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Method and apparatus for the extraction and compression of surveillance information to facilitate high performance data fusion in distributed sensor systems

  • US 7,005,981 B1
  • Filed: 05/25/2004
  • Issued: 02/28/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a surveillance system comprising a master processing system and one or more sensor systems, said sensor systems being distributed throughout a surveillance area and in communications with the master processing system, a surveillance method comprising the steps of:

  • at the master processing system;

    receiving data streams from the sensor systems;

    analyzing the received data streams to determine characteristics of a target situated within the surveillance area; and

    repeating the above receiving and analyzing steps; and

    at the sensor systems;

    collecting sensor specific stimulus (data);

    pre-processing the collected data;

    applying a matched extraction/compression scheme to the pre-processed data; and

    transmitting the extracted/compressed data to the master processing system.

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