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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:
Sep. 06, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory A Roberts, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Lawrence D Voelz, Irvine, CA (US);
Robert C Gardemal, Jr, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Loral Aerospace Corp., New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342159 ; 364517 ; 382 26 ;
Abstract
In a FLIR target detection system, true targets (52) are isolated from potential false target indications produced by background clutter through the use of a connectivity algorithm which attempts to find around each potential target (52) a closed path (65) of lower (or higher) intensity without exceeding a predetermined distance from the centroid (64) of the potential target. If the attempt is successful, the potential target (52) is a true target; if not, it is clutter.