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television cameras and displays
- In television: Camera image sensors
Electronic camera tubes were one of the major inventions that led to the ultimate technological success of television. Today they have been replaced in most cameras by smaller, cheaper solid-state imagers such as charge-coupled devices. Nevertheless, they firmly established the principle of line scanning (introduced by…
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use in smart bomb
- In smart bomb
In an electro-optical system, a television camera in the nose of the bomb sends real-time pictures of the target area to the aircrew, who then lock the weapon onto the target or actively guide it all the way to impact. In bombs with the laser-guidance system, commonly called laser-guided bombs,…
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