Patent ID: 7714989

Claim:
A laser tracking processor for integrating measured target-reflection signals for directional control, said processor comprising: an optical detector that receives the measured signals distributed among a plurality of guidance channels; an accumulator that sums the measured signals as a combined signal for all said channels; a correlator that temporally identifies event occurrence of a target-reflection pulse within said combined signal; a phase-lock loop that synchronizes said event occurrence with a clock reference as a pulse window; and an integrator array that superimposes the measured signals within said pulse window for each said channel to produce channel-specific integrated pulse signals; and a sum integrator that superimposes a temporal sequence of combined signals from said accumulator as sum integration signals; a noise comparator that determines whether said sum integrated signals exceed a noise threshold to set a detection satisfaction Condition; and a reset trigger that initializes said temporal sequence of said integrator array and said sum integrator in response to said detection satisfaction condition.