Abstract: Amplitude modulator comprising a differential input pair receiving a modulating input signal, and a Gilbert cell multiplying a carrier signal by the modulating input signal; anda second differential pair of transistors receiving the carrier signal, and the output signal of which is added to the output signal of the Gilbert cell.

Abstract: An image/audio information recording and reproducing apparatus using a semiconductor memory. The image/audio information recording and reproducing apparatus includes a semiconductor memory, a signal processor for processing image and audio information so that the image and audio information can be recorded on and reproduced from the semiconductor memory, and a control portion coupled between the semiconductor memory and the signal processor, for storing individual image information and individual audio information corresponding to the individual image information in the semiconductor memory and reading the stored image and audio information from the semiconductor memory, using a start address of the individual information and both a start address and an end address of the individual audio information.

Abstract: To provide a parallel processor apparatus which can perform processing with a good efficiency on signals comprised of data of different lengths. A parallel processor configured by a serial connection of a first parallel processor and a second parallel processor having n number of individual processors and (m-n) number of individual processors. For signals comprised of data of a length, serving as the unit of processing, of m or less and n or more, these parallel processors are connected and used as a single parallel processor apparatus which performs processing equivalent to that by a conventional parallel processor apparatus. For signals comprised of data of a length of n or less, these parallel processors are independently used to perform pipeline processing and thereby perform two times the amount of processing of that performed by a conventional parallel processor apparatus.

Abstract: A television receiver for reducing a co-channel interference comprises a receiver for receiving a transmitted digital television signal having an encoded digital television signal component, a co-channel interference component, and a noise component, the receiver further providing a received output signal. A simplified rejection filter filters the received output signal to reduce the co-channel interference component thereof. The rejection filter comprises a simplified prediction filter having a fixed number L of tap coefficients z.sub.1, . . . , z.sub.L, wherein the number L is less than a number N of tap coefficients for an optimal prediction filter. The optimal prediction filter corresponds to a prediction filter implemented at a television transmitter for precoding the digital television signal prior to being transmitted by the television transmitter. The rejection filter means further provides a filtered output signal.

Abstract: A video processor, having an input and an output, for compensating for accumulated phase and amplitude errors encountered during transmission of a video signal over a communications channel. The video processor includes a high-pass filter and amplifier, coupled to the input; a post-correction-phase-and-gain restorer; a wide-band-video-delay line coupled to the input; a pre-correction-comb-equalizer restorer; and a combining network, coupled to the output. The high-pass filter has a bandwidth characteristic which is approximately inverse to a low-pass characteristic encountered by the video signal during its transmission over the communications channel. The high-pass filter takes the video signal and outputs a filtered-video signal. The amplifier associated with the high-pass filter inverts the filtered-video signal. The post-correction-phase-and-gain restorer adjusts the inverted-filtered-video signal to generate a restored-video signal.

Abstract: A digital signal proces sing system for receiving and processing a high definition television signal, eg., in a Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) format, includes a filter for rejecting interferer signals such as a narrowband continuous wave NTSC co-channel interferer. In an illustrated embodiment the rejection filter is a digital FIR filter (18) located after a (de)rotator (16) in a carrier recovery network (16, 20, 24, 26, 28). The filter exhibits a zero throughput delay bandpass response with attenuation notches for rejecting NTSC co-channel picture and chrominance baseband carrier frequencies.

Abstract: In an image pickup device for generating a corrected luminance signal by subtracting two color difference signals as correction signals from a luminance signal, a correction signal is generated by base-clipping at least one of the two color difference signals.

Abstract: A method is provided for generating a composite video data stream. A first data stream composed of a sequence of frames of video data each having an x-dimension of a preselected number of pixels and a y-dimension of a preselected number of pixels is received. A second data stream composed of a sequence of frames of video data each having a x-dimension of a preselected number of pixels and a y-dimension of a preselected number of pixels is also received. The x- and y-dimensions of the frames of the first data stream are downscaled to produce a sequence of first blocks of pixels. The x- and y-dimensions of the frames of the second data stream are downscaled to produce a sequence of second blocks of pixels. The first blocks are written into a first object buffer associated with a first memory space during first and third ones of four processing phases using a set of counters associated with the first object buffer.

Abstract: A method of reducing noise in the signal of a motion detector for recursive filtering of video signals, in which the signal is median-filtered. A part of the amplitude range of this signal located below a threshold value is suppressed and the signal is subsequently used for forming the factor (k) controlling the recursive filter. In the case of stationary images or images of little motion, the factor (k) is set at a maximum value dependent upon interference pulses occurring in the video input signal (V1) and at a minimum value dependent upon interference pulses occurring in the video output signal (V2).

