- Patent Title: Method and system for scanning staring focal plane array imaging
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Application No.: US14178718Application Date: 2014-02-12
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Publication No.: US09664562B1Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Mark A. Goodnough , Jeffrey W. Scott
- Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MD Bethesda
- Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Bethesda
- Agency: Beusse Wolter Sanks & Maire, PLLC
- Agent Terry M. Sanks, Esq.
- Main IPC: G01J3/02
- IPC: G01J3/02 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; G02B23/00

Abstract:
A system includes a focal plane array (FPA), support structure, optical assembly, flexing structure, and drive actuator. The FPA includes multiple pixels. The FPA captures an image as image data during an integration time interval. The optical assembly is fixed to the support structure and forms an image of a scene at the FPA. The flexing structure is mechanically coupled to both the support structure and the FPA, and allows the FPA to move relative to the support structure. The actuator is mechanically coupled to the FPA, and drives the FPA to move relative to the support structure. Some FPA have all readout elements arranged in a first regular grid with constant spacing, while some detector elements are on that grid and other detector elements are on a different grid offset by less than the constant spacing to provide sub-pixel resolution.
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