Patent GB-1019358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to circuit arrangements for use in colour television receivers
IPC: H04N9/455
Filed: 1963-11-26
Abstract: 1,019,358. Automatic phase control systems; colour television; gating circuits; semi-conductor circuits. PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. Nov. 26, 1963 [Nov. 29, 1962; Sept. 9, 1963], No. 46657/63. Headings H3A, H3P, H3T and H4F. In an NTSC colour television receiver the hue of the colour picture is adjusted and stabilized by an auxiliary voltage added to the automatic phase control voltage for the colour oscillator. In Fig. 1 line flyback pulses 33 are applied through a diode 32 to a resonant circuit 19 of period equal to the line flyback duration so that an oscillation is produced only during the pulse 33. The resonant circuit 19 may form the anode circuit of a pair of gating valves 13, 14 to whose cathodes negative line flyback pulses 30 are applied to energize the valves during this flyback period. A voltage P sin # is also. applied to the valve control grids from the R-Y synchronous colour demodulator 6 where # is the phase departure from 90 degrees of the colour oscillator 3 relative to the R-Y component of the colour signal. The oscillation of resonant circuit 19 renders conductive the gating valves 13, 14 alternately during a period of black level voltage preceding the back porch interval and during the back porch periods when P sin # is present at the output of demodulator 6 and the voltage difference P sin # acting on a variable reactance 27 stabilizes the colour oscillator 3. Further, the resonant circuit 19 successively keys during a period preceding and coincident with the back porch interval the respective diodes 45, 46 of a second gating circuit 44 with input P cos derived from the other synchronous detector 34 and output P cos # applied through a resistor 43 to a variable hue control tapping 42 of a potentiometer 4 with centre tap earthed, so that the sum 1 1 - P sin #  - P cos # (x depending on the 2 2x position of tap 42) is applied to the gating valves 13, 14 and produces phase shift # of the oscillator 3 (and change of hue) which is independent of P for any fixed tapping point 42, even if P varies due to insufficiency or absence of automatic gain control in the receiver. Moreover this value P cos # becomes zero during loss of synchronization and does not impair the symmetry of the catching range of the synchronizing circuit. The triodes 13, 14 may be replaced by diodes or transistors. In Fig. 2 the resonant circuit 19 (tuned to the flyback period) applies keying voltages to diode bridge gating circuits producing outputs P sin # and P cos # as before. The first half-cycle (coinciding with the black voltage level preceding the back porch interval), brings C and A to the same voltage and the input side of capacitor 61 to the black level voltage since capacitor 61 is larger than capacitors 86, 87. The second half, coinciding with the back porch interval, brings A and B to the same voltage and the sides of capacitors 88, 89 connected to reactors 82, 83 to the voltage P cos #, since the capacitors 88, 89 are of smaller value than capacitor 61. A voltage proportional to P cos # is then applied across potentiometer 41 with variable tapping 42 and added to a voltage proportional to P sin # derived from gating circuit 12<SP>1</SP>. The control voltage from output H thus alters the phase of colour oscillator 27 by a fixed amount which varies with the hue control tapping 42 but is then, for any fixed adjustment of the latter, independent of the amplitude P.