Papal cross Papal cross The papal cross is a Christian cross, which serves as an emblem for the office of the Pope in ecclesiastical heraldry. It is depicted as a staff with three horizontal bars near the top, in diminishing order of length as the top is approached. The cross is thus analogous to the two-barred archiepiscopal cross used in heraldry to indicate an archbishop, and seems to have been used precisely to indicate an ecclesiastical rank still higher than that of archbishop. In the past, this design of the cross was often used in ecclesiastical heraldry as a distinctive mark of
Horizontal blanking interval time. This part of the line display process is the Horizontal Blank. In detail, the Horizontal blanking interval consists of: In the NTSC television standard, horizontal blanking occupies (17.2%) out of every scan line. In PAL, it occupies (18.8%) out of every scan line. In the PAL television standard, the blanking level corresponds to the black level, whilst other standards, most notably NTSC, set the black level slightly above the blanking level on a 'pedestal'. Some graphics systems can count horizontal blanks and change how the display is generated during this blank time in the signal; this is called a