Pulse or digital communications – Receivers – Automatic frequency control
Patent
1998-05-01
2000-10-10
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Receivers
Automatic frequency control
4551822, 4551922, 4551923, H04L 2706
Patent
active
061309222
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for demodulating digital video broadcast signals with an improved mechanism for automatic frequency control including data modulated on a multiplicity of spaced carrier frequencies. The apparatus includes an analog to digital converter for providing a series of digital samples of the broadcast signal, a Fourier Transformer for analyzing the samples to provide a series of data signal values for each carrier frequency, signal processor for processing the series of data signal values including the phase-error-correcter, and automatic frequency controller for controlling the frequency of the signals input to the Fourier Transformer. The automatic frequency controller includes coarse frequency controller for controlling the frequency in terms of increments of the carrier spacing frequency, and fine frequency controller for controlling the frequency for values less than a single carrier spacing frequency interval. The coarse frequency controller includes a recursive filter for assessing a predetermined number (N) of carrier signals on either side of the nominal position of a predetermined continual pilot signal, to determine which signal best represents the continual pilot signal, whereby to determine the coarse frequency error.
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Clarke Christopher Keith Perry
Guyot Jean-Marc
Haffenden Oliver Paul
Mitchell Justin David
Regis Lauret
Chin Stephen
Jiang Lenny
LSI Logic Corporation
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