摘要:
Data communications apparatus and methods employing a bidirectional low bandwidth channel and a unidirectional high bandwidth channel. A PC is coupled to an information source by a communications system which provides both a bidirectional low bandwidth channel between the PC and the information source and a high bandwidth channel in which the information source is the source and the PC is the sink. A component of the communications system termed the director responds to a message received in the low bandwidth channel by switching the information being sent from the information source to the PC to the high or low bandwidth channel as specified in the message. The message may come either from the PC or the information source. A graphical user interface at the PC provides the user with "buttons" to specify the bandwidth. The apparatus and methods may be advantageously employed to provide telecommuting services.
摘要:
Reproduction accuracy of, for example a digital stereo audio signal, is improved by transmitting sample data as sub-signals such as frequency subband signals. In one or more subbands, corresponding components such as left and right stereo channels are combined so that only one composite signal is transmitted per subband. An indicator signal is transmitted, indicating which subbands are combined. Scale factor signals for all subbands, and for the relative intensity of the respective subband signals which were combined, may also be transmitted. In the receiver a subband signal is derived for each channel from the composite signal, before synthesis of the full channel signals which will be reproduced.
摘要:
In a circuit for a demodulator of a radio data signal in a radio receiver, the multiplex signal in digital form is mixed into the baseband, in two phase positions shifted 90.degree. with respect to each other, after band-pass filtering, together with a reference carrier generated at a sampling clock rate produced in the radio receiver, thus producing a first and a second mix signal. A first and a second auxiliary signal with, respectively, a sine waveform and a cosine waveform are produced. The first mix signal is multiplied by the first auxiliary signal, and the second mix signal by the second auxiliary signal. The results of these multiplications are added together, producing a first output signal. The first mix signal is multiplied by the second auxiliary signal, and the second mix signal by the first auxiliary signal, and the results subtracted from each other, thus producing a second output signal. The phase position of the auxiliary signals is controlled in such a manner that the first output signal corresponds to the radio data signal (RDS) shifted down into the baseband.
摘要:
In a demodulator for radio data signals the transmission of which is made by phase-keying of a suppressed subcarrier the occurence of transient times is avoided in that the received signal of subcarrier frequency is transformed into a first square wave signal (A) and that a second square wave signal of subcarrier of frequency is formed which is brought into such a time relationship to the first square wave signal that by means of a comparison of both square wave signals a phase information for the first square wave signal (A) is obtained. Demodulator can be implemented by means of only digital components.
摘要:
A radio broadcasting system for a composite signal consisting of a frequency modulated (fm) analog signal and a multicarrier modulated digital signal is provided which is resistive to multipath degradation. The fm signal and the digital multicarrier modulated signal are fully coherent. The digital signal uses a plurality of carriers having a maximum amplitude at least 20 dB below the unmodulated fm signal. The multicarrier modulated signal is phase locked to a recovered analog fm pilot tone in the composite baseband spectrum of the fm signal which is at least 20 dB above the multicarrier modulated signal, which enables rapid and reliable acquisition of signal for coherent detection. In a specific embodiment the multicarrier modulated signal is a synthesized vector-modulated signal which is a quadrature phase shift keyed (QPSK) modulated set of synthesized carriers each occupying 9.5 kHz of spectrum replicated twenty-one times within a 199.5 kHz bandwidth with no more than two bits per vector. An efficient channel coding consisting of high efficiency block coding, such as BCH 255, 239 code, is employed in connection with time interleaving of bits to mitigate the effects of frequency selective multipath and broadband multipath. The broadcast system is designed to be used in support of compressed digital audio programming material. In demodulation, a demodulator is phased-locked to the recovered high-amplitude analog pilot tone to coherently demodulate the digital signal, to deinterleave, to decode the block encoded signal and to format the recovered data stream for source decoding.
摘要:
A novel receiver for subcarriers in a radio broadcasting system is described, in which the characteristic frequency of the mixing oscillator is varied under program control. An incoming signal from antenna 1 passes through an input stage 2 to a mixing stage 3. Mixing stage 3 receives the output of an oscillator 4. The output of the mixing stage passes into an intermediate frequency filter stage 5, which preferably includes A/D converters 13 and demultiplexers 14. Stage 5 feeds a plurality of demodulators 6, which may include equalizers 12. Buffer memories 7 store information from demodulated subcarrier signals, and feed an evaluation unit 8. Evaluation unit 8 has a first output which drives a speaker 9 and a second output which is applied to a memory 11. A control unit 10, connected to the output of memory 11, controls the frequency generated by mixing oscillator 4. This system facilitates digital signal transmission by compensating for poor transmission conditions which would otherwise cause serious dropouts in the digital signal.
