Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-25
2008-03-25
Beaulieu, Yonel (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
C701S200000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11106744
ABSTRACT:
An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. A preferred embodiment uses three telescopes with each of the three telescopes rigidly mounted with respect to each other and rigidly mounted on a movable platform such as a ship or airplane with each telescope being directed at a substantially different portion of sky. Telescope optics focuses, onto the pixel array of a sensor, H-band or K-band light from stars in the field of view of each telescope. The system also includes an inclinometer, an accurate timing device and a computer processor having access to cataloged infrared star charts.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2006/0085130 (2006-04-01), Belenkii et al.
patent: 2007/0038374 (2007-02-01), Belenkii et al.
Belenkii Mikhail
Brinkley Timothy
Bruns Donald G.
Rye Vincent A
Beaulieu Yonel
Ross John R
Trex Enterprises Corp.
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