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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189047 | Airborne laser image capturing system and method The invention relates to an airborne laser image capturing system which comprises: (a) A laser source and laser focal plan array; (b) A pulse generator; (c) A scanning unit for providing to the gimbals a scanning signal for effecting a sequential stepping-scanning m... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8085299 | Digital line scan camera Disclosed is a digital line scan camera, having at least at least one focal plane, on which at least one linear photosensitive sensor is arranged, an objective lens, and a location measurement system. The location measurement system is used to determine six external... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7796153 | Equalization system and method for an imaging sensor A system and method for equalizing an imaging sensor. The system includes at least one image sensor having a plurality of detectors defining a sensor array, each detector being configured to provide an output signal representative of a sensed image. The system furth... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7365641 | Vehicle proximity alerting system and method A vehicle proximity alerting system and method is provided. The system includes: a sensor unit having a plurality of sensors for measuring distances from other vehicles; a system controlling unit for receiving measurement signals from the sensors, calculating distan... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7339614 | Large format camera system with multiple coplanar focusing systems Large format, digital camera systems (10, 100, 150, 250, 310) expose single detector arrays 20 with multiple lens systems (12, 14, 16, 18) or multiple detector arrays (104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 152, 162, 172, 182, 252, 262,... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324747 | Aircraft fuselage element and method of taking a number of pictures An aircraft fuselage element (26) with a fuselage body (30) which forms an internal cavity (40) and which includes a viewing window (32, 34). To provide for taking substantially distortion-free high-resolution pictures in the infrared wav... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7283658 | Topographic measurement using stereoscopic picture frames Disclosed is a topographic measurement system wherein at least one satellite is used to scan the earth surface and send picture frames of a target area captured at different positions to an earth station. The picture frames are combined to produce a number of pairs ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272243 | Machine vision system and method for estimating and tracking facial pose The present invention includes in a system and method for estimating and tracking an orientation of a user's face by combining head tracking and face detection techniques. The orientation of the face, or facial pose, can be expressed in terms of pitch, roll and yaw ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7248794 | Remote platform multiple capture image formation method and apparatus A method of controlling a remote imaging platform for image acquisition of an imaging target, the method comprises: controlling said platform to aim a camera at said target, and controlling said platform to take at least a first, a second and a third images of said ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7173649 | Video airship The video airship is a lighter-than-air airship, preferably spherical, including a video display disposed with substantially all of the craft's outer surface, a nearly invisible computerized electric propulsion-control system, speakers, microphones, video cameras, c... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7154079 | Moving object detecting system and moving object detecting method One-dimensional line data is produced based upon an evaluation area in image data obtained by imaging the area the slit light beam is irradiated. Each point data value included in the line data is obtained based upon each pixel value in a pixel array arranged in a Y... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143385 | Wiring design method and system for electronic wiring boards A wiring design system when applied to wiring boards having various wiring restrictions, has a rough wiring plan at the floor plan stage so as to complete a wiring design satisfying the wiring restrictions in a short period of time while evaluating the congestion de... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7084901 | Surveillance camera with flicker immunity A video surveillance camera capable of operating with flickering illumination is formed from a time-delay-integration linescan camera in conjunction with a mechanical scanner. The line rate of the camera is adjusted to provide an integration time substantially equal... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6995787 | Sports projectile and camera apparatus A sports projectile and camera apparatus includes a sports projectile which includes a sports projectile outside housing. A camera is housed inside the sports projectile outside housing. The camera includes a camera lens which faces outside the sports projectile out... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6975346 | Method for suspect identification using scanning of surveillance media A method, program and apparatus for criminal suspect identification are provided. Monitoring and video recording are used to collect information at a given location. In response to specific events, such as a criminal act, the system uses real time analysis of the vi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6940999 | Method for target detection and identification by using proximity pixel information An efficient approach to exploit hyperspectral imagery and detect target of interest is disclosed. This approach uses proximity pixels as reference signatures to detect potential discontinuity that represents material of unknown existing on the terrain. By incorpora... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6935806 | Hinged annular shaft flange An annular shaft flange that can be positioned along the length of a shaft and secured to the shaft to prevent movement of an article along the length of the shaft. The annular shaft flange includes a pair of nesting ends that are attachable to each other using a me... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933965 | Panoramic aerial imaging device An imaging device that gives a ground based user immediate access to a detailed aerial photograph of the entire area for a given radius about his present position. The device can be launched into the air, and rotates in a predictable pattern to scan an imager over e... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930705 | Image search device An endoscopic apparatus has an objective optical system arranged in a rigid endoscope for forming an image, a first image re-forming optical system for re-forming a part of the image once formed through the objective optical system on an image pickup surface of a fi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925246 | Television recorder having a removeable hard disk drive A television recorder defines a recessed memory storage device bay and a rack mounted in the storage device bay. The recorder includes a carrier for removeably locking a hard disk drive into the rack. The television recorder connects with television and television b... