Electro-optical step-frame camera system with image motion compensation
CA 2219813 C · Owner: Bennett, Russell A. · Inventors: Bennett, Russell A.; Beran, Stephen R.; Lareau, Andre G.
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An electro-optical step-frame camera system in which succesive overlapping frames of scene imagery are generated by an electro-optical imaging array and , in which electronic image motion compensation is performed by the array during the generation of at least some of the frames of imagery (100). The succesive frames of imagery are made in a stepping pattern that is repeated in a series of cycles of steps, each step separated by a framing interval in which a frame of imagery is obtained (142). The stepping cycles of the camera generate sweeping coverage of the terrain of interest. As the velocity of height to ratio of the reconnaissance aircraft changes the stepping cycle and , …
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