Patents by Inventor Roger S. Holcombe

Roger S. Holcombe 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).

  • Off-axis image correction with spaced photodetectors
    Patent number: 6281486
    Abstract: An optical device is positioned to receive an image and to deflect it into spatially separate portions onto the mutually spaced photosensitive surfaces of an array of staring array detectors. The optical device, which can be implemented with prisms or mirrors, directs the deflected light portions only onto the photosensitive portions of the array, avoiding non-photosensitive gaps between the photodetectors. The focal surface of the optical device may be nonplanar, and in that case the photosensitive portions of the array are positioned to lie at the nonplanar focal surface. The portions of the image received by the individual photodetectors combine to form the overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Roger S. Holcombe
  • Full image optical detector with spaced detector pixels
    Patent number: 5864132
    Abstract: An optical device is positioned to receive an image and to deflect it into separate portions onto the mutually spaced photosensitive surfaces of an array of staring array detectors (2a, 2b). The optical device, which can be implemented with prisms (14a, 14b) or mirrors (17a, 17b), directs the deflected light portions only onto the photosensitive portions of the array, avoiding non-photosensitive gaps (12) between the detectors. The portions of the image received by the detectors combine to form the overall image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Roger S. Holcombe