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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:
Mar. 26, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2021
Applicant:

Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Inventors:

Grant B. Boroughs, Southlake, TX (US);

John J. Coogan, Bedford, TX (US);

Lisa A. McCoy, Springfield, VA (US);

Assignee:

Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 10/58 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/182 (2022.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01); G06V 20/176 (2022.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); G06V 10/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/194 (2022.01);
Abstract

A fully-automated computer-implemented system and method for generating a road network map from a remote sensing (RS) image in which the classification accuracy is satisfactory combines moving vehicle detection with spectral classification to overcome the limitations of each. Moving vehicle detections from an RS image are used as seeds to extract and characterize image-specific spectral roadway signatures from the same RS image. The RS image is then searched and the signatures matched against the scene to grow a road network map. The entire process can be performed using the radiance measurements of the scene without having to perform the complicated geometric and atmospheric conversions, thus improving computational efficiency, the accuracy of moving vehicle detection (location, speed, heading) and ultimately classification accuracy.


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