Television – Receiver circuitry – Automatic frequency control
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Miller, John (Department: 2614)
Television
Receiver circuitry
Automatic frequency control
C348S725000, C348S731000, C348S678000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06985192
ABSTRACT:
In a receiver for processing a vestigial sideband modulated signal containing terrestrial broadcast high definition television information and a pilot component, and for which multipath interference can lead to significant attenuation within narrow bands of the received signal spectrum containing the pilot tone of an Advanced Television Systems Committee high definition television broadcast signal, it has been found desirable to amplify the input signal in order to achieve synchronization of the receiver's phase-locked loop to the received pilot tone. Once this initial acquisition has been established, the amplification applied to the received signal can be reduced to a level appropriate for remaining blocks in the demodulation chain without upsetting the pilot tone synchronization. Thus, according to the present invention, the gain applied to the received ATSC VSB signal is set higher during pilot tone acquisition than it is during the remaining stages of demodulation.
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Bouillet Aaron Reel
Stewart John Sidney
Cromarty Brian J.
Shedd Robert D.
Thomson Licensing
Tran Trang U.
Tripoli Joseph S.
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