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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Herbert A French, Emsworth, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-5 ; 2502 / ; 358 95 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a pulsed laser viewing system adapted to view range intervals in a scene by gating the detector signal; according to the invention, the viewing system also includes a switching device for repetitive interchange of the range interval viewed so that the image contrast of a viewed target may be repetitively alternated between positive and negative. The switching device may operate to interchange either the detector gating time periods or the detector signal channel. Alternatively, the switching device may operate to interchange time delays applied to the detector signal before gating.