Patent
1974-09-09
1976-03-09
Griffin, Robert L.
325453, 325468, H04B 116
Patent
active
039434494
ABSTRACT:
An electronic all channel television tuning system has a presettable counter for deriving the number of the receivable television channel by counting, on a continuing sample basis, the varactor diode tuner local oscillator frequency. The derived channel number is supplied as an input of a comparator which includes separate tens and units channel number comparison sections. A channel number selector supplies an encoded desired channel number to another input of the comparator and to a frequency band decoder which establishes appropriate preset information for the counter. The system local oscillator frequency is varied by a voltage ramp circuit having two pairs of matched current sources and sinks of different capacity for supplying current, through respective transmission gates, to charge or discharge a tuning capacitor at different rates. A difference in the tens section of the comparator activates the transmission gates for both the larger and smaller capacity source-sink pairs, producing the high ramp speed. After equality in the tens digits only one of the small capacity source-sink pair is activated, under control of the units section of the comparator, to produce the low ramp speed.
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Hendrickson Melvin C.
Merrell Richard G.
Camasto Nicholas A.
Downey Joseph T.
Griffin Robert L.
Ng Jin F.
Zenith Radio Corporation
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