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Patent
G - Physics
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354/141
G06T 7/00 (2006.01) H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1127768
DIGITAL VIDEO CORRELATOR ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A digital video correlator wherein a reference image and a live image are digitized and compared against each other in a shifting network to determine the correlation or degrees thereof existing between the two images. Funda- mentally, the invention includes a video digitizer which divides live and real images from various sources into picture elements and digitizes those elements to fixed voltage levels. The digitized live image is passed to a dynamic memory consisting of a plurality of interconnected shift registers while the digitized reference image is maintained within a first set of shift registers compris- ing a portion of a processor. A second set of shift registers within the processor maintain therein a mask function. Yet a third set of shift registers within the processor are interconnected in parallel to the dynamic memory to receive, under control of a clock, the digitized data of the live image. As the live image data is shifted through the third set of shift registers, single-bit correlators interconnecting corresponding bits of each of the first, second, and third sets of shift registers, compare the digitized values of the corresponding bits, with such comparison being enabled or negated by the mark function. The outputs of all the single-bit correlators are summed together with that sum indicating the degree of correlation, on a bit-by-bit basis, between the live and reference images. Further circuitry is included to deter- mine the point of best correlation between the two images and to normalize or take the mean value of the correlation output.
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Hogan James J.
Lambert Charles O.
Wallace Gene A.
Goodyear Aerospace Corporation
Sim & Mcburney
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