US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle based threat detection and tracking with LWIR video" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,276, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Vehicle based threat detection and tracking with LWIR video" was invented by Eric M. Louchard (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product interacts with machine-readable mediums with instructions for automated target recognition. It captures a video of a specified region using detectors on a vehicle. Raw image frames from the video undergo pre-processing, followed by feeding through long and short-range target detection pipelines. Image frames are downscaled in the short-range pipeline, generat...