US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Oct. 20 for "Method of detecting and accounting for true motion of imagery subject to atmospheric turbulence" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,936, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Method of detecting and accounting for true motion of imagery subject to atmospheric turbulence" was invented by Richard Van Hook (Xenia, Ohio) and Russell Hardie (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the likelihood that a pixel in a video image sequence represents true motion in the image. Light from a scene is captured to yield an original image having a sequence of frames. A prototype image is created from the original image as a geometrically accurate...