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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1986
Allan A Voigt, Anaheim, CA (US);
Scott K Gordon, Claremont, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
A rosette or co-rotating vector scanning seeker detector array providing improved data rate and scanned field coverage. Several discrete detector elements are formed in an array on the detector surface in a coplanar arrangement, each of the detector elements providing target information when the scan sweeps across it. The array may be in the form of circular spots arranged around a central circular detector element. In an alternative embodiment, the central detector element is omitted and the peripheral detector elements are arranged sufficiently close together to preclude the likelihood of a target path passing between adjacent detector elements without being detected. Detector elements in a single array may be of different sizes and shapes.