Abstract: In the exemplary embodiments, two line-shaped images of a scene are imaged onto two line sensors. The output signals of these line sensors are stored in successive stages of respective shift registers, whereby the distance measurement ensues by means of sequential examination of the correlation of the image element signals as stored by the shift registers. For the correlation examination, a predetermined set of stages of each shift register are read out in parallel for comparison. The image element signals are then alternately shifted in the respective shift registers followed by further parallel readout and comparison steps to locate the segments of the two line sensors having a maximum correlation.

Abstract: Video signals are stored on a continuously movable magnetic tape with a dissection of the video signals into a plurality of partial signals and simultaneously recording the partial signals in a plurality of longitudinal tracks which extend parallel to one another. Inasmuch as mutual influences of the individual image formation to be stored are to be reduced, even given a great recording density, the signal lines of the video signal are employed as partial signals, whereby the line signals belonging to a television image are combined to at least one group and are successively recorded in groups. All line signals belonging to one and the same group are simultaneously recorded on a plurality of longitudinal tracks after an intermediate storage. The invention finds particular application in video recorders having longitudinal track recording.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for automatically focusing the image of an object, obtained by an objective lens system, onto an image plane by adjustment of the distance of the objective lens system or a portion thereof from such image plane. Two optical devices which are mutually offset transversely to the optical axis, are provided for obtaining auxiliary images of the object, which are photoelectrically analyzed with respect to one another. The minimum difference signal therebetween indicates the congruency of the two auxiliary images and supplies an adjustment criterion for a device operative to correspondingly adjust the objective distance. The invention utilizes two CTD image sensors to analyze the auxiliary images with the read-out signals being supplied to a differential amplifier and subsequently rectified and integrated.

Abstract: A charge-coupled arrangement in the two-phase technique in accordance with the charge-coupled-device principle in which an electrically insulating layer is applied to a substrate of semi-conductor material, with such electrodes arranged in spaced relation on such layer, a second electrically insulating layer disposed on the electrodes and additional electrodes being disposed on the second insulating layer, in which such additional electrodes extend into spaces separating adjacent electrodes applied to the substrate, with the zone of the substrate beneath such further electrodes being more highly doped than the substrate. The electrodes may comprise aluminum silicon, molybdenum, chromium or tungsten, while the second insulating layer may comprise SiO.sub.2 or Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for measuring the range or speed of an object, in which two optical devices are offset from one another transversely to the direction of the object to produce auxiliary images of such an object, which are photoelectrically analyzed relative to one another. The minimum difference signal indicates the congruency of the two auxiliary images and supplies a criterion for the range of the object. In accordance with the invention, the auxiliary images are analyzed by CTD image sensors, whose read-out signals are supplied to a differential amplifier and are then rectified and integrated. The read-out signals from one sensor are changed, as to their phase state, with respect to the read-out signals from the other sensor, by means of a pivotal movement of the relevant optical device, by means of a delay element which can be adjusted in a stepped manner. The range criterion is obtained from the phase state assigned to the minimum difference signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for automatically focusing the image of an object, obtained by an objective lens system onto an image plane, wherein a setting device is provided which is controlled by photo-electric sensors and which determines the optimum distances of the objective lens system from the image plane. In accordance with the invention, a CTD image sensor is disposed in the image plane, the read-out signals of which are obtained for a sequence of objective settings, integrated and compared with one another. The time or point of occurrence of the greatest integrated signal is determined and coded into a signal which indicates the interval of time from the beginning of the setting sequence with such signal being supplied to the setting device. An arrangement in accordance with the invention is particularly suitable for use in photographic camera range measuring devices and speed measuring devices.

Abstract: Solar cells are constructed as a plurality of spaced strips formed along the length of synthetic foils. They are connected in series along their entire length in a simple manner. Therefore, the connections are formed by means of vapor-deposited metal layers and the solar cells lying next to one another are connected in series by means of vapor-deposited metal layers, whereby these vapor-deposited metal layers respectively connect the upper semiconductor layer or, respectively, a Schottky contact metal layer, as the case may be, of one solar cell with the lower metal layer of the neighboring solar cell. Sections of any desired length may be cut off from the elongated battery by cutting transversely to the length thereof. The series-connected sections thus formed may be employed without re-wiring.

