High-resolution panoramic television surveillance system with synoptic wide-angle field of view

摘要

A panoramic television surveillance system includes an image- sensing station having an imaging sensor with a line-format field of view mounted on a platform rotatable about an azimuthal scan-rotational axis. The imaging sensor collects a "live" television-like panoramic synoptic surveillance image of the full panoramic wide-angle field. The image data is delivered by an image-data-delivery line, which incorporates a rotary- joint data link, to an image-monitoring station. The image-monitoring station includes an image-data-processor, display- buffer-storage, and a synoptic panoramic wide-angle array of visual monitor displays to permit continuous synoptic evaluation of the full panoramic scene, up to 360. degree. wide, at an observer-personnel position. Alternatively, the image- monitoring station includes the image- data processor and an image-data recorder for continuous recording of the image data for off-line evaluation.