Cathode-ray Deflections Circuits Patents (Class 315/364)
  • Patent number: 10110243
    Abstract: A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter capable of accelerating reset comprises: a sampling circuit generating at least one output signal(s) according to at least one input signal(s); a comparator generating at least one comparator output signal(s) according to the at least one output signal(s) and a reset signal; a control circuit controlling the operation of the sampling circuit according to the at least one comparator output signal(s) or the equivalent thereof, and generating the reset signal; a first reset wire circuit outputting the reset signal to the comparator so that a first circuit of the comparator is reset when the value of the reset signal is a first value; and a second reset wire circuit outputting the reset signal to the comparator so that a second circuit of the comparator is synchronously reset when the value of the reset signal is the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yun-Tse Chen, Kai-Yin Liu
  • Patent number: 9848833
    Abstract: A method for display, consisting of acquiring an electrical signal from a heart of a subject over multiple heart cycles. The electrical signal is partitioned into a succession of synchronized segments having respective start times at a selected annotation point in the heart cycles. The method includes overlaying respective graphical representations of the synchronized segments in the succession on a display screen, such that each segment is first presented on the display screen with an initial display intensity at a respective display time corresponding to a respective start time of the segment. The method further includes gradually decreasing a display intensity of each segment overlaid on the display screen as a decaying function of a time elapsed since the respective display time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Yaron Ephrath
  • Patent number: 9681818
    Abstract: A method for display, consisting of acquiring an electrical signal from a heart of a subject over multiple heart cycles. The electrical signal is partitioned into a succession of synchronized segments having respective start times at a selected annotation point in the heart cycles. The method includes overlaying respective graphical representations of the synchronized segments in the succession on a display screen, such that each segment is first presented on the display screen with an initial display intensity at a respective display time corresponding to a respective start time of the segment. The method further includes gradually decreasing a display intensity of each segment overlaid on the display screen as a decaying function of a time elapsed since the respective display time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Yaron Ephrath
  • Patent number: 9476578
    Abstract: An illumination device includes a plurality of light panels facing in different directions and having light emitting elements, a user-operable power switch, an orientation detector for detecting the current orientation of the illumination device, and a controller for receiving information from the orientation detector and the user-operable power switch, and controlling electrical power to the light emitting elements based on such information. A timer, used for automatic shutoff and/or delayed-on functionality, might also be included. The controller is configured to operate in one or more different operational modes, which can be preset and/or user-selectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: International Development LLC
    Inventors: Richard Mumma, Yale Spitzer, Brian Harris
  • Patent number: 9419476
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for achieving delivery of power wirelessly using a highly beam-formed array of radio frequency (RF) transmitters as a source and a spatially beam-formed array of receivers that collect the impinged RF power and feed a multistage RF to direct current (RF-DC) conversion circuit that, for example, increases output voltage by doubling the voltage at each stage, while power delivery remains constant. One or more embodiments may provide energy wirelessly and—unlike conventional systems where the power flux density may be too low for applications where an energy density (specific energy) on the order of several mega-Joules per kilogram (MJ/Kg) is desired—may provide sufficient power flux density for many practical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventor: Farrokh Mohamadi
  • Patent number: 8541961
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electron beam crossbar switch for interconnection between communication units. The crossbar switch includes an array of electrically charged particle emitter source devices with an input connected to a slow wave structure coupled to the emitter source. An array of detectors is positioned relative to the array of emitter devices for receiving charged particles from various of the emitter devices. X and y deflection means are positioned adjacent each of the emitters for directing the charged particles from each of the emitters to at least one of the detectors to provide more signal output and a reduction in deflection accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Hogan
  • Patent number: 8362716
    Abstract: A frame drive circuit for a CRT device having a deflection processor (14) which develops a deflection processor output signal includes a frame coil (16) having a first core half (12) and a second core half (18), and a first driver (20) and a second driver (22). The deflection processor output signal is applied to each of the first driver (20) and the second driver (22). Each of the first driver (20) and the second driver (22) are selectively operative independently of each other to develop respectively a first coil drive signal (24 OUT) and a second coil drive signal (26 OUT) as a function of the deflection processor output signal. The first coil drive signal (24 OUT) and the second coil drive signal (26 OUT) are applied to a respective one of the first coil half (12) and said second coil half (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Adriaan P. D. De Pauw
