Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1996-04-19
2000-12-05
Stamber, Eric W.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
342351, 342 25, 342191, G01S 1389, G01S 1390
Patent
active
061557048
ABSTRACT:
A spinning strip aperture imaging radiometer sensor system and data processing method for synthesizing a super-resolved scene estimate (super-resolved scene) from a plurality of image frames acquired by the strip aperture imaging sensor system. One embodiment of the imaging system comprises a rotating strip aperture wide field of view telescope, a two dimensional detector array for detecting images in the focal plane of the telescope, rotation compensation apparatus for preventing rotational smear during the integration time of the detectors, a signal processor for recording a plurality of image frames of a scene that is imaged by the telescope as it rotates around its optical axis, and an estimation processor employing the present method for synthesizing the super-resolved scene estimate from the recorded images. The super-resolved image synthesis method uses a plurality of rotating strip aperture measurements within the strip aperture passband and within the passband of an equivalent bandlimited synthesized full circular aperture to estimate the spatial frequency information outside the total measurement passband, and/or outside the passband of the equivalent bandlimited synthesized full circular aperture, as well as within the equivalent bandlimited passband. Knowledge of the spatial response function of the strip aperture, the spatial response function of the detector array, noise statistics, and the temporal registrations of each of the recorded strip aperture images permits synthesis of the super-resolved full aperture image by the sensor system and image synthesis method. The super-resolved image synthesis method may be employed in the spatial domain, the spatial frequency domain, or both.
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Bisbee Albert M.
Hunt Bobby R.
Johnson Stephen K.
Montgomery James F.
Mount Susan B.
Alkov Leonard A.
Hughes Electronics
Lenzen, Jr. Glenn H.
Schubert William C.
Stamber Eric W.
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