Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Super-resolution imaging radar
- Patent Title (中): 超分辨率成像雷达
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Application No.: US12723098Application Date: 2010-03-12
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Publication No.: US08184043B2Publication Date: 2012-05-22
- Inventor: Barbara A. Capron , Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli , Minas H. Tanielian
- Applicant: Barbara A. Capron , Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli , Minas H. Tanielian
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Vista IP Law Group LLP
- Agent Cynthia A. Dixon
- Main IPC: G01S13/00
- IPC: G01S13/00

Abstract:
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for a super-resolution imaging radar (SRIR). The SRIR employs a pulse signal generator that propagates bursts of radio frequency (RF) energy. Each burst contains a number of pulses. One pulse of each burst is an ancilla pulse, and the remaining pulses are propagated towards an object. An array bucket detector (ABD) collects pulses that are reflected from the object. Also, the ancilla pulses are propagated through a virtual lens. A virtual scanning detector detects the virtual ancilla electric field. A processor calculates a virtual ancilla electric field, which would be present at the scanning detector. Further, a coincidence circuit calculates a cross-time correlation function of the electric fields of the reflected pulses that are collected by the ABD and the virtual ancilla electric field. The coincidence circuit uses cross-time correlation function results to generate pixels of an image of the object.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110221630A1 SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING RADAR Public/Granted day:2011-09-15
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