An Airborne Programmable Digital to Video Converter Interface and Operation Manual.

Abstract

This report describes the operational commands, data structure and storage, and interface to the Airborne Programmable Digital to Video Converter (DVC). The DVC accepts and converts data from an external digital computer into a standard 525 line television format which can be displayed either in black and white or color. The system was developed for night navigation/pilotage and nap-of-the-earth helicopter flight studies. The design goal was to develop a general purpose computer-driven display whose information content and control functions could be determined by software. Contour maps displaying up to 16 shades of grey or color and various aircraft symbology were the two main items to be displayed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA096422

Entities

People

  • Edward A. Karcher
  • Vincent J. Organic

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Alphanumeric Data
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Converters
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Diagrams
  • Digital Computers
  • Display Systems
  • Gray Scale
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Matrix Displays
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Video
  • Video Converters

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Computer Vision.