Abstract: This invention relates to a method of boosting a discontinuous-value video signal (in pulse or stepped form). From the video signal there is derived an upper accompanying signal extending above it and a lower accompanying signal extending below it, which follow the video signal dynamically. First differential values are formed between the upper accompanying signal and the video signal and second differential values are formed between the video signal and the lower accompanying signal. To boost the discontinuous-value video signal, multiples of the first differential values are subtracted continuously from the video signal and multiples of the second differential values are added to the video signal.

Abstract: The invention is applicable in the sphere of the preparation of printing blocks or forms by means of electronic color scanners. The recording of line elements (lettering, signals, edge spike, etc.) by such scanners is concomitantly performed by selective energization of separate recording beams with greater line resolution than half-tone recording. Without losing time during recording, a stair-shaped distortion of smooth line contours is reduced in such degree that it no longer makes itself felt in troublesome manner in practice.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing line and continuous tone color separations of pattern models of textile, decoration or packaging printing and the like, and further relates to a color scanner. A characteristic color recognition signal for controlling the recording is obtained by color recognition for each pattern color from the color measured value signals gained by opto-electric scanning of the pattern models. For the production of line color separations, an adjustable color separation signal, which corresponds to the desired recording density, is prescribed. For the production of continuous-tone color separations, a run signal, dependent on the color saturation and/or brightness of a color in the pattern model, is derived from at least one measured color value signal and the corresponding color separation signal is derived therefrom.

Abstract: A method for the improved reproduction of edges by engraving of screened printing forms by an electro-magnetic engraving member. The engraving member is controlled by a signal obtained by superposition of an image signal and a screening signal. The image signal is derived from scanning an image pattern with a resolution which is twice as great in the scanning direction as that of the printing screen. Based on the higher resolution the image signal is converted into digital principal image values and additional intermediate image values. The principal and the intermediate image values are superimposed onto the screening signal after being converted back into an analog image signal, whereby the principal image values are superimposed at the instances of periodically recurrent amplitude values of the screening signal when the tool of the engraving member has its largest deflections in the direction of the printing form for engraving the cups arranged in the printing screen.

Abstract: A facsimile scanning method for converting a video signal, generated by opto-electronic scanning of an original copy, into a bilevel black/white signal in facsimile reproduction.In the black/white recording of colored originals in which both the background and the information can be white, black, grey or colored, white/grey (colored)/black transitions in the original are frequently not picked up correctly so that information is lost in the copy.The invention solves this problem by recording colored, grey or black areas in the original as "white" with black boundary lines, by means of suitable electronic circuits.If the colored area in the original is a background area without information content of its own but containing a black item of information (letter), the legibility of the black letter in the area is increased in the copy by reproducing the background area as "white".

Abstract: In an electronic pattern generator characters to be recorded are displayed on the screen of a cathode ray tube and then exposed on a recording medium mounted on a carrier, which is displacable in a plane parallel to the plane of the screen.The characters are displayed from video-data recallable from a store. The recalled video-data are transformed into a first video signal for the brightness control of the electron beam of the cathode ray tube into first deflection signals for the beam and into displacement signals for the carrier.For controlling the make-up and composing process the characters are displayed identically on a further screen of a soft copy terminal independently of the display on the screen of the cathode ray tube.By identical display it is understood, that the various type fonts and sizes of characters are not displayed in an unitary fashion, but in the original font of writing, as they will appear later in the typographical composition on the recording medium.

Abstract: An electron-optical lens arrangement for electron beam apparatus having a static and a dynamic focussing lens system, in which the dynamic focussing lens system is situated inside the static focussing lens system.

Abstract: A method for the improved reproduction of edges associated with sharp changes in tone density during the engraving of screened printing forms with an engraving tool. The engraving tool is controlled by an engraving signal obtained from superposition of an image signal and a screening signal. The image signal is derived from scanning an original with a resolution which is twice as large in the scanning direction as that of the printing screen. Based on the higher resolution the image signal is digitalized into principal image values and additional intermediate image values. If a sharp change in the density defined as an edge occurs in the original a principal image value and the associated intermediate image values are combined into one memory word after the image values have been recoded into values of shorter word lengths and intermediately stored. If no edge is present in the original only the principal image values are intermediately stored as memory words.

Abstract: A method of avoiding unwanted line structures in the electronic reproduction of images by means of a monochromatic light source in whose beam path an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) cell is arranged. One line consists of a multiple line made up of a plurality of sub-lines. The acousto-optic modulator (AOM) cell is driven by a mixture of ultrasonic waves of discrete frequencies, by which means the beam is split up into a plurality of sub-beams each associated with a discrete frequency which together determines the line width. The individual frequencies are so calculated that the sub-beams overlap and so that the amplitudes of the frequencies produce a uniform intensity distribution in a line.

