917 results about "Camouflage" patented technology

Ammunition, such as shotshells used in waterfowl hunting, have indicia applied to substantially all of the external surface to reduce glare normally a problem in conventional ammunition. The indicia, such as a camouflage pattern, is applied either through the use of inkjet printing directly on the shotshell surface or through the application of a heat transfer sleeve to which the indicia has been previously applied. The process of applying the camouflage pattern may be incorporated into the manufacture of the ammunition or may be operable as a standalone process used for pre-manufactured ammunition.

The invention is a portable, collapsible enclosure for protection from the elements in an outdoor environment. The tent-like enclosure is provided with one or more fabric coverings each bearing at least one color or camouflage pattern. The coverings are easily removable from the enclosure, and may be reversible, bearing one color or camouflage pattern on one side, and a different color or camouflage pattern on the reverse side. In this fashion, the same portable enclosure can be made to present a variety of appearances, depending on which covering is attached to the enclosure, and which side of the attached covering is exposed or outermost.

A combination of a latent-image pattern which forms a latent-image part and a background pattern that forms a background-image part is determined so that the latent-image part and background-image part have equal print densities. The determined latent-image pattern and background pattern, color information used to determine a color of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, input image information as an image to be processed, copy-forgery-inhibited pattern basic information used to designate the latent-image part and background-image part, and camouflage region designation-image information used to designate a camouflage region are input. A copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is generated on the basis of the input information.

A method and apparatus for high-resolution 3D imaging ladar system which can penetrate foliage and camouflage to sample fragments of concealed surfaces of interest is disclosed. Samples collected while the ladar moves can be integrated into a coherent object shape. In one embodiment, a system and method for automatic data-driven registration of ladar frames, comprises a coarse search stage, a pairwise fine registration stage using an iterated closest points algorithm, and a multi-view registration strategy. After alignment and aggregation, it is often difficult for human observers to find, assess and recognize objects from a point cloud display. Basic display manipulations, surface fitting techniques, and clutter suppression to enhance visual exploitation of 3D imaging ladar data may be utilized.

A one piece protective garment to be worn by children or adults while playing paintball has padding sewn into it at spots where injury is anticipated due to collision with other players and obstacles. There are also a belted waist, a collar, central zipper, and adjustable safety closures on the sleeves, pant legs, and ankles for adjusting the garment's fit. A removable padded bib covers the chest for extra protection. Mesh-like material on the armpits and chest ventilates the player to avoid overheating. Accessible compartments store accessories specific to the game of paintball. The garment's material is a camouflage design, or dark color, in order for the user to blend into the landscape and effectively hide from other players. The material is also water resistant and strong enough to resist normal wear and tear. A quilted pattern is aesthetically pleasing and increases the material's strength.

An outsole construction having an integral display layer. The outsole includes a main body and a plurality of lugs extending from the main body to define a plurality of ground engaging elements. The display layer is disposed at the surface of the main body such that it is visible in the main body of the outsole and is spaced away from the surface of the lugs such that it is not visible on the surface of the lugs. The display layer may include a printed pattern, such as a camouflage pattern. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing an outsole including the general steps of (a) providing a mold defining a main body and a plurality of lugs extending from the main body, (b) placing a permeable display layer in the mold and (c) injecting sole material into the mold. In this method, the permeability of the display layer and/or the viscosity of the sole material may be selected so that the display layer lies along the surface of the main body of the sole but not the surface of the lugs.

A security core supports a networked banking app for a client application device communicating with a server, such as e.g. a smartphone. It provides a secure environment for the banking app to conduct registration, enrollment, and transaction workflows with corresponding back-end servers on the network. It includes defenses against static analysis, attempts at reverse engineering, and real-time transaction fraud. A principal defense employed is obfuscation of the protocols, APIs, algorithms, and program code. It actively detects, thwarts, misdirects, and reports reverse engineering attempts and malware activity it senses. A routing obfuscator is configured to operate at the outer layer. Previous core designs are retained as camouflage. An internal TLS library is used rather than the OS TLS layer. Cookies are managed internally in the core rather than in the webkit-browser layer.

