| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348117000 | Aircraft or spacecraft | 12 |
| 20090009596 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF SYNCHRONOUS ACQUISITION OF PULSED SOURCE LIGHT IN PERFORMANCE OF MONITORING AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATION - A system for and a method of synchronous acquisition of pulsed source light performs monitoring of aircraft flight operation. Diode sources of illumination ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100302359 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication - Systems for improving unmanned aerial vehicle communication are presented. In a primary embodiment, a UAV transmits an encoded stream of video frames at a first bit-rate over a wireless air interface to a remote control station. The remote control station decodes and displays the video frames for a human user. Upon determining that the characteristics of the wireless air interface have changed, the UAV changes its codec configuration to transmit the encoded stream of video frames at a second bit-rate. The UAV and the ground control station may also use a prioritization scheme to prioritize command and control information and at least some types of video frames over other types of video frames and additional information. In this way, important communications are more likely to be received when the capacity of the wireless air interface is limited. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110169943 | Utilizing Polarization Differencing Method For Detect, Sense And Avoid Systems - A system, method and computer program product provides for avoiding collision between a vehicle and a target object. Pluralities of images from the target object are sensed. Pluralities of polarized images are generated from the sensed images. One or more composite images are calculated from the two or more polarized images by performing an algebraic manipulation between the two or more polarized images. The target object is tracked based on composite images. A set of evasive maneuver instructions are established for the respective hazard associated with the target object. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120075461 | GROUND-BASED VIDEOMETRICS GUIDING METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT LANDING OR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES RECOVERY - The present invention provides a ground-based camera surveying and guiding method for aircraft landing and unmanned aerial vechicle recovery based on the camera surveying technology, which is a ground-based camera surveying and guiding system mainly including several video cameras arranged near the landing areas of an aircraft or an unmanned aerial vechicle. During the approaching process of the aircraft or the unmanned aerial vechicle, the system performs imaging of the aircraft in real time and detects movement parameters such as the track, velocity, acceleration, attitude and the offset relative to the glide slope of the aircraft or the unmanned aerial vechicle in real time by analyzing images and applying camera surveying method and technology, so as to provide guidance for aircraft landing or unmanned aerial vechicle recovery. The method is an autonomic guiding survey without interferences from others, which has high accuracy and reliability. The hardware devices are mature, simple and have low cost. The devices are moveable and versatile, and can be used in aircraft landing aid, unmanned aerial vechicle recovery and the like. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120249775 | OPTICAL NAVIGATION ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR SPACE VEHICLES - The invention is for a sensor for use in spacecraft navigation and communication. The system has two articulated telescopes providing navigation information and orientation information as well providing communications capability. Each telescope contains a laser and compatible sensor for optical communications and ranging, and an imaging chip for imaging the star field and planets. The three optical functions share a common optical path. A frequency selective prism or mirror directs incoming laser light to the communications and ranging sensor. The Doppler shift or time-of-flight of laser light reflected from the target can be measured. The sensor can use the range and range rate measured from the incoming laser along with measurements from the imaging chip to determine the location and velocity of the spacecraft. The laser and laser receiver provide communications capability. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120314055 | LANE DEPARTURE PREVENTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD OF DISPLAYING A LANE BOUNDARY LINE AND PROGRAM - A lane departure prevention support apparatus comprises: imaging means for capturing an image of a lane boundary line which defines a traveling lane; vehicle position detecting means for recognizing the lane boundary line in a recognition area of captured image data to detect a host vehicle position within the traveling lane in a width direction; assisting means for performing driver assist using the recognition result of the lane boundary line; displaying means for displaying the recognition result of the lane boundary line; and recognition result display controlling means for displaying an unrecognized lane boundary line according to the host vehicle position, if one of left and right white lines is not recognized, wherein a display of the unrecognized lane boundary line is not such a display which indicates that the lane boundary line is not recognized. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130002855 | 3-D LUMINOUS PIXEL ARRAYS, 3-D LUMINOUS PIXEL ARRAY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING 3-D LUMINOUS PIXEL ARRAYS - A luminous pixel array includes a plurality of luminous flying vehicles configured to move in 3-dimensional space. A first luminous flying vehicle of the plurality of luminous flying vehicles corresponds to at least one pixel of the luminous pixel array. The first luminous flying vehicle is configured to radiate a first color and intensity of light. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20150022656 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING & PROCESSING AERIAL IMAGERY WITH ENHANCED 3D & NIR IMAGING CAPABILITY - A system for guided geospatial image capture, registration and 2D or 3D mosaicking, that employs automated imagery processing and cutting-edge airborne image mapping technologies for generation of geo-referenced Orthomosaics and Digital Elevation Models from aerial images obtained by UAVs and/or manned aircraft. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150314885 | Vision-Based Aircraft Landing Aid - The present invention discloses a vision-based aircraft landing aid. During landing, it acquires a sequence of raw runway images. The raw runway image is first corrected for the roll angle (γ). The altitude (A) can be calculated based on the runway width (W) and the properties related to both extended runway edges on the rotated (γ-rotated) runway images. Smart-phone is most suitable for vision-based landing aid. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150348264 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING ABSOLUTE MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN LINEAR ARRAY IMAGE SENSOR AND ATTITUDE CONTROL SENSOR - Provided is a method for estimating and calibrating an absolute misalignment between an attitude control sensor of a satellite or a flight vehicle imaging and transmitting ground images having high resolution and an imaging payload. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160125745 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A REGION OF INTEREST FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE BASED ON INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEM - A system for determining a region of interest for an imaging device based on instrument landing system (ILS) is provided herein. The system may include an imaging device attached to an aircraft; an ILS detector; a computer processor configured in to calculate in a line of sight between said aircraft and a planned touch down point, based on the received ILS signals; a touchdown positioning module executed by the computer processor and configured to calculate a position in a field of view (FOV) of said imaging device which represents the planned touchdown point, based on said line of sight; and a region of interest (ROI) module executed by the computer processor and configured to define a region of interest (ROI) of the imaging device based on said position in said FOV, wherein said computer processor is further configured to apply an image processing operation only to data within said ROI. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160156824 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
