Accession Number:

ADD014540

Title:

All-Optical Device and Method for Remapping Images.

Descriptive Note:

Patent Application, filed 20 Feb 90,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Johnson, John L.

Report Date:

1990-02-20

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

An all-optical polar transform device transforms animage in rectangular coordinates into an image in polar coordinates by reflecting an input image-containing beam from a series of suitably positioned reflective surfaces and finally transmits the beam out as an output beam containing the transformed image. Patent applications.

Descriptors:

• *PATENT APPLICATIONS
• *OPTICAL PROPERTIES
• *OPTICAL IMAGES
• COORDINATES
• OUTPUT
• RECTANGULAR BODIES
• REFLECTION
• SURFACES
• MAPPING(TRANSFORMATIONS)
• IMAGE PROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Optics
• Theoretical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE