Patent ID: 9626588
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B64F,G01S,G05B,G06K

Claim:
1. An electro-optical method for detecting the presence of one or more laser beams pointed skyward comprising the steps of: providing a first apparatus for acquiring a first electronic image of a first scene or first region, the first apparatus comprising a first image detector camera configured to acquire an image of the first scene facing the first camera, and at least one communicably coupled digital image computing processors; acquiring the first electronic image of the first scene using the first image detector camera; modifying the first electronic image based on one or more image improvement parameters using the one or more communicably coupled digital image processors to generate a modified first image; and determining the existence or non-existence of a thin straight line within the modified first image to determine the presence of the one or more laser beams.