Inspection system for baggage

US4216499A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heimann GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Claus Kunze · Taunusstein, DE
• Manfred Dennhoven · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 28, 1978
• Grant date: Aug 5, 1980
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01V5/20
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A baggage inspection system utilizing fluoroscopy of baggage pieces and the like, employing an X-Ray flash unit, a television pick-up unit for scanning the X-Ray image, storage of the television image and subsequent image reproduction by a television monitor, in which, in accordance with the invention, the memory is a digital solid state memory for the digital storage of a half frame, of an interlaced video frame of the television pick-up unit, with a capacity of 6 to 8 bits per image-point of the image signal to be stored.