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Agfa-gevaert

Friedrich Stumpf

Peter Lermann

Thomas Scheller

Luc H Leenders

Otto Stemme

Leo Oelbrandt

Hans Louis Strijckers

Johann Zanner

Jurgen Sylla

Volkmar Stenzenberger

Thomas Zehetmaier

Frank A Staudacher

Wolfram Betzold

Friedrich Winkler

Werner Went

Eberhard Herzig

Eduard Wagensonner

Eddie R Daems

Ivan Hoogmartens

Jurgen Muller

Karl Wagner

Gunter Fauth

Bavo A Muys

Kurt Borowski

Jacobus Herman Bosschaerts

Herbert Gebele

Robert Theodoor Overmeer

Franz Kappeler

Theodor Huber

Werner Nitsche

Gerald Halbedl

Jurgen Van Limbergen

An induction heating device having a hollow cylindrical body made of electrically conductive material, at least one primary induction coil and at least one auxiliary induction coil, the at least one primary induction coil and the at least one auxiliary induction coil being arranged in the cavity of the cylindrical body such that, by means of the at least one primary induction coil and the at least one auxiliary induction coil, first and second magnetic fields, respectively, can be produced in the cylindrical body. The at least one auxiliary induction coil and the at least one primary induction coil operate such that the second magnetic field, at least in one area of the cylindrical body, counteracts the first magnetic field. A corresponding method of operating such an induction heating device, and also a processor for processing a recording medium, having such an induction heating device, are also provided.

Induction heating device and method, and processor

The invention relates to a device (,) for writing on thermographic material (,). The inventive device (1) comprises a heater (,) with which the thermographic material (,) is preheated to a temperature, which is lower than a writing temperature. The thermographic material (,) can be written on with a writing instrument (,) which is distanced from the thermographic material (,) after input of an information signal (s(t)). The writing instrument (,) has a plurality of individually controllable point sources (,). The thermographic material (,) can be written on in a point-by-point manner with said point sources (,).

Device for writing on thermographic material

A recording process comprising the steps of: information-wise exposing to radiation a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, thereby producing a latent image; and heating the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material, characterized in that the photosensitive thermally developable photographic material is on one and the same holding or guiding means during both the information-wise exposure step and the heating step; and the information-wise exposure step is carried out during the heating step; and a method of increasing the photosensitivity of a photosensitive thermally developable photographic material.

Sensitivity-increasing recording process for a photosensitive thermally

An x-ray cassette (1) to accommodate photosensitive material in sheet form, especially a phosphor film (2), having a cover part (1b), a bottom part (1a) and side parts (1c) joined thereto, the cover part, bottom part and side parts being made of plastic and closing off the cassette interior in a light-tight manner. The cassette has at least one electrically conductive element (6) which covers at least 20% of the surface of the cassette (1).

X-ray cassette

A motion picture camera has a rotary shutter driven by a DC motor which is supplied from a battery. The camera also has an arrangement for making light markings for identification purposes on the film in the camera. This arrangement includes a light-emitting diode and a capacitor which is charged by the battery and discharges across the diode. The electrical circuitry is such that the capacitor is connected to the battery only when the motor is disconnected therefrom; inversely, when the motor is to be connected to the battery in order to operate the shutter (and also to advance the film), the capacitor is first disconnected from the battery before the motor is connected to it and then discharges across the diode. The circuit also suppresses afterglowing of the diode.

Motion picture camera with film marking means

The reproducing apparatus, such as a motion-picture film projector, stops recording medium transport in response to interrupt-transport frame markings on the recording medium and reproduces the thusly marked image frames as still images. Interrupt-transport frame markings are provided at the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene on the recording medium, or at each still-shot image frame on the recording medium, or both. The user of the reproducing apparatus can select automatic reproduction of motion-picture scenes interspersed with automatic still reproduction of still shots, and can additionally select automatic still reproduction of the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene.

