Abstract: For switching, for example four satellite signal sources, there is a switch for each user. This switch selects a source as a function of the value of a control signal applied to its RF signal output and connects the selected source to this output. It is provided with a connection unit (75) for each user who has the disposal of a television apparatus (74) and a satellite decoder (84). This connection unit comprises an adjustable control signal generator (78) which is connected to the input (81) of the satellite decoder (84) via a signal-blocking inductance and to a two-wire connection (83) for the control current produced by the decoder and determines the control signal to be applied as a function of the value of the parameters generated by the satellite decoder.

Abstract: The distribution network (67, 68) comprises as many cables as there are satellite signal sources and terrestrial television signals are added on each of these cables to satellite television signals by utilizing a multiple coupler (66). For each group of users there is a shunting unit (70, 71, 72, 73) which is traversed by the cables of the distribution network and which couples each cable to one of the multiple inputs of a switching unit (85 to 92) having multiple outputs in their proximity. For each output this switching unit selects an input as a function of the value of a control signal applied to the output.

Abstract: In operation of an active matrix display device comprising an array of display elements (12), for example liquid crystal elements, each connected in series with an associated two terminal non-linear switching device (30), e.g. a MIM, between row and column address conductors (22,24), and row and column driver circuits (40,43) for applying selection signals to each row conductor in turn and data signals to the column conductors, the data signals are applied for part only of the row address period and a row selection signal commences prior to the data signal and while a reference potential is applied to the column conductors whereby during a row address period a display element is initially charged to a level approaching the lower end of the display element's operational range of voltages and thereafter charged to the required level according to the data signal. Vertical cross-talk is reduced and peak current density through the non-linear devices is kept low, thereby avoiding the risk of damage.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing a deflection unit comprising a set of diametrical deflection coils, in which method the coils are placed on a jig which supports each coil at a plurality of locations and in which a coil support of synethic material is urged against the free surface of each coil. The coils are mechanically anchored by means of, for example an ultrasonic welding process in which the locations of the coil support situated opposite supported locations of the coils are softened and pressed into the coils. The coils are not deformed in that case and their mutual position defined by the jig is accurately maintained.

Abstract: Color display tube comprising an electron gun system (5) of the "in-line" type and an electromagnetic deflection unit. This unit is provided with coma correctors 14 and 14' at its gun side, which correctors, viewed from the gun system, provide a pincushion-shaped vertical deflection field component and a barrel-shaped vertical deflection field component. These components are used to reduce the "green droop" (=anisotropic Y coma) in the corners and at the ends of the display screen axes to an equal extent without the spot shape of the outer beams being influenced detrimentally.

Abstract: Voltage lines (6) for the reference voltage running parallel to the row electrodes (7) in a display device of the reset type provide the possibility of separately testing and repairing the picture electrodes (4) and the associated switching units (5, 11) for each pixel before connection to the reference voltage. Moreover, the device thus obtained can be driven with single-row inversion, while a larger aperture is possible and the occurrence of artefacts can be reduced.

Abstract: A display device comprising a deflection unit and a cathode ray tube having an in-line electron gun. The electron gun comprises a main lens portion having means to generate a main lens field and a quadrupole field. During operation, the intensity of the fields is dynamically varied. The electron gun comprises a prefocusing lens portion having means of generating a prefocusing lens field and a further quadrupole field. During operation, the intensity of said fields is controlled so that a dynamic cylindrical lens is formed in the prefocusing lens portion. By virtue thereof, an improved picture reproduction can be obtained.

Abstract: Picture display device having a vacuum envelope with a front wall supporting a luminescent screen at its inner side and a rear wall at a short distance therefrom, connected by side walls. The envelope accommodates a plurality of adjacent electron sources and juxtaposed, local electron ducts cooperating with these sources and having walls of substantially electrically insulating material having a secondary emission coefficient which is suitable for transporting, through vacuum, produced electrons in the form of electron currents. Means are provided to make each electron current substantially travel along a particular wall of its electron duct, as well as means for withdrawing each electron current at predetermined locations from its duct and directing it towards the luminescent screen for producing a picture composed of pixels.

Abstract: An electric lamp arrangement includes a reflector (10) having first and second mirror walls (12 and 22), which in axial sections are curved according to circular arcs (13, 23), the centers of which lie in an area between lines (15, 16) enclosing angles .beta. and .gamma. with a plane P defining the largest diameter (d), and in an ellipse-shaped area Q, respectively. The reflector has a relatively small, light-emitting window (30) of at most 0.7 d, disposed opposite a lamp base (1). An electric light source (3) is disposed within the reflector (10) near plane P and an axis (11). The reflector (10) may be integral with a lamp vessel (5) to give a reflector lamp or a pressed-glass lamp. Alternatively, the light source may have an envelope and may be secured within the reflector to constitute a lamp-reflector unit. The reflector effectively shapes radiation emitted by the light source into a wide beam of high intensity.

Abstract: The device comprises a first path provided with an amplifier (1) amplifying in a first frequency band, and a second path provided with an amplifier (2) amplifying in a direction opposite to that of the first amplifier and in a second frequency band other than the first frequency band, a first filter element (L1) having a low pass characteristic for transmitting the signals of the first path, and a second filter element (C1) having a high pass characteristic for transmitting the signals of the second path. The two paths are combined by a third filter element (CA) having a high pass characteristic, arranged in series with a fourth filter element (LA) having a low pass characteristic, whose junction point is connected to ground by a matched impedance (ZCA), and a signal polarity inverting element (TA) is inserted in series between two of the filter elements.

