The image projector as disclosed herein demonstrates an apparatus and method for creating a three-dimensional image. The projector is composed of a plurality of modules which are controllably illuminated to form the desired display. The modules are formed to be illuminated and to pass light from within through their walls and to prevent light from entering their outer walls when said modules are not illuminated.

Image enhancement is achieved to increase the ability to distinguish details otherwise difficult to discern in bright and dark areas of a photorecord by reflecting light off surface perturbations on the record and displaying the reflected light by means of schlieren optics.

A process for correcting data from a bistatic synthetic aperture radar to eliminate distortions and resolution limitations due to the relative positions and motions of the radar transmitter and receiver with respect to a target.

A plurality of photoconductive cells are each formed on an insulating substrate to extend in a straight line. The photoconductive cells are divided into m groups, each consisting of n cells, which is connected at one end to a common electrode, and corresponding ones of the photoconductive cells of the m groups are connected to individual select electrodes, respectively. By turning ON group select switches in a sequential order, the common electrodes are connected to a power source one at a time ...

In the reproduction of colored images, the "white point", that is to say a point which determines which areas are to be printed with zero-ink, is a critical adjustment. In this invention, signals representing the three color components derived from the original are applied to a NAND gate (14) and when all of these signals simultaneously represent a zero printing color condition, the NAND gate generates a zero-ink signal. This is used to modify the zero-ink or white display on the monitor tube, f...

Improved resolution of magnetic toner image on a substrate is obtained by removing excess toner from a recording member containing parallel lines of flux by passing an air flow substantially parallel to the premagnetization line pattern to remove excess toner prior to toner transfer to the substrate.

An image sensor causes a solid-state imaging device, at the scanning of an image, to release in succession a dark current signal generated in the solid-state imaging device and a scanning signal containing said dark current signal, subtracts said dark current signal from said scanning signal by a differential circuit to obtain an image signal corresponding to said image, and so regulates by means of an integrating time control circuit and in response to the level of said image signal, the image ...

Unsharp masking operations of original video signals are performed by a couple of processor systems (100, 200), which are interconnected in cascades logically to share the burden of the operations. One processor system (100) in the preceding stage executes a part of unsharp masking operations by accumulating the original video signals with respect to the pixels involved in an original image to transfer the resultant data together with the associated original video signals to the other processor ...

An image encoder for encoding the image data so as to make the image quality of a selected area better than that of the other areas without increasing the amount of data is disclosed. The encoder comprises an area selecting section for selecting a specific area in an image, an area position and shape encoding section for encoding the position and shape of the selected area, a coding parameter adjusting section for adjusting various parameters used to control the image quality and the amount of d...

A linear image sensor of a self-scanning type comprising a phototransistor array and a scanning circuit, whose circuit comprises decoders of current switches connected dendritically, input signal converter circuits generating input signals for driving the current switches, and a current switch array which turns on or off charging currents to the phototransistors according to whether or not an output current of decoder exists, so that video signals from the phototransistors, when the output curre...