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Patents no longer pending. (Digest).


Recon/Optical (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) was granted two European patents for its digital imaging technology inventions; the first titled " Electro Optical Step Frame Camera System with Image Motion Compensation Movement intentionally imparted to film at such a rate as to compensate for the forward motion of an air or space vehicle when photographing ground objects. ", is a foreign counterpart to ROI's US patent describing the same technology. Step framing captures large area, photographic quality digital images while enhancing the survivability sur·viv·a·ble  
adj.
1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment.

2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness.
 of the tactical reconnaissance platform--already in service by US Navy in the CA-261 cameras deployed to the Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pods/Completely Digital squadrons. The second patent, "Electro Optical Imaging Detector Array with Two Axis Image Motion Compensation", describes a method for achieving bi-directional, on-chip compensation- an on-chip, electronic, graded image motion compensation technology that eliminates the image blur caused by airborne platform motion in all three axes: roll, pitch and yaw yaw, in aviation: see airplane; airfoil.


See pitch-yaw-roll.
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