Radiation scanner uniformity system

Details Radiation scanner uniformity system Radiation scanner uniformity system

1985-10-30

1989-04-11

Moore, David K.

Image analysis

Histogram processing

For setting a threshold

358113, G06K 700

Patent

active

048213373

ABSTRACT:
An imaging system incorporating a scanned array of infrared detectors for a presentation of scene data on a display includes gain normalization and averaging circuitry coupled to individual ones of the detectors of the detector array. The gain normalization is accomplished with gain control circuitry structured as a feedback loop introducing equality between the magnitude of an average value of a detector signal and a reference signal. The imaging system comprises a set of channels connecting with respective ones of the detectors, each channel having a gain control circuitry. A common value of the reference signal is applied to each channel. The averaging time is several times greater than the duration of a single scan in the scanning of the detector array so as to introduce gain normalization to subject matter which is substantially uniform throughout a swath of the scene swept by a detector while leaving image points of relatively small objects unaffected by the gain normalization. The display is relatively free of nonuniformities associated with differing responsivities of the detectors to infrared radiation.

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