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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2005
Christian C. Witt, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Dennis J. Yelton, Albuquerque, NM (US);
James C. Hansen, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Christopher J. Musial, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Christian C. Witt, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Dennis J. Yelton, Albuquerque, NM (US);
James C. Hansen, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Christopher J. Musial, Albuquerque, NM (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A hardware system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transportation system is provided. The hardware system includes a main processor in the hardware system that uses plural commands to manage a preprocessor module and a linker module, wherein the pre-processing module pre-processes a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system and reduces non-wire like clutter from the digital image and identifies pixels that can be classified as wire like; and the linker module links the identified pixels to determine if a wire like structure is present and a binary output from the linker module is sent to an output select module that allows a user to select a video output.