Focal Plane Cellular Visual Microprocessor chip development reached the necessary technology level that it can be applied in industrial vision systems. These TeraOPS speed, internally analog visual chips can capture and process thousands of medium resolution images in a second. The price for this extraordinary high speed is that their hardware-software environment and programming method is far ...

A high-speed camera that combines a customized rotating mirror camera frame with charge coupled device ~CCD! image detectors and is practically fully operated by computer control was constructed. High sensitivity CCDs are used so that image intensifiers, which would degrade image quality, are not necessary. Customized electronics and instruments were used to improve the flexibility and control ...

Spatial and temporal characteristics of a 128x128 zero-twist nematic liquid-crystal spatial light modulator are investigated for wave-front generation at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. The modulator is found to have the capability of producing at least eight phase levels between 0 and 2pi , and the rate of arbitrary phase modulation is limited to approximately 4.5 Hz. Wave-front generation of the fi...

In this paper, we discuss the development of very sensitive very long wavelength infrared (VWIR) GaAs/AIXGal.XAs quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPS), fabrication of random reflectors for efficient light coupling, and the demonstration of a V WIR 128 x 128 focal plane array imaging camera. Excellent imagery, with a noise equivalent differential temperature (NEAT) of 30 mK has been achie...

* --This paper presents a new generation 128x128 Focal Plane Analog Programmable Array Processor (FPAPAP), from a system level perspective. The design has recently sent to fabrication in a 0.35μm standard digital 1P-5M CMOS Technology. The chip has been designed to achieve the high-speed and moderate-accuracy constraints of most real time image processing applications. It has been designed to b...