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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2009
Gene D. Tener, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mark A. Goodnough, Santa Ynez, CA (US);
Jennifer K. Park, Winter Springs, FL (US);
David W. Borowski, Ocoee, FL (US);
Gene D. Tener, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mark A. Goodnough, Santa Ynez, CA (US);
Jennifer K. Park, Winter Springs, FL (US);
David W. Borowski, Ocoee, FL (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
An imaging solution that uses a small, adaptable, real-time, scalable, image-processing (SMARTS IP) chip configured to function like any one of a wide range of specialized FPA imaging devices, and a method for configuring and implementing same is provided. Configuration for a wide range of applications and implementations, including ones with or without IDCA assemblies or other types of dewar/cooler structures, is disclosed. A wide range of output data formats, including all SDI-compatible image data formats, may be accomplished. Frame stacking and variable effective resolution and charge well depth levels may be accomplished in output image data based on on-chip image processing techniques. On-chip image processing algorithms may include XR™, DRC, NUC, and other similar or related techniques. Image data output compression through on-chip processing is also disclosed.