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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. 14, 2000
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chrysostomos L Nikias, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Vasilis Z Marmarelis, Irvine, CA (US);
Dae Cheol Shin, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Assignee:
MultiSpec Corporation, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ; G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 25 ; 342159 ; 342194 ; 342195 ; 367-7 ; 367 87 ; 367 88 ;
Abstract
Automatic focusing of radar or sonar imaging systems, for example, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) systems, is accomplished by using high order measurements, such as the quadruple product of the range compressed signal g(x). The phase error is estimated by a recursive or non-recursive algorithm from the phase of the quadruple product. The estimated phase error is applied to the range-compressed SAR or SAS image data which is then azimuth compressed to obtain the focused image data.