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Granted Patent B2
US 11,221,407 · App. 16/487,314 · Granted Jan 11, 2022

Flying body and program

Inventors: Noriyasu Inaba (Tokyo, JP); Satoru Ozawa (Tokyo, JP); Yohei Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP)
G01S13/9029G01S13/90G01S13/9027
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Patent No.
US 11,221,407
App. No.
16/487,314
Granted
Jan 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A flying body includes an observation data generation unit that generates observation data on the basis of radio waves received by a radar, an image generation unit that generates an image representing a monitoring space on the basis of the observation data generated by the observation data generation unit, and a detection unit that detects a detection target on the basis of the image generated by the image generation unit.

Claims (31)

1. A flying body comprising:

a synthetic aperture radar; and

a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to:

generate observation data on the basis of only radio waves received by the synthetic aperture radar;

generate an image representing a monitoring space on the basis of the generated observation data; and

detect a detection target on the basis of the generated image, wherein

the monitoring space includes a sea area, and

the detection target includes a vessel in the sea area.

2. The flying body according to claim 1 , wherein the FPGA detects the detection target through binarization of the generated image.

3. The flying body according to claim 1 , wherein the FPGA detects a target estimated to be the detection target, as the detection target, from candidates for the detection target in the monitoring space on the basis of a plurality of parameters stored in advance.

4. The flying body according to claim 1 , wherein

the FPGA trims a partial image representing a region of a predetermined shape centering on the position of the detection target from the generated image, and

generates the trimmed partial image as a transmission image.

5. The flying body according to claim 1 , wherein the FPGA calculates a position of the detection target and generates position information indicating the calculated position.

6. The flying body according to claim 1 , wherein the FPGA extracts a feature of the detection target.

7. A flying body comprising:

a synthetic aperture radar; and

a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to:

generate observation data on the basis of only radio waves received by the synthetic aperture radar;

perform range compression on the generated observation data; and

detect a detection target on the basis of a signal on which range compression is performed, wherein

the monitoring space includes a sea area, and

the detection target includes a vessel in the sea area.

8. A flying body comprising:

a synthetic aperture radar; and

a field programmable gate array (FPGA) configured to:

generate observation data on the basis of radio waves received by the synthetic aperture radar;

generate an image representing a monitoring space on the basis of the generated observation data; and

a detect a detection target on the basis of the generated image, wherein

the FPGA detects the detection target by comparing a base map with the generated image, and

the detection target includes at least one of a crustal movement and a local change of a ground surface in the monitoring space.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2019
From: INABA, NORIYASU; OZAWA, SATORU; SUGIMOTO, YOHEI
To: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
Reel/Frame 050105/0426 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-034122 · Feb 24, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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