Method to provide graphical representation of Sense Through The Wall (STTW) targets
US7339516B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 14, 2005 |
| Grant date | Mar 4, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 23, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S13/888
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method to present easily understood images that represent targets that are detected through walls or other opaque barriers is disclosed. This method is particularly well suited for sense-through-the-wall radar systems. One of the main challenges of evolving STTW systems is that the practitioners of the technology are generally presented with complicated images to represent the gain adjusted amplitude of signals that are detected by the radar. Interpretation of images from prior art, which can be in the form of the radar speckle, target blob, wiggle plot, and horizontal amplitude intensity displays, shown in FIGS. 1 through 3, requires high levels of skill, focus, and time. Naturally, the foregoing places military and law-enforcement customers of the technology at considerable risk during hostile missions. This invention discloses a method that converts a typical radar signal into an image that is easily understood by a practitioner of STTW technology. This invention improves prior art by employing any combination of radar data interpretation with any combination of video feed overlay, hologram, target silhouettes, lines, borders, colored target representations and the like to con…
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