Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for improving the selective positioning of single wall domains or bubble domains in a bubble domain memory system is disclosed. The method includes the use of slotted intersecting digit and word drive lines that form memory areas, each memory area being defined by the inside opposing edges of the slotted drive lines at each intersection. Each memory area has four quadrants, three of which are effectively optically blocked by an opaque shield--a bubble domain in the one unblocked quadrant provides the desired Faraday rotation of a plane polarized coherent light beam to generate a beamlet that is optically detected as a binary digital signal. The slotted drive lines are formed below the surface of the bubble domain supporting layer whereby the so-provided magneto static barriers prevent bubble domain sticking in a selected one quadrant of the four quadrants of the memory area and prevent bubble domain escape from the memory area itself.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of optically recording or writing data into a thermoplastic layer is disclosed. The recording medium is fabricated as an integral part of the face of a cathode ray tube (CRT) and includes a layer of thermoplastic material that is thermoplastically responsive to a heating light beam having a wavelength within the infrared (IR) range and that is a dielectric capable of storing charges corresponding to a data-containing charging (electron) beam. The thermoplastic layer is first selectively exposed to the charging (electron) beam for spatially selectively electrically charging the exposed surface of the thermoplastic layer and is then softened by the heating (IR) beam causing the charged, softened surface to distort under the forces of the data-bearing charge.

Abstract: Apparatus for detecting the position of a passive object includes a generally rectangular frame having an open interior, a source on the frame for emitting light through the frame interior from three sides thereof, a pair of linear image detectors, such as charge-coupled devices, being respectively mounted on the frame at two corners thereof being located at opposite ends of a fourth side thereof and adjacent respective opposite ends of the light source, a pair of aperture-defining devices located at the two frame corners between the detectors and the interior of the frame for configuring coincident fields of light from the frame interior for the detectors to view, and control circuitry connected to the detectors. Each of the detectors is capable of receiving its respective field of light from the frame interior and sensing interruption of light at any location within the field.

Abstract: A display system for providing a real-time, dynamic presentation of an analog signal waveform is disclosed. The system includes an A-D converter that, in turn, drives a serial string of binary weighted bubble domain generators. The bubble domain generators generate moving columns of bubble domains, the total amplitude of light that is provided by each column representing the amplitude of the analog signal waveform at each of an associated sample time. The bubble domain memory plane is of a construction to permit the columns of moving bubbles to appear as moving columns of bright spots when seen by an observer using a plane polarized light beam and an analyzer.

Abstract: A data rate control device interfacing between a computer and a communication line facilitates reading out of data from the computer at a fast rate and then transmitting that data at a slow rate on the communication line with allowance being made between data transmissions for reflections and echoes on the line to die down. The control device includes a clock generator, control logic and a clock transmitter for sending out Fast Clocks and causing the serial reading in of data to a shift register of the control device. Once the presence of one character of data is detected in the register by the control logic, the Fast Clocks are terminated and Slow Clocks are sent to the register for serial reading out of the data character to a loop transmitter of the control device for transmission of the data character on the communication line.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for reading out the informaton that is stored in the magnetizable layer of a cross-tie wall memory system is disclosed. A first embodiment of the apparatus utilizes: a conductive probe, that along its length and is conductively coupled to the magnetizable layer and the tip which is centered at or near the Bloch-line position in the memory segment of the cross-tie wall; a conductive crescent that is oriented concentric to the probe tip and that along its length is conductively coupled to the magnetizable layer; and a readout device that is coupled across the probe and crescent for determining the resistance in the magnetizable layer between the probe tip and crescent as an indicaton of the existence or non-existence of a Bloch-line in the memory segment.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for obtaining double bit error correction capabilities in a large scale integrated (LSI) semiconductor memory system using only single bit error correction, double bit error detection (SEC, DED) logic are disclosed. The method is based upon the statistical assumption that in a large scale integrated semiconductor memory, substantially all errors in the data bits that make up a data word are initially a single bit error and that increasing multiple, i.e., double, triple, etc., bit errors occur in a direct increasing ratio of the use or selection of the data word. In the present invention, all data words are priorly tested to be error free. Subsequent detection of single bit errors results in the correction of the single bit error and the storage of the single bit error correcting syndrome bits in a syndrome bit memory.

