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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1984
Richard S Withers, Bedford, MA (US);
Richard W Ralston, Bedford, MA (US);
Ernest R Stern, Concord, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An optical imaging system for use as a solid-state camera, for example, which includes a plurality of solid-state elements for providing long-term storage of images, such elements being, for example, MNOS chips having a plurality of storage cells, which chips when exposed to an image focussed thereon can store a representation thereof. The chips are at a later time optically addressed, as by a scanning-light beam, to read out the stored image so as to provide an electrical output representing the stored image, such output being usable to provide a visual representation of the image such as on a display screen or in hard copy form.