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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1993
Samuel S Blackman, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert J Dempster, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A multiple hypothesis tracking system (10) which generates a substantially continuous output to a system user. The multiple hypothesis tracking system (10) generates a primary set of tracks (12) which best represents the expected number of targets of interest in a cluster. For multiple sensor applications, a secondary set of tracks is generated having a less probability than the tracks in the primary set. A knowledge of track data is maintained from one scan to a subsequent scan such that tracks can be merged and deleted (14). A universal track file (16) is generated in which track associations from one scan to a subsequent scan are correlated such that the output of the track file remains consistent with respect to the number of tracks.