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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2010
Applicant:
Peter Michael Thorne, Basildon, GB;
Inventor:
Peter Michael Thorne, Basildon, GB;
Assignee:
LEONARDO MW LTD, Basildon, Essex, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/02 (2006.01); G01S 3/784 (2006.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/784 (2013.01); H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/3742 (2013.01);
Abstract
An Infra Red detector system and method is disclosed that implements a digital coordinate generator onto a 2D focal plane array infrared detector. The method used in this form of the invention by the IR detector system, generates X-Y coordinate data for pixels containing detected target data. Advantageously, it reduces subsequent signal post processing required to generate the same data using numerical processing techniques in software and the latency that this introduces.