Abstract:
An FM tuner capable of speeding up an AF search and a PTY search. A tuning operation by the FM tuner with an RDS demodulator is continuously controlled until a tuning is decided in accordance with a tuning signal outputted from a detector or a count of an intermediate frequency. The FM tuner has an AF search designating key for designating an AF search, a PTY designating key for designating a PTY search, and a changeover unit for switching to the tuning signal for the decision of a tuning when the AF or PTY search is designated.
Abstract:
A variable-throughput digital modulator receives at an input a transmission digital signal e(t). The transmission digital signal is time-based demultiplexed (1) into first and second elementary transmission signals e1(t) and e2(t) which are applied, respectively, to first (21) and second (22) filtering circuits for delivering first and second filtered elementary signals e1f(t) and e2f(t). A circuit (20) provides throughput switching control to the first and second filtering circuits (21, 22) for selecting a first or second filtering mode corresponding to a first throughput at a first type of modulation or a second throughput at a second type of modulation. A quadrature modulator (3) receives the first and second filtered elementary signals in order to modulate an RDS-compatible carrier f0, and an output filter circuit (5) delivers a filtered modulated carrier signal for broadcast, such as in supplementary data broadcasting in FM radio broadcasting.
Abstract:
For a demodulator for radio data signals, where transmission of these signals is carried out through phase shifting of a suppressed subcarrier, where a multiplex signal, which contains a signal with the frequency of the subcarrier passes through a band-pass filter and an amplitude limiter, the amplitude-limited signal having a subcarrier frequency is transformed into digital sampling values, if necessary by additional filtering, and the sampling values are supplied to at least one phase control loop for deriving a bit clock signal.
Abstract:
A communication system (100) is provided for transmitting data to mobile receivers utilizing a subcarrier within a commercial FM channel of a radio station (55). The data transmitted is first encoded in encoder (112), utilizing a forward error correction code. The sequence of the encoded data is altered in interleaver (116), subdivided into a plurality of subframes, in framing and synchronization circuit (120), which also adds channel state bits to each subframe. The framed data is modulated onto the subcarrier in the differential quadrature phased shift keying modulator (130), the output of which is coupled to the FM modulator (52) of radio station transmitter (50). The transmitted radio frequency signals may be received by a vehicle antenna (12) for coupling to the vehicle's FM receiver (80). The modulated subcarrier is recovered from the FM demodulator (84) of the receiver (80), the modulated subcarrier being demodulated to recover the encoded digital data therefrom. The channel state bits included with the data are extracted from the digital data and utilized to form a data reliability factor for each bit of the encoded data. The data reliability factors thus obtained are associated with each bit of the data in a deinterleaver (360). Deinterleaver (360) provides each data bit in proper sequence, with its associated data reliability factor to a decoder (370). The decoded digital data is provided to a vehicle traffic computer (90) for processing and presentation of traffic information to a user on a display (92).
Abstract:
A receiving frequency selecting method for a vehicle-mounted RDS receiver, wherein a list of alternative frequencies being transmitted by former broadcasting stations are stored in a memory, and the RDS receiver chases the same broadcast program based on the stored list of alternative frequencies whenever the motor vehicle returns to the same broadcasting service area of the network wherein the stored list of alternative frequencies is effective for use. Further, the stored list of alternative frequencies data relating to frequencies of the received broadcast waves during the operation of chasing the same radio program are also utilized together with the stored list of alternative frequencies transmitted by the broadcasting stations for chasing the same broadcast program.
Abstract:
In a radio receiver having a device for decoding radio data signals, which are divided into groups each with a predetermined number of bits and contain a program identification code, and having a device for switchover for switchover from a received frequency to an alternative frequency, by briefly switching over to the alternative frequency, a plurality of data samples are taken from various groups and at various times within the groups of the radio data signal that is received at the alternative frequency. The data samples are compared with a program identification code stored in memory.
Abstract:
Memory devices containing route-specific features as well as standardized texts are provided in vehicle receivers having a decoder for decoding digitally encoded, received traffic news. By addressing the memory locations, these texts can be called up. In order to ensure that the driver receives only traffic information from the region of interest to him, route-specific features are provided with an identifier. By specifying the identifier it is then possible to select only the traffic news relating to the desired region. In addition, program identification codes of stations which are responsible for broadcasting traffic news in the respective regions are stored. By comparing the stored program indentification codes, the prerequisite is created that stations which are responsible for traffic news in the region of interest to the driver are in actual fact received.
Abstract:
A radio receiver, in particular for vehicles, is proposed that is equipped with a decoder for decoding digitally encoded traffic news received, in particular in accordance with the RDS system. A station memory is also provided, in which all the receiver radio stations are stored in memory at regular intervals. This table is compared with a table stored in a memory of the receiver, in which the radio stations are assigned to certain regions. If a predominant match between the received radio stations and the stored radio stations is ascertained, then the associated region is output, and only traffic news associated with the applicable region is output.
Abstract:
A radio data system transmits message groups comprising four blocks of which the first block always carries the program identification code for the transmitting network (P1(TN)). One type of message group, identified by a corresponding group type code (GT) in a second block always carries a program identification code for another network (PI(ON) in a fourth block and carries various corresponding items of information in a third block. Which of these various items is in the third block is identified by a user code (UC) in the second block. The items of information in the third block may in particular include alternative frequency codes for the other network identified in the fourth block.
Abstract:
A method and system for the contemporaneous delivery of data from a first location to a user at a remote location utilizes standard broadcast facilities as the transmission medium. The data and an identifier uniquely associated with the data are encoded and transmitted along with a first standard broadcast signal. An enabling cue signal corresponding to the identifier is encoded and transmitted along with a second standard broadcast signal. The first broadcast signal is received and demodulated at the user location, the identifier is decoded and the encoded data is stored in a memory location uniquely associated with the identifier. The second standard broadcast signal is also received and demodulated at the user location and is decoded to provide the cue signal. The cue signal is compared with the received identifier and if the comparison is positive the stored encoded data is recalled from the memory, decoded and printed at the discretion of the user.