摘要:
In a channel selecting apparatus for a television receiver having an electronic tuning tuner for changing the receiving frequency in accordance with an analog control signal applied thereto; a memory has a plurality of addresses for storing respective digital codes each identifying a respective channel, and such addresses in the memory are selectively activated so as to effect read out of the respective channel identifying digital code to a digital-to-analog converter which converts the same into a respective analog control signal for the tuner. Deviation of the receiving frequency, as established in response to the analog control signal, from the correct receiving frequency for the channel identified by the digital code then being read out of the memory is detected, and in response to a detected deviation the ditial code being received by the digital-to-analog converter is automatically modified or changed in the sense for removing said deviation and thereby effecting a fine tuning operation. In a preferred embodiment, when the detected deviation of the established receiving frequency from the correct receiving frequency exceeds a predetermined amount, the resulting modified digital code is stored in the memory in place of the read out digital code resulting in such deviation, thereby to ensure that the stored digital codes will not, with time, result in respective receiving frequencies that are outside the pull-in range of the automatic fine-tuning operation.
摘要:
In a channel selecting apparatus for a television receiver having a tuner with a voltage-controlled variable reactance device as its tuning element; digital codes representing or identifying respective channels are stored at respective addresses in a memory, and a digital-to-analog converter provides an analog control voltage for the variable reactance device in correspondence to each digital code selectively read out of the memory in a channel selecting mode of the apparatus. Further, in a programming mode of the apparatus, the changing digitally coded counts of a counter which is counting sweep pulses are applied to the digital-to-analog converter for similarly controlling the variable reactance device and selected counts of the counter, for example, those which result in the appearance on the receiver screen of pictures or test patterns broadcast by selected television stations or channels, are written at selected addresses in the memory as the channel identifying digital codes. Preferably, the digital-to-analog converter is constituted by a pulse-width modulator which produces a chain of pulses at a constant repetition rate with the widths of such pulses being varied in dependence on the absence of coincidence between a circulating digital code and the digitally coded count from the counter as established either by read out of a channel identifying digital code from the memory or by counting of the sweep pulses, and the output of the modulator is passed through a low-pass filter to provide the analog control voltage in dependence on the modulated pulse width.
摘要:
A remote control system for selectively controlling plural functions of electric apparatus comprising a combination of an improved transmitter for generating a command signal of a single frequency which is transmitted intermittently for a plurality of intervals of time, the length of each of which is determined in response to selection of one of the plural functions, and a receiver for receiving the command signal and producing a control signal for controlling the selected function in response to the length of each of the intervals and to the number of the intervals of the received command signal.
摘要:
A muting circuit for a television receiver of the type having a tuner which is operative to select a desired channel in accordance with a channel selection operation to produce a channel select signal representing the selected channel, a detector circuit for detecting whether a video signal is present or not, a muting signal generator circuit supplied with an output from the detector circuit and the channel select signal representing the selection of a predetermined channel to produce a muting signal when the predetermined channel is selected but no output is produced by the detector circuit, and a muting circuit coupled to a low frequency signal transmission path in response to the muting signal from the muting signal generator circuit to cut off or attenuate the transmission of a low frequency signal.
摘要:
A tuning system for digitally controlled electronically tuned tuner with automatic fine tuning (AFT) constantly operable to hold the tuner at a predetermined optimum frequency setting, especially a television channel. A reversible counter provides the digital signal to control the tuning of the tuner and is, itself, deliberately shifted from one setting to another by pulses from a source, such pulses being applied to the UP input terminal of the counter as the up-tuning pulses to shift the tuner frequency higher. Pulses from the same source are also used as down-tuning pulses when applied to the DOWN input terminal of the tuning pulses to a lower frequency supplied to two AFT AND circuits. One output logic up-tuning instruction signal E.sub.U of the AFT circuit enables the up-tuning AFT AND circuit only in a certain sub-range below the desired frequency. The other output logic down-tuning instruction signal E.sub.D of the AFT circuit enables the other AFT AND circuit only in a certain sub-range above the desired frequency. Consequently, deliberate application of up-or-down-tuning pulses to the UP or DOWN terminals changes the count as desired, being only partially counteracted by the lower frequency, AFT-controlled pulses to the opposite counter terminal.
摘要:
A remote control apparatus is constituted by a command encoding device and a command decoding device. In the command encoding device, a timing pulse generator indicates the beginning and end of a time interval of a length which is a function of a command to be encoded, a pulse of the first duration shorter than said time interval is initiated in response to said beginning of the time interval, a pulse of a second duration different from said first duration and shorter than said time interval is initiated in response to said end of the time interval, and said pulses of said first and second duration respectively, are sequentially transmitted in the command decoding device, upon the receipt of a pulse of said first duration followed by a pulse of said second duration, a first indication is produced in response to the receipt of said pulse of the first duration and a second indication is produced in response to the receipt of said pulse of the second duration, and a device provides a value which varies as a function of the length of time between each said second indication which immediately precedes it, whereupon, a command signal is produced as a function of said value.
