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Electro-optical tracking computer utilizing television camera

  • US 3,988,534 A
  • Filed: 07/28/1969
  • Issued: 10/26/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1969
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In combination:

  • a television camera for generating bipolar video signals representing targets within its field of view, said camera including a video monitor,means for full wave rectifying said signals to convert them to unipolar form,means for generating a tracking gate,means for automatically controlling the dimensions of said gate in accordance with the dimensions of one of said video signals representing a selected target,means for eliminating video signals of less than a predetermined width,means for comparing said gate and said signals representing a selected target for time coincidence, and generating error signals whenever they tend to drift out of coincidence, andtracking servo means responsive to said error signals for slewing said camera so as to minimize said error signals.

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