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Tracking system

Patent 5285273 Issued on February 8, 1994. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject February 8, 2011. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

3828122

Improvements relating to automatic target following apparatus
Patent #: 3955046
Issued on: 05/04/1976
Inventor: Ingham ,   et al.

Correlation follower for tracking an object
Patent #: 4272783
Issued on: 06/09/1981
Inventor: Warnstam ,   et al.

Binary correlation video tracker
Patent #: 4364089
Issued on: 12/14/1982
Inventor: Woolfson

Television picture stabilizing system Patent #: 4403256
Issued on: 09/06/1983
Inventor: Green ,   et al.

Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 167480 filed on 02/19/1988

US Classes:

348/169, OBJECT TRACKING89/41.05, By television monitoring89/41.06, By light reception250/203.5, Cathode-ray tube scanning382/103Target tracking or detecting

Examiners

Primary: Buczinski, Stephen C.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

H04N 005/225
F41G 005/06
G01J 001/20
G06K 009/32

Foreign Application Priority Data

1987-02-19 GB

Abstract

An automatic target tracking system comprising video means, target tracking means, correlation means and aimpoint location means which predicts the subsequent position of a target after each viewing by the video means and then correlates this with the actual viewing of the target position so as to estimate that position within a given field of view.

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