Digital night vision system
AssigneeGalvion Ltd.
InventorChristopher MOORE
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Abstract
A digital night vision device includes an image sensor that generates digital image data based on an enhanced version of a low light image and a digital display device that generates an image based on the digital image data. The image sensor is configured to output the digital image data formatted as input display data such that pass-through electronics for communicating digital image data from the image sensor to the digital display device does not perform formatting or conversion of the digital image data when moving the digital image data from the sensor to the display.
Claims15
A digital imaging device comprising:
- an image intensifier tube (IIT) configured to receive a scene image corresponding to an observed scene and to produce an enhanced image based upon the scene image;
- a digital image sensor configured to receive the enhanced image and to generate digital image data corresponding to the enhanced image;
- a digital display configured to receive the digital image data and to generate a displayed image corresponding to the digital image data;
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- pass-through electronics configured to receive the digital image data from the digital image sensor and to provide the digital image data to the digital display without performing data conversion processing on the digital image data;
- wherein the digital image sensor is configured to output the digital image data utilizing a same electrical interface as the digital display is configured to input.
A digital imaging device comprising:
- an image intensifier tube (IIT) configured to receive photons corresponding to a scene image and to produce enhanced photons corresponding to an enhanced version of the scene image;
- a digital image sensor configured to receive the enhanced photons and to generate digital image data corresponding to the enhanced photons;
- a digital display configured to receive the digital image data and to generate a displayed image corresponding to the digital image data;
- wherein the digital image sensor is configured to output the digital image data formatted for consumption by the digital display without conversion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.