Patents by Inventor Keith Pifko

Keith Pifko 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).

  • Adaptive automated synthetic aperture radar vessel detection method with false alarm mitigation
    Patent number: 8422738
    Abstract: A method involves adapting a vessel detection algorithm based upon received synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data and associated metadata, detecting one or more vessels within an image tile of the SAR image data by iteratively applying the adapted vessel detection algorithm to successive portions of the image tile, discarding a detected vessel if a false alarm is determined, extracting one or more features from the detected vessels that are not discarded, and generating one or more output products based upon the extracted features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John C. Stastny, Michael R. Hughes, Keith Pifko, Daniel Garcia, Bryan Bagnall, Heidi Buck