Rca Inc.

Sri International

David R Patterson

Tao Zhao

Keith James Hanna

Harpreet Singh Sawhney

Rakesh Kumar

David Kalokitis

Manoj Aggarwal

Supun Samarasekera

Vincent Paragano

Aydin Arpa

Donald Jones Channin

Jeffrey P Viola

Stefan A Siegel

Thomas Germano

Joseph B Sergi, Jr

A sentient system combines detection, tracking, and immersive visualization of a cluttered and crowded environment, such as an office building, terminal, or other enclosed site using a network of stereo cameras. A guard monitors the site using a live 3D model, which is updated from different directions using the multiple video streams. As a person moves within the view of a camera, the system detects its motion and tracks the person's path, it hands off the track to the next camera when the person goes out of that camera's view. Multiple people can be tracked simultaneously both within and across cameras, with each track shown on a map display. The track system includes a track map browser that displays the tracks of all moving objects as well as a history of recent tracks and a video flashlight viewer that displays live immersive video of any person that is being tracked.

Method and apparatus for total situational awareness and monitoring

A unified approach, a fusion technique, a space-time constraint, a methodology, and system architecture are provided. The unified approach is to fuse the outputs of monocular and stereo video trackers, RFID and localization systems and biometric identification systems. The fusion technique is provided that is based on the transformation of the sensory information from heterogeneous sources into a common coordinate system with rigorous uncertainties analysis to account for various sensor noises and ambiguities. The space-time constraint is used to fuse different sensor using the location and velocity information. Advantages include the ability to continuously track multiple humans with their identities in a large area. The methodology is general so that other sensors can be incorporated into the system. The system architecture is provided for the underlying real-time processing of the sensors.

Method and apparatus for stereo, multi-camera tracking and RF and video track fusion

A fiber-optic communication system for data bursts includes a plurality of nodes, each including a laser diode transmitter. In order to reduce the noise floor of the system, each laser diode receives bias current only when it is transmitting data. Due to the propagation delay between nodes, there is a dead time between data bursts received by each node during which no data signals are received. The bias current of the laser diode is adjusted following each data transmission, so that the light attributable to laser operation during the setting of bias is received during the dead time. The adjustment is accomplished by stepping an up-down counter by one clock pulse following transmission of each data burst.

Laser bias current stabilization for burst mode fiber optic

In a system for transmitting two level data bursts on a fiber optic (FO) bus, a circuit for turning on a light emitting diode to an excitation level induced by a current I.sub.B corresponding to the knee of the diode characteristic curve and increasing the emitted light in response to a second increasing excitation current over a second portion of the curve beyond the knee extending from excitation level I.sub.B to excitation level I.sub.M. The circuit includes first logic for exciting the diode by the first current, a light responsive device for determining when the emitted light reaches the intensity represented by the knee of the curve and induced by I.sub.B, and logic for reproducibly storing I.sub.B. Second logic responds to the excitation of the diode to the knee of its curve to further excite the diode with the second excitation current until the diode emits a desired light intensity induced by I.sub.B +I.sub.M. Logic is provided for reproducibly storing a signal I.sub.M. Switching logic supplies the current I.sub.M to the diode in response to the data bursts and supplies I.sub. B to the diode substantially concurrently with the data bursts. In the absence of the data bursts the current level I.sub.B is reduced to substantially zero.

Switched bias scheme for high speed laser transmitter

Within a power supply circuit for a semiconductor laser, output current is maintained constant at each temperature level over an operating range and the magnitude of that constant current is varied directly with temperature to maintain the light output of the laser substantially constant over the operating temperature range. In the preferred embodiment, the negative temperature coefficient characteristic of the base-emitter junction voltage for bipolar transistors is utilized to compensate for the negative temperature coefficient characteristic of the light output from the semiconductor laser.

Temperature compensated bias circuit for semiconductor lasers

In an optical switching system having a transmitter and a receiver optically coupled together via a fiber optic light guide, the transmitter utilizes a piezoelectric device which provides an electrical signal to a light emitting device when a mechanical strain is imparted to the piezoelectric device. The light emitted by the light source is provided at the receiver via the fiber optic guide. The receiver generates a signal in response to the light received thereat via the fiber optic guide. This generated signal is used to control the power flowing to a load via a switching device so that, for example, one generated signal is used to turn on the switching device and the next succeeding generated signal is used to turn off the switching device.

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David R Patterson