An apparatus to improve a situational awareness of a pilot or driver controlling a vehicle using a control appliance. The control appliance includes a display for depicting surroundings of the vehicle, and the vehicle includes a missile warner and a sensor for fine tracking (FTS) configured to provide high-resolution images for a tracking of an approaching missile detected by the missile warner. The apparatus also includes a control unit, configured to couple a directable line-of-sight of the FTS with the display, and to employ the high-resolution images of the FTS to improve the depiction of the surroundings of the vehicle on the display.

A camera is arranged on a transmitter or receiver mount configured to provide a transmitter or receiver with a field of regard. Image data of the field of regard is captured by the camera. A location of an obscuration within the field of regard from the image data is determined from the image data. A map of obscurations within the field of regard is generated based upon the image data and the location of the obscuration within the field of regard.

A camera is arranged on a transmitter or receiver mount configured to provide a transmitter or receiver with a field of regard. Image data of the field of regard is captured by the camera. A location of an obscuration within the field of regard from the image data is determined from the image data. A map of obscurations within the field of regard is generated based upon the image data and the location of the obscuration within the field of regard.

A laser scanning sensor includes a distance data acquisition unit which acquires distance information in each measurement direction, and a memory which stores, as background distance information, a distance of an outer periphery of the detection area in each measurement direction. The sensor also includes a mirror surface determination unit which determines the presence of a reflecting surface when the distance information in continuous measurement directions is greater by at least a predetermined distance than the corresponding background distance information, and when this state changes thereafter by at least a predetermined rate in a predetermined time, a human body determination unit which extracts a portion of the distance information that may correspond to a human body and determines whether it corresponds to a human body, and an alarm output control unit which outputs an alarm signal when the presence of the reflecting surface or the human body is confirmed.

A laser scanning sensor includes a distance data acquisition unit which acquires distance information in each measurement direction, and a memory which stores, as background distance information, a distance of an outer periphery of the detection area in each measurement direction. The sensor also includes a mirror surface determination unit which determines the presence of a reflecting surface when the distance information in continuous measurement directions is greater by at least a predetermined distance than the corresponding background distance information, and when this state changes thereafter by at least a predetermined rate in a predetermined time, a human body determination unit which extracts a portion of the distance information that may correspond to a human body and determines whether it corresponds to a human body, and an alarm output control unit which outputs an alarm signal when the presence of the reflecting surface or the human body is confirmed.

An optoelectronic sensor for detecting an object in a monitored zone having at least one light source for transmitting transmitted light, a light receiver having a reception optics arranged upstream for generating received signals from light beams remitted at the object, and a control and evaluation unit for acquiring information on the object from the received signals has a beam splitter arrangement arranged downstream of the light source for splitting the transmitted light into a plurality of transmitted light beams separated from one another, wherein the beam splitter arrangement includes a plurality of switchable beam splitters for splitting the transmitted light.

An optoelectronic sensor for detecting an object in a monitored zone having at least one light source for transmitting transmitted light, a light receiver having a reception optics arranged upstream for generating received signals from light beams remitted at the object, and a control and evaluation unit for acquiring information on the object from the received signals has a beam splitter arrangement arranged downstream of the light source for splitting the transmitted light into a plurality of transmitted light beams separated from one another, wherein the beam splitter arrangement includes a plurality of switchable beam splitters for splitting the transmitted light.

An autonomous vehicle having a lidar sensor system is described. A computing system is configured to determine that the lidar sensor system is to update a code that is included in light signals emitted by the lidar sensor system. The computing system transmits a command signal to the lidar sensor system, wherein the command signal causes the lidar sensor system to transition from emitting light signals with a first code therein to emitting light signals with a second code therein, wherein the first code is different from the second code.

An autonomous vehicle having a lidar sensor system is described. A computing system is configured to determine that the lidar sensor system is to update a code that is included in light signals emitted by the lidar sensor system. The computing system transmits a command signal to the lidar sensor system, wherein the command signal causes the lidar sensor system to transition from emitting light signals with a first code therein to emitting light signals with a second code therein, wherein the first code is different from the second code.

A passive altimeter system comprising an angle between a point and a central boresight that is determined from distortion parameters of a lens in an infrared sensor in a countermeasure system on a mobile platform wherein the infrared sensor captures a first image for determining a distance between the platform and one of (i) a ground surface and (ii) a target, and the passive altimeter system further comprising a dimensional distance between two points in the first image that is determined from a secondary source external to the countermeasure system, and a processor to triangulate the distance between the platform and one of (i) the ground surface and (ii) the target based on the dimensional distance and the angle.