Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for projecting an image, which is made of pixels, onto a projection surface, including at least one light source whose intensity can be altered and which emits a light beam, also including a deflection device which deflects the light beam onto the projection surface, and a two-stage transformation lens system which is arranged between the deflection device and the projection surface. The invention also relates to optical systems for adjusting the angle of an incident light beam by means of a two-stage transformation lens.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for projecting an image, which is made of pixels, onto a projection surface, including at least one light source whose intensity can be altered and which emits a light beam, also including a deflection device which deflects the light beam onto the projection surface, and a two-stage transformation lens system which is arranged between the deflection device and the projection surface. The invention also relates to optical systems for adjusting the angle of an incident light beam by means of a two-stage transformation lens.

Abstract: In a magnetic bearing in which a first part (1, 20) is mounted magnetically relative to a second part (3, 10) and the second part (3, 10) has a Type II superconducting material (2) containing an anisotropic crystal or a plurality of grains formed of this anisotropic crystal, this crystal being anisotropic in that the superconducting current flows in current-carrying planes, the first part (1, 20) has a configuration of magnets (1; 6, 7, 8; 11, 12, 13, 14; 30, 31, 32, 34; 50, 51, 52, 53) with which the superconducting material (2) interacts, and the crystal itself or the crystal in the plurality of grains faces the first part (1, 20) with the normals on the current-carrying planes (a-b).

Abstract: An arrangement for displaying video images on a projection surface, in which the display is carried out on the projection surface at an inclination, comprises a source for the emission of a substantially parallel light bundle for a sequential illumination of image points of the video image, which source can be intensity-modulated, a deflection device for scanning the light bundle in two dimensions, and a control device which controls the intensity modulation for the light bundle as well as the deflection of the light bundle in accordance with a function that is obtained through a calculated distortion correction of the image, at least with respect to the inclination. A method for the compensation of geometric image errors in video images is also disclosed.

Abstract: An image display system a projector for emitting projection light for generating an image on a light-backscattering projection surface. The wavelengths of the projection light lie in one or more discrete wavelength regions in the visible spectrum and the projection surface is covered on the projector side by an optical filter which passes only light with wavelengths corresponding to those of the projection light.

Abstract: In a magnetic bearing in which a first part (1, 20) is mounted magnetically relative to a second part (3, 10) and the second part (3, 10) has a Type II superconducting material (2) containing an anisotropic crystal or a plurality of grains formed of this anisotropic crystal, this crystal being anisotropic in that the superconducting current flows in current-carrying planes, the first part (1, 20) has a configuration of magnets (1; 6, 7, 8; 11, 12,13, 14; 30, 31, 32, 34; 50, 51, 52, 53) with which the superconducting material (2) interacts, and the crystal itself or the crystal in the plurality of grains faces the first part (1, 20) with the normals on the current-carrying planes (a-b).

Abstract: In a magnetic bearing in which a first part is mounted magnetically relative to a second part and the second part has a Type II superconducting material containing an anisotropic crystal or a plurality of grains formed of this anisotropic crystal, this crystal being anisotropic in that the superconducting current flows in current-carrying planes, the first part has a configuration of magnets with which the superconducting material interacts, and the crystal itself or the crystal in the plurality of grains faces the first part with the normals on the current-carrying planes.

Abstract: A video projection system for projecting more than one picture in which a light source for generating at least one light bundle, an intensity modulator and a spatial light bundle modulator, wherein they are controlled by a video signal, and at least one projection surface for displaying a determined quantity or quantities of individual pictures are arranged in the direction of light of a beam path. The video projection system contains a quantity or quantities of projectors which correspond(s) to the quantity or quantities of individual pictures, each projector having a spatial light bundle modulator, wherein they are optically connected with the light source. The light bundle is divided into a quantity or quantities of partial light bundles which correspond(s) to the quantity of projectors are arranged following the one light source, considered in the direction of the beam path, each of which partial light bundles has a partial beam path, followed in each partial beam path by an intensity modulator.

Abstract: In a device for the deflection of a light bundle generated by a light source, wherein this device has a nonmechanical deflection device in which the light bundle enters and exits at a different angle determined by a controlling variable, which angle depends on the wavelength of every light component in the light bundle, it is provided that an optically dispersively active system is provided behind the nonmechanical deflection device in the light propagation direction, wherein the angular dispersion of this system is dependent on the angle of the light bundle entering the system, wherein the angular dispersion compensates for the wavelength dependence of the angle of the nonmechanical deflection device determined by the controlling variable.

Abstract: In a video projection device for showing a video picture composed of picture points of defined magnitude on a screen with at least one light source for emitting a light bundle with a predetermined beam profile for illuminating every picture point on the screen during a predetermined time interval, it is provided that the beam profile of the light bundle is expanded wider than the defined magnitude of the respective picture point to be illuminated and the time interval is so short that the magnitude of the picture point recognized in the eye of an observer watching the video picture is perceptible in conformity with the defined size of the picture point.

