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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2021
Applicant:
Live Earth Imaging Enterprises, L.l.c., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Inventor:
Franklin H. Williams, Jr., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
Live Earth Imaging Enterprises, L.L.C., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23232 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for Real-time Satellite Imaging System () are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention an imaging sensor () on a geostationary satellite having one or more co-collimated telescopes (). The telescopes () illuminate local planes () which are sparsely populated with focal plane arrays (). The focal plane arrays () record the entire observable Earth hemisphere at one time, at least once every ten seconds.