Patent ID: 6429905
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An automatic white balance adjustment system comprising:a color signal reproduction circuit which demodulates respective RGB primary color signals from a composite video signal and has a white balance adjustment section; a picture tube drive circuit which drives and displays images on a picture tube so as to correspond to the RGB primary color signals reproduced by said color signal reproduction circuit; a cathode voltage detection circuit which detects a cathode voltage applied to a red cathode electrode, a cathode voltage applied to a green cathode electrode, and a cathode voltage applied to a blue cathode electrode of the picture tube; a storage circuit which stores in advance comparison reference values set for the RGB primary color signals in order to control the RGB primary color signals so as to achieve a white balance is a given ratio; and a control circuit which, when detection pulses of predetermined IRE values corresponding to the respective RGB primary color signals are output from said picture tube drive circuit, reads the red cathode voltage, the green cathode voltage, and the blue cathode voltage, all being detected by said cathode voltage detection circuit, and compares the thus-read detection voltages with the corresponding comparison reference values stored in said storage circuit, to thereby control the white balance adjustment section of said color signal reproduction circuit such that the detected voltages coincide with the corresponding comparison reference values, wherein the comparison reference values stored in said storage circuit are set to predetermined reference voltage widths corresponding to the respective RGB primary colors, and said control circuit includes means for controlling the white balance adjustment section such that a detection voltage enters a range of the correponding reference voltage width.