Patent GB-753447-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrical signalling systems
IPC: H04N9/24
Filed: 1952-03-05
Abstract: 753,447. Colour television. PHILCO CORPORATION. March 5, 1952 [March 10, 1951], No. 5781/52. Class 40 (3). In a colour television system of the dot - sequential type wherein the colour-component signals are sampled sequentially at a high rate, thus resulting in the phase and amplitude modulation of a signal having a frequency equal to the sampling rate in accordance with the colour-component signals, the receiver comprises a cathoderay tube of the type described in Specification 753,441 having a large number of parallel stripes set transversely to the scanning direction of the cathoderay beam and fluorescing sequentially in respective sequential component colours, means being provided for deriving from the cathoderay tube a signal whose frequency corresponds to the rate at which the stripes are scanned, this signal being heterodyned first with a reference signal of the sampling frequency and then with the modulated sampling frequency carrying the colour information whereby a signal of frequency equal to the rate at which the stripes are scanned and being phase and amplitude-modulated in accordance with the colour-component signal is developed. Since this signal is synchronized with the scanning of the stripes on the cathode-ray tube, the colourcomponent images produced upon application of this signal to the intensity-modulating electrode of the cathode-ray tube must register exactly with the stripes of the respective component colour. The video-signal output from the signal source 11 comprising the preliminary stages of a television receiver is applied in parallel to three channels. The low-frequency components of the received signal which represent brightness information are applied via low-pass filter 13 and adder circuit 14 to the control grid of cathode-ray tube 10. The sampling frequency synchronizing signal comprising short bursts of sampling-frequency signal during the line flyback intervals is separated by circuits 18 and 19 and employed to synchronize oscillator 20, the output from which (at 3.5 Mc/s. in the example described) is applied to the mixer 21. The cathode-ray beam in scanning each group of three vertical stripes on the screen of the tube 10 causes the tube to generate a pulse which is applied to oscillator 22 so that the oscillator oscillates in synchronism with the scanning of the cathode-ray tube screen. The output from oscillator 22 (at 7 Mc/s. in the example described) is heterodyned with that from oscillator 20 in mixer 21 resulting in an output signal of the sum of the input frequencies, i.e. 10.5 Mc/s. This signal is applied to the balanced mixer 16 to which is also applied the high-frequency component of the output from 11 via high-pass filter 15, this component comprising a signal of sampling frequency, phase and amplitude modulated in accordance with the colour-component signals. The difference signal output from mixer 16 is consequently at the frequency of oscillator 22 but phase and amplitude modulated in a similar manner to the output of filter 15, and is selected by filter 17 and passed to adding circuit 14 wherein it is combined with the low-frequency components of the input signal before application to the cathode-ray tube. On account of the signal passed by filter 17 being a difference-frequency signal its frequency spectrum is reversed with respect to that of the input signal with the result that the colour sequence of the stripes in the cathode-ray tube 10 must be reversed with respect to the colour sequence at the transmitter. In a modification a further frequency changing operation involving a further highfrequency (30 Mc/s.) oscillator is employed. In this arrangement the frequencies of oscillators 20 and 22 may be very close or even nominally the same. Also in this arrangement the frequency spectrum of the signal applied to the cathode-ray tube is not reversed and the colour sequences at the transmitter and receiver are the same.