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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank Jerome Marlowe, Kingston, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358242 ; 313422 ;
Abstract
The brightness signal for an image display device is digitally processed using an analog to digital converter to translate the signal into digital words. A primary shift register is connected to the output of the analog to digital converter. The primary shift register has a stage capable of containing a digital brightness word for each element in the display line of the device. The primary shift register has a plurality of parallel outputs being spaced X number of stages from each other. Each output is connected to a separate secondary shift register which has X stages.