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Video response testing apparatus

  • US 4,608,601 A
  • Filed: 07/11/1983
  • Issued: 08/26/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Video response testing apparatus comprising video display apparatus including a display screen and for displaying video pictures on the screen, a generator for generating video signals, including a luminance signal, for display by the display apparatus of corresponding video pictures, the generator including picture area defining means for defining at least one selected area of the video picture represented by the video signals, modulation means responsive to the picture area defining means and arranged for modulating the luminance signal of the video signals, to alternately raise and lower the luminance level represented by the luminance signal in said at least one selected area without destroying the original luminance signal spacial variations across said area, whereby the original picture content in said area represented by said original luminance signal spacial variations is not destroyed, encoding means controlling the modulation means to raise and lower said luminance level in accordance with a desired binary code, the rate of alternate raising and lowering of said luminance level and the selection of code formats being such as to make the code visually undecipherable when viewed on the display screen, and a sensing probe including a photo sensitive element, the probe being positionable to enable the element to respond to variations in picture brightness in said selected area on the display screen and including decoding circuitry arranged to decode the binary code represented by said variations to provide decoded data.

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