Equinox has been awarded a $749,240 Phase II SBIR contract from DARPA, titled "Smarter Sensors Using Hybrid Multichip Camera Technology". This award will allow the development of video surveillance algorithms to take advantage of fused visible and thermal infrared images.

This funding is for the development of a novel sensor and image understanding technology that completely integrates simultaneously registered CCD and FLIR imaging into a single unified camera system. Such a hybrid sensor exploits unique complementary imaging characteristics of these sensing modalities for day-night and all-weather operation. Novel image understanding algorithms for data fusion enable unique 'smart sensor' capabilities for a variety of applications will be developed.

Since 1999 Equinox has been a leading provider of unique image fusion products to the US Military spanning algorithms, electronics hardware and sensor optics. Equinox has produced groundbreaking technology for providing fusion of thermal infrared and visible modalities to the dismounted soldier as well as to Naval, Aerial and Biometric systems. In polarimetry Equinox has unsurpassed expertise in many types of imaging systems. Equinox is currently developing a number of automatic target detection, tracking and recognition systems.