Abstract: A video camera includes in combination an image sensor, an image memory, a special effect circuit arranged to impart a special effect to the output signal of the image sensor by using the image memory, a selection circuit arranged to select either the output of the image sensor or that of the special effect circuit, and a control circuit which, in response to a pause of an image recording action, causes an image obtained when the pause is made to be stored in the image memory when the output of the special effect circuit is selected by the selection circuit.

Abstract: A black and white monitoring system apparatus for use in a remote controller having a light receiver, an analog multiplexer, a signal level controller, an analog switching member, A/D converters, latches, parallel/serial converters, a control signal generator, a first oscillator, an OR gate, and a light transmitter disposed in the television set. The remote controller has a remote control signal generator, a control signal light transmitter, a remote control signal separator, a vertical driving circuit, a horizontal driving circuit, a liquid crystal monitor, a control signal generator, and second oscillator. In this system, a broadcast television picture is reproduced on a liquid crystal monitor in black and white so that the television picture can be seen on the remote controller by freely selecting a channel.

Abstract: An art processor in a picture-in-picture system which performs a given art processing to a subscreen when subscreen the same image source as a main screen. One embodiment to carry out the objects of the invention includes a first synchronous signal detector and a second synchronous signal detector which detect synchronous signals from image sources received, an exclusive OR gate for comparing a first synchronous signal and a second synchronous signal, an integrator for integrating said synchronous signals, a monostable multivibrator for producing a pulse signal having a given width, a DC generator for changing said pulse signal to a smooth DC signal, a driving signal generator for producing a driving signal by use of said DC signal, a switching stage for switching a plurality of input lines of PIP signal according to said driving signal, and a D/A converter for generating a given art signal for the subscreen.

Abstract: A television video signal control system is disclosed in which an amplitude control signal and a clamp voltage control signal digitally detected in the automatic gain control and clamp voltage control of a television signal receiver respectively are applied alternately to a single D/A converter. The resulting analog signal is sampled and held alternately at holding circuits corresponding to the two control signals. A D/A converter for converting the two control signals from digital to analog state is thus saved as compared with the prior art.

Abstract: A video display control system with a relative position memory between a controller and a foreground memory to permit changing the correspondence between a control indicator, indicating a display line on a monitor, and that one of the blocks of foreground memory controlling the foreground characters to be displayed on that display monitor screen line. The controller indicator signal is provided directly to a background memory to indicate which block of data therein is to control the display for the graphics background on that screen line. The relative position memory circuit also sets the first column in a test line which is to display in an allocated portion of the monitor screen. The relative position memory and the foreground memory control a symbol memory, and the outputs from the foreground memory, the symbol memory and the background memory are collected by a display controller capable of operating a display monitor.

Abstract: For the purpose of automated evaluation of white uniformity, the apparatus comprises a color television camera for picking up an image of white color displayed on the color cathode-ray tube, a circuit for separating color signals from the output signal of the color television camera, A/D converters for converting the analog color signals into digital color signals, memories for storing the digital color signals, and a computer for analyzing the contents of the memories. A nonuniform color portion is extracted from the color distribution of the display on the cathode-ray tube, and quantities of various features of the nonuniform color portion, for example, the hue, saturation and area of the nonuniform color portion and the degree of change in the saturation at the marginal edge contour of the nonuniform color portion are calculated by the computer to provide parameters used for evaluation of the white uniformity.

Abstract: A vertical motion detector for a TV system motion detector. The circuit operates by delaying each motion indicator signal by multiple units of the time required for one full horizontal line sweep. If vertical motion occurs, the delayed indicator will output from the delay at the same time another indicator occurs. These signals are fed to multiple AND gates so that several coincident signals are required to produce an alarm. A switching circuit permits selection of the number of vertical motion indicators required for an alarm.

Abstract: A noise reduction circuit in which a video signal (S.sub.I) is divided into a first signal (S.sub.L) having low frequency component and a second signal (S.sub.H1) having high frequency component, the above second signal (S.sub.H1) is divided into a third signal (S.sub.H2) having an amplitude more than a predetermined value and a fourth signal (S.sub.H3) having an amplitute less than the predetermined value, a noise reduction process using a delay circuit (12) is applied to the above fourth signal (S.sub.H3) to obtain a fifth signal (S.sub.H4), and the above first signal (S.sub.L), third signal (S.sub.H2) and fifth signal (S.sub.H4) are added, the noise reduction circuit being applicable to apply to a television receiver, etc.

Abstract: A digital memory delay line for a video border generator digitizes an insert video key signal and stores the digitized key signal in a digital memory. The locations in the memory are addressed sequentially in a continuous cycle so that as each location is addressed the portion of the key signal stored there is read out to reconstruct the key signal delayed by the cycle time, and a new portion of the key signal is written in. A clock for an address counter that provides addresses for access to the memory has a frequency that is a function of the number locations in the memory and the desired delay of the key signal. The delayed key signal from the memory is written back into the memory in parallel with the current key signal to provide a second output that is delayed by an additional address sequence cycle. The result is to reproduce the insert video key signal delayed for one horizontal line interval and for two horizontal line intervals.

