Patents by Inventor Thomas M. Cannon

Thomas M. Cannon 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).

  • Coded aperture imaging with uniformly redundant arrays
    Patent number: 4360797
    Abstract: A system utilizing uniformly redundant arrays to image non-focusable radiation. The uniformly redundant array is used in conjunction with a balanced correlation technique to provide a system with no artifacts such that virtually limitless signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with high transmission characteristics. Additionally, the array is mosaicked to reduce required detector size over conventional array detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Edward E. Fenimore, Thomas M. Cannon
  • Mosaic of coded aperture arrays
    Patent number: 4228420
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a mosaic of coded aperture arrays which is capable of imaging off-axis sources with minimum detector size. Mosaics of the basic array pattern create a circular on periodic correlation of the object on a section of the picture plane. This section consists of elements of the central basic pattern as well as elements from neighboring patterns and is a cyclic version of the basic pattern. Since all object points contribute a complete cyclic version of the basic pattern, a section of the picture, which is the size of the basic aperture pattern, contains all the information necessary to image the object with no artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: The United States Government as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Edward E. Fenimore, Thomas M. Cannon
  • Coded aperture imaging with uniformly redundant arrays
    Patent number: 4209780
    Abstract: A system utilizing uniformly redundant arrays to image non-focusable radiation. The uniformly redundant array is used in conjunction with a balanced correlation technique to provide a system with no artifacts such that virtually limitless signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with high transmission characteristics. Additionally, the array is mosaicked to reduce required detector size over conventional array detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Edward E. Fenimore, Thomas M. Cannon