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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1983
Kerns H Powers, Princeton, NJ (US);
RCA Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
An HDTV television system is described for use in providing a compatible HDTV signal and an improved NTSC signal generated at a sample rate which conforms with the world studio standard. The system includes an HDTV camera and frame store. Two interlaced HDTV fields are stored in the HDTV frame store for further processing. The signals are supplied to two branched. In a first branch the samples from the frame store are anti-aliasing filtered, cropped and selected to generate a world-standard digital component source of an 'improved' NTSC signal. In a second branch the samples from the HDTV frame store are aspect ratio compressed and scanned in a zig-zag pattern to generate an 11 MHz HDTV signal which is compatible with standard definition television receivers in use today.