Abstract: The invention provides a digital circuit for generating a binary signal output when a predetermined frequency ratio, v=f1/f2, of two signals F1 and F2 occurs during a selected measuring period. The circuit is particularly adapted for use in a color television receiver to determine the ratio between the chrominance-subcarrier frequency and the horizontal frequency, which ratio is fixed at the transmitting end, both in the PAL system and the NTSC system.

Abstract: A color television camera includes a color splitting prism and solid-state imagers responsive to different colors. In order to enhance resolution, two offset green-responsive imagers are coupled to prism ports to which green light is propagated and their signals are combined. Because of the different power of the lens for different colors of light, the red and blue images focus at different distances. In order to allow correct focus for both the red and blue images, the red and blue light components are propagated to separate output ports to which individual red and blue-responsive imagers are coupled. The lengths of the red and blue light paths are adjusted to provide proper focus.

Abstract: An autoregistration system is disclosed for a color television camera equipped with a plurality of image pickup devices so as to combine picture signals obtained through the plurality of channels from the plurality of image pickup devices into a composite color television signal. The autoregistration system comprises means for producing a level difference signal representing a predetermined difference in level between the picture signals of desired two channels, between which a picture image registration is to be carried out, and a first and second edge signals of the two channels; and means for subjecting the level difference signal and first and second edge signals to an operational processing to obtain a discriminatory signal representing the direction of a registration offset between the picture signals of the two channels.

Abstract: Grain, a fixed pattern noise which is not attributable just to dark current variations in the imager and which persists even in relatively bright images, is reduced in a CCD imager with three-phase-clocked imager register by introducing an offset potential between gate electrodes in the two clocking phases conventionally held at same potential during image integration times. In field transfer type CCD imagers, using field interlace and three-phase imager-register and field-store-register clocking, the offset potential can be made large enough, not only to reduce grain, but to improve field interlace from two-thirds field interlace towards or to perfect field interlace.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the display of objects on an interlaced raster-scan television are disclosed. The invention takes each data point that will appear as a pixel on the screen and makes it appear also at pixel locations displaced by one unit in each of two axes, individually or collectively if desired. The direction of displacement is uniform for any given picture. The additional appearance is not stored as part of the picture data, but instead is generated "on the fly" as part of reading the data and preparing it for presentation on the television screen.

Abstract: A color television camera apparatus having pick-up tubes provided for three primary color components, process amplifiers and an adjustment control circuit for supplying an amount of the adjustment to compensating circuits in the process amplifiers in response to output signals from the process amplifiers. The process amplifiers contain A/D converters connected to the inputs of the amplifiers, respectively. The process amplifiers and the adjustment control circuit digitally process the signals.

Abstract: A PAL digital video signal processing arrangement includes converter circuitry for sampling a PAL system video signal in response to sampling pulses having sampling points associated with .+-.U and .+-.V modulation axes on a color vector plane to convert an analog composite video signal containing a luminance signal and a color subcarrier into a digital video signal, and a modulation axis inverting configuration for inverting the polarity of the digitized color subcarrier at the sampling points associated with the .+-.V axis.

Abstract: In a television receiver with digital signal processing circuitry, a composite video signal is sampled by an analog-to-digital converter. A luminance processor responsive to the digital samples of the composite video signal develops digital luminance signals and a chrominance processor develops digital chrominance signals. A digital-to-analog converter coupled to the luminance and chrominance processors develops a plurality of analog output voltages representative of the luminance and chrominance information. A driver circuit converts the analog output voltages to drive signals that are applied to the cathode electrodes of a color picture tube to produce a display of the picture information contained in the composite video signal. A signal generator develops a control signal that is applied to a reset line of the digital-to-analog converter to establish the analog output voltages at predetermined levels.

Abstract: The use of a return-to-zero (RZ) sample and hold circuit between the CCD delay line circuit and the low-pass filter of the analog signal translation system provides a steeper high-frequency roll-off of the output from the low-pass filter than does a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) sample and hold circuit, and, therefore, produces less attenuation of high-frequency components of analog signal, such as the color-carrier of an NTSC color television signal.

Abstract: A solid state camera is disclosed which includes a plurality of image sensors, each having a plurality of picture sensing units spaced apart by an alignment pitch, a projector for projecting an image simultaneously on each of said image sensors, the image on each sensor being displaced by a predetermined distance in a given direction with respect to at least one other of the sensors, the picture sensing units being read for reading the respective images sequentially in the given direction and for generating video signals representing the respective images, a sampler for sampling each of the video signals by a sampling signal and for generating sampled signals, a converter for converting the sampled signals to digital signals, an interpolator for interpolating a signal generated from the digital signal during adjacent two samples between the adjacent two samples in each video signal and for generating interpolated outputs so that the group delay characteristics of the outputs are substantially equivalent, and

Abstract: When in the high or low speed editing or "moviola" mode, a VTR switches the inputs of Y and C demodulators between the Y and C heads or switches the demodulator outputs as the heads cross tracks. Thus, the Y and C demodulators always receive or provide at least some Y and C signals respectively, thereby making color display during the moviola mode possible.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color imaging device which comprises a plurality of first portions for generating first color information signals, a plurality of second portions for generating second color information signals, and a plurality of third portions for generating third color information signals, wherein the size of each of the second portions is greater than the size of each of the first and third portions.

