Abstract: A cleaning roller system, which is preferable for use in a printer having a printing head, is disclosed. The cleaning roller system comprises an adhesive roller which is provided on a recording material feeding side relative to a print head, the adhesive roller has adhesive property, and is in contact with a surface of said recording material, and rotates in a direction of transporting said recording material.

Abstract: A method for producing a silver halide photographic emulsion is described, which emulsion comprises tabular grains of silver bromide or silver iodobromide having {111} faces as major faces parallel to each other, wherein an aqueous solution of silver salt or an aqueous solution of silver salt and an aqueous solution of halide is/are added at least one time within the period of time after the first nucleation and before Ostwald ripening progresses.

Abstract: Video signals include a first video signal and a second video signal. The second video signal, which represents an image of a subject photographed at a relatively high shutter speed, is inserted in a prescribed plurality of frames of the first video signal representing the image of the subject photographed at an ordinary shutter speed. The first video signal has a print inhibit signal, which inhibits printing of an image represented by the video signal, superposed thereon in a vertical blanking interval. The video signal which does not contain the print inhibit signal in its vertical blanking interval, is stored in a memory. The stored video signal is read out of the memory to be used for printing.

Abstract: An interpolating operation is carried out on original image signal components which make up an original image signal representing an original image and represent values of original picture elements arranged in a grid pattern at predetermined intervals to obtain interpolation image signal components representing values of interpolation picture elements arranged in a grid pattern at intervals different from those of the original picture elements. Each interpolation image signal component is operated by multiplying the image signal components for a plurality of original picture elements adjacent to the interpolation picture element by respective interpolation coefficients calculated from the image signal components for the adjacent original picture elements.

Abstract: Video signals are recorded in such a manner that prints having a high picture quality can be obtained while not interfering with playback of images in the form of a movie. A CCD is controlled in such a manner that exposure is performed at a shutter speed of 1/250 of a second, one time in exposures performed a plurality of times in succession, and at a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second at other times. The video signal outputted by the CCD is applied to a combining circuit via a CDS, AGC and signal processing circuit for an image sensing system. A PI signal generating circuit outputs a PI signal, which represents inhibition of printing, in the case where exposure is carried out at the shutter speed of 1/60 of a second, and the combining circuit superposes the PI signal upon the video signal, which has been obtained by exposure at the shutter speed of 1/60 of a second, in the vertical blanking interval of this video signal.

Abstract: Methods for coating various liquid coating solutions onto continuously running support webs for use in the manufacture of photographic film materials, photographic printing paper, magnetic recording materials such as magnetic recording tape, adhesive tape, information recording paper such as pressure-sensitive paper or thermal paper, and materials for use in photomechanical processes, wherein uniform coating characteristics are obtained, both at the start of coating operations and at the passage of various seams in the web. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, an electric field of a strength in a range of 100-1000 volts/cm as measured with a surface potentiometer is applied on the surface of the web to be coated and, at the same time, air having a relative humidity of 70-85% is blown against the surface of the web after the start of coating operation but just prior to a time when the thin film of coating solution impinges against the web.

Abstract: A dry multilayer analysis element which allows easy permeation of a high molecular weight component or hydrophobic component, which has, in order, at least a water permeable porous reagent layer, a water permeable light reflecting/screen layer, and a water permeable porous spreading layer on a water-impermeable transparent support, a reagent composition capable of producing an optically detectable substance in the presence of a component to be detected being incorporated in at least one of the water-permeable layers including said reagent layer, said light reflecting/screen layer being porous and comprised microcapsules having a core containing light reflective/screen grains and a shell made of a high molecular weight compound, wherein each of said reagent layer, spreading layer, and reflecting/screen layer allows permeation of a high molecular weight or hydrophobic component therethrough.

Abstract: Positioning of a magnetic head for recording a signal on a magnetic recording medium is performed in accordance with an absolute track address system. However, due to mechanical errors, expansion or contraction of the magnetic recording medium caused by changes in temperature or humidity, or small variations between recording apparatuses, a deviation can occur between a position recorded on in the past and a absolute track position thereof. Accordingly, with regard to at least one track that has already been recorded on, the amount of deviation between the peak position of the envelope of a signal on this track and an absolute track position is measured. Then, based upon the measured amount of deviation, the position at which the magnetic head is stopped on the track to be recorded on next is corrected.

Abstract: A method of and a device for recording image signals of photographic pictures, wherein the photographic pictures on a negative film are taken by a video camera and recorded in a recording medium such as a magnetic disc. In this method of and this device for recording image signals of photographic pictures, portions of the photographic pictures recorded in frames of the negative film are taken by a plurality of enlarging magnifications as referenced from the centers of the picture surfaces and the image signals indicating these enlarged images are recorded in the magnetic disc. In consequence, when the image signals recorded in the magnetic disc are reproduced on a television screen, sharp images can be obtained.