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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999

Filed:

Feb. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Rafi Retter, Haifa, IL;

Yonatan Manor, Haifa, IL;

David Bar, Carmiel, IL;

Assignee:

Oren Semiconductor Ltd., Yoqne'am Illit, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348525 ; 348465 ;
Abstract

In a composite video signal that contains an image field having vertical synchronization (V.sub.-- Sync) pulses, The V.sub.-- sync pulses include first equalization pulses of E.sub.1 waveforms followed by a serration pulses of S waveforms, T.sub.S -long each, followed by a second equalization pulse of E.sub.2 waveforms, T.sub.E -long each. The transition from a last waveform of the E.sub.1 waveforms to a first waveform of the S waveforms constitutes a vertical synchronization (V.sub.-- sync) signal. The system a reference event occurring at a first time interval .DELTA.T .sub.1 .+-.Er after said V.sub.-- sync signal, wherein Er stands for time shift error. The system includes filter for filtering the composite video signal so as to obtain a filtered signal. Clamper for clamping the filtered signal so as to obtain a clamped signal. First detector for detecting N (N.ltoreq.S) waveforms in the serration pulses thereby indicating first event occurrence. Second detector for detecting M (M.ltoreq.E.sub.2) waveforms in the second equalization pulses, thereby determining the reference event occurrence, such that the .DELTA.T .sub.1 equals M*T.sub.E +S*T.sub.S.


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