WO2006096186A1 - Tube cathodique a indice de faisceau de luminosite ameliore - Google Patents

Tube cathodique a indice de faisceau de luminosite ameliore Download PDF

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WO2006096186A1
WO2006096186A1 PCT/US2005/011458 US2005011458W WO2006096186A1 WO 2006096186 A1 WO2006096186 A1 WO 2006096186A1 US 2005011458 W US2005011458 W US 2005011458W WO 2006096186 A1 WO2006096186 A1 WO 2006096186A1
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Istvan Gorog
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Thomson Licensing S. A.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N9/00—Details of colour television systems
    • H04N9/12—Picture reproducers
    • H04N9/16—Picture reproducers using cathode ray tubes
    • H04N9/22—Picture reproducers using cathode ray tubes using the same beam for more than one primary colour information
    • H04N9/24—Picture reproducers using cathode ray tubes using the same beam for more than one primary colour information using means, integral with, or external to, the tube, for producing signal indicating instantaneous beam position

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  • the invention generally relates to beam index cathode ray tubes and, more particularly, to a beam index cathode ray tube having an image processor that controls the intensity and deflection of electron beams emitted from an electron gun assembly with an algorithm that derives the control signals from the brightness and color composition of the video input.
  • a conventional beam index cathode ray tube comprises a screen with blue, green, and red luminescent elements or phosphor stripes.
  • the blue, green, and red luminescent elements extend in a horizontal direction and are arranged in triads consisting of alternating blue, green, and red luminescent elements. Positioned between each of the blue, green, and red luminescent elements is a black guardband. Blue, green, and red electron beams are simultaneously scanned along the respective blue, green, and red luminescent elements.
  • the blue, green, and red electron beams have an intensity corresponding to an input signal from an image processor, whereby blue, green, and red subimages are formed that together produce a complete color image.
  • the black guardbands separate each of the blue, green, and red luminescent elements
  • the blue, green, and red luminescent elements are still arranged within close proximity to each other.
  • adjacent luminescent elements may be excited, which results in a loss of color purity.
  • the image processor sends a high intensity input signal to the green electron beam.
  • the green electron beam increases in size and can overlap into the adjacent blue and red luminescent elements. This overlap results in a loss of color purity, which is aesthetically unpleasing to a viewer. It is therefore desirable to develop a beam index CRT where the intensity of the blue, green, or red subimages may be increased without causing a loss of color purity.
  • the invention is a beam index cathode ray rube comprising a screen, an electron gun assembly, a yoke, and an image processor.
  • the screen includes an alternating pattern of first, second, and third luminescent elements.
  • the first, second and third luminescent elements are arranged in triads. Each of the triads has one of each of the first, second, and third luminescent elements.
  • the electron gun assembly directs first, second, and third electron beams toward the screen.
  • the first, second, and third electron beams have an intensity controlled by an image processor.
  • the yoke is arranged between the electron gun assembly and the screen. The yoke deflects the first, second, and third electron beams according to an algorithm generated by the image processor.
  • Each of the first, second, and third electron beams is simultaneously deflected to a first luminescent element of either a single triad or multiple triads.
  • Figure 1 is a partial sectional view of a cathode ray tube according to the invention
  • Figure 2 is a partial schematic view of a screen having horizontally arranged luminescent elements
  • Figure 3 is another partial schematic view of a screen having horizontally arranged luminescent elements
  • Figure 4 is a partial schematic view of a screen having vertically arranged luminescent elements
  • Figure 5 is another partial schematic view of a screen having vertically arranged luminescent elements
  • Figure 6 is a chart showing the various possible placement combinations of the individual electron beams within a grouping of phosphor stripes on the screen according to one embodiment of the invention
  • Figure 7 is a schematic representation of a dipole field arrangement used in the yoke system in one embodiment of the invention.
  • Figure 8 is a schematic representation of a quadrupole in the yoke system in another embodiment of the invention.
  • Figure 9 is a schematic representation of a quadrupole in the yoke system in another embodiment of the invention.
  • Figure 10 is a schematic representation of a six-pole field in the yoke system in another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG 1 shows a beam index cathode ray tube (CRT) 1 having a glass envelope 2.
  • the glass envelope 2 includes a substantially rectangular faceplate panel 3 and a tubular neck 4 connected by a funnel 5.
  • An interna] conductive coating (not shown) extends from an anode button 6 toward the faceplate panel 3 and to the neck 4.
  • the faceplate panel 3 consists of a viewing faceplate 8 and a peripheral flange or sidewall 9, which is sealed to the funnel 5 by a glass frit 7.
  • a screen 12 is carried by an inner surface of the faceplate panel 3. As shown in Figures 2-3, the screen 12 may be, for example, a line screen with horizontally arranged blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20, respectively, that extend in an x-direction.
