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Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage
A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.
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| 7304675 | Digital timing rate buffering for thermal stability of uncooled detectors A system (100) and method for outputting data from a detector (104). The novel system (100) includes a first controller (118) that samples the detector (104) at a first rate, a memory (112) for storing the sampled data, and ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7173558 | Charge comparator with low input offset A Direct Current (DC) charge comparator that provides low input offset by feeding complimentary plus and minus charge inputs to a single amplification path via an alternate input path switch. Multiple sample and hold circuits at the output of the amplification path ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165655 | Neural network detection of obstructions within and motion toward elevator doors A camera (26), with suitable illumination (such as IR) provides images to a processing card (33) which converts the images to numerical vectors and applies them to a neural network (35) which is capable of providing a door-open signal (38... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7057649 | System and method for generating digital data and processing in a memory In a video conferencing system, digital data representing pixels of a selected scene are stored in a Video accumulator Array Memory cells (VAM), each cell having memory with several register structures and having the capability of processing the digital data to faci... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7045764 | Passive detection system for detecting a body near a door A detection system for detecting a body near a doorway includes two detectors having one or more activation lines that overlap each other. With certain mounting arrangements, the detectors cover areas within and on both sides of the doorway. The detectors are meant ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6940540 | Speaker detection and tracking using audiovisual data A system and method facilitating object tracking is provided. The system includes an audio model that receives at least two audio input signals and a video model that receives a video input. The audio model and the video model employ probabilistic generative models ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6268883 | High speed infrared imaging system and method A system and method for radiation detection with an increased frame rate. A semi-parallel processing configuration is used to process a row or column of pixels in a focal-plane array in parallel to achieve a processing rate up to and greater than 1 millio... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6181414 | Infrared spectroscopy for medical imaging A multi-channel spectral imaging module for an automated testing system for cytological applications. The multi-channel spetral imaging module generates four channels of digitized images of a cytological specimen for further processing in the automated te... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6081255 | Position detection apparatus and remote control apparatus An object of the present invention is to remote control a position of a cursor displayed on a display screen of a reception unit by means of two-dimensional/three-dimensional positioning of a transmission unit. Another object of the present invention is t... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5682035 | Thermal imaging device A thermal infrared imaging device (10) includes a thermal detector (50) having a linearly-arrayed plurality of spaced apart detector elements (50', 50", 50"', . . . ). A scene to be viewed is scanned across the detector (50) with successive fields of the ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5663562 | Thermal imaging device The present system provides a thermal imaging device including a detector array responsive to thermal infrared radiation. The detector array has a linearly-arrayed plurality of spaced-apart detector elements defining cooperatively a length dimension for t... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5587583 | Thermal imaging device A thermal imaging device (10) has single integrated circuit chip (86) to perform various analog signal processing (ASP) functions. The imaging device (10) has a detector array (50) including a plurality of detectors (50') each of which generate an electri... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5557326 | Method and apparatus for producing a false color image A method for creating a false color image, by utilizing a video camera provided with two or three arrays of semiconductor detectors, the sensitivity range whereof, in relation to wavelength, extends from the visible light range to near infrared radiation ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5485009 | Laser imaging system with a linear detector array Laser active imaging system allowing in particular to use a wide field by means of a detecting device including a linear array of N juxtaposed photodetector elements oriented along the direction of scanning and associated with a focusing lens. The receive... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5396282 | Image mapping radiometer with a band-to-band registration device An image mapping radiometer mounted on a craft flying an orbit above an object zone. The radiometer includes main optics having in the visible field thereof a unit object zone defined by the swath width over the object zone and a distance in the direction... | 03/07/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5323186 | Focal plane array for man and machine visions A method and means for converting a high resolution machine monitored phoiode array, comprising staircased linear sets of detectors operating in a time-delay-integration mode, to a low resolution visually monitored array, by delaying the output signal of... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5201582 | Differential temperature stress measurement employing array sensor with local offset The instrument has a focal plane array of infrared sensors of the integrating type such as a multiplexed device in which a charge is built up on a capacitor which is proportional to the total number of photons which that sensor is exposed to between read-... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5193911 | Thermal detector device A thermal imaging device comprising a pyroelectric layer having on one major surface an array of interconnected electrodes forming an entrance face, and on the opposite major surface an array of discrete electrodes connected to electrical circuitry formed... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5119201 | Line camera for imaging object strips on photosensitive detector lines The invention relates to a line camera for imaging object strips on photosensitive detector lines, having an objective producing a line image of an object strip, having a ray deflecting system situated at the site of the line image by which the line image... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5001557 | Method of, and apparatus for, controlling the position of an automatically operated door The automatically operated door is controlled in dependence upon the presence and movement conditions of one or more persons present on a support surface within a predeterminate space on a predetermined side of the automatically operated door. A radiation... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4977323 | 360 degree infrared surveillance with panoramic display A 360 degree infrared surveillance system comprising a scanning head rota on a turntable having optics and IR detectors in a vertical linear array, amplifiers for each detector and light emitting diodes for each respective detector/amplifier channel. The... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4639774 | Moving target indication system A system comprising a scanning detector for rapidly scanning a field of view through appropriate optical means, and with a linear infrared detector array, there being electronic apparatus for converting the detector signals to digital signals and for stor... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4575632 | Infrared viewing apparatus An infrared viewing apparatus is described which comprises an infrared objective, a pivotal mirror, a linear infrared detection array, an amplifier arrangement connected to this array, and a display array which is driven by the amplifier arrangement and i... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4400729 | Pseudo-DC restore application to staring array detectors An adjustment signal is derived for each element in a detector array which depends on the median of the differences of image brightness between that particular detector and all its neighboring detectors. The adjustment signal is derived by integrated circ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4335400 | Adaptive post-filter for infrared scan converter A special detector and post-filtering system is provided for a scan conver which processes a TV type video signal from one or more infrared detectors which are vertically sampled at a rate less than the Nyquist rate required for the bandwidth of the dete... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4328516 | Integral test input for electro-optically multiplexed FLIR system In a forward-looking infared system of the type in which a cryogenically led infared detector array drives a light-emitting array whose video output is focused onto the target of an electro-optical multiplexer, such as a vidicon tube, which drives a CRT ... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4264929 | Method and apparatus for scanning and for electronic processing of thermal pictures Scanning speed at right angles to scanning line direction becomes so selected that every line becomes scanned anew by way of the following element in picture direction. Reproduction is carried out by way of a series arrangement of luminous diodes. The lum... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4225883 | Automatic responsivity compensator in an IR imaging system An automatic responsivity compensator for correcting video output signals om a CCD multiplexer in a cryogenic dewar in IR imaging systems wherein the CCD multiplexer must operate with fixed gain inputs from a plurality of linear detector channels. The aut... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4121248 | Streak reduction system for FLIR display An improved a.c. coupled forward looking infrared (FLIR) system is disclosed. In a.c. coupled FLIR systems utilizing an array of detectors, the video signals produced when scanning "hot targets" are distorted toward the dark end of the display dynamic ran... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4086616 | All-weather multi-spectral imaging system An all-weather, maximum resolution system visually presents a multi-color mposite image of plural selected spectral ranges of energy received from a common field of view. First, second, and third images of a selected common field of view are developed and... | 04/25/1978 |
| 3978281 | Infrared imaging system A TV compatible infrared imaging system employs horizontal and vertical oscillating scan mirrors which are driven in synchronism. The horizontal mirror oscillates at a fraction of the usual television horizontal scan rate while the vertical mirror is driv... | 08/31/1976 |
