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A precursor to the SMPTE test pattern was conceived by Norbert D. Larky (1927–2018) [5] [6] and David D. Holmes (1926–2006) [7] [8] of RCA Laboratories and first published in RCA Licensee Bulletin LB-819 on February 7, 1951. U.S. patent 2,742,525 Color Test Pattern Generator (now expired) was awarded on April 17, 1956, to Larky and Holmes. [9]
Test cards typically contain a set of patterns to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly (see SMPTE color bars).Most modern test cards include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of "dot landings" on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds.
The RCA TK-1C monoscope camera that generated the test pattern. Television stations would produce the image of the Indian-head test pattern in two ways. First, they would use a monoscope in which the pattern was permanently embedded, which was capable of producing the image with a high degree of consistency due to the device's simplicity.
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As Televisión Española adopted the PAL colour system in 1975, [4] [5] the test card has specific elements that allow proper colour adjustments. Being a creation of the same team behind the Philips PM5544 test card, [8] [9] it has many elements in common with it (like colour and grey bars or castellations [10]), but introduces some differences (for example, different resolution gratings and ...
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The content and layout of the original colour circle pattern was designed by Danish engineer Finn Hendil (1939–2011) [1] in the Philips TV & Test Equipment laboratory in Amager (moved to Brøndby Municipality in 1989) near Copenhagen under supervision of chief engineer Erik Helmer Nielsen in 1966–67, largely building on their previous work ...