Abstract: A two-dimensional image reading unit includes a semiconductor layer made of a photoelectric material having a pin structure, a plurality of transparent electrodes aligned parallel to each other and provided on one face of the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of opaque electrodes aligned parallel to each other and provided on the other face of the semiconductor layer such that the opaque electrodes intercept with the transparent electrodes. A photoelectric cell is defined at each crossing point of the transparent and opaque electrodes.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes a semiconductor structure, a photosensitive cell array formed on the semiconductor structure and having a plurality of photosensitive cells, and a shift register formed on the semiconductor structure for selectively driving a plurality of photosensitive cells of the cell array to cause pixel signals to be produced therefrom. The shift register includes a plurality of register stages associated with the cell array, and two sets of an initiator circuit and a terminator circuit, each set being arranged at the ends of the plurality of register stages. Interconnections between the plurality of register stages, and selective connections between the two sets of the initiator and terminator circuits and the first and last stages of the plurality of register stages are formed in manufacturing processes on the semiconductor structure in accordance with a direction in which the shift register is to be driven in shifting operation.

Abstract: A communication switch circuit is provided by which quasi-duplex communication may be had between a telephone party and a mobile unit in a simplex two-way radio communication system. Specifically, the communication switch circuit includes (i) a keying circuit to selectively energize a transmitter and (ii) an interrupt circuit to intermittently, temporarily deenergize the transmitter to permit reception from a mobile unit. The communication switch circuit further includes a control circuit which prevents reenergizing of the transmitter if a signal is received from a mobile unit while the transmitter is temporarily deenergized thereby permitting a mobile unit to interrupt the telephone party and interject a comment. The communication switch circuit also includes control circuits which permit a mobile unit to initiate and terminate calls.

Abstract: An improved telephone paging system and method are disclosed. The sytem interfaces with a conventional telephone branching system, such as a PBX, and remote pager devices which are worn by subscribers to the system. A plurality of PBX extension telephone lines are connected to the system via a subscriber line interface, and one PBX extension line is connected to this system via a control line interface. The subscriber line interface is used to detect ring signals on the selected extension lines. When a ring signal has been detected on a selected line, the microprocessor-based system sends command signals to the PBX to place the incoming call on hold. The system identifies a paging code signal distinctively corresponding to the subscriber line on which the ring signal was detected. The identified paging code signal is sent to a transmitter which transmits the paging code signal to all pagers within its range.

Abstract: A mobile radio communication system having a plurality of fixed stations respectively connected to a plurality of subscriber's lines extending from a telephone exchange, and a plurality of mobile stations linked with the fixed stations through radio channels. Each of the mobile stations effect speech via one of the fixed stations. The system comprises means provided for each fixed station for transmitting rate charging information from the telephone exchange to a mobile station under speech, and rate collecting means provided for each mobile station and being responsive to the rate charging information to vary its content.

Abstract: A cordless telephone has a transfer capability by which an incoming telephone call may be transferred from the base unit to the handset unit or from the handset unit to the base unit. Each unit includes an intercom key which may be actuated to place the telephone in an intercom mode wherein the base unit and the handset unit are in communication with each other while the incoming call is on hold. Deactuation of one unit in the intercom mode results in the other unit being automatically adapted to receive the incoming call. Alternatively, actuation of either intercom during the intercom mode results in both units being automatically adapted to receive the incoming call and placed in communication with each other.

Abstract: A cordless telephone includes a base unit and a handset unit. When the handset unit is mounted on the base unit, an identifying code is automatically generated and stored in both units. Thereafter, when an incoming or outgoing telephone call is initiated, the two stored identifying codes are compared, and the telephone call proceeds only if the two identifying codes are identical. The new identifying code is generated as a counted value in accordance with a predetermined time following the mounting of the handset unit of the base unit. By having the predetermined time vary from telephone to telephone, the identifying codes will also vary, eliminating crosstalk interference and the risk of wiretapping.

Abstract: A cordless telephone utilizes internally generated identifying codes to reduce crosstalk and the risk of wiretapping. When the handset unit is mounted on the base unit, a new identifying code is automatically generated and stored in the base unit, and then transmitted to the handset unit, which also stores it. When an incoming or outgoing telephone call is initiated, the two identifying codes stored in the base unit and the handset, respectively, are compared and, if they are not identical, the telephone call is cut off. Advantageously the identifying codes are randomly generated.

Abstract: A profile recording device comprises a network of photosensitive image points. It is adapted to a reading in parallel of all the lines of image points and integrates means for processing (threshold comparators and memorization cells) the electric signals delivered in order to extract the observed profile therefrom.

Abstract: A coin receiving prepay telephone station for local calls includes a telephone receiver and transmitter with a handset and a supporting hook switch cradle therefor. The station further includes a coin chute having an open end for receiving a coin and a lower end for discharging coins into a coin box. A solenoid controlled arm is movable transversely into and out of the coin chute adjacent a level near the open end for normally retaining a coin deposited in the chute in a partially exposed retrievable position permitting manual extraction from the chute if a call dialed from the station is not answered. Circuitry is provided for activating the solenoid controlled arm to move out of the coin chute permitting the coin previously retained therein to drop into the coin box when a called party answers a call of over three digits dialed at the station.

