Television – Monitoring – testing – or measuring – Transmission path testing
Patent
1999-03-31
2000-08-29
Hsia, Sherrier
Television
Monitoring, testing, or measuring
Transmission path testing
348193, 348180, H04N 1700
Patent
active
061116033
ABSTRACT:
A portable HDTV testing device inserts a deterministic test signal having a frequency close to the symbol rate of the received HDTV signal. As the received HDTV signal is randomized prior to broadcast for synchronization purposes, the addition of the deterministic test signal to the randomized data signal is essentially equivalent to the addition of a random (or white) noise signal to an information bearing signal. The use of a deterministic test signal avoids the expense associated with a random signal generator, thus making possible an inexpensive and portable HDTV test device. To test the noise margin of a received signal, which is used to determine if the installation of the antenna and HDTV receiver is optimized, the test unit inserts known levels of the noise signal incrementally and measures the bit error rate until the bit error rate exceeds a known threshold above which proper decoding is not possible. The level of the noise signal at which the bit error rate exceeds the known threshold defines the noise margin of the received signal. The higher the noise margin, the stronger the received signal, and the closer to optimum the installation of the HDTV antenna and receiver. Thus, the present invention makes possible an inexpensive and portable HDTV test unit.
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patent: 5282019 (1994-01-01), Basile
patent: 6032019 (2000-02-01), Chen
Kawaberi Seiji
Zhang Yong
Hsia Sherrier
Mayer, Esq. Stuart
Sony Corporation
Sony Electronics Inc.
Wiiliam, Esq. Karin
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