Abstract:
A television automatic gain control circuit which transforms the low input impedance of the gain control terminal of a stage such as a grounded base bipolar transistor RF amplifier of a UHF tuner or a PIN diode attenuator utilized for tuner gain reduction to an impedance comparable to that of the impedance of the gain control terminal of an MOS/FET transistor used as an RF amplifier of a VHF tuner. Additionally, the control circuit provides for clamping of the AGC voltage at a selected level to provide AGC delay different from VHF AGC delay. Also, a predetermined voltage offset is provided to translate the AGC voltage applied to the RF amplifier of the VHF tuner before being applied to the gain controlled stage of the UHF tuner.
Abstract:
A desk top calculator or other generator of digitized video signals is coupled to the antenna terminals of a conventional television receiver. A circuit within the generator translates the digitized video signals into a modulated TV R-F picture carrier. The circuit includes a radio-frequency source, and a network of diode switchable attenuators. The latter are operated in response to control signals for switching the radio-frequency signal between three discrete levels. Two of the levels are for the display of black and white, respectively, and the third level is a ''''blacker than black'''' synchronization level.
Abstract:
Synchronous video detection in a television receiver provides increased detection linearity and better signal-to-noise ratio for weak signals than does envelope video detection. Impulse noise, which produces generally unobtrusive black-going noise components in a picture reproduced in response to a video signal recovered by envelope detection from a negatively modulated carrier also produces obtrusive white-going noise components in a picture reproduced in a response to a video signal recovered by synchronous detection. Common signal processing means, responsive to the envelope of the video signal modulated intermediate frequency carrier, inverts the white-going noise impulses to produce black-going components so that substantially all noise impulses appear black-going in the recovered signal.
Abstract:
An ultra high frequency (UHF) tuner includes a plurality of tunable transmission lines formed on a dielectric plate. At least two of the transmission lines are tunable over different bands of frequencies and each includes first and second conductive sections, coupled by voltage responsive capacitance devices, disposed on one surface of the dielectric plate, and a conductive ground plane disposed on the other surface overlying the first and second sections. One end of the first section of each of the transmission lines is connected to the ground plane and is shaped to provide tracking as the transmission lines are tuned across their respective frequency bands. An adjustable inductor serially connected with the variable capacitance devices also provides a tracking adjustment between the circuits.
Abstract:
An ultra high frequency (UHF) tuner includes a plurality of tunable transmission lines formed on a dielectric plate. At least two of the transmission lines are tunable over different bands of frequencies and each includes first and second conductive sections, coupled by voltage responsive capacitance devices, disposed on one surface of the dielectric plate, and a conductive ground plane disposed on the other surface overlying the first and second sections. One end of the first section of each of the transmission lines is connected to the ground plane and is shaped to provide tracking as the transmission lines are tuned across their respective frequency bands. An adjustable inductor serially connected with the variable capacitance devices also provides a tracking adjustment between the circuits.