Remote operated selective target treatment system

{
  "publication_number": "US9754380B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Remote operated selective target treatment system",
  "abstract": "A remote operated selective target treatment system including a firing robot having a weapon and an optoelectronic sighting device, a central processing unit and a control screen displaying the prepared image of the target, and a control device. The central processing unit prepares the image intended for display, and includes an input module receiving digital images, an image analyzer receiving the image from the input module and detaching the target image from its environment, a modelling device modelling the contour of the image, a comparator connected to a library of silhouettes receiving the modelled image and checking it against the silhouettes, and an exclusion module receiving an image from the comparator and using a library of masks to apply a mask to the image and transmit the prepared image for display on screen.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A remote operated selective target treatment system, comprising: a firing robot having a weapon; an optoelectronic sighting device producing an image of a target; a control device for guiding the sighting device and controlling the weapon; a central processing unit controlling the operation of the optoelectronic sighting device and of the weapon; means for identifying a silhouette of an individual human target by comparing the silhouette with recorded silhouettes; a remote operated system including the central processing unit for preparing an image intended for display on a screen of a control module, comprising: an input module receiving an image from the optoelectronic sighting device; an image analyzer receiving an image from input module and detaching the image of the target individual from its environment to form a detached image; a modelling device receiving the detached image from the analyzer to model the contour of the detached image of an individual and obtain a modelled image; a comparator connected to a library of individual silhouettes receiving the modelled image and checking the modelled image against the individual silhouettes to select a selected silhouette corresponding to the modelled image; an exclusion module receiving a comparator image from the comparator, the comparator image including the selected silhouette; a library of exclusion masks to which the exclusion module has access to seek among the exclusion masks, a selected mask corresponding to the selected silhouette in the comparator image to overlay the selected mask over the selected silhouette in the comparator image to form an overlaid image and transmit the overlaid image to the processing device for display of the overlaid image on the screen, the overlaid image including only non-lethal parts of the individual human target which are not covered by the selected exclusion mask.",
    "2. The system of claim 1, wherein the input module transmits to the analyzer only a single image from the siting device when the analyzer has finished analyzing a number of images.",
    "3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a ringing module for assigning to the modelled image reference points for tracking a moving target.",
    "4. The system of claim 3, wherein the ringing module recycles a ringed image for comparison with a following modelled image in order to transfer the reference points to following modelled image.",
    "5. The system of claim 1, wherein in the overlaid image, the exclusion masks cover surfaces corresponding to a bust and head portion of the selected silhouette.",
    "6. The system of claim 1, wherein the exclusion masks exclude from processing a region of the individual human target delineated by a limit line in the overlaid image.",
    "7. The system of claim 1, wherein in the overlaid image, the non-lethal parts of the individual human target which are not covered by the selected exclusion mask include at least one of an upper limb and a lower limb of the individual human target."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "1. Field of the Invention\n\nThe present invention refers to a remote operated target processing system comprising a firing robot having a weapon and an optoelectronic sighting device producing an image of the target, a control device for directing the sighting device and controlling the weapon and a central processing unit managing the operation of the optoelectronic sighing device and the weapon.\n\n2. Description of the Related Art\n\nThere are many known target tracking and neutralisation systems, generally particularly complicated, based on the geo-localizing of a target whose coordinates are entered into a tracking system guiding the weapon towards the target or near it.\n\nA particularly simple and efficient remote operated target processing system is described in document FR 12 53 382, capable of neutralising the target after detecting it. The system includes a firing robot comprising a weapon associated with an optoelectric sighting part giving an image of the target, sensors detecting the relative position of the weapon, and actuators setting up the weapon and a central processing unit receiving instructions and signals from the sensors to generate the control signals of the actuators and weapon.\n\nThe present invention provides a particularly simple and flexibly implemented selective target processing system at a low cost for the investor and in terms of maintenance, offering efficient management of the lethality threshold in target processing.",
  "cpc": [
    "G06T 7/20",
    "B25J 11/002",
    "B25J 9/1697",
    "F41G 3/16",
    "F41G 3/165",
    "F41G 5/06",
    "G06F 16/5838",
    "G06F 17/30256",
    "G06K 9/00671",
    "G06T 2207/10016",
    "G06T 7/70",
    "G06V 20/20",
    "Y10S 901/09"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "B25J 11/00",
    "B25J 9/16",
    "F41G 3/16",
    "F41G 5/06",
    "G06F 17/30",
    "G06K 9/00",
    "G06T 7/20",
    "G06T 7/70"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Philippe A. Levilly"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2015-09-22",
  "publication_date": "2017-09-05",
  "grant_date": "2017-09-05",
  "priority_date": "2014-09-24",
  "application_number": "US-201514860900-A",
  "family_id": "52737152",
  "cited_by_count": 0,
  "citations": [
    "US20110181722A1",
    "US20140028856A1"
  ]
}