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Mapping systems

US4276618A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1979
Grant dateJun 30, 1981
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Expiry dateMay 11, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S7/52063
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

For ultrasonic or other mapping systems which use PPI scan, it is desirable to convert the data to a raster scan format for, say, T.V. display. This may be achieved by conversion in a frame store. It is here proposed to time the PPI scan so that points interrogated by the effective receiving beam lie also on line of a cartesian matrix in the mapped region which correspond to the raster lines of the display thus the conversion is directly achieved.

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