A dimensional advertising and instructional device designed to be attached to a universal telephone cord is provided for the purpose of advertisement and/or to provide the user with instructional or general information.

A circular knitting machine having a main supporting frame which is stationary and a plurality of operating instrumentalities arranged to move about a central axis of the machine during the knitting operation. A first control device is provided on the stationary supporting frame. A second control device is provided on a machine part which is arranged to move about said axis. The first and second control devices each include a light signal source and a light signal receptor. A first optical fiber...

A video signal reproducing system including a still picture reproduction function is provided with correction circuitry for preventing the line jitter problem which often occurs in conventional units. A memory circuit is provided which has a capacity of at least one field, and receives a video input via a variable delay circuit. The output is derived, in alternate fields, from the memory circuit or a correction circuit. In one embodiment, the correction circuit may deliver a line interpolated si...

An information device comprising a substrate having applied thereto: (1) an agent which absorbs electromagnetic radiation in the infra-red to ultra-violet region of the spectrum, said agent being capable of easy removal from the substrate by physical means, and (2) a second agent which is capable of increasing the fixation of the first agent to the substrate, said second agent being applied to the substrate in a localized manner to form an invisible image which becomes detectable when the substr...

Information processing, for example by means of a computer, is served by a tablet in combination with an inputting implement such as stylus or human finger. Such a tablet-implement combination may serve in lieu of or ancillary to other inputting means such as a keyboard. Implement positional information, e.g., as contacting the tablet, depends upon interpolation as between segmenting lines in the tablet. Cost advantage commensurate with resolution/noise desiderata is ascribable to use of analog ...

An information kiosk is disclosed which provides interactive operation with an unfamiliar user. A video display provides instructions and solicited information to the user who enters choices on a keypad input device. The kiosk provides printed information which the user may carry away from the kiosk. Graphic as well as textual information is dispensed by the kiosk.

An information device is provided with a storage unit for storing information, with an input element comprising keys, with a memory including a plurality of memory locations, with a computer, and with a unit connected to the storage unit to display the information stored therein. Command sequences which can predetermined are stored in the memory locations in the form of status blocks, the computer having access to the command sequence in each status block. Memory locations in the respective stat...

This invention relates to an information network such as a telepoint network, having discrete communications units, such as telephone communications handsets (14), where each unit has a user-inaccessible memory. The invention also applies to networks of other units, such as smart cards. The network has regional controllers (11 and 12) for funnelling information from base stations (10) into a central controller (13). At the central controller, analysis of past communications is carried out and, b...

A video record for recording optically readable information is provided with a characteristic information code for quick searching of desired information. The information code is preferably provided within the information video lines which preceed the video information in every video signal. The recorded video information can consist of, for example, radiograms, texts for literature retrieval, an encyclopedia, educational information for teaching machines and the like. In a device for writing in...

Reproducing the information stored in the spiral track of a record-type information-bearing disc is achieved by uniformly charging the surface of the disc by means of a corona-generating device disposed in proximity to the disc, and, thereafter, using a conductive stylus riding in the track of the disc to pick up the charge from only the peak points of the track. All peaks are at the same height. The system preferably uses FM encoding, and the information is carried by the track according to the...