Abstract: A multicolor optical filter for, e.g., color solid image pickup elements composed of an interference filter and a dye filter united with each other in such a manner that the filter surface of the interference filter faces the filter surface of the dye filter. The dye filter is preferably prepared by developing a silver halide emulsion layer on a transparent substrate with a color developer containing a color coupler.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pair of associated reproduction masks for manufacturing shadow masks for display tubes. In order to obtain elongate apertures which are enlarged in width on the side of the mask facing the screen, the second reproduction mask is formed by reproducing the first reproduction mask on a photographic plate by means of light rays which have a substantially greater divergence in a plane perpendicular to the long dimension of the apertures than in the plane parallel thereto.

Abstract: The invention provides a multi-step photo-process for disposing a definitive band of opaque conductive material on the sidewall portion of a CRT face panel. The process provides coating the panel with a photosensitive material and discretely exposing the viewing area and terminal region of the sidewall to polymerize the material thereon. The intermediate unexposed coating is removed, and at least the sidewall portion, coated with an opaque conductive material. The polymerized coatings are degraded and removed, leaving a precisely defined band of opaque conductive material on the panel sidewall, and making electrical contact with the aperture mask supporting studs embedded therein.

Abstract: In forming a fluorescent screen for a color picture tube having triads of phosphor materials of the three primary colors arranged in a predetermined pattern on the inner surface of a panel, a photosensitive film which exhibits stickiness when exposed to a threshold amount of light is formed on the inner surface of the panel. Locations of the photosensitive film where the three color phosphor materials respectively occupy are exposed to light from a light source through a shadow mask mounted to the panel. The amount of exposure light for a first color phosphor material is the threshold or above and that for second and third phosphor materials is below the threshold. After completion of the light exposures for the first to third color phosphor materials through the shadow mask, the shadow mask is dismounted from the panel and the first color phosphor material is deposited onto the photosensitive film.

Abstract: A rotating diaphragm is used to distribute a predetermined amount of light onto a light-sensitive phosphor layer on a glass faceplate in order to obtain sharp-edged phosphor stripes.

Abstract: A phosphor-containing layer (2) deposited on the glass faceplate (1) of a color-picture tube is hardened by exposure to light in two steps in order to obtain an amount of light varying from point to point on the glass faceplate and to realize sharp-edged phosphor strips having only slight width variations. In the first step, the main portion of the amount of light required to harden the layer is allowed to fall on the layer without affecting the position-dependent light distribution, and in the second step the layer is exposed essentially to the position-dependent amount of light required to complete the necessary total amount of light.

Abstract: A tube of the shadow mask type having a line screen and a slit aperture mask wherein the slits are arranged in columns and the slits in each column are separated by web portions of the mask is improved by the addition to the screen of light absorbing material in patches located only in alignment with the webs.

Abstract: A method for producing a multicolor optical filter, which comprises exposing a photographic material comprising a support and at least one black-and-white silver halide emulsion layer to light through a first pattern; developing the exposed emulsion layer with a first coupler-containing color developer to form a pattern of a first dye; then exposing an unexposed portion of said emulsion layer to light through a second pattern; developing the exposed area with a second coupler-containing color developer to form a pattern of a second dye; optionally repeating exposure and development to form patterns containing dyes of third and subsequent colors, thereby to form color patterns of at least two colors; and subjecting the product to a silver removal treatment after the final color development step.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fluorescent screen for color picture tubes comprises applying to the tube front plate a continuous sensitized filter layer and exposing it, applying a continuous sensitized fluorescent layer and exposing it through a mask and removing the unexposed parts of the fluorescent layer and the filter layer therebeneath by washing.

Abstract: An improved method of forming a multicolor cathode-ray tube display screen to minimize phosphor contamination. A light-absorbing matrix is first formed on the inner surface of a CRT faceplate, preferably by photoetching of a substantially black metallic layer. Then, multiple color dot patterns are deposited in the matrix openings by (a) depositing a layer of positive photoresist on the matrix and any previously-deposited dot pattern; (b) exposing the resist through a shadow mask to light from a point source positioned to simulate an electron gun; (c) developing the resist to form an integral mask containing a pattern of holes aligned with the matrix openings for one color phosphor; (d) coating the developed resist layer with a photohardenable phosphor slurry; (e) exposing the slurry coating through the faceplate to light from a diffuse source; (f) developing the slurry to remove the unexposed portions, leaving a pattern of dots of one color; and (g) stripping away the photoresist masking layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a master pattern used for manufacture of a color picture tube phosphor screen is disclosed. An image of an interchangeable shadow mask is formed on the internal surface of the face glass and transferred onto a photosensitive plate, thereby producing a master pattern with a very high accuracy. In the case of a very thin photosensitive plate, the master pattern is produced directly from the interchangeable shadow mask. The method for producing a color picture tube by use of a master pattern involves equipment much lower in cost and easier in manufacturing processes than the conventional methods due to the facts that exposure by flood light is possible and that the shadow mask and the face glass need not be handled as a couple.

