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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130258 | Method for processing a video sequence and apparatus implementing said method The present invention is in the field of Content protection, most particularly in cinema venues where camcorder acquisition followed by immediate illegal distribution creates important revenue losses for content owners. It is known that anti-camcorder systems using ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7365349 | EUV light source collector lifetime improvements An apparatus and method for cleaning a plasma source material compound from a plasma produced EUV light source collector optic which may comprise reacting the plasma source material compound with hydrogen to form a hydride of the plasma source material from the plas... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362351 | Method, system and device for detecting an object proximate to a water/air type interface A method and system for detecting an object in a zone located proximate to an interface between two liquid and/or gaseous media having different refractive indices, for example of the air/water type. The method and system produce at least a video image of the interf... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7317179 | Systems and methods to shape laser light as a homogeneous line beam for interaction with a film deposited on a substrate Systems and methods are disclosed for shaping and homogenizing a laser beam for interaction with a film. The shaping and homogenizing system may include a lens array and a lens that is positioned to receive laser light from the lens array and produce a respective el... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301617 | Surveying apparatus A surveying apparatus including an objective lens; an irradiation unit for irradiating illumination light from the objective lens toward a reflector; a ranging unit for irradiating ranging light from the objective lens to measure a distance from the surveying appara... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301851 | Underway hull survey system A method and survey system for inspecting hulls of ships has a base portion and side portions defining an inspection channel in water. Sonar is mounted on the side portions transmitting acoustic signals onto a hull as a ship passes through the inspection channel, re... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7265661 | Display system for vehicle and method of controlling the same A display system for a vehicle is provided with a sensor sensing a traveling condition of a vehicle, an image pick-up device executing an image pick-up to take an image of an outside of the vehicle, a display displaying the image taken by the image pick-up device, a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7236201 | Method of generating an image in a turbid medium A method is provided for the generation an image in a turbid medium. After illuminating locations along a each of three adjacent lines using beam(s) of light, a camera is activated to generate three separate images. The second line is between the first and third lin... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233346 | Differential imaging method and system A differential imaging system is particularly efficacious for detecting objects in high dispersion or light-scattering mediums, such as seawater. Such a device especially useful in mine detection. A single burst of illumination is used as the light sensitive portion... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7217941 | Systems and methods for deflecting plasma-generated ions to prevent the ions from reaching an internal component of an EUV light source A system is disclosed for protecting an internal EUV light source component from ions generated at a plasma formation site. In one aspect, the system may comprise a plurality of foil plates and an arrangement for generating a magnetic field to deflect ions into one ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212938 | Method of using a self-locking travel pattern to achieve calibration of remote sensors using conventionally collected data The present invention provides a method to calibrate an on-board remote sensing system using a self-locking travel pattern and target remote sensing data. The self-locking travel pattern includes a number of parallel travel lines having overlapping swath widths betw... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203216 | Timing control for two-chamber gas discharge laser system Feedback timing control equipment and process for an injection seeded modular gas discharge laser. A preferred embodiment is a system capable of producing high quality pulsed laser beams at pulse rates of about 4,000 Hz or greater and at pulse energies of about 5 to... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202459 | Active electro-optical device for detecting obstacles, in particular for autonomous navigation An electro-optical system capable of being embarked aboard mobile ground or flying units, to determine the optical flow generated by obstacles in relative motion with respect to the mobile unit. The system comprises radiation emitter means (5), receiver means... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7180083 | EUV light source collector erosion mitigation An EUV light source collector erosion mitigation system and method is disclosed which may comprise a collector comprising a multilayered mirror collector comprising a collector outer surface composed of a capping material subject to removal due to a removing interac... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7164788 | Enhancing two-dimensional range images rendered from three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional range images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered range image data is modified to compensate for jitter effects associated with the STIL camera system, has background portions of the resu... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164787 | Enhancing two-dimensional contrast images rendered from three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional contrast images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered contrast image data is scaled based on a mean intensity value of all pixels of data therein, stretched to a predetermined dynamic rang... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7148974 | Method for tracking the location of mobile agents using stand-off detection technique A method for tracking the movement and position of mobile agents using light detection and ranging (LIDAR) as a stand-off optical detection technique. The positions of the agents are tracked by analyzing the time-history of a series of optical measurements made over... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7141806 | EUV light source collector erosion mitigation An EUV light source collector erosion mitigation method and apparatus for a collector comprising a multilayered mirror collector comprising a collector outer surface composed of a capping material subject to removal due to a removing interaction with materials creat... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139082 | Computer interfaced video positioning system module An apparatus to determine the three-dimensional shape of an array under water using a CCD camera with a field-of-view directed towards the array and a plurality of LED light sources attached to the array which emit light near the attenuation minimum of the water and... