Patents Assigned to Ofil, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8781158
    Abstract: A UVB-visible hybrid system and method for visualizing a scene comprising one of more terrestrial corona discharge(s) and one or more objects is disclosed. On the UVB channel, an object-devoid UVB image of at least a portion of the scene is generated using UVB light which passes though a corona-peak tuned optical filter configured to filter out sufficient non-terrestrial-corona light so that the generated UVB image is object-devoid. The object-devoid UVB image is analyzed to classify pixels thereof as corona-discharge pixels or non-corona-discharge pixels. When a derivative of the object-devoid UVB image superposed with a visible-band image of the scene is displayed on a display device, the pixels classified as corona-discharge are displayed at increased visibility, while the pixels classified as corona-discharge are displayed at decreased visibility. In some embodiments, the optical filter has an average optical density over the [290 nm, 700 nm] spectrum of at least 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Ofil, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eran Frisch, Odelya Koslovsky, Reuel Haavrahami