Abstract: The present device is a means for printing multi-lines of characters simultaneously on a continuously moving print receiving medium or form and in a manner eliminating the need for indexing the form line by line and column by column. Multiple type fonts are arranged in helical paths around a continuously rotating drum, the axis of which is positioned at an angle to the path of movement of the form whereby each font is effective to print an individual line of character on the form as it progresses along its path of movement.

Abstract: An electrical circuit for allowing the use of a TV receiver to display alpha/numeric data includes a pair of monostable multivibrators, logic circuitry and a tri-state gate for shaping and mixing digital horizontal and vertical retrace sync signals and alpha/numeric video signals to create a properly proportioned composite thereof. The circuit further includes an oscillator for generating a RF carrier signal, a field-effect transistor (FET) coupled between the oscillator and the output of the circuit which is adapted to be coupled to the antenna terminal of the TV receiver, and an emitter-follower device which feeds the composite signal to the FET for producing amplitude modulation of the RF carrier signal by the FET and transmission of the modulated signal to the TV receiver antenna terminals.

Abstract: The present sensitometer has its light source energized, through a constant voltage transformer and is initially energized while being covered by a rotating sector shutter which does not permit the light source to send light to the material whose light sensitivity is being measured, until the light source is stabilized. The shape of the sector shutter determines how long the light source is covered to effect light and power stabilization. In addition, the present sensitometer provides a means to filter light from the light source as needed. In addition, the present sensitometer has a top piece which prevents damage to the graded gray scale means but permits ready availability to the light.

Abstract: A word processor system comprising a typewriter, a data storage unit, a tab stop register for storing signals representative of tab stops set on the typewriter and means for controlling the tab stop register to keep it aligned with the typewriter carrier during the course of typing including backspacing, carrier return and tabbing actions. Additional means responsive to tab command and tab stop signals is provided for recording a tab action in the data storage unit as a succession of encoded space signals equal to the number of typing positions to the next tab stop from the carrier position at the instant of the tab command.

Abstract: A data track formed of a strip of magnetic film having substantially zero uniaxial anisotropy, i.e., isotropic, for a cross-tie wall memory system is disclosed. The data-track-defining-strip of isotropic magnetic film utilizes its shape, i.e., its edge contour induced anisotropy, rather than its easy axis magnetic field induced anisotropy, to constrain the cross-tie wall within the planar contour of the film strip. The use of the shape induced anisotropy of an isotropic strip of magnetic film permits the use of nonlinear, i.e., curved, data tracks which curved data tracks were not permitted by the prior art cross-tie wall memory systems that were limited to the use of anisotropic magnetic film.

Abstract: Defining the structuring of bubble domains in the magnetizable layer of a bubble domain memory plane is determined by modification of the magnetic characteristics of the magnetizable layer in the confinement area. The memory plane is comprised of a non-magnetic Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) layer which is a supporting substrate upon which is formed by the liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) method a magnetizable layer in which bubble domains are capable of being generated, sustained and moved about. Formed upon the bubble domain supporting magnetizable layer is a matrix array of conductive drive lines, the intersections of which define respective memory areas. In each memory area the position of the bubble domain in the magnetizable layer is determined by modifying the magnetic characteristics of the magnetizable layer in a confinement area as by an ion milling process. The ion milled confinement area along the line of the thickness gradient generates a perpendicular field H.sub.

Abstract: A bi-directional motor drive circuit has a single input terminal and first and second terminals having a reversible DC electric motor connected therebetween. Also, the circuit is provided with third and fourth terminals for connection to voltage sources of unequal positive potential such that the voltage supplied to the third terminal is at higher potential than that supplied to the fourth terminal. Further, the fourth terminal is connected to the second terminal. The circuit splits into first and second branches. The first branch includes a first NPN transistor and a second PNP transistor. The second branch includes third and fourth NPN transistors.