Abstract: In a television system including a source of an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, which signal includes an IF picture carrier amplitude modulated with video information, synchronous demodulator means responds to the IF signal, for providing an in-phase first output video signal that has both luminance and chrominance components, and for providing a quadrature-phase second output video signal that has a chrominance component but substantially no luminance component. Chroma circuitry is responsive to the quadrature-phase second output video signal for generating first and second color-difference signals.

Abstract: A video interface unit for transferring image data between video memory and video processing components interfaces with a video bus. The video interface unit has a partionable data buffer. The partionable buffer enables data to be accessed without redundant fetches of image data and for associated processing of data to be interleaved.

Abstract: A display system for a video apparatus in which, when a video signal processing device such as a tuner manipulable both remotely and directly is manipulated, a pattern representing the state of a controlled function of the apparatus is displayed on a screen of a picture receiving device such as a monitor, wherein the form of the displayed pattern is changed in conformity with remote or direct control manipulation. The size of the displayed pattern and the position thereof are changeable to be in response to either remote or direct control manipulation so that a television viewer can see the pattern with ease. The display system is applicable to any video apparatus such as a television receiver, a video tape recorder, or a television receiver equipped with a video tape recorder.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cancelling a ghost generated during a transmission of a video signal in a multi-path channel, which can accurately detect the start signal of the ghost cancelling reference signal at a receiving end when the ghost cancelling reference signal and a pedestal signal are inserted at a transmitting end into an 8-field to thereby be continuously transmitted.

Abstract: The apparatus includes first, second and third connectors, a control signal generator (5.11) and first and second switches (5.9, 5.10). The first and second connector each have a signal input terminal, a signal output terminal and a control signal terminal. The third connector has a signal input terminal (5.7) and eventually a control signal terminal (5.8). The first and second switches each have first (a), second (b) and third (c) terminals, the first terminal (a) of the first switches (5.9) being coupled to the signal output terminal (5.5) of the second connector, the second terminal (b) of the first switches (5.9) being coupled to the signal input terminal (5.1) of the first connector, the first terminal (a) of the second switches (5.10) being coupled to the signal output terminal (5.2) of the first connector, the second terminal (b) of the second switches (5.10) being coupled to the signal input terminal (5.4) of the second connector. The first and second switches (5.9, 5.

Abstract: In a BS (direct broadcast by satellite) timer recording mode, a constant voltage diode for controlling 18 V is directly inserted in a power circuit. Alternatively, a delay circuit is inserted at the input of a switching circuit for switching the constant voltage diode, thus absorbing the switching time difference between 140-V control and 18-V control. Therefore, the secondary side output voltages can be prevented from being increased, and the output voltages can be stabilized both in the BS timer recording mode (light load powering) and in the television mode (maximum load powering).

Abstract: Temporarily filtered video samples are formed as the sum of a previous frame output sample and a non-linear function of the difference between current and previous samples. The function is non-linear only for absolute values of differences less than 50% (preferably 10%) of the maximum range of the difference, and a smaller lookup table is used for implementing the non-linear function than would otherwise be the case.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiode arrays, each array including a plurality of photodiodes, the arrays being aligned in parallel and closely arranged, at least two charge transfer devices disposed parallel to and on opposite sides of the photodiode arrays. With this arrangement, the clearance between the respective photodiode arrays can be reduced and the charges generated by the photodiodes having shallower potential wells can be completely transferred at high speed.

Abstract: In beam scan velocity modulation (SVM) system for a television receiver, a video signal is applied to a differentiator followed by a limiting differential amplifier. A driver amplifier coupled to the limiting amplifier drives an output stage that supplies current to an SVM coil. Certain video signals with large high frequency content may tend to produce excessive dissipation in the devices of the output stage. To prevent this, a current source for the differential amplifier is controlled by a voltage which is a measure of the average current through the output stage. The magnitude of the current source is varied to thereby vary the peak-to-peak signal output from the limiting amplifier to prevent overdissipation of the output devices. The presence of random noise in the video signal can produce unwanted SVM operation which can impair the viewed image. The unwanted noise component in the video signal can be reduced in amplitude by coring. The coring is unaffected by the variable limiting.

Abstract: An apparatus has a light modulator for emitting a first-order diffracted beam to scan a screen two-dimensionally and a zero-order diffracted beam which is two-dimensionally deflected and projected onto the screen. The zero-order diffracted beam is effectively utilized, and the projection-type display apparatus is capable of displaying a new image pattern in which a moving image and a character drawn with a single stroke are displayed in an overlapping manner.