Abstract: At the time of analog-to-digital conversion by sampling of a sine-wave signal having a frequency F by means of a clock signal having a frequency 4nF where n is a whole number, these two signals exhibit a residual phase error .PHI.. The method for correcting the converted digital signal according to the invention consists in delaying this signal by n periods of the clock signal in a shift register, in multiplying the undelayed signal by cos .PHI., in multiplying the delayed signal by sin .PHI. and in transmitting the results to an adder.

Abstract: A tint laying device for use in a picture reproducing machine, wherein a pickup head scans an original picture to pick up a picture signal and sends it to a color discriminator which discriminates a color in hue of the picture signal to output a discrimination signal to a halftone dot area rate controller, wherein the controller outputs a signal corresponding to a halftone dot area rate predetermined of a halftone dot to be recorded, per each color, to an exposure amount controller which varies the brightness corresponding to the halftone dot area rate depending on the signal output from the controller, and wherein an exposure head scans a recording film and records a reproduction picture thereon according to the halftone dot area rate in synchronization with the pickup head. This device is capable of performing an accurate and quick operation without any skill.

Abstract: In a micro-processor based automatic registration compensation system for a multi-tube color television camera, the number of correcting points is increased by interpolation of a limited number of sampled error data. The sampling of errors, and generation of respective registration compensating signals therefrom are effected twice in respect to errors in the vertical direction and four times in respect to errors in the horizontal direction for video signals from a red pick-up tube and a blue pick-up tube, respectively, relative to a video signal from a green pick-up tube. The registration compensating signals thus obtained, particularly for the horizontal errors, are desirably applied to auxiliary deflection coils provided on each of the red and blue pick-up tubes.

Abstract: In a color television receiver with a digital signal processing system, a chroma processor operates on digital samples containing color picture information to develop first and second binary coded digital signals containing two color mixture signal information such as I color mixture information and Q color mixture information. A luminance processor operates on the digital samples to develop a third digital signal containing Y or luminance information. R, G and B digital signals are related to the developed I, Q and Y digital signals by a set of coefficient multipliers. To obtain the R, G and B digital signals, the I, Q and Y digital signals are applied to a digital decoder that includes a ROM look-up table multiplier for multiplying each of the I, Q and Y signals by the appropriate coefficient multiplier. The products thus generated are summed in an adder to obtain each of the R, G and B signals.

Abstract: An analog carrier signal and its sidebands contain modulated information which is to be digitally encoded and processed. Demodulation and digital encoding is accomplished in a single process by an analog-to-digital converter, which samples the analog signals in response to a sampling signal of a frequency which is at least twice the bandwidth of the band of frequencies containing the carrier signal and its information-bearing sidebands. The analog signal samples are digitally encoded, producing a band of digital information signals corresponding to baseband signal components. When used in a television receiver to produce digital signal samples, the band of analog signals may include both sound and picture carriers and their audio and video information. By controlling the phase and frequency of the analog carrier signal in relation to the color subcarrier signal, and deriving the sampling signal from the analog carrier, an ease in video signal demodulation is provided.

Abstract: A television standards converter uses a VTR. The capstan speed is that of the video signal recorded on the tape, however, the drum speed is that of the standard to which it is desired to convert. Thus the reproduced signal has the original line rate but the new field rate. A line rate converter converts the reproduced signal to the new line rate, the signal is now totally in the new standard.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for converting nonstandard video signals, such as generated by popular micro computers to N.T.S.C. video standard signals. The nonstandard video is digitized and temporarily stored in one or more line memories. The data is then removed from the line memories by a clock signal related to a N.T.S.C. source. A luminance and chrominance converter circuit converts the horizontal scan frequency from an even harmonic to an odd harmonic of the color subcarrier so that the luminance information is properly related to the horizontal timing and chrominance is properly related to the color subcarrier. The corrected signal can be gen-locked to an external video signal and superimposed on such external signal.

Abstract: The present invention consists in providing a CCD type color solid-state imager in which color signals respectively separated in time can be derived from picture elements for respective colors arrayed in the shape of a matrix and which permits interlacing without degrading a resolution and without causing image lag. Concretely, pairs of CCD shift registers which are electrically insulated and separated and which run in the vertical direction are arrayed in the horizontal direction, signal charges stored in adjacent picture elements are sent into the individual opposing CCD registers through transfer gates arrayed in a checkerboard pattern, and signal charges transferred in time sequence are distributed to a plurality of CCD shift registers which run in the horizontal direction, whereby a CCD type color solid-state imager having a high resolution and exhibiting no image lag is obtained.