Intelligent teletext decoder
First Claim
1. A machine implemented method for use with a receiver which receives both transmitted digital format data signals and a transmitted reference signal, for equalizing said digital format data signals according to distortion exhibited by said reference signal and decoding said digital format data signals, comprising the steps of:
- loading said reference signal into a time base expander having an input and an output in real time;
thenapplying the reference signal from the output of said time base expander at a selectable rate to another circuit and therein automatically and electronically calculating adjustment signals based on said reference signal for correcting said reference signal;
adjusting a filter having tap weights in accordance with an adjustment signal to obtain weighted taps;
loading said digital format data signals into said filter;
equalizing said digital format data signals in said filter, including generating weighted signals in accordance with the weighted taps and said digital format data signals in said filter thereby to obtain an equalized data signal; and
thendecoding said equalized data signal.
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Abstract
An equalizer and decoder system compensating for multipath distortion in digital format signals sent by teletext, for example. The system loads demodulated data signals and a received reference signal into a charge coupled device clocked in real time by a clock circuit. Later, the reference pulse is clocked to a microprocessor which determines tap coefficients for a transversal filter to correct the multipath distortion in the reference signal. The data signals are then applied to a transversal filter weighted with the calculated tap weights. After filtering, signals are decoded by the microprocessor.
In another embodiment a charge coupled device with tapped stages is used at one time for receiving the data signals in real time, and at a later time for part of a transversal filter.
In a simplest embodiment, distortions are removed by the microprocessor itself, without any separate transversal filter.
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10 Claims
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1. A machine implemented method for use with a receiver which receives both transmitted digital format data signals and a transmitted reference signal, for equalizing said digital format data signals according to distortion exhibited by said reference signal and decoding said digital format data signals, comprising the steps of:
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loading said reference signal into a time base expander having an input and an output in real time;
thenapplying the reference signal from the output of said time base expander at a selectable rate to another circuit and therein automatically and electronically calculating adjustment signals based on said reference signal for correcting said reference signal; adjusting a filter having tap weights in accordance with an adjustment signal to obtain weighted taps; loading said digital format data signals into said filter; equalizing said digital format data signals in said filter, including generating weighted signals in accordance with the weighted taps and said digital format data signals in said filter thereby to obtain an equalized data signal; and
thendecoding said equalized data signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A machine implemented method for use with a receiver which receives both transmitted digital format data signals and a transmitted reference signal, for equalizing said digital format data signals according to distortion exhibited by said reference signal and decodng said digital format data signals, comprising the steps of:
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loading said reference signal in real time into tapped timed base expander having an input and an output; applying said reference signal from said output of said time base expander at a selectable rate to another circuit and therein automatically and electronically calculating adjustment signals based on said reference signal for correcting said reference signal; storing said adjustment signals; loading said digital format data signals into said tapped time base expander in real time; equalizing said digital format data signals in the tapped time base expander, including generating weighted signals in accordance with said stored adjustment signals and said digital format data in said tapped time base expander thereby to obtain an equalized data signal; and
thendecoding said equalized data signal. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A machine implemented method for use with a receiver which receives both transmitted digital format data signals and a transmitted reference signal for equalizing said digital format data signals according to distortion exhibited by said reference signals and decoding said digital format data signals, comprising the steps of:
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clocking said reference signal in real time to a charged coupled device having an input, an output, and several tapped stages; clocking said reference signal from said input to said output and applying it therefrom to a microprocessor device; calculating, in said microprocessor device, tap weights for an equalizer for correcting distortion based on said reference signal received by said microprocessor device; storing said calculated tap weights in a tap weight storage; clocking said digital format data signals into said charge coupled device in real time; weighting said digital format data signals in said charge coupled device in accordance with said tap weights and obtaining equalized data signals; decoding said equalized signal. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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