Nippon Television Network Corp.

Tadao Kurosaki

Yoshio Sugimori

Yoshihide Kimata

Joji Urano

Akihiro Hori

Susumu Takayama

Yousai Araki

Masakatsu Tanaka

A television signal digitizing method reduces the quantity of information without deterioration of image quality when digitizing progressive-scanned signals. The method uses a step of dividing a progressive-scanned information into two complementary interlaces, that is, an interlace 1 and an interlace 2; a step of converting luminance information in the interlace 1 to digital information whose sampling frequency is X; a step of converting chrominance information in the interlace 1 to digital information whose sampling frequency is Y; and a step of generating supplementary information.

Television signal digitizing method dividing progressive-scanned signal

A high quality non-interlaced television signal is generated without using a large size circuit. Interlaced television signals are obtained from four image pickup devices. A luminance or green signal in the interlaced television signals consists of two interlaced channels. These two channel luminance or green signals are simply combined to produce the non-interlaced signal without modifying the driving frequency of the image pickup devices.

Color television camera with details of luminance signal formation

An apparatus for transmitting an NTSC color signal superposed with a signal corresponding to monochromatic characters with a colored contour, which is obtained from a color character super device, comprises a first circuit responsive the NTSC signal from the color character super device to determine an area on a television receiver screen on which signal out of NTSC signal standard may be displayed, a second circuit for deriving chrominance signal spectrum out of NTSC standard and means for gating the chrominance signal spectrum with an output of the first circuit and then for subtracting the gated chrominance signal spectrum from the NTSC signal to thereby at least reduce signal component thereof out of the NTSC standard signal.

Television broadcasting apparatus including monochromatic characters

An anti-ringing device for a television signal transmission system in which the frequency band of a luminance component of a video signal from an image device is limited to prevent visible ringing at the receiver. The device includes a signal delay circuit 2 for delaying the video signal obtained by the image device, a low-pass filter 3 capable of changing the frequency band limitation characteristics thereof, a discriminator 4 for providing an output when the luminance component of the video signal contains a source of ringing, and a switch 5 for normally connecting the output of the delay circuit to a signal processor 6. The switch is responsive to the output of the discriminator for connecting the low-pass filter to the signal processor instead of the delay circuit, whose delay time corresponds to the signal processing time required in the discriminator.

Anti-ringing device for television transmission system

A amplitude characteristics of TV vertical frequency signal is improved by operating amplitudes of luminance signal obtained from a horizontal scan in a field and luminance signals obtained from a preceding and a subsequent horizontal scans in the same field and those luminance signals obtained in a preceding field, simultaneously.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadao Kurosaki