Radiant energy – Calibration or standardization methods
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-07
2006-11-07
Gabor, Otilia (Department: 2884)
Radiant energy
Calibration or standardization methods
C342S022000, C342S179000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07132649
ABSTRACT:
Unpredictable response variations of the output value signals from radiometer or receiver channels due to noise are minimized when composing a millimeter wave image. The image is composed from composition signals which are each related to the corresponding output value signals from the channels. Some composition signals are weighted by a weighting factor which is different from a weighting factor used for weighting other composition signals. Preferably, the reciprocal of the standard deviation of variations of the output value signals from each channel is used as the weighting factor for deriving the composition signals from the output value signals from that channel. The intensity of each pixel of the image is composed by adding the weighted composition signals associated with that pixel.
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