Abstract: Area enlargement of television pictures can be achieved by stretching the picture at the same time in the vertical and horizontal directions. In the simplest case this can be accomplished by increasing the scanning amplitude. As the horizontal deflection consumes the greatest part of the energy converted in a picture reproduction apparatus and as it requires high-powered modular elements, an increased scanning amplitude would undesirably augment the energy consumption and further increase the demand on the performance of the modular elements in use. Image enlargement according to this invention is accomplished by storing the horizontally succeeding picture information of a just transmitted or reproduced scanning line and by subsequently displaying the sequential picture information of an area of the scanning line stretched over the whole horizontal period.

Abstract: A recursive noise-reducer for a high-definition TV system includes an interpolation device for performing two-frame interframe interpolation on the input digital signal. A delay device delays the input digital signal by one frame period and two frame period. An output signal from the delay device is separated into a one-frame-preceding signal component and a two-frame-preceding signal component. A first subtracter derives a difference between the input digital signal and the one-frame-preceding signal component. A filter filters an output signal from the first subtracter and passes a signal component having a recursion with a period corresponding to one frame. A second subtracter derives a difference between the input digital signal and the two-frame-preceding signal component. An adder adds the input digital signal, an output signal from the filter, and an output signal from the second subtracter.

Abstract: A system for combining a plurality of video signals and various forms of still imagery such as text or graphics into a single high resolution display is disclosed. The invention system utilizes a multiport memory and a key based memory access system to flexibly compose a multiplicity of video signals and still images into a full color high definition television display comprising a plurality of overlapping windows.

Abstract: A surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus operable by code carriers, in particular of a money dispenser, has a video camera (12), which is arranged to be triggered responsive to actuation of the automatic delivery apparatus (10), and which takes and stores a picture of a field of view (14) within which a user has to be, when actuating the automatic delivery apparatus. A sensor (16) responds to the presence of objects within a forbidden zone comprising a region adjacent to the video camera. The automatic delivery apparatus is blocked, when the sensor (16) responds to an object.

Abstract: A PAL-NTSC color television standard identification circuit, comprising a first demodulation circuit (7) for a reference component and a second demodulation circuit (11) for a possible color identification component of a color synchronizing signal, can perform a reliable identification by means of a digital decoding circuit (81) for the output signals of the demodulation circuits if the second demodulation circuit (11) is adapted (41, 45, 49) to demodulate along an axis slightly differing from the axis of the color identification component (FIG. 1).

Abstract: In an apparatus for processing a repeatedly reproduced single field of a color video signal, the phase of a chrominance subcarrier in the color video signal is shifted by 90 degrees at each field period, and the single repeatedly reproduced field of the color video signal is selectively delayed during alternate field periods for a delay time equal to one-half the horizontal scanning period so that the single field, as repeatedly reproduced and selectively delayed in two successive field periods, can function as interlaced fields of a frame while avoiding distrubance of the chrominance subcarrier due to the selective delaying in alternate field periods.

Abstract: A noise reduction circuit comprises a high pass filter for extracting a signal component containing noise from an input signal, a variable level limiter for limiting the level of the signal component extracted by the filter to produce a noise suppressing signal, and a level adjustor for adjusting the level of the noise suppressing signal. A level detector detects the level of the input signal, and a control signal generator generates first and second control signals based on the detected output of the level detector, supplies the first control signal to the level limiter so as to control the limit level thereof, and supplies the second control signal to the level adjustor so as to control the gain thereof. In a signal subtracter, the noise suppressing signal from the level adjustor is added with reversed polarity to the input signal to suppress the noise contained in the input signal and thereby produce a low-noise output signal.

Abstract: A composite color television signal is delayed one horizontal line period by a first 1H-delay circuit and then applied to a first intermediate value circuit via a first bandpass filter for passing frequency components in the vicinity of the color subcarrier frequency and a first inverter on one hand and via a second bandpass filter for passing frequency components in the vicinity of the color subcarrier frequency on the other hand. The first intermediate value circuit derives components of the two input signals which have the same waveform at the same time. The output signal of the first intermediate value circuit is directly applied to a second intermediate value circuit acting like the first intermediate value circuit on one hand and via a second 1H-delay circuit and a second inverter on the other hand.

Abstract: A color signal matrix circuit for producing first and second color difference signals from three primary color signals employs a reduced number of digital circuit elements and includes a first subtractor for producing a first color subtraction signal based on red and green primary color signals, a second subtractor for producing a second color subtraction signal based on blue and green primary color signals, a first level adjuster receiving the first color subtraction signal, a second level adjuster with a variable level factor receiving the second color subtraction signal, a third subtractor receiving the first color subtraction signal from the first level adjuster and the second color subtraction signal from the second level adjuster for producing the first color difference signal, and a third level adjuster receiving the second color subtraction signal, a fourth level adjuster with a variable level factor receiving the first color subtraction signal, and a fourth subtractor supplied with the second color s