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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. 09, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akio Tanaka, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Zenith Radio Corporation, Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358154 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a microcomputer-controlled system and method for detecting a vertical synchronization pulse extracted from a composite synchronization signal provided to a television receiver. Sync pulse voltage level, period and duty cycle are analyzed in terms of predetermined vertical sync criteria in detecting valid vertical synchronization.