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The United States of America As Represented by the United States

Lawrence R Thorne

Joanne V Volponi

William J McLean

Systems of enhancing contrast of lighting can include a light-transmitting subsystem having a light source to emit a stream or light-signal pulses and an encoding circularly polarizing filter to optically encode the stream of light-signal pulses with circular polarization, and a light-receiving subsystem including a decoding circularly polarizing filter to optically decode the circular polarization of the stream of light-signal pulses and a light imager to receive the stream of light-signal pulses after being optically decoded by the decoding circularly polarizing filter. In another example, the system can include a polarimetric light imaging assembly, a light source to generate a stream of light-signal pulses directed at the polarimetric light imaging assembly, and a control system to synchronously control the light-signal pulses to be emitted from the light source in timed correlation with a component(s) of the polarimetric light imaging assembly.

Enhancing contrast of lighting

A light-transmitting subsystem can include an LED light source including a first to LED light to emit a first wavelength of light with a first center-emission wavelength and a second LED light to emit a second wavelength of light with a second center-emission wavelength that is offset from the first center-emission wavelength. The system can include a first reference oscillator to receive a reference signal from a remote or broadcasting source, and can also include a synchronous modulation and power system to convert the reference signal from a synchronous relative high frequency signal to a synchronous relative low frequency signal and provide synchronized power pulses to the first LED light and the second LED light in synchronous correlation with the synchronous relative low frequency signal to generate a stream of modulated light-signal pulses which includes a first modulated wavelength of light and a second modulated wavelength of light.

Enhancing contrast of LED lighting

The present disclosure is drawn to systems of enhancing contrast of LED lighting, including two subsystems. A light-transmitting subsystem can include an LED light source, a first reference oscillator to receive a reference signal broadcast from a remote source, and a synchronous modulation and power system to cause a stream of modulated light-signal pulses to be emitted from the LED light source in synchronous correlation with the reference signal. A light-receiving subsystem can include a light imager to synchronously receive the stream of modulated light-signal pulses, a second reference oscillator to receive the reference signal broadcast from the remote source, and a synchronous demultiplexing system to convert the stream of modulated light-signal pulses to a stream of synchronous digital images in synchronous correlation with the reference signal. A demodulation image processor can be used to process and generate enhanced contrast display imagery.

A catalytic igniter which can ignite a hydrogen-air mixture as lean as 5.5% hydrogen with induction times ranging from 20 s to 400 s, under conditions which may be present during a loss-of-liquid-coolant accident at a light water nuclear reactor comprises (a) a perforate catalytically active substrate, such as a platinum coated ceramic honeycomb or wire mesh screen, through which heated gases produced by oxidation of the mixture can freely flow and (b) a plurality of thin platinum wires mounted in a thermally conductive manner on the substrate and positioned thereon so as to be able to receive heat from the substrate and the heated gases while also in contact with unoxidized gases.

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Draper, UT, United States of America

Lawrence R Thorne