Abstract: A solid-state image sensor with a color separation, filter generates a luminance signal component and line-sequential color-difference signal components. Low-pass filters produce wide-band and narrow-band luminance signals from the luminance signal component. A synchronous detection circuit, a delay circuit, and a switching circuit produce simultaneous color-difference signals from the line-sequential color-difference signal components. A level control circuit adjusts the white balance of red, green, and blue signals produced from the narrow-band luminance signal and the simultaneous color-difference signals. A narrow-band luminance signal and simultaneous color-difference signals produced from the white-balanced red, green, and blue signals together with the wide-band luminance signal are encoded into a color video signal.

Abstract: An original to be copied is electrooptically scanned point-by-point. The resulting imaging signals are stored in a first memory and then forwarded to a first image processing unit where the signals are electronically corrected to enhance the image of the original. The corrected signals are loaded into a second memory. A portion of the corrected signals is recalled from the second memory and sent to a third memory. This portion of the corrected signals is then transmitted to a second image processing unit and thereafter converted into a low-resolution video image which can be inspected to determine image quality. If image quality is satisfactory, the contents of the second memory are sent to an exposure unit which prints a high-resolution image of the original on copy material. Imaging signals for a second original are loaded into the first memory as the contents of the second memory are recalled for printing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for electronic contrast valuation of two-dimensional transparent original images, in which the original images are electro-optically scanned by rows and columns. The image signals, corresponding to the image elements or pixels, and possibly needing correction, are subjected to frequency filtering, in which they are modified by a low-pass filter. The resulting low-pass signals are summed with corresponding high-pass signals obtained by subtraction of low-pass signals from the original image signals. The amplification factor for the high-pass signal is determined according to a non-linear transfer characteristic function K2, such that small signals corresponding to low image contrast are more greatly amplified (amplification S.sub.1) than are large signals corresponding to high image contrast (amplification S.sub.

Abstract: A video signal generating device with which a video signal of high resolution is produced while significantly suppressing the generation of color Moire disturbance. The received optical image is split into two beams and applied to respective color and monochrome image sensors. The optical beam applied to the color sensor is optically filtered to limit it in spatial frequency to a band below that applied to the monochrome sensor. A high frequency luminance signal is produced from an output of the monochrome sensor, a low frequency luminance signal is produced from the output of the color sensor, and a composite luminance signal is formed from the combination of the high and low frequency luminance signals. The overall resolution of the device is determined by the monochrome signals produced by the monochrome sensor.

Abstract: A picture image of a linear area to be read out of an original picture is projected and focused on a plurality of line sensors. The light flux transmitted through a projecting lens is divided into two light fluxes, along a plane containing the linear area of the original picture and an optical axis of the lens, by a light dividing apparatus disposed at the image side of the projecting lens. The light dividing apparatus thus provides two light fluxes which are projected and focused on respective line sensors. The light dividing apparatus comprises one or two flat mirrors which are so disposed that one side edge of each mirror coincides with or is disposed near to the plane along which the entire light flux is divided into two parts. The reflecting plane or reflecting planes of the mirrors are inclined at desired predetermined angle(s) with respect to the optical axis of the projecting lens in order to project the light onto the light sensors.

Abstract: A device for correcting shading in video signals which has conventionally occurred due to variations in speeds of the scanning spots. Speeds of the scanning spot are detected, and variations in these speeds are also detected. In addition, conventional-type digital correction values for correcting geometry and convergence errors are produced. Variations in speed are detected, and are digital-to-analog converted. A shading output correction signal indicative of a sweep speed variation is produced. This signal is added to the digital correction values to form a corrected correction value.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup unit in which two neighboring horizontal lines are paired for scanning. In the vertical transfer, the photocharge signals on the two lines are transferred to different horizontal CCDs, which concurrently shift out their contents. One of the two horizontal lines is used exclusively for a luminance signal and the other for two color signals. The horizontal line used for color signals has alternating color filters. A switch is used to separate the two color signals resulting from these alternating color filters.

Abstract: A data processing system, in which image data is transmitted in units of predetermined length, e.g., a predetermined number of lines, and code data comprising a character or the like, is transmitted in units each of which contains the code data corresponding to the predetermined unit of the image data. The image and the code data are preferably transmitted on a common transmission channel, and can be separated upon reception for separate processing.

Abstract: A radiation image information readout device has a sheet fixedly supported on the concave surface of a semicylindrical support is scanned in a main scanning direction by a light beam which is emitted from a light source and deflected by a main scanning light deflector, and is also scanned by the light beam in a sub-scanning direction normal to the main scanning direction by angularly moving the light source and the main scanning light deflector. The light source and the main scanning light deflector are angularly moved about an axis of curvature of the semicylindrical support. The light source and the main scanning light deflector are fixedly mounted in a cylindrical member which is angularly driven about its own axis by a motor coupled to one axial end thereof.

Abstract: A convergence adjustment device for color video-projectors having three monochrome tubes, each projecting an image of a give color on a screen. This device acts on the scanning of the second and third tubes for superimposing, on the screen, their images on that of the first tube. This device is of the digital type. It comprises a RAM in which correction values are stored corresponding to correction of the scanning currents for the different zones into which the image is divided. These values are restored in synchronism with the scanning of the zones during normal operation. The device also comprises a microprocessor for modifying, during the adjustment phase, the stored values as a function of the ordes issued by the user who makes this adjustment by observing the image. The user's actions in a manual mode affect only a single one of the zones. In an automatic mode, adjustments are effective on groups of zones.