Abstract: In an apparatus for generating an image on a screen by illuminating image points in a plurality of partial images by light bundles, wherein the apparatus has at least one deflection device for deflecting a plurality of light bundles in respectively associated image points of the individual partial images, and a control device for controlling the intensity of the light bundles depending on the brightness of the respective image point to be illuminated, and optics between the screen and deflection device for deflecting the light bundles in a partial image associated with the respective light bundle, it is provided that the optics include an entrance pupil which is spread out over an extended area and an exit pupil which is much smaller in comparison to the entrance pupil, and in that a plurality of deflection devices for deflecting a light bundle associated with a partial image are provided in or near the entrance pupil which is spread out over an extended area.

Abstract: In a device for displaying a video image with a source emitting at least an intensity-modulated light bundle (41, 42) and a deflecting device (41, 42) for deflecting the light bundle, for the angle-proportional scanning of N.sub.p image points in lines over an angle .alpha..sub..rho., and for the angle-proportional scanning of the light bundle of N.sub.z, lines of the video image over an angle .alpha..sub.z, the source emits two light bundles which can be modulated independently from one another, the first light bundle being modulated with the video information for the illumination of a first image point controlled by raster scanning and the second light bundle being modulated with the video information for the illumination of a second image point, wherein the video information of the second image point is offset relative to the video information of the first image point by m.sub.z lines of an image and m.sub..rho. image points of a line, with whole numbers m.sub.z .ltoreq.N.sub.z and m.sub..rho. .ltoreq.N.

Abstract: In a process for imaging image points of a video picture by means of a light bundle which is controlled in intensity with respect to the brightness of the image points and which is deflected and then projected onto a screen by a lens or a lens system, a variable focal length is provided for the lens, the lens system or a partial lens system of the lens system and an object-side focal point is maintained stationary when the focal length is varied.

Abstract: In a process for color transformation from the input-side primaries (R, G, B) to image-side primaries (R", G", B") with a greater color stimulus specification region than that given by the input-side primaries (R, G, B), a color transformation is carried out by converting the components of a color vector from the input-side primaries to fictitious primaries (R', G', B') so that the color stimulus specification of the color vector is changed, and transforming of the converted components of the color vector from the fictitious primaries (R', G', B') to the image-side primaries (R", G", B") for generating image-side components of the color vector, wherein the image-side color stimulus specifications produced in this way have the same hue and the same saturation as the transformed color stimulus specification in the fictitious primary system (R', G', B').

Abstract: In a device with a laser for image presentation in which the laser emits laser light of a defined coherence length L at a given wavelength .lambda. and in which there is arranged in the path of the laser light a first structure with which phase displacements can be carried out for individual photons of the laser light in accordance with a predetermined distribution, it is provided that the average path given by the ratio of the average root mean square of the phase displacement formed by the distribution and the magnitude of the wave vector k=2.pi./.lambda. of the laser is greater than the coherence length L multiplied by a factor of 1/(12).sup.1/2.

Abstract: In an arrangement for displaying images on a projection screen, which arrangement includes a laser, which emits a laser beam, and a deflecting device, which is provided for deflecting the laser beam, and an image-generating device which is connected to a controlling device for controlling the laser and the deflecting means. The image-generating device is switchable in two operating modes, the first operating mode being the standard operating mode for projecting, and the second being an operating mode in which the laser radiation is harmless to a person disposed in the region to which the laser has access.

Abstract: In a process for generating a stereoscopic video picture by using partial images for the left eye and the right eye of an observer, which partial images emit light with different polarization states oriented orthogonally relative to one another, wherein the observer perceives the stereoscopic video picture through spectacles with eyepieces which filter the respective polarization state of the light. At least one light source is used for generating every partial image. This light source emits a substantially parallel, polarized light bundle which can be controlled with respect to intensity and whose polarization state is identical to one of the two orthogonal polarization states or can be converted into this polarization state with low loss and is raster-scanned on a screen to generate at least one partial image.

Abstract: In a suggested process for the transmission of a light bundle which is provided for illuminating picture points of a video picture and has a divergence angle and beam diameter determined by the way in which the light bundle is generated, the light bundle being coupled into a light guide and coupled out with an optical system for bundling a transmitted light bundle exiting the light guide, a divergence angle for the light bundle exiting the light guide is adjusted, by means of the optical system, proportionally to the divergence angle given by the manner in which the light bundle is generated, wherein the proportionality factor is the ratio of the given beam diameter before being coupled into the light guide to the beam diameter of the light bundle emerging from the optical system. A video system for carrying out the process has a suitably dimensioned optical system.

Abstract: In a device for showing a first image in a second image which is visible through a transparent sheet at which light proceeding from the first image is reflected and which is so arranged that the first image and the second image are detectable by an observer at the same viewing angle, at least one light source is provided for substantially parallel light, by which the light proceeding from the first image as light bundle can be generated with little expansion.

Abstract: In a process for processing a first video picture with image points in m.sub.1 lines, whose image points in the l.sub.1 -th line have an intensity I.sub.1 (t, l.sub.1) depending on a parameter t, in particular depending on time, for generating a second video picture with m.sub.2 lines, the respective intensity I.sub.2 (t, l.sub.2) of an image point in the l.sub.2 -th line of the second video picture is interpolated from the intensities of the image points of the first video picture I.sub.1 (t, l.sub.1), wherein I.sub.2 is obtained according to the following equation:I.sub.2 (t,l.sub.2)=Max(J(t,l.sub.2)+.DELTA.;0),where the values J, with respect to the lines, represent discretized values of a signal waveform given by the sampling theorem and in which an offset .DELTA.