Generating Images According To Points Of Intersection For Integer Multiples Of A Sample-Time Distance

A system comprising logic encoded in one or more computer-executable storage media and when executed operable to:

• obtain a plurality of samples of a plurality of signals from a plurality of transmitter-receiver pairs, a transmitter-receiver pair configured to transmit a signal and receive the signal reflected by an object;
• and
• determine a plurality of intersection points, an intersection point indicating an intersection for a plurality of integer multiples of a sample-time distance;
• select a subset of samples corresponding to the intersection points;
• and
• generate image data from the selected subset of samples, the image data used to generate an image of the object.

A system comprising logic encoded in one or more computer-executable storage media and when executed operable to:

• obtain a plurality of samples of a plurality of signals from a plurality of transmitter-receiver pairs, a transmitter-receiver pair configured to transmit a signal and receive the signal reflected by an object, the plurality of transmitter-receiver pairs comprising a plurality of sets of three transmitter-receiver pairs;
• calculate a plurality of intersection points by:
• for each transmitter-receiver pair, establishing a plurality of round-trip ellipsoids;
• and
• calculating the intersection points from a plurality of intersections of the plurality of round-trip ellipsoids;
• determine the intersection points, an intersection point indicating an intersection for a plurality of integer multiples of a sample-time distance, by:
• determining a set of intersection points for each set of three transmitter-receiver pairs;
• select a subset of samples corresponding to the intersection points;
• and
• generate image data from the selected subset of samples, the image data used to generate an image of the object, by:
• obtaining a plurality of values from the selected samples;
• accessing one or more lookup tables that map an intersection point to a corresponding image unit;
• and
• mapping the values to a plurality of image units of the image.