The Boeing Company

Theboeing Company

Bentley Edwin Northon

Gary Alan Ray

Bradley James Mitchell

Ordie Dean Butterfield

Ronald N Murata

James Ridgeway Gillis

Robert Roland Keever

Jeffrey H Hunt

David Arthur Whelan

Jonathan Martin Saint Clair

Robert Paul Higgins

Glenn Scott Bushnell

David Christien Soreide

William D Sherman

Mitchell D Voth

Jonathan Kenji Brown

Stephen A Walls

Grant Joseph Atkinson

Jacklyn Ann Holmes

Bradley J Mitchell

A method and apparatus for shaping fuselage sections. A first fuselage section is held in a holding structure in a cradle in a cradle system. Force are applied to the first fuselage section with an actuator system to a portion of the first fuselage section such that a first current shape of the first fuselage section changes towards a first desired shape for the first fuselage section to join the first the fuselage section to a second fuselage section.

Cradle system for shaping fuselage sections

A method and apparatus comprising a group of passive sensor systems, an active sensor system, and a processor unit. The group of passive sensor systems is configured to generate first sensor information from light in an environment around the group of passive sensor systems. The active sensor system is configured to send signals, receive responses from the signals, and generate second sensor information from the responses. The processor unit is configured to control the active sensor system to send the signals in a direction toward an object using the first sensor information and generate information about the object using the second sensor information.

Object detection system for mobile platforms

A method and apparatus for frameless random-access image sensing. Instructions identifying a pixel detector in an array of pixel detectors and integration instructions for the pixel detector may be received by an image detector controller. Integration by the pixel detector may be controlled as defined by the integration instructions to generate pixel data by the pixel detector. The pixel data may be read from the pixel detector.

Frameless random-access image sensing

A method and apparatus for registering a first image having a first plurality of pixel values from a sensor having a plurality of pixels and a second image having a second plurality of pixel values of the plurality of pixels is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first image having a first plurality of pixel values and a second image having a second plurality of pixel values, grouping the first plurality of pixels according to a grid having a plurality of grid elements, each grid element having a plurality of pixels, determining a grid element displacement of the second image from the first image for each grid element of pixels, filtering the displacement of the second image from the first image to produce filtered valid grid element displacements and invalid grid element displacements, and determining a warping transform of each of the grid element displacements.

Method and apparatus for performing background image registration

A method of inspecting a wire contact includes determining, at a processor, a striation metric of a particular image of the wire contact. The particular image depicts an inspection hole in the wire contact. The method also includes comparing the striation metric to a wire-in-hole detection threshold and determining that a threshold number of visible wire strands are oriented along a particular axis in the inspection hole if the striation metric satisfies the wire-in-hole detection threshold.

Wire contact inspection

A wire inspection system is provided. The wire inspection system includes a mirror assembly including an odd number of sides arranged to form a pyramid structure configured to surround a wire segment, wherein a plurality of the sides include a mirror, a light source configured to illuminate the wire segment, and at least one camera configured to acquire a plurality of images of the wire segment that are reflected by the plurality of mirrors, wherein each image of the plurality of images shows a different side of the wire segment.

Systems and methods for automatically inspecting wire segments

A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for signal-to-noise enhancement. In one illustrative embodiment, a system is provided for signal-to-noise enhancement. The system includes a rank order filter and a comparator. The comparator receives an ordered set of data values from the rank order filter. A signal averager averages a subset of data values selected from the ordered set of data values by the comparator.

Method and apparatus for smart signal averaging

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Auburn, WA, United States of America

Bentley Edwin Northon