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公开(公告)号:US11287520B1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-29
申请号:US16674029
申请日:2019-11-05
Inventor: Ira B. Ekhaus
Abstract: A system and method for using coherent aggregated bandwidth over multiple transmissions for improved performance of precision guidance and positioning and of object tracking systems. Angular offset (Az/El) estimations are strongly impacted by interference between direct and (comparable amplitude) ground-reflected signals. In rough ground situations, there could be many ground reflected signals. Bandwidth aggregation as used herein achieves sharper range sidelobes and smaller magnitude multipath interference terms resulting in increasingly accurate interferometric results.
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公开(公告)号:US11287244B1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-29
申请号:US16414871
申请日:2019-05-17
Inventor: Andrew N. Acker , Michael J. DeWeert
IPC: G01B11/16 , G01J9/02 , G01B9/02 , G01B9/02098
Abstract: A shearography a system and method for regularizing phase resolved shearograms with an arctan regularization function to produce regularized phase resolved shearogram outputs is provided. The system and method of the present disclosure optimizes the processing of phase resolved shearography allowing interference fringe analysis techniques to be applied to the regularized phase resolved shearogram output results of the processing.
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公开(公告)号:US11226436B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-18
申请号:US16718608
申请日:2019-12-18
Inventor: Jeffrey L. Jew , Ian B. Murray , Michael J. Shaw
Abstract: The system and method for combining two optical assemblies into the same volume, particularly when the field of view of the two assemblies are different, so that the overall volume and size, weight and power (SWaP) for the system is reduced. This also allows both subsystems (e.g., narrow field of view (NFOV) and wide field of view (WFOV) to use a single aperture and the same external protective window, reducing overall cost for a system of co-located dissimilar optical systems in a single aperture.
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公开(公告)号:US11199379B1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-14
申请号:US16588941
申请日:2019-09-30
Inventor: Quang M. Lam , Michael J. Choiniere , George M. Horihan , David A. Richards , Jason T. Stockwell
IPC: F41G7/22
Abstract: The system and method for EO/IR and RF sensor fusion and tracking using a dual extended Kalman filter (EKF) system provides a dynamic mixing scheme leveraging the strength of each individual sensor to adaptively combine both sensors' measurements and dynamically mix them based on the actual relative geometries between the sensors and objects of interest. In some cases the objects are adversarial targets and other times they are assets.
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公开(公告)号:US20210376832A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-02
申请号:US16888035
申请日:2020-05-29
Inventor: Jason H. Branch , Karl P. Herb , Danny L. Plemons
IPC: H03K19/173 , H03F3/04 , F41H11/02 , B64D7/00
Abstract: A sequencer for use with a countermeasure defense system includes an input signal indicative of firing an expendable, a circuit card that receives the input signal indicative of firing the expendable and an output analog signal from the circuit card that fires the expendable. The parameters of the output analog signal correspond to parameters of a digital waveform.
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公开(公告)号:US11184042B1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-23
申请号:US16992491
申请日:2020-08-13
Inventor: Allan M. Kabel
IPC: H04B1/10
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for partial band signal reconstruction. A partial band signal reconstruction circuit includes a zero generator, an analysis filter, and a synthesis filter. The zero generator is configured to generate a zero-value channel (i.e., a signal of all zeros). The analysis filter is configured to convert a wideband time-domain signal into K narrow-band channels, and to select at least R of the K frequency-domain subchannels for synthesis. The synthesis filter is configured to receive the at least R subchannels from the analysis filter and the zero or more zero-value channels from the zero generator and convert the at least R subchannels and the zero-value channels (a total of P channels) into a time-domain signal. The values of K and P are related by a constraint that constrains one or more parameters of the analysis filter and the synthesis filter.
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公开(公告)号:US11178314B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-16
申请号:US16210792
申请日:2018-12-05
Inventor: Derek T Robison , Brendan P. Cirillo
IPC: G02B19/00 , G02B27/01 , G06T5/00 , G06T5/50 , G06T7/62 , H04N5/217 , H04N5/33 , F41G1/01 , F41G1/02 , F41G1/36
Abstract: A system for suppressing sight blooming in an infrared sight includes determining an n×n grid size; creating a grid of n×n averages; calculating a mean; determining if a heat source is detected; detecting a heat source radius; calculating the average of the outside boxes; estimating the average of the inside boxes; setting the source to zero; smoothing the boxes; subtracting the mean of the outside from the mean of the inside; feeding back the result into history; up-sampling the offset; subtracting the offsets; and displaying the image.
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公开(公告)号:US11177848B1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-16
申请号:US17018299
申请日:2020-09-11
Inventor: Michael A. Zalucki , Tyler M. Hayslett
Abstract: Techniques are provided for signal detection based on the Gibbs phenomenon. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes transforming an input signal to the frequency domain and performing median filtering of amplitudes associated with frequency bins of the frequency domain transformed input signal. The median filtering is performed to attenuate longer duration or continuous signal components that may be present in the input signal. The method also includes identifying a sinc function main lobe in the median filtered signal, the sinc function associated with the Gibbs phenomenon. The method further includes detecting a discontinuity in the input signal based on the identified sinc function main lobe. The discontinuity is associated with a shorter duration signal component that is present in the input signal. Shorter duration signal components may include relatively narrow signal pulses and relatively fast rising or falling signal edges.
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公开(公告)号:US11175370B1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-16
申请号:US16884516
申请日:2020-05-27
Inventor: Richard Schiffmiller , Eleanna Georgiadis
IPC: G01S3/42
Abstract: Techniques are provided for emitter geolocation. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes measuring phase differences between radar signals received at one or more pairs of antennas. The method also includes calculating hypothesized phase differences based on ray tracings from hypothesized emitter locations at a first set of grid points, to the antennas. The method further includes generating scores based on correlations between the measured phase differences and the hypothesized phase differences. The method further includes generating an error ellipse based on candidate grid points associated with scores that are above a threshold. The process may be repeated on a second set of grid points, bounded by the error ellipse, to generate a second set of scores. The grid point, from the second set of grid points, that is associated with the highest of the second set of scores is selected as the estimated emitter geolocation.
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公开(公告)号:US11139573B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-05
申请号:US16758308
申请日:2017-10-30
Inventor: Gary A. Schay , John Cosenza , Michael S. Murphy
Abstract: An assembly comprising a horizontal GPS patch antenna element and a vertical IFF antenna element providing simultaneous high performance IFF communication and GPS reception with minimal IFF to GPS interference. The IFF element can be a monopole element. A second monopole co-linear with the IFF element can provide simultaneous UHF communication. In embodiments, the assembly is a blade that can replace an existing IFF blade on an aircraft or other asset. Separate IFF and GPS connectors can be provided, or a single connecter can be shared using an integral diplexer. Embodiments include a GPS preamplifier integral with the blade. In other embodiments, the IFF element is an annular slot transponder that is centered on the GPS patch element. System embodiments include bandpass filters and/or GPS blanking to further protect the GPS receiver from IFF transmissions.
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