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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:
Mar. 26, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
John E Davis, Claremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rockwell International Corporation, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250353 ; 250332 ; 250352 ; 359742 ;
Abstract
A staring sensor apparatus which includes an optics assembly for providing a panoramic field of view in which the field of view in one direction is considerably larger than the field of view in the direction perpendicular thereto. A two-dimensional focal plane assembly (FPA) collects and converts an incoming optical signal from the optics assembly to an electrical wave form which depicts the energy falling on each pixel of the FPA in a discrete unit of time. The resulting pixel outputs thus represent the energy emitted from specific calibratable around the optics assembly.