Lee C May

US Patent:

20060221180, Oct 5, 2006

Filed:

Mar 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/308461

Inventors:

Timothy OSTROMEK - Garland TX, US
Joseph ESTRERA - Garland TX, US
Jeffrey SHORT - Garland TX, US
Lee MAY - Garland TX, US
Bruce HOODSWAIN - Garland TX, US
Timothy HOGAN - Garland TX, US

Assignee:

LITTON SYSTEMS, INC. - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

H04N 13/04
H04N 15/00
H04N 9/47

US Classification:

348053000

Abstract:

A user portable viewing device (D) includes a plurality of non-coaxially aligned sensors (and ) for sensing a scene (). A processing element (P) combines electronic images into a single electronic image. A display () displaying the combined electronic image is adaptable for mounting in an optical axis (A) including an eye () of the user (U) and an input end () of the first sensor 26 for direct view. In a second embodiment, a system for fusing images comprises sensors (and ) for generating sets of image data. An information processor (P) receives and samples the sets of image data to generate sample data for computing a fused image array. A display () receives the fused image array and displays a fused colorized image generated from the fused image array.