SBIR/STTR Research Award
IMAGE SENSOR EHANCEMENT AND INTERPRETATION UNIT
Award amount
$540,035Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Silhouette Technology, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
LARGE FORMAT FILM BASED IMAGERY IS USED IN MILITARY SURVEILLANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, AND EARTH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. IN MANY APPLICATIONS, IT IS NECESSARY TO FIRST CONVERT THE FILM IMAGERY TO COMPUTER COMPATIBLE DATA BY READING OR DIGITIZING BEFORE PROCESSING OF THE IMAGE DATA MAY BEGIN. AT PRESENT, NO SINGLE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE READER UNIT OFFERS THE SPEED, PRECISION AND FILM SIZE CAPABILITY SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE NEEDS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR THE RAPID CONVERSION OF FILM IMAGERY TO COMPUTER DATA. SILHOUETTE TECHNOLOGY HAS DEVELOPED A NEW TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE AN AFFORDABLE, DESK-TOP FILM READER OFFERING RAPID AND ACCURATE DIGITIZATION OF LARGE FILM IMAGERY. THE DEVICE EXCEEDS THE CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING SYSTEMS, WITHOUTTHE USE OF ESOTERIC MATERIALS, OR COSTLY PRECISION COMPONENTS.
Technology keywords
Not reported