Abstract: A television video signal A/D converter apparatus in a liquid crystal television receiver has an A/D converter for A/D converting a television video signal. Upper and lower reference potentials for determining an operating voltage amplitude are supplied to the A/D converter from a reference potential generator. The upper and lower reference potentials are divided at a given ratio by a resistor so as to fix an average potential of the television video signal at a constant value using the potential at the dividing point as a bias potential, and thereafter the television video signal is supplied to the A/D converter.

Abstract: A television video signal A/D converter apparatus has an A/D converter which samples a television video signal to A/D convert it in accordance with upper and lower reference potentials, and supplies the digital signals to a liquid crystal display device. The apparatus also has detectors which detect digital values of the digital signals from the A/D converter which exceed a predetermined value and are below another predetermined value, and which respectively correspond to the upper and lower reference potentials for A/D conversion by the A/D converter. The digital values exceeding and below the predetermined values are counted by a counter, and the upper and lower reference potentials are determined in accordance with the respective counts and are supplied to the A/D converter.

Abstract: In a digital video signal processing system including a kinescope for displaying a video image, a video signal digital-to-analog converter receives input digital video signals and provides high level output analog video signals with a magnitude suitable for directly driving an intensity control electrode (e.g., cathode) of the kinescope.

Abstract: In a television receiver, a non-saturating kinescope driver amplifier arrangement includes an input current limiter circuit coupled between a source of video signal and a current responsive signal input of a feedback kinescope driver amplifier. The limiter circuit, e.g., including a diode limiter, limits the magnitude of input signal currents applied to the current input of the amplifier to prevent the amplifier from exhibiting a saturated conductive state.

Abstract: An IF signal filter in the IF sound channel of a television receiver exhibits peak amplitude responses which are unsymmetrical and slightly offset from the nominal picture and sound carrier frequencies by an amount dictated by the amount of tilt introduced by the tuner and the IF signal processing section. As a result, a filtered IF signal applied to a sound demodulating system exhibits a substantially symmetrical characteristic with respect to both the sound and picture carrier frequencies, yielding reduced audio buzz and harmonic distortion.

Abstract: A cabinet for pocket machinery having a transmissive liquid crystal display member. The cabinet includes a first cabinet member for holding the liquid crystal display member and electronic circuitry. The first cabinet member has a cavity at its rear. The liquid crystal display member is coupled to the rear of the first cabinet member within the cavity. A second cabinet member fits within the cavity in the first cabinet member and is removable from the cavity in the first cabinet member. The removal of the second cabinet member from the cavity in the first cabinet member exposes the liquid crystal display member.

Abstract: A DC coupled system for automatically controlling the peaking content of a video signal includes a frequency selective peaking amplifier, a source of control voltage for controlling the conduction of the amplifier, and an interface circuit including a high output impedance current source network for coupling the control voltage to the amplifier. The interface circuit prevents the amplifier from being loaded excessively by the impedance of the source of control voltage, and assists to assure that the amplifier exhibits negligible gain for DC conditions.

Abstract: An electron beam position control arrangement for a color display cathode-ray tube, includes a series of spaced apart, parallel conductive strips on the faceplate or phosphor cooling of the CRT, the spaces between the strips defining a path along which an electron beam produced in the CRT is to be scanned. The electron beam is modulated with a pilot signal and, in the event the beam deviates along the predetermined path between the conductive strips, the pilot signal is detected as a result of the electron beam impinging on one of the strips by an amount greater than the beam impinges on an adjacent strip along the predetermined path, and the beam is returned to the predetermined path by position correction circuitry connected to beam deflection circuitry associated with the CRT.

Abstract: A receiver for receiving a signal modulated on an RF-carrier, includes amplitude and phase control for reducing, to a very low value, deviations in the amplitude and phase correspondence of the signals in two signal paths therein in order to avoid an image interference signal due to incomplete mutual cancellation or image frequency rejection of unwanted modulation signals.

Abstract: In a digital video signal processing system including an image reproducing kinescope and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), excessive kinescope beam current are automatically limited in response to a control signal which varies a reference voltage for the DAC such that the peak-to-peak amplitude of analog video signals from the DAC is reduced. A version of the control signal is applied to the output of the DAC with a magnitude and polarity for substantially negating unwanted shifts of the video signal black level during the beam current limiting mode.

Abstract: A microprocessor controlled television receiver includes a decoder input for receiving coded data streams for controlling functions of the television receiver from a remote and a local keyboard. Microprocessor based arbitration means scan the keys of the local keyboard and control operation of a gate for selectively coupling the data streams from the remote keyboard and the local keyboard to the decoder of the television microprocessor. The arbitration means assures noninterference between the respective data streams.

