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US 2022/0187827 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Noninvasive Aerial Detection of Impermissible Objects
OwnerHatch Graham, Ehsan Afshari +2inventors
InventorsHatch Graham, Ehsan Afshari, Karl Triebes, Ryan Kearny
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Abstract
An apparatus comprises an aerial drone with a coherent radar system on a chip that operates in the terahertz range, the chip being in physical contact with the drone and configured to conduct a noninvasive scan of a target in a line of site field of view of the drone.
Claims19
Apparatus comprising:
- an aerial drone;
- a coherent radar system on a chip that operates in the terahertz range, the chip being in physical contact with the drone and configured to conduct a noninvasive scan of a target in a line of site field of view of the drone.
A method comprising:
- sending a signal to move a drone to a desired location, the drone including a coherent radar system on a chip that operates in the terahertz range;
- receiving optical data from an optical camera in physical contact with the drone;
- sending instructions to the drone, based on the received optical data, to position the drone to scan a target within a desired location;
- sending instructions to the drone to initiate the scan of the target;
- receiving data from the drone based on the scan;
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- formulating a plan of action based on the received data.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a processor, instructions to move to an aerial location at an orientation appropriate for scanning a target with a coherent radar system on a chip that operates in the terahertz range;
- receiving, at the processor, instructions to scan the target with the radar system;
- scanning the target with the radar system to create a terahertz scanning data set configured to be used to determine whether a previously defined object is present;
- sending the terahertz scanning data set to a processor to determine whether the previously defined object is present.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.