  • the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 may be, for example, phosphor stripes.
  • the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 may be arranged in first, second, and third triads 21 , 21 ', 21 ", respectively, wherein each of the first, second, and third triads 21 , 21 ', 21 " includes alternating blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20.
  • first, second, and third triads 21 , 21 ', 21 " includes alternating blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20.
  • the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 may be arranged vertically such that the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 extend in a y- direction, as shown in Figures 4-5.
  • a black guardband 22 typically positioned between each of the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 is a black guardband 22.
  • the embodiments according to the invention may employ beam tracking features to ensure proper tracing the electron beams on the screen.
  • beam index stripes can be embedded into the screen in certain locations and work in concert with detection equipment 25, wherein a tracer beam of some sort is made incident on the screen to excite signal from the index marker, such as an index line 27 (as shown in Figure 5) which can be placed at certain intervals on the screen or index ends 28 which can be place at the ends of one or more of the phosphor stripes.
  • the detection equipment 25 receives the signal and can feed the signal to the processor to appropriately adjust the yoke fields to obtain optimum landing on the actual phosphor stripes. Examples can include some of the structures in U.S. Pat. No. 6,377,003 to Chen et at.
  • Other tracking means include patterned UV phosphor elements on the electron gun side of the screen 12 in combination with an appropriately positioned photodetector.
  • conductive structures in the screen 12 coupled to some electrical sensing device can be used to perform beam tracking.
  • An electron gun assembly 13, shown schematically by dashed lines in Figure 1 is centrally mounted within the neck 4.
  • the electron gun assembly 13 consists of blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown).
  • the blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown) are arranged substantially perpendicular to the direction of the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20.
  • the blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown) are arranged in the y-direction.
  • the blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown) are arranged in the x- direction.
  • Each of the blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown) of the electron gun assembly 13 can generate and direct a corresponding blue, green, and red electron beam 15, 16, 17, respectively, toward the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 of the screen 12.
  • An external magnetic deflection yoke 14 is positioned on an exterior surface of the funnel 5 in a neighborhood of the funnel-to-neck junction.
  • An image processor 10 is connected to the electron gun assembly 13 and the yoke 14. When activated, the yoke 14 subjects the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 to magnetic fields that cause the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 to scan horizontally and vertically over the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 of the screen 12.
  • the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 scan continuously in the x-direction as the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 move progressively in the y-direction.
  • the beam index CRT 1 having the screen 12 configured as in Figures 4-5 the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 scan continuously in the y-direction as the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 move progressively in the x-direction.
  • a video signal is sent to the image processor 10.
  • the image processor 10 5 processes the video signal and sends an input signal to the yoke 14 and synchronously the blue, green, and red electron guns (not shown) of the electron gun assembly 13.
  • the electron gun assembly 13 emits the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 with an intensity corresponding to the input signal from the image processor 10.
  • the yoke 14 typically subjects the blue, green, and red 0 electron beams 15, 16, 17 to magnetic fields that cause the blue, green, and red electron beams 15, 16, 17 to scan over the blue, green, and red luminescent elements 18, 19, 20 of the screen 12 according to the input signal from the image processor 10. This is for the basic usage of the beam index CRT 1.
  • the input signal sent to the yoke 14 by the image processor 10 directs the yoke 14 to position the blue, green, and red electrons beams 15, 16, 17 on the luminescent element(s) having the same color as the desired scene. For example, if the video signal sent to the image processor 10 requires a scene comprising only green, the input signal sent to the yoke 14 by
  • the image processor 10 directs the yoke 14 to position the blue, green, and red electrons beams 15, 16, 17 on the green luminescent element 19 of the first triad 21 , as shown in Figures 2 and 5, wherein the image processor 10 sends and ensures a signal for green of appropriate intensity for the beams 15, 16, 17.
  • the blue, green, and red electrons beams 15, 16, 17 could alternatively be
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 are positioned substantially adjacent to or superimposed on the green electron beam 16.
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 have a beam intensity equal to or smaller than the beam intensity of the green electron beam 16.
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 contribute to the intensity of the green electron beam 16 without having to substantially increase the beam size of the green electron beam 16.
  • the illustrations in the Figures 2 and 5 show the blue electron beams ] 5 and red electron beam 17 being smaller than the green electron beam 16 to show that these beams contribute to additional light output at varying strengths.
  • the input signal sent to the yoke 14 by the image processor 10 can direct the yoke ] 4 to position the blue, green, and red electrons beams 15, 16, ] 7 on the green luminescent elements 19 of the first, second, and third triads 21 , 21 ', 21 ", as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 are positioned substantially adjacent to the green electron beam 16.
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 have a beam intensity equal to or smaller than the beam intensity of the green electron beam 16.
