US2202511A - Black spot compensation apparatus - Google Patents

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US2202511A
US2202511A US139356A US13935637A US2202511A US 2202511 A US2202511 A US 2202511A US 139356 A US139356 A US 139356A US 13935637 A US13935637 A US 13935637A US 2202511 A US2202511 A US 2202511A
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  • My invention relates broadly to apparatus for the compensation of undesired signals in electrical circuits, and more particularly to apparatus of that form which is for use in compensating for so-called black spot phenomenon generally associated with television scanners of the photo-mosaic type.
  • Cathode ray picture scanners of the type in' which a mosaic or signal plate produces a charge pattern of the subject to be televised are in general subject to a spurious or undesired phenomenon generally identified as black spot phenomenon.
  • This stray signal is additive in nature, that is to say, it also exists when the picture to be transmitted to a remote point consists of a uniformly white or grey color in addition to the situation in which the picture comprises a number of light and dark contrasts.
  • the second possible cause for so-called dark spot results from the fact that in a number of transmitting tubes, there is provided a first and second anode which are used in conjunction with the photoelectric mosaic.
  • the second anode is usually used to collect secondary electron emission and to focus the beam.
  • the photoelectric mosaic is of necessity at an angle with respect to the major axis of the tube, and it is usual to place the second anode so that its major axis is co-incident with that of the tube; the result is that the various points on the photoelectric mosaic are unequally distant from and with respect to the second anode. Accordingly, this inequality in influence is a contributing factor to black spot production.
  • variable field influences the path of the electrons emitted by the photoelectric mosaic or the secondary emission occasioned by the cathode ray beam bombardment thereof and, to some extent, this unequal and variable field across the photoelectric mosaic adds to the dark spot phenomenon.
  • a fourth cause is the influence of either electric or magnetic fields which are generated externally to the tube itself. This may be caused by spurious oscillations in the neigborhood of the apparatus, may be caused by magnetization of objects in the neighborhood of the apparatus, and as a result, these fields may be either constant or variable in nature, and. as a general rule they are variable. As a result these influences in fields, whose influence on the apparatus is uncontrolled insofar as the mosaic itself is concerned, contribute their shape to the undesired black spot or region produced.
  • the actual response of the photoelectric material on the photoelectric mosaic to light values of equal intensity may not be exactly the same over a period of time. This may be due either to original unequal characteristics of the definite photoelectric particles or it may be due to an unequal dissipation on the strength of the particle which may possibly be caused by subjecting one portion of the screen to an unusually high electron bombardment or it may be due to a variable response of the photoelectric elements over a period of time.
  • the short non-linearity of response may well contribute its share towards the so-called black spot phenomenon.
  • an object of my invention to provide apparatus and ways and means by which a black spot portion at one part of a picture may be properly compensated without incidentally affecting the compensation of the black spot region at other points in the picture and, broadly, speaking, I do this by dividing the picture into a plurality of distinct regions and providing means which will vary the compensation for each of these regions, the means being separate, distinct, and independent of each other.
  • a compensating signal which is a function of the adjustment of a particular device which is adapted to compensate for one region independently of each of the other compensators which provide an adjustment in their separate and distinct regions of the picture.
  • Fig. 1' is an embodiment of my compensation generator
  • Fig. 2 is a front view of the sectionalizer along line AB, I
  • Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram
  • Fig. 4 shows a'compensating control board
  • Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram
  • Fig. 6 is an embodiment of my invention.
  • Fig. '7 is a schematic explanatory diagram.
  • an evacuated vessel ill has "means shown as l I for generating a cathode ray beam, For purposes of simplicity, these means are shown schematically therein. However, they include a cathode, a control grid, and a first anode; The cathode ray pencil is subject to the action of two fields which are at right angles to each other, said fields being indicated by" the arrows l2 and I3, and these fields vary in intensity with the horizontal and Vertical scanning frequencies with respect to time.
  • a sectionalized bank of electrodes i4, i5, i6, ll etc. Located"at"the end of the tube remote from the electron pencil generating means is a sectionalized bank of electrodes i4, i5, i6, ll etc., and in this view there is shown a cross-section of four of the electrodes. However, it will be appreciated that this is a view through one angle an'd'that the entire bank of electrodes therein illustrated comprise sixteen in number. This number has been chosen for purposes of convenience and not for purposes of limitation.
