Abstract:
A magnifying display apparatus for displaying enlarged images of characters or the like comprises a photoelectric-converting reading unit including a body and an optical system disposed in the body and having a light-path inversion prism, a magnifier lens system, an iris, an imaging device and illuminating lamp. The apparatus further comprises a controller connected to the reading unit and including a power supply circuit for the reading unit and also a control circuit for controlling the conversion of the output from the imaging device into an image output. The apparatus also comprises a display unit such as a television separably connected to the controller. A recess or a protrusion is formed on a front upper portion of the body at a position corresponding to the light-path inverting prism so as to be sensible by a user's finger, thus serving as an index of the portion of the original to be magnified and displayed. Operating means for operating iris and other mechanisms are disposed on lateral sides for easy manipulation of other finger or fingers of the user's hand gripping the reading unit body.
Abstract:
An apparatus for recording an image onto a light recording medium (16) by sequentially recording a plurality of sections onto the light recording medium includes a light source (120) which emits light at a position which is movable over a light emitting area (21) of the light source controlled by a controller (13), the position of the light being subject to deviation from a desired position of the light emitting area of the light source which corresponds to a position to be recorded on the recording medium which has recording position coordinates; a translator (702) having controllable positions for moving the recording medium relative to a light source during the recording of the plurality of sections of the image; a light transmitting mechanism (14, 15) disposed between the light source and the recording medium for transmitting the light from the light source to the recording medium; a light position sensor (142) having a target area optically coupled to light emitted from a plurality of positions within the light emitting area of the light source used for recording for detecting the position of the light intersecting the target area of the sensor from the light emitting area of the light source and generating a signel dependent upon the light intersecting the target area; and wherein the controller, responsive to the signal, produces a correction parameter and sequentially controls the recording of the sections to record the image by controlling the position of the light on the light emitting area of the light source.
Abstract:
A photographic system for accurately reproducing encoded information onto a recording medium is disclosed. The system includes an image/light source, a feedback sensor, a lens assembly, a controller, a recording medium assembly and a reading sensor, whereby encoded information is decomposed into sections, adjusted, and transmitted such that the sections are correctly aligned and smoothly joined into a final reproduced image. According to the present invention, encoded information can also be digitized and read.
Abstract:
An image reader of manual scan type for a portable copier is disclosed. The image reader comprises a reading head for scanning a document manually, memory means for storing image data read by the reading head, write control means for writing said image data into the memory means and a printer. The image reader further comprises image data processing means for adjusting image data obtained by the image sensor so as to form a noise free image upon writing image data into the memory means. Also the image data processing means operates to delete image data of a reference line indicative of a manual scan starting position.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an imaging system with computer-controlled, multiple electronic image acquisition and assembly means for producing a graphical map from a stored wide-field-of-view high-resolution electronic image. The invention displays a contiguous small portion of the stored image within a display window and a cursor is superimposed on the image at a fixed position within the display window. The window can be roamed over the stored image for generating mapping marks from the fixed cursor and the mapping marks a stored in a separate memory.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an imaging system with computer-controlled, multiple electronic image acquisition and assembly means for producing a high resolution, large-field electronic mosaic image from a series of smaller field image segments.
Abstract:
Provided are an apparatus and a method for recording on a recording medium images from a fiber-optic CRT. The apparatus includes a recording medium transport system, control electronics and a first-in, first-out memory. The use of the first-in, first-out memory permits incremental recording which is not limited by relatively long mechanical transport settling times. In operation, N lines of data are input to the memory, line-by-line, as the transport system increments the position of the recording medium and during settling time. When the recording medium has come to rest, these N lines of data are output sequentially from the memory in a first-in, first-out basis, with the CRT incrementing each line vertically on the recording medium for the total of N lines for each increment of the recording medium by the transport system.
Abstract:
A new revolutionary approach to image processing is disclosed. The current limitations of video technology in video image analysis and processing are eliminated. A new "large format" data acquisition system is described which permits a user of the system to process analog data with any required degree of resolution. The degree of resolution obtainable is limited only by the application and source data in connection with which the system is being utilized. The preferred embodiment of the invention permits the analog data source, a map, a photograph, an x-ray, or any other two or three dimensional object or data that can be imaged on a video system, to be segmented into a series of video images which, when sequentially processed, produce an accurate mosaic of the original image. In this manner the size, the shape or image of a rock, a tree or a pond in a photograph of a one acre field can be precisely viewed, measured or outlined for whatever purpose the user of the system desires. The basic components of the system are an X-Y positioning table, a microcomputer, a video camera for acquiring the segmented images, and an ordinary TV set for use in display and analysis of the segmented images that make up the entire analog record of the original image. The possible applications of the system are virtually unlimited in the fields of agriculture, agronomy, animal husbandry, manufacturing, quality control, weather, medicine, and the like, and the possible forms of analysis are similarly unlimited in that the system can be used for analysis of area, distance measurements, density, heat characteristics or any other subject which can be electromagnetically imaged.
Abstract:
A display scanner system and method selectively scans a reflective display surface, and provides conversion of the display information to storable video signals. The system is responsive only to the diffuse reflection of the reflected light from the display surface, but not to the specular reflection therefrom. A motor driven, optical scan device converges one or more beams to respective focused spot or spots, while directing same through a selected arc to define a scan line, and also converts the input angular scan to a flat field scan. Selectively movable support means is provided to support and move the display surface in a direction normal to the scan line direction, and also to index to new positions along the line scan direction as required when scanning a wide display with a plurality of adjacent or overlapping rows of scan lines. In the color embodiment a group, or groups, of three light sensors are employed, with appropriate color separation filters to provide color video data signals. The multiple beam embodiment employs temporal and/or spacial separation of beams, to provide a reduction in deadtime between scans, and/or to obtain interlace information.