G01V5/22

Method and device for detecting concealed objects in microwave images

The present disclosure relates to a method and device for detecting concealed dangerous objects in microwave images. The method includes: simultaneously processes multiple adjacent microwave images, obtains edge images of a single image by using two methods for each image, obtains dangerous-object edges of the single image by edge fitting operation, obtains a rough dangerous-object contour by performing a registration operation and a second edge fitting operation on the dangerous-object edges of the multiple images, and performs a regional-binarization operation and a filtering on the rough dangerous-object contour to obtain a second dangerous-object area. The present disclosure has high detection accuracy and calculation efficiency.

Compact body scanner
10705244 · 2020-07-07 · ·

Imaging systems and methods are provided for detecting objects that may be hidden under clothing, ingested, inserted, or otherwise concealed on or in a person's body. An imaging assembly, e.g., X-ray source and X-ray detector, and mechanisms, e.g., a translational mechanism for vertically moving the imaging assembly, may be configured to reduce the overall form factor of such imaging systems, while still retaining an ability to perform full/complete imaging of a subject.

Compact body scanner
10705245 · 2020-07-07 · ·

Imaging systems and methods are provided for detecting objects that may be hidden under clothing, ingested, inserted, or otherwise concealed on or in a person's body. An imaging assembly, e.g., X-ray source and X-ray detector, and mechanisms, e.g., a translational mechanism for vertically moving the imaging assembly, may be configured to reduce the overall form factor of such imaging systems, while still retaining an ability to perform full/complete imaging of a subject.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE NON-INTRUSIVE INSPECTION OF VESSELS
20200200689 · 2020-06-25 ·

The present invention consists of a system and a method for a rapid, complete and nonintrusive inspection of vessels without their physical control.

The nonintrusive control method, in accordance with the invention, consists in the relative movement of a vessel, through two scanning frames, in a manner synchronized with the triggering of two penetrating radiation generators and the transmission of the signals generated by the detector matrix towards the subsystem for the acquisition, processing and display of data in order to form and display radiographic images from at least two different perspectives of the scanned vessel.

The scanning system, according to the invention, consists of a support-type mechanical structure, a control center, two scanning frames, two penetrating radiation sources, a vessel towing subsystem, a subsystem for vessel stabilization and a subsystem for the acquisition, processing and display of data.

X-RAY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD
20200200941 · 2020-06-25 ·

The present application discloses an X-ray detection system and method. The detection system includes: a beam source generator, first detectors, a second detector, a collimating device and a processor. The first detectors and the second detector are alternately arranged in a transmission direction of an object to be detected. The beam source generator emits a plurality of columns of beam signals, wherein each column of beam signals comprises a plurality of beam signals; the first detectors to receive a plurality of columns of transmitted beam signals passing through the object; the collimating device performs a specificity selection from a plurality of columns of scattered beam signals passing through the object; the second detector receives scattered beam signals selected by the collimating device; and the processor determines a detection result of the object according to the plurality of columns of transmitted beam signals and the selected scattered beam signals.

Mobile scanning inspection system

A mobile scanning inspection system, comprising a vehicle body and an inspection arm including a cross arm and a vertical arm, wherein a first inspection device and a second inspection device are provided on the cross arm; the first inspection device is on the side close to the vehicle body and it emits a first laser inspection plane parallel to the side plane of the vehicle body, and the length of the longest portion of the first laser inspection plane is longer than the length of the vehicle body; the second inspection device is provided on the side close to the vertical arm and it emits a second laser inspection plane parallel to the side plane of the vehicle body and the second laser inspection plane is centered on the vertical arm, and extends a first preset distance and a second preset distance forward and backward.

ADJUSTABLE MULTIFACET X-RAY SENSOR ARRAY
20200191983 · 2020-06-18 ·

Disclosed herein is a system for x-ray inspection. The system comprises an x-ray emitter. The system also comprises an x-ray sensor array comprising a first x-ray sensor, a second x-ray sensor adjacent the first x-ray sensor, and a coupler movably coupling the first x-ray sensor to the second x-ray sensor. The first x-ray sensor is movable into a plurality of orientations relative to the second x-ray sensor via the coupler. The system further comprises an imaging device to generate an inspection image based on information from the x-ray sensor array.

X-RAY SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Systems and methods are provided for scanning an item utilizing an X-ray scanner in order to facilitate a determination of whether the X-ray radiation penetrated through the entirety of the scanned item. Various embodiments comprise a conveying mechanism, an X-ray emitter, a detector, and an X-ray penetration grid (XPG). The XPG may comprise a radiopaque grid that may serve as a reference for determining whether radiation passes through the scanned item, the grid oriented such that the grid members are neither parallel nor perpendicular to the direction of travel. Such orientation may minimize or eliminate ghosted radiation signals included in a visual display of the radiation received by the detector. A scanned item may be oriented with the XPG such that radiation emitted by the X-ray emitter that passes through a portion of the scanned item must also pass through the XPG before being received by the detector.

SCANNING MODE APPLICATION OF NEUTRON GAMMA ANALYSIS FOR SOIL CARBON MAPPING

A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.

Object detection in full-height human X-ray images

Detecting hidden objects on a human body includes acquiring an incoming X-ray image of the human body passing through a penetrating X-ray scanner; generating additional images based on the incoming image by performing logarithmic or saliency transformations or contrasting of the incoming image; obtaining maps for all objects and known object classes, the maps show which pixels correspond to objects or to background, by passing the incoming and the additional images through a neural network with a deep Segnet-U-Net architecture optimized for overlapping object detection with long skip connections before each downsampling layer of the neural network; using the maps, identifying unknown objects in the incoming image by recognizing all objects/objects of known classes, excluding previously classified objects from the known classes from segmented non-anatomic areas; segmenting the incoming image of the human body into multiple parts; and identifying parts containing objects belonging to both the known and unknown classes.