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Vertical deflection circuit with raster correction

US6081078A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 17, 1996
Grant dateJun 27, 2000
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Expiry dateMay 17, 2016

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N3/22
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electron beam tends to slope downwardly as it is deflected horizontally to form a raster in a video display apparatus. The sloping of the beam can cause geometric errors in the raster, for example orthogonality and parallelogram errors. A raster correction circuit substantially offsets the downward slope of the electron beam by modulating a vertical deflection current with an induced horizontal-rate raster correction current, thereby substantially eliminating orthogonality and parallelogram errors in the raster. In respective embodiments of an inventive arrangement taught herein, the horizontal-rate raster correction current is induced in the vertical deflection coils by magnetically coupling a filament pulse waveform, a horizontal deflection voltage waveform, or a horizontal deflection current into the vertical deflection coils.

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