Patents by Inventor Andrea Magi

Andrea Magi 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).

  • Patent number: 9599436
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns an external vision and/or weapon aiming and firing system for a military land vehicle and/or a military aircraft and/or a military naval unit. The system comprises: a video capture device configured to capture a video stream of a scene outside the military land vehicle or the military aircraft or the military naval unit; an electronic control unit configured to insert an aiming reticle in the images of said video stream, thereby generating a corresponding output video stream; and a user interface configured to display the output video stream generated by the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is programmed to automatically change the color of the aiming reticle so as to maximize its contrast with respect to a predefined region of the images of the video stream centerd on said aiming reticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SELEX ES S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Magi, Nicola Pagliani
  • Patent number: 9384577
    Abstract: The invention regards an external vision and/or weapon aiming system for a military land vehicle and/or a military naval unit. The system comprises: two sensors configured to capture video streams of a same external scene, each in a respective spectral band; an electronic processing unit configured to insert a respective aiming reticle in the images of each captured video stream, thereby generating a corresponding pre-processed video stream, and to process the two pre-processed video streams; and a user interface configured to display a video stream received from the electronic processing unit. The system is characterized in that the electronic processing unit is configured to process the two pre-processed video streams by means of image enhancement and picture-in-picture functionalities, thereby generating first and second enhanced video streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SELEX ES S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Magi, Federico Natali
  • Publication number: 20160069645
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns an external vision and/or weapon aiming and firing system for a military land vehicle and/or a military aircraft and/or a military naval unit. The system comprises: a video capture device configured to capture a video stream of a scene outside the military land vehicle or the military aircraft or the military naval unit; an electronic control unit configured to insert an aiming reticle in the images of said video stream, thereby generating a corresponding output video stream; and a user interface configured to display the output video stream generated by the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is programmed to automatically change the colour of the aiming reticle so as to maximize its contrast with respect to a predefined region of the images of the video stream centred on said aiming reticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Andrea Magi, Nicola Pagliani
  • Publication number: 20150235400
    Abstract: The invention regards an external vision and/or weapon aiming system (1) for a military land vehicle and/or a military naval unit. The system comprises: two sensors (11, 12) configured to capture video streams of a same external scene, each in a respective spectral band; an electronic processing unit (13) configured to insert a respective aiming reticle in the images of each captured video stream, thereby generating a corresponding pre-processed video stream, and to process the two pre-processed video streams; and a user interface (14) configured to display a video stream received from the electronic processing unit (13). The system is characterized in that the electronic processing unit (13) is configured to process the two pre-processed video streams by means of image enhancement and picture-in-picture functionalities, thereby generating first and second enhanced video streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: SELEX ES S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Magi, Federico Natali
  • Patent number: 8757487
    Abstract: An embodiment of an optoelectronic apparatus for assisting an operator in determining the shooting attitude to give to a hand-held grenade launcher so as to strike a moving target including an electronic processing unit configured so as to: measure the pitch angle and the heading angle of the grenade launcher and the distance of the target when the grenade launcher is moved by the operator during the pointing of the moving target, determine position data indicative of the positions of the moving target, determine a future impact time of the grenade on the target on the basis of position data and of data indicative of the ballistics of the grenade, determine a shooting attitude of the target on the basis of the impact time, measure the pitch angle and heading angle indicating the attitude imparted to the grenade launcher by the operator, compute a pitch difference between the shooting pitch angle and the pitch angle measured and a heading difference between the shooting heading angle and the heading angle meas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Selex Galileo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Santini, Andrea Magi, Enrico Fossati
  • Publication number: 20130181047
    Abstract: An embodiment of an optoelectronic apparatus for assisting an operator in determining the shooting attitude to give to a hand-held grenade launcher so as to strike a moving target including an electronic processing unit configured so as to: measure the pitch angle and the heading angle of the grenade launcher and the distance of the target when the grenade launcher is moved by the operator during the pointing of the moving target, determine position data indicative of the positions of the moving target, determine a future impact time of the grenade on the target on the basis of position data and of data indicative of the ballistics of the grenade, determine a shooting attitude of the target on the basis of the impact time, measure the pitch angle and heading angle indicating the attitude imparted to the grenade launcher by the operator, compute a pitch difference between the shooting pitch angle and the pitch angle measured and a heading difference between the shooting heading angle and the heading angle meas
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: SELEX GALILEO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Santini, Andrea Magi, Enrico Fossati