Vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus

Claim 2

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus which generates a vertical deflection waveform for performing a raster scan of a cathode-ray tube, said vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus comprising: storing means in which waveform information of said vertical deflection waveform is represented and stored as a function having a parameter representing a scanning order of each respective horizontal scanning line in said raster scan, said function being a function in which vertical linearity of said raster scan is corrected; and vertical deflection waveform generating means for generating said vertical deflection waveform by substituting each respective scanning order of respective horizontal scanning lines in said parameter of said function, and for calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage, for each horizontal scanning line.

Claim 3

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising horizontal synchronizing signal detecting means for detecting a horizontal synchronizing signal in said raster scan, wherein said vertical deflection waveform generating means generates said vertical deflection waveform by sequentially calculating a vertical deflection voltage corresponding to the next horizontal scanning line at each time when a horizontal synchronizing signal is fed to said vertical deflection waveform generating means.

Claim 4

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said vertical deflection waveform generating means generates a step-wise sawtooth waveform by sequentially subtracting a predetermined value from a vertical deflection voltage corresponding to a horizontal scanning line.

Claim 5

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a low-pass filter which smooths a step-wise sawtooth waveform output from said vertical deflection waveform generating means.

Claim 6

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said vertical deflection waveform generating means generates a vertical deflection waveform depending upon an input vertical position and an input vertical width of said raster scan.

Claim 7

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said vertical deflection waveform generating means includes a digital signal processor, and wherein said horizontal synchronizing signal detecting means detects a horizontal synchronizing signal by an interrupt handling program of said digital signal processor.

Claim 8

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising vertical synchronizing signal detecting means for detecting a vertical synchronizing signal from said raster scan, wherein said vertical deflection waveform is generated in every other frame of said raster scan by substituting each respective scanning order of said horizontal scanning lines in said parameter, and calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage for each horizontal scanning line when a predetermined period of time elapses after said vertical synchronizing signal is detected by said vertical synchronizing signal detecting means, and wherein said vertical deflection waveform is generated in the other frames by substituting each respective scanning order of said horizontal scanning lines in said parameter, and calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage for each horizontal scanning line immediately after said vertical synchronizing signal is detected by said vertical synchronizing signal detecting means.

Claim 9

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said function is a function which can be expressed as follows: ##EQU5## where A is a vertical width of said raster scan, B is a vertical position of said raster scan, C is a parameter for controlling a vertical linearity correction amount of said raster scan, n i is a scanning order, n T is a number of all scanning lines, and Y is output voltage.

Claim 10

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said function is a function which can be expressed as follows: ##EQU6## where A is a vertical width of said raster scan, B is a vertical position of said raster scan, C is a parameter for controlling a vertical linearity correction amount of said raster scan, n i is a scanning order, n T is a number of all scanning lines, and Y is output voltage.

Claim 11

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising vertical synchronizing signal detecting means for detecting a vertical synchronizing signal for said raster scan, wherein said vertical deflection waveform generating means generates said vertical deflection waveform by substituting each respective scanning order of said horizontal scanning lines in said parameter, and calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage for each horizontal scanning line when a predetermined number of horizontal synchronizing signals are detected after said vertical synchronizing signal is detected by said vertical synchronizing signal detecting means.

Claim 12

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus which generates a vertical deflection waveform raster performing a raster scan of a cathode-ray tube, said vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus comprising: first storing means in which vertical deflection voltage values corresponding to a subset of scanning lines of a plurality of horizontal scanning lines of said raster scan are stored; second storing means in which waveform information of a vertical deflection waveform corresponding to scanning lines interposed between said subset of scanning lines is represented and stored as functions having a parameter representing a scanning order of each respective one said plurality of horizontal scanning lines in said raster scan, said functions being functions in which vertical linearity of said raster scan are corrected; and vertical deflection waveform generating means for generating said vertical deflection waveform by substituting each respective scanning order of respective horizontal scanning lines in said parameter, and calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage, for each horizontal scanning line.

Claim 13

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus which generates a vertical deflection waveform raster performing a raster scan of a cathode-ray tube, said vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus comprising: first storing means in which vertical deflection voltage values corresponding to a subset of scanning lines of a plurality of horizontal scanning lines of said raster scan are stored; second storing means in which waveform information of a vertical deflection waveform corresponding to scanning lines interposed between said subset of scanning lines is represented and stored as functions having a parameter representing a scanning order of each respective one said plurality of horizontal scanning lines in said raster scan, said functions being functions in which vertical linearity of said raster scan are corrected; and vertical deflection waveform generating means for generating said vertical deflection waveform by substituting each respective scanning order of respective horizontal scanning lines in said parameter, and calculating vertical deflection waveform voltage, for each horizontal scanning line.

Claim 14

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said functions are functions representing straight lines.

Claim 15

A vertical deflection waveform generating apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said subset of horizontal scanning lines are sampled relatively infrequently from a raster intermediate portion, and relatively frequently from raster upper and lower portions.