  • the blue and red electron beams 15, 17 contribute to the intensity of the green electron beam 16 without having to substantially increase the beam size of the green electron beam 16.
  • the illustrations in the Figures 3 and 4 show the blue electron beam 15 and red electron beam 17 being smaller than the green electron beam 16 to show that these beams can contribute to additional light output at varying strengths. 5 For clarity of illustration in Fig.
  • beams 15, 16 and 17 are shown as being horizontally disposed with respect to each other. Similarly, on Fig. 5 the corresponding disposition is vertical. It is understood that this is so shown to clarify the graphic description, but in actual practice, direct superposition of the beams can be achieved. If the beams are not directly superimposed, appropriate video processing may be utilized to achieve image content
  • Video processor 10 is utilized to monitor both the local brightness and the local color content of the
  • Fig. 6 is a table of the ten principal 'Combination Cases" for locating the three beams on the three phosphor stripes of any triad.
  • the numbers 5 shown as entries in the table of Fig. 6 indicate how many beams are positioned over a given stripe.
  • “Combination Case 1 ' refers to a mode of operation when each beam scans only one corresponding stripe; this case would be utilized for white fields and for any color up to a brightness where color purity would begin deteriorating due to beam spillover into adjacent stripes.
  • the yoke is understood to be a general beam deflection element that allows not only the continuous raster scanning of the three electron beams synchronously as a group across screen 12, but also the rapid repositioning of the individual beams over distances equal to or less than the center-to-center spacing of adjacent triads, for example 21 ' and 20, or less.
  • combinations of magnetic multi-pole fields can be used.
  • Fig. 7 shows schematically a dipole arrangement.
  • the arrows indicate a substantially uniform magnetic field extending between magnetic pole pieces N l and Sl .
  • the encircled letters R, G, and B indicate the three electron beams, respectively, propagating perpendicular to the plane of the paper.
  • Fig. 8 indicates schematically a quadrupole magnetic field arrangement comprising pole pieces N2, S2, N3, and S3 that, when activated, can be utilized to cause separation of the outer beams, R and B, with respect to the inner beam, G, as indicated by the vertically oriented short, straight arrows.
  • Fig. 9 shows yet another quadrupole arrangement, comprising magnetic pole pieces N4, S4, N5, and S5.
  • the quadrupole arrangement shown in Fig. 9 can be utilized to move the outer beams, R and B, laterally with respect to the center beam G.
  • a fully symmetric activation of the magnetic poles in Figs 8 and 9, i.e. when all four poles generate equal strength magnetic fields, will result in a symmetric displacement of the outer, R and B, beams and will leave the central G beam without displacement.
  • Asymmetric activation of the quadrupole poles will cause asymmetric displacements of the outer beams and also a displacement of the center beam.
  • combination of the dipole shown in Fig. 7 and the two quadrupole arrangements shown in Figs 8 and 9 allow programmable repositioning of the individual beams.
  • Yet another multi- pole combination is shown in Fig.
  • the R and the G beams can be repositioned to join the B beam in scanning the B phosphor stripe.
  • the multi-pole fields can assume any orientation with respect to the line drawn through the three beams in Figs. 7-10, produced by the ' well known in-line gun arrangement.
  • the dipole moves all three beams in the same direction
  • the quadrupole moves the two outer beams in opposite directions
  • the six-pole moves the two outer beams in the same direction with respect to the center beam.
  • any general repositioning of the three beams can be achieved with appropriate superposition of multi-poles.
  • the beam index CRT 1 according to the invention can therefore increase the intensity of the blue, green, or red electron beams 15, 16, 17 without increasing beam size or causing a loss of color purity.
  • beam index CRTs 1 according this invention include those beam index CRTs 1 having multiple electron gun assemblies 13.

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La présente invention comprend un tube cathodique à indice de faisceau, un assemblage de canon d'électrons, un électro-aimant et un processeur d'image. L'écran comprend un motif alternatif d'un premier, d'un deuxième et d'un troisième élément luminescent. Le premier, le deuxième et le troisième élément luminescent sont placés par triades. Chacune des triades possède un exemplaire des premier, deuxième et troisième éléments luminescents. L'assemblage de canon à électrons dirige le premier, le deuxième et le troisième faisceau d'électrons vers l'écran. L'intensité des premier, deuxième et troisième faisceaux d'électrons est contrôlée par un processeur d'image. L'électro-aimant est placé entre l'assemblage de canon d'électrons et l'écran. Il dévie le premier, le deuxième et le troisième faisceau d'électrons en fonction d'un algorithme généré par le processeur d'image. Le premier, le deuxième et le troisième faisceau d'électrons sont simultanément déviés vers le premier élément luminescent d'une seule ou de plusieurs triades.
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