Abstract: Reference current loop comprising a group of identical ICs (1, 2, 3), comprising each a first impedance (7) connected in series to the first impedance of another IC of the group. The combination of first impedances is connected to a reference current source (4). The voltage across the first impedance (7) is convened to a current (I0) by a voltage-to-current converter (8) and made available as a current (I1, I2) proportional to the reference current (Iref) of the reference current source (4) by a current mirror circuit (20, 23). The relation between the currents I1 and I2 and the reference current Iref is determined by the ratio of the impedance value of the first impedance (7) to that of the second impedance (19). This ratio is the same for all the ICs, so that the currents I1 and I2 in all the ICs are mutually equal.

Abstract: A radar system (30) for determining the range at a future time of a target moving relative to the radar system. The system comprises an R.F. source (56) for providing a signal at a frequency which increases over time from a base frequency f (Hz) at a rate r (Hz/s) for a sweep duration d (s). This signal is transmitted and a signal reflected by the target is mixed (38) with a portion of the transmitted signal to give a signal having a frequency proportional to the range of the target. The R.F. source is arranged to have a sweep rate r equal to the base frequency f divided by a time t (s) which time is the delay until the target will be at the measured range. A predicted range may thus be derived without complex compensation for relative velocity. The system may further provide velocity feedback without requiring extra circuitry.

Abstract: A method of continuously winding in a recess-shaped winding space a saddle-shaped, flared deflection coil having two arcuate connection portions at the ends and two interposed coil flanks. Since a plurality of evenly distributed projections is inserted into the winding space during winding, reset points are provided in portions where the coil flanks are wound, which reset points counteract possible wire positioning errors (so-called winding spread) giving rise to a spread of line astigmatism when the coil is combined with a display tube.

Abstract: A sealed electric motor is formed by means of interfitting metallic housing members and an overmolded plastic casing. The housing includes an annular groove into which the casing extends to improve both retention and sealing.

Abstract: A device for determining the position of a vehicle comprises a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver (6) which supplies vehicle position data at regular intervals on the basis of data received from satellites, a device (1) for dead-reckoning on the basis of the position data from the GPS receiver (6), a compass (2) and at least one wheel sensor (3), and a correction unit (4) which corrects the dead-reckoning values supplied at regular intervals by the dead-reckoning device (1) in dependence on comparison with road position coordinates read from a mass memory (5), notably with characteristic road position coordinates, and outputs the corrected values as vehicle position coordinates.

Abstract: A color display apparatus which stores the color information of characters to be displayed in three storage planes (4R, 4C, 4B) of a character generator so that this information can be used in a display controller (21) in such a way that high-quality characters are displayed on a display panel. The information is stored so that different sequences of 3-bit color dots can be displayed.

Abstract: In a matrix display apparatus for displaying video signal of two or more different standards, such as PAL and NTSC standards comprising a display panel (10), for example, a liquid crystal display panel, having a row and column array of picture elements (12), a column driver circuit (22) for sampling lines of an applied video signal (25) and supplying data signals to the panel (10), a row driver circuit (20) for scanning the rows of picture elements in turn, and a control circuit (21) controlling the timing of the operations of the row and column driver circuits (20,22), the row driver circuit (20) is controlled by signals ST,CLK so as to scan the rows of picture elements at a rate which is a function of the number of rows in the panel (10) and the field period of the applied video signal.

Abstract: Antenna diversity receiving system for mobile reception of television signals having N antenna inputs, one diversity processor with as many inputs, and connected downstream in the system to a television receiver, the video signal of the television receiver and the line and picture synchronizing signals being applied to the diversity processor. The diversity processor comprises a time gate circuit which is opened by the line synchronizing pulses during the line blanking interval and switches the video signal through to the signal quality evaluation circuit. At that location an output signal having the signal quality of the video signal is produced which is applied to the control circuit. In the case of an imminent picture disturbance the control circuit produces an address signal so that very rapidly a new antenna signal or a linear combination derived from the antenna signals is applied to the television receiver by means of the antenna combiner.

Abstract: A display device having a rectangular display window with a major and a minor dimension, and a deflection unit producing a scanning line raster on a display screen on the inner surface of the display window, the scan lines extending in the minor direction. The inside surface of the display window has a major radius of curvature (R.sub.cmajor), a minor radius of curvature (R.sub.cminor), a diagonal dimension (D) and an aspect ration (A), which parameters are related by the formulas 1.1<R.sub.cminor /D<2.5, also 2.5<R.sub.cmajor /D, also R.sub.cmajor >A*R.sub.cminor. The display window is thereby very flat and scanning line raster distortion is reduced so that it is easily correctible by the deflection fields produced by the deflection unit.

Abstract: A planar electron-optical lens is obtained on a semiconductor cathode surface by providing an extra electrode (16) around the gate electrode (14). Dependent on the applied voltage, this configuration operates, for example, as a positive lens which supplies parallel beams without dispersion, suitable for thin, flat display devices. A large positioning tolerance is obtained due to the inherent magnification of the beam diameter in the semiconductor device, while a grid can be dispensed with.