  • Patent number: 8295442
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for an electron beam manipulation coil for an x-ray generation system includes the use of a control circuit. The control circuit includes a first low voltage source, a second low voltage source, and a first switching device coupled in series with the first low voltage source and configured to create a first current path with the first low voltage source when in a closed position. The control circuit also includes a second switching device coupled in series with the second low voltage source and configured to create a second current path with the second low voltage source when in a closed position and a capacitor coupled in parallel with an electron beam manipulation coil and positioned along the first and second current paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Antonio Caiafa, Maja Harfman Todorovic, Joseph Leclaire Reynolds
  • Patent number: 8144078
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling brightness, color and contrast in CRT monitors used in information handling systems. In accordance with the present invention, a viewing area on a CRT monitor is enhanced by applying appropriate signals directly to the grids in the CRT. In one embodiment of the present invention, appropriate voltage signals are applied to the G1 grid of the CRT. Parameter data is provided to the CRT using a DDC2/CI data channel, with the parameter data being based on the VESA MCCS command set. Utilizing the method and apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to achieve significantly greater brightness, color and contrast control in enhanced viewing areas displayed on a CRT monitor used in an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Edgar Goodart
  • Publication number: 20110018470
    Abstract: An electron gun comprises an electron emitter, an electrode surrounding the electron emitter, an extraction electrode, and a double condenser lens assembly, the double condenser lens assembly comprising a magnetic immersion pre-condenser lens and a condenser lens. In combination with a probe forming objective lens, the electron gun apparatus can provide an electron beam of independently adjustable probe size and probe current, as is desirable in electron beam applications. The electron emitter is immersed in the magnetic field generated by a magnetic type pre-condenser lens. When activated, the pre-condenser lens collimates the beam effectively to increase its angular intensity while at the same time enlarging the virtual source as compared with non-immersion case, due to geometric magnification and aberrations of its lens action. The pre-condenser lens is followed by a condenser lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Hermes-Microvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Xu Zhang, Zhong-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 7671687
    Abstract: RF field is sensed to produce an incoming voltage that drives a microarray of electron guns in a sweep pattern towards a detector array. The electron guns emit a beam current that may amplify the incoming voltage signal, and the detector material may be selected to amplify the beam current at the detector, for example, by avalanche and/or cascade in a Schottky material, to provide a low current, high gain amplification. The microarrays may be arranged in various combinations to produce successive amplifications, frequency multipliers, transmit-receive amplifiers, crossbar switches, mixers, beamformers, and selective polarization devices, among other such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Inventor: Robert E. LeChevalier
  • Patent number: 7541754
    Abstract: A bias circuit and a method for operating the same minimizes a picture distortion. The bias circuit includes a main capacitor and a plurality of sub capacitors for compensating picture distortion, a controller provides control signals having different duty cycles, and a plurality of switches receiving each of the switch control signals and changing each link (or path) between the main capacitor and the sub capacitors in accordance with the received switch control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: U Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 7462838
    Abstract: An electrostatic deflection circuit and method of an electronic beam measuring apparatus which can achieve the high precision of the electronic beam measuring and contribute to the simplification of the structure of the apparatus is provided. In an analog arithmetic circuit included in an analog operation part constituting an electrostatic deflection circuit, output voltages of multipliers are added and output by an adder. When the magnification is low, as the side of an ordinarily closed contact is closed driven by a relay driving circuit, the output of the adder is amplified by a high gain amplifier with a high amplification factor and applied to an electrostatic deflecting board. When the magnification is high, the side of an ordinarily open contact is closed and it is amplified by a low gain amplifier with a low amplification factor and applied to the electrostatic deflecting board in the same way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7446601
    Abstract: RF field is sensed to produce an incoming voltage that drives a microarray of electron guns in a sweep pattern towards a detector array. The electron guns emit a beam current that may amplify the incoming voltage signal, and the detector material may be selected to amplify the beam current at the detector, for example, by avalanche and/or cascade in a Schottky material, to provide a low current, high gain amplification. The microarrays may be arranged in various combinations to produce successive amplifications, frequency multipliers, transmit-receive amplifiers, crossbar switches, mixers, beamformers, and selective polarization devices, among other such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Astronix Research, LLC
