CHALCOGENIDE LENS ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20220281194A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-08

    申请号:US17641085

    申请日:2020-09-08

    IPC分类号: B29D11/00 G02B13/14

    摘要: Chalcogenide lens elements and methods of manufacturing such lens elements are provided. In one example, a method includes depositing a first chalcogenide layer on a substrate. The method further includes applying a first stamp to the first chalcogenide layer. The method further includes reflowing, in response to applying the first stamp, the first chalcogenide layer to form a first shaped chalcogenide layer. The method may further include singulating the substrate and the first shaped chalcogenide layer to obtain a plurality of chalcogenide lens elements.

    Point cloud denoising systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11354779B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16911169

    申请日:2020-06-24

    IPC分类号: G06T5/00 G06T5/20

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed for point cloud denoising systems and methods. In one example, a method includes determining a respective local coordinate system for each point of a point cloud. The method further includes determining a respective first adaptive-shape neighborhood for each point of the point cloud based on each respective local coordinate system. The method further includes performing filtering associated with each respective first adaptive-shape neighborhood to obtain a respective second adaptive-shape neighborhood for each point of the point cloud. The method further includes determining local estimates for points inside each of the second adaptive-shape neighborhoods. The method further includes aggregating the local estimates for each point of the point cloud to obtain a denoised point cloud. Related devices and systems are also provided.

    MEMS cryocooler systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10927001B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-23

    申请号:US16691499

    申请日:2019-11-21

    发明人: Andreas Fiedler

    IPC分类号: B81B7/00 B81C1/00 H01L23/467

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods using microelectromechanical systems MEMS techniques to provide cryogenic and/or general cooling of a device or sensor system. In one embodiment, a system includes a compressor assembly and MEMS expander assembly in fluid communication with the compressor assembly via a gas transfer line configured to physically separate and thermally decouple the MEMS expander assembly from the compressor assembly. The MEMS expander assembly includes a plurality of expander cells each including a MEMS displacer, a cell regenerator, and an expansion volume disposed between the MEMS displacer and the cell regenerator, and the plurality of cell regenerators are configured to combine to form a contiguous shared regenerator for the MEMS expander assembly.

    Sonar user interface systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10754528B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15266994

    申请日:2016-09-15

    摘要: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide intuitive user interfaces for sonar systems attached to mobile structures. A sonar user interface system includes a logic device configured to communicate with one or more sonar controllers and/or sonar transducer assemblies and associated processing and control electronics and optionally orientation and/or position sensors disposed substantially within the sonar transducer assemblies. Each sonar controller and/or transducer assembly includes channels that can be operated together or independently. Configurations for each channel, transducer assembly, controller, and/or for the entire sonar system are rendered and displayed using a combination of graphical and textual indicators to allow intuitive selection and/or arrangement of system, controller, assembly, and/or channel configurations and to store configurations for recall. Resulting sonar data and/or imagery may be displayed and/or used to adjust various operational systems of the mobile structure.

    Rotation-adaptive video analytics camera and method

    公开(公告)号:US10735659B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-04

    申请号:US16115455

    申请日:2018-08-28

    摘要: Various embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may be used to provide a surveillance camera that generates native video image frames in the appropriate FOV (orientation) that corresponds to the orientation in which the surveillance camera is installed when the video image frames are captured. The surveillance cameras implemented in accordance with embodiments of the disclosure may facilitate installation that provides a desired FOV in a particular orientation, generate video image frames that natively correspond to the desired FOV, and allow user interaction and video analytics to be performed on the FOV-matched video image frames.

    Image processing using histograms

    公开(公告)号:US10706516B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15706369

    申请日:2017-09-15

    发明人: Stefan Schulte

    摘要: A system and method for comparing and searching for digital data, such as images, using histograms includes receiving a source image, receiving a comparison image, generating a first histogram for the source image and generating a second histogram for the comparison image. The source image may be received from a network device, such as a computer or camera, and the comparison image may one of a plurality of stored images in a database. The histograms may correspond to an image characteristic, including a color histogram corresponding to the distribution of the intensity of a corresponding color among image pixels in the source image. Each of first and second histograms is normalized and a similarity score is calculated between the two histograms. The similarity score represents a similarity measure between the two histograms, calculated from a subset of bins, which are independently selected for each image.