| 词条 | Frederic C. Billingsley |
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Frederic Crockett Billingsley (23 July 1921 – 31 May 2002) was an American engineer, who spent most of his career developing techniques for digital image processing in support of American space probes to the moon, to Mars, and to other planets. Billingsley published two papers in 1965 using the word pixel,[1] and may have been the first to publish that neologism for picture element. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and died in Great Falls, Montana. Image processing contributionsBillingsley was one of the pioneers of digital image processing mentioned in "THE BEST OF NASA'S SPINOFFS,"[2] which says:
The JPL document "Overview of VICAR"[3] shows that Billingsley did software as well as hardware:
References1. ^Richard F. Lyon, "A Brief History of 'Pixel'," SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference Digital Photography II, SPIE vol. EI 6069, 2006. 2. ^{{cite web | url = http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/spinoff.html | title = THE BEST OF NASA'S SPINOFFS | publisher = NASA Johnson Space Center}} 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/PAG/public/vug/vug3.html | title = Overview of VICAR | publisher = NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory}} External links
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