US 12,106,506 B2
Imaging systems and related methods including radar imaging with moving arrays or moving targets
David M. Sheen, Richland, WA (US); Richard Trevor Clark, Richland, WA (US); Jonathan R. Tedeschi, Richland, WA (US); A. Mark Jones, West Richland, WA (US); and Thomas E. Hall, Kennewick, WA (US)
Assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA (US)
Filed by Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/837,779.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/829,531, filed on Apr. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0320731 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G01S 7/295 (2006.01); G01S 7/35 (2006.01); G01S 13/34 (2006.01); G01S 13/42 (2006.01); G01S 13/89 (2006.01); G01S 13/90 (2006.01); G06F 3/04815 (2022.01); G06T 7/292 (2017.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/70 (2017.01) [G01S 7/2955 (2013.01); G01S 7/352 (2013.01); G01S 7/354 (2013.01); G01S 13/34 (2013.01); G01S 13/426 (2013.01); G01S 13/89 (2013.01); G01S 13/90 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06T 7/292 (2017.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); G01S 7/356 (2021.05); G06T 2207/10044 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30208 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging system comprising:
an antenna array configured to emit electromagnetic energy towards a target and to receive electromagnetic energy reflected from the target at first and second moments in time;
a position capture system configured to generate position information indicative of locations of one of the antenna array or the target at the first and second moments in time, and wherein the one of the antenna array or the target moves between the first and second moments in time;
a transceiver configured to control the antenna array to emit the electromagnetic energy towards the target and to generate an output that is indicative of the electromagnetic energy received via the antenna array;
a data acquisition system coupled with the transceiver and configured to use the output from the transceiver to generate radar data; and
processing circuitry configured to process the position information and the radar data to generate image data of an image of the target.