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7599003 Data slicer, data slicing method, and amplitude evaluation value setting method  
A data slicer 300 includes a slice level calculation unit 310 that determines whether a detected digital video signal is a CRI signal on the basis of the amplitude of the signal, and sets a...
7555066 E8-VSB reception system  
An E8-VSB reception system system is provided. A VSB receiver converts a received broadcast signal into a digital baseband signal in synchronization with a first symbol clock, converts a decision...
7554609 Method and apparatus for detecting and rejecting NTSC Interference in ATSC system  
A method and apparatus for rejecting an interference signal from an input frequency spectrum. The method includes the steps of receiving the input signal; frequency-shifting the received input...
7405770 Adaptive equalization method and system for reducing noise and distortion in a sampled video signal  
An adaptive equalization method and system for reducing noise and distortion in a sampled video signal improves the quality of output video information in both consumer and professional...
7375741 Circuit and method for eliminating image interfering with desired channel  
A circuit and a method for eliminating interference introduced from an image channel into a desired channel is described. The circuit includes a splitter and an adder. The splitter generates...
7359474 Clock recovery circuit and clock-recovering filter circuit  
There is provided a clock-recovering filter circuit for use in a clock recovery circuit that generates a recovery clock signal from input data from an external device and a reference clock signal....
7359437 Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link  
A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to...
7346356 Method and communication unit for use in a wideband wireless communications system  
A technique is used in a wideband wireless communication system ( 100 ). In some embodiments available channels are determined ( 310 ) and one is selected ( 315 ) for assignment to each of a set of...
7313208 Pre-equalization for low-cost DTV translators  
A low cost DTV translator, which translates an incoming signal on channel A to an outgoing signal on channel B, includes a transmitter pre-equalizer whose taps are configured with tap values that...
7312833 Channel equalizing apparatus and method for digital television receiver  
Disclosed is a channel equalizing apparatus and method for a digital television receiver that performs channel equalization using equalizing algorithms. The channel equalizing apparatus includes a...
7307665 Method and system for generating reference signals with improved correlation characteristics for accurate time of arrival or position determination  
The present invention provides a method and system for generating reference signals that, when correlated with synchronization code signals or other components of broadcast TV signals, yield...
7098960 Data slicer, data slicing method, and amplitude evaluation value setting method  
A data slicer 300 includes a slice level calculation unit 310 that determines whether a detected digital video signal is a CRI signal on the basis of the amplitude of the signal, and sets a...
7015981 Television signal transmitter capable of eliminating occurrence of adverse influences caused by interference signals  
A television signal transmitter is arranged by a first frequency converter for up-converting an input signal into an intermediate frequency signal, and a second frequency converter for...
7015979 Noisy edge removal for video transmission  
A method for removing noise from a video input, prior to encoding includes receiving a frame of a video signal, identifying noise within the frame, and eliminating the noise from the frame. The...
6999634 Spatio-temporal joint filter for noise reduction  
A spatio-temporal joint filter and a spatial joint filter for noise reduction are disclosed. The spatio-temporal joint filter includes a spatial joint filter including the first and second sub...
6839433 Method and apparatus for generating a signal that defeats illegal cable decoders  
Illegal cable decoders, i.e., black boxes, are defeated by adding, inserting and/or superimposing an added signal onto an already scrambled video signal, which added signal is capable of disrupting...
6822625 Image processing device  
Picture processing apparatus has a pixel judgment circuit and a pixel correction circuit. The pixel judgment circuit includes a target pixel detection circuit for detecting a target pixel having a...
6816203 Method and apparatus for isolating noise from a tuner in a television signal receiver  
An apparatus ( 100 ) for isolating a noise intolerant device ( 110 ) from a source of noise includes a digital bus ( 104/105 ). A processor ( 101 ) outputs clock signals and first data signals and...
6807676 Methods of formatting data to maximize the readability and the amount of song identification information displayed on a limited number of lines  
A method of formatting data to maximize the readability of song identification (ID) information displayed on a monitor screen and a method of formatting data to maximize the amount of song ID...
6795588 Noise detector, noise detection method, signal processor and signal processing method  
A ringing detector detects mosquito noise and ringing for outputting an image signal smoothed by a horizontal/vertical high-pass filter when mosquito noise and ringing are detected while outputting...
6760078 Digital filtering of DTV I-F signal to avoid low-end boost of the baseband signal resulting from in-phase synchrodyne  
In a radio receiver for digital television signals a digital filter supplies the in-phase synchrodyning circuitry a shaped spectral response to the digitized I-F signal. The...
6744474 Recursive metric for NTSC interference rejection in the ATSC-HDTV trellis decoder  
In a system for receiving a signal containing digital data representing HDTV image information in the form of multilevel symbols formatted into groups of successive fields, each field comprising a...
6665019 Method and apparatus for spread spectrum clocking of digital video  
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention a spread spectrum pixel clock signal is generated to spread out the frequency bandwidth within which the peak emission of an electromagnetic...
6556249 Jitter cancellation technique for video clock recovery circuitry  
A method and apparatus for compensating for time base or phase errors in video and audio signals that are separately stored or processed. A ring oscillator provides a plurality of clock signals,...
6519007 Video data transmitting method  
A video data transmitting method fortransmittin a video data from a transmitter to a receiver comprises the steps of dividing one screenful of video data into specified rectangular areas,...
6480233 NTSC co-channel interference detectors responsive to received Q-channel signals in digital TV signal receivers  
An NTSC co-channel interference detector ( 44 ) detects the presence of an interfering NTSC signal in the received Q-channel signal that is orthogonal to the received I-channel signal, rather than...
