Patents by Inventor Michael T. Mulford

Michael T. Mulford 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).

  • Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data compression
    Patent number: 7411540
    Abstract: A method of compressing phase history (PH) data includes (a) dividing PH data into multiple sub-apertures; (b) transforming the sub-apertures into multiple coarse resolution images; and (c) compressing each of the coarse resolution images. Compressing each of the coarse resolution images may include (i) selecting at least one image from the coarse resolution images to form a base image, (ii) differencing each of the coarse resolution images from the base image to form residual images, and (iii) quantizing the residual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Norman A. Lopez, Michael T. Mulford