Patent GB-724865-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to television receiving systems
IPC: H04N9/24
Filed: 1953-06-19
Abstract: 724,865. Colour television. WESTING- HOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO. June 19, 1953 [June 26, 1952], No. 16969/53. Class 40 (3). In a colour television receiver employing a cathode-ray tube 1 having a screen 7 made up of red, green and blue phosphor stripes, R, G and B, and utilizing three electron guns 3, 4 and 5, identifying signals are applied to the guns and control means responsive to the incidence of the signals on the stripes of one particular colour connects each electron gun, when its beam is incident on a phosphor stripe of a particular colour, to an image signal channel, 21, 22 and 23, carrying signals of the same colour. Thus the beam from gun 3, for example, no matter what stripe it impinges, will always receive the corresponding colour signal. The three beams are focused to spots having the same spacing as the stripes R, G and B and are scanned in a line direction which may be at any angle to the stripes but is preferably about three degrees. The identifying signals are in the form of oscillations at 10 mc. which are generated by an oscillator 9, applied in one phase to gun 3 and in opposite phase to gun 5. No signal is applied to gun 4. To detect the signals the green stripes have connections brought out from the tube to a load resistor 8 across which is shunted a 10 mc. tuned circuit 11. In the construction shown, the connection to the green stripes is effected by depositing them on a thin layer of transparent conductive material. In an alternative arrangement. Fig. 2 (not shown), the green stripes are made to exhibit a higher degree of secondary emission than the others and the signal output is derived from a collector electrode on the tube wall. The signals pass through an amplifier 12 and limiter 13, thence to a phase comparitor 14. When the beam from gun 3 impinges a green stripe, a positive output voltage is produced, whilst the beam from gun 4 produces a zero output and that from gun 5 a negative output. These output voltages are then used to switch the connections between the input image-signal channels 21, 22, 23 and the guns 3, 4, 5. This is effected by means of nine gate stages 3R, 3G, 3B, 4R ... 5B the detailed circuit of one of which is illustrated at 3R. Thus the production of a positive output voltage indicating the impingement of beam 3 on a green stripe, beam 4 on a blue stripe and beam 5 on a red stripe, results in the opening of gates 3G, 4B and 5R, whereby the correspondingly coloured signals are applied to the guns. The remaining gates are held non- transmissive. In a similar manner, for zero and negative voltage outputs from the phase comparitor 14, the appropriate combinations of three gates are opened and the remainder closed. The receiver will operate with signals of either the simultaneous as sequential type. To eliminate colour distortion the diameter of the scanning spots are made equal to or less than the spacing between the edges of adjacent stripes. At times, when the beams are not centred on the stripes, only a fraction of the stripe-width is illuminated with some intensity distortion of the image. Such distortion may be compensated automatically by the switching voltages developed by the phase comparitor so that, as a beam approaches or leaves a particular phosphor line, the gain of the vidio amplifiers may be momentarily increased.