Patent ID: 7463753

Claim:
A method of providing target handover from a missile launch system having an infrared (IR) imager that provides high resolution launch system video to a missile having a missile seeker with an IR imager that provides low resolution missile video, comprising: receiving missile video from the missile seeker's IR imager; receiving launch system video from the launch system's IR imager; performing a boresight correlation of the missile video to the launch system video to align the seeker's IR imager to the launch system's IR imager; performing non-uniformity compensation (NUC) on the missile video to compute NUC terms for the seeker's IR imager, said computed NUC terms not being applied to the missile video used in the performance of the boresight correlation; and handing over the alignment and NUC terms for the seeker's IR imager to the missile seeker.