6456316 Apparatus for judging if co-channel interference exists in digital TV receiver  
An apparatus for judging if a co-channel interference exists in a digital TV receiver is disclosed. The TV receiver includes a comb filter for removing NTSC interference of input data, and a...
6449002 Truncated metric for NTSC interference rejection in the ATSC-HDTV trellis decoder  
In a system for receiving a signal containing digital data representing HDTV image information in the form of multilevel symbols formatted into groups of successive fields, each field comprising a...
6426780 DTV receiver with low-band final I-F signal filtered for suppressing co-channel interfering NTSC audio carrier  
A digital television receiver converts very-high-frequency intermediate-frequency digital television signal to a band with uppermost frequency in the lower portion of the high-frequency range. This...
6388701 Device and method for removing co-channel interference signal in modulation/demodulation receiver having reference signal  
A modulation/demodulation receiver having a reference signal in a digital communication system. A method for signal processing and co-channel interference signal removal in the receiver includes...
6339450 Error resilient transcoding for video over wireless channels  
A method and system for maintaining the quality of video transported over wireless channels uses a transcoder to modify and maintain the optical resilience of an encoded bitstream. The transcoder...
6335767 Broadcast transmission system with distributed correction  
A transmission system ( 14 ) broadcasts an information signal. Within the system ( 14 ), several components (e.g., 20-24 ) cause distortion to the information signal as the signal is processed and...
6335766 System and method for transmitting advanced television signals  
A system and method for transmitting advanced television signals such as digital television signals. The system and method controls the frequency of the RF signal by compensating for errors in the...
6333767 Radio receivers for receiving both VSB and QAM digital television signals with carriers offset by 2.69 MHz  
A radio receiver uses the same tuner for receiving a selected digital television (DTV) signal, irrespective of whether it is a quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) or a vestigial sideband (VSB)...
6285412 Adaptive pre-equalization apparatus for correcting linear distortion of a non-ideal data transmission system  
An adaptive apparatus (10) for compensating a linear distorting action to an information signal within a non-ideal transmission system (12). Within the system (12), an information signal proceeds...
6281935 System and method for controlling a transmitter frequency  
A system and method for controlling the frequency of a signal being transmitted wherein the frequency of the signal received at the transmitter site is error corrected before being broadcast. The...
6266096 Digital encoding method and apparatus for replacing part of the data signal with synthetically generated amplitude values  
For a method of encoding digital data of arbitrary data rates of at least one data signal for jointly transmitting the encoded data with a digital picture signal, as well as a data encoder for such...
6201563 Trellis code modulation decoder structure for advanced digital television receiver  
An ATV receiver is provided with a 16-state trellis decoder to achieve improved performance in the presence of NTSC co-channel interference. In one embodiment, the ATV receiver comprises a tuner, a...
RE36980 Partial response trellis decoder for high definition television (HDTV) system  
A partial response Trellis decoder that performs Trellis coded modulation in a high definition television (HDTV) having a specific and detailed configuration and includes a distance mapper for...
6057877 NTSC interference detectors using pairs of comb filters with zero-frequency responses, as for DTV receivers  
A first comb filter differentially combines an I- or Q-channel baseband signal supplied as input signal to a co-channel NTSC interference detector for a DTV receiver with that signal as subjected...
5923374 Method and apparatus for reduced-bandwidth transmission of television signals  
A system for reducing bandwidth of video signals. Ordinarily, an NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) video signal has (a) a bandwidth of 6.0 MHz, (b) chrominance and luminance carriers...
5894334 Carrier recovery system for a vestigial sideband signal  
A television signal receiver for processing an HDTV signal transmitted in a vestigial sideband (VSB) format includes input complex filters shared by a timing recovery network (30) and a carrier...
5878086 Method and apparatus for producing a deterministic sequence from an IIR filter  
A method and apparatus for improved interference rejection, where the rejection is being accomplished by an IIR filter at the transmitter with complementary characteristics to an FIR filter of the...
5859664 Method and apparatus for line or frame-synchronous frequency hopping of video transmissions  
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving frequency hopped video signals is disclosed. A composite video signal is processed at a transmission end to remove line and frame...
5844478 Program specific information formation for digital data processing  
Program specific information (PSI) is formed suitable for use in recovering data content of a program in the form of a packetized datastream. Packet identifiers (PIDs) that identify individual...
5828404 VSB mode detection system with comb filter  
A VSB mode detection circuit with a comb filter solves the potential problem of lockout in a situation where an 8 VSB mode signal is being received, with the comb filter being effective, and a...
5825435 Color cathrode ray tube and display device  
By selecting the number of apertures per vertical row in the shadow mask of a color cathode ray tube to be in the range between 615 and 650, such a cathode ray tube can be used both in a PAL, an...
5821988 NTSC co-channel interference reduction system  
A digital television receiver operating in the presence of an NTSC co-channel signal includes an NTSC rejection filter that is selectively inserted in the digital television signal path to minimize...
5793417 Apparatus and method of controlling driving selection of NTSC rejection filter  
When both an NTSC signal and an ATV signal are concurrently broadcast in a co-channel, it is desirable to remove the NTSC signal at the receiver when reproducing the broadcast ATV signal, since the...
5757436 Image processor system  
An image-processor system for compensating for accumulated phase-and-gain errors incurred during transmission of a video signal over a communications channel. The image-processor system comprises...
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