Abstract: A solid state image sensor including a number of pixels arranged in a matrix form between row lines and column lines, successive pixels being read out by an XY address method to derive an image signal, each pixel being formed by a normally-on type static induction transistor and a control transistor having a source-drain passage connected to a gate of the static induction transistor, the control transistor being selectively made conductive during a horizontal blanking period to discharge an excess amount of photocarriers stored in the gate of static induction transistor through the source-drain passage.

Abstract: An image pick-up system in which the accumulation time of accumulation type image pick-up elements and the gain of an amplifier for amplifying the output of the pick-up elements are controlled through an accumulation time and gain control device on the basis of the brighness of the image light received by the pick-up elements. In a preferred embodiment, the control device has a predetermined accumulation time and gain control program and controls the accumulation time and the gain according to the program.

Abstract: A station for accommodation of a chargeable, cordless telephone is provided with a hollow for receiving the cordless telephone. The cordless telephone contains a cassette provided with chargeable batteries which serve to supply the current and which are charged by a corresponding charging system of the station when the telephone is inserted into the hollow. For the accommodation of a separate cassette which also contains chargeable batteries, the station is provided with a further recess in which the charging system also has access to the batteries. A separate cassette can be accommodated in the further recess of the station and kept connected to the charging system in an uninterrupted fashion, independently of use intervals and charging intervals of the cordless telephone. Thus the separate cassette is at all times available for rapid exchange with the cassette contained in the cordless telephone.

Abstract: A two-way radio communications system of the simplex or half-duplex type having a communication link to a duplex telephone system is provided wherein the simplex or half duplex mobile radio is provided priority to talk upon demand. The communication link is provided without the time delays inherent in conventional systems.

Abstract: A high resolution electro-optical detector system having a mosaic detector as charge-coupled component is to be provided. The image of the field of can may be periodically displaced along a closed trajectory to cover the interstices between the detector elements of the mosaic detector. The image informations thus obtained consecutively are stored, and an electronic image of high resolution is obtained therefrom for the digital image processing. Different constructions of the image offset means are described.

Abstract: A multi-line, multi-instrument telephone system having no key service unit and wherein decentralized or local indicator lamp and paging circuit management functions are provided which are operative independently in each station set to operate and control the indicator lamps and paging circuits through selective local generation and alteration of control signals and comparison of the control signals with locally generated reference voltage signals to provide basis for decisions on required visual and audible indicator status. The system is connected in loop fashion with each instrument being connected across a common, multiconductor buss wherein a single conductor supports lamp supervision signaling for the multiple lines and another single conductor supports intercom status signaling, intercom audio, paging audio, and the ring signal.

Abstract: An automatic focus detecting circuit in which dark current is completely compensated for. At least one element of an array of photoelectric elements is shielded from light to obtain a photoelectric output corresponding to a dark current component. The entire array is scanned, and the output corresponding to the dark current component derived from the shielded element is sampled and held. The sampled-and-held output is subtracted from the outputs of all of the other elements to obtain a final output compensated completely for dark current.

Abstract: Microphones and key switches are provided on an operation board mounted on a steering wheel, and an audio signal as well as a control signal generated therefrom are sent to a road-vehicle stationary unit through a light transmission means including plural pairs of light emitting and receiving elements, thereby to supply the audio signal to be transmitted and to make sending/receiving control for a radio communication apparatus incorporated in the road-vehicle stationary unit. The operation board is mounted in a floating relation with respect to the steering wheel and an optical path of the light transmission means is formed in plural number, so that all these optical paths are not interrupted by spokes for supporting the steering wheel simultaneously at the least.

Abstract: A full duplex speakerphone employing adaptive filters and having application in radiotelephone systems is disclosed. To cancel acoustic feedback echo of the receive signal, a representation of the receive signal is subtracted from the transmit signal generated by the speakerphone microphone. The adaptive filter receive signal representation coefficents are modified when the receive signal is detected. Likewise, to cancel electronic echo of the transmit signal, a representation of the transmit signal is subtracted from the receive signal. The adaptive filter transmit signal representation coefficients are modified when the transmit signal is detected.

Abstract: In a telecine apparatus having a film transport mechanism for moving a film at a nominally constant speed and including a motor driving a capstan around which the film passes, there is a sensor for line-by-line scanning of the film to provide a raster-scanned electrical output signal representative of the film image. Also included is a scan control and a film speed measuring device coupled to the capstan to provide an output representative of the instantaneous film speed. A compensating device connects the output of the film speed measuring device to an input of the scan control such that the scan time of a particular line scanned by the sensor is varied to compensate for fluctuations in the film speed.