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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7187345 | Image forming method and charged particle beam apparatus An image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus suitable for suppressing the inclination of charging when scanning a two-dimensional area with a charged particle beam. A third scanning line located between a first scanning line and a second scanning li... | 03/06/2007 |
| 6819306 | Color correcting and ambient light responsive CRT system A light-emitting color display system is provided having an optical sensor system in which a plurality of photosensors are directed towards the light source of the light-emitting color display system to provide outputs proportional to the light energy associated wit... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6549246 | Method for driving projection cathode ray tube In a projection CRT, an image of high brightness is displayed on a screen as an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is scanned according to an image driving signal. The image is magnified and projected through a lens unit. Here, voltage of a direct... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6037041 | Glass object having an encodable layer The invention relates to a method of providing an encodable layer on a glass object and on the resultant product. The layer is formed by providing a paste containing glass frit, pigment and a binder, on the hot glass. As a result, the glass frit melts, ca... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5990944 | Streak tube sweeping method and a device for implementing the same A streak tube sweeping method in which a synchronization scan sweeping signal of a fixed repetition frequency is applied to vertical deflection plates in a streak tube, causing an electron beam, generated when a light to be measured is introduced to a pho... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5793448 | Cathode ray tube packages A cathode ray tube package includes a cathode ray tube assembly and a housing assembly including a deflection coil and/or at least one focus coil. The cathode ray tube assembly includes a collar (31) aligned with the electron beam, being arranged to mate ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5627586 | Moving body detection device of camera In a moving body detection device of a camera in this invention, in order to correctly detect an area in which a target moving body is present even when the camera moves, an area in which the moving body is present is detected from a plurality of divided ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5384597 | Image pickup tube utilizing third electrode and its operating method An image pickup tube is provided with the third electrode to control the potential of the region which is not scanned by an electron beam in the image pickup tube target section including a target electrode and a photo-conductive film. A method for operat... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5220429 | Vision system for detecting a picture and reproducing said picture as a picture within a picture A vision system comprising a pair of camera devices movably mounted contiguous to one another at substantially the same distance from the object field to be reproduced. A first of such camera devices has a relatively large viewing angle of the object fiel... | 06/15/1993 |
| 4956714 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus comprising: a charge storage member being movable; a photo-charge conversion unit comprising a photoconductive layer member having a transparent electrode, an electrode, and means for applying an electric field between said trans... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4945416 | Ultra-rapid electronic camera This invention is an ultra rapid digitally controlled electronic camera. It comprises a bilamellar optical image conversion tube having a photocathode, a narrow aperture for receiving photons from the object to be studied, a pair of electron accelerating ... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4916543 | Circular scan streak tube with electronic memory and readout A circular scan streak tube system for recording fast optical data includes a target having a first array of detection elements and a second array of corresponding storage elements. Changes in the scanning electron beam current representing optical events... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4910591 | Side and rear viewing apparatus for motor vehicles Apparatus permitting viewing of traffic conditions to the rear and side of a motor vehicle, which has opposite sides, comprises: (a) first and second video cameras and first and second display terminals having video screens, the cameras connected to the screen... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4843468 | Scanning techniques using hierarchical set of curves Conventionally, transmission of television images is performed by Raster scanning. To avoid the problems associated with flyback, and the limiting of Raster scanning to image scanning standards it is proposed to transmit images by scanning along a locus d... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4837631 | Electronic still camera tube An electronic camera tube includes a transparent envelope enclosing an evacuated cavity, a photocathode layer on a first internal surface of the envelope and an array of storage electrodes on a second internal surface of the envelope. The first and second... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4827346 | Electronic camera tube utilizing an array of charge storage cells for image storage and tunneling devices for readout An electronic camera tube includes a transparent envelope enclosing an evacuated cavity, a photocathode layer on a first internal surface of the envelope and an array of cells on a second internal surface of the envelope. The first and second surfaces are... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4791490 | Detector for three-dimensional optical imaging The detector includes a focusing lens for focusing pulsed laser light reflected from an object onto a fiber optic array. The fiber optic array is configured to receive a two-dimensional image from the focusing lens and to convert the two-dimensional image... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4740838 | Apparatus for superimposing a display of detected data for a vehicle An apparatus for superimposing a display image of vehicle data or position data of the vehicle on video signals of the surroundings of the vehicle. An object picked up is converted into video signals by an image pick-up camera having an image pick-up driv... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4713687 | Scan line type dynamic observation apparatus A scan line type dynamic observation apparatus suitable for obtaining a static image of specific phase by successively sampling signals of specific phases from image signals of an object of observation which varies at a period particularly several Hz to s... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4694220 | High-speed frame pick-up camera Electronic high-speed frame pick-up cameras for instantaneously or successively picking up an image of an object being observed while the structure and birghtness thereof are being changed at high speed. Each camera of this type consists of a first electr... