Message transmission system
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1. An outdoor, short-range communications system, comprising:
- transmitter means on a support, and operative for generating a modulated light beam encoded with a message, and for transmitting the light beam away from the support; and
receiver means spaced from the transmitter means away from the support, and operative for receiving the transmitted beam to decode the message, said receiver means including a wide-angle, substantially hemispherical objective lens system having a focal plane and a generally circular field of view covering an angular distance of ±
90°
in elevation, and photosensor means at said focal plane for omnidirectionally detecting the transmitted beam through the objective lens system over the entire field of view thereof.
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Abstract
A message transmission system is operative for transmitting, over a short range, information emitted by at least one transmitter to one or more receivers, the transmitter being situated in a semi-hemispherical field above the receivers. Each receiver has optics for focusing the semi-hemispherical field on multiple detector elements of an array placed in the focal plane of the optics. The elements are responsive to the transmitted signal.
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1. An outdoor, short-range communications system, comprising:
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transmitter means on a support, and operative for generating a modulated light beam encoded with a message, and for transmitting the light beam away from the support; and receiver means spaced from the transmitter means away from the support, and operative for receiving the transmitted beam to decode the message, said receiver means including a wide-angle, substantially hemispherical objective lens system having a focal plane and a generally circular field of view covering an angular distance of ±
90°
in elevation, and photosensor means at said focal plane for omnidirectionally detecting the transmitted beam through the objective lens system over the entire field of view thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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