Patent GB-1124056-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for producing colour television signals
IPC: H04N9/077
Filed: 1965-12-08
Abstract: 1,124,056. Colour television. FERNSEH G.m.b.H. 8 Dec., 1965 [24 Dec., 1964], No. 52018/65. Heading H4F. Colour component signals and a brightness signal are derived with the aid of a single camera tube 1, Fig. 1, which operates in conjunction with a filter 3 formed of repeating sequences of red, white (i.e. transparent), green and white strips, Fig. 2 (not shown), arranged at right-angles to the line scan direction, the white strips having a transmission ratio substantially equal to 1 and the colour strips having a white light transmission ratio less than 1, e.g. as shown in Fig. 3 (not shown). The colour component signals are derived from the portions of the signals R 0  and Go obtained from the light via the red and green strips which is due to colour and the brightness signal is derived from the signals Y 0  obtained from the white strips together with the portions of the signals R 0  and Go which are due to white light. To this end the signals R 0 , Y 0 , G 0  and Y 0 , which are produced as pulses in repeating sequences during the scanning of each line, are directed into separate channels 6, 7, 8 and 9 by a synchronously operated switch 5 and are thereafter (1) retained as separate sequential signals, with the two Y 0  signals combined in an adder 17, and (2) converted to simultaneous signals R 1 , Y 1  and G 1  with the aid of delay networks 11- 13, the two Y signals again being combined in an adder 18. An arrangement 14 then vesponds to the six signals to obtain red, green and blue colour component signals R 4 , G 4 , B 4  and a brightness signal Y 4 . Switch 5 is driven by an oscillator 16 which is synchronized by the signal pulses due to the white filter strips which are separated by an amplitude discriminator 15. In arrangement 14 the colour component signals are produced by a first circuit, Fig. 4 (not shown), in which the colour signals R 1  and G 1  have portions of the signal Y determined by amplitude adjusters subtracted therefrom so as to remove the white light portions and leave only the colour portions. The resulting signals are then mixed with signal Y 1  in a conventional matrix circuit to obtain the three colour component signals R 4 , B 4  and G 4 . Low-pass filters convert the signals from pulses to continuous signals. The strips composing filter 3 have widths corresponding to picture element size and since the strips repeat in groups of four (i.e. R, W, G, W), the bandwidth of the final filtered signals is one quarter of that (f max.) of the basic composite video signal produced by the camera. The brightness signal Y 4  is produced by the circuit of Fig. 5 and has a bandwidth off max. since it makes use of signals from all the filter strips. The signals R 4 , G 4  and B 4  are combined in a matrix circuit 40 to form a brightness signal Y 3 , 50% of which as determined by 41 is combined in adder 42 with 50% of signal Y 0  as determined by 43. A low-pass filter restricts the bandwidth to  f max. A second brightness signal is extracted from Y 0  by a bandpass filter 44a which selects components in the band -¢ f max. Finally a third signal is obtained from light through all the filter strips by combining Y 0 , G 0  and R 0  in adder 47 and selecting components in the band ¢-1 f max. by filter 49. Amplitude relationships are established by elements 45, 46, and 48. The first, second and third signals are then combined in adder 50 to obtain Y 4  having a band extending to f max. Fig. 6 (not shown), shows an alternative way of forming the brightness signal in which the band 0-¢ f max. is obtained from Y 0  via a low-pass filter and the remainder of the band ¢-1 f max. is obtained by combining Y 0 , R 0  and G 0  in an adder and passing the combination through a high - pass filter.