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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gene L Cangiani, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Appasaheb N Madiwale, Andover, MA (US);
Assignee:
Lockheed Electronics Company, Plainfield, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364516 ; 342 77 ;
Abstract
Improved performance in an electro-optical tracker is achieved by incorporating range measurements. Further, the tracker uses a Kalman filter in which the target is modeled as the superposition of two Gaussian ellipsoids in space and projected onto an image plane.