Abstract: Apparatus in a receiver includes error detection circuitry for detecting segments of transmitted encoded image data having non correctable errors. Further apparatus generates error maps for respective frames in the transmitted sequence. Responsive to the data in the error maps, known good image data or interpolated image data is substituted for data corresponding to the segments containing errors. Error indications for anchor frames, from which predictive frames are encoded, are propagated into error maps corresponding to the predictive encoded frames to accommodate error concealment of errors that may propagate into successive dependently encoded frame data.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compensating the sin (x)/x response attendant the output signals from a Digital-To-Analog converter in systems consisting of the cascade connection of a digital processor having a non-uniform frequency response h(nT) and a Digital-To-Analog converter. This is accomplished by altering the processor to provide a frequency response of h(nT)*g(nT), where h(nT) is the impulse response of the processor, g(nT) is the impulse response of the reciprocal of the frequency response of the DAC, and the asterisk represents convolution. Alternatively, if the Fourier transform of the frequency response of the processor is given by F(.omega.), and the DAC exhibits a frequency response S(.omega.), which is the frequency transform of the time response of the DAC sample and hold type output, then the processor is substituted with one having a frequency response defined by the inverse Fourier transform IF(F(.omega.)/S(.omega.))) over the frequency band of interest.

Abstract: To transmit digital data in a color television signal, a color burst is transmitted in its standard reference position to represent a first logic state, e.g., a "0" and is shifted by a limited amount from the standard reference position to represent a second logic state, e.g., a "1". More specifically, the "bits" of the data are "read-out" of a register in response to the horizontal synchronization pulses generated in the transmitter and are used as control signals to generate burst flag pulses in the standard or a shifted position depending on whether the bit to be transmitted is a logic "0" or a logic "1". The burst flag pulses are used to insert the color bursts in the back porch portion of the horizontal blanking interval. At the receiver, a burst demodulator extracts the color bursts and determines the position of each color burst to recover the transmitted data.

Abstract: In a deflection apparatus which corrects for inside barrel distortion, a horizontal deflection winding and a retrace capacitance form a retrace resonance circuit during a retrace interval. A trace capacitance forms a trace resonant circuit with the deflection winding during the trace interval. A circuit branch, that includes a second capacitance and an inductance, is coupled to the deflection winding, during the trace interval. The circuit branch forms a second resonant circuit with the trace capacitance having a resonance frequency that is higher than a frequency of a deflection current in the deflection winding. A current in the circuit branch, that is modulated in a vertical rate, modulates the deflection current in a manner to reduce inside barrel distortion.

Abstract: Organ pipes distortions, caused by parasitic ringing in a horizontal deflection current are suppressed by forming a current pulse in a current injection arrangement. The current pulse is coupled to a junction terminal between a terminal of the horizontal deflection winding where a high retrace pulse voltage is developed and a low voltage terminal of a linearity correction inductance. A high voltage terminal of the linearity correction inductance is coupled to a horizontal output transistor. The current pulse begins prior to the end of retrace and ends during the trace interval.

Abstract: A deflection system comprises a variable gain amplifier for a luminance component of a video signal. A first differentiator differentiates the amplified luminance component. An output amplifier modulates beam scan velocity of an electron beam by energizing an auxiliary horizontal deflection yoke responsive to the differentiated luminance component. A second differentiator differentiates the differentiated luminance component. An integrator integrates the twice differentiated luminance component. The output of the integrator is a gain control signal. The variable gain amplifier has a gain which varies responsive to the gain control signal. The gain varies inversely with the frequency content of the luminance component. The second differentiator and integrator form a feedback loop.

Abstract: A high definition television receiver including digital signal processing circuits receives a high definition television signal containing narrowband high priority information from which a system clock is derived, and low priority wideband information. After a channel change, a clock signal developed from narrowband information associated with the previously tuned channel is used as the receiver clock until a clock signal with a desired phase characteristic is developed from the narrowband information of the newly tuned channel.

Abstract: In a remotely controlled power supply, a switching element has a main switching section coupled to an input voltage source and an on/off control section responsive to an on/off switching signal. A main power supply includes an input side which receives main power from the source when the main switching section is in the closed position and an output side for supplying power to loads. An on/off decoder decodes a command signal having a plurality of states including a run state and a standby state to provide the aforementioned on/off switching signal. A standby power supply is coupled to the input voltage source for providing standby power to the on/off decoder during standby, whereas the switching element disconnects the main power supply from the source during standby. A second decoder decodes the other states of the command signal. The two decoders may be provided with separate system clock generators that are operated asynchronously of each other.

Abstract: A "channel guide" system, including a picture-in-picture processing unit for displaying an array of images corresponding to respective channels or auxiliary televisions signals on a display screen is automatically activated when the video signal currently being processed by the receiver no longer contains program information (e.g., either does not contain valid video information, or represents a uniform screen). In a VCR, the "channel guide" system is automatically initiated in response to the detection of the end of tape.

