Patents by Inventor Stephen Charles Cain

Stephen Charles Cain 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).

  • Super resolution methods for electro-optical systems
    Patent number: 6483952
    Abstract: In an optical system having a detector means and processor means in which imaging data is obtained comprising noisy blurred scene data containing an object to be reconstructed, and noisy blurred background data of the same scene, a method for increasing the spatial resolution of the imaging data produced by the optical system, comprising the steps of converting the imaging data into a first matrix, regularizing the first matrix by performing nth order Tikhonov regularization to the first matrix to provide a regularized pseudo-inverse (RPI) matrix and applying the RPI matrix to the first matrix to provide a reconstructed image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald David Gregory, Peter Michael Mantica, Stephen Charles Cain, Douglas Lent Cohen, John Bourne Abbiss
  • Super resolution methods for electro-optical systems
    Publication number: 20010024534
    Abstract: In an optical system having a detector means and processor means in which imaging data is obtained comprising noisy blurred scene data containing an object to be reconstructed, and noisy blurred background data of the same scene, a method for increasing the spatial resolution of the imaging data produced by the optical system, comprising the steps of converting the imaging data into a first matrix, regularizing the first matrix by performing nth order Tikhonov regularization to the first matrix to provide a regularized pseudo-inverse (RPI) matrix and applying the RPI matrix to the first matrix to provide a reconstructed image of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Donald David Gregory, Peter Michael Mantica, Stephen Charles Cain, Douglas Lent Cohen, John Bourne Abbiss
  • Super resolution methods for electro-optical systems
    Patent number: 6295392
    Abstract: There is disclosed in an optical system having a predetermined Numerical aperture which provides a corresponding level of spatial resolution and having detector means and processor means in which image data is obtained comprising noisy blurred scene data containing an object to be reconstructed, and noisy blurred background data of the same scene, an improved method for increasing the spatial resolution of the imaging data produced by the diffraction limited optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald David Gregory, Peter Michael Mantica, Stephen Charles Cain, Douglas Lent Cohen, John Bourne Abbiss