Abstract:
Density variation across a localized area of a photographic plate is detected by directing a beam through said area and thence onto a photoelectric detector through a narrow slot at the imaging plane. Relative motion is effected between the beam and the slot, hence detector output varies with density across the scanned zone. A fiducial mark carrier is in a separate beam (preferably emanating from the same source) which follows a path in bypass relation to the plate but which is combined with the image carrying beam at the slot. Light filters in the respective beams enable separate electronic processing of image beam signals and fiducial mark beam signals.
Abstract:
An image beam from a constant intensity light source is passed through a small area of an image on a photographic plate, thence through a variable width scanning slot and onto a photoelectric detector. Relative scanning motion between beam and slot is effected in directions transverse to slot length. A second beam from the same source is directed around the plate, through the slot and onto the detector. The beams fall on the detector alternately, in synchronism with scanning, so that the second beam produces calibration pulses. Detector output is so amplified as to maintain amplified calibration pulses at constant magnitude.