Apparatus for evaluating characteristics of the images of objects

• US 3,976,827 A
• Filed: 08/02/1974
• Issued: 08/24/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anatoly Vasilievich Nikonenko, Arkady Yakovlevich Khesin, Boris Albertovich Yanson, Boris Nikolaevich Ershov, Imant Karlovich Alien, Ivan Ivanovich Avdeev, Jury Olegovich Popov, Yakov Aronovich Gelfandbein
• Original Assignee: Anatoly Vasilievich Nikonenko, Arkady Yakovlevich Khesin, Boris Albertovich Yanson, Boris Nikolaevich Ershov, Imant Karlovich Alien, Ivan Ivanovich Avdeev, Jury Olegovich Popov, Yakov Aronovich Gelfandbein
• Inventors: Nikonenko, Anatoly Vasilievich, Yanson, Boris Albertovich, Khesin, Arkady Yakovlevich, Alien, Imant Karlovich, Popov, Jury Olegovich, Gelfandbein, Yakov Aronovich, Avdeev, Ivan Ivanovich, Ershov, Boris Nikolaevich
• Primary Examiner(s): Britton, Howard W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Masinick, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US05/494,276
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• Field of Search: 178/DIG. 36, 178/6, 178/6.8
• US Class Current: 382/133
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/022 by means of tv-camera scanning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/60 Analysis of geometric attributes

Abstract

The disclosed apparatus for evaluation of characteristics of the images of objects consists of a delay unit connected to the output of a video signal discriminator, wherein the square pulses coming from the output of the discriminator of the video signal are delayed for a time necessary for effecting synchronous coincidence of the respective square pulses of the current and delayed lines of the raster of the scanning unit. The apparatus further includes a synchronous coincidence unit and a synchronous subtraction unit, each one of them being connected by its respective input to the output of the video signal discriminator both directly and through the delay unit. The output of the synchronous subtraction unit is connected to a gate connected to the output of the generator of quantizing pulses. The outputs of the synchronous coincidence unit and of the synchronous subtraction unit are connected to a perimeter computation unit directly, while the output of the synchronous subtraction unit is additionally connected to the perimeter computation unit through a gate.

Claims

1. An apparatus for evaluating characteristics of the image of an object, comprising:

scanning means effecting with the help of a scanning raster line-by-line and frame-by-frame scanning of the image of said object with conversion of said image into a video signal;

a video signal discriminator connected to said scanning means and adapted to form square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image of said object;

delay means connected to the output of said video signal discriminator, wherein said square pulses coming from said video signal discriminator are delayed for a time necessary for effecting synchronous comparison of said square pulses related to a current and delayed lines of said raster;

a synchronous coincidence unit having a first input, a second input and an output, said first input being connected to the output of said video signal discriminator directly and said second input being connected to said output of said video signal discriminator through said delay means, for effecting comparison by the number of coincidences of the fronts of said square pulses related to said current and delayed lines;

a synchronous subtraction unit having a first input, a second input and an output, said first input being connected to said output of said video signal discriminator directly and said second input being connected to the same said output through said delay means, for effecting subtraction of the duration of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of said chords of said image of the object in said current and delayed lines;

a gate means having a first input, a second input and an output, said first input being connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a generator of quantizing pulses having its output connected to said second input of said gate means so that the square pulses of which the duration is proportional to the difference between the lengths of the chords in said current and delayed lines of said image of said object, obtained as a result of said subtraction, are filled with quantizing pulses coming from the output of said generator of quantizing pulses to said second input of said gate means;

a unit for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object, having a first input, a second input and a third input and a third input and having said first input thereof connected to said output of said gate means, said second input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and said third input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit so that within said perimeter computation unit a sequence of the quantized square pulses proportional to the difference between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines is used for approximation of a part of the perimeter of said image of said object, the value thus obtained having added thereto a quantity of interline spaces of said raster equal to the number of the coincidences of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, detected by said synchronous coincidence unit, in which mannner said perimeter computation unit effects approximation of the full perimeter of said image of said object.

2. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

3. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, wherein said synchronous coincidence unit comprises:

a first shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the inputs thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to the outputs of said first and second pulse shapers;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a third shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said first NOT gate;

a fourth shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said second NOT gate;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to the outputs of said third and fourth pulse shapers;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, there being formed at said output of said OR gate the pulses of coincidence of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines, supplied to the third input of said perimeter computation unit.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the length of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output, and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

5. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 1, wherein said synchronous subtraction unit comprises:

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said second input thereof connected to said delay means;

a first NOT gate having its input connected to said delay means and having the output thereof connected to said second input of said first AND gate;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator and having the output thereof connected to said first input of said second AND gate;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, whereby there are formed at said output of said OR gate said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, said pulses being fed directly to said second input of said perimeter computation unit and being fed to said first input of the same said unit through said gate means.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factor determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said synchronous coincidence unit comprises:

a first shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to the outputs of said first and second pulse shapers;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a third shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said first NOT gate;

a fourth shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said second NOT gate;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to the outputs of said third and fourth pulse shapers;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, there being formed at said output of said OR gate the pulses of coincidence of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines, supplied to the third input of said perimeter computation unit.

8. An apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequency of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

9. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said delay means includes an ultrasonic delay line adjusted for effecting a delay equal to the duration of the scanning of a single line of said image of said object.

10. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises, an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of guantized square pulses proportional to the difference between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trans of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said synchronous coincidence unit comprises:

a first shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to the outputs of said first and second pulse shapers;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a third shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said first NOT gate;

a fourth shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said second NOT gate;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to the outputs of said third and fourth pulse shapers;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, there being formed at said output of said OR gate the pulses of coincidence of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines, supplied to the third input of said perimeter computation unit.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output, and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input os said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said synchronous subtraction unit comprises:

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said second input thereof connected to said delay means;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said delay means and having the output thereof connected to said second input of said first AND gate;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator and having the output thereof connected to said first input of said second AND gate;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, with said outputs of said first and second AND gates, whereby there are formed at said output of said OR gate said square pulses proportional to the differences of the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, said pulses being supplied directly to said second input of said perimeter computation unit and being supplied to said first input of said unit through said gate means.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous sutraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current end delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factor determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 13, wherein said synchronous coincidence unit comprises:

a first shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to the outputs of said first and second pulse shapers;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a third shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said first NOT gate;

a fourth shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said second NOT gate;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to the outputs of said third and fourth pulse shapers;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, there being formed at said output of said OR gate the pulses of coincidence of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines, supplied to the third input of said perimeter computation unit.

16. An apparatus as claimed in Claim 15, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises:

an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means, through which are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

17. An apparatus for evaluating characteristics of the image of an object, comprising:

scanning means effecting with the help of a raster line-by-line and frame-by-frame scanning of said image of said object and converting it into a video signal;

a video signal discriminator connected to said scanning means and forming square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image;

a delay means electrically connected with the ouput of said video signal discriminator, wherein said square pulses coming from said video signal discriminator are delayed for a time necessary for effecting synchronous comparison of said square pulses representing a current line and a delayed line of said raster;

a synchronous coincidence unit having a first input, a second input and an output, having said first input thereof electrically connected with said output of said video signal discriminator and having said second input thereof connected with said output of said video signal discriminator through said delay means, for effecting a comparison by the number of coincidences of the fronts of said square pulses representing said current and delayed lines;

a synchronous subtraction unit having a first input, a second input and output, said first input thereof being electrically connected with said output of said video signal discriminator, said second input thereof being electrically connected with said output of said video signal discriminator through said delay means, for effecting subtraction by the duration of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines;

a first gate means having a first input, a second input and an output, said first input being connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a generator of quantizing pulses having the output thereof connected to said second input of said first gate means, so that the square pulses having proportional duration proportionall to the differences between the lengths of the chords in said current and delayed lines of said image, produced as a result of the subtraction, are filled with quantizing pulses coming from said output of said generator of quantizing pulses to said second input of said first gate means;

a unit for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object, having a first input, a second input and a third input, said first being connected to said output of said first gate means, said second input being connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and said third input being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit, so that within said perimeter computation unit the trains of the quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines are processed for approximation of a part of the perimeter of said image of said object, there being added to the value thus obtained a number of inter-line spaces equal to the number of the coincidences of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, determined by said synchronous coincidence unit, in which way the full perimeter of said image of said object is approximated;

a second gate means having a first input, a second input and an output, said first input being electrically connected with said output of said video signal discriminator, said second input being connected to said output of said generator of quantizing pulses;

an area counter having the input thereof connected with said output of said second gate means, wherein the sum total of the duration of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image is determined to represent the area of said object;

a form factor determination unit having a first input and a second input, said inputs being connected, respectively, to said output of said perimeter computation unit and to the output of said area counter, so that there is effected within said form factor determination unit division of the squared value of the perimeter by said sum total of the duration of said square pulses, representing the area of said image of said object.

18. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein said delay means includes an ultrasonic delay line having the time of delay equal to the duration of the scanning of a single line of said image of said object.

19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein said synchronous subtraction unit comprises:

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said second input thereof connected to said delay means;

a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said delay means and having the output thereof connected to said second input of said first AND gate;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator and having the output thereof connected to said first input of said second AND gate;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said inputs thereof connected to the respective outputs of said first and second AND gates, whereby there are formed at said output of said OR gate said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, said pulses being fed directly to said second input of said perimeter computation unit and being fed to the first input of said unit through said first gate means.

20. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein said synchronous coincidence unit comprises:

a first shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a first AND gate having a first input, a second input and output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, repectively, to the outputs of said first and second pulse shapers, a first NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said video signal discriminator;

a second NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said delay means;

a third shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said first NOT gate;

a fourth shaper of pulses coinciding with the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image, having the input thereof connected to the output of said second NOT gate;

a second AND gate having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs thereof being connected, respectively, to the outputs of said third and fourth pulse shapers;

an OR gate having a first input, a second input and an output and having said first and second inputs thereof connected, respectively, to said outputs of said first and second AND gates, there being formed at said output of said OR gate the pulses of coincidence of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, supplied to the third input of said perimeter computation unit.

21. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein said perimeter computation unit adapted for computation of the perimeter of said image of said object comprises, an adder having a first input, a second input, a third input, a fourth input, a fifth input, a sixth input and an n-th input, said first input thereof being connected to said output of said synchronous coincidence unit for supplying coincidence pulses, said second input thereof being connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said gate means for supplying a sequence of quantized square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image of said object in said current and delayed lines;

a code converter having a first input, a zero setting input, a control input, a first output, a second output, a third output, a fourth output and an n-th output, said first input thereof being connected to the output of said gate means through which there are supplied trains of quantized square pulses represented in a sequential code;

a first selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportional to the differences between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit and having the output thereof connected to said zero setting input of said code converter;

a NOT gate having the input thereof connected to said output of said synchronous subtraction unit;

a second selector of the fronts of said square pulses proportion to the difference between the lengths of the chords of said image in said current and delayed lines, having the input thereof connected to said synchronous subtraction unit through said NOT gate and having the output thereof connected to said control input of said code converter;

a first scaling means having the input thereof connected to said first output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a second scaling means having the input thereof connected to said second output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fourth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a third scaling means having the input thereof connected to said third output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said fifth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

a fourth scaling means having the input thereof connected to said fourth output of said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said sixth input of said adder for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

an n-th scaling means having the input thereof connected to said n-th output of a said code converter and having the output thereof connected to said n-th input of said added for supplying thereto complementary pulses to the trains of quantized square pulses;

said scaling means having their respective scaling factors determined in dependence on the scanning standard, on the ratio of the frequency of said generator of quantizing pulses to the line-by-line scanning frequency and on the respective sequential number of the output of said code converter.

22. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17, comprising:

an electronic masking unit having frame-oriented and line-oriented synchronization inputs and output, said inputs being connected to said scanning means, a coincidence circuit having a first input, a second input and an output, said first and second inputs being connected, respectively, to said video signal discriminator and to said output of said electronic masking unit, said output of said coincidence circuit being connected to the input of said delay means, to said first input of said synchronous subtraction unit, to said first input of said synchronous coincidence unit and to said second input of said first gate means.

23. An apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein said coincidence circuit additionally has a third input, said apparatus further comprising a frame selection unit having the input thereof connected to said scanning means and having the output thereof connected to said third input of said coincidence circuit.