Patent GB-749575-A (GB)
Title: Waveform generator, particularly for television transmitting apparatus
Inventor: PUGSLEY DONALD JOHN DAVEY
IPC: H04N5/06
Filed: 1952-02-13
Abstract: 749,575. Television. PYE, Ltd. Feb. 12, 1953 [Feb. 13, 1952], No. 3805/52. Class 40 (3). In apparatus for generating a television synchronizing waveform wherein a master oscillator feeds a divider stage producing output pulses at frame frequency, the divider is designed so that pulses are also produced at various intermediate points on the divider at intervals after an output pulse corresponding to the time interval of frame frequency pulses it is desired to produce, the output pulse being fed to trigger a number of bi-stable trigger circuits in one direction whilst the pulses produced at intermediate points are fed to trigger respective ones of the trigger circuits in the opposite direction whereby the circuits produce output pulses having durations corresponding to the desired frame frequency pulses. The invention is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 as applied to the generation of the British standard television waveform. A second, generally similar embodiment, Figs. 4-6 (not shown), concerns the generation of the U.S. 525 line waveform. In Fig. 1 the master oscillator operates at twice line frequency and feeds a delay line 11 from which pulses are obtained from various tapping points with delays are shown. Pulses from or after the 17 Á sec. point are fed through buffer stage B1 to a divider comprising nine binary counters 1-9 arranged in two sections 1-4 and 5-9 dividing by 15 and 27 respectively to produce a total division of 405. The counters are coupled by buffer valves B2-B9, and the feedback to achieve the desired count is effected through resetting buffer stages R1 and R2. The divider circuit is disclosed in Specification 717,849, [Group XL (c)]. The frame frequency output from the resetting line from divider 9 is fed to two bi-stable trigger circuits 12, 13 so that each assumes one state with the frame feedback pulse. Trigger circuit 12 is changed to its other state by the feedback pulse from counter 4 thereby giving an output pulse, curve k, Fig. 3, which is four lines (8 half lines) wide. This is the frame synchronizing pedestal. Trigger circuit 13 is similarly reset, by the output from counter 5 to give a pulse 15 lines wide, curve g, Fig. 3, which is the frame blanking pedestal. The complete synchronizing waveform is generated by a trigger circuit 14. To the upper element are fed +10 Á sec. pulses through gate 15 which is closed during the frame synchronizing pedestal. Also fed to the upper element are - 10 Á sec. pulses. These are fed without gating through buffer stage 16. The complete pulse train applied to the upper element is as shown in curve d, the lower element receives 0 Á sec. pulses through gate 17 which eliminates alternate pulses except during the frame synchronizing pedestal. This is effected by employing a gating waveform as shown in curve b, which is generated by a gate 18 receiving the frame synchronizing pedestal from trigger circuit 12 and line frequency pulses derived from the master oscillator by divide-by-two stage 19. The resulting train of 0 Á sec. pulses is as shown in curve c. The trigger circuit is triggered in one direction by the pulses shown in curve d and in the other direction by the pulses shown in curve c, whereby the resultant output from the circuit is the complete synchronizing pulse train as shown in curve e. A second trigger circuit 20 generates the complete blanking waveform, curve j, the upper element being triggered by -¢ Á sec. pulses through gate 12, curve i, and the lower element being triggered by +17 Á sec. pulses through gate 22, curve h. Specification 687,712 also is referred to.