摘要:
In a channel selecting apparatus for a television receiver having an electronic tuning tuner for changing the receiving frequency in accordance with an analog control signal applied thereto; a memory is provided with a plurality of addresses at which respective digital codes each intended to identify a respective broadcast channel are selectively stored or written in a programming mode of the apparatus, and, in a channel selecting mode of the apparatus, a selected channel identifying digital code is read out of the memory to a digital-to-analog converter which converts the same into a respective analog control signal for tuning the tuner to a receiving frequency. Any deviation of the receiving frequency, as established in response to the analog control signal, from the transmitting frequency for the channel identified by the digital code then being read out of the memory is detected, and in response thereto the digital code being applied to the digital-to-analog converter is modified or changed in the sense for removing the deviation and thereby effecting a fine tuning operation. When, in the channel selecting mode, the detected deviation of the established receiving frequency from the transmitting frequency exceeds a predetermined amount, the resulting modified digital code may be automatically stored or rewritten in the memory in place of the read out digital code resulting in such deviation. The writing of digital codes in the memory in the programming mode and the rewriting of modified digital codes in the memory in the channel selecting mode are permitted only if, at the time of such writing or rewriting, there is being received a broadcast signal with a transmitted frequency corresponding to the receiving frequency established by the digital code to be written or rewritten in the memory.
摘要:
In a channel selecting apparatus for a television receiver having an electronic tuning tuner for changing the receiving frequency in accordance with an analog control signal applied thereto; a memory has a plurality of addresses for storing respective digital codes each identifying a respective channel and which are selectively activated so as to effect read out of the respective channel identifying digital code to a digital-to-analog converter which converts the same into a respective analog control signal for the tuner. A deviation of the receiving frequency, as established in response to the analog control signal, from the correct receiving frequency for the channel identified by the digital code then being read out of the memory is detected, and, in response to a detected deviation within a pull-in range of an automatic fine tuning (AFT) circuit, the latter changes the digital code applied to the converter in the sense for removing such deviation and thereby achieving the correct tuned condition. Further, when the detected deviation is outside the pull-in range of the AFT circuit, sweeping changes are made in the digital code applied to the converter for cyclically varying the receiving frequency and thereby bringing the latter at least into the pull-in range of the AFT circuit. The modified digital code resulting from the operation of the AFT circuit and/or from the sweeping changes in such code is stored in the memory in place of the read out digital code resulting in such deviation.
摘要:
A remote control apparatus having a commander and a receiver. In a wireless remote control system for a television receiver having a channel command device and a responding device, the channel command device includes a channel selecting circuit for selecting one channel command from among a plurality of predetermined channel commands, a command signal generating circuit for generating a channel command signal corresponding to a selected channel command, and a channel command transmitting circuit having a speaker for transmitting the channel command signal; and the responding device includes a channel command receiving circuit having a microphone for receiving the transmitted channel command signal and a channel command discriminating circuit for discriminating the channel command signal and supplying a channel selecting signal corresponding to the discriminated channel command signal to control a tuning circuit of the television receiver. Further, there is provided in the responding device, a return signal generating circuit for producing a return signal corresponding to the channel command indicated by the channel selecting signal and a return signal transmitting circuit having a speaker for transmitting the return signal, while the channel command device further has a return signal receiving circuit having a microphone for receiving the transmitted return signal, a return signal discriminating circuit for discriminating the return signal and producing a discriminated return signal indicating the channel command to which the return signal corresponds, a comparing circuit for comparing the originally selected channel command and the discriminated return signal, and an indicating circuit connected to the comparing circuit for indicating a coincidence of the originally selected channel command and the discriminated return signal.
摘要:
A digital tuning receiver having an electrically tuneable tuner and an AFT circuit is driven in a unidirectional sweep by the D/A converted output of a reversible counter. The reversible counter continues to count input pulses, and the unidirectional sweep continues until stopped by the reception of a signal which produces a first signal from an AFT frequency discriminator followed within a predetermined time by a second signal of opposite polarity from the AFT frequency discriminator. The number stored in the stopped reversible counter may be further adjusted by AFT signals and stored for later recall. If the second signal is not received within a predetermined time, as occurs with spurious beat signals, the sweep is not stopped but continues until a proper signal is received.