The invention discloses a novel infrared and radar integrated stealth fabric and a preparation method thereof. The stealth fabric comprises an infrared camouflage surface layer and an antistatic bottom layer in turn from outside to inside; the infrared camouflage surface layer comprises an infrared stealth layer, a fabric layer and a radar wave absorption attenuation layer in turn from outside toinside; the infrared stealth layer is compounded by using a coating coated by an infrared stealth coating and a magnetron sputtering ITO (indium tin oxide) film arranged on the surface of the coating; the radar wave absorption attenuation layer comprises a sponge body; and a wave absorption material is adsorbed on the sponge body. The stealth fabric can realize radar stealth function and infraredstealth function at the same time, has good integral wave absorption effect and low surface density of materials, and has good effects on the aspects of breaking strength, bursting strength and the like. Moreover, excessive complex processes are not adopted for manufacturing the stealth fabric, and the stealth fabric can be produced by using a conventional fabric production method, so the stealthfabric is convenient for production and easy for implementation.

The present invention is directed to unique flocked pile fabrics and methods for producing such fabrics. The fabrics provided according to one embodiment of the invention include an embossed pattern, characterized by a plurality of elongated depressions in the surface of the pile fabric, and a superimposed printed pattern, characterized by a scene or illustration including a plurality of visual features having elongated shapes. The inventive embossed, printed pile fabrics, having a superimposed embossed and printed pattern, advantageously superimpose the embossed pattern and the printed pattern upon the pile fabric so that the embossed pattern imparts a three-dimensional texture to the scene or illustration or pattern comprising the printed pattern. The texture provided by the embossed pattern can impart a visual effect to the scene or illustration which can render it more realistic than a similar scene or illustration printed upon a conventional unembossed pile fabric. In one embodiment, this unique texturing effect is accomplished by substantially aligning the longitudinal axes of the elongate features of the printed pattern and the elongate features of the embossed pattern. The pile fabric provided by the invention can be produced by utilizing a plurality of embossing and printing techniques. In one embodiment, the embossing technique comprises air embossing, and the printing technique comprises paper transfer printing utilizing a paper transfer sheet. The fabrics provided by the invention are especially useful as camouflage fabrics. Such fabrics typically include a printed scene or illustration representing a sylvan setting dominated by visual features such as trees, branches, bushes, leaves, flowers, berries, grass, rocks, moss, etc.

The invention discloses a self-adaptation camouflage design method based on a background. According to the method, on the basis of a texture synthesis algorithm based on pixels, a whole camouflage image is synthesized pixel by pixel; in the synthesis process, a self coding algorithm is adopted to extract a texture primitive containing background sample complete texture features, and a neighborhood of the pixels to be synthesized is determined; by means of the neighboring correlation principle and a helix supplement search mechanism, a neighborhood matched with a target pixel neighborhood is searched for in a background sample; similarity matching is carried out through a pixel and texture similarity matching rule, pixels in the neighborhoods which are most similar in the sample are selected to serve as synthesis pixels, pixels of a target image are synthesized according to the sequence of scanning lines, and after synthesis, color quantization is carried out on the image by means of the clustering algorithm to generate a final camouflage image. By means of the method, similar camouflage images can be synthesized quickly according to the background, and the application aim of quickly camouflaging a target in a self-adaptation mode can be achieved.

Sintered, translucent ceramic microbeads, preferably alumina, titania, zirconia, yttria, zirconium phosphate, or yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) are doped with one or more optically active species. The beads may be added to substances such as explosives in order to create a distinctive optical signature that identifies a manufacturer, lot number, etc. in the event of the need for forensic analysis. Because the beads have a generally spherical surface, the radius of curvature provides an additional distinguishing characteristic by which a particular sample may be identified. The beads could also be formulated into paints if needed to create distinctive optical signatures for camouflage, decoys, or other countermeasures and could also be applied as a dust to track the movement of personnel, vehicles, etc.

The invention discloses a radar wave stealth coating with good radar wave-absorbing performance, light mass and thermal insulation function, and a production method thereof. The coating comprises a film-forming substance, an absorbent, an external additive and a solvent. The coating is characterized in that the radar wave absorbent is hollow microspheres covered with magnetic conductive metal films. The coating absorbent has good performance, light mass and good thermal insulation. The components by weight percentage comprise the following: 16.25 to 74.40 percent of film forming substance, 25.60 to 83.80 percent of absorbent, 1 to 20 percent of additive, and 10 to 150 percent of solvent. The coating is applied to the field of radar wave absorption, for example, the coating is used for various weapons, camouflage nets and, protection suits and so on.