Abstract: A method for forming patterned screens for cathode ray tubes wherein a multiplicity of viewing areas are spaced in accordance with and dimensionally smaller than openings of a mask member comprising the steps of coating the inner surface of a viewing panel with polyvinyl alcohol photosensitized with dichromate; exposing the viewing panel at a first positional location to radiant energy beamed through the mask openings; moving the viewing panel to a second positional location and exposing the viewing panel to radiant energy beamed through the mask openings; developing to remove the unexposed coating from the viewing panel; treating the exposed viewing panel with a dilute organic etching composition to erode the coating exposed to the radiant energy at one of the first and second positional locations; and washing the viewing panel to remove the etching composition and eroded coating leaving polymerized coating of a dimension smaller than the openings of the mask member.

Abstract: A method of making a display screen for a color television display tube in which a photoconductive layer on the window portion of the tube is provided with a uniform charge which may be either positive or negative. A charge pattern is then formed on that layer by scanning it with an electron beam passing through an apertured color selection electrode. The energy of the beam is such that the average depth of penetration of the electrons is greater than the thickness of the photoconductive layer so that the charge disappears at the regions struck by the beam. The remaining charge pattern is developed with a suspension of charged phosphor particles. By repeating this process, patterns of red, green and blue luminescent phosphor particles can be successively provided to form the display screen. It is also possible to scan the layer simultaneously or successively by three electron beams and to develop the resultant charge pattern with a light-absorbing pigment.

Abstract: An exposure device for making a stripe screen on a faceplate of a color cathode ray tube which comprises an elongated light source; first and second correction lenses disposed above the light source in the order mentioned as counted from said elongated light source; and a table designed to carry a panel section of the color cathode ray tube and bored with an opening facing the second correction lens, and wherein the first correction lens has a lenticular plane enabling a virtual image of the light source to be rotated according to the direction in which an image of the light source is to be projected through the prescribed angle defined by the curvature of the shadow mask and the apparent angle of spatial displacement of an image of the elongated light source projected through the second correction lens; and the second lens has a lenticular plane enabling said virtual image to be projected on a photosensitive layer of the panel section aligned with the locus of electron beams of the color cathode ray tube thr

Abstract: An improved method of screening a color cathode ray tube of the shadow mask type is disclosed. The shadow mask is used to form a corresponding virtual mask on the outer or viewing surface of the CRT faceplate. The virtual mask then is employed as a substitute for the shadow mask in the subsequent photoprinting of a color display screen on the faceplates's inner surface. Advantages include reduced handling of the fragile shadow mask, which reduces the costs associated with replacing such masks if they become damaged, and better defined and registered phosphor deposits.

Abstract: An improved color filter array comprises a transparent heat-transfer dye-receiving layer containing an array of filter elements wherein the dye-receiving layer is a certain polyester wherein at least 30 mole percent of the recurring units contain a saturated gem-bivalent radical having a saturated polycyclic three-dimensional structure that includes a saturated bicyclic atomic bridge hydrocarbon ring member. The improved dye-receiving layers provide filter elements with excellent edge sharpness. The improved color filter arrays are useful in color imaging devices, such as solid-state video cameras.

Abstract: A color imaging device which comprises an adhesive layer between (a) means for sensing radiation comprising a planar array of charge-handling semiconductive photosensors, and (b) superimposed filter means for controlling access of radiation to the sensing means comprising a transparent polymer layer capable of receiving dyes such as heat transferable dyes; the adhesive layer comprising a polyester selected from the group consisting of (1) polyesters having recurring carboxylate units of which at least 80 mole percent are terephthalate units, and recurring alkylene units derived from glycols of which at least 40 mole percent are ether alkylene units, with the proviso that either (a) the recurring alkylene units comprise at least 60 mole percent ether alkylene units or (b) either the recurring carboxylate units comprise at least 2 mole percent pyromellitic tetracarboxylate units or at least 10 mole percent of linear aliphatic dicarboxylate units having at least 8 carbon atoms, and that when at least 10 mole per