Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Abe, Yoshio

Kageyama, Sadashi

Uwabata, Hideyo

Inoue, Shuji

Yasumoto, Yoshio

Yoshio Abe

Sadashi Kageyama

Yoshio Yasumoto

Shuji Inoue

Kenichi Onisawa

Takahiro Nakayama

Akira Sato

Katsumi Tamura

Kazuo Taguchi

Kenichi Hashimoto

Moriaki Fuyama

Hideyo Uwabata

Seiji Sakashita

Hitoshi Takai

Hiroaki Ozeki

Ippei Kanno

Kiyoshi Uchimura

Mitsujiro Matsumoto

Kouji Aono

Mitsutaka Hikita

Masanobu Hanazono

Atsushi Sumioka

Masashi Kubota

Yoshimasa A Ono

Yutaka Chiba

Eiji Iwasaki

Kunihiro Hamada

Yoshikatu Ishida

Kou Miyake

Iwasaki Eiji

Syuji Inoue

A television signal receiving apparatus receives a new standard television broadcasting signal in an environment in which conventional standard television broadcasting signals are present. A first tuner coupled to a first antenna extracts a first television signal which contains a new standard television signal and a conventional standard television signal of the specific channel at a first ratio, and a second tuner coupled to a second antenna extracts a second television signal which contains the new standard television signal and the conventional standard television signal of the specific channel at a second ratio. In an operation unit, a multiplier multiples the second television signal by a predetermined coefficient, and a subtracter subtracts an output signal of the multiplier from the first television signal. An output signal of the subtracter becomes the new standard television signal when the coefficient has a specific value.

Television signal receiving apparatus

An electroluminescent device including dielectric films each of which consists of first regions made of a material with a strong self-healing type dielectric breakdown characteristic, second regions made of a material with a strong propagating type dielectric breakdown characteristic, and mixed regions consisting of a mixture of these two materials, the first and second regions being arranged alternately in the film thickness direction with the mixed regions therebetween, the mixing ratio of these two materials in the mixed regions changing in such a manner that the ratio of one material gradually decreases from a region of this material toward the adjacent region of the other material, that is, the ratio of the other material increases. Thus, the changes in the mixing ratio of these two materials of the dielectric films in the film thickness direction are continuous and periodic. These dielectric films, with a high breakdown field strength, make it possible to obtain an electroluminescent device having a large drive voltage margin and providing a luminescence of high brightness.

Electroluminescent device

A thin film electroluminescent (EL) device includes a pair of opposing electrodes formed on a substrate of a transparent electrical insulator, and an EL layer formed between the electrodes and covered at both surfaces with insulating layers respectively. Strontium sulfide is used as a host material of the EL layer, and its crystals tend strongly to have a (200) orientation, so that the resistance to free transit of electrons participating in emission of luminescence is substantially eliminated to ensure a higher brightness.

Thin film electroluminescent device

A television signal processor which is compatible with the existing television systems and is capable of producing television signals having a larger aspect ratio than the standard aspect ratio has an arrangement such that, at the transmission side, a main signal and a multiplex signal are produced from an electrical signal obtained by receiving an original image through processes such as time-axis compression, time-axis expansion, and chrominance signal processing, and are subjected to non-time-axis multiplexing. The processor has a further arrangement such that, at the reception side, there are provided a circuit for separating the non-time-axis multiplexed signal, a circuit for separating a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, a circuit for demodulating the chrominance signal, a circuit for effecting time-axis compression, a circuit for time-axis expanding the time-axis multiplexed signal, and a circuit for time-axis compressing the non-time-axis multiplexed signal. A receiver provided with this processor may receive images broadcast under the existing television systems without troubles and also may reproduce TV images with a larger aspect ratio than the conventional 4:3 aspect ratio by the application of synchronous detection, time-axis compression, time-axis expansion, etc.

Television signal processing apparatus

A main signal motion detection signal and a multiplex motion detection signal are processed to obtain a compensated motion detection signal. This signal is a motion detection signal for a portion other than a portion having an aspect ratio of 4:3. Thus, a television signal processor is provided which eliminates quality differences between images in the portion having an aspect ratio of 4:3 and images in the other portion having a different aspect ratio.

