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AUDIENCE SURVEY SYSTEM

  • US 3,800,223 A
  • Filed: 05/04/1973
  • Issued: 03/26/1974
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1973
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a receiving set monitor having a mixer and a swept local oscillator coupled to said mixer for comparing the frequency of incoming signals with the frequency of said oscillator, means coupled to said oscillator for causing the sweep of the oscillator to stop when the frequency of an incoming signal is in a predetermined pass band, means coupled to said oscillator for restarting said oscillator sweep after said signal has been in said pass band a predetermined length of time, a receiving channel in said monitor coupled to said oscillator, an FM signal suppressor coupled to said receiving channel for suppressing large FM signals passing into said channel, and means coupling said oscillator to said suppressor for switching said suppressor into said channel at predetermined places in a sweep cycle of said oscillator.

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