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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7427947 | Aircrew aid to assess jam effectiveness The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software progra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425919 | Radar video data viewer A computer program which plots radar video data generated by a seeker on a missile. The program allows a user to plot multiple scans of radar video data on a chart, which is obtained from a Data Worksheet. The chart displays one or more sets of radar video data scan... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7307578 | Declutter of graphical TCAS targets to improve situational awareness Traffic collision and avoidance systems and methods for a host aircraft. The system receives traffic information from one or more target aircraft, determines threat levels of target aircraft associated with the received traffic information, generates one or more obj... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295146 | Holographic arrays for multi-path imaging artifact reduction A method and apparatus to remove human features utilizing at least one transmitter transmitting a signal between 200 MHz and 1 THz, the signal having at least one characteristic of elliptical polarization, and at least one receiver receiving the reflection of the si... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292178 | Aircraft hazard detection and alerting in terminal areas A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine potential weather hazard for an aircraft in a terminal area. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The processing electronics can determine presence of the pot... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7205928 | Automatic weather radar system and method Methods and apparatus are provided for operating a radar system to provide a thunderstorm image to a pilot. The method comprises using one or more radar scans depending upon the aircraft altitude, a single upward tilted scan at or below a datum level of about 15,000... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7161531 | High performance radar display A scan conversion is provided which allows the scan converter to work with data in its most convenient format in a radar memory. A displayable image is mirrored to a graphics memory simultaneously with the write portion of the radar memory of the scan conversion pro... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7119731 | Depth-based surveillance imaging A subject may be interrogated with electromagnetic radiation for producing image data representative of an image of the subject. First and second image data, produced based on reflectivity in first and second frequency ranges, may be related. In some examples, image... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7109912 | Weather radar hazard detection system and method An aircraft weather radar system is disclosed. The system comprises a radar antenna, aircraft sensors, and a database. The system also comprises a processing device receiving information from the radar antenna and from the aircraft sensors and able to retrieve infor... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7057549 | Method and apparatus for predictive altitude display Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for indicating aircraft height relative to an obstruction in a terrain awareness warning system. The method includes receiving data indicative of geographic features of an obstruction, lateral distance of t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7019682 | Imaging millimeter wave radar system An imaging millimeter wave radar system. The system includes a millimeter wave transmitter transmitting a frequency scanned millimeter beam that is narrow in the scanned direction and wide in a direction perpendicular to the scanned direction. The system includes a ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6999023 | Method and apparatus for predictive altitude display Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for indicating aircraft height relative to an obstruction in a terrain awareness warning system. The method includes receiving data indicative of geographic features of an obstruction, lateral distance of t... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6911936 | Formation surveillance and collision avoidance A display system is disclosed for displaying air traffic symbology from a plurality of different types of air traffic surveillance systems on a single monitor. A display device includes a processor for generating display symbology from TCAS, SKE and ADS-B informatio... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6882302 | Enhanced adaptive weather thresholds for identification of hazards system and method A weather radar display system is disclosed. The weather radar display system comprises a weather radar antenna, processing electronics, coupled to the weather radar antenna, enhancing weather radar returns based on a reflectivity model which differentiates lower le... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6839018 | Vertical profile display with arbitrary plane A system for allowing pilots to quickly determine weather hazard-free flight paths and weather hazards that exist along the aircraft flight plan. The system includes a memory, a processor, and a display device. The memory stores weather radar return information in a... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6744396 | Surveillance and collision avoidance system with compound symbols A surveillance and collision avoidance system provides a presentation of situational awareness information for display that includes a compound symbol for each target spaced at a distance and bearing relative to a host symbol. The target compound symbol includes ind... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6734824 | System and method for locating emitters A method for determining a location of an emitter in a monitored area includes the step of providing an array representative of the monitored area, the array including a plurality of elements. Next, at least one first curve and at least one second curve is provided ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6683556 | Method and apparatus for predictive altitude display Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for indicating aircraft height relative to an obstruction in a terrain awareness warning system. The method includes receiving data indicative of geographic features of an obstruction, lateral di... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6621451 | Use of texture memory for WX scan conversion A radar display system (10) according to the present invention generates textured radar display data by utilizing a direct memory access receiver (12) to receive radially scanned radar data, to convert the radially scanned radar data into range bin data s... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6614383 | Beam width display method and system A weather radar display system displays a beam indicator indicative of a radar beam. The beam indicator represents width of the radar beam as a function of range (distance from the radar beam source). The beam indicator allows a pilot to easily discern ac... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614382 | Beam elevation display method and system The relative altitude of the center of a radar beam in relation to the aircraft's altitude at a plurality of distance ranges from the radar source is computed. A plurality of range rings representing the distance ranges are displayed. The computed relativ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6529157 | Radar signature evaluation apparatus An improved radar signature evaluation apparatus for measuring and evaluating the radar signature for an aircraft, missiles, and other vehicle. The radar signature apparatus includes an instrumentation system for generating radar cross section data for th... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6512477 | Detecting apparatus While successively varying its orientation at specific intervals, a detecting apparatus transmits pulsed radio waves from an antenna (1), and data corresponding to input levels derived from one sweep are written in a primary memory (4). output values obta... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6489916 | Method and apparatus for predictive altitude display Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for indicating aircraft height relative to an obstruction in a terrain awareness warning system. The method includes receiving data indicative of geographic features of an obstruction, lateral di... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6429801 | Method and apparatus for precursor based radar A method and apparatus is described for signal processing to identify an object in an environment. A precursor associated with an electromagnetic wave interacting with the object is received and a property of the object identified using precursor characte... | 08/06/2002 |
| 5907568 | Integrated precision approach radar display An improved precision approach radar (PAR) system using an integrated digital display for displaying the relative position of one or more targets, e.g., aircraft, to a preferred glide path and azimuth course line. A preferred PAR system uses a radar head ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5852492 | Fused lasar range/intensity image display for a human interpretation of lasar data A method and apparatus for generating a range image and an intensity image of a target field is disclosed. The range image and the intensity image are fused into a single image that contains range and intensity information. In one embodiment, only a singl... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5828332 | Automatic horizontal and vertical scanning radar with terrain display A weather radar and terrain map display system for aircraft with the terrain elevation and weather information displayed in an easy to read and quickly comprehendible presentation. The system includes an antenna for transmitting and receiving radar signal... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5767679 | Geophysical prospecting apparatus utilizing pulsed electromagnetic signals and having a scanned four-cycle transmitter Apparatus for use in a geophysical prospecting method from a vehicle for site plan pictorial representation of inclusions present in substratum soil which reflect modulated electromagnetic oscillations. This apparatus is particularly useful for detecting ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5699067 | Radar plot display with low CPU loading A high capacity radar plot display with low CPU loading. The display includes a display process (42) which controls a graphics window server (46) to render symbols on a display console by a "walking worm" animation. The current symbol plot as well as seve... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5554990 | Airspace management system and method An airspace management system and method includes an alternate quick look mode display option which allows a user to designate a specific geographic region for display in a specified area on a display screen. Within this specified area, which can encompas... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5546091 | Psuedo-color display for enhanced visual target detection A pseudo-color display useful for enhanced target detection of two-dimensional images such as SAR data. The system includes a color display apparatus responsive to red, green and blue display control signals, and apparatus responsive to the input image da... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5250954 | Color-coded radar plan position indicator A method to enhance target detectability on a radar plan position indicator s described which includes the receiving of coherent pulse-burst waveforms from a target so that at least one complete burst is included in each dwell of a scanning surveillance fa... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5198819 | Weather radar display system A weather radar display system and method for obtaining and storing radar return data for a plurality of horizontal and vertical sweeps, each horizontal sweep occurring at a different tilt angle and each vertical sweep occurring at a different azimuth ang... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5126747 | Method and apparatus for displaying radar data A method and apparatus for displaying radar data on a display monitor, wherein the monitor is divided into octants, and wherein the radar data defines a pie-shaped slice to be displayed within an octant on the monitor. The radar data has a center point wh... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5097268 | Radar apparatus and method for enhancing the display of moving targets A radar system that enhances the display of moving targets by using negative scan-to-scan correlation to determine which pixels will be displayed at the brightest level. More specifically, a bit image stores a multi-bit scan-to-scan correlated history for... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5081456 | Method of detecting unknown object and apparatus therefor In visualizing an unknown object possessed by a person to be checked, a narrow pulsating radio wave beam is scanned over the whole surface of the person to observe the intensity of a reflected radio wave at each scan point. The frequency of the radio wave... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5065161 | Ship track indicating apparatus A ship track indicating apparatus displays the ship track of another ship with a line of narrow width on the screen of the indicator of a radar apparatus so that the ship track of another ship can be easily distinguished. The images of another ship are su... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4944679 | Generic radar display A software controlled generic radar display system using a microcomputer ing a high performance graphics card that drives a high resolution color monitor which displays the radar sweep, compass rose, front panel symbology and diagnostic information. A ta... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4706199 | Moving map display providing various shaded regions per altitude for aircraft navigation The moving map display screen makes it possible to display the relief of the area overflown by an aircraft as a function of the altitude of the latter. A moving-spot video reader analyses by radial scanning the relief of the area to be overflown and recor... | 11/10/1987 |
