Patents by Inventor Clifford Anger

Clifford Anger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optically multiplexed imaging system and methods of operation
    Patent number: 7884931
    Abstract: The invention describes an optical multiplexer for increasing optical data collection efficiency across at least two fields of view. The optical multiplexer includes a first optical path for operatively receiving optical data from a first field of view and at least one beam deflection system for operatively receiving optical data from at least a second field of view. The optical multiplexer also includes an optical train for focusing the optical data passing through the optical train onto adjacent sections of a focal plane array. The invention provides improvements including expanded across-track swaths, higher spatial resolution, imaging of real-time references on every frame, coincident imaging along separate paths, stereo imaging and other increases in imaging functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: ITRES Research Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Achal, Clifford Anger
  • Optically multiplexed imaging systems and methods of operation
    Publication number: 20080024871
    Abstract: The invention describes an optical multiplexer for increasing optical data collection efficiency across at least two fields of view. The optical multiplexer includes a first optical path for operatively receiving optical data from a first field of view and at least one beam deflection system for operatively receiving optical data from at least a second field of view. The optical multiplexer also includes an optical train for focusing the optical data from the above optical paths onto adjacent sections of a focal plane sensor array. In various embodiments, the invention enables expanded across-track swaths, higher spatial resolution, imaging of real-time references on every frame, coincident imaging along separate paths, stereo imaging and other improvements in imaging functionality. The invention further describes the application of optical multiplexing to an Offner-type spectrograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: ITRES Research Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Achal, Clifford Anger
  • Optically multiplexed imaging system and methods of operation
    Publication number: 20070274714
    Abstract: The invention describes an optical multiplexer for increasing optical data collection efficiency across at least two fields of view. The optical multiplexer includes a first optical path for operatively receiving optical data from a first field of view and at least one beam deflection system for operatively receiving optical data from at least a second field of view. The optical multiplexer also includes an optical train for focusing the optical data passing through the optical train onto adjacent sections of a focal plane array. The invention provides improvements including expanded across-track swaths, higher spatial resolution, imaging of real-time references on every frame, coincident imaging along separate paths, stereo imaging and other increases in imaging functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ITRES Research Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Achal, Clifford Anger