Novel Methods For Acquisition And Display Of Three Dimensional Surfaces

Tom DeWitt

doi:10.1117/12.939967

21 August 1987 Novel Methods For Acquisition And Display Of Three Dimensional Surfaces

Tom DeWitt

Proceedings Volume 0754, Optical and Digital Pattern Recognition; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939967
Event: OE LASE'87 and EO Imaging Symposium, 1987, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

This article is in two parts. Part I discloses the invention of a new range finding method, and Part II describes a novel video display architecture useful for viewing data acquired by such a range finder. Range finding by diffraction depends on the curvature of the wave front radiated from a point source as a proportional measure of distance. The novel display architecture, Random Address Processing, is a form of content-addressable memory built into a raster-scan graphics display.

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Tom DeWitt "Novel Methods For Acquisition And Display Of Three Dimensional Surfaces", Proc. SPIE 0754, Optical and Digital Pattern Recognition, (21 August 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.939967

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