Patent Document ID: 9846921
Application ID: 14500589
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A dynamic image masking system for providing a filtered autonomous remote sensing image through a dynamic image masking process, the system comprising: a remote sensing platform; an imaging system associated with the remote sensing platform, the imaging system comprising: an optical system comprising a camera or a sensor, that outputs raw image data obtained with the optical system; an image sensing system that receives the raw image data from the optical system, the image sensing system comprising a focal plane array subsystem; a multi-level security system associated with the imaging system; one or more image alteration locations located in the imaging system and the multi-level security system, wherein alteration of one or more images takes place via the dynamic image masking process; an optical blindness system located between the optical system and the image sensing system, the optical blindness system configured to output masked raw image data to a focal plane array of the focal plane array subsystem, wherein the optical blindness system controls an image alteration location located between the optical system and the image sensing system, the optical blindness system comprising a shutter control mechanical device to inhibit one or more pixels from collecting photons, or comprising a laser and micro-mirrors optical device to illuminate one or more pixels, causing blindness of the one or more pixels; and a computer system associated with the imaging system, the computer system comprising a gatekeeper algorithm configured to send gatekeeper commands to a plurality of controllers that control the one or more image alteration locations through the dynamic image masking process, the plurality of controllers comprising the optical blindness system, a pixel controller, a digitization controller, a digital flow controller, a control storage controller, and an analog signal controller, the gatekeeper algorithm configured to calculate where a pixel is coming from and to determine if the pixel is in an area for imaging.