Rca Inc.

James A McDonald

Donald Henry Willis

Peter E Haferl

David W Luz

Hugh F Sutherland, Ii

George C Waybright

Line and field deflection circuits generate line and field deflection currents in respective line and field deflection windings to scan a raster on the phosphor screen of a square-planar picture tube having an aspherical faceplate. The asphericity of the faceplate subjects the scanned raster to gullwing distortion. A gullwing distortion correction circuit is responsive to signals repeating at line and field rates, respectively, for modulating the field deflection current during a line deflection period within the field deflection trace interval in a manner that corrects gullwing distortion of a corresponding raster scan line.

Gullwing distortion corrected deflection circuitry for a square-planar

In a television receiver, an automatic kinescope beam current limiter circuit includes a current path between a beam current sense point and an interating capacitor across which a control voltage is developed. A threshold conduction device causes the current path to exhibit different impedance characteristics and associated response times so that the limiter circuit has the ability to respond to average beam current values, as well as to above average r.m.s. beam current values such as may be associated with peak beam current conditions.

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

James A McDonald