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Image enhancement

US4416538A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 7, 1981
Grant dateNov 22, 1983
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Expiry dateDec 7, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B27/542
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Image enhancement is achieved to increase the ability to distinguish details otherwise difficult to discern in bright and dark areas of a photorecord by reflecting light off surface perturbations on the record and displaying the reflected light by means of schlieren optics.

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