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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1992
Robert D Altmanshofer, Carmel, IN (US);
RCA Licensing Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
In beam scan velocity modulation (SVM) system for a television receiver, a video signal is applied to a differentiator followed by a limiting differential amplifier. A driver amplifier coupled to the limiting amplifier drives an output stage that supplies current to an SVM coil. Certain video signals with large high frequency content may tend to produce excessive dissipation in the devices of the output stage. To prevent this, a current source for the differential amplifier is controlled by a voltage which is a measure of the average current through the output stage. The magnitude of the current source is varied to thereby vary the peak-to-peak signal output from the limiting amplifier to prevent overdissipation of the output devices. The presence of random noise in the video signal can produce unwanted SVM operation which can impair the viewed image. The unwanted noise component in the video signal can be reduced in amplitude by coring. The coring is unaffected by the variable limiting.