Abstract: A stereophonic audio processing system having left and right stereophonic sound channels with respective loudspeakers therefor is presented. The system is provided with spatial expansion of the stereophonic sound so that a first pair of spaced-apart loudspeakers will acoustically appear to be spaced further apart then they actually are. The audio system is provided with provisions for connecting a second pair of loudspeakers which can be spatially located at a distance between the loudspeakers which is larger than the first pair of loudspeakers. The audio system is provided with apparatus for providing stereo sound without spatial expansion when such secondary loudspeakers are used.

Abstract: A reproduction and/or recording device for optical recording media which is compatible in respect of varying storage density, despite an interdependence between pit or domain size, and the light spot size. Use is made of a track guidance signal generation device which can be changed over according to the storage density type and is connected to a detector which can be used for recording media of varying storage density, i.e. in the form of the standardized CD, minidisk or MOD, and for optical recording media, which have a comparatively higher information storage density, or smaller track spacings and smaller dimensions of the pits or storage structures.

Abstract: In laser feedback systems of an optical memory the most suitable feedback gain value depends on the type of optical disks used. According to the invention a system and a method is provided which finds by way of an iteration a suitable maximum feedback gain value so that the feedback system does not oscillate. The method consists in starting with a low gain value for driving a laser diode, increasing the gain value by small amounts until an oscillation detecting unit detects that the laser feedback system is oscillating. Then the gain value is reset to the previous value or a little bit more. Then the laser feedback system is again in a non-oscillating area with a suitable maximum gain value. This iteration is performed by a system consisting mainly of a laser diode, a photodiode for detecting the reflected light, and an oscillation detecting unit which controls a gain controller. This gain controller sets the gain on a multiplier which drives the laser driver for the laser diode.

Abstract: A transformer to achieve a precise amplitude for the operating voltages produced by the auxiliary windings, and such that the construction and production of the transformer are simplified. An auxiliary winding is split into a plurality of winding elements disposed in different chambers of a chamber-type coil former. One of the chambers is disposed in the region of the air gap of a U/I core or of a U/U core, the two U-core halves having parallel limbs of different lengths.

Abstract: There is electrostatic coupling of the forward clocking signals used in a CCD imager of line transfer type to the underlying bulk semiconductor and then to the output charge sensing stage. Changes in forward clocking signal application during the line selection process in the image register tend to introduce transient disturbances leaving visible artifacts in television pictures reconstructed from the video signals generated from the CCD imager output signal samples. This tendency can be obviated in CCD imagers of line transfer type by introducing additional clocked delay to place the disturbances in the line retrace interval. The disturbances can then be removed from video signals by line retrace blanking.

Abstract: The respective pixel stages of an electro-optical transversal filter may be intimately associated with corresponding stages of a CCD shift register means in a monolithic structure on an integrated chip. The shift register means, which operates to forward a pre-selected one of a set of analog reference weights to each of the transversal filter pixel stages, permits the transversal filter to be used in an electro-optical correlation means having a very high effective computation rate.

Abstract: A photographic film recorder includes film-exposing apparatus having a laser light source for exposing the film, and a photographic film-developing apparatus. A film transport means transports the film at the same velocity through both the exposing apparatus and the developing apparatus, under control of a received film velocity signal. The time period each element of the film is in the developer varies inversely with film velocity. A plurality of transfer function look-up tables are provided for translating a received video density signal to a corresponding exposure signal for controlling the laser light source. Means responsive to the film velocity signal selects for use a transfer function look-up table which is appropriate for the time period each element of the film is in the developer.