  • a potentiometer is energized by a source of potential SI and the positive end of the potentiometer isjoined through a resistor 32 to the second anode of the tube 3!, this anode being common to allzof the aforementioned electrodes.-
  • Each of the electrodes is joined to the potentiometer 35 by a conductor, and the position of the contact is variable so that the bias on the electrodes may be'varied at any desired time.
  • the anode 3! acts as a collector for secondary emission from the'electrodes I 4 through 29;
  • FIG. 2 there is shown the relative relationships in position of the electrodes i l through 29 'as'seen' from the front of the tube 10.
  • FIG. 3 four of the electrodes are shown as M through H and are indicated for purposesof clarity in dotted section.
  • This figure illustrates what may be the relative distribution of shading or dark spot on the received picture or the monitored picture from the trans- Initter.
  • This view shows a continuous section of dark spot or shading, but it will be appreciated that the shading may be distributed on various spots as well as concentrated in a section.
  • Figs. 1, 2 and 3 The operation of the device may be understood with reference to the foregoing explained Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Assuming that the stray or dark spot signal isdistributed as shown in Fig. 3, if on the scanning screen of the transmitted tube the cathode ray beam begins to scan the first line of the picture, the cathode ray pencil in the tube Ill which moves synchronously with that in the transmitter begins to move first over the electrode l4, and it will impinge on the electrode marked in dotted lines in Fig. 3 as M.
  • the stray signal of this district is comparatively powerful so that during the time when the scanning cathode ray beam sweeps the district of the pictureidentified as M, a proportionately powerful compensating signal must be produced. This is effectd by joining the electrode 14 of the tube ill to a potential which is comparatively negative relative to that of secondary anode 3! so that through a resistance 32 a continually strong secondary emission current will be caused to flow.
  • the fall of potential occasioned across this resistance may be used to compensate for the dark spot in the picture in the transmitting tube by, for instance, controlling the operating level of the video amplifier, controlling the modula-.
  • the electrode i5 is renderedless negative with respect to the secondary emission collecting an ode 3i than was the electrode l4; -Henc e,.there will be a lower fall of potential across resistor 32 and this potential is used in'the manner indi cated with respect 'to the potential developed the electrode MI
  • the black spot in the section i6 is even less than thatin section l5 and I4 and, accordingly, the negative potential lim pressed on It with respect to the anode 3! is less than that of either electrodes M and Hi. Therefore, the compensating signal will be less than the one furnished by those two electrodes, and
  • the compensation of the stray signal is not merely accomplishable by subtraction of a supplemental signal as furnished from a tube as shown in Fig. 1, but that the shape of the additional signal as a function of the time may also be chosen in such a way that upon addition of this supplemental signal to picture (video) and stray signals, the disturbing action is eliminated with the exception of a signal component which is of constant size throughout the length of a frame.
  • Fig. 5 shows the light intensity distribution as caused only by the stray signal over a frame line.
  • the compensation method hereinbefore disclosed results in a compensatory signal which is altered as the ordimates of the surface F1 presenting oblique shading, while in the presence of a corresponding adjustment of the electrode potential also a supplemental signal could be generated which varies with the ordinates of the surface F2 shown with vertical shading, so that by addition to video and stray signal there will just be neutralized the distribution of light intensity occasioned by the stray signal.
  • FIG. 6 there is shown an arrangement for automatically adjusting the value of the biasing potentials for the electrodes It through 29.
  • the tube I0 having smaller electrodes to that shown in the tube illustrated in Fig. 1 will have its action explained in conjunction with the scanning mosaic and a further arrangement.
  • the scanning mosaic 5! is joined to a video amplifier 5! which in turn controls a monitoring or other reproducing tube 52.
  • the picture developed by the scanning apparatus will be reproduced by the cathode ray tube 52, having a screen 53 on which the picture is reproduced.
  • a set of individual photoelectric cells 54, 55, 5B, and 51 In front of this screen and subject to the light values of the particular portions thereof are a set of individual photoelectric cells 54, 55, 5B, and 51, and one cell is provided to be used in conjunction with each of the electrodes l4 through 29.
  • the photocell may be arranged to control the amplifier in a negative direction, that is to say, that the potential drop may bias the grid of the amplifying tubes in such a direction that a small photocell current renders the amplifying tube more positive so that a greater output results and a large photocell current biases the tube negatively so that a smaller output current results.
