Sony Corporation

Takao Tsuchiya

Mitsuo Soneda

Susumu Akazawa

Haruo Watanabe

Yoshio Ishigaki

Kyoichi Murakami

Koichi Kawasumi

Yasunobu Kuniyoshi

Takashi Okada

Akira Shirakura

Hisaaki Narahara

Shouji Omori

Akio Yasuda

Kiyosuke Suzuki

Susumu Yoshida

Tsutomu Niimura

Atsushi Matsuzaki

Akira Yamakoshi

Kinya Shinkai

Kiyonori Tominaga

Mitsuru Hosoya

Isa Nakamura

Naokuni Toyoda

Kiyoshi Ishihata

An image forming material is provided in which a developer container containing a developer consisting of an electrically insulating organic material which is solid at ambient temperature and which may be liquefied on heating, and wherein colorant particles are dispersed in the material, is made as one with a photosensitive base on which to form an electrostatic latent image. With such image forming material, the developer required in the developing process is incorporated in the photosensitive base to permit image formation and storage by the electrophotographic process to be performed as easily as in so-called instant photography. When the outer size of the image forming material or that of the separated photosensitive base is of the 35 mm format slide size, the imaging material or the base may be attached directly to a slide projector or the like to permit the image information to be easily seen.

Image forming material with developer and photosensitive base on which

An electrophotographic apparatus utilizes solid developers of a plurality of colors for developing an electrostatic latent image. The solid developers are solid at normal temperature and are changed into liquid by heating. The liquid developers are supplied to the static latent image and develop it. The solid developers of a plurality of colors are accommodated within a single container in a predetermined order so that the electrophotographic apparatus can be simplified and made inexpensive.

Electrophotographic apparatus using developer that is changed from a

Electronic photography apparatus has a photoconductor material on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developing device for developing the electrostatic latent image formed on this photoconductive material, a developing electrode provided in the developing device for developing the electrostatic latent image, a developers such that the developer supply exists in the spacing between the photoconductor material and the developing electrode and an injecting means for injecting air to the developers remaining in the spacing between the photoconductor material and the developing electrode so that the developers remaining in the spacing between the photoconductor material and the developing electrode are blown out before they become dried and changed into solid developers. In another embodiment in which a developer supplying container for storing developers supplied to the spacing between the photoconductor material and a developer discharging container for storing the developers discharged from the spacing between the photoconductive material are used and a developing electrode and the circulating path is provided independently of the two containers for supplying the developers to the spacing between the photoconductive material and the developing electrode, the electrostatic latent image can be developed by a very small amount of developers without irregularity.

Electronic photography apparatus

Picture quality adjusting circuit

A bucket brigaded device is provided which includes first and second clocking signal generators for generating a first set and a second set of clocking signals respectively, a plurality of successive capacitors for sequentially holding charge level representing an input signal, and a plurality of transistors for controlling the transfer of charge levels from one capacitor to another. Each of the transistors is connected between adjacent capacitors. The bucket brigaded device further comprises a first clocking signal driver for supplying one of the first set of clocking signals to each capacitor, and a second clocking signal driver for supplying one of the second set of clocking signals to each transistor.

Clocking signal drive circuit for bucket brigade device

A clocking signal drive circuit supplies at least one clocking signal in a charge transfer device which has a plurality of successive capacitive storage elements for sequentially holding a charge level representing a time sampled input signal, with each of the capacitive storage elements having a clocking electrode for receiving one of a plurality of clocking signals so that the charge level representing the time sampled input signal is transferred from one to another of the capacitive storage means in succession in response to the clocking signals. The clocking signal drive circuit includes a clocking signal generator having an output at which the generator provides a clocking control signal, and a pair of complementary transistors each having first, second, and control electrodes, with the control electrode of the complementary transistors being connected together and to the output of the clocking signal generator and the first electrodes of the complementary transistors being connected together and to the clocking electrode of at least one of the capacitive storage elements. In one embodiment of the invention the clocking signal drive circuit functions as an output device for detecting the charge level on at least one of the capacitive storage elements of the charge transfer device, and further includes a detector for determining the amount of current which flows from the clocking signal drive circuit to the clocking electrode or electrodes to which it is connected.

Clocking signal drive circuit for charge transfer device

A filter circuit of the type utilizing a charge-transfer device, such as a bucket brigade device, comprises a clocking signal drive circuit for supplying a clocking signal; a clock signal generator at whose output a clocking control signal is provided; a transistor whose base is connected to the output of the clock signal generator; a plurality of successive capacitive storage stages for sequentially holding a charge level representing a time-sampled input signal, each of the capacitive storage stages having a clocking electrode for receiving the clocking signal so that the charge level is transferred from one to another of the capacitive storage stages in succession, and at least one of the capacitive storage stages being formed of first and second parallel-connected capacitive circuit portions, and the first and second capacitive circuit portions having respective clocking electrodes coupled to the clock signal generator and to the emitter of the transistor, respectively; and a current feedback circuit, such as a current mirror circuit, for detecting the current flowing through the collector of the transistor and applying a corresponding current to a capacitive storage stage in advance of that stage which is coupled to the emitter of the transistor.

Filter circuit utilizing charge transfer device

A non-recursive transversal filter circuit employs a charge transfer device in which certain of the capacitive storage elements are divided into first and second capacitive portions having predetermined capacitance relationships. The charge in the second capacitive storage elements is sensed at predetermined times to produce an output signal. The relative capacitances of the second capacitance portions provide weighting factors to the filter. Embodiments include bucket brigade devices with bipolar and FET transistors as well as charge coupled devices.