Abstract: A thermal element arrangement having a plurality of thermal elements connected in series, and in which an insulation layer has thereon a plurality of metal conductor paths situated on the semiconductor substrate. Each thermal element has one of the metal conductor paths forming a first leg and a semiconductor region forming a second leg. A thermal contact is included having a metal semiconductor contact with the respective semiconductor regions. The semiconductor substrate is less than 10 .mu.m thick in the region where the thermal contacts which are to be heated up is located. Elsewhere, the substrate has a thickness of more than 200 .mu.m which is in that region in which there are situated the contacts which are to be kept cold during the operation of the arrangement. One preferred arrangement has the thermal contacts to be heated during operation surrounded in a star-shaped manner by thermal contacts which are to be kept cold.

Abstract: A switching arrangement for remote-controlled electrical loads employing command transmitters, each of which is operatively connected to a switching device for control of a load over cooperable coder and decoders which are connected by electric lines, with the coded signal being supplied over a transmission channel to the decoder which converts the coded signal into a switching signal, operative to actuate the switching device with the construction being such that standardizable components and connection lines may be utilized in the system.

Abstract: A current supply circuit is disclosed for supplying current to an integrated circuit. The current supply circuit has a circuit element for rectifying an input current which blocks when a negative voltage is connected thereacross, which passes current in a predetermined positive voltage pass band, and which blocks current again for positive voltages higher than the pass band. A filter capacitor is connected to an output of the circuit element. The current supply circuit is preferably integrated on the same chip as the circuit to which it is supplying current with the filter capacitor being connected in outboard fashion.

Abstract: A MOS integrated circuit incorporating a plurality of storage cells is provided, with a field effect transistor and an individual capacitor for each cell. Electrical conductors make contact with the electrodes of the field effect transistors on two planes, with the conductors connected with the gates of the FET's being disposed in a first plane, and the conductors connected with another terminal of the FET's being disposed in a second plane.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of parallel spaced apart semiconductor strips carried on an electrically insulating substrate and covered with at least one layer of light-permeable electrically insulating material. A plurality of parallel spaced apart electrically conductive strips are carried by the layer of light-permeable insulating material transversely of the semiconductor strips. Advantageously, the semiconductor strips may consist of epitaxial semiconductor strips, for example silicon and the electrically conductive strips may consist of polysilicon. The electrically insulating layer, at least below the electrode strips, is thinner over a longitudinal half of each strip than in the remaining areas of the layer, and each strip of doped semiconductor material is doped to a greater degree below the thicker-portions of the electrically insulating layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor component of a semiconductor or circuit system is provided. The circuit incorporates a dielectric carrier comprised of synthetic material. The circuit is provided with plate-shaped semiconductor islands. The islands possess doping layers and are interconnected as desired with a thin film wiring. A process for the production of such product is also provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor component of a semiconductor or circuit system is provided. The circuit incorporates a dielectric carrier comprised of synthetic material. The circuit is provided with plate-shaped semiconductor islands. The islands possess doping layers and are interconnected as desired with a thin film wiring. A process for the production of such product is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dynamic single-transistor memory element whereby the information may be stored for long periods of time without an energy supply. The invention also provides for a dynamic single-transistor memory element having the capability of storing two differing information pulses. The write-in process may be effectuated element-wise, line-wise, or matrix-wise. The invention further provides the capability to effectuate the erasure of the information line by line where the information is intermedially stored in the regenerator amplifiers or matrix by matrix where the intermediate storage occurs in the second matrix.

Abstract: An MNOS transistor for electric information storage circuits includes one channel and has a layered gate insulator. A plurality of such MNOS transistors are arranged in a matrix on the substrate and the start voltage is variably dependent upon the electric charge stored in the gate insulator of each transistor. The channel length of the MNOS transistor is shorter than twice the depletion layer thickness during recording or erasure of data, and during recording of data and during read-out and erasure of data only voltages of the same polarity are applied between the gate, source, and drain electrodes and the common substrate.