Gridding and printout device for meteorological data receiver/recorder

Claim 1

A gridding and printout device for televised scenes comprising: a video receiver system having a scanning line fiber optic cathode ray tube with a light sensitized paper continuously driven by motor means across the face of said tube to record continuously televised scenes received; a flying spot scanner fiber optic cathode ray tube coupled in electrical synchronism with said video receiver system to produce flying spot scanning across its face in synchronism with the line fiber optic cathode ray tube scanning; a continuously movable film strip having longitude and latitude grid lines thereon driven by said motor means across the face of said flying spot scanner cathode ray tube in synchronism with the speed of travel of said sensitized paper; and a photo detector positioned to view the face of said flying spot scanner fiber optic cathode ray tube through said continuously movable film strip to convert light impulses across said longitude and latitude grid lines into electrical signals, the output of said phototube being coupled to said line fiber optic cathode ray tube to superimpose said grid lines on said scene whereby video signals of scenes fRom a remote transmitter are received and reproduced visually on said sensitized paper with latitude and longitude grid lines corresponding to the scene and corrected for altitude.