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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1987
Guy Macheboeuf, Pullay par Verneuil sur Avre, FR;
Telediffusion de France, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A mixer device designed for a TV production control room mixes incoming video signals of PAL, NTSC or MAC standard. To avoid any differences in video signal propagation time through a known video grid, the latter is suppressed, and a grid with narrower band width switches chopping signals selectively controlling attenuations of the incoming video signals in analog multipliers. The chopping signals are derived in operator circuits as a function of effect and dissolve signals designed to chop image planes to be superposed into a resultant image. In particular, amplitude complementarity of the chopping signals between two predetermined levels is ensured, whatever the dissolves and effects selected, and a proportion of a black image signal, transmitted normally during line and field blankings, is mixed during a black fade or a darkening to be created in the resultant image.