Patent ID: 7961550

Claim:
A method of processing gunshot information to determine correlation of acoustic impulses with associated gunshots in a gunshot sequence, the method comprising: transforming, by one or more computer processing components, initial acoustic gunshot signals detected by one or more sensors into a set of discrete pulse data structures characterized by one or more pulse parameters; dividing the discrete pulses into subsets including a likely bullet pulses subset and a likely muzzle pulses subset, wherein the discrete pulses are divided into subsets as a function of one or more pulse characteristics; generating, for the subsets, time domain representations of the pulses, wherein the time domain representations include waveforms derived so as to provide a synthesized representation of the acoustic impulses; and performing a pattern matching process that includes processing the time domain representations to determine alignment between synthesized representations of the acoustic impulses; determining which acoustic impulses are associated with which shot in the gunshot sequence via the pattern matching process.