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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7541754 | Bias circuit and method for operating the same A bias circuit and a method for operating the same minimizes a picture distortion. The bias circuit includes a main capacitor and a plurality of sub capacitors for compensating picture distortion, a controller provides control signals having different duty cycles, a... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7315112 | Color cathode-ray tube apparatus An insulating frame of a deflection yoke is fixed to a funnel with a metal band and a metal screw. A partition formed so as to be integrated with a holder holding a magnet ring of a CPU includes a first partition provided on a first axis so as to hide the metal scre... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312564 | Cathode ray tube having an electron gun A cathode ray tube has an electron gun oriented along an axis (Z), comprising a quadrupolar device which comprises three electrodes (5, 6, 7). Each electrode possesses a central aperture, a right lateral aperture and a left lateral aperture all three substant... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293088 | Tag location, client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless network Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless stations of the wireless network path loss information of the path loss of one or more location frames recei... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286515 | Method, apparatus, and software product for detecting rogue access points in a wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a software program to implement a method to detect a rogue access point of a wireless network. The method includes maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed access point (APs) and friendly APs, including the MAC a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7262563 | Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic rotational alignment of a cathode ray tube raster A method and apparatus used to step and correct the position of raster lines in a sinusoidal or zig-zag deflection system. By combining the magnetic flux generated with a rotation “twister” coil and a vertical deflection coil, scan lines can be uniformly spaced ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7233427 | Display system with clock dropping A display system includes a light source 110 and a spatial light modulator 122 located to receive light from the light source. The spatial light modulator (e.g., a DMD) includes a number of independently controllable elements that are activated for a p... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224350 | Video display apparatus and video display method An image display device well suited for a multi-scanning type monitor includes a video signal measurement circuit that detects a horizontal synchronization frequency fH and a vertical synchronization frequency fV from an input image signal that conforms to the GTF S... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7199834 | Vertical synchronizing signal generation apparatus and video signal processing apparatus The vertical sync signal generator includes: a vertical sync signal separation circuit for separating a vertical sync signal of an input luminance signal and outputting the separated signal as a first vertical sync signal; an automatic frequency control circuit for ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187345 | Image forming method and charged particle beam apparatus An image forming method and a charged particle beam apparatus suitable for suppressing the inclination of charging when scanning a two-dimensional area with a charged particle beam. A third scanning line located between a first scanning line and a second scanning li... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7183958 | Sub-ranging digital to analog converter for radiofrequency amplification An apparatus and method for amplifying a radiofrequency signal using a main Digital to Analog Converter (RFDAC) and a subordinate Digital to Analog Converter (Sub-DAC). The main RFDAC provides a first portion of a N-bit digital output, which specifies the amplificat... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7126292 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A deflection coil for deflecting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun is provided outside a cathode-ray tube in which the electron gun is housed, and a phosphor screen is formed. The cathode-ray tube further includes a velocity modulation coil for modulatin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122977 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A prefocus lens section is formed by a screen electrode and an additional electrode. A main lens section is formed by a focus electrode, an anode electrode and an intermediate electrode that is disposed between the focus electrode and the anode electrode. Each of th... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7064501 | Sawtooth line circuit for a cathode ray tube A circuit arrangement is described for generating a sawtooth current in a cathode ray tube deflection coil. The circuit arrangement has a first and a second multiresonant section. The sections are arranged in series. The cathode ray tube deflection coil is part of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057336 | Electron-emitting device, electron source and image-forming apparatus as well as method of manufacturing the same An electron-emitting device comprises a pair of electrodes and an electroconductive film arranged between the electrodes and including an electron-emitting region carrying a graphite film. The graphite film shows, in a Raman spectroscopic analysis using a laser ligh... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054773 | Dynamic model-based compensated tuning of a tunable device A dynamic model of non-linear tuning behavior is used to tune a tunable device. The model quantifies a difference between a tuning characteristic of an ideal device and an actual tuning characteristic of the device. The model adjusts the tuning according to the diff... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050111 | Process and device for synchronizing a reference signal with respect to a video signal A synchronization process may include detecting successive horizontal synchronization pulses of a video signal, and a phase comparison between the successive detected pulses and the successive transitions of the reference signal for controlling the oscillator of the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047014 | Raster-to-vector conversion operations adapted to modeling of RF propagation Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to optimizing vector models for use in modeling RF propagation in desired physical environments. In one embodiment, the present invention can operate on pre-existing vector models. In other implementations, the present inven... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7006026 | Digital-to-analog converting circuit, electrooptical device, and electronic apparatus Aspects of the invention can provide a digital-to-analog converting circuit capable of, after converting digital data into an analog current, correcting the current value based on digital current correction data without any complex processing. The exemplary digital-... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998798 | Digitally controlled vertical S linearity correction with constant amplitude without using an AGC A digitally-controlled vertical S linearity correction with a constant amplitude without using an AGC. To preserve line spacing between horizontal lines toward a top and bottom of a screen a third order correction voltage Vcube is applied to a sweep volta... