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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1998
Allen J. Rushing, Webster, NY (US);
William A. Hameister, Penfield, NY (US);
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An auto-ranging densitometer includes a photodetector and an amplifier circuit adapted to produce an output signal proportional to intensity of light on the photodetector. The amplifier circuit has multiple gains that successively increase. An analog to digital converter converts the output signal of the amplifier circuit to digital format. A gain select logic outputs a gain code used to select the gain of the amplifier. A density signal generator circuit includes two LUTs, one of the LUTs being adapted to receive the output of the analog to digital converter and produce an output density scaled to include only low order bits; and the other of the LUTs being to receive the gain code and produce an output density scaled to include only high order bits. The outputs of the two LUTs are concantenation added to produce a summation density signal.