The invention relates to infrared camouflage paint as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The paint comprises filler, a coating agent and an additive. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing and ball-milling 30-90 parts by weight of solvent, 1-30 parts by weight of wetting dispersant and 5-60 parts by weight of filler, so as to obtain lanthanum-based rare earth compound powder concentrated pulp, ball-milling the solvent and the coating agent so as to obtain the ball-milled coating agent, and ball-milling the solvent, the lanthanum-based rare earth compound powder concentrated pulp and the ball-milled coating agent so as to obtain the infrared camouflage paint. According to the application of the infrared camouflage agent, the infrared stealth coating is added to a substrate by using a dipping, coating or padding method. The invention provides a novel low-emissivity material, namely the infrared camouflage paint, not only are materials for the paint easy to obtain, but also the paint is simple to operate, relatively low in cost, capable of effectively pretending and shielding human bodies, glass, polymer films, military weapons and the like and reducing the possibility that the articles are detected by infrared detectors, and has a good application prospect.

The invention relates to a textile printing and dyeing technique, in particular to a manufacturing technique of an infrared ray resistant multi-functional camouflage fabric. The technique flow is as follows: original cloth seaming, singeing, old rolling, 180 pre-treatment, shaping, mercerizing, ground dyeing, pattern printing, baking, aging, stentering of post treatment, examination and acceptance; wherein, the ground dyeing flow is as follows: padding liquor, two groups of infrared rays and drying; a formula adopted in the ground dyeing flow comprises 2g/l to 10g/l of dispersion dyes, 5g/l to 15g/l of vat dyes and 0.01g/l to 1.0g/l of infrared ray resistant regulators; the formula of pattern printing is as follows: 2kg to 15.7kg of dispersion material, 2. kg/l to 10.5kg/l of vat material and 0.01kg to 2.5kg of infrared ray resistant regulators; post treatment has the function compatibility of multiple functions which are water proofing, oil repellence, ventilation, crease resistance and static resistance. The technique has the advantages of having short production procedure, color phase with good uniformity, stable infrared reflectivity, low cost, multiple functions, mainly using environment friendly dyes and being suitable for infrared ray resistant camouflage fabric products with different fibers and different specifications.

The present invention provides a reversible jacket that includes two independently functional flexible hoods that allow a person wearing the jacket to utilize one hood in one configuration of the jacket, and the other hood in a reversed configuration. A reversible jacket of the invention can find a variety of different applications, for example, it can be employed as a camouflage jacket in two different environments.

A floating caddy for holding and storing the gear of wading hunters comprising an inflatable tube formed from an impermeable fabric for providing flotation for the caddy. The tube is configured to create a water resistant storage compartment within its periphery. The top of the storage compartment has weather resistant zipper for access into the storage compartment. The caddy is fitted with straps for attaching a shotgun and shoulder straps mounted to the tube to allow the caddy to be carried on the back of the hunter in knapsack fashion. The caddy may be floated in and out of a flooded area by a wading hunter by means of a tether attached to the tube. The fabric forming the caddy maybe printed in a desired camouflage pattern.

A cotton/nylon blended infrared-proof camouflage fabric is provided with warp yarns and weft yarns, which are all 14s cotton/nylon blended yarns in a blending ratio of 50:50. Warp density of the fabric is 80/in, weft density of the fabric is 53/in, and breadth of the fabric is 161.4cm. Special process conditions are used in preprocessing, dyeing, printing and the like of a printing and dyeing process of the cotton/nylon blended infrared-proof camouflage fabric. The fabric and the printing and dyeing process have the advantages that the fabric treated by the printing and dyeing process can reach the infrared-proofing standard and further have washing fastness, sweat fastness, rubbing fastness and light fastness, which all reach the standard above level 4. Opening of the fabric and the printing and dyeing process stands for development of cotton/nylon blended fabrics, and initiates trial of the fabrics to have the infrared-proofing function. The printing and dyeing process guarantees coexistence of product quality and functionality. Breakthrough of the product in terms of development and process provides a reference to development of high-grade functional textile fabrics, provides guidance on market exploration, and creates good economic benefit for enterprises.

A mask and shield assembly for protecting the face of a user may include A reversible mask having an attachment device and a frame member for detachably connecting to the attachment device of the reversible mask. The frame member may include an outwardly extending projection, and the reversible mask includes an aperture, and the outwardly extending projection may cooperate with the aperture to hold the reversible mask in position. The reversible mask may include a first surface of the reversible mask including camouflage indicia, and the reversible mask includes a second surface including hunter orange indicia. The attachment device may include an expandable aperture and the expandable aperture may include a slit. The outwardly extending projection may include an enlarged end, and the frame member may include a concave curved portion.