    Inventor: Robert E. LeChevalier
  • Patent number: 7315112
    Abstract: An insulating frame of a deflection yoke is fixed to a funnel with a metal band and a metal screw. A partition formed so as to be integrated with a holder holding a magnet ring of a CPU includes a first partition provided on a first axis so as to hide the metal screw when the deflection yoke is seen from the holder side along a tube axis, and a second partition provided on a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. A height H1 of the first partition, a height H2 of the second partition, a minimum height Hmin of the partition, a height HM of a pull of a magnet ring on a side closest to the deflection yoke, and an outer circumferential edge diameter RM of the magnet ring excluding the pull satisfy relationships: H1>H2, HM?H2>10 mm, and Hmin>RM. Because of this, a discharge between a metal band and a metal screw that fix the deflection yoke, and a velocity modulation coil can be prevented without decreasing the operability of the rotation adjustment of the magnet ring of the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu Kobayashi, Kenichiro Taniwa
  • Patent number: 7262563
    Abstract: A method and apparatus used to step and correct the position of raster lines in a sinusoidal or zig-zag deflection system. By combining the magnetic flux generated with a rotation “twister” coil and a vertical deflection coil, scan lines can be uniformly spaced and separated nearly to their ends. Accordingly, the magnetic flux generated with the twister coil is adjusted going in the left to right direction then reversed in polarity and readjusted while returning from right to left. It is this controlled twister flux that combines with the linear vertical deflection flux to straighten and then step each scan line to produce an aligned raster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Webb
  • Patent number: 7187345
    Abstract: An image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus suitable for suppressing the inclination of charging when scanning a two-dimensional area with a charged particle beam. A third scanning line located between a first scanning line and a second scanning line is scanned. After the first, second and third scanning lines have been scanned, a plurality of scanning lines are scanned between the first and third scanning lines and between the second and third scanning lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobaru, Hidetoshi Morokuma, Hiroki Kawada, Sho Takami, Katsuhiro Sasada, Kouichi Yamamoto, Norio Satou, Kunio Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 7126292
    Abstract: A deflection coil for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is provided outside a cathode-ray tube in which the electron gun is housed, and a phosphor screen is formed. The cathode-ray tube further includes a velocity modulation coil for modulating a horizontal scanning velocity of an electron beam, a first magnetic substance surrounding an outer circumference of the cathode-ray tube from outside the velocity modulation coil, and a second magnetic substance surrounding the outer circumference of the cathode-ray tube between the deflection coil and the first magnetic substance. Because of this, the sensitivity of velocity modulation can be enhanced effectively with a simple configuration while deflection distortion is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroji Morimoto, Koji Nishiyama, Katsuyo Iwasaki, Akira Satou, Kenichiro Taniwa
  • Patent number: 7122977
    Abstract: A prefocus lens section is formed by a screen electrode and an additional electrode. A main lens section is formed by a focus electrode, an anode electrode and an intermediate electrode that is disposed between the focus electrode and the anode electrode. Each of the focus electrode and the intermediate electrode has a cylindrical electrode on at least one of opposed faces thereof. The intermediate electrode and the anode electrode have cylindrical electrodes on opposed faces thereof. A voltage with a level higher than a focus voltage and lower than an anode voltage is applied to the additional electrode and the intermediate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ueno, Tsutomu Takekawa
  • Patent number: 7064501
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement is described for generating a sawtooth current in a cathode ray tube deflection coil. The circuit arrangement has a first and a second multiresonant section. The sections are arranged in series. The cathode ray tube deflection coil is part of the first section. The second section has an inductor. Each section provides a trace period in which the sawtooth current is generated in the cathode ray tube deflection coil and a retrace period in which flyback of the sawtooth current is provided. The circuit arrangement further has a current control circuit coupled to the inductor for controlling the course of the sawtooth current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventors: Jozef Johannes Maria Hulshof, Johannes Ludovicus Maria Verhees
  • Patent number: 7057336
    Abstract: An electron-emitting device comprises a pair of electrodes and an electroconductive film arranged between the electrodes and including an electron-emitting region carrying a graphite film. The graphite film shows, in a Raman spectroscopic analysis using a laser light source with a wavelength of 514.5 nm and a spot diameter of 1 ?m, peaks of scattered light, of which 1) a peak (P2) located in the vicinity of 1,580 cm?1 is greater than a peak (P1) located in the vicinity of 1,335 cm?1 or 2) the half-width of a peak (P1) located in the vicinity of 1,335 cm?1 is not greater than 150 cm?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumio Kishi, Masato Yamanobe, Takeo Tsukamoto, Toshikazu Ohnishi, Keisuke Yamamoto, Sotomitsu Ikeda, Yasuhiro Hamamoto, Kazuya Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 6998798
