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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1976
Franklin J Meyers, Canoga Park, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
A self-stabilizing optical scanner system comprising a multi-faceted mirror includes a plurality of large and small facets formed on or attached to a gyro rotor, which rotor is adapted for being gimbal mounted, such that as each facet is rotated through the optical path of an energy receiving lens system, a detector is optically scanned across a field of view along a first dimension. In one embodiment, each mirror facet is inclined at a different angle to the rotor spin axis such that as the rotor revolves a two-dimensional pattern is scanned; and in a second embodiment a driven mirror is disposed in the optical path of the received energy so as to provide scanning along the second dimension.