Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Cathode ray tube circuits – Cathode-ray deflections circuits
Patent
1986-08-29
1989-09-19
Griffin, Robert L.
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Cathode ray tube circuits
Cathode-ray deflections circuits
315367, 324121R, G01R 1328
Patent
active
048684651
ABSTRACT:
A delay time between the start of a trace on an oscilloscope screen and a point along the trace is computed based on measured "sweep gain" and "sweep start" parameters characterizing a triggered sweep signal controlling the horizontal position of an electron beam creating the trace, the sweep signal increasing when triggered from a starting level at a constant slew rate to move the beam at a constant speed across the screen. The sweep start parameter is the value of input data applied to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) which would cause the DAC to produce an output voltage equal to the sweep signal starting level, and the sweep gain indicates the rate of increase in DAC input data required to produce a DAC output signal with a rate of increase similar to the slew rate of the sweep signal. The horizontal position of the point along the trace is the beam position on the screen at the moment the sweep signal magnitude reaches the magnitude of the DAC output signal. The delay time is computed as the difference between the DAC input data resulting in this DAC output signal magnitude and the sweep start parameter, the difference being divided by the sweep gain parameter.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4121164 (1978-10-01), Feucht
patent: 4647915 (1987-03-01), Shank et al.
Fox Henry G.
Stevens Douglas C.
Dellett John P.
Gray Francis I.
Griffin Robert L.
Salindong T.
Tektronix Inc.
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