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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. 23, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1997
Mikio L Yujiri, Torrancee, CA (US);
Merit M Shoucri, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A radiometric data acquisition and display system is provided. The system has a detector assembly with a boom. A radiometer is connected at an end of the boom. The radiometer has a sensor head including an antenna horn to acquire radiometric data from an area of interest. A rangefinder is constructed and arranged to provide location data indicative of a position of the sensor head, and a data processor is connected to receive the location data from the rangefinder and the radiometric data from the radiometer. The data processor includes signal processing circuitry and a display connected to the computer. A method of acquiring and displaying a radiometric image of an object is also provided. The method has the steps of: randomly sweeping a radiometer detector over an area of interest; detecting an object in a portion of the area of interest; sweeping the radiometer detector over the object to acquire radiometric image data; processing the data to construct an image from the radiometric image data; and displaying the image. In an embodiment, the method distributes the radiometric data over an antenna pattern to construct an image using the location data.