The parallel processing, high-speed, compact system fabrication possibility, low power
dissipation and size, plus weight advantages of optical processors have achieved great …

Optical processing over the past 10 years has made significant advances in implementing a
great number of digital pattern recognition algorithms. Especially important are optical …

An all new type of absolute, optical encoder with ultra-high sensitivity has been developed at
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. These position measuring encoders are …

Recent optical data processing (ODP) research at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) is
reviewed. This includes pattern recognition work on feature extraction and correlation …

The design philosophy for a hybrid processor has been presented through examples of
several systems and by brief discussions of various applications. The diffraction pattern …

Pattern-recognition systems, techniques, and applications using coherent optical systems
are reviewed. Many optical pattern-recognition system architectures exist that include time …

This book presents the papers given at a conference on optical and hybrid computers.
Topics considered at the conference included algorithms for linear and nonlinear systems …

A hybrid time and space integrating processor is shown to provide more than one operation
per analog to digital conversion. A preferred performance measure, operations per second …

Martin Marietta has successfully completed a TOPS optical pattern recognition program. The
program culminated in August 1994 with an automatic target recognition flight demonstration …

Still images were first captured and Stored through the use of film cameras. Later
developments allowed capture of moving images by taking a sequence of images (frames) …