Sony Corporation

Yuzuru Yanagisawa

Hiroshi Ohki

Chiaki Kojima

Shoichi Muramoto

Akio Ohgoshi

Takashi Otobe

Akira Nakayama

Yasutoshi Komatsu

Akira Yamanaka

An image projection system includes a cathode ray tube for generating light corresponding to an image; a projecting lens disposed in front of the cathode ray tube for focusing and projecting the light from the cathode ray tube, and having an optical axis; a beam splitter disposed in front of the projecting lens, the beam splitter being inclined with respect to the optical axis of the projecting lens for reflecting the light from the cathode ray tube in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the projecting lens; and a reflecting mirror disposed adjacent the beam splitter for reflecting the light reflected from the beam splitter in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction so as to project the light from the cathode ray tube to a viewer through the beam splitter.

Image projection system

In a record disk having a spiral groove in a surface thereof with the depth of the groove varying along the latter for representing recorded information, such as video signals; the groove has an inverted bell-shaped cross-section which is symmetrical about the median of the groove with each of the opposite side surfaces of the groove, at any location therealong, being defined approximately by the equation

Record disk and method for producing the same with constant width groove

In optically producing a reproducible recording of video or other signals, the intensity of at least one laser light beam is modulated by the signals to be recorded while such light beam scans a substantially flat surface on a photo-sensitive recording medium which is photo-reacted to a degree varying substantially linearly in correspondence with the intensity of the light impinging thereon over a predetermined range of light intensities, and the intensity of the light beam and the degree of modulation thereof by the signals are selected to maintain the maximum and minimum intensities of the modulated light beam within such predetermined range so as to form simultaneously on the record medium a tracking path portion and a recorded signal portion which is unified with the latter. The photo-sensitive record medium is desirably constituted by a positive photo-resist so that, upon development thereof, the tracking path portion is obtained in the form of a groove having the recorded signal portion defined by irregularities at the bottom of such groove. The positive photo-resist or other photo-sensitive material may be conveniently applied as a layer on a base plate or disc which is rotated while the light beam and disc are moved relative to each other in a radial direction of the disc so that the groove or other tracking path portion forms a spiral.

Linear method of optically recording a video or other signal

A surface acoustic wave filter having a piezo-electric substrate with a major surface and input and output transducers, each haing a plurality of finger electrodes formed on the major surface to define a propagation path for surface acoustic waves. Finger electrodes of one of the transducers have a step-like configuration to divide the surface wave propagation path into a plurality of surface wave propagation channels. The phase differences of the channels and the length of the steps of the finger electrodes are selected to minimize the multiple reflection echo between the input and output transducers to reduce ripples in the pass band.

Surface acoustic wave filter

An indicator display tube in which indicator electrode units, each consisting of anode and cathode segments, lie in the same plane and in which all of the cathode segments are simultaneously energized and the anode electrodes are energized on a time sequential basis in such a manner that only the indicator electrode unit having its anode electrodes energized will glow at a particular time. The cathode segments of each indicator unit are connected in parallel which substantially reduces the number of leads to the display tube over conventional indicators which require a separate lead for energizing each of the cathode segments. The indicator display tube has means for preventing accidental discharge of adjacent indicator electrode units which would produce erroneous message displays.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Yuzuru Yanagisawa