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Picture control for television receiver on-screen display

CA 1189949 A · Owner: Rca Corporation · Inventors: Shanley, Robert L. Ii

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Apparatus for simultaneously controlling the contrast of broadcast color video signal information and auxiliary color graphics information displayed by the kinescope of a color television receiver. Plural kinescope color signal coupling paths receive color video signals a white drive graphics signal which is applied in common to the plural signal paths with a sense for enabling the kinescope to display color graphics information during graphics intervals, and plural blanking signals which are separately applied to the color signal paths for selectively blanking the outputs of the signal paths to determine the color of displayed graphics information. A picture control signal simultaneously …

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  • Granted July 2, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 2, 2002.
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FiledNovember 12, 1982
GrantedJuly 2, 1985
Term endedJuly 2, 2002
Patent numberCA 1189949 A
Classification (IPC)H04N5/44 +2 more

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1983198519871989199119931995199719992001Application filedNov 12, 1982Patent grantedJuly 2, 1985Term endedJuly 2, 2002

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