For improving the frequency characteristic of a color television signal, particularly one in which the chrominance component thereof is provided with a bandwidth substantially narrower than that of the luminance component, the luminance component is used to generate a control signal which is proportional to the lack of registration between low and high frequency portions of the luminance component spectrum, and the control signal thus obtained selectively increases and decreases a delay applied to the relatively narrow-bandwidth chrominance component to substantially align its excursions with the excursions of the relatively wide bandwidth luminance component.

Circuit for improving the frequency characteristic of a color television

A clamping circuit for color television signals includes a demodulator for demodulating the chrominance component of the color television signals to produce first and second color difference signals, and first and second adders for adding adjustable first and second control signals to the first and second color difference signals so as to produce modified first and second color difference signals. A matrix circuit is responsive to the outputs from the first and second adders to produce a third color difference signal. A reference signal, which represents a predetermined level of a color television signal, such as the pedestal level, is added to each of the color difference signals; and a first comparator compares the first color difference signal, with the reference signal added thereto, to the third color difference signal, with the reference signal added thereto, and a second comparator compares the second color difference signal, with the reference signal added thereto, to the third color difference signal, with the reference signal added thereto. At the times of occurrence of the pedestal level of the color television signal, the outputs from the first and second comparators are sampled, respectively, to produce the first and second control signals which are fed back and added to the first and second color difference signals. In one embodiment, the reference signal is a d.c. level proportional to the pedestal level of the color television signal. In another embodiment, the reference signal is the luminance component of the color television signal clamped to the pedestal level. This clamped luminance signal is produced by another clamp circuit.

Clamping circuit for color television signals

This invention is a phase inversion circuit of improved stability of operation for a master-slave flip-flop circuit. An additional gating circuit is controlled by two signals, one from an output of the slave flip-flop circuit and the other from an externally applied phase inversion signal. The output of the additional gating circuit is connected to the master flip-flop circuit through a circuit means that also receives a signal from the slave flip-flop output circuit. In the absence of inversion signals the circuit means controls the master flip-flop circuit from the slave flip-flop circuit and the master flip-flop circuit controls the slave flip-flop circuit with the assistance of the timing pulses in the usual manner. The phase inversion signal can be applied over a wide range of timing intervals of the timing circuit provided the inversion signal overlaps at least partly one of the timing pulses of the regular timing signal when the normal output signal of the slave flip-flop is a ' 0' and the normal output signal of the master flip-flop circuit is also a ' 0'.

Master-slave flip-flop circuit

In a video signal reproducing apparatus having a cathode ray tube in which at least one electron beam is made to scan a screen in line-scanning and vertical directions while the intensity of the beam is modulated to establish the brightness of a video picture to be displayed on the screen, and in which bright picture portions are represented by respective high level portions of a video signal defined between rising and falling edges extending from low level signal portions representing contiguous dark picture portions; a waveshaping circuit receives the video signal and acts thereon to provide a compensated video signal in which the width of each high level portion between the respective rising and falling edges is increased, the compensated video signal is employed to control the intensity of the electron beam, the rising and falling edges of each high level portion of the video signal are detected to provide a beam velocity modulation signal with respective positive and negative peaks by which the scanning velocity of the beam in the line-scanning direction is modulated, and the positions of such positive and negative peaks are shafted, relative to the corresponding peaks of a differentiation of the video signal, in the directions toward the adjacent low level signal portions of the compensated video signal.

Video signal reproducing apparatus with electron beam scanning velocity

A burst signal level detecting circuit for an automatic color control (ACC) circuit of a television receiver includes a band pass amplifier through which an input chrominance signal is supplied to a first and a second phase comparator via a burst gate. A subtracted output of the first and second phase comparators is supplied to a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and, the output of the VCO is supplied to the first phase comparator and through a phase shifter to the second phase comparator. An added output of the first and second phase comparators is supplied to the band pass amplifier as an ACC signal for controlling the gain of the band pass amplifier.

Carrier AGC circuit, especially burst ACC and APC

A detector circuit for a color television receiver includes a pair of transistors whose collector-emitter circuits are connected in parallel with each other, an input circuit, such as a differential amplifier, for supplying a differential input signal to the base electrodes of the pair of transistors, an impedance element coupled between the collector electrodes of the pair of transistors and a voltage source, and an integration circuit for integrating a detected signal taken from the collector electrodes of the pair of transistors and thereby providing an output signal. A reference-voltage circuit is included to supply a reference voltage, which can be used as a threshold voltage, to the emitter electrodes of the pair of transistors. The detector circuit is advantageously used in the color demodulating circuit of a color television receiver, wherein an oscillator controlled by color burst signals supplies the input signal to the detector circuit, and the output thereof is used to control the gain of an ACC amplifier.

Detector circuit for color television receivers

An automatic chrominance control and color killer circuit for use in a color television receiver having a gain controllable chrominance amplifier for selectively amplifying chrominance signals and a color burst signal transmitted with a composite television signal during a color television transmission. The circuit further has a burst level detector connected to the chrominance amplifier, a control circuit including a time constant circuit connected to the burst level detector for deriving a control signal, which is supplied to the chrominance amplifier for controlling the gain thereof in response to the level of the control signal during the presence of the burst signal and for activating and inactivating the chrominance amplifier when the level of the control signal goes over and below a predetermined level, and a circuit connected between the burst level detector and the time constant circuit for shortening the time constant of the latter when the level of an output signal of the former goes below a predetermined level.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Takao Tsuchiya