Abstract: Color correction method and processor for improving the quality of color reproduction in a color picture recording unit or display unit in a color copy machine, a color facsimile or a color printer. A memory means previously stores in a table values of secondary color correction image data used for recording corresponding to values of primary image data produced through a color scanning of a color picture. The secondary color correction image data are read out from the table by addressing signals formed from the three color components of the primary image data. Data bits for the addressing signals of the three color components of the primary image data are assigned unevenly depending on the contribution factor of each in forming the three color components of the secondary color crrection image data, thereby reducing the required number of addressing bits and associated memory.

Abstract: A device for reading in a reduced scale a relatively wide document, e.g., a display board of a graphic input device by projecting an image of the document onto a photoelectric transducer through an image-forming lens. A pair of flat mirrors are provided which consist of a first and a second mirror that are located to face and substantially parallel to each other. A beam is reflected a plurality of times between the mirrors to be propagated toward the lens. Each of the flat mirrors is supported at both of its ends and with its reflective surface oriented substantially vertically. One of the first and second mirrors is inclined relative to the other so that their distance sequentially increases toward the lens. A transparent base plate is provided which has a document transport surface for illuminating the document in a slit configuration. A reflective film is provided on a part of the opposite surface of the base plate to the document transport surface, serving as one of the first and second mirrors.

Abstract: A colored original to be reproduced is scanned point-by-point in each of the three primary colors. The resulting imaging signals are processed to generate a luminance signal and a pair of chrominance signals. The luminance signal is branched into a high-pass filter channel and a low-pass filter channel. The high-pass portion of the luminance signal is amplified in accordance with a sublinear characteristic function which causes signals of small amplitude to be amplified to a greater degree than signals of large amplitude. The low-pass portion of the luminance signal is modified per a non-linear characteristic gradation function. The thus-modified high-pass and low-pass portions of the luminance signal are added to yield an enhanced luminance signal. The enhanced luminance signal is divided by the original luminance signal and each of the chrominance signals is multiplied by the resulting quotient. This automatially compensates for the changes in color saturation which accompany changes in brightness.

Abstract: Image processing conditions for scanning and processing an original by an electronic process scanner are set by an external image processing condition setting apparatus wherein a first system of coordinates is prepared in the scanner for processing, and a second system of coordinates is prepared in the image processing condition setting apparatus for position setting. An original cylinder is commonly used by both the scanner and apparatus, and by using a marked line formed on the surface of the cylinder as a reference position, both systems of coordinates are matched. A visual monitoring device which projects an image of a register mark onto the surface of the original cylinder is used in setting the image processing conditions. The visual monitoring device magnifies the image of the mark and a peripheral area of the surface of the cylinder, thereby enabling an operator to accurately locate a given position on the cylinder.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image reading apparatus wherein an image of a document is projected on an image sensor at an enlarged magnification of N times the normal magnification. This causes an electrical reduction circuit to reduce its input data by 1/N times the input. The data for determining the magnification N is stored in a memory from which the data corresponding to one of a plurality of levels selected by the operator is read out. The moire pattern due to a difference in phase between the dot pitch and the reading pitch is elminated by the optical enlargement. On the other hand, the moire pattern due to the periodic characteristics of dither processing is removed by the optical enlargement which eliminates a low-frequency component of the read data and by the electrical reduction which slightly alters the phase of read data.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the color saturation during electronic image processing, in which a two-dimensional original image is electro-optically scanned along rows and columns for three primary colors and the resulting image signals are transformed into a luminance signal Y and two color-difference or chrominance signals C1, C2. A pre-selected adjustment of color saturation is used, in which, in accordance with a non-linear characteristic curve, small chrominance signals C1, C2 are more amplified than larger chrominance signals C1, C2 corresponding to a higher degree of saturation.

Abstract: A single tube color video camera apparatus having a camera tube including a color separation stripe filter and producing an output signal containing a color multiplex carrier signal, utilizes an envelope detector for directly detecting the camera tube output signal to produce an envelope detection signal which varies in accordance with an electrical charge pattern of the tube target. Phase control of the color multiplex carrier signal extracted from the camera tube output signal is executed based upon the envelope detection signal, to thereby correct for color signal phase deviations caused by variations in light intensity of scenes viewed by the camera.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus has an image section, a black level detection section, a storage section, a read out device, and a compensator. The image section is capable of receiving light and includes a plurality of horizontal shift registers juxtaposed in the vertical direction. The black level detector section is shielded from light and is formed at the start portion of transference of each horizontal shift register of the image section. The storage section is formed adjoining the image section in the horizontal direction and stores image signals produced in the image section and black level signals produced in the shielded section. The read out device reads out the signals stored in the storage section line-by-line in a horizontal scanning period. The compensator clamps a black level signal in the signals of one horizontal line read out by the read out device to a predetermined reference level.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for processing a stream of image pixel data to determine the presence of high frequency half-tone data. The arrangement applies the function ##EQU1## to a stream of image pixel data. The presence of minimums of .phi.(k) at times indicative of predetermined half-tone image frequencies is detected and an output signal indicative of the presence or absence of minimums at the predetermined half-tone image frequencies is provided. More particularly, the two's complement of the stream of image pixel data is added to each of a plurality of differently delayed signals derived from the original stream of image pixel data. The absolute value is taken of the resulting function. The signal is summed for a selected number of pixels, corrected for noise, and reviewed for minimums. Minimums occurring at selected positions in the pixel stream indicate certain frequencies of the data. An output is created based on frequency indications.

Abstract: The likelihood that differently colored inks will overlap is minimized in a multicolor printing system employing the dither method by using a different dither matrix for each color and arranging the lowest threshold valued cells of the dither matrices so that they do not overlap when repeated across a printing surface. A preferred embodiment uses rectangular dither matrices of different size, shape, and arrangement of threshold values.