Abstract:
A setup control apparatus for a color kinescope uses a switch for removing operating potential from an active device, as a vacuum tube, included in a video information signal channel, while further switching in an impedance for biasing the beam control electrodes of the kinescope at a predetermined level compatible with performing setup adjustments on the kinescope.
Abstract:
A pulse applied to DC restoring networks associated with the grid electrodes of a color kinescope for biasing the same is maintained at a relatively constant amplitude. The constant amplitude is provided for by means of a unidirectional currentconducting device coupled to the output electrode of a blanking amplifier, and used to control the pulse amplitude at the output electrode as further applied to the DC restorers. The unidirectional device limits the voltage excursions of the pulse when the device is caused to conduct, due to the bias impressed thereon. The action serves to regulate the bias voltage applied to the kinescope grids via the DC restoring networks independent of amplitude variations in the pulse as applied to the input electrode of the blanking amplifier and amplitude variations due to tolerances and aging of the blanking amplifier associated components.
Abstract:
1,177,140. Cathode-ray tube circuits. RCA CORPORATION. 28 April, 1967 [19 May, 1966], No. 19823/67. Heading H4T. In. an arrangement for blanking the beam of a television picture tube, a pulse derived from the vertical deflection circuit during the retrace interval, preferably, as shown in Fig. 1, from the winding 38 of the vertical output transformer which supplies the deflection yoke, operates to reverse bias a rectifier 42 otherwise forwardly biased by the operating potential B+ for the video stage 10 and is thus developed across the load resistor 30 as a beam blanking pulse superimposed on the normal blanking pulse in the video signal. During the forward scan the rectifier, the loading of which on winding 38 is limited by resistor 48, operates in effect to clip the sawtooth portion of the deflection waveform. A reduction in yoke cross-talk, i.e. the effect of the horizontal deflection signal on the vertical deflection circuit, is stated to be reduced with a consequent improvement in the vertical interlace by the connection of winding 38 through the low impedance path via the B+ supply to earth. Any other winding on the vertical output transformer may be utilized as the source of the pulses supplied to the rectifier. In the case of electrostatic deflection additional means must be provided to derive such pulses.