Telecamera with a high frame frequency and associated manufacturing method
AssigneeB.T.S. Bioingegneria Tecnologia E Sistemi S.r.l.
InventorAlberto Dellacorna
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Abstract
A telecamera with a high frame frequency for detecting infrared radiation and visible radiation emitted by moving bodies has a lens, an optical device designed to subdivide the radiation into a flux of visible radiation and several fluxes of infrared radiation, several CCDs for detecting independently and sequentially the fluxes of infrared radiation, and one CCD for detecting the visible radiation. The data thus collected is converted into digital, optical and serial form and sent in a string to the central unit via an optical-fiber cable. The frame frequency which is obtained corresponds to the product obtained from the frequency of each CCD multiplied by the number of CCDs which detect the infrared radiation.
Claims12
Telecamera with a high frame frequency for detecting infrared radiation emitted by spot-shaped markers fixed to moving bodies and visible radiation emitted by said moving bodies as a whole comprising:
- a lens, an optical device which subdivides the radiation received by said lens into a plurality of separate radiation fluxes, a corresponding plurality of CCDs for independently detecting each of said radiation fluxes, a timing device which activates said CCDs sequentially, and a reading device which reads, in succession, images received by individual CCDs among said plurality of CCDs, thereby resulting in a telecamera having a frame frequency greater than a frame frequency of any individual CCD among said plurality of CCDs.
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