Patents by Inventor Joseph R. Krycia

Joseph R. Krycia 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).

  • Active-radar-assisted passive composite imagery for aiding navigation or detecting threats
    Patent number: 8102306
    Abstract: Typical inventive practice provides for electronic communication of a computer with a display, an active radar device (for transmitting target-location data and environmental data), a light measurement device (for transmitting visual light data), and passive imaging devices covering bands in the visual, infrared (MWIR and/or LWIR), and millimeter wave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Inventive software in the computer's memory establishes “operational modes.” Each operational mode is defined at least by a predominant environmental (obscuration and lighting) character, ascribes “modal indices” to individual imaging devices, and carries its own multispectral image fusion algorithm (which, pursuant to the ascribed modal indices, attributes weights to the imaging data from the respective imaging devices).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jerry Rosson Smith, Jr., Joseph R. Krycia
  • ACTIVE-RADAR-ASSISTED PASSIVE COMPOSITE IMAGERY FOR AIDING NAVIGATION OR DETECTING THREATS
    Publication number: 20110279303
    Abstract: Typical inventive practice provides for electronic communication of a computer with a display, an active radar device (for transmitting target-location data and environmental data), a light measurement device (for transmitting visual light data), and passive imaging devices covering bands in the visual, infrared (MWIR and/or LWIR), and millimeter wave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Inventive software in the computer's memory establishes “operational modes.” Each operational mode is defined at least by a predominant environmental (obscuration and lighting) character, ascribes “modal indices” to individual imaging devices, and carries its own multispectral image fusion algorithm (which, pursuant to the ascribed modal indices, attributes weights to the imaging data from the respective imaging devices).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jerry Rosson Smith, JR., Joseph R. Krycia