Abstract: A video monitor includes an image displaying kinescope which exhibits a temperature dependent conduction characteristic that results in declining light output and image brightness during an initial warm-up period, from a time soon after the system is initially energized to a time several minutes later when steady-state operation is reached. To counteract the declining kinescope light output during the warm-up interval, a compensation circuit having a time constant characteristic which approximates the kinescope conduction characteristic during the warm-up interval causes the kinescope to exhibit increasing light output and image brightness during the warm-up interval. Thus substantially uniform light output is produced over the warm-up interval.

Abstract: A projecton device wherein a viscous body of transparent liquid is inserted between a CRT and an enlarging projection lens, which comprises: a ring-shaped spacer for determining the positional relation between the CRT and the lens unit provided therebetween; a ring-shaped packing provided between the CRT and the lens of the lens unit at the internal side of the spacer; a thin film section having elasticity provided as part of the packing; and a space provided between the spacer and the thin film section of the packing.

Abstract: A television receiver is equipped with a liquid crystal matrix display panel having the drive electrodes arranged such as to form a plurality of regions, with the regions each successively entering a drive phase of operation in which selection and bias drive signals are applied to the display element electrodes and a rest phase of operation in which a voltage level substantially equal to zero is applied between the display element electrodes, with only one region operating in the drive phase at a time and the remaining regions operating in the rest phase. The display contrast attainable with a given number of rows of picture elements in the display can thereby be substantially increased, e.g. can be effectively doubled for the case of a display divided into two regions, without the need to utilize large-capacity video memory circuits.

Abstract: An AFC circuit is employed in a television signal receiving apparatus which comprises a tuner having a local oscillator and a mixer for mixing a received high-frequency video signal and an output local oscillation frequency signal of the local oscillator so to frequency-convert the received high-frequency television signal to an intermediate frequency signal, and a tuning voltage generating circuit for generating a tuning voltage responsive to a desired receiving channel which is selected so as to apply the tuning voltage to the local oscillator of the tuner. The AFC circuit comprises a frequency discriminating circuit for frequency-discriminating an output intermediate frequency signal of the tuner, a lowpass filter supplied with an output signal of the frequency discriminating circuit, and a limiter circuit supplied with an output signal of the lowpass filter, for limiting the voltage level of the output signal of the lowpass filter depending on the desired receiving channel.

Abstract: An automatic gain control system which measures the noise content of a received video signal and adjusts the gain of a radio frequency amplifier and a tuner to compensate for variations in noise levels. The apparatus uses a high frequency filter to strip the video information portion of a composite video signal to obtain only the noise component. The noise component is scaled and used in an automatic gain control feedback loop to control the gain of a radio frequency amplifier and a tuner. The system includes a standard AGC loop to regulate tuner gain for large amplitude signals to prevent overload.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to improvements in an apparatus for generating an image from an input video signal. A semiconductor device is provided, the device having an array of spaced charge storage electrodes thereon. An elastomer layer is disposed on the semiconductor device, over the array of charge storage electrodes. The elastomer layer has a thickness in the range between one-tenth and one times the average spacing between charge storage electrodes. At least one conductive layer is disposed over the elastomer layer. The semiconductor device is responsive to the input video signal to selectively apply voltages between the charge storage electrodes and the at least one conductive layer to cause deformations of the conductive layer and the elastomer layer. An optical subsystem is provided for converting deformations of the at least one conductive layer into an image, for example using a Schleirin optical system.

Abstract: A method of driving an active matrix display device which includes row electrodes, column electrodes, and active elements and display members provided at crossing points of the row and column electrodes and having a storing function is disclosed. According to the method, a serial video signal is stored into the individual column electrodes, and then at a next timing, a group of the active elements corresponding to particular ones of the row electrodes are rendered operative to cause signals to be stored into corresponding ones of the display members. This method thus attains uniform writing, uniform display and simplification of circuitry.

Abstract: A monolithic delta frame circuit comprises a high speed line address circuit, demultiplexer, line shift register, plurality of buffer amplifiers, an array of difference frame elements, reset circuit means, plurality of sample and hold circuits, multiplexer, and a high speed line address circuit. The high speed line address circuit clocks a single line video input at a fast rate into the demultiplexer for demultiplexing into the line shift register, the line shift register shifts the single line signals and noise into the elements of the array of difference frame elements. As the data from the previous frame which consists of noise or noise minus signal is still present in the difference elements only the signal or delta signal portion feeds through a reset circuit at a slower rate to the multiplexer. The reset circuit introduces offset noises into the signal which is substantially reduced by feedback through the reset circuit.

Abstract: An image projection system using a projection type cathode ray tube and lens element. The improvement being a direct optical coupling between the display surface and the lens element comprised of a transparent, compressible, multi-layer, resin formulated pad wherein the outer layer of the pad are peelable.