Spatial bandwidth imaging of structural interiors

• US 8,064,737 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2008
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Herrick Technology Laboratories, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Herrick Technology Laboratories, Inc.
• Inventors: Herrick, David L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassa; Yosef
• Application Number:
  US12/046,847
• Publication Number:
  US 20080317277A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,350 Days
• Field of Search: 382/291, 382/295, 382/312
• US Class Current: 382/312
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/888 through wall detection
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/904 SAR modes

Abstract

Spatial bandwidth imaging of the interior spaces and elements of a structure by transmission of low frequency, continuous-wave, narrow band signal or signals through the structure, measurement of the electric and magnetic components of the received signal received by narrow band Doppler or focused synthetic aperture methods over a range of signal paths extending from the transmitter and through the structure, and imaging of the effects of the interior space on the electric and magnetic components of the received signal.

Claims

1. A method for imaging the interior elements of a structure, comprising the steps of:

transmitting a narrow band signal through the structure,

receiving the narrow band signal through a narrow band receiver over a range of signal paths extending from the transmitter and through the structure, and

imaging the interior elements of the structure according to the effects of the interior elements on the electric and magnetic field components of the received signal over the range of signal paths.

2. The method for imaging the interior elements of a structure, wherein:

the electric and magnetic components of the received signal are measured by one of Doppler and focused synthetic aperture methods.