Abstract: The invention relates to a television set provided with a alphanumerical display device for displaying on the television screen (6), as an alternative to the received video picture, another complete picture constituted by alphanumerical data which can comprise all the letters in the alphabet, the numbers from 0 to 9 and graphic symbols.The invention also relates to a receiver provided with color picture display means for displaying, following a control from the user, a calendar data constituted by at least one of the said colour pictures and composed of alphanumerical characters.The invention also relates to a receiver for receiving radioelectric signals which is provided with an alphanumerical character display device in which the tuning of a radioelectric signal takes place by means of a message from the user composed of alphanumerical characters and representative of the station which transmits the said radioelectric signal.

Abstract: A television set having a picture display device, means for tuning into selected radiated television signals and means for supplying the received signal pictures to the said display device, the set further comprising a preferably non-volatile memory containing coded data corresponding to at least one full picture other than the pictures contained in the received signal, and means for reading and decoding the data in the memory and supplying a signal to the said display device to display the stored data visually.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for selecting a radioelectric signal from a number of signals receivable by a signal receiver equipped with a character display device to enable at least two selection modes of the radioelectric signal. The circuit arrangement has a controllable oscillator, the frequency of which is determined by a control loop depending on a binary number N supplied by a processing unit on the basis of code input data. The control loop has frequency dividing means providing a first signal from the controllable oscillator depending on the number N and the comparator for comparing the first signal with a second frequency reference signal to provide a third signal for the required tuning. A memory circuit has a number of cells for digital storage of data relevant to the signals being tuned into. The said number N can be supplied both in direct response to the coded input data or by calling up data from the memory circuit.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for the selection and the tuning of a radio-electric signal in a signal receiving set is described.The main feature of this set, which comprises a controllable local oscillator whose frequency is controlled by a control loop which maintains it in a fixed relationship with a number N, is the provision of means for calculating at least a substantial part of said number N, by starting from a plurality of signals representing a number K indicative of the signal to be tuned.In particular the signal receiving set can be a television receiver, and said radio-electric signal to be tuned belongs to a television channel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a television set which includes a picture display device, an alpha numerical character generating circuit connected to said device, a control device, means for determining analogue data relating to the operation of the set, such as volume, brightness and color, and means for displaying on said display device a combination of alpha numerical characters, supplied by said character generating device, indicating the values of said analogue data.A control keyboard has six keys "V+", "V-", "L+", "L-", "C+" and "C-". The output of the keyboard is connected to a processing unit which is connected via a digital to analogue converter and switch to an alpha numerical character generator which is connected to a picture display device. When one of the six keys is pressed a combination of signals proportional to the analogue signal level of volume, brightness and color (V, L, C) is displayed on the picture display device.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for selecting the tuning of a radioelectric signal in a signal receiving set, in particular a television set, comprises a memory circuit having a plurality of cells for storing in digital form information relating to a plurality of tunable signals with means in the circuit arrangement for sequentially scanning the cells of the memory circuit and for obtaining the stored information for the desired selection of a receiving signal.

Abstract: A circuit for providing saw-tooth current, with a trace and a retrace interval, in a coil, in particular a deflection coil of a television kinescope, in which the coil is connected to a retrace condenser and a trace condenser so as to form a deflection circuit which oscillates freely during the retrace interval, is described. In this circuit, a first diode is connected parallel to the deflection circuit with such polarity as to be made conductive by the saw-tooth current during the first part of the trace interval, and the said deflection circuit is also connected parallel, by means of a second diode having such polarity as to be made conductive by the saw-tooth current during a second part of the trace interval, to a controllable switch, which is made conductive during part of the trace interval.

Abstract: A circuit for providing saw-tooth current with a trace and retrace interval in a coil, in particular a deflection coil of a television kinescope, in which the coil is connected to a trace and retrace condenser with which it forms a resonant circuit, is described. In this circuit, a first diode is connected in parallel to the resonant circuit with such polarity that it is made conductive by the saw-tooth current during the first part of the trace interval, and the resonant circuit is also connected, through a second diode, to a controllable switch, which is made conductive at least during that last part of the trace interval, the second diode being connected with such polarity that it is made conductive by the saw-tooth current during the last part of the trace interval.

Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for providing a periodic saw-tooth current in a coil, e.g. a kinescope deflector coil, comprising a one-way conducting device that connects the coil to a voltage source, and a controllable switching device having a control electrode connectable to a periodic pilot-pulse source that makes the switching device conductive during part of the saw-tooth cycle, the switching device being connectable to a current source through an induction coil, the improvement wherein the latter is serially connected with the switching device, both being connected to the voltage source; and wherein a point common to the induction coil and to the switching device is connected through a capacitor to a transformer which latter is in turn connected to the one-way conducting device.

Abstract: An image display device comprising a plurality of elements which can be made luminous is described. The elements are arranged in a matrix formed by rows and columns, and each column of the matrix is piloted by as many outputs of a delay line of the charge displacement type, fed by a video signal representative, for lines, of the image to be reproduced and by a clock signal. The main feature of the device is that the delay of the line is substantially equal to the effective duration of information in one line of the video signal, and that there are provided means for interrupting the passage of the clock signal to the delay line during a substantial period of time within the line blanking interval of the video signal, so that during the said period the status of the charges in the delay line remains unchanged, and said status is utilized to render luminous a row of the elements.

Abstract: A circuit for providing a saw-tooth current in a coil is described. The circuit comprises a trace condenser and a retrace condenser which form together with the coil a resonant circuit during the retrace interval, a diode connected parallel to the retrace condenser, a controllable switch connected to a supply source through an inductor and to the retrace condenser through a second diode.The main feature of this circuit is to comprise a condenser connected on one hand towards the controllable switch and the first inductor and, on the other hand, to a circuit comprising a second inductor and, through a third diode, towards the retrace condenser. The condenser and the two inductors are sized in such a manner that when the controllable switch is not conductive, energy is supplied to the condenser and that successively, when the controllable switch is conductive, the condenser is completely discharged through the second inductor. The energy thus stored in the second inductor is then supplied to a storage device.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for obtaining a periodic sawtooth current in a coil, particularly in a deflection coil of a kinescope, is described. The circuit arrangement comprises a first, unidirectional conductivity device, disposed in parallel to a circuit branch comprising the deflection coil, and a second, controllable switching device, having a control electrode connected to a source of periodic pulses which render conductive the second device during a part of the period of the sawtooth. The main feature of the circuit arrangement is to comprise a resonant series circuit disposed in parallel to the second device; the second device and the resonant series circuit are connected to the deflection coil and to the first device at least through a third, unidirectional conductivity device.

Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for providing a periodic saw-tooth current in a coil, e.g. a kinescope deflector coil, comprising a one-way conducting device that connects the coil to a voltage source, and a controllable switching device having a control electrode connectable to a periodic pilot-pulse source that makes the switching device conductive during part of the saw-tooth cycle, the switching device being connectable to a current source through an induction coil, including a capacitor that is charged by the current source by means of the induction coil when the switching device is not conductive, the improvement wherein the capacitor is connected to the primary winding of a transformer, the secondary winding of the latter being connected to the one-way conducting device, and wherein the time during which the switching device conducts and the capacitor discharges are longer than the return time of the saw-tooth cycle.

Abstract: A circuit for generating a saw tooth waveform in a coil such as the deflection coil of a television picture tube, comprising a first circuit branch including a capacitor serving as an energy storing current source and a controllable rectifier, and a second circuit branch including another current source, a second controllable rectifier and a resonant circuit comprising two reactances, constituted by an inductance and a capacitor which are connected in circuit by the second controllable rectifier and act to draw current from the two sources away from the deflection coil when the second controllable rectifier is fired whereby to initiate the flyback portion of the saw tooth waveform.