Matrix for reading out stored data

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR HANDLING BITS OF INFORMATION IN FIXED SIZE GROUPS OF N BITS WHICH ARE STORED BY THE STORAGE ELEMENTS OF A STORAGE REGISTER COMPRISING FIRST SELECTING MEANS, SAID FIRST SELECTING MEANS ARRANGED IN A NUMBER OF COLUMN LINES WHICH ARE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SAID STORAGE ELEMENTS AND A NUMBER OF ROW LINES AND CONTROL LINES WHICH INTERSECT SELECTED ONES OF SAID COLUMN LIES, A SWITCHING ELEMENT ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SAID ROW, COLUMN AND CONTROL LINES AT SELECTED INTERSECTIONS THEREOF, EACH OF SAID SWITCHING ELEMENTS REPRESENTING THE BIT OF INFORMATION WHICH IS STORED IN THE REGISTER STORAGE ELEMENT CONNECTED TO ITS ASSOCIATED COLUMN LINES, MEANS FOR SELECTING AND ENERGIZING ONE OF SAID CONTROL LINES TO READ OUT THE BIT REPRESENTING INFORMATION FROM THE GROUP OF SWITCHING ELEMENT WHICH ARE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO THE SELECTED CONTROL LINE AND APPLYING THE READ-OUT SIGNALS TO THE CORRESPONDING CONNECTED ROW LINES, THE NUMBER OF SWITCHING ELEMENTS IN SAID GROUP BEING K WHICH IS A NUMBER GREATER THAN THE NUMBER N, AND THE SECOND SELECTING MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SAID ROW LINES FOR SELECTING A DESIRED FIXED SIZE GROUP OF N BITS OF INFORMING FROM THE BIT REPRESENTING INFORMATION READ OUT OF SAID GROUP SWITCHING ELEMENTS STARTING AT ANY OF K-N+1 BIT POSITIONS WITHIN SAID READ OUT BIT REPRESENTING INFORMATION.