Color temperature control circuit

• US 4,346,399 A
• Filed: 02/04/1981
• Issued: 08/24/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okada, Takashi, Tanaka, Yutaka, Akutagawa, Touru
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, John C.
• Application Number:
  US06/231,438
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 358/29, 358/32, 358/65
• US Class Current: 348/656
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/73 Colour balance circuits, e.g. white balance circuits or colour temperature control camera processing pipelines for colour balance H04N23/88

Abstract

A color temperature control circuit for a color television receiver having a color decoder circuit supplied with a composite video signal and for generating red, green and blue primary color signals at its output terminals, a video output circuit for amplifying the three primary color signals, a tri-color cathode ray tube having three control electrodes adapted to receive the three primary color signals from the video output circuit, and a circuit arrangement connected between the color decoder circuit and the video output circuit, in which the circuit arrangement has the same transfer function for all three primary color signals when the input signals are below a predetermined level and a transfer function for the blue primary color signal larger than that for the red primary color signal when input signal levels of the blue and red primary color signals are larger than the predetermined level.

Claims

1. A color temperature control circuit for a color television receiver, comprising:

(A) a color decoder circuit supplied with a composite video signal and for generating red, green and blue primary color signals at its outputs;

(B) a video output circuit for amplifying said three primary color signals;

(C) a tri-color cathode ray tube having three control electrodes adapted to receive said three primary color signals from said video output circuit; and

(D) a circuit arrangement connected between said color decoder circuit and said video output circuit, said circuit arrangement having the same transfer function for all three primary color signals when the input signals are below a predetermined level and having a transfer function for the blue primary color signal larger than that for the red primary color signal when input signal levels of said blue and red primary color signals are larger than said predetermined level.

2. A color temperature control circuit according to claim 1, wherein said circuit arrangement has the transfer function for the green primary signal between those of the blue and red primary color signals when three primary color signals are larger than said predetermined level.

3. A color temperature control circuit according to claim 1, wherein said circuit arrangement comprises a switching circuit in a red primary color signal channel, said switching circuit being conductive when an input red primary color signal is larger than the predetermined level so that the transfer function for the red primary color signal decreases.

4. A color temperature control circuit according to claim 3, wherein said switching circuit is a diode one terminal of which is connected to the voltage source corresponding to said predetermined level.