Patents by Inventor Philip J. Sementilli

Philip J. Sementilli 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: 6155704
    Abstract: A spinning strip aperture imaging radiometer sensor system and data processing method for synthesizing a super-resolved scene estimate (super-resolved scene) from a plurality of image frames acquired by the strip aperture imaging sensor system. One embodiment of the imaging system comprises a rotating strip aperture wide field of view telescope, a two dimensional detector array for detecting images in the focal plane of the telescope, rotation compensation apparatus for preventing rotational smear during the integration time of the detectors, a signal processor for recording a plurality of image frames of a scene that is imaged by the telescope as it rotates around its optical axis, and an estimation processor employing the present method for synthesizing the super-resolved scene estimate from the recorded images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Bobby R. Hunt, Gerard L. Rafanelli, Philip J. Sementilli, Susan B. Mount, Albert M. Bisbee, James F. Montgomery, Stephen K. Johnson