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7106359 | Subsurface video observation system A video observation system, useful for location of fish and other plant and animal life underwater, comprises a solid state imager having substantial sensitivity to infrared radiation; video signal generating means for generating a video signal corresponding to the ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092013 | InGaAs image intensifier camera An InGaAs Image Intensifier (“I2”) Camera (C) detects and forms an image (310) to be viewed. An InGaAs photocathode Image Intensifier (312) is used to pass an amplified signal (316) from a screen (320). The InGaAs image intensificatio... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092579 | Calculating noise estimates of a digital image using gradient analysis A method of estimating the noise in a digital image for use in subsequent image processing, includes receiving a source digital image having a plurality of pixels; selecting a pixel of interest; providing a plurality of orientations for the pixel of interest; using ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7061959 | Laser thin film poly-silicon annealing system A gas discharge laser crystallization apparatus and method for performing a transformation of a crystal makeup or orientation in a film on a workpiece is disclosed, which may comprise a master oscillator power amplifier MOPA or power oscillator power amplifier confi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057199 | Apparatus and method for the measurement of water depth using a controlled receiver An Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) system for the measurement of water depth is disclosed, the system includes a transmitter and a receiver of laser light having at least two wavelengths so as to receive a first reflection from a water surface and a second refle... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7045783 | Device and method for object illumination and imaging using light pulses A reduced glare imaging system for motor vehicles which includes at least one light source capable of modulation. The system also includes a synchronization system which has structure for obtaining a time reference, and a trigger for modulating emissions from the li... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7030969 | Distance measuring instrument with a sighting device A distance measuring instrument having a sighting device is disclosed, which includes a transmitter for emitting an optical radiation, a receiving lens for the optical measurement radiation remitted or scattered by an object being measured, a receiver, located behin... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027149 | Photometric analysis of natural waters A spectrographic analysis method which is photometric and non-contact for determining the presence of a chosen constituent in water is provided based on the fact that the inverse of reflectance is a measure of absorption. A full spectrum measurement of the reflectan... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7006569 | Digital video processing method and apparatus thereof A digital video processing method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method for processing digital images received in the form of compressed video streams comprising the step of determining a region intensity histogram (RIH) based on information on motion co... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006142 | Three-dimensional image capturing device A three-dimensional image-capturing device comprises R, G, and B light sources, a CCD, a light-source control processor, a CCD drive circuit, and a distance-information sensing processor. Each of the RGB light sources radiates pulse modulated R, G, and B distance-me... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6970578 | Method of generating images to aid in the detection of manmade objects in cluttered underwater environments An underwater image area is illuminated with light generating elastic scattering from manmade objects and naturally-occurring features, and fluorescence from naturally-occurring features. Local standard deviation (LSD) images are formed using the elastic scattered a... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963354 | High resolution imaging lidar for detecting submerged objects An image lidar includes a laser for generating light beam pulses in a line scan to illuminate an area surrounding a target. A controller selects pulse width and pulse rate of the light beam pulses emitted by the laser. A photomultiplier tube detects energy from the ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958828 | Method and apparatus for detecting photocopier tracking signatures A method and apparatus are described for detecting photocopier tracking signatures placed on documents produced by color photocopiers. The apparatus includes an input terminal that supplies digital image data representing an input document produced by a color photoc... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6931144 | Automated rip tide detection system A system substitutes digitized camera images for human vision, in determining the presence or absence of rip tides among sea water wave patterns at a public swimming beach. Computer analysis of these images involves image pre-filtering that enhances the telltale sig... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6836285 | Lidar with streak-tube imaging,including hazard detection in marine applications; related optics In some aspects of the invention, a LIDAR subsystem or other means at an elevated position emit thin fan-beam light pulses at a shallow angle, and detect reflected portions of the pulses at a like angle; a streak-tube subsystem or other means image successive reflec... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6724467 | System for viewing objects at a fire scene and method of use A system and method for viewing objects at a fire scene allows fire fighters to view objects, including persons, in a smoke and fire filled environment. The present invention utilizes two different techniques to discriminate reflections from an object from scattered... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6633338 | Programmable illuminator for vision system The field portion (40) of a workpiece (14) that an electro-optical system (28) can image is deflected by a field-of-view deflector (38) and an array of light sources (42, 44) illuminates the workpiece. As the field of view (40) moves about the workpiece s... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6462768 | Image enhancement An image of a scene partially obscured by atmospheric backscattered light is enhanced by taking account of variations in the mean backscattered flux component resulting from variations in the distance between the point from, which the image is captured an... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6348942 | Enhanced underwater visibility A system for enhancing underwater visibility is described that uses left and right alternately chopped laser illumination, filtered wide baseline stereo imaging and specular reflectors for deblurring the images. Two stereo images are compared to determine... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6331887 | Outdoor range finder The present invention is a distance measuring device having a low power laser for use outdoors. The distance measuring device of the invention includes a laser emitting means that emits a pulsed laser beam to an object to be measured and an image reader t... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6072565 | Night vision device with improved laser range finder An integrated night vision device and laser range finder (10) provides night-time imaging of a scene by use of an image intensifier tube (14), as well as providing laser range finding operations. In a laser range finder mode of operation the device (10) p... | 06/06/2000 |
