Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system in a specific environment – Earth science
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-30
2011-08-30
Feliciano, Eliseo Ramos (Department: 2857)
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system in a specific environment
Earth science
C702S003000, C702S176000, C702S179000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08010289
ABSTRACT:
A lightning detector designed for aircraft carried applications provides for improved lightning discrimination and display. The instrument employs a relatively wide band receiver so as to retain the received waveform or digital replicas thereof. This allows more precise discrimination between desired lightning signals and noise. Signals are processed to provide for effective display of the available information. The display modes that are enabled by the signals include flash and cell mode as well as a combined flash and cell mode. The cell mode provides for generating and displaying a cumulative weight of lightning activity, giving each strike a regional effect as opposed to illustrating it as a point. Color is used to improve the user's grasp of the displayed information; the color illustrating increased intensity from the blue-green to the yellow-red. Flash mode shows locations of the different flashes within the range scale; this mode too may use color for a similar effect. Finally there is a combined flash and cell mode display.
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Gessner Matthew
Ryan Dean E.
Avidyne Corporation
Feliciano Eliseo Ramos
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
Suarez Felix E
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