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US 8,340,345 B2Granted
Thermal and short wavelength infrared identification systems
AssigneeCejay Engineering, LLC
InventorsDerek Haynes, Stuart M. Jenkins, Michael P. Thomas
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for preventing fratricide including an emitter that emits a signaling code at a wavelength, the signaling code representing a coded message; a receiver that captures an image of a field of view including the emitter and generates image information corresponding to the captured image; a translation system that: receives the image information, and decodes the coded message from the image information; and a output device that outputs the decoded message.
Claims20
An antifratricide system comprising:
- an emitter that emits a signaling code at a wavelength, the signaling code representing a coded message;
- a receiver that captures an image of a field of view including the emitter and generates image information corresponding to the captured image;
- a translation system comprising:
- a look-up database including signaling code translation values and corresponding alphanumeric characters;
- a processor coupled to the look-up database;
- and
- a decoder module operated by the processor, the decoder module
- receiving the image information,
- detecting the signaling code in the image information, and
- decoding the coded message from the image information, wherein decoding the coded message includes:
- comparing the detected signaling code to the signaling code translation values in the look-up database,
- determining whether the detected signaling code matches one or more of the signaling code translation values to generate a code match,
- determining the alphanumeric character associated with the code match to decode the coded message, and
- storing the decoded message;
- and
- an output device that outputs the decoded message to a user,
- wherein the translation system analyzes the image information to determine the wavelength of electromagnetic energy generated by the emitter, and
- wherein the decoder module decodes the coded message only if the determined wavelength corresponds to a predetermined wavelength.
15 more elements
A method for preventing fratricide, the method comprising:
- emitting a signaling code from a source of electromagnetic energy at a wavelength, the signaling code representing a coded message;
- capturing an image of a field of view including the source of electromagnetic energy;
- generating image information from the captured image;
- detecting the signaling code in the image information;
- analyzing the image information to decode the coded message, wherein the analyzing the image information to detect the signaling code comprises:
- storing signaling code translation values and corresponding alphanumeric characters in a look-up database;
- comparing the detected signaling code to the signaling code translation values in the look-up database;
- determining whether the detected signaling code matches one or more of the signaling code translation values to generate a code match;
- determining whether the wavelength of the source of electromagnetic energy corresponds to a predetermined wavelength;
- determining the alphanumeric character associated with the code match to decode the coded message, wherein the coded message is only decoded if the wavelength of the source of electromagnetic energy corresponds to the predetermined wavelength;
- and
- storing the decoded message;
- and
- presenting the decoded message to a user.
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A computer-implemented translation system comprising:
- a look-up database including signaling code translation values and corresponding alphanumeric characters;
- and
- a processor that operates a decoder module including instructions for performing a method, the method comprising:
- detecting a signaling code in image information corresponding to an image of a field of view
- comparing the detected signaling code to the signaling code translation values in the look-up database,
- determining whether the detected signaling code matches one or more of the signaling code translation values to generate a code match,
- analyzing the image information to determine a wavelength of electromagnetic energy generated by an emitter;
- decoding the coded message by determining the alphanumeric character associated with the code match only if the determined wavelength corresponds to a predetermined wavelength;
- and
- storing the decoded message.
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An antifratricide system comprising:
- a receiver that:
- captures an image of a field of view including an emitter transmitting a coded message, and
- generates image information corresponding to the captured image;
- a translation system that receives the image information, and
- decodes the coded message from the image information, the translation system comprising:
- a look-up database including signaling code translation values and corresponding alphanumeric characters;
- a processor coupled to the look-up database;
- and
- a decoder module operated by the processor, the decoder module
- comparing the coded message to the signaling code translation values in the look-up database,
- determining whether the coded message matches one or more of the signaling code translation values to generate a code match,
- determining the alphanumeric character associated with the code match to decode the coded message, and
- storing the decoded message
- an output device that presents the decoded message to a user,
- wherein the translation system analyzes the image information to determine the wavelength of electromagnetic energy generated by the emitter, and
- wherein the decoder module decodes the coded message only if the determined wavelength corresponds to a predetermined wavelength.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.