Patent ID: 8538071

Claim:
An image processor comprising: a sensor for sensing and recording a single two-dimensional (2-D) image as 2-D image data, the 2-D image data comprising 2-D pixel locations and corresponding signal magnitudes, one of the signal magnitudes for each of the 2-D pixel locations; an automated target cueing component for identifying one or more regions of interest in the single 2-D image; a target separation component for separating the 2-D image data in the respective regions of interest; and an automated target recognition component for creating target information corresponding to the single 2-D image, wherein for each region of the regions of interest the target separation component is configured to compute an average signal magnitude as a weighted average of a minimum and a maximum of the respective signal magnitudes of the 2-D pixel locations of the 2-D image data within the region, to compare the average signal magnitude to the respective signal magnitudes of the 2-D image data within the region, and to distinguish the 2-D image data within the region based on the average signal magnitude.