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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:
Feb. 09, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thomson-CSF, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356141 ; 244-316 ; 350356 ; 356152 ;
Abstract
A radiation sensor improved to increase the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of a luminous background of high light intensity and to reduce the danger of direct detection of solar radiation. The sensor comprises optoelectric shutter means associated with the transparent slits of the optical mask in order to pass substantially only the radiation emitted by the source to be located and received by the associated detector. The shutter can be provided from a plate of ferroelectric ceramic material so arranged as to form juxtaposed elements controlled selectively by a circuit as a function of the positioning of the source in the form of data processed by an ancillary computer.