Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit includes a horizontal deflection winding coupled to a retrace capacitor to form a retrace resonant circuit. An S-shaping capacitor is coupled to the deflection winding to form a first trace resonant circuit. A first switching transistor is responsive to a synchronizing first signal at a frequency related to a horizontal deflection frequency and coupled to the deflection winding for generating a deflection current in the deflection winding. A second switching transistor is responsive to the first signal and having first and second switching state, during first and second portions of the trace interval. The second switching transistor couples the S-shaping capacitor to a modulation inductance and to a modulation capacitor to form a second trace resonant circuit, during the second portion of the trace interval. The length of the second portion is modulated at a vertical rate parabolic manner for modulating a current in the S-shaping capacitor to provide modulated S correction.

Abstract: A dynamic focus voltage generator includes a source of a flyback input signal at a horizontal deflection frequency. A double integrator is responsive to the input signal for generating a parabolic periodic signal. An amplitude detector is responsive to the parabolic periodic signal for generating a control signal that is indicative of an amplitude of the parabolic periodic signal. A comparator is responsive to a signal at a reference level and to the control signal and coupled to the double integrator for regulating an amplitude of the parabolic periodic signal in a gain control negative feedback manner. A non-linear network is responsive to the parabolic periodic signal for producing a bathtub shaped output signal that is coupled to a focus electrode of a cathode ray tube.

Abstract: Electromagnetic deflection unit for colour cathode-ray tubes, comprising a pair of horizontal deflection coils and a pair of vertical deflection coils, the saddle-shaped vertical deflection coils having a rear bundle on the electron-gun side and a front bundle located on the screen side, lateral conductor harnesses 120 connecting the two bundles so as to produce a main window in the intermediate region lying between these said bundles, the conductor harnesses being arranged so that, at the front end of the main window 18, on the screen side, the window 18 extends over a radial angular aperture &PHgr; of greater than 38°. This arrangement of the conductors in the rear part of the window makes it possible to minimize the vertical convergence errors between the red and blue beams, so as to avoid the use of additional field shapers to correct the said errors.

Abstract: In a multi-window arrangement, the light output attributable to each window in a multiple window display is calculated, for example, in accordance with the video signal that provides the picture information for display in the window and in accordance with the window area. When the total light output contributed by all the windows exceeds a predetermined level, a loop controller automatically reduces, for example, the contrast and the brightness in selected windows, in accordance with a rule, in a loop control manner. The result is that the total light output drops below the predetermined level.

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.

Abstract: A lenticular screen component of a rear projection display screen has lenticular elements formed on a viewer surface. Identical lenticular elements cover the entire lenticular screen component and are repeated horizontally at a constant displacement. A given lenticular element includes a pair of reflective side portions and a refractive tip portion interposed between the side portions. One of the pair of side portions forms a sloped region at a joint between the one side portion and a side portion of an adjacent lenticular element. The sloped region is at an angle in a range between 5 and 15 degrees with respect to the first axis. The one side portion is covered with a reflective coating in at least a region of the one side portion that includes the joint. The pair of reflective side portions reflects light rays incoming from a projector towards the refractive tip portion for refracting the reflected light rays via a surface of the refractive tip portion facing a viewer.

Abstract: A power supply operates in a run mode of operation and in a stand-by, burst mode of operation. When, for example, a user initiates a power-on request command, an on/off control signal is applied to an input terminal of a microprocessor. The microprocessor monitors an end time of a dead time interval of a burst mode cycle and generates a synchronized control signal for turning on a switch. The switch turns on immediately after the end of the dead time interval. The turned on switch couples a run mode load to a filter capacitor of the power supply.

Abstract: When a main switching transistor of a zero voltage switching power supply is conductive, a voltage is developed in a current sensing resistor coupled in series with the transistor. The voltage in the current sensing resistor is coupled to a control terminal of a comparator transistor. During a given conduction interval of the main switching transistor, the comparator transistor is turned on when the current sensing resistor voltage is sufficiently large to turn on the comparator transistor. An output of the comparator transistor is coupled to the control terminal of the main switching transistor for controlling the turn off instant of the main switching transistor on a current pulse-by-current pulse basis. A resonant voltage pulse developed at a main current conducting terminal of the main switching transistor is capacitively coupled to the control terminal of the comparator transistor for maintaining the comparator transistor turned on, during a transition interval of the resonant voltage pulse.

Abstract: A video display deflection circuit includes a source of a video signal for displaying picture information contained in the video signal in a screen of a cathode ray tube. The video signal on-provides selectively an on-screen-display information and a non-screen-display information. A source of a first control signal has a first value, when the video signal provides on-screen-display information and a second value, when said video signal provides non- on-screen-display information. A comb filter responsive to the first control signal has selectively a first delay element, when the first control signal is at the first value and a second delay element, when the first control signal is at the second value. The filter selectively establishes, in accordance with the first value, a first frequency response characteristic and, in accordance with the second value, a second frequency response characteristic.

Abstract: A video display deflection circuit includes a source of a video signal for displaying picture information contained in the video signal in a screen of a cathode ray tube. The video signal provides selectively on-screen-display information and non-on-screen-display information. A source of a first control signal has a first value, when the video signal provides on-screen-display information and a second value, when said video signal provides non-on-screen-display information. A waveform generator is responsive to the first control signal for generating a second signal at a frequency that is related to a deflection frequency having a first waveform, when the video signal provides on-screen-display information, and a second waveform, that is different from the first waveform, when the video signal provides non-on-screen-display information.

