Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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JF I Al Fig. 10. Circuitry in the high The automatic brightness control circuit, Fig. 12, is a means of automatically adjusting brightness on a cathode-ray tube, utilizing the varying plate voltage of the video output tube to adjust automatically the accelerator voltage on the accelerator grid AG of the cathode-ray tube CRT. This automatic adjustment not only maintains the greatest amount of highlight brilliance at any amount of video signal input, but also prevents the cathode-ray tube from blooming, that is, it prevents abnormal enlargement of picture or raster. This in effect is accomplished by varying the accelerator 132 August 1952 Journal of the SMPTE Vol. 59