Transmission system for digital audio broadcasting
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1. An apparatus for use in a communications receiver, the apparatus comprising:
- a frame detector for providing a frame synchronization signal that is representative of whether a received frame is valid or invalid;
said frame detector having a correlator for processing a first signal to provide a correlated signal, the first signal being representative of a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a plurality of symbols and further divided into a header portion and a data portion;
a matching circuit for comparing the correlated signal to at-least-one predetermined signal pattern indicative of the header portion of each frame and for generating the frame synchronization upon detection of the header portion; and
error correcting circuitry that is inhibited by the frame synchronization signal from correcting an invalid received frame.
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Abstract
A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system includes a radio-frequency (RF) transmitter and a corresponding RF receiver that includes a frame detection circuit for providing a frame synchronization signal. The latter is used to inhibit a Reed-Solomon decoder from correcting data in any frame for which there was no synchronization.
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1. An apparatus for use in a communications receiver, the apparatus comprising:
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a frame detector for providing a frame synchronization signal that is representative of whether a received frame is valid or invalid; said frame detector having a correlator for processing a first signal to provide a correlated signal, the first signal being representative of a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a plurality of symbols and further divided into a header portion and a data portion; a matching circuit for comparing the correlated signal to at-least-one predetermined signal pattern indicative of the header portion of each frame and for generating the frame synchronization upon detection of the header portion; and error correcting circuitry that is inhibited by the frame synchronization signal from correcting an invalid received frame. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method for use in a receiver, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating a frame detection signal representative of whether a received frame is valid or invalid; inhibiting an error correction system from operating when the frame detection signal is representative of an invalid received frame independent of an error rate for the invalid received frame wherein the generating step includes the steps of correlating a first signal with a predefined signal to provide a correlated signal; comparing the correlated signal to a predefined set of signal patterns; indicating a valid received frame when the correlated signal matches the predefined set of signal patterns; and indicating an invalid received frame when the correlated signal does not match the predefined set of signal patterns. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6)
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