Patent ID: 8184043

Claim:
A super-resolution imaging radar (SRIR), the SRIR comprising: a pulse signal generator, wherein the pulse signal generator propagates N number of bursts of radio frequency (RF) energy, wherein each burst contains M+1 single pulses, wherein one of the single pulses of each burst is an ancilla pulse, and the remaining M pulses of each burst are propagated towards an object of interest; an array bucket detector (ABD), wherein the ABD collects pulses that are reflected from the object; a virtual lens, wherein the ancilla pulses are propagated through the virtual lens; a virtual scanning detector, wherein the virtual scanning detector detects the virtual ancilla electric field; a processor, wherein the processor uses the ancilla pulses, virtual lens properties, and virtual scanning detector properties to calculate a virtual ancilla electric field, which would be present at the virtual scanning detector; and a coincidence circuit, wherein the coincidence circuit calculates a cross-time correlation function of the electric fields of the reflected pulses that are collected by the ABD and the virtual ancilla electric field, and wherein the coincidence circuit uses cross-time correlation function results to generate pixels of an image of the object.