A cutaneous stimulator includes a plurality of pairs of first and second immediately adjacent, noncontinguous contacts, the plurality of said first contacts being arranged in columns and the plurality of said second contacts being arranged in rows, each of the contacts in each respective column being interconnected and each of the contacts in each respective row being interconnected, and means for energizing selected columns and rows, whereby the respective pairs of contacts at the respective in...

A complex spatial filter is provided by the combination of two dichroic ctal plates, one quarter waveplate, and two linear polarizers. The complex spatial filter consists of real and imaginary parts, both of which can have either a positive or negative sign and the structure is capable of eraseably recording varying degrees of absorbency which exhibit polarization discrimination in a desired format that can then be used to process the Fourier transform of a light beam containing desired informat...

A loudspeaker system having two angled rear panels with four drivers on each rear panel and a single driver on the front panel has the drivers connected in series between first and second terminals and a third terminal connected to the junction of the front driver and one of the banks of series-connected rear drivers. First and second power amplifiers are connected between the third terminal and the first and second terminals, respectively. A potentiometer is connected between the inputs of the ...

An image spatial filter comprises back-to-back image cavities with means for coupling energy from one cavity to the other. Large angle of incidence energy is attenuated by each image cavity successively, thus providing a high degree of attenuation. Two quarter wavelength dielectric sheets with a ground plane between them and spaced from each by one-half wavelength form the image cavities. Slots in the ground plane provide coupling from one cavity to the other. Image spatial filters are not subst...

A flash beacon is described which uses a strong bright initial flash to attract attention followed by a series of weaker flashes to enable a person to easily locate the beacon source. The weaker flashes may be broken into code groups for identification or other purposes. An electrical circuit utilizing three capacitor banks interacting with each other, is described for operating the flash sequences.

A spatial filter system for filtering a matrix of data values by an m.times.n matrix, where the m.times.n matrix is the product of a 1.times.n matrix and a m.times.a matrix. The system includes a first spatial filter adapated to filter each row of the data matrix with the 1.times.m matrix to provide a first filtered value matrix. The system also includes a second spatial filter adapted to filter each column of the first filtered value matrix with the m.times.1 matrix to provide a second filtered...

An apparatus is described which is responsive to a sequence of received data-compacted pixels representative of a coarse two-dimensional image of a remote scene for reconstituting picture point intensity signals representative of the smoothly shading in of the coarse image. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus comprises: first means for utilizing the first one of the sequence of received data-compacted pixels to develop the initial intensity of the first one of a plurality of horizontal lines...

A microchannel spatial light modulator that has a photocathode to receive incident light and to provide a spatial distribution of photoelectrons (herein called an electron image) whose spatial number density is proportional to the spatial intensity of the incident light. A microchannel plate is provided to receive the photoelectrons and to amplify the electron image. An electro-optic plate is provided to receive the amplified electron image; there is a dielectric mirror coating and an insulating...

An apparatus for effecting independent spatial amplitude and phase modulan of a light beam. Two birefringent crystal modulation means such as PROM's (Pockel's Readout Optical Modulator) are arranged so that the first modulation means spatially modulates the amplitude of the beam in accordance with an input image applied to the first modulation means while the second modulation means spatially modulates the phase of the beam in accordance with an input image which is applied to the second modulat...

A time compressed radar display system for presenting to the operator radar eturn video which has been accumulated over a relatively long period of time in a very short time span, preferably at TV frame rates. A scan converter receives the radar position data in polar coordinate format and converts it to rectangular coordinate format. Each of the rectangular cells, resulting from the scan conversion, is provided with an address. The radar video is continuously converted from analog to digital. M...