Television signal processor for eliminating quality differences between

A thin film electroluminescent (EL) device comprises a pair of opposing electrodes formed on a substrate of a transparent electrical insulator, and an EL layer formed between the electrodes and covered at both surfaces with insulating layers respectively. Strontium sulfide is used as a host material of the EL layer, and its crystals tend strongly to have a (200) orientation, so that the resistance to free transit of electrons participating in emission of luminescence is substantially eliminated to ensure a higher brightness.

A signal of the same frequency band as an ordinary NTSC signal of the video signals is transmitted with the conventional frequency band but the other frequency components are frequency-converted to a frequency higher than the sound subcarrier as the multiplex signal. The ordinary video signal, sound subcarrier and multiplex signal are frequency-multiplexed and the main carrier is transmitted by angle modulation as the modulation signal. In this case, as the multiplex signal, a signal other than the ordinary signal may directly be frequency-multiplexed and the signal may be multiplexed. Using amplitude or angle modulation to improve the demodulation accuracy or S/N through the angle modulation. The ordinary signal is regenerated like in the conventional system, without influence on the conventional receiver. In addition, since the ordinary video signal and the multiplex signal are separated in the frequency band, these may be used as the independent new transmission bands. Therefore, information other than the video signal can also be transmitted.

Multiplex signal processing apparatus

A signal processing apparatus in a television signal transmitting system includes: a first group of delay lines for obtaining a first series of parallel signals; a first group of coefficient multipliers for weighting the first series of signals; a first adder for adding outputs of the first group of coefficient multipliers; a second group of delay lines for obtaining a second series of parallel signals; a second group of coefficient multipliers for weighting the second series of signals; a second adder for adding outputs of the second group of coefficient multipliers and one of the first series of signals; and a transmitter for transmitting output signals from the first and second adders. A signal processing apparatus in a television signal receiving system includes: an input circuit for receiving first and second signals; a first group of delay lines for obtaining a first series of parallel signals; a first group of coefficient multipliers for weighting the first series of signals; a first adder for adding outputs of the first group of coefficient multipliers and the second signal; a second group of delay lines for obtaining a second series of parallel signals; a second group of coefficient multipliers for weighting the second series of signals; a coefficient multiplier for weighting one of the first series of signals; a second adder for adding outputs of the second group of coefficient multipliers and the coefficient multiplier; and a signal composer for composing the output signals from the first and second adders.

Disclosed are multiplex television signal processing apparatuses in a television signal transmitting and receiving system. An apparatus at the transmitting side comprises: a signal separator to separate a multiplex signal into a first and a second part; a time-multiplexer to time-multiplex a main television signal and the first part of the multiplex signal to obtain a time-multiplexed main signal; a first amplitude-modulator for modulating a first carrier by the multiplexed main signal to obtain a vestigial side band signal, amplitude-modulated main signal; a second amplitude-modulator for modulating a second carrier which is same in frequency as but different in phase by 90 degrees from the first carrier by a second multiplex signal; an inverse Nyquist filter for filtering this signal to obtain a vestigial side band, amplitude-modulated multiplex signal; and an adder for adding the vestigial side band, amplitude-modulated main and multiplex signals to obtain a multiplexed signal. An apparatus at the receiving side comprises: a Nyquist filter for filtering the multiplexed signal; a carrier regenerator for regenerating the first and second carriers from the multiplexed signal; a main signal detector for detecting the main signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the Nyquist filter by using the first carrier; a filter for removing quadrature distortion from the multiplexed signal; a multiplex signal detector for detecting the first multiplex signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the filter by using the second carrier; a time-demultiplexer to time-demultiplexing the main signal into a main television signal and a second multiplex signal; and a signal composer for composing the first and second multiplex signal to obtain the original multiplex signal.

Multiplex TV signal processing apparatus

In an electroluminescence element including light emitting layers emitting light by applying AC voltages thereto the light emitting layer consists of a light emitting layer emitting red light and a light emitting layer emitting bluish green light and a blue filter transmitting blue light and a green filter transmitting green light are disposed on the light emitting surface side of the bluish green light emitting layer. In this way it is possible to take out red, blue and green lights at an approximately equal brightness level and to realize full color.

