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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1999
Tomohiro Sakata, Takatsuki, JP;
Mitsuya Masuda, Takatsuki, JP;
Yukio Uchida, Ibaraki, JP;
Tomoaki Iwamoto, Katano, JP;
Matsushita Electronics Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A dynamic focus circuit enables ideal focusing characteristics to be obtained across the entire screen of a wide-angled cathode ray tube, by generating a dynamic focus voltage having a flat-bottomed waveform through the addition of a simple circuit to a conventional analog circuit. If an S-shaping voltage method is used, the voltage of a signal induced in a secondary coil of a step-up transformer for raising the voltage of a parabolic waveform signal having a horizontal deflection period switches the gain for converting the parabolic waveform signal to a dynamic focus voltage, according to whether the induced voltage exceeds a specified reference value. If the induced voltage does not exceed the specified reference value, the parabolic waveform signal is converted to the dynamic focus voltage at a gain of less than one. If a DAF (Dynamic Focus) signal generating IC is used, a gain control voltage for controlling a gain of the parabolic waveform signal generated by the DAF signal generating IC is altered so that the gain is smaller than one at the approximate midpoint of a horizontal deflection period, and increases as it moves out to the edges of the screen.