Arrangement for reading out symbolically recorded information in color

Claim 1

IN AN ARRANGEMENT FOR READING OUT INFORMATION SYMBOLICALLY RECORDED WITH AN AREA ON THE SURFACE OF A CARRIER AS A PATTERN OF SPATIALLY SEPARATED COLORED DOTS, WITH THE COLOR OF EACH DOT BEING SELECTED FROM A NUMBER OF PRE-SELECTED COLORS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: A TELEVISION PICTURE TUBE REPRODUCING ON ITS VIDEO SCREEN SAID AREA ON AN ENLARGED SCALE, A PLURALITY OF COLOR SENSITIVE PHOTOELECTRIC DETECTOR CHANNELS, EACH FOR OBSERVING ONE DOT WITHIN SAID PATTERNS AND PRODUCING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COLOR OF THE OBSERVED DOT; A SIGNAL RESPONSIVE ELEMENT FOR EACH CHANNEL; A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUALLY ADJUSTABLE SELECTOR MEANS, EACH INTERCONNECTING A CHANNEL WITH ITS ASSOCIATED SIGNAL RESPONSIVE ELEMENT FOR SELECTIVELY PERMITTING PASSAGE OR SUPPRESSION OF SAID SIGNAL IN DEPENDENCE UPON THE COLOR IT REPRESENTS; AND MEANS FOR INTERCONNECTING ALL OF SAID SIGNAL RESPONSE ELEMENTS.