Research/Patents/US 5138162
US 5138162Tier 3 — General Defense

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ENHANCED IMAGES OF CURVED THERMAL OBJECTS

Assignee

US Government

Filed as: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

Filed

Dec 16, 1988

Granted

Aug 11, 1992

Location

FALLS CHURCH VA US

Abstract

Curved thermal objects emit infrared energy with different ratios of ordiy-to-extraordinary polarizations compared to flat thermal objects. The invention takes advantage of this by taking the sum or difference of or between thermal images for two different polarization images of a scene. The curved objects are enhanced with respect to the remainder of the scene on a viewer.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Feb 1, 1989

Rescinded

Dec 27, 1991

Duration

2 years, 10 months

Inventor

  • 1MICHAEL HACSKAYLO

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