Patents Examined by E. Anne Farris
  • Patent number: 4845565
    Abstract: A mixer device designed for a TV production control room mixes incoming video signals of PAL, NTSC or MAC standard. To avoid any differences in video signal propagation time through a known video grid, the latter is suppressed, and a grid with narrower band width switches chopping signals selectively controlling attenuations of the incoming video signals in analog multipliers. The chopping signals are derived in operator circuits as a function of effect and dissolve signals designed to chop image planes to be superposed into a resultant image. In particular, amplitude complementarity of the chopping signals between two predetermined levels is ensured, whatever the dissolves and effects selected, and a proportion of a black image signal, transmitted normally during line and field blankings, is mixed during a black fade or a darkening to be created in the resultant image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Telediffusion de France
    Inventor: Guy Macheboeuf