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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1977
Paul S Catano, San Diego, CA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An aspect ratio and scan converter system adapts signal information derived rom optical scanning of a rectangular field of view having an aspect ratio of the order of 60 to 1. The signal information is converted to digital form and serially stored in a bulk storage memory which may be addressed for reading out selected sequences of the serially stored digital signals. The selected sequences are stored in a random access memory having a two dimensional format and then read out by repetitive scan in a direction orthogonally related to the direction in which the sequences were stored. The digital signals thus read out are converted to analog form and applied to a suitable display means such as a TV type monitor CRT, providing a visual display of the selected portion of the elongate field of view.