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Television signal processing apparatus

US5142353A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 12, 1991
Grant dateAug 25, 1992
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Expiry dateApr 12, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N11/30
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A television signal processor which is compatible with the existing television systems and is capable of producing television signals having a larger aspect ratio than the standard aspect ratio has an arrangement such that, at the transmission side, a main signal and a multiplex signal are produced from an electrical signal obtained by receiving an original image through processes such as time-axis compression, time-axis expansion, and chrominance signal processing, and are subjected to non-time-axis multiplexing. The processor has a further arrangement such that, at the reception side, there are provided a circuit for separating the non-time-axis multiplexed signal, a circuit for separating a luminance signal and a chrominance signal, a circuit for demodulating the chrominance signal, a circuit for effecting time-axis compression, a circuit for time-axis expanding the time-axis multiplexed signal, and a circuit for time-axis compressing the non-time-axis multiplexed signal. A receiver provided with this processor may receive images broadcast under the existing television systems without troubles and also may reproduce TV images with a larger aspect ratio than the conventional 4:3 …

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