Sony Corporation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Asch Corporation

Hiroshi Sahara

Yutaka Tanaka

Yoshio Ishigaki

Toshinobu Isobe

Fumikazu Otsuka

Takashi Okada

Toshiaki Watanabe

Toshio Suzuki

Tamiji Nagai

Satoru Maeda

Yoshiyuki Kondo

Yoshimi Watanabe

Yasushi Noguchi

Katsumi Yamaoka

Naoki Fujisaki

Seiji Hattori

Yoshihiro Hanamoto

Masaru Ibuka

Tadashi Sato

Shuji Ishikawa

Masashi Tonomura

Toshifumi Uenishi

Yoshihiro Murata

Michiro Shibui

Hiroshige Kimura

Yasuhiro Hidejima

Isao Osawa

Tooru Kumagai

A video signal is supplied from an emitter coupled differential amplifier to a first grid electrode of a cathode ray tube. A blanking pulse signal is supplied to the base of a transistor, which constitutes a constant-current source for the differential amplifier, to put the transistor into an on-state to obtain a voltage of a blanking level to apply blanking. Since the transistor is controlled by a switching control to apply blanking, a transistor of a high voltage-resisting property is not required, and the power loss is reduced. The differential amplifier operates stably and does not deteriorate the frequency characteristic or the response characteristic.

Drive circuit for a cathode ray tube

A flat type CRT includes a horizontal deflection circuit and/or a vertical deflection circuit, in which order to prevent undesired zooming without using a high voltage regulator, reduce an amount of overscanning, and stabilize the picture, the deflection circuit is separated from a high voltage generating circuit, and a capacitor is provided between the high voltage generating circuit and the deflection circuit. The capacitor is arranged to provide a low voltage .DELTA.HV proportional to an anode voltage HV. This low voltage is added to the output of a transistor so that the level of the deflection voltage is varied.

Keystone description correcting circuit using high voltage correction

In a horizontal deflection circuit for a television receiver, the output signal of a horizontal oscillation circuit is supplied to a driving circuit, and the output of a transistor included in the driving circuit is applied to the gate of a MOSFET. A current flowing in one direction is supplied to the MOSFET in a part of the horizontal scanning period and a current flowing in the other direction is supplied to the MOSFET in the rest of the horizontal scanning period so that a sawtooth current flows through a horizontal deflection coil.

Horizontal deflection circuit for a television set

In a two-way communication system having first and second communication terminals, a telephone apparatus at each terminal for two-way telephone service and a picture communication apparatus at each terminal for providing users with visual images of each other; the picture communication apparatus includes video cameras for generating video signals to be transmitted, display apparatus for displaying the visual images, a control apparatus for controlling transmission and reception of the video signals, and a line drawing input apparatus connected to the control apparatus for generating a line signal representing the line drawing and which is transmitted with the video signals from the control apparatus.

Picture communication apparatus

A system and method for providing service in an aircraft having a plurality of passenger seats. The system of the invention includes a plurality of attendant call lights each serving a different one of the passenger seats, a plurality of reading lights each serving a different one of the passenger seats, a plurality of switch units each for controlling one of the attendant call lights and one of the reading lights, and a plurality of terminal units each provided at a different one of the passenger seats. Each terminal unit has an atttendant call key, a reading light key, and an address generator, and is capable of generating a request signal including an address in response to operation of the attendant call key or the reading light key. The inventive system also includes a head end apparatus capable of generating a control signal for controlling one of the attendant call lights or reading lights in response to each request signal. Each such control signal includes a seat address identifying one of the lights.

Aircraft service system with a central control system for attendant call

A CATV (cable television) signal transmitting system for use with a broadcast satellite system includes a receiving stage for receiving a broadcast satellite station signal consisting of base-band video signals and a sub-channel digital audio signals PSK (phase shift keying)-modulated on sub-carriers, demodulators for deriving the video signals and digital audio signals, first modulators for modulating the main carriers of a plurality of CATV channels by the video signals, a second modulator for modulating the main carrier of a different channel by the digital audio signals in time-division manner. The mixed output signal from the first and second modulators is transmitted through a CATV transmission line. A CATV signal receiving system is also provided to produce video signals and digital audio signals which are converted into a plurality of channels of analog audio signals.

Signal transmission system for a CATV system

An apparatus for scrolling the display of images obtained from a plurality of data units, each having pattern signals representing a plurality of horizontal lines and a corresponding color signal includes a video display having a plurality of horizontal display lines, a first memory for storing the pattern signals formed with first addresses corresponding to the plurality of horizontal display lines and a first buffer area for temporarily storing received pattern signals, a second memory for storing the color signal formed with second addresses corresponding to the numbers of the data units and a second buffer area for temporarily storing a received color signal, the pattern signals and a corresponding color signal being stored in the first and second buffer areas, respectively. A read out system operates so that the first memory, including the first buffer area, is read out by accessing the first addresses in a pre-determined order and so that the second memory, including the second buffer area, is read out by accessing the second addresses in a pre-determined order. Also provided is a circuit for transferring the pattern signal of a horizontal line stored in the first buffer area to a corresponding address of the first memory and for transferring a corresponding color signal stored in the second buffer area to a corresponding address of the second memory, and a circuit for supplying the pattern signals and the corresponding color signal to the display tube.

