L-3 Insight Technology Incorporated

Insight Technology, Inc.

L-3 Communications Insight Technology Incorporated

Joseph C Ottney

Matthew W Reed

Sheldon Schwartz, Ii

Andrew D Russell

Roger T Hohenberger

A fusion night vision system corrects for parallax error by comparing an image from a first sensor with an image from a second sensor.

Fusion night vision system with parallax correction

A fusion night vision system having image intensification and thermal imaging capabilities includes an edge detection filter circuit to aid in acquiring and identifying targets. An outline of the thermal image is generated and combined with the image intensification image without obscuration of the image intensification image. The fusion night vision system may also include a parallax compensation circuit to overcome parallax problems as a result of the image intensification channel being spaced from the thermal channel. The fusion night vision system may also include a control circuit configured to maintain a perceived brightness through an eyepiece over a mix of image intensification information and thermal information. The fusion night vision system may incorporate a targeting mode that allows an operator to acquire a target without having the scene saturated by a laser pointer. The night vision system may also include a detector, an image combiner for forming a fused image from the detector and a display, and a camera aligned with image combiner for recording scene information processed by the first detector.

Fusion night vision system

A clip-on infrared imager may be coupled and decoupled to an existing night vision system to add infrared imaging to provide a fused image through at least one of the night vision system eyepieces.

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Joseph C Ottney