    Abstract: A digitally-controlled vertical S linearity correction with a constant amplitude without using an AGC. To preserve line spacing between horizontal lines toward a top and bottom of a screen a third order correction voltage Vcube is applied to a sweep voltage Vosc. A constant current decoder determines an amount of appropriate correction current, which is employed to generate a sweep voltage with modified amplitude due to S correction and one without the modified amplitude. The sweep voltage with constant amplitude is employed to generate Vcube. Vcube is then applied to the sweep voltage along with a compensated amplitude component of the sweep voltage, such that a reduction in the amplitude caused by the S correction is compensated in the output voltage Vout. The compensation of the output voltage amplitude prevents a size reduction of the displayed picture on the screen without employing an iterative auto-align process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Guan, Peyman Hojabri
  • Patent number: 6924590
    Abstract: A color picture tube device has a funnel glass, a pair of horizontal deflection coils, an insulating frame, and a pair of vertical deflection coils. The pair of horizontal deflection coils are opposed to each other in a vertical direction around the outer surface of the funnel glass, and each have a window at the center. The insulating frame covers the horizontal deflection coils, resembles in shape a part of the funnel glass where the horizontal deflection coils are provided, and has openings in areas corresponding to windows of the horizontal deflection coils. The pair of vertical deflection coils are opposed to each other in a horizontal direction around the outer surface of the insulating frame, without overlapping the openings. A pair of correction coils are provided so as to be each at least partially inserted in a different one of the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Etsuji Tagami, Hiroshi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 6891340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tracking picture tube of the type in which comb-shaped electrodes or optical detecting means (12, 13) are used for generating a signal related to the position of an electron beam with respect to the strips (5). The tube is characterized in that the deflection unit is arranged to deflect the beams (21r, 21g, 21b) onto selected strips (22r, 22g, 22b) having coincident sides which neighbour finger portions (14, 15) of the same electrode (12, 13), and the selected strips (22r, 22g, 22b), excited by the electron beams, are separated by at least one unexcited strip, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrikus Bernardus Van Den Brink, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn
  • Publication number: 20040257008
    Abstract: The invention concerns a scanning circuit, comprising a power supply providing a negative voltage on a first terminal (Tdown), an intermediate voltage on a second terminal (Gnd) and a positive voltage on a terminal of a switch (S), the other terminal of the switch being connected to a third terminal (Tup), a control circuit (6) supplied by connections to the second and third terminals, a differential amplifier receiving a positive and a negative input signal provided by the control circuit, a power amplifier controlled by the differential amplifier, both amplifiers being supplied by connections to the first and third terminals, a deflection coil (Ly) connected between the output of the power amplifier and the second terminal, biasing means setting, when the switch is open, the output of the differential amplifier so that the possible current paths through the power amplifier between the deflection coil and the first terminal are cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Moreau
  • Publication number: 20040251857
    Abstract: Provided are a display device, and more particularly, a display device shared between a digital-to-analog converter for outputting a convergence signal and a digital-to-analog converter for outputting a dynamic focus signal, in a projection television using 3 cathode-ray tube projection optics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il-hyeon Ryu, Jae-seung Shim
  • Publication number: 20040232857
    Abstract: A CRT device includes a cold cathode electron gun realizing high resolution in all current areas. A field emitter type cathode having a field emitter array and a gate electrode, a first grid electrode, and a second grid electrode constituting the electron gun are arranged in this order toward a phosphor screen. The potential Vgate of the gate electrode is higher as the beam current is larger. The potential Vg1 of the first grid electrode takes a fixed value smaller than the potential Vgate. As the beam current increases, electrons passing through the gate electrode are accelerated more and converged to a lesser degree, whereas the lens strength of the cathode lens formed by the gate electrode, the first grid electrode, and the second grid electrode is enhanced more. Therefore, the beam diameter at the main lens can be made uniform regardless of the amount of beam current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Itoh, Masahide Yamauchi, Koji Fujii
  • Publication number: 20040212326
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a technique for reducing east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of a raster display. This is accomplished by generating a horizontal correction signal that does not have any discontinuities. Since there are no discontinuities in the horizontal correction signal, the horizontal deflection current signal will not be distorted. As a result, there will be no east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of the raster display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventor: Anatoliy V. Tsyrganovich
  • Publication number: 20040174123
