Abstract: An apparatus for helping plant growth, including a first tube having a cross-section and a width to accommodate lateral growth, and having a length to surround at least half the height of the foliage and at least half the depth of the roots. The first tube has a top and bottom end, the bottom end having attachment features that engage with the attachment features of a removably attachable bottom to form a nursery pot. The first tube is cylindrical or square with a length of 10 to 14 inches, and a diameter or width of 10 inches, the corresponding removably attachable bottom being similarly sized and shaped. A second tube has a similarly shaped cross-section, with a width 1-3 inches wider and a length 1-3 inches longer than the first tube. A method for growing plants from seedlings and a set of tubes for helping plant growth are also presented.

Abstract: In a display apparatus having a display device (CRT), a variable light transmission panel or coating (P) at a front side of the display device (CRT), amplifiers (AR, AG, AB) for furnishing color signals to control terminals of the display device (CRT), and a control unit (C) for controlling the variable light transmission panel or coating (P) and the amplifiers (AR, AG, AB), the amplifiers (AR, AG, AB) are controlled in such a manner that a color deviation of the variable light transmission panel or coating (P) is compensated for.

Abstract: Picture display device comprising a plurality of electron transport ducts or transporting electrons in the form of electron currents, and selection electrodes for withdrawing each electron current at predetermined locations from its transport duct and for directing said current towards a luminescent screen. The selection electrodes are driven by a selection driver comprising integrated driver circuits having outputs which are DC-coupled to the selection electrodes and are cascaded as regards their power supply voltages in such a way that they apply both selection pulses and transport (bias) voltage to the selection electrodes.

Abstract: A display device having a display tube including a cold cathode, for example a PN emitter (PNE), has the terminals of the PN emitter (PNE) coupled between first terminals of a first (CR1) and a second (CR2) current mirror. The first current repeater (CR1) is connected to an output of an amplifier (AMP) whose feedback input (FI) is connected to second terminals of the first (CR1) and second (CR2) current mirrors.

Abstract: In a picture signal processing circuit including an interpolation filter having a median filter (67) having a first input (63), a second input (69) and a third input (63) to which respective signals from picture elements of three positionally consecutive lines from a preceding and a present field of a line and field-sequentially assembled picture signal are applied, it has been found that a better result can be obtained for moving contours in the picture signal by taking a (weighted) average from these signals of the present field, and to take this average instead of or mixed with an output signal (Y') of the median filter (67).

Abstract: In a picture display device suitable for receiving and processing an incoming video signal which comprises horizontally scanned picture information and for displaying pictures which are composed of fields each of which comprises a given number of lines, a scanning section for generating line and field scanning signals for forming the lines and fields, respectively, is adapted to scan the lines in the vertical direction, a number of vertical lines constituting a field and the vertical line frequency being many times higher, at least 200 times, than the horizontal field frequency. A video signal processing section for processing the picture information which is present in the video signal comprises a scan direction transposition circuit for receiving the picture information and for sequentially assigning picture information to elements of the vertically scanned lines.

Abstract: In a system for transmitting and receiving a television signal via a transmission channel having at least a transmitting section and a receiving section, the transmitting section including a sampling circuit for sampling each field of the television signal in accordance with a sampling pattern which is shifted field-sequentially at least in the horizontal direction, the transmitting section further includes a field interleaving circuit for generating a field to be transmitted by interleaving between sampling values of a sampled field of the television signal sampling values of at least one further sampled field of the television signal having mutually different shifted sampling patterns, so that a higher temporal resolution is possible on display of the television signal.

Abstract: In a line number halving circuit for a sampled interlaced television signal in one field the signal samples of a line (0, 4, 8) cancelled during halving are placed between the signal samples of an underlying or overlying maintained line (2, 6, 10) while in the other field alternately a signal sample of the overlying line (1, 5, 9) and of the underlying cancelled line (5, 9, 13) is placed between the successive signal samples of a maintained line (3, 7, 11) in order to prevent position errors in a picture displayed with the television signal halved in line number.

Abstract: A movement-adaptive processing circuit for an interlaced video signal has a selection circuit (5) which passes on to its output (21) one of the three video signals applied to its inputs (3, 9, 11) and which signals substantially correspond to three position-sequential lines of two consecutive fields when this signal has an amplitude which is closest to the mean amplitude of these three video signals. The processing circuit may be used many types of circuits such as, for example, in line or field number conversion circuits, noise suppression circuits, DPCM decoding circuits, vertical contour correction circuits and still-picture display circuits of video record players.