Photoelectric high scanning-rate digital storage and read-out device

Claim 1

APPARATUS OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED HAVING, IN COMBINATION, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING A PATTERN CONTAINING A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVELY POSITIONED TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS OF DATA, MEANS COMPRISING A SOURCE OF RADIANT ENERGY FOR PRODUCING SUCCESSIVE MAGNIFIED IMAGES OF ELEMENTS OF EACH SUCCESSIVE ARRAY OF DATA EXTENDING ALONG ONE DIMENSION THEREOF, EACH SUCCESSIVE IMAGE BEING DISPLACED ALONG THE SECOND DIMENSION OF THE PATTERN, AN ARRAY OF IMAGE-RESPONSIVE TRANSDUCERS, EACH OF WHICH IS SPACED FROM ITS ADJACENT TRANSDUCER A DISTANCE CORRESPONDING TO THE MAGNIFIED SEPARATION BETWEEN ADJACENT BITS OF DATA IN THE IMAGE, AND MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVELY POSITIONED MIRRORS ROTATABLE IN THE PATH OF THE IMAGE-PRODUCING MEANS, THE SUCCESSIVE MIRRORS BEING SKEWED AT SUCCESSIVELY DIFFERENT ANGLES WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION, THEREOF, FOR CAUSING THE SUCCESSIVE MAGNIFIED IMAGES OF EACH ARRAY OF DATA TO BE PRESENTED SUCCESSIVELY TO THE TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS, THEREBY TO SCAN THE PATTERN IMAGE, MEANS FOR PRE-SELECTING PREDETERMINED DATA THAT MAY BE CONTAINED WITHIN THE PATTERN, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE PRE-SELECTED MEANS AND THE TRANSDUCERS FOR PRODUCING AN INDICATION IF THE PREDETERMINED DATA HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO THE TRANSDUCERS DURING THE SAID SCAN.