CHAFF DISPENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPERATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240278914A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-22

    申请号:US18651197

    申请日:2024-04-30

    CPC classification number: B64D1/02

    Abstract: A chaff dispensing system that is provided on an aircraft and includes a container, a dispensing assembly, a controller, and a volume of chaff material. The container has a first end, a second end, and a chamber that extends between the first and second ends, and the second end defines an ejection port. The dispensing assembly is operably engaged to the container. The controller is electrically connected to the dispensing assembly. The volume of chaff material is disposed inside the chamber of the container. The volume of chaff material is dispensed by the dispensing assembly operably through the controller in metered volumes of chaff material. In addition, a first volume of chaff material may be metered at a first time and a second volume chaff material may be metered at a second time in which the second volume of chaff material is different than the first volume of chaff material.

    SPOTLIGHT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
    22.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240257322A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-01

    申请号:US18102872

    申请日:2023-01-30

    CPC classification number: G06T5/92

    Abstract: Systems and methods of image enhancement comprising: obtaining image data; analyzing the image data and gathering relevant statistics thereon, at least within a first region of interest and a second region of interest; using the gathered statistics corresponding to the first region of interest, configuring a first contrast enhancement module to perform contrast enhancement of at least a first portion of the image data; using the gathered statistics corresponding to the second region of interest, configuring a second contrast enhancement module to perform contrast enhancement of at least a second portion of the image data; and combining the contrast-enhanced image data to form a complete image

    AIRBORNE OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERWATER SOUND SOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20240230900A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18090974

    申请日:2022-12-29

    CPC classification number: G01S17/18 G01B11/162 G01S17/89

    Abstract: An interferometry system and method thereof detects movements of the surface of a body of water in response to acoustic waves generated from a sub-surface source interacting with the surface. Movements of the surface of the body of water are viewed over multiple interferometric images that can be pieced together to generate an interferometric movie or video. The interferometric movie or video depicts the movement of the acoustic wave propagating through the viewing area. Once the movement of the acoustic wave propagating through the viewing area is known, then back propagation techniques are employed to determine or triangulate the location of the sub-surface source that generated the acoustic wave.

    MAINTAINING ORIGINAL COLOR WHEN APPLYING SUPER RESOLUTION TO INDIVIDUAL BANDS

    公开(公告)号:US20240221113A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18149416

    申请日:2023-01-03

    Inventor: Bingcai Zhang

    CPC classification number: G06T3/4053 G06T3/4046

    Abstract: System and methods for generating super resolution images from geospatial images having any number of bands. A super resolution model, which uses deep convolution neural networks (DCNNs), is trained using individual image bands, a large crop size or tile size of 512×512 pixels, and a de-noise algorithm. Applying one or more algorithms to maintain the original color of the image bands improves the quality metrics of the super resolution images as measured by PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) and SSIM (structural similarity index measure) of super resolution images. Further applying one or more algorithms to remove border effects introduced during the disclosed process reduces and/or eliminates seam lines between tiles and enhances the overall accuracy of the super resolution images.

    BALLISTIC GUIDANCE SYSTEM
    27.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240200903A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18080052

    申请日:2022-12-13

    Inventor: Paul D. Zemany

    CPC classification number: F41G7/34 F42B10/64 F41G7/346

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for guiding a projectile. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes generating a roll command based on a roll angle obtained from a steering map that causes a change in range and cross range of the projectile that results in a ground motion closest to a desired ground motion. The method also includes calculating a remaining maximum maneuver distance for the projectile, over a time period extending from the current time of flight to the end of flight. The calculation is based on integration a series of maximum maneuvers, obtained from the steering map, at time intervals within the time period. The method further includes generating a lift command for the projectile based on: distance between the target location and an impact point prediction (IPP) calculated at the current time of flight; an error estimate of the IPP; and the remaining maximum maneuver distance.

    METHOD OF PRODUCING LARGE GaAs AND GaP INFRARED WINDOWS

    公开(公告)号:US20240183065A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18073228

    申请日:2022-12-01

    CPC classification number: C30B25/186 C30B29/42 C30B29/44 C30B31/06 C30B33/06

    Abstract: A method of growing large GaAs or GaP IR window slabs by HVPE, and in embodiments by LP-HVPE, includes obtaining a plurality of thin, single crystal, epitaxial-quality GaAs or GaP wafers, cleaving the wafers into tiles having ultra-flat, atomically smooth, substantially perpendicular edges, and then butting the tiles together to form an HVPE substrate larger than 4 inches for GaP, and larger than 8 inches or even 12 inches for GaAs. Subsequent HVPE growth causes the individual tiles to fuse by optical bonding into a large “tiled” single crystal wafer, while any defects nucleated at the tile boundaries are healed, causing the tiles to merge with themselves and with the slab with no physical boundaries, and no degradation in optical quality. A dopant such as Si can be added to the epitaxial gases during the final HVPE growth stage to produce EMI shielded GaAs windows.

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