Electroluminescence device

A multiplex signal processing apparatus in a singal transmitting and receiving system includes at the transmitting side: a first amplitude-modulator for modulating a first carrier by a main signal to obtain a vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated main signal; a second amplitude-modulator for modulating a second carrier which has the same frequency but differs in phase by 90.degree. from the first carrier by a multiplex signal to obtain a double sideband, amplitude-modulated multiplex signal; an inverse Nyquist filter for filtering this signal to obtain a vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated multiplex signal; and an adder for adding the vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated main and multiplex signals to obtain a multiplexed signal. The apparatus at the receiving side includes: a Nyquist filter for filtering the multiplexed signal; a carrier regenerator for regenerating the first and second carriers from the multiplexed signal; a main signal detector for detecting the main signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the Nyquist filter by using the first carrier; a filter for removing quadrature distortion from the multiplexed signal; and a multiplex signal detector for detecting the multiplex signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the filter by using the second carrier. By inverse Nyquist filtering the auxiliary signal in quadrature to the picture carrier, a normal synchronous receiver will produce a conventional television signal without distortion (crosstalk) caused by quadrature distortion of an auxiliary signal containing additional picture information while at the same time allowing relatively simple demodulation of the auxiliary signal in improved receivers without adding distortion.

In a multiplex signal processing apparatus, in the band of a demodulated signal in which a carrier is amplitude-modulated in a vestigial side band by a main signal, another carrier is superposed which is identical in frequency to the first carrier but different in phase by 90.degree. is amplitude-modulated its double side bands by a multiplex signal which is different from the main signal and which is formed into a vestigial side band signal by a nyquist filter. At least either the frequency or polarity of the multiplex signal is inverted on the transmission side by a multiplier, an oscillator and a filter. At least either the frequency or polarity of the multiplex signal is inverted on the reception side by a multiplier, an oscillator and a filter. The reception side has a crosstalk reduction filter for removing crosstalk from the main signal to the multiplex signal.

A multiplex signal processing apparatus in a signal transmitting and receiving system includes at the transmitting side: a first amplitude-modulator for modulating a first carrier by a main signal to obtain a vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated main signal; a second amplitude-modulator for modulating a second carrier which has the same frequency but differs in phase by 90.degree. from the first carrier by a multiplex signal to obtain a double sideband, amplitude-modulated multiplex signal; an inverse Nyquist filter for filtering this signal to obtain a vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated multiplex signal; and an adder for adding the vestigial sideband, amplitude-modulated main and multiplex signals to obtain a multiplexed signal. The apparatus at the receiving side includes: a Nyquist filter for filtering the multiplexed signal; a carrier regenerator for regenerating the first and second carriers from the multiplexed signal; a main signal detector for detecting the main signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the Nyquist filter by using the first carrier; a filter for removing quadrature distortion from the multiplexed signal; and a multiplex signal detector for detecting the multiplex signal from the multiplexed signal passed through the filter by using the second carrier. By inverse Nyquist filtering the auxiliary signal in quadrature to the picture carrier, a normal synchronous receiver will produce a conventional television signal without distortion (crosstalk) caused by quadrature distortion of an auxiliary signal containing additional picture information while at the same time allowing relatively simple demodulation of the auxiliary signal in improved receivers without adding distortion.

An electroluminescent device comprising an electroluminescent layer capable of emitting light under application of AC voltage, the electroluminescent layer comprising strontium sulfide as a matrix and containing at least one of halides and sulfides of cerium, europium, thulium, terbium and samarium, and having a lattice constant of not more than 6.04 .ANG. and a half-width value at the (111) face of not more than 0.21 degree has a higher brightness than an electroluminescent device having an electroluminescent layer comprising ZnS as a matrix.

Electroluminescent device and process for producing the same

A thin film EL element which comprises an insulating substrate, a transparent electrode, a first insulating layer, a light-emitting layer, a second insulating layer and a back side electrode, successively laid one upon another, at least one of the first and second insulating layers being composed of a material having a perovskite crystal structure, for example, a layer of SrTiO.sub.3, PbTiO.sub.3 or BaTiO.sub.3, particularly a SrTiO.sub.3. The material having the perovskite crystal structure has an increased (111) plane orientation such that the diffraction intensity ratio of (111) plane to (110) plane, I (111)/I (110), is more than 0.5. The material can be a single crystal, having (111) plane orientation. The material is deposited by sputtering, at substrate temperatures of not less than 200.degree. C. and up to the softening point of the insulating substrate, and at a pressure of not more than 1.times.10.sup.-2 Torr. The material has a high dielectric constant, a high dielectric strength and thus has a high reliability of element performance with a low driving voltage.

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Yoshio Abe