A double screen former for the manufacture of a paper web has two continuous screens forming together a double screen zone. The one screen runs in the double screen zone across rigid laths that are arranged on the dewatering box at a mutual spacing. Additionally, the other screen runs in the double screen zone across several laths which are supported by means of flexible elements and can be forced on the screen at a selective force. The space between the flexibly supported laths is at least appr...

A twin wire former wherein the forming turbulence of a first forming section is quieted by a main forming roller. Behind the main forming roller, as viewed with respect to a predetermined direction of travel of the forming wires, there is accomplished a further forming of the paper web or sheet from the fiber stock suspension in a second forming section. Due to this arrangement there is possible optimum formation of the paper web or sheet with the use of very little dilution water for the fiber ...

A twin-wire former for a paper machine which can produce paper of good formation over a wide range of basis weight and at a speed of wide variation essentially consisting of a top wire and a bottom wire. The bottom wire with a wet material thereon substantially horizontally travels. The top wire approaches the material from above and travels downward together with the bottom wire on the circumference of a supporting member provided in the loop of the bottom wire while pressing the material betwe...

A low power imaging array has a plurality of pixels wherein each pixel converts an intensity of incident light into electrical energy. An operational transconductance amplifier is utilized in conjunction with the imaging array to process the image signals from the low power imaging array. The operational transconductance amplifier includes a current mirror stage with a current mirror gain factor. The current mirror gain factor is selected based on a pixel noise level introduced by the low power ...

An amount of charges consonant with the intensity of the light entering photodiodes is generated, and the level of the charges is determined by a charge level determination circuit. Based on this determined charge level, a capacitance setting circuit sets a capacitance of an integrating capacitor unit in an integrating circuit. Thereafter, in the integrating circuit, the charges generated by the photodiodes are integrated in the integrating capacitor unit, and a voltage having a value consonant ...

An active pixel sensor cell array in which a partial transimpedance amplifier amplifies the output of each cell. The pixel sensor cell array comprises a plurality of pixel sensor cells and a second part of the amplifier. Each pixel sensor cell comprises a photo-sensitive element, a capacitor and a first part of an amplifier. The capacitor is coupled between a terminal of the photo-sensitive element and an output line of the cell. The capacitor is operable to provide a capacitive feedback in the ...

A data processing arrangement comprises an input circuit [INP], an interconnection network [ICN] and a data processing circuit [PRC]. The input circuit [INP] forms successive groups of data [GRP] and, moreover, generates a basic control data item [BCD] and an additional control data item [SCD] for each group of data [GRP]. A basic control data item [BCD] indicates for each data item one of a plurality of terminals [1 4] to which the data item should be applied. An additional control data item [S...

An imager and a method for real-time, non-destructive monitoring of light incident on imager pixels during their exposure to light. Real-time or present pixel signals, which are indicative of present illumination on the pixels, are compared to a reference signal during the exposure. Adjustments, if necessary, are made to programmable parameters such as gain and/or exposure time to automatically control the imager's exposure to the light. In a preferred exemplary embodiment, only a selected numbe...

An MOS-type solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging region formed by two-dimensionally arranging unit cells serving as photoelectric conversion portions on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of vertical address lines arranged in a row direction of the imaging region to select a row of unit cells to be addressed, a plurality of vertical signal lines arranged in a column direction of the imaging region to read out signals from the unit cells in each column, a plurality of load transi...

An electronic exposure control system for an active pixel CMOS image sensor includes a row decoder and a column decoder for respective row-wise and column-wise addressing of the image signal generating pixels. The decoders receive row and column addresses and control signals from a controller. The row addresses received by the row decoder are alternately switched between a predetermined row address for resetting the image signals of pixels in said row and another predetermined spaced apart row a...