High-Fidelity Image Tool: Graphical User Interface Driven Application that Contains Image Processing Algorithms for Emphasizing Fine Detail and for Highlighting Regions of Interest

This application is an imagery exploitation software package that contains algorithms for revealing fine structural details of images that can emphasize regions of interest. The software produces an image that can resemble a line drawing (similar to street maps) by emphasizing linear structural features in scenery like buildings and roads. Having access to better resolution of large areas of interest can be useful for military officials, medical specialists, and environmental and civil engineers, allowing better situational awareness before strategic plans are implemented.

High-fidelity Quantum Logic Operations Using Linear Optical Elements

Many mathematical problems of practical importance cannot be solved on conventional computers because it would take years of computing time. Such problems include various kinds of optimization problems and calculations related to cryptography. A quantum computer can perform a huge number of different calculations at the same time on a single processor, thereby solving many of these problems efficiently. Other kinds of problems, such as optimizing a process or searching through a large database, would more directly benefit the average person.

Scientists at JHU/APL are developing a practical quantum computer and have conceived methods to generate single photons on demand, to store them in a computer memory device, and to do logic operations such as addition and subtraction.

Tree Fork

Before a tree is harvested its density is measured by analyzing core samples, a piece of the tree the size of a drinking straw, in a laboratory. Trees that have not reached proper maturity are left for later harvest. The Tree Fork is designed to measure the density of trees on site, prior to harvest. The viscoelastic properties that indicate density are quickly determined through a simple, reliable procedure that is harmless to the trees.

Small Width-Length Ratio Radiation Tolerant Field Effect Transistor

This layout technique for creating dense, radiation-tolerant, metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors with small width-to-length aspect ratios results in analog transistors with a compact geometry. The geometry improves radiation tolerance, which is especially useful in today’s space-based applications.

Sample Retrieval Device for Environmental Aerosol Collection Used in Conjunction with a Field-Portable Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

A novel way to safely collect remote samples for analysis using a helicopter-type device.

This smart clothing was developed for the modern warfighter. It includes an integrated laminate for storing and delivering energy to various electronic devices and sensors. Communications systems, including infrared ports and antenna, are also incorporated into the clothing.

The invention is a controller for a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor system and a method for detecting mass deposition on a QCM sensor. QCM sensors are used to spot small mass changes in various applications such as semiconductor processing and chemical contamination detection. The controller is assembled using innovative techniques that make it smaller and thus easier to transport, easier to incorporate into existing facilities and less expensive to construct and operate.