Abstract:
The AM receiver comprises an input stage(11, 12) for receiving the compatible stereo signal of (I+L+R)cos(Wct+0) and translating the signal to an intermediate frequency signal. A detector(16) is coupled to the input stage for providing the output signal which is proportional to the (L-R)cos. A corrector circuit(17, 22, 23, 25) which is coupled to the detector(16) provides a correctional signal for use in restoring exact sum and difference signals.
Abstract:
The improved compatible AM stereophonic receiver has the parts for providing compensation signals proportioning the angle &phgr;. The parts comprises a limiter(34) for limiting the amplitude modulation components of the output signals(66b) of the amplifier(65), a multiplier(35) for multiplying the outputs of limiter(34) and phase shifter(73) for shifting the output of VCO(36) and a compensation cct(37). The outputs of the phase shifter(73) and the multiplier(35) are applied to the compensation cct(37). The outputs(95) of the compensation cct., whose value is divided the reference voltage output from the VCO(36) by cos&phgr;, is applied to the input stages of phase shifter(38)(39).
Abstract:
Apparatus for converting two independent functions of color saturation and hue into pulses varying in width and frequency each in accordance with one of said functions. Apparatus for scanning a record medium having two level information recorded thereon, said scanning apparatus producing a train of pulses in accordance with the information, which pulses vary independently in width and frequency, each variation representing an independent function of hue and saturation. Circuitry connected to said apparatus for processing the pulses to separate the width variations from the frequency variations and produce two electrical signals representative of the two functions of hue and saturation.
Abstract:
A system for broadcasting and receiving at least three stereophonically related audio components compatibly with present monophonic and stereophonic transmissions and receptions within the alloted bandwidth of present FM broadcast transmitters. Signals representative of the sum and difference of two stereophonically related audio components are broadcast in the audio band and on a 38 KHz suppressed subcarrier, respectively. A third signal, including a third component, is broadcast on a second 38 KHz suppressed subcarrier in quadrature with the first subcarrier. A fourth component may be transmitted on a third higher frequency suppressed carrier, or at reduced bandwidth about additional subcarriers generated about the second suppressed subcarrier. The components are distributed among signals so that monophonic reception may be achieved by receiving only the signals in the audio band and so that each additional signal received allows the recovery of an additional component.
Abstract:
System for separating pulses containing information in a pulse width modulated pulse train, wherein the leading edges of the pulses occur at a fixed repetition rate. Noise which occurs on the leading edge of the pulses is reduced by slicing the fixed position leading edges. A gating wave stabilized by the received pulse train, and which is insensitive to wide band noise, opens a gate for the pulses after the leading edge of each pulse, and closes the gate before the leading edge of the next pulse. A plurality of gates can be provided to separate pulse trains which are multiplexed to form a composite pulse train. The gates do not affect the pulse width modulation represented by the position of the lagging edges of the pulses and reduces the noise accompanying the demodulated signals.
Abstract:
Color signal recording in which recorded pulses have widths and positions to represent color saturation and hue. For example, pulses of variable width are recorded, with alternate pulses representing one hue while interspersed pulses represent another hue. The system may use a flying spot scanner operating on a brightness image representation and on the color signal information to generate complete image representative signals. Circuitry is disclosed for minimizing error in deriving signals from the recording, which may be in the form of photographic film, for example, and also reducing error in the synchronization of the scanning operation. Display of the image representative signals may be through known television techniques.
Abstract:
An automatic hue control circuit for a color television receiver operates to improve the flesh tones reproduced by the receiver by causing signals lying near the +I axis to be shifted to the +I axis if they fall within a predetermined angle on either side of the +I axis. This is accomplished with little or no effect on hues lying outside of the angle about the +I axis in which the correction occurs, so that correction is confined to the area about the +I axis where it is desired. This is accomplished by splitting the chroma signal into its I and Q constituent parts either at base-band or subcarrier frequencies and comparing the value of a predetermined fraction of +I components with the absolute value of Q voltage components EQ to control the operation of a gating circuit to prevent the passage of Q signals if the value of the +I component is greater than EQ and to permit the passage of signal components if EQ is greater than the fractional value of the +I components. The output of this gate then is combined with the I signal components to provide a reconstituted or reconstructed color signal which then is used to form the red, blue and green signals necessary to drive the cathode ray tube. The Q signal components are blocked only for signals within the angle determined by the fraction of the +I component which is compared with EQ . For signals lying outside of this angle, no modification of the color signals takes place.
Abstract:
Color signal recording of two channel color information, wherein one channel provides substantially more information than the other channel. The information is converted to a train of pulse width modulated pulses to contain the information, and with the train including more pulses for the one channel than for the other; such as two pulses for the one channel for each pulse of the other channel. Regularly recurring pulses for the two channels are shifted in phase to produce a combined pulse train in which the pulses are at regularly spaced positions. Pulses representing information in the one channel may be duplicated, or may be sampled at twice the rate, to provide two pulses for the one channel for each pulse of the other channel. The pulse train is recorded and reproduced, and then decoded to separate the pulses for the two channels and to position the pulses in each channel to provide regularly occurring pulse trains for each channel.