Compact multi-sensor fusion system with shared aperture

US11392805B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Matthew A. Sinclair · Stoneham, US
• Adam Kelsey · Cambridge, US
• Paul Bohn · St. Petersburg, US
• Stephanie Lynne Golmon · Arlington, US
• Francis J. Rogomentich · Wilmington, US
• Juha-Pekka J. Laine · Boston, US
• Buddy Clemmer · Burlington, US
• David A. Landis · Palm Harbor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 2019
• Grant date: Jul 19, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 14, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/9327
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A potentially small, gimballed, multi-sensor system employs a shared aperture for at least some of the image sensors. Applications include intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR), and guiding autonomous vehicles. The system can actively blend images from multiple spectral bands for clarity and interpretability, provide remote identification of objects and material, provide anomaly detection, control lasers and opto-mechanics for image quality, and use shared aperture using folded optics.