A bowl for storing tubing such as a catheter is provided. The bowl includes a bottom wall and a side wall having an inner surface formed integrally with the bottom wall. The side wall extends generally perpendicularly from the bottom wall. An inwardly extending retaining member is integrally provided on the inner surface of the side wall to retain the catheter in the bowl. In a preferred embodiment, the bowl is nestable with similar bowls.

In a process of geometrically deforming an original picture by changing the picture element pitches, weight coefficients g calculated for the picture elements according to preselected magnification variation factors are read out of a first memory whenever original picture data F are read successively, the contents Fg of a second memory are read out according to addresses defined by the data g and F, and the addition result of the data Fg is divided by the addition result of the data g, thereby t...

"Black" runs thinned from a substantially two-tone original pattern and having a pattern stroke width of a substantially single picture element are classified into four states where a black run in a present scanning line is (1) linked with a leading side of black run in a next previous line, (2) linked with a trailing side of the latter, (3) aligned with the latter in both sides, and (4) not linked with the latter. The former is defined to be linked with the latter when they have either a vertex...

A digital circuit for detecting changes in the gray scale of scanned images is disclosed. Each line of video information produced by scanning the image is digitized. Each digital sample is compared to digital samples delayed a predetermined amount to generate a difference signal which is indicative of a change in the gray scale having a component perpendicular to the direction of scan. The digitized samples of the video signal are also stored in a memory having a capacity sufficient to store dat...

With known methods for predictive decorrelation this decorrelation only applies to one or more previously scanned elements of the same picture line. In accordance with the invention a picture to be scanned is divided into sub-pictures wherein a number of picture lines equal to the number of lines comprised in a sub-picture is intermediately stored in shift registers, a processing circuit being connected to the last stages of these shift registers, which processing circuit multiplies the values o...

An apparatus is described which is responsive to a sequence of received data-compacted pixels representative of a coarse two-dimensional image of a remote scene for reconstituting picture point intensity signals representative of the smoothly shading in of the coarse image. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus comprises: first means for utilizing the first one of the sequence of received data-compacted pixels to develop the initial intensity of the first one of a plurality of horizontal lines...

Ink jet and xerographic binary graphic printers are disclosed which make reproductions by marking the pixels within a raster pattern on a copy sheet with a high or low density (e.g. black or white) mark in response to electrical printing signals. The printing signals are generated by comparing the magnitude of video signals representative of a continuous tone raster image with electrical screen signals organized into halftone cells according to a pattern. A shift circuit processes received video...

In a picture restoring method, an original picture is divided into picture elements arranged in matrix form, the picture elements are grouped into picture element regions each of which has an arrangement of nxn picture elements, and each picture element region is divided into a minute picture element region having an arrangement of 1.5n.times.1.5n minute picture elements. The density levels of the minute picture element in each minute picture element region are determined black or white accordin...

A method and apparatus for image processing on a radiation image which may be a conventional radiographic image on X-ray film or a radiation image which is stored in a stimulable phosphor and read out therefrom. The radiation image is scanned by a light beam or stimulating rays and an image signal is obtained by use of a photodetector. The image signal is subjected to a frequency processing by use of an unsharp masking process. The unsharp mask signal (Sus) is used for conducting an operation of...

A real-time image processing device having only one image memory. Consecutive images are sequentially fed in digital form to a recursive filter. The memory is employed in the recursive filter as a "delay element", as result of which noise integration and differential image determination between consecutive images take place.