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4684994 | Television camera tube with honeycomb grid electrode A television camera tube comprising in an evacuated envelope, an electron gun for generating at least one electron beam. The electron beam is focused onto a target, and is deflected over the target. A grid electrode having hexagonal apertures is provided ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4645983 | Image tube circuit An apparatus for controlling the deflection of an electron beam in an image pick-up tube of the type including a target screen, an electron gun for generating the electron beam, and a deflection device for causing the generated electron to scan the target... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4471378 | Light and particle image intensifier A light and charged particle image intensifier receives incident image conveying light or charged particles ("incident beam") and provides to data processing and video equipment signals from which the image conveyed by the incident beam can be constructed... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4439714 | Deflection control circuit A deflection control circuit is provided for a plural-tube color television camera for compensating the deflection sawtooth waves furnished to the red and blue image pickup tubes so that the images thereof register with the image of the green pickup tube,... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4439713 | Deflection control circuit for image pick-up tube A circuit for controlling the deflection of an electron beam in an image pick-up tube of the electro-static deflection type including a target electrode, a cathode electrode for generating the electron beam, and deflection plates for causing the electron ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4389668 | High definition television system The present invention relates to a television system using a pickup tube performing an oscillatory scan. On reception the picture restoration device uses a receiving tube which performs a linear restoration, but with a line frequency which is double the s... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4385316 | Image projection system An image projection system includes a cathode ray tube for generating light corresponding to an image; a projecting lens disposed in front of the cathode ray tube for focusing and projecting the light from the cathode ray tube, and having an optical axis;... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4368490 | Camera A camera has an image pick-up device for taking out image signals, and a setting circuit having a first setting mode for bringing the image pick-up device into a non-excited state, a second setting mode for bringing the image pick-up device into a first e... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4361783 | Target for picture tube, tube provided with such a target and picture apparatus incorporating such a tube The invention relates to a shooting target. The signal plate covering one of the faces of the actual target is subdivided into a plurality of electrically independent elementary signal plates in order to reduce the stray capacitance during the sampling of the ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4355336 | Digitally controlled electro-optical imaging system An electronic image-encoder with an SEC vidicon in which the electron beam is positioned according to a coordinate pair stored as digital signals and applied as analog signals to the deflection coils of the vidicon. This permits the beam to read selected ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4348611 | Ferroelectric or pyroelectric sensor utilizing a sodium nitrite layer A pyroelectric or ferroelectric sensing element consists of a substrate with a thin layer of sodium nitrite. Electrodes may be applied to both sides of the sodium nitrite layer, or, alternatively, only one electrode may be used. In one embodiment, an arra... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4323839 | Constant current load and constant voltage load power supply A regulating transistor is connected between a constant current load and a constant voltage load. A control circuit responds to voltage variations of the constant voltage load to adjust the transistor whereby a constant current and a constant voltage and ... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4310857 | Proximity focused streak tube and camera using the same Proximity focused streak tube having a photocathode for converting photon images from a source into photoelectrons. A phosphorous screen is provided for receiving the photoelectrons. The photocathode and the screen define a longitudinal tube axis. A chann... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4266247 | Proximity focused streak tube and streak camera using the same Proximity focused streak tube having a photocathode for converting photon images into photoelectrons. A phosphorous screen is provided for receiving the photoelectrons. The photocathode and the phosphorous screen define a longitudinal tube axis. A passive... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4249215 | Televison camera comprising a pick-up tube A television camera comprising a pick-up tube provided with a directly heated cathode which is connected to a heater voltage source which is implemented as a pulse voltage source, the pulse heater voltage being present in at least a portion of the line bl... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4217602 | Method and apparatus for generating and processing television signals for viewing in three dimensions Apparatus for generating and processing television TV signals of a visual scene for viewing in three dimensions, comprises a conventional TV camera, including three separate color video camera tubes, each camera tube adapted to receive light of a differen... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4166969 | Target and target assembly for a camera tube and method of manufacturing same A target and target assembly for a camera tube in which a semiconductor plate is provided on an annular support and consists of a semiconductor monocrystalline edge portion which comprises an integrated circuit for handling the electrical signals originat... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4117515 | Television camera having signal electrode strips A black-white or color television camera comprising a pick-up tube, provided with a signal electrode composed of separated strips. Prior to a line scan to be performed by an electron beam, the signal electrode strips are connected to a reference potential... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4013833 | Video system and method for presentation and reproduction of x-ray film images X-ray film images are projected onto the target plate of a video pickup tube such as a vidicon, in a video camera of the type used in closed video systems. The camera includes special circuits to compensate for the wide variation in intensity of light whi... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3984630 | Method of reducing the smearing of moving images The smearing of moving images due to photoconductive and capacitive lags inherent to the photoelectric conversion target of a television camera can be removed by reducing the scan area of the target so that the electron beam traverses the target at a lowe... | 10/05/1976 |
