Class 348/331 - With photoconductive target (e.g., vidicon)

Subclass of Class 348 - Television
Definition: Subject matter wherein the cathode-ray tube includes a target
No. of patents: 25
Last issue date: 10/31/2006

Number	Title	Issue Date
7129986	Wireless camera system A wireless camera including an enclosure having a lens opening; an imaging sensor positioned toward the lens opening; memory coupled to the camera to receive image data from the imaging sensor; and a wireless transmitter coupled to the camera. ...	10/31/2006
7012643	One chip, low light level color camera A high sensitivity, single chip, low light level imaging device is provided. The imaging device of the present invention utilizes sparse color sampling, to maximize the luminance information gathered. In particular, color information is gathered by a small proportio...	03/14/2006
6208335	Method and apparatus for providing a menu structure for an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for providing an interactive menu structure within an interactive information distribution system. The menu structure is embodied in a combination of software, which provides a so-called navigator and a set top terminal that provide...	03/27/2001
5270756	Method and apparatus for generating high resolution vidicon camera images An efficient system for generating high resolution photogrammetric image data from a Vidicon camera. The Vidicon camera acquires sequential images of a scene and provides multiple overlapping frames of sequential image data corresponding thereto. A mechan...	12/14/1993
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
5195118	X-ray and gamma ray electron beam imaging tube A large area video camera is suitable for high energy imaging applications. The sensor-target of the camera tube is composed of TlBr or a two layer structure comprising CsI and a photoconductive layer of materials such as amorphous silicon, amorphous sele...	03/16/1993
4716468	Apparatus for controlling the electron beam in a television camera tube A camera tube device for use in, for example, a television camera comprises a cathode emitting electrons, and a first grid and a second grid having respective apertures for converging the electrons emitted from the cathode into a fine electron beam. The a...	12/29/1987
4708619	Apparatus for spinning monofilaments Apparatus for spinning monofilaments made of thermoplastic synthetic resin, with a spinning head for monofilaments, at least one spinning panel with a plurality of nozzle orifices, one or more spinning pumps with a motor equipped with a regulator for cont...	11/24/1987
4704635	Large capacity, large area video imaging sensor Deleterious effects of high capacitance in large area raster scanner image tubes, especially when employed in video cameras, can be overcome by employing the following features: (1) a plurality of transparent stripe signal electrodes; (2) a unique, multip...	11/03/1987
4581648	Video camera system A video camera system adapted for low light levels and daylight where a prism is selectively movable to present an image to one of two optical paths for either mode of operation. In the low light level mode of operation, a relay lens is provided to relay ...	04/08/1986
4492981	TV Camera tube A TV camera tube suitable for the HN system comprising a glass faceplate covered by an n-type transparent electrode layer consisting of Nesa glass on which a thin p+ -type layer, a p-type layer and an n-type layer are deposited in succession to...	01/08/1985
4360834	Television camera comprising a television pick-up tube and an anti-microphonics circuit A television camera comprising a television pick-up tube and an anti-microphonics circuit provided with a microphonics detection circuit (17) having a voltage-controlled oscillator included in a phase-locked loop circuit. The detection circuit (17) is not...	11/23/1982
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
4344092	Miniature video camera means for video system A miniature video camera means adapted for use in a video system having a video imaging means for producing an electrical video signal, a housing means defining an opening therethrough to permit an optical image from an optical device to be focused on an ...	08/10/1982
4266248	Device having a camera tube A device having a camera tube of the vidicon type. During flybacks of the deflection, the beam current and the cathode potential is increased so as to achieve the so-called anti-comet tail effect. In order to ensure that the beam lands on the radiation se...	05/05/1981
4190858	Method for improved performance of infrared vidicon cameras Infra red (IR) vidicon camera tube performance is improved by alternately switching the sensing layer voltage to one of two values in synchronism with the frame rate of an IR TV camera. In operation the sensing layer is switched to a high voltage for two ...	02/26/1980
4174525	Television camera having low-frequency noise correction A television camera features an oscillator signal which modulates the video signal to eliminate microphonics. The signal is applied to the cathode to reduce the required power. It can be a multiple of the line frequency to simplify frequency generation....	11/13/1979
4101931	Silicon diode array vidicon with electronically controlled sensitivity Silicon diode array target sensitivity is made adjustable over a wide range by retracing the reading electron beam in the erase mode for each line, a variable number of scan periods ahead of its being read....	07/18/1978
4067045	Low light level camera with parallel-connected slidably mounted intensifier assemblies A low light level camera includes a plurality of identical modular-type intensifier assemblies which are removably clamped together, and are connected in electrical parallel with one another. The intensifier assembly is axially movable with respect to the...	01/03/1978
4042960	Threshold sampling of vidicon camera A non-interlaced video camera has 24 light pipes orthogonally terminated at its field of view, each light pipe having a lens at its distal end focused at a spot on one of a plurality of spinning, labeled bottles. For each of the spinning bottles, the vidi...	08/16/1977
4028730	Vidicon camera for closed circuit television system A vidicon camera adapted for use in a direct wire television system and having a vidicon tube, a metal housing having means defining an opening therethrough to permit an optical image to be focused on the imaging surface of the vidicon tube, a first print...	06/07/1977
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
3975657	Method of and apparatus for controlling amount of electron beam in image pickup tube A method of and an apparatus for controlling the amount of the electron beam in a photoconduction type image pickup tube in which the signal corresponding to the return beam from the photoelectric conversion plane is detected, the detected signal is compa...	08/17/1976
3961363	Color pickup tubes In a color pickup tube for use in a single tube or two tube type color television camera system wherein an optical color analyzing stripe filter, a transparent film, a transparent electroconductive film and a photoconductor film are disposed in the order ...	06/01/1976
3946265	Vidicon with grid wire angles selected to minimize chrominance signal interference A television camera tube having a conductive gauze behind the target plate, the parallel wires of which cross each other at an acute angle which has been suitably chosen to minimize interference in decoded colour signals....	03/23/1976

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Class 348/331 - With photoconductive target (e.g., vidicon)