Patents by Inventor Miguel R. Zuniga

Miguel R. Zuniga 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).

  • Method and apparatus for tracking using an efficient gating scheme
    Patent number: 5162802
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing the calculations necessary to track a mber of targets. The invention trades off the magnitude of search radius in parameter space against the number of extra copies made of the track data structure in a manner that inherently saves computation as the number of targets becomes large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Miguel R. Zuniga, J. Michael Picone, Jeffrey K. Uhlmann
  • Efficient batched-report gating technique
    Patent number: 5144316
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a track data set corresponding to a plurality of objects. A system employing the invention receives reports, e.g. radar echoes, from the plurality of objects over a time interval, partitions the time interval into subintervals or time bins, and sorts the returns into the time bins. In each bin, the reports are very close to one another in time, so that, in correlating the reports in each bin to the tracks, one can use the reports to form the necessary search tree, rather than using the tracks. Doing so increases efficiency if the number of reports per time interval significantly exceeds the number of tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Uhlmann, Miguel R. Zuniga