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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Dmitriy V. Korchev, Irvine, CA (US);
Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/35 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/354 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and target detector for detecting targets. A number of bright pixels are identified in an image. Each of the number of bright pixels belongs to a line detected in the image in which the line represents a candidate for a target. A number of feature vectors are identified for the number of bright pixels in the image. Each of the number of feature vectors is classified as one of a target vector representing the target and a clutter vector representing clutter.