摘要翻译:描述了在无线电广播系统中用于副载波的新型接收机,其中混频振荡器的特征频率在程序控制下变化。 来自天线1的输入信号通过输入级2到混合级3.混合级3接收振荡器4的输出。混合级的输出进入中频滤波器级5,其优选地包括A / D 转换器13和解复用器14.阶段5馈送多个解调器6,其可以包括均衡器12.缓冲存储器7存储来自解调的子载波信号的信息,并馈送评估单元8.评估单元8具有驱动扬声器9的第一输出 以及施加到存储器11的第二输出。连接到存储器11的输出的控制单元10控制由混频振荡器4产生的频率。该系统通过补偿不利的传输条件来促进数字信号传输,否则将导致 严重的数字信号丢失。
摘要:
An SCA receiver is provided which has a close to ideal passband characteristic which greatly improves frequency response to produce a brighter sound due to the use of ceramic resonator elements. The use of ceramic resonator elements and a superheterodyne approach also provides a receiver which can be rapidly aligned and which has improved noise protection, lower distortion, increased stability, less residual subcarrier in the audio, and more consistent performance from one unit to the next. In one embodiment the superheterodynes circuit operates at 455 kHz which up-converts the usual 67 kHz signal by mixing it with the output of a ceramic resonator controlled local oscillator/mixer. The ceramic resonator and ceramic filter along with the local oscillator/mixer I.C. provides low group delay, improved impulse noise rejection, while most importantly achieving at least an order of magnitude better audio response over the signal bandwidth. Moreover, in the manufacturing process, complicated alignment is eliminated which decreases the alignment time from as much as two hours to typically under two minutes.
摘要:
A binary encoded phase modulated signal (biphase signal) is demodulated by determining the period of time (T) elapsing between each two successive jumps in the level of the biphase signal; providing a clock frequency (B) approximately corresponding to the bit rate of the biphase signal with the aid of a clock generator; comparing the clock duration (1/B) of the clock frequency with the period of time (T) between each two jumps in level; and, with the aid of a sample and hold circuit controlled by the clock frequency (B), always ascertaining the logical value of the biphase signal and emitting a signal corresponding to the logical value whenever, immediately prior to a bit period, twice in succession, a value between 1/4 and 3/4 of 1/B is ascertained for the period of time (T), or a value between 3/4 and 5/4 of 1/B is ascertained for the period of time (T). Additionally, a signal characterizing interference can be emitted, or the output can be suppressed, if a value less than 1/4 of 1/B or greater than 5/4 of 1/B is ascertained as the period of time (T). This makes it possible, in the presence of a biphase signal, to recover the original data with high security in a relatively simple manner.
摘要:
A broadcast receiver is capable of selecting a broadcast station based upon a user selected program format and the geographical location of the receiver. The receiver includes a memory storing a database of information relating to frequencies of broadcast stations broadcasting into particular geographical locations and the program format of each such broadcast frequency. After a user inputs the geographical location of the receiver and a desired program format, the database may be scanned to select a broadcast frequency corresponding to the input geographical location and program format for retrieval. This selected frequency is used to tune the receiver. The geographical location, identification information, and program format for the selected frequency are then visually displayed.
摘要:
An FM-receiver with transmitter characterization, having a tuning unit, an IF-amplifier, a demodulation circuit for demodulating a discrete transmitter characterization signal, a clock regeneration circuit, a decoding device for decoding the discrete transmitter characterization signal and a signal processing unit. The clock regeneration circuit regenerates a clock signal the period of which is obtained by dividing the frequency of the stereo pilot signal. Synchronization of the clock signal phase with the phase of the clock signal used in the transmitter is carried out by detecting, using of a periodic window signal, the average phase of the code edges in the discrete transmitter characterization signal and by choosing the phase of the regenerated clock signal to be equal thereto.