System to cancel ghosts in NTSC television transmission

Details System to cancel ghosts in NTSC television transmission System to cancel ghosts in NTSC television transmission

1991-09-04

1994-11-01

Groody, James J.

Television

Image signal processing circuitry specific to television

Noise or undesired signal reduction

348614, H04N 5213

Patent

active

053611020

ABSTRACT:
A new technique for channel characterization for Advanced Compatible TV (ACTV) broadcasting systems is hereby proposed that conforms to the current practice of transmitting a ghost cancellation reference (GCR) signal during the vertical blanking interval (VBI). A copy of the GCR signal is stored at the receiver, and is used to extract the effective ghost channel parameters via digital signal processing techniques. A pair of equi-length, binary (.+-.) sequences is said to be complementary if the sum of the linear autocorrelation functions of the sequences is identically zero for all shifts other than zero, and provides a high correlation gain at zero shift. Such sequences can be sequentially transmitted on the allotted VBI line in the appropriate fields, along with pairwise constant signals in the corresponding fields of a basic eighth field sequence. To conform to the positivity constraint of the transmitted signal for NTSC compatible systems, each complementary sequence is transmitted on a pedestal. At the receiver, the effect of the common constant signals are first removed by subtraction and the resultant signals are correlated with each of the two complementary sequences. The output of the correlators are added to directly yield estimates of the channel coefficients.

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