Apparatus for displaying scrolling images

A desired character mainly composed of standard width dots selected from a matrix of orthogonally disposed rows and columns is displayed on a screen during scanning of the screen in horizontal and vertical directions. The display is smoothed by a circuit responsive to data stored in a memory. The smoothing involves the selected addition or removal, to or from particular portions of the character, of a small dot having a width one-third of the standard dot width.

Smoothing circuit for display apparatus

An automatic frequency control (AFC) circuit is disclosed which comprises an oscillating circuit for generating repetitive pulses, a generator for generating comparison signals having a slope portion in response to the repetitive pulses, and a phase comparison circuit which compares the comparison signals, and synchronous (sync) signals and based on the comparison supplies control signals to the oscillating circuit. The AF circuit further comprises a limiting circuit connected between the comparison signal generator and the phase comparison circuit which limits the maximum and minimum levels of the comparison signals to predetermined levels, and thereby predeterminedly limits the control range of the AFC circuit.

Automatic frequency control circuit

A constant current generating circuit is provided which comprises first, second, third and fourth transistors of one conductivity type, each having base, emitter and collector electrodes, and a voltage supply source having first and second voltage terminals. In this case, the collector and emitter electrodes of the first transistor are respectively connected to the first and second voltage terminals with a first impedance between the collector electrode and first voltage terminal; the emitter electrode of the second transistor is connected to the second voltage terminal through a second impedance; the emitter electrode of the third transistor is connected to the second voltage terminal through a third impedance; the emitter electrode of the fourth transistor is connected to the second voltage terminal; the base electrode of the first transistor is connected to the emitter electrode of the second transistor; the collector electrode of the first transistor is connected commonly to the base electrodes of the second and third transistors; the emitter electrode of the third transistor is connected to the base electrode of the fourth transistor; and a current utilizing means is connected between the first voltage terminal and at least one of the collector electrodes of the second, third and fourth transistors.

Constant current source

A feedback amplifier, particularly suitable for use in the video output circuit of a television receiver, has an amplifying circuit, for example, in the form of a differential amplifier, a first feedback circuit for negatively feeding back to the input of the amplifying circuit a low frequency component of the output signal from the amplifying circuit, and a second feedback circuit having substantially the same feedback ratio as the first feedback circuit but being operative to negatively feedback to the input of the amplifying circuit a high frequency component of the output signal.

Amplifier having different low-frequency and high-frequency feedback

In a video signal reproducing apparatus having a cathode ray tube in which at least one electron beam is made to scan a screen in line-scanning and vertical directions while the intensity of the beam is modulated to establish the brightness of a video picture to be displayed on the screen, and in which bright picture portions are represented by respective high level portions of a video signal; a waveshaping circuit receives the video signal and acts thereon to provide a compensated video signal in which the width of each high level portion between the respective rising and falling edges is increased, the compensated video signal is employed to control the intensity of the electron beam, and the rising and falling edges of each high level portion of the compensated video signal are detected, as by a differentiating circuit or a delay line circuit, to provide respective output signals by which the scanning velocity of the beam in the line-scanning direction is modulated. The waveshaping circuit for providing the compensated video signal may be constituted by a delay line and an OR circuit having inputs to which the original video signal and the delayed video signal are applied, or by a differentiator receiving the original video signal and having its output applied to a polarity equalizer.

Video signal reproducing apparatus with electron beam scanning velocity

A color television receiver hue-control system that produces two sets of color-generating signals, one set being differentially controllable and the other not, to produce two kinds of reference color areas on the screen of a color cathode ray tube to be visible simultaneously. The hue of the first reference color in a first area is fixed, and the hue of the second reference color in an adjacent area is varied by the same hue adjustment control as that used to vary the hue in the reproduced television picture. The hue adjustment is achieved by adjusting the control to produce differential modification of the amplitude of one set of color-generating signals, either by direct amplitude modification or by phase shifting a demodulating carrier if the set of color-generating signals is modulated on a carrier, to produce coincidence of the hue of the two reference colors.

Color television receiver

A high voltage generating circuit for a television receiver including a flyback transformer having primary and secondary windings which are loosely coupled to achieve substantial operational isolation therebetween. The secondary winding has a diode rectifying circuit coupled thereto for developing the high voltage signal which is applied to the anode of the television receiver. A tertiary winding is provided which is tightly coupled to the secondary winding and which has a capacitor in parallel therewith to form a resonant circuit which is resonant at a frequency somewhat higher than the horizontal sweep frequency applied to the deflection coil of the television receiver.

High voltage generating circuit

A frequency discriminating circuit having a double tuned circuit with a transformer, which has a first and second resonant circuits. The first resonant circuit is composed of a capacitor, a primary winding of the transformer and a first variable inductance element and the second resonant circuit is composed of a capacitor, a secondary winding of the transformer and second and third variable inductance elements, wherein the quality factor Q of the second resonant circuit is much larger than that Q of the first resonant circuit. The center frequency of the frequency-response characteristic (so-called S characteristic) of the discriminating circuit can be adjusted by adjusting the second and third variable inductance elements and the linearity of the frequency response characteristic of the discriminating circuit can be adjusted by adjusting the first variable inductance element.

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Hiroshi Sahara