Abstract: Apparatus for electro-optically recording picture information comprising a scanning a picture with a head having multiple electrical optical scanning devices which can be simultaneously moved across the picture and wherein the output of the scanning devices are applied to two storage devices and the scanning device is passed laterally across a picture and then advanced at right angles to the scanning motion and then the scanning head is scanned back across the picture in the opposite direction to the first scan during which time the information from the scanning head is stored in a second plurality of memories. Means for transmitting and recording the information are also provided.

Abstract: The method of electro-optically scanning a picture with a multiple electrical optical scanning head which can be laterally moved across the picture and the outputs of the multiple scanning head are supplied to a first group of shift registers so that individual lines of scanned information will be stored in individual shift registers. After the k lines of information have been scanned and stored in the first group of shift registers the scanning element is shifted to scan additional lines and the output of the multiple scanning device is supplied to a second plurality of shift registers to store information in this group of lines. When information is being written in the second group of shift registers the first group of shift registers are connected to a transmitter to serially transmit line by line the stored information.

Abstract: A facsimile scanning method for converting a video signal obtained by opto-electronic scanning of an original into a two-level signal suitable for transmission.A first companion signal is first generated which lies essentially above the video signal and which follows the video signal when it rises but when the video signal declines remains at the voltage reached when the video signal was at a maximum until a difference value between the first companion signal and a reference signal is reached, which then comes close to the declining video signal until the difference value is reached, which remains at the voltage value then reached until the first companion coincides with the video signal, and which then follows the rising video signal.At the same time a second companion signal is generated which lies substantially below the video signal and which progresses accordingly. From the first and second companion signals is derived a threshold signal which follows the video signal dynamically.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recording graphic or image information by means of punctiform recording spots which are arranged line-by-line according to a recording grid, or multi-lined within a matrix, whereby at the beginning of a contour proceeding obliquely to the recording direction, the first recording spot is displaced in the direction of the contour when its edge does not coincide with the contour and, in order to improve the end edge of such a contour proceeding obliquely to the recording direction, the recording of the last recording spot may be additionally displaced relative to the preceding recording spot by a retarding in time of the recording of said last spot.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing image combinations in which the image to be copied are digitally stored and a mask is produced for manually superimposing the images with each other with one of the images and the mask being scanned and wherein the coordinates of the image which is to be transferred into the other image are measured as x and y values and the two images are combined by utilizing the x and y values to form a composite total image.

Abstract: A regulation device for controlling the level of a signal having a controllable amplification, the signal fluctuating in amplitude, includes a signal control device, first and second threshold stages postcoupled to the signal control device having first and second thresholds, respectively, which thresholds define a predetermined signal range, and an element chargeable and dischargeable to first and second potentials, respectively, postcoupled to the threshold device, and connected by feedback to the signal control device for controlling its amplification within the predetermined range.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for improving the picture quality during transmission of facsimile signals which have an image signal having a signal of a particular polarity but has an minimum amplitude to represent a first information state such as white and a maximum amplitude to represent a second information state such as black whereby due to changes of information of the signal inverter pulses are obtained for the formation of a signal of changed polarity such that the change in polarity represents an information state and the zero position represents the second information state.

Abstract: A process of obtaining digital data for color components of a color image includes the steps of quantizing color-processor derived signals to obtain first and second raster signal scans, wherein each of the raster signal scans has a multiplicity of raster spots spaced apart from one another at first and second predetermined distances. The first and second distances of the first raster signal scan correspond substantially to the second and first distances of the second raster signal scan, respectively. Only the raster signal scans corresponding to the color-processor obtained signals in the first and second memory segments, respectively, are stored.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for color correction in the manufacture of printing forms which uses a correction circuit to determine correction parameters that are stored and then used in a correcting circuit for the color correction process and wherein the determination and correction are separate processes and in which in the correction circuits there are arranged a regulating unit controlled by digital values in the path of each the signal to be corrected and that the regulating units can be adjusted for determination of the correction parameters to digital values so as to obtain the desired correction and which are then stored in a storage medium from which they can be transferred in at least one correction circuit for a subsequent color correction process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for electro-optically scanning a picture with a head having multiple electrical optical scanning devices which can be simultaneously moved across the picture and wherein the output of such scanning devices are alternately supplied to storage or memory devices which convert the information from the scanning devices into series arranged information corresponding to each scanning device and wherein during the time that the scanning devices are scanning certain portions of the picture and supplying information to a first set of storage or memory devices, information from a second group of storage or memory devices is being read out to a transmitter for transferring the data to a second location. The invention and method further include a receiver for receiving such information and includes a pair of plurality of storage devices one of which is receiving the incoming information and the other is supplying previously stored information to scanning writing heads.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for electro-optically recording picture information comprising scanning a picture with a head having multiple electrical optical scanning devices which can be simultaneously moved across the picture and wherein the output of such scanning devices are in a time sequential manner applied to storage devices as, for example, shift registers wherein such information can be converted into series information associated with each of the scanning devices in the head and further including a second plurality of storage devices in the form of shift registers in which information can be stored at a time when information is being read out of the first plurality of shift registers.