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a horizontal deflection coil for a deflection yoke. The horizontal deflection coil includes an inner pincushion improving section connected to a screen bent, and sub-sections connected to the inner pincushion improving section. The inner pincushion improving section is disposed in an angular range of 45 to 60 degrees. The sub-sections include a horizontal color registration improving section for preventing a horizontal component of a green color from being widened, and a vertical color registration improving section for preventing a vertical component of the green color from being widened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Dong-Chol Shin, Gong-Hee Park
  • Patent number: 6771030
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube apparatus comprises the deflection yoke including a horizontal deflecting coil for deflecting the electron beams in a horizontal direction. The horizontal deflecting coil has a main coil portion located along the direction of a tube axis, a flange portion located on the phosphor-screen side of the main coil portion, and a bendless flange portion located on the neck side of the main coil portion. The maximum coil thickness of the neck-side flange portion is greater than the maximum coil thickness of the main coil portion near the neck-side flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yuichi Sano
  • Publication number: 20040119426
    Abstract: Disclosed is a voltage stabilizing circuit for a high-voltage/deflection separation type video display appliance. The voltage stabilizing circuit includes an SMPS transformer for receiving an electric power through its primary winding and deriving voltage in its secondary winding, a regulation compensating coil for inducing an electric power corresponding to the electric power from the secondary winding of the SMPS transformer, a PWM control circuit for receiving the electric power induced in the regulation compensating coil to output a PWM control signal corresponding to the received electric power, and a switching section for switching the input electric power inputted to primary winding of the SMPS transformer according to the PWM control signal from the PWM control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventor: Sang Moon Suk
  • Patent number: 6737817
    Abstract: A deflection yoke arranged on an outer part of a funnel of a cathode ray tube includes a holder for housing a ferrite member as a magnetic field correction part for varying a main magnetic field, and the ferrite member is fixed and held by inner walls as resilient members in a housing portion of the holder, thereby holding the ferrite member at the desired position with a simple construction and realizing a cathode ray tube apparatus with reduction of cost and secure convergence correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiko Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 6717377
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a technique for reducing east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of a raster display. This is accomplished by generating a horizontal correction signal that does not have any discontinuities. Since there are no discontinuities in the horizontal correction signal, the horizontal deflection current signal will not be distorted. As a result, there will be no east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of the raster display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: ZiLOG, Inc.
    Inventor: Anatoliy V. Tsyrganovich
  • Patent number: 6704056
    Abstract: A video signal conversion part of a horizontal deflection circuit deletes a prescribed number of horizontal scanning lines from a vertical blanking interval of an input video signal and assigns a time corresponding to the deleted horizontal scanning lines to horizontal blanking intervals of the remaining horizontal scanning lines thereby extending the horizontal blanking interval of each horizontal scanning line and outputting a video signal. A synchronizing signal separation circuit extracts a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal from the video signal output from the video signal conversion part. An output part of the horizontal deflection circuit supplies a sawtooth horizontal deflection current to a horizontal deflection yoke in synchronization with the horizontal synchronizing signal output from the synchronizing signal separation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kitahara, Hideyo Uwabata, Yutaka Nishikawa, Chikara Gotanda
  • Patent number: 6686707
    Abstract: A method and apparatus used to step and correct the position of raster lines in a sinusoidal or zig-zag deflection system. By combining the magnetic flux generated with a rotation “twister” coil and a vertical deflection coil, scan lines can be uniformly spaced and separated nearly to their ends. Accordingly, the magnetic flux generated with the twister coil is adjusted going in the left to right direction then reversed in polarity and readjusted while returning from right to left. It is this controlled twister flux that combines with the linear vertical deflection flux to straighten and then step each scan line to produce an aligned raster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Webb
  • Patent number: 6664746
    Abstract: A dynamic focusing circuit includes a transformer with a primary winding for receiving a line-frequency deflection current and a secondary winding for supplying a transformed deflection current. An integrator, coupled to the secondary winding, generates a line-frequency focusing voltage from the transformed deflection current. A waveform generator coupled to the secondary winding generates an additional line-frequency focusing voltage and superimposes the additional line-frequency focusing voltage on the line-frequency focusing voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventor: Albertus Aemilius Seyno Sluyterman
  • Patent number: 6661186
