Reproduction of a field of view as scanned by a remote controlled aircraft

DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A system for reproducing an image of a particular field-of-view from a remote controlled vehicle, and along its travel path, comprising: sensing means on the vehicle and provided for continuously line scanning the field of view, the lines running transversely to the direction of propagation of the vehicle, thereby providing a line scan signal of on a continuous basis, and representing the lines covering the field-of-view sequentially and continuously as the vehicle progresses the lines running transverse to the direction of propagation of the vehicle and without field scan transverse to the direction of the lines other than the movement of the vehicle transversely to the direction of the lines; first means for transmitting the line scan signal to a station being stationary or moving independent from the vehicle; second means for receiving said transmitted line scan signal at said station; signal processing means including means (a) for storing said line scan signal as sequentially received with respect to sequential lines for assembling information of an image field in the sequence of line scanning, and as a plurality of lines, whereby each line as received for storage by the means (a) is stored in a particular position corresponding in the image field, said processing means further including means (b) for causing the stored signal to be shifted in the means (a) as to their respective line positions in the image field upon adding of the signals of each newly received line in the particular position, so as to obtain shifting of each line in the image field to different positions in the image field corresponding to the progression of the vehicle, each line remaining in the store until being dumped; each line as stored in means (a) is not being updated as to its content by scanning signals from the sensing means; and display means connected to the means for storing, and displaying on a screen the plurality of the lines as stored in the means (a) repeatedly and independently from the updating of the image in the means (a), but including each new scanning line and the lines as shifted by operation of the means (b), resulting in shifting of the display of the lines across the screen at a rate proportional to and representative of the speed of the vehicle, whereby each line as initially stored is displayed repeatedly but in different positions on the screen