Abstract: A circuit is provided for monitoring a signal generated by an oscillator and producing a digital display of the sign and magnitude of the deviation of the actual frequency of the oscillator-generated signal from a preselected desired frequency. Alternating sampling and display period pulses are produced in the circuit and, during the period of a sampling pulse, clock pulses are produced at a rate proportional to the actual frequency of the oscillator-generated signal. A plurality of counters in the circuit count the number of clock pulses produced during the period of a sampling pulse and hold the count during the period of a display pulse succeeding the sampling pulse. Read only memory devices sense the count held by the counters and decode the count to drive display units either to display the magnitude and sign of the deviation when it is within a predetermined range or to display an out-of-range indication.

Abstract: A system for optically correlating two signals, e.g., radar, sonar, etc., incorporating both time shifts and doppler shifts is described. The correlation of the signals is produced as a two-dimensional distribution of light on a light detector/display plane wherein the amplitude of the light distribution is proportional to the correlation of the two signals as a function of relative time shifts, .DELTA.t (X direction), and relative doppler shifts, .alpha..omega. (Y direction), between the signals. Doppler shifts are introduced into the processor by the incorporation of a channelized cylindrical lens in one signal channel while using a cylindrical lens in the other signal channel.

Abstract: A laminated, integral structure that forms a bubble memory plane for the generation, storage and transfer of single wall domains, bubble domains or bubbles is disclosed. The memory plane is formed of a non-magnetic gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) support member; formed upon the support member is a magnetizable layer that is capable of sustaining stripe domains; formed upon the stripe domain layer is a non-magnetic gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) spacer layer; and, formed upon the spacer layer is a magnetizable layer in which single wall domains or bubbles are capable of being generated, sustained and transferred from one position to another along a planar dimension of the bubble domain layer.

Abstract: Defining the structuring of bubble domains in a magnetizable layer of a bubble domain memory plane is determined by modifying the magnetic characteristics of the magnetizable layer in the confinement area. The bubble domain memory plane is comprised of a non-magnetic Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) layer which is a supporting layer upon which is formed by the liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) method a plurality of magnetizable layers in each of which a bubble domain is capable of being generated and sustained. Upon the memory plane are formed, as by any of many well-known deposition techniques, a matrix array of a parallel set of horizontally oriented X drive lines and an orthogonally oriented parallel set of Y drive lines. Each X drive line, Y drive line intersection of the matrix array defines a memory area having four quadrants.

Abstract: This invention relates to a clock sequencing apparatus which allows for clock stoppage at the end of a particular clock sequence without a false decoding of clock pulses at the beginning of what would have been the next clock sequence. This result is accomplished by providing a multi-state sequential apparatus having more states than clock phases. The apparatus will detect a stop condition on the last clock phase of a clock sequence and instead of changing to the state associated with the first clock phase of the next clock sequence, it will instead change state to one or more additional "dead time" states which will allow other logic circuitry to discontinue gating of the clock phases before the apparatus returns to the state associated with the first phase of the next clock sequence. The apparatus will then remain at the state associated with the first phase of the next clock sequence until the clock is restarted and the process is repeated.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of moving stripe domains in a direction transverse their length is disclosed. The apparatus includes a layer of magnetizable material in which stripe domains are capable of being generated, sustained and moved. Formed upon the magnetizable layer are two parallel contiguous disk files, each of which is formed of a plurality of linearly aligned similar contiguous Bicore disks. Each Bicore disk is comprised of a disk of a relatively soft magnetizable material, e.g., Permalloy, and a superposed disk of a relatively hard magnetizable material, e.g., Cobalt, sandwiching an insulative layer, e.g., silicon dioxide, SiO.sub.2, therebetween.