Optical system utilizing fraunhofer diffraction patterns for specimen identification purposes
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1. AN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR SPECIMEN IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES COMPRISING MEANS FOR GENERATING A FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION PATTERN OF THE SPECIMEN TO BE IDENTIFIED, A RELATIVELY OPAQUE MASK HAVING A RADIALLY DISPOSED, RELATIVELY TRANSPARENT SLIT THEREIN DISPOSED IN THE DIFFRACTION PLANE OF SAID GENERATING MEANS, MEANS TO ROTATE SAID SLIT ABOUT THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND MEANS FOR SENSING RADIANT ENERGY TRANSMITTED THROUGH SAID MASK AS A FUNCTION OF THE ANGULAR POSITION OF SAID SLIT.
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1. AN OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR SPECIMEN IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES COMPRISING MEANS FOR GENERATING A FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION PATTERN OF THE SPECIMEN TO BE IDENTIFIED, A RELATIVELY OPAQUE MASK HAVING A RADIALLY DISPOSED, RELATIVELY TRANSPARENT SLIT THEREIN DISPOSED IN THE DIFFRACTION PLANE OF SAID GENERATING MEANS, MEANS TO ROTATE SAID SLIT ABOUT THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND MEANS FOR SENSING RADIANT ENERGY TRANSMITTED THROUGH SAID MASK AS A FUNCTION OF THE ANGULAR POSITION OF SAID SLIT.
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Current AssigneeLawrence Cooper, Richard W. Kern
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Original AssigneeLawrence Cooper, Richard W. Kern
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InventorsCooper, Lawrence, Kern, Richard W.
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Application NumberUS04/334,806Time in Patent Office1,148 DaysField of SearchUS Class Current382/210CPC Class CodesG02B 27/46 Systems using spatial filtersG06V 10/88 Image or video recognition ...G06V 30/2247 Characters composed of bars...
