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公开(公告)号:US20240230900A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18090974
申请日:2022-12-29
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11754692B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US16836000
申请日:2020-03-31
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert
CPC classification number: G01S7/499 , G01S7/4808 , G01S17/08 , G01S17/89 , G02B6/0056 , G02B27/4261 , G02F1/13362
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for determining a range to an object in a fluid. The system includes a polarized light source directed to the object in the fluid, a first imaging sensor, a second imaging sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor characterizes a depolarization rate of the fluid and determines the range to the object. The method includes generating polarized light via a polarized light source, polarizing an imager relative to the polarized light, transmitting the polarized light from the polarized light source into the fluid, receiving reflected light from the object, characterizing a depolarization rate of the fluid, based, at least in part, on the reflected light, and determining the range to the object, based, at least in part, on the depolarization rate of the fluid.
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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:US10931899B1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-23
申请号:US16717010
申请日:2019-12-17
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert
IPC: H04N5/357
Abstract: Systems and methods for computationally simulating and optimizing shearography systems are provided. The systems and methods for simulation and optimization avoid ray tracing, and, instead, implement a phase screen approach to image computation. The systems and methods include physics-based surface texture and surface motion simulations, the application of phase screens to computer-generated simulations of shearographic remote sensing, and the inclusion of de-polarization due to multiple scattering and birefringence at a surface being imaged. The systems and methods include further greatly optimize diffraction computations by treating an optical transfer function (OTF) of an arbitrary aperture as a sum of separable OTFs.
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公开(公告)号:US09818181B1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-14
申请号:US15217396
申请日:2016-07-22
Inventor: Andrew N. Acker , Michael L. Dichner , Michael J. DeWeert , Brian P. Farm , Tamara O'Toole , Clint Yoshimura
CPC classification number: G06T7/37 , G01B9/02087 , G01B9/02096 , G01V8/10 , G06T2207/10032 , G06T2207/20056 , G06T2207/30212
Abstract: A system and method are presented for generating shearograms from raw specklegram images which may, for example, be collected from airborne or other mobile shearography equipment. The system and method is used to detect and characterize buried mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and underground tunnels, bunkers, and other structures. Amongst other purposes, the system and method may also be used for rapid scanning of ship hulls and aircraft for hidden structural defects, rapid pipeline inspection, and non-contact acoustic sensing for in-water and underground sources.
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公开(公告)号:US20230003889A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17366225
申请日:2021-07-02
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert , Brian Chock , Jacob D. Garan , Reid A. Noguchi , Gary Sawai , Dugan C. Yoon
Abstract: An underwater imaging system is carried by a submersible platform to capture images that are processed into three-dimensional images stitched together to create a 3D dimensional video at video rate speeds that are transmitted to a control unit above the surface of the water. The imaging system utilizes a high speed image sensor or camera to capture sequential gated images that are synced via a gating module to two sequential laser beam pulses. The laser beam pulses illuminate an object in each gated image. When the object is within a gate overlap region, the two images may be processed using 3D imaging techniques to generate a 3D representation of the object in the overlap region of the two gates.
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公开(公告)号:US11187523B1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US16885739
申请日:2020-05-28
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert , Eric M. Louchard , Reid A. Noguchi , Dugan C. Yoon
Abstract: Systems and methods for three-dimensional (3D) shape estimation of objects embedded in light-scattering media via polarimetry are provided. The systems and methods utilize polarization to exploit forward scattering in the light-scattering medium to mitigate backscatter interference (BSI).
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公开(公告)号:US11069035B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US16717107
申请日:2019-12-17
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert
Abstract: Systems and methods for double-exposure image processing utilizing inversion techniques are provided. The systems and methods of the present disclosure recover single-exposure images from double-exposure images and strain images from double-exposure images.
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公开(公告)号:US09476700B2
公开(公告)日:2016-10-25
申请号:US14538444
申请日:2014-11-11
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert , Andrew N. Acker
CPC classification number: G01B11/162 , G01S17/88 , G01V1/226
Abstract: A shearography system and method provide advances allowing for rapid processing to produce shearograms which provide surface motion information which may be helpful in multiple fields. For instance, amongst virtually endless possibilities, the system and method may allow for detection of underground structures or ordnance and or be used in the medical field to provide non-contact sensing of a person's internal structures or movements.
Abstract translation: 剪切系统和方法提供了进步,允许快速处理产生剪切图,其提供可能在多个领域中有帮助的表面运动信息。 例如,在几乎无限的可能性中,系统和方法可以允许检测地下结构或弹药,并且可以在医疗领域中使用以提供对人的内部结构或运动的非接触感测。
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公开(公告)号:US09445115B2
公开(公告)日:2016-09-13
申请号:US14547485
申请日:2014-11-19
Inventor: Michael J. DeWeert , Brian P. Farm , Miles Topping
Abstract: A coded image system enables a user to recover an object scene from an encoded image. The coded the image system comprises: a physical object scene; an encoding logic creating an encoded image, the encoding logic including a programmable aperture mask spaced a distance away from the physical object scene to encode the encoded image via a doubly-Toeplitz matrix, the doubly-Toeplitz matrix including two one-dimensional vectors; and a decoding logic operatively coupled to the programmable aperture mask to decode the encoded image recovering a visual representation of the object scene from the encoded image.
Abstract translation: 编码图像系统使得用户能够从编码图像中恢复对象场景。 图像系统的编码包括:物理场景; 编码逻辑,其创建编码图像,所述编码逻辑包括与所述物理对象场景隔开一定距离的可编程孔径掩模,以经由双重Toeplitz矩阵对所述编码图像进行编码,所述双重Toeplitz矩阵包括两个一维向量; 以及解码逻辑,其可操作地耦合到所述可编程孔径掩模以解码所述编码图像,以从所述编码图像中恢复所述对象场景的视觉表示。
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