Patents by Inventor Jonathon M Schuler

Jonathon M Schuler 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).

  • Algorithmic technique for increasing the spatial acuity of a focal plane array electro-optic imaging system
    Patent number: 7248751
    Abstract: A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and enhances images by collecting a video sequence, estimating motion associate with this sequence, assembling video frames into composite images, and applying image restoration to restore the composite image from pixel, lens blur, and alias distortion. The invention synthetically increases the pixel density of the focal plane array. Thus it reduces the necessary size of the projected blur circle or equivalently it reduces the minimum focal length requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jonathon M Schuler, Dean A Scribner, J Grant Howard