Abstract: A horizontal deflection circuit of a video display includes a first retrace capacitance and a second retrace capacitance. A deflection winding is coupled to the first and second retrace capacitances to form a resonant circuit, during retrace. A first switching transistor is coupled to the first retrace capacitance for generating a resonant, first retrace pulse voltage in the resonant circuit. In a first embodiment of the invention, a second switching transistor is responsive to the first retrace pulse voltage and coupled to the second retrace capacitance for controlling the second switching transistor in accordance with the first retrace pulse voltage. A second retrace pulse voltage is generated in the second retrace capacitance in a manner to provide for capacitance transformation.

Abstract: With the new plasma display panel technology new kinds of artefacts can occur in video pictures. These artefacts are commonly described as “dynamic false contour effect”, since they correspond to disturbances of gray levels and colors in the form of an apparition of colored edges in the picture when the observation point on the PDP screen moves. According to the invention, such an artefact is compensated by analyzing the pictures, and determining the pixels which need to be corrected. The digital sub-field code words of these pixels are replaced by corrected sub-field code words. Thereby, the correction sub-fields (C1, C2, C3) which are inserted in or omitted from the digital code word are selected under consideration of its position within the frame period for optimal results.

Abstract: With the new plasma display panel technology new kinds of artefacts can occur in video pictures. These artefacts are commonly described as “dynamic false contour effect”, since they correspond to disturbances of gray levels and colors in the form of an apparition of colored edges in the picture when the observation point on the PDP screen moves. According to the invention, such an artefact is compensated by analyzing the motion in the pictures, assigning to each block of a picture a corresponding motion vector and performing a re-coding step in which the different sub-fields of a pixel are shifted to distribute the sub-fields of a pixel more closely on the eye trajectory.

Abstract: In a video display, correction data for a digital convergence arrangement are stored in a first non-volatile memory. During power turn on procedure, the correction data are read out of and stored in a volatile memory. During each deflection cycle, the data stored in the volatile memory are successively read out and applied to an auxiliary convergence winding. When a parity error is detected in the read out data, the data stored in a second non-volatile memory are automatically read out and transferred to the volatile memory and to the first non-volatile memory. The second non-volatile memory contains a duplicate of the correction data stored in the first non-volatile memory, during factory set up. The data in the second non-volatile memory are maintained parity error free. Thereby the parity error containing data stored in the first non-volatile memory are substituted with the data that are free of parity error, provided by the second, non-volatile memory.

Abstract: A secondary winding of a horizontal flyback transformer of a horizontal deflection circuit develops a horizontal retrace pulse voltage. A secondary winding of a second transformer is coupled in series with a vertical deflection coil of a vertical deflection circuit. An R-C filter is coupled between the secondary winding of the flyback transformer and a primary winding of the second transformer. Horizontal parallelogram errors are corrected by a horizontal rate current injected in a current path of the vertical deflection coils. The R-C filter prevents the vertical deflection current from being parasiticaly coupled to the horizontal deflection circuit.

Abstract: The invention is based on the object of compressing time losses and of improving an enhanced picture display. The method according to the invention of driving a plasma screen which is subdivided into horizontal lines and vertical pixel points, it being possible for the individual pixel points to be driven for different lengths of time, a preparation mode and an addressing mode being provided for driving, is distinguished by the fact that the lines are combined into groups and that, in the groups, the preparation mode and the addressing mode are executed separately, the preparation mode including a priming mode and an erasing mode.

Abstract: The device for addressing a plasma panel comprising a video processing circuit (7) for processing the digital video data received, a correspondence memory (8) for transcoding these data, a video memory (9) for storing the transcoded data, the video memory being linked to column driver circuits (10) for controlling the column addressing of the plasma panel, is characterized in that the transcoded data have a greater number of bits than the digital video data received and in that the processing circuit (7) comprises means for differently coding identical values of digital video data received. The applications target plasma panel control devices.

Abstract: The circuit for stabilizing a high voltage for a picture tube comprises a high-voltage transformer, which has a primary winding and a high-voltage winding, a switch, which is connected in series with the primary winding, and a control loop for high-voltage stabilization. The control voltage of the control loop, with which the switch is driven, is derived from two signals in this case. The first signal is tapped off from a secondary auxiliary winding at the transformer and supplies a static control voltage component, and the second signal is derived directly from the high voltage and supplies a measure of the dynamic loading on the high-voltage generator. The static control voltage component is, in particular, a measure of the value of the high voltage during the vertical line flyback, when the screen is black and the high-voltage transformer is minimally loaded. In this case, the auxiliary winding supplies a voltage which is proportional to the secondary flyback pulse.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for displaying data on a matrix display consisting of N data lines and M selection lines at the intersections of which are situated image points or pixels, the data lines being grouped into P blocks of N′ data lines each with N=P×N′, each block receiving in parallel one of the P data signals which is demultiplexed on the N′ data lines of said block. According to this process, inside a block, the data lines are addressed according to a spatial order chosen in such a way as to minimize the coupling error between the data lines of two adjacent blocks.

Abstract: The device comprising a video processing circuit (7) for processing the video data received, a correspondence memory (8) for transcoding these data, a video memory (9) for storing the transcoded data, the video memory being linked to column drivers (10) in order to control the column addressing of the plasma panel on the basis of column control words, a control circuit (11) for the line drivers (12), is characterized in that the control circuit for the line drivers simultaneously selects at least two successive lines during the transmission by the column drivers (10) of at least one of the bits of the column control words relating to one of these lines.