Technical Operations, Incorporated

Michael Graser, Jr

Vincent Francis Bilotta

An optical apparatus using a single source of white light has five independent channels each of which divides that light into three spectral components, and supplies those components individually through individual attenuators for use as a set of fifteen separate and independently-controllable light sources. Fiber optics light conductors bring light from those sources to a transform filter in a Fourier transform optical system.

Optical control assembly for a color design viewer

In an optical apparatus of the Fourier transform type employing a plurality of individual light sources arrayed about the optical axis of the apparatus, a control subsystem for all the light sources samples light from the light sources selectively. In the illustrated embodiment, a pellicle deflects a minor fraction of the source light to a spatial filter which passes a selected sample or samples to a group of spectrally filter photodiodes, which respond with currents that are fed to a photometric circuit and means to display measured quantities to an operator. The apparatus includes operator controllable means to adjust the intensity of each supervised light source independently of the others. A primary light source, from which the individual light sources are derived, is also supervised, to provide a basis for taking into account variations in energizing voltage, and dimming of the primary source with age.

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Bedford, MA, United States of America

Michael Graser, Jr