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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1999
Dirk Carpentier, Unterkirnach, DE;
Günter Gleim, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Friedrich Heizmann, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Bernd Rekla, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Abstract
A method for convergence correction in a television receiver and to a television receiver, in particular a projection television receiver having in each case one monochromatic picture tube for the three primary colours, red, green and blue, improves the quality of convergence correction. Each picture tube is assigned a correction device which comprises a convergence circuit. The convergence circuit is assigned a memory in which correction values for the convergence correction of the three picture tubes are stored. In accordance with the correction values, the convergence circuit generates output signals, which are output to a correction device, which in each case comprise at least one correction coil and, for each correction coil, one driver circuit. A correction current is applied to the associated correction coil in order to correct image defects of a picture tube. The convergence circuit also has control means for influencing the output signals output to the correction devices in such a way that the same correction is always effected on the picture screen for a specific correction value, independently of the gain of the respective driver circuit.