Abstract: The apparatus comprises a wire sheet graphics tablet and a display apparatus, particularly a cathode ray tube, for receiving the signals transmitted by the graphics tablet. Alternating current flows through wires (5,6) of the tablet. The non-conducting plate (4) of the tablet is transparent and the wire sheets (5,6) are made up of transparent electrical conductors or of small conducting wires, which makes them practically invisible. The tablet is placed on the screen of the display apparatus. Between the screen of the cathode ray tube and the lower side of the graphics tablet, a transparent conducting and non-magnetic coating (8) is provided. In one variation, the current flowing through the layers of wire (5,6) is a high frequency current. The pen for the graphics tablet may be a metallic rod covered by a sheath of insulating material.

Abstract: A graphics table comprises a non-conductive plate supporting two crossing layers of wires and a pen for writing on a sheet disposed on the plate. The wires are successively scanned by an electric current which creates a field to be detected by the pen. The electric current has a high frequency, for example of the order of ten megahertz, and the wires are switched at a frequency of for example one hundred kilohertz. The pen is followed by a selective amplifier of ten megahertz, by a filter, by a detector, and by a circuit for determining the time when the picked up signal passes through a peak. The invention is notably useful in a telewriting system.