Abstract: A chip packaging casing for packing chips and also serving as a chip supply source comprises a substantially plate-like body having a spiral passageway formed in its interior, and a plurality of chips received in a row in the spiral passageway of the body. The plate-like body further has a chip-outlet formed therein as a continuation of the spiral passageway to communicate with the exterior of the body and at least one air-intake formed therein to communicate between the passageway and the exterior of the body. The air-intake is adapted to be connected to an air supply source and serves to facilitate the forwarding of the chips along the passageway toward the outlet to discharge the chips form the outlet. A chip supply mechanism is provided for supplying chips to a mounting head of an automatic chip mounting apparatus by using the chip packaging casing.

Abstract: An automatic electronic component mounting apparatus for automatically mounting electronic components on the printed circuit board includes an electronic component supply mechanism for supplying an electronic component to a predetermined position, at least one mounting head movable in a Y direction, a first controlling mechanism for moving the mounting head in the Y direction, a movable frame movable in an X direction, a second controlling mechanism for moving the movable frame in the X direction and controlling the position of the movable frame in the X direction, a support base supported to the movable frame, and a table carrying a printed circuit board and turnable in a .theta. direction. The table is rotatably supported on the support base so that when the X directional position of the movable frame is controlled by the second controlling mechanism, the X directional position of the table is also controlled. A third controlling mechanism is provided for controlling a .theta.

Abstract: This invention relates to a television camera and more particularly to a solid-state television camera using a solid-state image pickup device. The object of the invention is to provide a solid-state television camera which is devoid of drop of dynamic resolution for a moving object and provides high S/N for a still object. The solid-state television camera of this invention is equipped with pixels 3 from which signals are read out with a predetermined signal storage time, means 21 for detecting motion of an object from the signals of the pixels 3, and pixels 4 from which the signals are read out in the signal storage time in accordance with the detection signal of the detection means 21 l and outputting video signals. The present invention can obtain video signals free from the drop of dynamic resolution for a moving picture and video signals having high S/N for a still picture. As a result, the invention can provide a television camera having excellent picture quality as a whole.

Abstract: The chromatic aberration of the lens of a multi-tube color TV camera is separated into a linear component and a non-linear component. Horizontal and vertical deflection correction waveforms are generated in accordance with these two components. These two correction waveforms are superimposed onto horizontal and vertical deflection waveforms employed to deflect electron beams in said camera tubes. A registration error caused by the chromatic aberration of the lens is corrected with high accuracy by employing these correction waveforms.

Abstract: A camera tube device for use in, for example, a television camera comprises a cathode emitting electrons, and a first grid and a second grid having respective apertures for converging the electrons emitted from the cathode into a fine electron beam. The aperture of the second grid is sufficiently smaller than that of the first grid and plays an important role for the formation of the electron beam. The electron beam scans a target carrying a charge pattern corresponding to the luminous intensity of an object. Voltages applied to the first and second grids are controlled so as to provide the electron beam quantity corresponding to the luminous intensity of the object forming the charge pattern of the target.

Abstract: In an image pickup tube including a cathode, a first grid electrode disposed as a next stage of the cathode and provided with an aperture, a second grid electrode disposed as a next stage of the first grid electrode and provided with an aperture, and a photoconductive target, the first grid electrode is operated by a voltage positive with respect to the cathode. To control the amount of the electron beam of the image pickup tube, a voltage corresponding to a signal current obtained from the photoconductive target of the image pickup tube or to a return beam from the photoconductive target is applied to the second grid electrode in such a manner that a polarity of the applied voltage is opposite to a polarity of a signal charge generated on the photoconductive target.

Abstract: A digital registration circuit for a multi-tube television camera wherein correction quantities corresponding to positions on a target of an image pickup tube are stored in a digital memory. The digital signal for the correction quantity read out from the digital memory is converted into an analog signal which is supplied to a low-pass filter and smoothed. The smoothed signal is sampled at a sampling frequency higher than the frequency at which the correction quantities stored in the digital memory are read out and the sampled signal is converted into a digital signal. The digital signals sequentially produced are applied to a shift register, and four sequential sample values supplied from the shift register are added together in an adder. The shift register operates in such a manner that four samples are shifted one by one every adding time. An output signal from the adder is used for correcting registration, so that the generation of shading can be prevented.

Abstract: A television camera capable of correcting shadings caused by digital registration faculty employed in a multi-tube type color television camera. The television camera comprises differentiating circuits for generating differentiated waves of correction waveforms used for adjusting registration, and non-linear circuits for processing the differentiated waves. Outputs of the non-linear circuits control the gain of a video signal circuit so that components responsible for the generation of shadings can be removed from a video signal.

Abstract: A bracelet type wrist watch composed of a curved body having a watch embedded therein, and a coil spring covering said curved body, thus presenting a neat appearance as an ornamental ring when worn around the wrist.

Abstract: A circuit for generating a signal for correcting deflection of electron beam, which circuit is advantageously used as, for example, a circuit for correcting registration in a multi-tube type color television camera. In the correction signal generating circuit, quantities of corrections at intersections defined by a plurality of lines extending in horizontal and vertical directions so as to divide a surface scanned by the electron beam into a plurality of areas are stored in terms of digital values. The digital signal read out from the memory is converted into an analog signal. The analog signal is then supplied to low-pass filter means. From the output signal of the low-pass filter means, quantities of correction are prepared for the scanning lines present between the two intersections located adjacent to each other in the vertical direction. In the circuit, the shading is positively prevented from occurring.

Abstract: In a solid state imaging device in which two signals on two horizontal scanning lines are read out simultaneously for easy image enhancement, the two signals read from the two horizontal scanning lines are subtracted from each other while they are added together, and the difference signal is added to the sum signal so as to produce a video signal subject to the image enhancement. As a solid state image sensor, a MOS type image sensor as well as a CCD, CID or CC type image sensor may be used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a color imaging device which suppresses false color signals appearing in an area where the difference of brightnesses is great in the horizontal or vertical direction.When the correlation between picture elements adjacent in the vertical direction is little and the false signal appears in a boundary part in the vertical direction, the false signal is detected, whereupon a color signal is demodulated by utilizing the correlation between the signals of picture elements in the horizontal direction. On the other hand, when the correlation between picture elements adjacent in the horizontal direction is little and the false signal appears in a boundary part in the horizontal direction, the false signal is detected, whereupon a color signal is demodulated by utilizing the correlation between the signals of picture elements in the vertical direction.As a result, the moire phenomenon attributed to the false color signals can be conspicuously reduced.

Abstract: The insects catcher assembly of the present invention includes a framework. A fluorescent lamp is mounted within the framework for attracting flying insects theretowards. A sticky band strip led-out from a package and positioned in proximity to the lamp for stickingly catching the optically attracted insects. A collecting pan unit is detachably attached to the framework. The band strip is kept substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the pan unit and in a tensioned state in a vertical plane. The general appearance of the assembly is highly smart and elegant.