Coherent optical pattern recognition using computer-generated holograms
A relatively inexpensive optical processing system is described which uses a TV camera to demonstrate visually many of the features of Fourier transform theory with particular application to character recognition. The method uses a computer-generated hologram of the character in the transform plane to detect the presence of the character.
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