Johns Hopkins University

Katherine T Souza

David A Kitchin

Joseph E Sluz

Juan C Juarez

David W Young

David M Brown

Hala J Tomey

Radha A Venkat

Ryan P DiNello-Fass

Ricardo Luna

Melissa E Jansen

An optical communications beacon receiver including a camera for capturing a plurality of beacon images. The plurality of beacon images includes a beacon signal transmitted from a beacon transmitter. The beacon receiver also including processing circuitry configured for determining the state of the beacon signal for each of the plurality of beacon images based on the known pattern, at least one beacon image of the plurality of beacon images includes a beacon on state and at least one beacon image of the plurality of beacon images includes a beacon off state, comparing the at least one beacon image including the beacon on state to the at least one beacon image including the beacon off state, and determining a beacon location based on the comparison of the at least one beacon image including the beacon on state to the at least one beacon image including the beacon off state.

Free space optical communication

Growing community of inventors

Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Katherine T Souza