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6924590 | Color picture tube device with distortion correction coils A color picture tube device has a funnel glass, a pair of horizontal deflection coils, an insulating frame, and a pair of vertical deflection coils. The pair of horizontal deflection coils are opposed to each other in a vertical direction around the outer surface of... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922011 | Deflection system for cathode ray tubes The present invention relates to a display device comprising a cathode ray index tube (1) having a neck portion (1″) and a screen portion (1). The display device comprises an electron gun assembly (3) for generating a plurality of elect... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909428 | Signal converter device The present invention provides a device for signal transfer, which outputs a treatment signal relating to a vertical-horizontal composite sync signal of a monitor and an integrated signal of the vertical-horizontal composite sync signal. There is a plurality of logi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6891340 | Tracking picture tube The present invention relates to a tracking picture tube of the type in which comb-shaped electrodes or optical detecting means (12, 13) are used for generating a signal related to the position of an electron beam with respect to the strips (5). The tu... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6847404 | Video display protection circuit An apparatus and a method for protecting a video display device, having an anode and a cathode, against excessive beam current conditions. In particular, the present invention protects the video display device against zero-biasing of the device, wherein the cathode ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6771030 | Color cathode ray tube apparatus A cathode ray tube apparatus comprises the deflection yoke including a horizontal deflecting coil for deflecting the electron beams in a horizontal direction. The horizontal deflecting coil has a main coil portion located along the direction of a tube axis, a flange... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6737817 | Cathode ray tube apparatus A deflection yoke arranged on an outer part of a funnel of a cathode ray tube includes a holder for housing a ferrite member as a magnetic field correction part for varying a main magnetic field, and the ferrite member is fixed and held by inner walls as resilient m... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6717377 | Circuit and method for reducing east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of a raster display The present disclosure describes a technique for reducing east-west geometry mismatch between the top and bottom of a raster display. This is accomplished by generating a horizontal correction signal that does not have any discontinuities. Since there are no discont... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6704056 | Horizontal deflection circuit and television receiver A video signal conversion part of a horizontal deflection circuit deletes a prescribed number of horizontal scanning lines from a vertical blanking interval of an input video signal and assigns a time corresponding to the deleted horizontal scanning lines... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6686707 | Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic rotational alignment of a cathode ray tube raster A method and apparatus used to step and correct the position of raster lines in a sinusoidal or zig-zag deflection system. By combining the magnetic flux generated with a rotation "twister" coil and a vertical deflection coil, scan lines can be uniformly ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6664746 | Dynamic focusing circuit, picture display device and method of generating a dynamic focusing voltage A dynamic focusing circuit includes a transformer with a primary winding for receiving a line-frequency deflection current and a secondary winding for supplying a transformed deflection current. An integrator, coupled to the secondary winding, generates a... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6661186 | Color cathode ray tube, driving circuit therefor, color image reproducing device employing the driving circuit, and color image reproducing system including the color image reproducing device A color cathode ray tube has an electron gun including three in-line cathodes, first and second grid electrodes arranged in the order named, and plural electrodes for focusing three electron beams from the cathodes onto the phosphor screen. The following ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6630802 | Color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) integrated with deflection circuit Disclosed is a color CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) integrated with deflection circuit. The color CRT includes a sync signal separation and deflection circuit board attached on at least a portion of the color CRT. The sync signal separation and deflection circuit... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6614193 | Deflection current modulation circuit A horizontal deflection circuit generates a horizontal deflection current in a deflection winding, during a trace interval and during a retrace interval of a deflection cycle. A transistor is responsive to a vertical rate parabola signal and to a negative... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6590352 | Electrical grounding of CRT antistatic/antireflective coating The coating on the outer surface the display screen of a cathode ray tube (CRT) includes an inner conductive antistatic layer and an outer antireflective layer. When applied by a wet coating method, e.g., spray or spin coating, the two layers diffuse into... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6577083 | Method and apparatus for vertical S linearity correction with no external components A method and apparatus for vertical S linearity correction with no external components. A periodic waveform may be cubed to produce a second waveform. This second waveform may be sampled to obtain a peak value of the periodic waveform. The peak value may ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6573668 | Color cathode ray tube having a convergence correction apparatus A color cathode ray tube using a self-convergence method is provided with magnets for correcting top/bottom pincushion distortion, and includes a vertical deflection coil and a four-pole coil. The vertical deflection coil generates a first correction fiel... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570349 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A second grid is supplied with a low potential acceleration voltage. A fourth grid and a sixth grid are supplied with a first focus voltage. A third grid and a seventh grid are supplied with a dynamic focus voltage (Vf2+Vd). A prefocus lens having a horiz... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6559609 | Raster center control circuit for CRT-type display device A raster center control circuit for a CRT-type display device that automatically determines a correct horizontal center position of a raster, regardless of a horizontal sync frequency input from a video card. The raster center control circuit includes a h... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6555975 | Cathode-ray tube apparatus A main lens includes a second segment, a sixth grid and an additional electrode disposed between the second segment and the sixth grid. A first-level constant voltage and a second-level constant voltage are applied to the second segment and sixth grid, re... | 04/29/2003 |
