Abstract: The present invention provides a building structure within which a setting is maintained which allows restaurant patrons to enjoy dining out while allowing primarily children accompanying adult patrons the opportunity of playing in an adjacent amusement area without disturbing the adult patrons. The adult patrons, however, can view the children and any other amusement area patrons, allowing monitoring of the children's activity while simultaneously enjoying the view of the children at play and enjoying their meal. Preferably sound proofing is disposed between the two areas. Additionally, other areas, such as an exercise area, a play area, a coffee shop, gift shop, art projection area and the like can be contained within the building structure.

Abstract: A motion detector for determining image motion in a video signal develops an array of signals representing the difference between pixels from adjacent frames. The array of signals are grouped into subarrays, each of which include the signal corresponding to the pixel under examination for motion. Each of the subarrays are independently examined to determine if the magnitude of all of the pixel differences represented in a particular subarray exceed a predetermined threshold and/or the pixel differences have like polarity. If these conditions are met in any one of the subarrays, a motion signal is produced.

Abstract: Arc-over in the cathode ray tube of a digital television receiver produces a large current pulse which, when it discharges via the chassis ground, disrupts the reference ground potentials of other circuitry coupled to the chassis ground. The affected circuitry includes digital data storage elements which may experience random state changes caused by the fluctuating ground potential. The CRT arc-over condition is detected by circuitry which applies a pulse to the reset terminal of the microprocessor, causing it to restore the potentially corrupted data in the data storage elements using preset data stored in a less volatile programmable read only memory.

Abstract: A contour map signal generator is provided for generating television signal. The contour map signal generator consists of n-series connected circuit, each generating signals for a first pattern and second pattern enlarged or reduced from the first and outputting by arithmetic addition contour map data representative of a step region consisting of two patterns. n-step contour map data generated through the n-series circuit is stored in an image memory and read out to be fed back to the input of said contour map signal generator. n x N-step contour map is generated through N times feedback operations. The contour map data is used for generating a television signal representative of a picture effect in which the original pattern area is enlarged or reduced as the time elapses for highlighting the original pattern.

Abstract: A circuit for signal processing in a picture display device, comprising a line signal and audio signal processing stages which form part of an integrated circuit. A uni-directionally current-conducting element is provided between a supply terminal of the line signal processing stage and a signal terminal of the audio signal processing stage and a further uni-directionally current-conducting element is provided between the supply terminal of the line signal processing stage and a supply terminal of the audio signal processing stage. The elements are not simultaneously conductive. The signal terminal of the audio signal processing stage can either be a supply terminal for the line signal processing stage or a volume terminal for the audio signal processing stage.

Abstract: A video signal delay circuit comprises a plurality of rows of input horizontal transfer registers, a plurality of input vertical transfer gates, a plurality of columns of vertical transfer registers, a plurality of output vertical transfer gates, a plurality of rows of output horizontal transfer registers, a horizontal transfer clock pulse generating circuit, a vertical transfer clock pulse generating circuit, and a selecting circuit. The selecting circuit selectively supplies a horizontal transfer clock pulse to an arbitrarily selected one of the plurality of rows of input horizontal transfer registers and to an arbitrarily selected one of the plurality of rows of output horizontal transfer registers based on at least horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals within an input composite video signal.

Abstract: A fully automatic white balance control circuit which is sensitive to changes in the ambient or incident illumination as well as to changes in the object being viewed includes a main photo-sensor having a video output from which three primary color signals are derived, three external or incident light sensing elements having spectral characteristics the same as those of the main photo-sensor for the three primary colors, three capacitors for converting output currents from the three external light sensing elements to respective voltages, a voltage comparator for comparing a voltage across at least the one capacitor corresponding to green light with a reference voltage, and three sample-and-hold circuits for sampling and holding voltages from the three capacitors, respectively.

Abstract: A timebase circuit is described for providing a horizontal drive correction waveform to correct for pincushion distortion in which a parabolic correction current is derived by squaring a current proportional to the difference between the instantaneous and average values of the vertical ramp voltage. The correction current may be tilted by combination with a linear current proportional to the ramp voltage and may also be amplitude controlled.

Abstract: A dynamic gain adjusting arrangement modifies video signals produced by image scanners to achieve high quality pictures. The arrangement compensates for amplitude distortions of the video signal caused by lens vignetting and variations in lighting conditions. The video signals are compensated for these distortions by applying continuous gain adjustment to video information generated by a photosensor and by dynamically changing the gain adjustment parameters on a line-by-line basis according to an input signal reflecting the instantaneous background level.

Abstract: A noise reduction circuit for a video signal comprises a plurality of circuit parts coupled in series and a control circuit. Each of the circuit parts comprises a delay circuit for delaying an input video signal supplied thereto, a first subtracting circuit for subtracting an output signal of the delay circuit from the input video signal, a limiter circuit for limiting the amplitude of an output signal of the first subtracting circuit, and a second subtracting circuit for subtracting an output signal of the limiter circuit from the input video signal and for producing a signal which is reduced of a noise component within the input video signal. The delay circuit in each of the circuit parts has a different delay time in accordance with a kind of correlation existing in information contents of the input video signal. The control circuit comprises a plurality of detecting circuits provided in correspondence with the circuit parts and a control signal supplying circuit.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for determining, in a system having a transmitting end and a receiving end, displacements of image features occurring between successively transmitted image sequences, by the operations of: determining, at the receiving end, peak values of pixel correlation between successively transmitted image sequences; deriving representations of estimated displacement values from the peak values of pixel correlation; and producing representations of optimized displacement values by a recursion operation which includes recursively deriving a correction value and adding the correction value to an existing estimated displacement value to form a new estimated value, the correction value is derived by performing a mathematical division operation in which the dividend is a selected function of pixel values in successive image sequences and the divisor is proportional to the average of a first value resulting from crosscorrelation of successively transmitted image sequences and a second value resulting

Abstract: A wide-band video amplifier-index signal mixer for driving a beam index CRT includes a low power, high speed "off-the-shelf" video switching transistor having two inputs, one supplied by a first low power, high speed switching transistor coupled to receive video signals and another supplied by a second low power, high speed switching transistor coupled to receive index video signals. Both signals are in digital form. A video gate supplies the first transistor and an index gate supplies the second transistor. Another pair of gates are connected to also supply the video signal to the index gate. Thus, during occurrence of a video signal, both the video gate and the index gate are enabled and both inputs of the video switching transistor are activated.

Abstract: An automatic gain control (AGC) and digitizing circuit, particularly suitable for use in digital video image processing and/or display systems, is disclosed. This circuit advantageously defines an active window within an image area and operates the AGC only on the active window in order to ensure that the active window is always displayed, on a remote monitor, with proper brightness and contrast. The active window can be located anywhere within the image area and can be set to encompass an area extending from only a single picture element to the entire image area.

Abstract: A peaking circuit for use in a digital video signal processing system includes a digital peak detector which produces a peak magnitude whenever the slope of the video signal changes polarity. The peak magnitudes, and the absences of peaks are summed in an accumulator over a field period. The accumulated peaks are applied to a gain calculating circuit which develops a peaking control signal having three regimes. For low valued accumulated peaks the gain or peaking control signal is constant and relatively large. For high valued accumulated peaks the gain is constant and negative. In between the gain is in inverse porportion to the value of the accumulated peaks.