Automatic focusing control of a video camera for industrial and military purposes

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4998209
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07382111

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The brightness and the contrast are optimized in a video image which is used for controlling a manipulator unit. For this purpose, the gain/offset control means of a video camera producing the video image, is controlled using an image control unit in a manner such that the image data of an object can be processed by the image control unit in optimum manner. The manipulator unit may comprise an industrial robot manipulating a workpiece or a tool of a machine tool acting upon a workpiece. The manipulator unit can also be constructed as a target tracking platform for tracking a target which is imaged by the video camera.

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CONTEXTRINA AGBIRCHSTRASSE 155 8050 ZURICH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Buhler, Bruno Stadel, CH 3 28
Gebauer, Werner Oberhasli, CH 1 23
Vuichard, Albin Mollis, CH 2 27

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