Reproducing of interspersed motion-picture scenes and still shots

The user of a motion-picture camera selects between motion-picture and single-exposure operation, and presses a release member to initiate shooting, letting go of it to terminate motion-picture shooting. Each time the user lets go of the release member, an internal device provides an interrupt-transport marking alongside the just exposed film frame, or phase shifted relative thereto. Alternatively, the interrupt-transport marking is provided the next time the user presses the release member. In this way, the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene, and each and every one of the interspersed single-exposure shots, is provided with an interrupt-transport frame marking. Thus, if the film is run through a reproducing apparatus provided with a marking detector, detection of each interrupt-transport marking during motion-picture reproduction causes the terminal frame of each motion-picture scene, and also each one of the still shots, to be persistently reproduced as a still image. The interrupt-transport markings could alternatively be provided by such a device in a reproducing apparatus.

Marking of interspersed motion-picture scenes and still shots with

An analog signal whose value is proportional to scene-light intensity is converted into a multi-bit digital signal of corresponding value. A train of clock pulses is generated, having a repetition frequency greater than the reciprocal of the shortest exposure duration to be establishable by the control system. The digital light-intensity signal is continually totalized during the course of an exposure by a clocked totalizer which operates in synchronism with the train of clock pulses and produces during the course of the exposure a multi-bit digital totalized-light signal. A comparator has a first input at which it receives the totalized-light signal and a second input at which it receives a digital total-required-light signal. The latter signal is furnished by an addressable storage which stores a plurality of total-required-light signals of different respective values, corresponding to different exposure programs. A selector operated by the photographer or automatically addresses the addressable memory, causing the latter to furnish to the comparator the total-required-light signal appropriate for the exposure program involved.

Digital exposure-duration control system for photographic cameras

Normally, the negative-feedback diaphragm control system of the motion-picture camera works off a through-the-lens photosensitive element. However, when an image fadeover is to be effected, the lower than normal-operation aperture size commanded for the diaphragm results in a decrease in the light incident on the through-the-lens photosensitive element creating problems if the diaphragm control system is to continue to respond to scene-light changes during the lower than normal-operation aperture-size situation. Accordingly, the through-the-lens photosensitive element is switched out of the control system, and a second photosensitive element is switched in. The second photosensitive element does not operate through-the-lens, but instead is positioned behind an auxiliary light attenuator the front of which is exposed to ambient scene light. The auxiliary light attenuator is coupled to the diaphragm and diaphragm-adjusting motor. When the second photosensitive element is switched in, also switched in is a corrective unit which redefines what the equilibrium state of the negative-feedback diaphragm control system is to be, to take into account the difference in light incident upon the second as opposed to the first photosensitive element.

Altered negative-feedback diaphragm control during implementation of

An exposure control for still cameras wherein a first portion of a diaphragm shutter is movable from cocked position to one of several second positions for effecting admission of scene light to an unexposed film frame, and a second portion of the shutter is movable from a first to a second position subsequent to movement of first shutter portion from the cocked position to terminate the exposure. The aperture size and the exposure time can be varied within a first range of light intensities which is monitored by a first photoresistor. The exposure time, at a selected aperture size, can be varied within a second range of light intensities which is monitored by a second photoresistor. The second range is contiguous to and merges gradually into the first range. The characteristic of the second photoresistor within the second range of light intensities can be changed by a wedge-like filter which is mounted in front of the second photoresistor and whose position can be changed by a pivotable or rotary selector of f/stops. The selector, or the first portion of the shutter, can actuate a switchover device which connects the first photoresistor in parallel with a first fixed resistor when the selector selects a first f/stop, and which connects the first photoresistor in parallel with a second resistor when the selector selects a different f/stop. The characteristic of the second photoresistor within the second range of light intensities can be varied by the filter in such a way that a curve which is indicative of variations of resistance of the second photoresistor within the second range of light intensities in a first position of the selector is substantially parallel to a curve which is indicative of variations of resistance of the second photoresistor within the second range of light intensities in a different position of the selector.

Exposure control for photographic apparatus

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Friedrich Stumpf