摘要:
A pickup device such as a camera or a microphone is adjustably mounted on a movable support. Signal-generating means on the support provide signals representing the movement of the support with respect to a subject of the pickup device and these signals are combined to provide a vector displacement signal. A control system mounted on the support receives the vector displacement signal and uses it to adjust the pickup device so that a predetermined relationship between the pickup device and the subject is maintained irrespective of movement of the support or the subject.
摘要:
A system for automatically maintaining the focus of a television camera in which the camera focus setting is modulated, preferably at half the frame or line scan frequency, and the camera video output passed through a high pass filter to a phase-sensitive detector. The output of the detector is indicative of the magnitude and sense of the departure of the camera focus setting from sharp focus, and is used to control a focus servo.
摘要:
IN TESTING THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL SURFACE OF AN OBJECT RELATIVE ROTATION IS EFFECTED AT AN ANGULAR VELOCITY BETWEEN THE OBJECT AND A DETECTOR DEVICE WHICH PROVIDES SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OBJECT AROUND A CLOSED CIRCUMFERENTIAL PATH. THE SIGNALS ARE PASSED THROUGH A FILTER DEVICE WHICH PASSES THE CONSTANT COMPONENT AND ONE OR MORE SELECTED HARMONIC COMPONENTS OF THE SIGNALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A REFERENCE SHAPE FOR THE OBJECT. THE FILTER DEVICE ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION HAS AN EFFECTIVE IMPULSE RESPONSE SUCH THAT THE SUM OF THE ORDINATES OF THIS IMPULSE RESPONSE AT TIMES (T+R$R/W), O 3. PREFERABLY THE IMPULSE RESPONSE HAS THE FORM (1+2 COS WT) FOR O
摘要:
This invention relates to an instrument for testing the surface profile of a workpiece for irregularities. A conventional stylus arrangement is used to derive signals representative of the irregularities of the workpiece profile relative to a convenient datum, and these signals are stored, for example on a film strip or a magnetic tape. Signals are then extracted from the store by operating on each successive value of the stored signal with a weighting function which is nominally symmetrical about an instantaneous midordinate. The resulting signal represents, for each successive part of the profile under test, the convolution of the respective part of the first signal with the said weighting function, and is arranged to represent a useful means line from which the surface irregularities indicated by the first signal may be assessed.
摘要:
An electronic counter is provided for use in counting pulses, for example pulses representing interference fringes in laser interferometers. In order to give an output reading in a predetermined scale of measurement, for example, the metric system the pulses are counted in a first counter and pass through a gate to a second counter which gives the output reading, the gate being controlled in dependence upon the first counter so that the gate is blocked, for the duration of one input pulse, at predetermined intervals, such that the count in the second counter is modified by a predetermined ratio to give an output count in the desired scale of measurement.