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
OG exemplary drawing
 
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”.