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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7196723 | Streak apparatus with focus In a streak apparatus including a streak tube 1 having a vacuum container 1a which has a photocathode 3 at its one end and an output surface 6 at its other end, an accelerating electrode 4 for accelerating photoelectrons, a ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7164787 | Enhancing two-dimensional contrast images rendered from three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional contrast images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered contrast image data is scaled based on a mean intensity value of all pixels of data therein, stretched to a predetermined dynamic rang... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164788 | Enhancing two-dimensional range images rendered from three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data A method is provided for enhancing two-dimensional range images rendered from three-dimensional STIL data. Briefly, the rendered range image data is modified to compensate for jitter effects associated with the STIL camera system, has background portions of the resu... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7038191 | Remote sensing apparatus and method The remote sensing apparatus and method include optical fibers and detectors. One end of the optical fibers is located in a focal plane of an optical system, with the end of each optical fiber collecting spectral energy arriving at a particular location in the focal... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6720996 | Imaging apparatus In order to provide an imaging apparatus that uses an electron-bombarded multiplying tube with an internal solid imaging device with a long life, improved S/N ratio, high resolution, and moreover high sensitivity, an electron-bombarded multiplying tube with a photoc... | 04/13/2004 |
| 5990944 | Streak tube sweeping method and a device for implementing the same A streak tube sweeping method in which a synchronization scan sweeping signal of a fixed repetition frequency is applied to vertical deflection plates in a streak tube, causing an electron beam, generated when a light to be measured is introduced to a pho... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5719623 | Streak tube A streak tube the total length of which is short. An optical image of an object is converted into a plurality of divided micro incident electronic images by converting means and photoelectrons from these divided micro incident electronic images are focuse... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5467122 | Underwater imaging in real time, using substantially direct depth-to-display-height lidar streak mapping An imaging system for detecting the contents of a turbid medium, such as water or air, which is at least partially transmissive of light. The system includes a light source for producing a series of discrete fan-shaped pulse beams which are substantially ... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5278657 | Camera apparatus selectively operable as a fully electronic slit camera When signal charges stored in a vertical transfer shift register (8V) of a CCD (8), for example, are shifted to a horizontal transfer shift register (8H), signal charges of a predetermined line are shifted at low speed and signal charges of other lines ar... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5142372 | Three-dimensional optical imaging of semi-transparent and opaque objects using ultrashort light pulses, a streak camera and a coherent fiber bundle An apparatus for producing a 3-dimensional image of semi-transparent object or of a opaque object in a semi-transparent media includes a picosecond or a femtosecond laser, a streak camera, a coherent fiber bundle, a video camera and a computer. The appara... | 08/25/1992 |
| 4999548 | Picture analyser tube with streak compensation A picture analyser tube with streak compensation constituted by a light intensifier tube structure comprising a photocathode (1) associated with an acceleration grid (2) and a microchannel plate (3) associated with an acceleration grid (4) coupled to an e... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4958231 | Electro-optical streak camera An electro-optical streak camera including an amplifier for amplifying a light signal under measurement. The amplified light signal is applied to an electro-optical deflector of a photodector portion of the streak camera.... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4945416 | Ultra-rapid electronic camera This invention is an ultra rapid digitally controlled electronic camera. It comprises a bilamellar optical image conversion tube having a photocathode, a narrow aperture for receiving photons from the object to be studied, a pair of electron accelerating ... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4916543 | Circular scan streak tube with electronic memory and readout A circular scan streak tube system for recording fast optical data includes a target having a first array of detection elements and a second array of corresponding storage elements. Changes in the scanning electron beam current representing optical events... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4797747 | Streak camera device having a plurality of streak tubes A streak camera device comprising plural streak tubes generating a plurality of tube outputs for simultaneous measurement of a plurality of separate characteristics of a light emissions, the plural streak tubes forming electron beams in response to the li... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4791490 | Detector for three-dimensional optical imaging The detector includes a focusing lens for focusing pulsed laser light reflected from an object onto a fiber optic array. The fiber optic array is configured to receive a two-dimensional image from the focusing lens and to convert the two-dimensional image... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4704634 | Streak tube having image slitting means for transmitting slit electron images of an object A streak tube device for electrically slitting the image of an object provided by an optical system. The streak tube device includes a streak tube body having a photoelectric conversion device for receiving the object image and producing a corresponding e... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4628352 | Device for correcting video signals in a system for acquistion and scanning of fast signals involving the use of a streak camera A device for correcting video signals in order to perform fine scanning of fast signals with a streak camera is completed by a system for correcting nonuniformity of black, nonuniformity of response of the sensing matrix and local defects of the matrix. T... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4611920 | Device for measuring extremely diminished intensity of light A device for measuring an extremely diminished intensity of light by superposing a plurality of streaking images of the light beams caused by fluorescence occurring in a phosphor layer where secondary electrons are incident thereon in single photon units.... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4352127 | Method and apparatus for analyzing streak image of light pulse formed on electro-optical streaking image tube Using a conventional camera tube, a streak image of light pulse formed on a streaking image tube is converted into an electronic signal, progressively scanned, without interlaced scanning, using scanning lines n-times as many as in standard scanning, and ... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4310857 | Proximity focused streak tube and camera using the same Proximity focused streak tube having a photocathode for converting photon images from a source into photoelectrons. A phosphorous screen is provided for receiving the photoelectrons. The photocathode and the screen define a longitudinal tube axis. A chann... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4266247 | Proximity focused streak tube and streak camera using the same Proximity focused streak tube having a photocathode for converting photon images into photoelectrons. A phosphorous screen is provided for receiving the photoelectrons. The photocathode and the phosphorous screen define a longitudinal tube axis. A passive... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4236179 | Versatile microsecond multiple framing camera A versatile microsecond multiple framing camera generates a switched beam of illumination derived from a laser and switched by an acousto-optic modulator. The illumination is focused on a subject, and illumination from the subject is caused to scan over a... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4232333 | Streak image analyzing device In a streak image analyzing device, a belt-shaped region perpendicular to the scanning lines on the scanning rastor of a television camera is set, the video signals only for the belt-shaped region are integrated every scanning line, the integration signal... | 11/04/1980 |