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following inequalities are satisfied: E≦1.4A−0.2B−2.7C−2D, and A≦0.35 mm, where A (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, B (mm) is a diameter of an electron-beam transmissive aperture in the second grid electrode, C (mm) is a thickness of a portion of the first grid electrode immediately surrounding the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, D (mm) is a spacing between the cathodes and the electron-beam transmissive aperture in the first grid electrode, and E (mm) is a spacing between the first grid electrode and the second grid electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Hirotsugu Sakamoto, Shinichi Kato, Syoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6630802
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) integrated with deflection circuit. The color CRT includes a sync signal separation and deflection circuit board attached on at least a portion of the color CRT. The sync signal separation and deflection circuit board includes a sync signal separation circuit for separating sync signal from video signal to regenerate video signal into the same contents, a horizontal deflection circuit for impressing horizontal deflection current onto a horizontal deflection coil and a vertical deflection circuit for impressing vertical deflection current onto a vertical deflection coil. The color CRT, which has the sync signal separation and deflection circuit attached on at least a portion of the color CRT, allows a one-to-one matching of the deflection circuit and a deflection yoke by removing the causes of DY fluctuation due to the change of set condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Wook Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 6614193
    Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit generates a horizontal deflection current in a deflection winding, during a trace interval and during a retrace interval of a deflection cycle. A transistor is responsive to a vertical rate parabola signal and to a negative feedback signal for producing a vertical rate parabolic modulation voltage at a collector of the transistor. A negative feedback network generates the feedback signal that is indicative of a current flowing in the transistor for increasing an output impedance at the collector of the transistor. An inductor is coupled to the collector of the transistor for producing in the inductor a modulation current to provide for side pincushion distortion correction in an East-West modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventor: James Albert Wilber
  • Patent number: 6590352
    Abstract: The coating on the outer surface the display screen of a cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an inner conductive antistatic layer and an outer antireflective layer. When applied by a wet coating method, e.g., spray or spin coating, the two layers diffuse into one another to form a composite layer. When applied by a dry coating method, e.g., sputtering, the two layers remain separate. In the former case, a layer of conductive carbon black is applied between the composite layer and the CRT's tension (or implosion protection) band, while in the later case the conductive carbon black layer is applied between the tension band and a conductive element applied to the inner antistatic layer. The carbon black layer provides a conductive path to ground for the display screen's outer coating to prevent electrostatic charge buildup on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shi-Sheng Wang
  • Publication number: 20030107334
    Abstract: A deflection yoke for use in a cathode ray tube includes a switching circuit, which is coupled to each vertical coil. The deflection yoke employs two pairs of vertical coils. The vertical coil pairs can be two pairs of saddle type coils, one pair of saddle type coils and one pair of toroidal type coils, or a divided pair of saddle type coils to make two pairs of saddle type coils. The deflection in the first quarter region from the top and the last quarter region at the bottom of the CRT screen is provided by one coil when energized by the vertical deflection current switched through it. The deflection in the two middle quarter regions of the CRT screen is provided by a second coil when energized by the vertical deflection current switched through it. One vertical coil pair is optimized to correct convergence error in the top and bottom quarter portions of the CRT screen. The other vertical coil pair is optimized to correct convergence error in the middle portion of the CRT screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Usami
  • Patent number: 6577083
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for vertical S linearity correction with no external components. A periodic waveform may be cubed to produce a second waveform. This second waveform may be sampled to obtain a peak value of the periodic waveform. The peak value may be multiplied by a constant to produce an offset value. The offset value may be subtracted from the second waveform to produce a third waveform. This third waveform may be added to the periodic ramp voltage. Consequently, the periodic waveform is modified by a cubic waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Yong Yi Guan
  • Patent number: 6573668
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube using a self-convergence method is provided with magnets for correcting top/bottom pincushion distortion, and includes a vertical deflection coil and a four-pole coil. The vertical deflection coil generates a first correction field distorted in a barrel shape. The four-pole coil is arranged on the side of a deflection yoke nearer to an electron gun, and corrects YH barrel pattern misconvergence by generating a second correction field. The strength of the second correction field varies according to the amount of vertical deflection applied to electron beams emitted by the electron gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Ind., Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Etsuji Tagami
  • Patent number: 6570349
