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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4264927 | Freight car identification method Method and apparatus are disclosed for optically scanning and recording information on railroad cars moving at high speed to facilitate identification of the cars.... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4259688 | TV camera A TV camera which can detect any object distance. The image pick-up surface of the TV camera is divided into an object image forming surface and a range finding image forming surface. The object distance can be detected by reading the range finding image.... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4231062 | Charge-coupled device imager system A charge-coupled device array, comprised of elements arranged in one or more columns, and a moving lens positioned between the array and object to be imaged on the array are incorporated in an imaging system such as an aerial reconnaissance camera. The le... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4227210 | Radiation shutters A rotatable thermal shutter for use with a pyroelectric camera tube is provided with blades having opening and closing edges in the shape of a spiral. The use of a spiral shape allows the rotatable shutter to have a particularly small diameter while still... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4204230 | High resolution input scanner using a two dimensional detector array In an input scanner the subject to be scanned is translated in a cross scan direction relative to a two dimensional, integrated CCD detector array or the like so that successive full scan length segments of the subject are sequentially imaged onto the arr... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4199220 | Lens system with reticle and diffuser glass A lens system is disclosed herein having a pair of telescoping tubes coaxially related to each other so that their central axes are coextensive. A selected one of the tubes carries a collimating lens while the other tube carries a reticle and a diffusing ... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4195922 | Snorkel camera system A snorkel camera system having an Amici roof prism in the snorkel tube to bend the optical path 90° and to erect and reverse the image transmitted to the prism by the shooting lens, whereby the image of the object as viewed through the eyepiece of a came... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4191967 | Infrared imaging device using a pyroelectric image tube An infrared imaging device enabling operation in the panning mode with a very high sensitivity and the facility of viewing a desired part of the observed field. A pyroelectric imaging tube is shifted relative to the observed scene and the infrared image o... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4190856 | Three dimensional television system A method and apparatus for producing a three-dimensional picture suitable for use with television systems. A set of representations of differing cross-sections of a scene is displayed on one or more display screens. These displayed representations are opt... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4158853 | Monitoring system for measuring kinematic data of golf balls A video data acquisition system takes at least two snapshot views of selected points on a golf ball in the immediate post-launch time period. Analog video data are converted to digital data for analysis in an external system. A trigger generator, of a typ... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4141625 | Optical system for multiple imaging a linear object An optical system provides a multiple image of a linear object, the images focussed on an image array, with the images displaced both laterally and longitudinally relative to each other, a different section of each image in a contiguous, side-by-side posi... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4142207 | Ferroelectric imaging system An improved ferroelectric imaging system comprises a chopper, lens system, ferroelectric detector matrix, switching matrix, drive and readout electronics, video processor and display. The chopper interrupts infrared energy emanating from a scene, and the ... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4134129 | Tri-directional positioning device for optical system including locking means The positioning device includes a carrier for an element of an optical system, which is to be positioned very carefully with respect to a certain axis. The device includes first means to move the element in a direction parallel to the axis, second means f... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4077048 | Optical diffractometers An optical diffractometer is disclosed in which there is provided a television camera system for displaying light patterns derived from the image plane or the transform plane of the diffractometer. The camera system includes a modulating network for provi... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4071752 | Self-synchronizing optical imaging system A self-synchronizing optical radiation imaging device and optical delay circuit is provided with optics for receiving optical radiation and directing the radiation to an optical image delay system for delaying the optical radiation for a predetermined len... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4056827 | Optical systems for the display of visual images An optical display system for a craft navigation simulator providing a wide angle display of greater than 3:1 width/height format derived from a closed circuit television camera viewing a terrain model. A wide-angle scene viewed is divided into three or m... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4051523 | Submersible camera A closed circuit television camera intended to be lowered into a body of water to inspect articles within the water. The camera has a lens capable of movement of 90° each side of its normal axis, thus permitting the camera to scan an angle of 180° from ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4021846 | Liquid crystal stereoscopic viewer An optical device, useful for three-dimensional stereo viewing not requir any mechanical shuttering, including two liquid crystal lenses, each comprising: (1) a thin layer of liquid crystal material, preferably nematic liquid crystal; (2) two plates of c... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3989947 | Telescope cluster Broad, intermediate, and narrow field of view infrared telescopes, broad and narrow field of view visual telescopes, and a narrow field of view laser telescope, together with apparatus for boresighting said telescopes, all of the narrow field of view tele... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3971066 | Special effect generation system in an image pickup system A special effect generation system in an image pickup system e.g. for television and more particularly to a special effect generation system in an image pickup system wherein there is provided, between a taking lens forming a part of the image pickup syst... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3962537 | Gun launched reconnaissance system The Gun Launched Reconnaissance System provides for the continuous transmion of optical data about a target area to a remote location for a specified period of time. The gun launched projectile housing has mounted therein a forward looking image forming ... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3941923 | Thermal imaging system with redundant object space scanning A thermal imaging system having a scan generator for optically scanning a field of view in a two dimensional interlaced object space scan pattern; and for applying received thermal energy to an array of detector elements having a geometrical configuration... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3932702 | Optical system for the display of visual images An optical display system, particularly for providing the visual display of terrain overflown to the trainee crew of a flight simulator, and including an optical probe, closed-circuit television system and projection monitor providing a visual display sce... | 01/13/1976 |
