Television – Special applications – Observation of or from a specific location
Patent
1994-06-28
1996-09-03
Groody, James J.
Television
Special applications
Observation of or from a specific location
348222, 348399, 368 9, H04N 712
Patent
active
055528244
ABSTRACT:
A system for recording and displaying a time-sequential scene on a computer comprising a digital camera, an image timer, and a main control computer. The digital camera transmits a sequence of digital image frames to the timer representative of the image of a body passing a plane in space. Each frame represents a line object of the body, thus forming a fractional part of the scene. Once the frame reaches the image timer, it is digitally marked with a time reference and buffered into a block of information. The main control computer stores blocks of information from the image timer for a variety of processing and features available to the user. The invention also provides a compression system for compressing a sequence of digital image frames for storage into a selected memory, preferably a virtual memory subsystem, or hard-disc drive. Preferred constructions for adjusting camera pixel processing of light values, time-marking the images, creating color palettes for interactive viewing of color images, and video data coding to accommodate the high volume of line image data are described.
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Ciholas Mike
DeAngelis Douglas J.
Sigel Kirk
Burgess Glenton B.
Groody James J.
Lynx System Developers, Inc.
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