Sony Corporation

Tomoyoshi Imayasu

Katsuo Isono

A side pincushion correcting circuit is provided in a color television receiver of the type including a cathode ray tube having an index stripe disposed on a screen scanned by a cathode beam and a detector for detecting the scanning of the index stripe by the cathode beam and producing a pulse signal as a result of such detecting. The side pincushion correcting circuit comprises a pulse forming circuit for generating a reference signal in correspondence to the pulse signal from the detector, a phase comparator for comparing the phase of the reference signal to that of a control pulse, such as the horizontal flyback pulse, associated with the commencement of scanning in the horizontal direction, and providing an output signal whose magnitude is proportional to the phase difference between the reference signal and the control pulse, and a horizontal deflection circuit supplied with the output signal from the phase comparator for controlling the scanning of the cathode beam in the sense to correct for side pincushion distortion.

Side pincushion correcting circuit for color television receivers

In a beam index color television receiver of the type having a cathode ray tube which is provided with beam-excitable color elements and index elements disposed on a display screen of the cathode ray tube and which are scanned by an electron beam; color switching is controlled by an index signal generator, comprised of a photo-detector and band-pass filter, for generating a periodic index signal as the index elements are scanned by the beam, color gates which sequentially gate respective color control signals individually to modulate the electron beam as the beam scans the color elements, a gating signal circuit including a phase-locked loop which generates sequential gating signals at a frequency synchronized with the frequency of the periodic index signal and a gate pulse generator which supplies the gating signals in sequence to the color gates to control the latter so as to gate the respective color control signals, and a phase-controlling circuit for imparting a phase shift to the gating signals supplied to the gating pulse generator to compensate for an inherent time delay caused by the photo-detector, band-pass filter and phase-locked loop. Such phase shift may be imparted by a phase shifter connected between the phase-locked loop and the gate pulse generator or at a voltage controlled oscillator in the phase-locked loop itself.

Beam index color television receiver apparatus

In a beam index color television receiver of the type having a cathode ray tube which is provided with beam-excitable color elements disposed on a display screen of the cathode ray tube and index elements which are scanned by an electron beam as the beam scans the display screen, an apparatus for controlling the beam includes an index signal generator for generating a periodic index signal as the index elements are scanned by the beam, color gates which sequentially gate respective color control signals individually to modulate the electron beam as the beam scans the color elements, a gating signal circuit which generates sequential gating signals at a frequency synchronized with the frequency of the periodic index signal and which supplies the gating signals in sequence to the color gates to control the latter so as to gate the respective color control signals, and a phase-controlling circuit for controlling the phase of the gate pulse signals in response to the highest-level one of the color control signals.

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Urawa, Japan

Tomoyoshi Imayasu