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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2009
Leonard Dean Vance, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kent P. Pflibsen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard Dean Vance, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kent P. Pflibsen, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
An imaging device includes a sensor to locate and track an object of interest; an imaging camera having a plurality of detectors juxtapositionally aligned to increase the field of regard of an image of interest and a plurality of corresponding illuminators, each illuminator co-aligned with the field of view of a corresponding detector; and a digital processor connected to the sensor to receive tracking signals indicative of the track of the object of interest and connected to the imaging camera to provide a control signal to the imaging camera to activate each one of the detectors when the object of interest is within the field of view of a detector.