ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,403, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Spectral image relationship extraction" was invented by Leo Ho Chi Hui (Alhambra, Calif.) and Haig Francis Krikorian (Fullerton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time subpixel detection and classification is provided. The method comprises receiving input of a spectral library of targets, a multi-spectral image cube, and a list of background image samples. A candidate ground spatial distance (GSD) cell within the multi-spectral image cube is selected for spectral demixing. The spectrally demixed candidate GSD cell is compared against the spectral library...