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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Navico Holding As, Lysaker, NO;
Inventor:
Lindsay Lilburn, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
Navico Holding AS, Lysaker, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/93 (2006.01); G01S 13/90 (2006.01); G01S 7/04 (2006.01); G01S 7/12 (2006.01); G01S 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/9035 (2013.01); G01S 7/046 (2013.01); G01S 7/12 (2013.01); G01S 13/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A radar beam sharpening system for processing a radar video stream of echo return intensities, sampled in range and azimuth. The system uses a signal processor that is configured to apply beam sharpening to the radar video stream and which selectively varies the level of beam sharpening applied as a function of range and/or a land map generated from the radar video stream so as to generate an output selectively beam sharpened radar video stream.