AUTOMATIC BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST CONTROL OF A VIDEO CAMERA FOR INDUSTRIAL OR MILITARY PURPOSES

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Attorney's Docket No. 8015 CAN INVENTORS: ALBIN VUICHARD, WERNER GEBAUER and BRUNO B?HLER INVENTION: AUTOMATIC BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST CONTROL OF A VIDEO CAMERA FOR INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY PURPOSES The brightness and the contrast are optimized in a video image which is used for controlling a manipulator unit. For this purpose, the gain/offset control means of a video camera producing the video image, is controlled using an image control unit in a manner such that the image data of an object can be processed by the image control unit in optimum manner. The manipulator unit may comprise an industrial robot manipulating a workpiece or a tool of a machine tool acting upon a workpiece. The manipulator unit can also be constructed as a target tracking platform for tracking a target which is imaged by the video camera. WWK:(01):eb:elncl