Patents by Inventor Xuan HOU

Xuan HOU 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: 10521888
    Abstract: An aerothermal-radiation correction method, including: using a Gaussian surface to approximate a thermal radiation noise, performing a Fourier transform on the Gaussian surface so as to obtain a centralized spectrum of the thermal radiation noise, constructing a filter function H based on the centralized spectrum of the thermal radiation noise; performing a Fourier transform on the aerothermal-radiation degraded image f so as to obtain a centralized spectrum F, taking dot product of F and H to obtain a filtered spectrum G; and performing an inverse Fourier transform on filtered spectrum G to obtain a modulus, and acquire a corrected image. The method effectively removes background noise generated by aerothermal radiation, greatly improves image quality and image signal-to-noise ratio. The method features reduced computational complexity and a shorter operation time, and is suited for real-time processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang, Li Liu, Quan Chen, Ao Zhong, Mingxing Xu, Yutian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190220958
    Abstract: An aerothermal-radiation correction method, including: using a Gaussian surface to approximate a thermal radiation noise, performing a Fourier transform on the Gaussian surface so as to obtain a centralized spectrum of the thermal radiation noise, constructing a filter function H based on the centralized spectrum of the thermal radiation noise; performing a Fourier transform on the aerothermal-radiation degraded image f so as to obtain a centralized spectrum F, taking dot product of F and H to obtain a filtered spectrum G; and performing an inverse Fourier transform on filtered spectrum G to obtain a modulus, and acquire a corrected image. The method effectively removes background noise generated by aerothermal radiation, greatly improves image quality and image signal-to-noise ratio. The method features reduced computational complexity and a shorter operation time, and is suited for real-time processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Xuan HOU, Chuan ZHANG, Li LIU, Quan CHEN, Ao ZHONG, Mingxing XU, Yutian ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10297013
    Abstract: An aerodynamic optical effect correction and identification integrated real-time processing system, comprising an FPGA module, a multi-core main processor DSP, a plurality of auxiliary processors ASICs and an infrared image non-uniformity correction system-on-chip (SoC). By means of the system, full-image thermal radiation correction, denoising, transmission effect correction and target detection processes of an aerodynamic optical effect degradation image are achieved. Correspondingly, provided is the corresponding method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang, Li Liu, Quan Chen, Ao Zhong, Mingxing Xu, Yutian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20180350041
    Abstract: An aerothermal radiation effect frequency domain correction method, comprising: use a Gaussian surface to approximate a thermal radiation noise, perform a Fourier transform on the thermal radiation noise to obtain an amplitude spectrum, then normalize and segment the amplitude spectrum to obtain a filter thresholding template, BW, then use the filter thresholding template, BW, to construct a filter function, H; perform a Fourier transform on an image degraded by aerodynamic thermal radiation, f, to obtain a centralized frequency spectrum, F, then take the dot product of F and H to obtain a real-time image frequency spectrum, G; and perform an inverse Fourier transform on G to obtain a modulus, and acquire an image corrected for thermal radiation, g. Using the method effectively removes background noise generated by aerothermal radiation to restore a clear image, greatly improving image quality and image signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Xuan HOU, Chuan ZHANG, Li LIU, Quan CHEN, Ao ZHONG, Mingxing XU, Yutian ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10127641
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a contrast constrained aerothermal radiation correction method. By analyzing features of images at different intensities of aerothermal radiation, it has been discovered that the stronger the aerothermal radiation effect is, the smaller the image contrast becomes, and when thermal radiation correction is performed using a gradient fitting algorithm, it has been discovered that time consumption thereof grows exponentially with an increase in a degree of a fitting surface and with an increase in an image size. The present invention can rapidly and effectively restore an aerothermal radiation image, remarkably improving a signal to noise ratio and quality of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Xuan Hou, Li Liu, Quan Chen, Ao Zhong, Mingxing Xu, Yutian Zhou
  • Publication number: 20180293709
    Abstract: An aerodynamic optical effect correction and identification integrated real-time processing system, comprising an FPGA module, a multi-core main processor DSP, a plurality of auxiliary processors ASICs and an infrared image non-uniformity correction system-on-chip (SoC). By means of the system, full-image thermal radiation correction, denoising, transmission effect correction and target detection processes of an aerodynamic optical effect degradation image are achieved. Correspondingly, provided is the corresponding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Xuan HOU, Chuan ZHANG, Li LIU, Quan CHEN, Ao ZHONG, Mingxing XU, Yutian ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20180286017
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a contrast constrained aerothermal radiation correction method. By analyzing features of images at different intensities of aerothermal radiation, it has been discovered that the stronger the aerothermal radiation effect is, the smaller the image contrast becomes, and when thermal radiation correction is performed using a gradient fitting algorithm, it has been discovered that time consumption thereof grows exponentially with an increase in a degree of a fitting surface and with an increase in an image size. The present invention can rapidly and effectively restore an aerothermal radiation image, remarkably improving a signal to noise ratio and quality of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Chuan ZHANG, Xuan HOU, Li LIU, Quan CHEN, Ao ZHONG, Mingxing XU, Yutian ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9563939
    Abstract: A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Zheng Wang, Li He, Li Liu, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen
  • Publication number: 20160189349
    Abstract: A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Zheng WANG, Li HE, Li LIU, Xuan HOU, Chuan ZHANG, Sufei FAN, Yimeng CHEN