    Abstract: A second grid is supplied with a low potential acceleration voltage. A fourth grid and a sixth grid are supplied with a first focus voltage. A third grid and a seventh grid are supplied with a dynamic focus voltage (Vf2+Vd). A prefocus lens having a horizontal and vertical focusing function is formed between the second grid and the third grid. An asymmetrical lens section having a horizontal diverging function and a vertical focusing function is formed between the third grid and the fourth grid. The prefocus lens and the asymmetrical lens section are electrostatically coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junichi Kimiya, Syunji Ookubo, Takahiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 6559609
    Abstract: A raster center control circuit for a CRT-type display device that automatically determines a correct horizontal center position of a raster, regardless of a horizontal sync frequency input from a video card. The raster center control circuit includes a horizontal deflection circuit, electrically connected to a horizontal deflection yoke, to supply the horizontal deflection yoke with a parabolic wave signal used to determine a horizontal center position of the raster. A memory device stores predetermined values for raster control according to horizontal sync signal frequencies. A microprocessor determines a frequency of a horizontal sync signal and generates a raster control signal by converting one of the predetermined values stored in the memory device into a raster control signal according to the predetermined frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-soo Jo
  • Patent number: 6555975
    Abstract: A main lens includes a second segment, a sixth grid and an additional electrode disposed between the second segment and the sixth grid. A first-level constant voltage and a second-level constant voltage are applied to the second segment and sixth grid, respectively. A third-level voltage, which is at a level between the first level and the second level, is applied to the additional electrode. In accordance with the increase in a deflection amount of an electric beam, the third-level voltage varies as a value expressed by ((voltage to the additional electrode)−(voltage to the second segment))/((voltage to the sixth grid)−(voltage to the second segment)). An auxiliary lens having lenses including a third grid and a first segment has a focusing power decreasing in accordance with an increase in the deflection amount of the electron beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazunori Satou, Tomonari Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20030076058
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube apparatus comprises the deflection yoke including a horizontal deflecting coil for deflecting the electron beams in a horizontal direction. The horizontal deflecting coil has a main coil portion located along the direction of a tube axis, a flange portion located on the phosphor-screen side of the main coil portion, and a bendless flange portion located on the neck side of the main coil portion. The maximum coil thickness of the neck-side flange portion is greater than the maximum coil thickness of the main coil portion near the neck-side flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventor: Yuichi Sano
  • Patent number: 6552504
    Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit includes a first retrace capacitance and a second retrace capacitance. A horizontal deflection winding is coupled to the first and second retrace capacitances to form a resonant circuit, during retrace. A first switching transistor responsive to a first control signal at a horizontal deflection frequency selected from a range of horizontal deflection frequencies and coupled to the first retrace capacitance generates a first retrace pulse voltage in the first retrace capacitance. A second switching transistor responsive to a second control signal is coupled to the second retrace capacitance. A second retrace pulse voltage is generated in the second retrace capacitance. The second retrace pulse voltage is combined with the first retrace pulse voltage to produce a deflection current in the deflection winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA
    Inventor: Rudy Weber
  • Patent number: 6534935
    Abstract: In a color CRT apparatus in which three electron beams are not superimposed on one point on the screen at a time, a time difference is applied to modulating signals corresponding to the respective electron beams to adjust phase, thus achieving convergence of images, the screen is flat, both a horizontal magnetic deflection field and a vertical magnetic deflection field have uniform magnetic field distribution, paths of both side electron beams and a path of the center electron beam of the three electron beams emitted from electron sources are approximately parallel, and the time difference applied to the modulating signals is set to be approximately constant throughout the screen. Thus, images formed of imaging spots of the three electron beams can be superimposed on the screen with high precision to be matched without causing increased cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakurai, Etsuji Tagami, Hiromi Wakasono
  • Patent number: 6518716
    Abstract: An electron beam deflection system is positioned outside of a main body of a color tube having a neck, inside of which electron beams extend horizontally, and a display unit extend laterally from the neck for displaying images by means of electron beams scanned from the electron beams. The system includes a pair of vertically opposed horizontal deflection coils, a pair of horizontally opposed vertical deflection coils, and a pair of vertically opposed coils outside the neck, each coil including a correction coil in a diametric direction of the neck for generating a magnetic field in an opposite direction to the direction or correcting a YV aberration. Therefore, the electron beam deflection system according to the invention has an effect of providing a color tube of high quality owing to its capability of correcting a variety of chromatic aberration in a wide range with a simple construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sasaki