Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1993-07-13
1994-03-15
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
H04N 710, H04N 1700
Patent
active
052949818
ABSTRACT:
A cable television system provides television signals in multiple predefined television signal formats. Each television has a multi-standard receiver for receiving television signals in those predefined television signal formats. Hidden behind each television, or elsewhere out of view of the user, is a converter coupling the respective television to a transmission cable. The only connection from the converter to the television is a cable connected to the television's cable or antenna input port. Each television includes a raster scan CRT and CRT control circuitry that controls the raster scan sweep pattern of the electron beams generated by the CRT. The CRT control circuitry includes a horizontal scan synchronization circuit that synchronizes each horizontal sweep of the CRT electron beams with a horizontal synchronization signal in the received television signal, and generates a distinctive transient voltage signal at the beginning of each horizontal sweep of the CRT electron beams. External to the converter box is a horizontal sweep pickup antenna suitable for positioning proximate the monitored television. Internal to the converter box is a filter that extracts the horizontal synchronization component of the television signal on the channel selected by the user. A synchronization signal comparator compares the extracted horizontal synchronization component of the selected television signal with the signals, if any, received from the antenna, and outputs a result signal indicating whether the television is both turned on and tuned so as to receive the selected television signal.
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Goodell John L.
Yazolino Lauren F.
Kostak Victor R.
Pacific Pay Video Limited
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