Abstract: A method and associated apparatus is provided for converting halftone and screened films (12A and 12B) for use with electromechanical gravure engravers (22), comprising the steps of positioning an array (26) of photosensitive elements adjacent at least one film (12A) having an image thereon in the form of transparent and opaque picture elements (pixels) (30 and 32) having predetermined dimensions, affecting relative movement between the array (26) and the film (12A) for sampling a plurality of pixels of the film by the array (26), assigning a predetermined number of photosensitive elements to a predetermined number of photosensitive elements to a predetermined width of pixels, effectively creating a first sample area (34) bounded by the predetermined width of pixels and a pre-established number of samples, effectively creating a second sample area (36) smaller than the first sample area (34) and bounded by a plurality of pixels, the center of the second sample area (36) being coincident with that of the first

Abstract: A method and associated apparatus for forming gravure cells in a gravure cylinder for accurately reproducing an image, including the steps of coating the peripheral surface of a gravure cylinder with an insulating coating, revealing a first group of predetermined portions of the coated gravure cylinder by selectively removing the insulating coating overlying portions of the peripheral surface of the gravure cylinder, ablating the first group of exposed portions of the gravure cylinder to a predetermined depth, and repeating the revealing and ablating steps until a predetermined number of different groups of predetermined portions of the gravure cylinder have been revealed with each previously revealed group having further portions of the gravure cylinder ablated to a greater predetermined depth during each ablating step to provide a gravure cylinder having the desired pattern of gravure cells of the desired depths for accurately reproducing an image.

Abstract: Circuitry for displaying a constantly changing M-mode transducer scan output on a raster scan display in the form of a first multiplicity of data lines each containing a second multiplicity of data words and each representing a scan of the transducer output at a particular closely spaced scanning time and such that the data line representing the oldest scan is periodically erased and a data line representing the newest scan is displayed. The circuitry includes random access memory having a first multiplicity of memory elements each for storing a data line. A random access memory input counter enables loading of the memory, data line by data line, and a random access memory advance output counter enables read out from the memory sequentially one data word from each line for each raster scan.