Abstract: A television signal processing apparatus includes at least one neural network for processing a signal representing an image. The neural network includes a plurality of perceptrons each of which includes circuitry for weighting a plurality of delayed representations of said signal, circuitry for providing sums of weighted signals provided by said weighting circuitry, and circuitry for processing said sums with a sigmoidal transfer function. The neural network also includes circuitry for combining output signals provided by ones of said perceptrons for providing a processed signal.

Abstract: A sleep timer function for consumer electronics equipment automatically turns off the equipment after a predetermined time interval. During the final two minutes of the sleep time interval, the sleep timer circuitry gradually decreases the volume or provides a visual indication that automatic turn off is imminent. The reception of any modulated infrared (IR) signal, transmitted from any source, during the timer period is interpreted by the sleep timer function controller as an indication that the use is still awake. In response, the controller resets the count of the sleep timer to the maximum period, thus deferring the automatic turn off of the equipment.

Abstract: Apparatus for decoding an HDTV signal conveyed as high and low priority data in high and low priority channels respectively, wherein said high and low priority data originated from blocks of hierarchically encoded compressed video data, with data of greater importance for image reproduction from each block allocated to the high priority channel and the remaining data from each block allocated to the low priority channel, includes circuitry for identifying and segmenting high and low priority data for corresponding blocks and recombining the high and low priority data into an hierarchically encoded compressed video data stream.

Abstract: In a video decompression system for decompressing compressed image data wherein odd and even fields of video signal are independently compressed in sequences of intraframe and interframe compression modes and interleaved for transmission, the odd and even fields are independently decompressed. During intervals when valid decompressed odd/even field data is not available, even/odd field data is substituted for the unavailable odd/even field data. Independently decompressing the even and odd fields of data and substituting the opposite field of data for unavailable data may be used to advantage to reduce image display latency during system start-up and channel changes.

Abstract: A tensioned shadow mask/frame assembly includes horizontal top and bottom members and vertical side members. One of the horizontal members is permanently affixed to the side members and the other horizontal member is slideably supported on the side members. The horizontal members are biased apart to put tension on a shadow mask which is stretched across and permanently affixed thereto. The cross sectional configuration of the horizontal members is an acute angle having a long side and a short side joined at a rounded apex to maximize the stiffness of the members.

Abstract: An apparatus for electrophotographically manufacturing a luminescent screen assembly on a substrate for use within a CRT includes a developer for developing a photoconductive layer, having a latent image thereon, with a dry-powdered, triboelectrially-charged screen structure materials. The photoconductive layer overlies a conductive layer in contact with the substrate. A grid-developing electrode is located at a distance from the photoconductive layer that is large relative to the smallest dimension of the latent image. The electrode is biased with a suitable potential to influence the deposition of the charged screen structure materials onto the latent image on the photoconductive layer. A method for electrophotographically manufacturing the screen assembly utilizing the grid-developing electrode is also disclosed.

Abstract: A driver stage of a horizontal deflection output transistor includes a transformer having a first winding coupled to an input signal at a horizontal deflection frequency, a second winding coupled across a base-emitter junction of the output transistor and a third winding coupled to the emitter of and in series with the output transistor. The third winding couples the emitter current to the base of the output transistor for supplying a substantial portion of the base current during the second half of trace.

Abstract: A nonlinear video signal processing system provides gamma correction to improve rendition of picture details near black. In addition, picture brilliance is improved using a brightness and frequency dependent enhancement circuit providing increased detail signal contrast in bright picture areas. In each color channel, the respective color signal is gradually separated into a low level amplitude signal portion and a higher level amplitude signal portion. The higher level amplitude portion is high-pass frequency filtered. The low level signal portion and the high-pass filtered higher amplitude signal portion are added to the original, linear video signal for producing a combined signal coupled to the kinescope. The low level signal portion is DC coupled to the linear signal and the high level signal portion is AC coupled to the linear signal.

Abstract: A color picture tube includes a faceplate and a funnel attached to the faceplate. The faceplate has a horizontal dimension M.sub.h and a vertical dimension M.sub.v, with the dimensions having a ratio M.sub.h /M.sub.v greater than one. A magnetic shield is located within the tube. The magnetic shield has a front aperture in the proximity of the faceplate and a rear aperture remote from the faceplate. The front aperture has a horizontal dimension F.sub.h and a vertical dimension F.sub.v and the rear aperture has a horizontal dimension R.sub.h and a vertical dimension R.sub.v. The top and bottom of the rear aperature are close to the sides of the funnel and the sides of the rear aperture are spaced from the funnel by a spacing consistent with the entrance of the electron beams at maximum deflection into the shield.