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Digital imaging has become more widespread with the advent of digital video and still cameras, Special effects using digital compositing techniques, and advanced optical processing applications. With this spread of digital imaging has come a requirement for higher-resolution systems capable of competing with standard halide film technologies. It has been estimated that a typical 35mm.modern colo ...

Untethered head mounted displays must be battery operated to achieve the benefits of mobility expected for them. Thus, the display element inside should operate at low voltage and consume small amounts of power to provide maximum battery life. Battery operation also demands that the display element make the most efficient possible use of electrically produced light which illuminates the display. ...

Tactical wheeled vehicles represent a prominent portion of the Army's budget for both acquisition and operating costs. TACOM has identified suspension lubrication as a mission critical area for improvement. The goal is to lubricate a vehicle's suspension continuously for two years. This should create a cascade of cost effects in both maintainability and reliability. Single-point lubricators ba ...

A full motion video compression system with synchronized sound based on the MPEG-1 standard will be developed to provide a high compression ration and software playback capability on the Contract Test Set (CTS) III. Phase I will research new techniques in the areas of digital video preprocessing, adaptive quantization, motion prediction and bitstream manipulation with the objective of developing ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a Waveform Agile Signal Processor (WASP) to support the next generation of fuzing systems and subsystems. WASP is designed to~provide high performance, waveform agile, adaptive signal processing for a variety of RF and optical fuze sensors. WASP is designed to support pulsed time domain, frequency domain, phase, direct sequen ...

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The current market for fast switching frequency sythesizers is growing rapidly. Most synthesizers available today will not meet the stringent requirements for switching quickly, providing spectrally pure RF outputs and minimizing physical size and cost. As part of a current SBIR program, S.T. Research has developed a wideband, fast switching synthesizer, based on the use of broadband phase-locke ...