing the products of diffraction patterns of known objects with that of an input scene in which the known objects are to be dete... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4476494 | Apparatus for centering and stabilizing the size of a target image A stabilized image of a scene is provided by scanning the scene with a camera to provide pixels representative of the scene, providing individual representations of the pixels during each scan of the camera as digital words identifying an elevation addres... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4456862 | Augmented proportional navigation in second order predictive scheme A method for augmenting a noise-adaptive predictive proportional navigation terminal guidance scheme. In a second order configuration with noise adaptive varying gain parameters calculated as a function of time-to-go, this system implements an optimal con... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4277137 | Coherent optical correlator Reference scenes stored in a filter set containing an array of sets of suimposed, holographic, matched filters are optically correlated with input images displayed on an optically-addressed, liquid crystal, light modulator 34. In operation, a selected la... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4162775 | Tracking and/or guidance systems The invention relates to a system for tracking and/or guidance of a vehicle or projectile using a correlation arrangement for comparing representations from a sensor mounted on the vehicle or projectile with a reference representation, the correlation bei... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4106726 | Prestored area correlation tracker A novel prestored area correlation tracker comprising multiple concentric field of view apparatus in combination with apparatus for memorizing multiple digital representations of a target scene and logic apparatus to utilize such representations for the p... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4018405 | Vehicle guidance control link utilizing light beam An electromagnetic beam which is preferably generated by means of a laser is transmitted to a vehicle such as a missile to be controlled, and reflected back from such vehicle by means of an optical reflector. The beam is passed through separate optical mo... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3986682 | IBIS guidance and control system A guidance system for automatically boresighting a small field-of-view, lresolution image, sensed by an infrared missile imaging sensor, to a large field-of-view, high-resolution image, sensed by an imaging sensor located within an airplane. The image se... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3974328 | Line scan area signature detection system An area signature detection system arranged to receive an output from a sensor operative in the electromagnetic spectrum, where the output from the sensor is an amplitude varying electrical signal representing the field-of-view beheld by the sensor, and t... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3955046 | Improvements relating to automatic target following apparatus 3. Automatic target following apparatus comprising A. sensing means for deriving a video signal representing a target, B. means for storing signal elements from a frame of said video signal, C. means for comparing signal elements from a subsequent frame of said vid... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3943277 | Digital memory area correlation tracker A digital tracker which provides a continuous display of the area tracked mprising a delay line coupled in circuit with a comparator, a video digitizer and a sensor. The digital tracker further comprises circuit means connected between the delay line and ... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3942447 | Fuzing system A fuzing system in which a third or obscuration channel having a forward king narrow beam width detects a target and generates a signal which is fed to a sequence computer. If within a predetermined time after receipt of the third channel pulse, a second... | 03/09/1976 |
