US 7,320,271 B2 | ||
Syntactic landmine detector | ||
Kenneth J. Hintz, Fairfax Station, Va. (US) | ||
Assigned to George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc., Fairfax, Va. (US) | ||
Filed on Oct. 12, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/247,325. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/617076, filed on Oct. 12, 2004. | ||
Prior Publication US 2006/0087471 A1, Apr. 27, 2006 | ||
Int. Cl. F41H 11/12 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 89—1.13 [42/402] | 20 Claims |
1. A tangible computer-readable medium encoded with a landmine detection computer program, wherein execution of said “computer
program” by one or more processors causes said “one or more processors” to perform the steps of:
a) receiving a received signal from a ground penetrating RADAR, said “received signal” containing relative spatial information
locating impedance discontinuities;
b) processing said “received signal” to generate at least one spatial sequence characteristic of said “relative spatial information”;
and
c) associating at least one of said “at least one spatial sequence” with a landmine when said “at least one spatial sequence”
matches within a predetermined limit of at least one representation of a second spatial sequence, said second spatial sequence
indicative of at least one physical characteristic of said “landmine”.
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