Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Rca Inc.

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Theodore Frederick Simpson

Bruce G Marks

Istvan Gorog

Charles M Wetzel

Craig Clay Eshleman

Kenneth John Haas

William Arthur Sonntag

A video processing system is described for providing an image having more than one region on a display (DISPLAY). The system has a control means which can determine, for each region, the type (e.g., graphics, text, computer programs, broadcast TV video, etc.) of the image material being displayed in the region. The system also has a video driver coupled to the display for providing image signals having contrast and brightness characteristics. The control means generates a control signal for causing said video driver means to adjust said contrast and brightness characteristics of said image signals according to the type of material being displayed in said region.

Control of video level by region and content of information displayed

Method and apparatus for using a wide screen television receiver operating at 2f.sub.H as a VGA or SVGA monitor. The VGA or SVGA board in a computer is programmed to generate an RGB video signal representing a picture having fewer than a normal number of horizontal lines than a conventional VGA or SVGA picture having a 4:3 format display ratio, in order to define a picture having a wide format display ratio, for example 16:9. The separate synchronizing signals of the RGB video signal are converted in polarity and phase, as necessary, to a form recognizable by a video processing circuit of the wide screen television receiver.

Emulation of computer monitor in a wide screen television

In accordance with the present invention, a display apparatus 8 comprises a color CRT 10 having an evacuated envelope 11 with a faceplate panel 12 sealed to one end of a funnel 15 that is closed at the other end by a neck 14. The faceplate panel has a luminescent screen 22 on an interior surface thereof. A shadow mask 25 is located in proximity to the screen. The shadow mask comprises a metal sheet having a central portion and an exterior portion with a plurality of apertures 40, 43 therethrough. An electron gun 26 is disposed within the neck for generating and directing electron beams 28 toward the screen. A deflection yoke 30 is disposed around the envelope at the junction of the neck and the funnel. The yoke deflects the beams to scan a raster across the screen. The display apparatus is improved other prior devices in that the apertures 43 in the exterior portion of the mask, on the screen-facing side thereof, have openings 45 that are elongated in the direction of the incident electron beams and offset relative to the corresponding openings 44 on the electron gun-facing side of the mask. A method of making the present mask also is disclosed.

Display apparatus having enhanced resolution shadow mask and method of

An improved color picture tube includes a shadow mask and a dot screen, wherein the mask is rectangular and has two horizontal long sides and two vertical short sides. The long sides parallel a central major axis of the mask and the short sides parallel a central minor axis of the mask. The mask includes an array of apertures arranged in vertical columns and horizontal rows. Apertures in one row are in different columns than are the apertures in adjacent rows. The vertical spacing between apertures in the same column is the vertical pitch of the apertures and the horizontal spacing between apertures in the same row is the horizontal pitch of the apertures. The improvement includes the horizontal pitch of the apertures increasing from the minor axis to the short sides of the mask and decreasing from the major axis to the long sides of the mask. Also, along the major axis, the vertical pitch of the mask decreases from the center to the short sides of the mask and, adjacent the long sides of the mask, it increases from the minor axis to the corners of the mask.

Color picture tube having shadow mask with improved aperture spacing

A set of auxiliary deflection coils are placed on opposite sides of a multi-beam color television picture tube having a deflection yoke and color purity adjustment apparatus. The tube is operated to cause a raster to be scanned and the auxiliary coils are energized to cause the beams to be deflected from their nominal beam landing sites in predetermined direction and magnitude within each of at least two regions of the raster in order to simulate misregister caused by television receiver magnetic environment. Color purity is then adjusted in the presence of the simulated misregister.

Method and apparatus for simulating magnetic environment of television

In a multi-beam color display tube, having a screen on which phosphor deposits are disposed which are impinged upon by the electron beams so that they luminesce with different colors, one electron beam at a time is activated and scanned while the picture to be displayed is a blank raster. A special post-deflection coil introduces magnetic fields in the region just forward of a deflection yoke to displace the scanned beams in a controlled pattern from their normal landing points on the screen while photosensors measure the light from each color deposit at a plurality of measurement locations on the screen. The displaced beam causes the emission of an error color, the intensity of which is measured by those photosensors which are sensitive to the error color emitted. The intensity of a reference color emitted by the phosphor deposits stimulated by the undisplaced electron beam is then measured. The ratio of the error color to the reference color is then calculated for each measurement location with the largest ratio being displayed as an indication of the color purity tolerance of the tube.

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Lancaster, PA, United States of America

Theodore Frederick Simpson