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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2019
Applicant:

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);

Inventors:

Andrew R. Moore, San Antonio, TX (US);

Omar D. Medjaouri, San Antonio, TX (US);

Joseph N. Mitchell, San Antonio, TX (US);

Trent Marshall Hejazi, San Antonio, TX (US);

Assignee:

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 13/0087 (2013.01); F41H 13/0056 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 7/185 (2013.01); H04N 7/188 (2013.01);
Abstract

A dazzling system has at least one strobe illuminator and multiple imaging optics, which may be of various types. All strobe illuminators are synchronized to each other and the imaging optics are synchronized to all strobe illuminators. The imaging optics may be in-phase or out-of-phase. Various embodiments are possible depending on the application, but in all applications the strobe illuminator(s) disrupt the vision of unauthorized persons while allowing users of the system to view a scenario.


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