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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2009
William F. Walker, Barboursville, VA (US);
Drake A. Guenther, Annapolis, MD (US);
Kevin Owen, Crozet, VA (US);
William F. Walker, Barboursville, VA (US);
Drake A. Guenther, Annapolis, MD (US);
Kevin Owen, Crozet, VA (US);
University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and system components for optimizing contrast resolution of an imaging or sensing system utilizing multiple channels of broadband data associated with an array of transducers. Channels or data are filtered by passing the channels of data through finite impulse response (FIR) filters on each channel. The filters each have multiple taps having tap weights pre-calculated as a function of distance of the array from an object that energy is being transmitted to or reflected from. The weights are pre-computed through a deterministic equation based on an a priori system model.