Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a vacuum envelope having a face plate (1), a continuous phosphor screen (7) formed on the inner surface of the face plate (1), the phosphor screen (7) including a plurality of scanning regions (R1-R15) disposed in rows and column, and a rear plate facing the phosphor screen (7), a scanning arrangement including a plurality of electron guns (15) attached to the rear plate, for individually emitting electron beams toward the phosphor screen, and deflection yokes (16) coupled to corresponding electron guns (15) for deflecting the electron beams. A control section (30) controls the electron guns (15) and the yokes (16) so that one row of the scanning regions is scanned simultaneously while other rows are suppressed.

Abstract: By using a sheet beam and a charge-storing target measuring the differential of the deposited charge, one can greatly improve the performance of a scan converter. A segmented target provides instantaneous analog output.

Abstract: This device comprises several charge-transfer shift registers integrated on the same semiconductor substrate and disposed one above the other along the axis Oy. The charge-transfer electrodes are common to all the registers and each package of charges injected under an electrode having received the impact of particles is transferred along axis Ox to underneath a diffused zone common to all the registers what causes currents to flow in two electrodes connected to the ends of the zone diffused along axis Ox.

Abstract: A controlling electrode is positioned in physical proximity to one or more electrodes in an electron beam tube so that the controlling and controlled electrodes are subject to common electron bombardment. A control voltage of preselected magnitude and polarity is applied to the controlling electrode. During the common electron bombardment, primary and secondary electrons are present in the region of the electrodes, an exchange of electrons occurs between the electrodes, and the voltage on the controlled electrodes switches to a value at or near the voltage applied to the controlling electrode. The electron beam tube can be a cathode ray pin tube used in electrostatic printing in which case a single controlling electrode is positioned in proximity to the array of conductive pins in the tube face plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shooting target.The signal plate covering one of the faces of the actual target is subdivided into a plurality of electrically independent elementary signal plates in order to reduce the stray capacitance during the sampling of the signal on said plate. According to a preferred arrangement, these elementary plates are oriented in the same way as the scanning lines by the reading electron beam. This reading is performed either by a single beam or by a certain number of independent beams each covering a portion of the target.The applications are the same as in the prior art and in particular to infrared photography.

Abstract: The combination of a storage tube and a feedback circuit operatively intercoupled such that as data is read from the storage tube the level of stored charge on each incremental area of the dielectric of the tube's target is sensed and the potential between the cathode and target conductor is automatically adjusted as a function of the sensed charge level. This feedback control of the aforementioned potential allows for the use of a larger differential charging range on the target's dielectric, which in turn provides a substantial improvement in the fidelity of data processing through the storage tube.

Abstract: A typical embodiment of the invention is a multiple electron beam device converting analog input signals into coded digital output signals. A beam of electrons, generated through a Watkins-Johnson laminar flow sheet beam electron gun is focused before being divided into eight individual beams by means of an eight section traveling wave time deflection system. The individual beams then are controlled by means of a traveling wave analog deflection system before they pass through an apertured target structure that corresponds to the digital code. The beams traveling through this target impact on a diode target array which then generates a coded digital output signal that corresponds to the analog input.