US 4,150,885 A · Stabilized scene viewing system

Abstract

A stabilized viewing system is disclosed as having a telescope for viewing n object by an observer when the object is remotely located from the observer, a camera for timely photographing a succession of pictures of the object on a film that is processed immediately prior to exposure of the object of the film by a processing fluid which causes a positive image to be produced on the film after exposure of the object on the film which may be viewed by the observer immediately thereafter, a unique movable linkage-type servomechanism connected between the telescope and the camera for enabling one or the other to be selected as desired by the observer, in order that he may either view the object directly or the filmed image thereof, and a magnifying eyepiece disposed in such manner with respect to the telescope and the film of the camera that either one or the other may be observed in magnified form.

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Dependent claims

A stabilized image viewing system, comprising in combination:

means for viewing an object by an observer that is spatially disposed from said object;
means for timely photographing a succession of separate and distinct images of the aforesaid object on a predetermined film adapted for being processed immediately prior to the exposure of said film to the separate and distinct images of said object;
means effectively connected to said photographing means for processing the film thereof in such manner prior to the exposure thereof to said object as to timely effect a positive image of said object on said film after exposure of said film to said object which may be viewed by said observer almost immediately thereafter;
and
means connected between said object viewing means and the aforesaid photographing and film processing means for selectively enabling one or the other in such manner that said observer may either view said object or the aforesaid filmed image thereof in response to predetermined trigger signals, respectively.

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A stabilized image viewing system, comprising in combination:

means for viewing an object by an observer that is spatially disposed therefrom;
means for timely photographing a succession of separate and distinct images of the aforesaid object on a predetermined film adapted for being processed immediately prior to the exposure thereof to said succession of separate and distinct images of said object;
means effectively connected to said photographing means for processing the film thereof in such manner prior to the exposure thereof to said object as to timely effect a positive image of said object thereon after exposure of said object to said film which may be viewed by said observer immediately thereafter;
means connected between said object viewing means and the aforesaid photographing and film processing means for selectively enabling one or the other in such manner that said observer may either view said object or the aforesaid filmed image thereof in response to predetermined trigger signals, respectively;
and
programmer means connected to the aforesaid photographing means and to said film processing means for timely effecting the actuation thereof simultaneously in response to a predetermined signal.

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A stabilized image viewing system, comprising in combination:

means for viewing an object by an observer that is spatially disposed therefrom;
means for timely photographing a succession of separate and distinct images of the aforesaid object on a predetermined film adapted for being processed immediately prior to the exposure thereof to said succession of separate images of said object;
means effectively connected to said photographing means for processing the film thereof in such manner prior to the exposure thereof to said object as to timely effect a positive image of said object on said film after exposure thereof to said object which may be viewed by said observer immediately thereafter;
means connected between said object viewing means and the aforesaid photographing and film processing means for selectively enabling one or the other in such manner that said observer may either view said object or the aforesaid filmed image thereof in response to predetermined trigger signals, respectively;
programmer means connected to the aforesaid photographing means and to said film processing means for timely effecting the actuation thereof simultaneously in response to a predetermined signal;
means contiguously disposed with the aforesaid object viewing means and predetermined exposed portions of the film of said photographing means for timely selectively viewing either said object or the successive filmed images thereof in magnified form;
means spatially disposed from the film of said photographing means on the side thereof opposite that of said magnified form viewing means and in optical alignment therewith for illuminating said film at the same time said photographing and film processing means is actuated;
and
means effectively connected to said object viewing means, said photographing means, said film processing means, said enabling means, and the aforesaid film illuminating means for the support and housing thereof as a unitary entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Stabilized scene viewing system

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