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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1980
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1978
Barry N Stone, Waukesha, WI (US);
Thomas W Lambert, Dousman, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In a convolver, analog video waveforms for each horizontal line to a raster scanned video monitor are sampled at regular intervals with a high speed shift register such as a charge coupled device to obtain trains of picture elements (pixels) which are transferred line-after-line to a series of registers to thereby delay the lines by the number of register stages used. As the trains are transferred the pixels are simultaneously supplied to delay elements to delay corresponding pixels in each line by a given amount in reference to the individual pixel which is to be convolved at the instant. The delayed pixel signals existing at the instant are variously processed in summing devices and the result is used to act on the individual pixel to convolve it in accordance with the filter function which is desired.