Color picture-in-picture television receiver

• US 4,278,993 A
• Filed: 11/13/1979
• Issued: 07/14/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Masinick, M. A.
• Application Number:
  US06/093,675
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 358/22, 358/181, 358/182, 358/183
• US Class Current: 348/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/641 Multi-purpose receivers, e.g. for auxiliary information H04N9/642 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 348/91 Flicker reduction

Abstract

A system for inserting a reduced picture of a first channel broadcast into a picture of a second channel broadcast on a single screen in a picture-in-picture television receiver. First and second video signal chains are provided. A first group of three memories connects to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a first field of video signals of the first channel broadcast. A second group of three memories is connected to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a second field of the video signals of the first channel broadcast. With the disclosed system, picture flicker problems are solved and the horizontal resolution is improved.

Claims

1. A system for inserting a reduced picture of a first channel broadcast into a picture of a second channel broadcast on a single screen in a picture-in-picture television receiver, comprising:

a first tuner, I.F., video detector, and decoder chain for producing video signals of said first channel broadcast;

a second tuner, I.F., video detector, and decoder chain for producing video signals of said second channel broadcast;

a first group of three memories connected to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a first field of video signals of said first channel broadcast;

a second group of three memories connected to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a second field of the video signals of said first channel broadcast;

control means for writing in one of said R, G and B signals into a corresponding one of said first group of three memories and the remaining two of said R, G and B signals into a corresponding remaining two of said first group of three memories during said first field by first and second trains of writing pulses, respectively, the second train of pulses being opposite in phase to the first train;

during said second field said control means writing in said one of the R, G and B signals into one of the second group of three memories and said remaining two of the R, G and B signals being written into a corresponding remaining two of said second group of three memories during the second field by said second train and said first train, respectively.

2. A system according to claim 1, in which said memories comprise current-transfer elements.

3. A system according to claim 2, in which said current-transfer elements comprise a Charge-Coupled Device.

4. A system according to claim 2, in which said current-transfer elements comprise a Bucket-Brigade Device.

5. A system according to claim 2, in which said current-transfer elements are arranged in Serial-Parallel-Serial construction with a plurality of said current-transfer elements arranged in parallel to one another.

6. A system according to claim 1, in which said means for writing in forms said writing pulses from synchronizing signals of said first and second channel broadcast video signals.

7. A system for inserting a reduced picture of a first channel broadcast into a picture of a second channel broadcast on a single screen in a picture-in-picture television receiver, comprising:

a first tuner, I.F, video detector, and decorder chain for producing video signals of said first channel broadcast;

a second tuner, I.F, video detector, and decoder chain for producing video signals of said second channel broadcast;

a first group of three memories connected to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a first field of video signals of said first channel broadcast;

a second group of three memories connected to the first chain for memorizing R, G and B signals obtained from a second field of the video signals of said first channel broadcast;

control means providing a first train of writing pulses for writing in during a first field one of said R, G and B signals into a corresponding one of said first group of three memories and a second train of writing pulses opposite to the first train writing in the remaining two of said R, G and B signals into a corresponding remaining two of said first group of three memories during said first field;

said control means during the second field writing in said one of said R, G and B signals with the second pulse train into a corresponding one of said second group of three memories, and writing in with the first pulse train said remaining two of the R, G and B signals into the corresponding remaining two of said second group of three memories during the second field.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the control means is synchronized by horizontal and vertical synchronization signals from the first and second channel broadcast.