Abstract:
A system for stabilizing the cathode emissions of an in-line gun cathode ray tube includes subsystems functionally identical to one another linked to each of the cathodes of an in-line gun cathode ray tube. During the time that the CRT beam is retracing vertically, each subsystem imposes a fixed, predetermined voltage on a cathode in the cathode ray tube, samples the current flowing to the cathode, compares the sampled current to a predetermined, desired reference current for the cathode, develops a differential signal representing the difference, if any, between the sampled current and the reference current, and then drives the current flowing to the cathode from its actual value to its predetermined, reference value so as to maintain a predetermined, desired ratio of the currents flowing to each of the cathodes.
Abstract:
An automated system for adjustment of the white balance in a signal displayed on the screen of a color CRT includes a device attachable to the screen of a color CRT for detecting a first value for at least one of the following signal characteristics: Contrast, brightness, red/green/blue lowlights and red/green/blue highlights in a signal displayed on the screen; a mechanism for changing the first value to a second value within the control range of the CRT; a mechanism for detecting such a second value; a mechanism for storing at least one value within the control range of the CRT for at least one of the foregoing signal characteristics; a mechanism for recovering any such stored value; and a mechanism for conforming the value of one or more of such signal characteristics to a stored value.