Stereoscopic color television system

Abstract

Five color television cameras take pictures of an object. A video signal from the central camera is transmitted by circuitry substantially the same as the circuitry used in existing color television system. The video signal is subtracted from four video signals from the other cameras, two located on the left side of the central camera and the remaining two on the right side thereof, thus generating four video difference signals. A carrier wave is used of frequency 1/n (n is an integer) of the color sub-carrier frequency, and placed within the lower sideband of the reference frequency of an assigned channel. The spectrum distribution of the wave remains in interleaving relation with the spectrum distribution of a luminance signal from the central camera. The carrier wave is divided into two-phase carrier waves. Each of these carrier waves is divided into a positive halfwave and a negative halfwave. The resultant four halfwaves are amplitude-modulated by the four video difference signals, and the amplitude-modulated halfwaves are superposed one upon another, thus providing a composite wave. The composite wave is band-limited so that it does not exceed the bandwidth of the channel assigned and then transmitted. At the receiving side, five video signals are reproduced. Three electron beams corresponding to the three primary colors, are in synchronism with the five video signals, thereby to reproduce five pictures in stereoscopic relation on the focal plane of a lenticular lens screen.

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