A solid state color television camera which handles a composite color video signal consisting of interlaced full field informations. The color camera employs a charge coupled device the picture elements of which are selected to be in a shifted relation by 1/2 of alignment pitch in the vertical direction between odd and even fields, and in which a color filter to be disposed between an object and the charge coupled device is arranged in its construction such that the charge coupled device is capa...

A solid state switch is provided which has four terminals, two for the A.C. power which is to be switched and two for signal input. The circuit comprises a full wave bridge rectifier having a light-activated silicon controlled rectifier connected across its D.C. terminals. A capacitor and a light-activated transistor are added to a zero-cross firing circuit whereby the solid state switch is protected from high voltage transients and is applicable for use with resistive, capacitive, and inductive...

A solid state klystron comprising a switching regulator, power source, tuning adapter, and solid state oscillator utilizing supply voltages identical to those of a standard tube-type klystron.

Compact oscilloscope in which the display, an array of light emitting diodes, is integral with the probe. The array continuously is scanned column by column at a controllable rate and concurrently voltages are applied to rows selected in accordance with the amplitude of the test waveform. Light is emitted from those diodes of the array receiving coincident row and column excitation to thereby display the test waveform.

A tester for determining the state of an electric circuit at a location remote from the circuit is disclosed. The tester includes a transmitter connected to the circuit to be tested which transmits a different output signal for each state of the circuit to be tested and a combination receiver-indicator which is responsive to the output signals as transmitted from the transmitter.

A solid state video camera having a plurality of charge coupled devices having an alignment pitch with one another selected at .tau..sub.H where .tau..sub.H is the reciprocal of the sampling frequency. A light image is projected on the three charge coupled devices, respectively. Assuming that the relative positional relationship among the light images projected on the respective charge coupled devices is, as between the first and second charge coupled devices, taken as .tau..sub.12 and, as betwe...

An electrical circuit having three states depending upon the magnitude of an electrical signal coupled, in operation, to an input thereof, the circuit having a first stable state when the said magnitude is less than a first, predetermined value, a second, stable state when the said magnitude is greater than a second, predetermined value higher than the first said predetermined value, and a third, unstable state when said magnitude is equal to or between said first and second predetermined values...

In an interline type charge coupled device imaging device, a single vertical shift resister transfers sampled image carriers generated at image sensing cells vertically aligned on both sides thereof. The transfer electrode of the vertical shift register preferably extends to a front edge of a narrow portion of the shift register surrounded by channel stopper regions. Further, the output signal from the imaging device is processed by mixing two successive line signals, so that the sensing cells a...

A solid state television camera, employing a charge-coupled device with image sensing cells aligned in both the horizontal and vertical directions. The positions of image sensing cells in one horizontal scanning line are shifted 180.degree. relative to those of the adjacent horizontal scanning line. Upon reading out image information, read-out signals of every other line are delayed by 180.degree.; then the image information of two adjacent horizontal scanning lines are mixed, whereby a sampling...

A random state generator to determine a random non-return to zero (NRZ) vage level at a particular clocked time with a noise generating diode or gas tube to provide a randomly fluctuating analogue voltage. The random voltages are amplified and applied to a transformer which acts as a gate for the random voltage. The secondary of the transformer has unidirectional conducting means connected to each of the ends and so poled that by applying a positive voltage pulse to a center tap on the secondary...