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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:
Jan. 12, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 13 ; 358 23 ; 358 / ; 382 50 ; 382 52 ;
Abstract
In a circuit arrangement for converting an analog picture signal, which corresponds to consecutive fields, into an amplitude-discrete output signal, which, in a comparison stage, compares the picture signal to a plurality of reference values and produces an amplitude-discrete intermediate signal at an output, a significant simplification of the circuit cost and design effort is accomplished with, at the same time, an improvement in the error cancellation by the fact that the change in the positions of the values of the picture signal and the reference values relative to each other corresponds to the sum of a fraction and a first integral number of value intervals.