System and method for passive wire detection

Details System and method for passive wire detection System and method for passive wire detection

2005-10-13

2008-12-16

lPrevil, Danie (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Aircraft alarm or indicating systems

C340S971000, C340S983000, C250S330000, C250S339110

Reexamination Certificate

active

07466243

ABSTRACT:
A hardware system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transportation system is provided. The hardware system includes a main processor in the hardware system that uses plural commands to manage a preprocessor module and a linker module, wherein the pre-processing module pre-processes a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system and reduces non-wire like clutter from the digital image and identifies pixels that can be classified as wire like; and the linker module links the identified pixels to determine if a wire like structure is present and a binary output from the linker module is sent to an output select module that allows a user to select a video output.

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