Abstract: A power supply circuit limits the voltage on a filter capacitor driven by rectified half-cycles of an input AC waveform. A FET switch in series with the current charging the filter capacitor is opened as soon as the charge on the filter capacitor is adequate. A voltage triggered latch circuit is responsive to the rectified AC input applied through a decoupling diode to the filter capacitor, and supplies a control signal to the FET switch. A further sensing circuit can monitor the current charging the filter capacitor, and can trigger the latch to open the FET switch as needed to limit initial in-rush current during the initial application of AC power. The decoupling diode decouples the rectified peaks provided by the rectifiers from the voltage on the filter capacitor.

Abstract: An image processor for converting an input matrix of input pixels into an output matrix of output pixels, where the number of input pixels differs from the number of output pixels. From the input matrix, the image processor generates an intermediate resolution matrix. The number of pixels in a particular dimension of the intermediate resolution matrix is an integer multiple of the desired number of output pixels in the same dimension. This enables the image processor to select from the intermediate resolution matrix output pixels which are evenly space from one another in the same dimension.

Abstract: An electronic distance meter is interfacable to a controller and measures distance to a moving target by comparing the phase of a signal propagated to the target with the phase of the reflected signal. A time mark indicating when the measurement was made is corrected by an offset to compensate for an apparent distance error related to the doppler effect. The corrected time mark indicates when the target was actually at the apparent distance. An asynchronously resettable timer provides measurement-to-measurement elapsed time information so that position-in-time and velocity data may be obtained. A multi-valued annunciator indicates the integrity of the target signal path.