  • Patent 1,787,851 might be used to control the biasing potential on each of the individual electrodes M through 29 in progressive steps as, for instance, a definite relay might close for absolute dark or black, and this relay might control a definite negative potential which is impressed on one of the electrodes [4 through 29 of the tube l0 since it would be quite possible to adequately compensate with a range of say five voltages corresponding to black, light black, grey, light grey, and some intermediate shade, five distinct potentials would eliminate a constant revision in bias that would take place as the arm moved across the potentiometer. While no specific figure has been shown covering this arrangement, it will be appreciated that it is clearly within my concept.
  • Fig. '7 there is shown schematically the operation of the system wherein the scanning tube joins the video amplifier which in turn furnishes potentials to a monitored tube and to the transmitter, the monitor tube energizing the control tube which in turn controls the operating level of the video amplifier.
  • Apparatus for developing corrective potentials for eliminating black spot efiects in television scanners comprising means for developing a cathode ray beam, means for deflecting said beam, a plurality of electrodes each representative of a discrete section of the optical View, the cathode ray beam deflecting means being adapted to sweep the beam sequentially across each of the discrete elements, means for biasing said elements, and load means associated with said elements for developing corrective potentials.
  • Apparatus for developing corrective potentials for eliminating black spot effects in television scanners comprising means for developing a cathode ray beam, means for deflecting said beam, a plurality of electrodes each representative of a discrete section of the optical view, the cathode ray beam deflecting means being adapted to sweep the beam sequentially across each of the discrete elements, common potentiometer means for biasing said discrete electrodes, means for positioning the moving elements on said potentiometer from a potential developed from the monitored image to be transmitted and load means associated with said elements for developing corrective potentials.
  • Apparatus for developing corrective potentials for eliminating black spot efiects in television scanners comprising means for developing a cathode ray beam, means for deflecting said to sweep the beam sequentially across each of the discrete elements, means for'biasing- 'said elements under the control of discrete sections of the monitored image of the image to be transmitted, load means connected to said elements for-developing corrective potentials, and anodic means for collecting the secondary emission from each of the discrete elements, means for biasing said elements under the control of discrete sections of the monitored image of the image to be transmitted, load means connectedto said elements for developingcorrective potentials, and anodic means forpollecting the secondary emission from the said electrodes, said anodic means being connected to the load means.
  • variable biasing means are controlled by the signals developed within said photocell means.
  • Apparatus for developing corrective potentials forcompensating for blackrspot efiects in television'rscanners comprising means for de-' veloping-a monitor optical view 'of the signals developed within a scanner, a plurality of photoelectric cells each representing a discrete sectional-area of the monitor image, said photocells being positioned adjacent the means for developing the monitor imageand adapted to be energized thereby, means for developing :a cathode ray beam, a plurality of discrete electrodes each representing a sectional area of the monitor image, potentiometer means electrically connect-' ed to each of said discrete electrodes, means under the control of each of said photoelectric means for determining the position of the variable section of said potentiometers, means for deflecting the cathode ray beam whereby said beam sequentially impinges on each of the discrete electrode means, and load means associated with said discrete electrode means for developing corrective potentials.

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US3459984A (en) * 1966-12-07 1969-08-05 Dale R Koehler Multiplier logic tube
US3743772A (en) * 1969-11-12 1973-07-03 Meldreth Electronics Ltd Image analysing
US3902011A (en) * 1969-11-12 1975-08-26 Meldreth Electronics Limited Image analysing
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US2556242A (en) * 1939-06-03 1951-06-12 Int Standard Electric Corp Automatic equalizer
US2475644A (en) * 1943-08-19 1949-07-12 Nora A Woodin Electron tube
US2583562A (en) * 1947-11-13 1952-01-29 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Cathode-ray device
US2692727A (en) * 1949-08-27 1954-10-26 Gen Electric Apparatus for digital computation
US2776371A (en) * 1952-07-18 1957-01-01 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Quantizing system employing cathode ray tube
US2802138A (en) * 1954-04-22 1957-08-06 Burroughs Corp Computing elements and systems
US3459984A (en) * 1966-12-07 1969-08-05 Dale R Koehler Multiplier logic tube
US3743772A (en) * 1969-11-12 1973-07-03 Meldreth Electronics Ltd Image analysing
US3902011A (en) * 1969-11-12 1975-08-26 Meldreth Electronics Limited Image analysing
US20070253632A1 (en) * 2006-04-28 2007-11-01 Hou-Chun Ting Method and Related Compensation Circuit for Compensating Black Cores of An Image Sensor
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