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6911995 | Computer vision depth segmentation using virtual surface The location of an object in a physical scene is identified with a stereo camera. A virtual surface is identified in the physical scene, and an approximate disparity set is constructed for the virtual surface. A main and a reference image of the scene are acquired b... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6856344 | Vehicle undercarriage inspection and imaging method and system A low-cost, portable and highly-mobile “speed bump” which incorporates a plurality of electronic cameras, illumination devices, and range finders. The system can be rapidly and temporarily deployed to achieve increased security at facilities and events likely to... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856343 | Digital video logging system A digital video logging system including a logging apparatus able to synchronize at least two digitally formatted video input and digital storage apparatus to store the digitally formatted input is provided. ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6816186 | Automatic zone monitoring A monitoring system using two or more cameras to monitor a space in 3 dimensions is disclosed. One or more virtual 3-D monitored volumes relating to dangerous or restricted areas, are constructed, preferably as CSG objects, within this space. By detecting an object ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6747686 | High aspect stereoscopic mode camera and method An aerial reconnaissance camera and method provides for generating a first image of the terrain of interest with the camera pointing angle oriented or rotated about an azimuthal axis some angular amount (θ1) to a first, typically forward orientation, i.e., forward ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6658207 | Method of framing reconnaissance with motion roll compensation An electro-optical roll-framing camera is described in which successive overlapping frames of scene imagery are generated by an electro-optical imaging array. Image motion compensation is performed electronically to stop or freeze image motion caused by t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6529267 | Method for acquiring an image by oversampled push-broom scanning The invention concerns a method for acquiring an image by oversampled push-broom scanning from a satellite-borne vehicle or aircraft carrying at least a load transfer sensor bar, characterised in that it consists in controlling the attitude and the vehicl... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6493021 | Image acquisition by push-broom scanning An improvement to a method of acquiring and processing a satellite observation image of the earth through the use of one strip or a matrix of charge coupled device type detectors. As the detectors travel over an observed zone, a plurality of pixels are ac... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6449517 | Factory mode free setting apparatus and method thereof A technique for collectively setting a factory mode of operation of a monitor offers adjustments or modifications for particulars of mode data to meet user requirements, by transmitting a set of factory mode timing data from an external controller to an e... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6433815 | Method and device for imaging with high geometrical resolution on a microsatellite A method and a device for imaging with high geometrical resolution on a microsatellite. The device includes an objective and a focal plane on which an extended optical detector is fitted. The objective and the focal plane being fastened rigidly to the mic... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6349114 | Camera motion parameters estimation method The invention relates to a method of estimation of the motion parameters of a camera. It is applied to a sequence of successive video frames subdivided into blocks and includes the following steps of extracting from the sequence vectors corresponding to t... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6215522 | Method of acquiring an image by push-broom scanning A method of acquiring and processing a satellite observation image of the earth by means of at least one strip or a matrix of detectors of the charge transfer type travelling over an observed zone, in which a plurality of pixels are acquired, which pixels... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5990939 | Video demultiplexing interface for a missile tracking system A video demultiplexing interface (70) is used in a missile tracking system (10) employing a missile (12) with a thermal beacon (24). A target designator (40) defines a boresight from a missile firing location, such as an aircraft, to a target. The closed-... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5812066 | Antenna tuning control circuit A device for optimizing antenna operation, a wireless control signal detector detects a wireless control signal generated by a remote control unit, and a microprocessor is operatively connected to the detector. The microprocessor is programmed to analyze ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5798786 | Electro-optical imaging detector array for a moving vehicle which includes two axis image motion compensation and transfers pixels in row directions and column directions An electro-optical imaging array having pixels arranged in rows and columns electronically compensates for image motion in the plane of the array regardless of whether the motion vector is in the row direction, the column direction, or in a diagonal direc... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5765044 | Airborne photographing apparatus An apparatus for photographing the ground continuously from an airplane, and for recording the photographed images in digital form in real time. A three-line sensor camera comprising a forward-oblique line sensor, a vertical line sensor and a backward-obl... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5604534 | Direct digital airborne panoramic camera system and method An airborne direct digital panoramic camera system and method in which an in-line electro-optical sensor eliminates the need for photographic film and film transport apparatus normally associated with prior art airborne reconnaissance cameras and yet stil... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5371533 | Image restoration systems and methods utilizing input signals with modified DC signal content A combined scene-based and DC-restored image restoration system enhances the utility of video images generated from the input of a forward-looking infrared system. This system and related methods remove a desired portion of the DC content from each of a p... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5353055 | Image pickup system with an image pickup device for control An image pickup system mounted on a craft flying an orbit above an object zone and sequentially picking up the images of unit areas defined by the swath width of the object zone and a distance in the direction of orbit. The system has a main image pickup ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5249046 | Method and apparatus for three dimensional range resolving imaging A three dimensional range resolving imaging sensor is presented. The sensor comprises a transmitter for generating a light pulse which passes through beam homogenizer and a pair of Fresnel-Risley prisms. This pulse is then directed through an environmenta... | 09/28/1993 |
