Abstract:
The invention relates to a radio broadcast method for a multi-carrier digital signal (51), occupying a first frequency band adjacent to at least one second frequency band, each allocated for a second signal (52, 53), said, or at least one of said second signals being an analogue radio broadcast signal. A pre-filtering (54, 55) is applied to the first signal before the transmission thereof, such as to attenuate the power of said first signal at least in a first portion of said first frequency band, adjacent to the second frequency band(s).
Abstract:
A method is provided for transmitting control information in a digital audio broadcasting system. The method comprises the steps of transmitting a plurality of control bits in each of a plurality of control frames, wherein a first sequence of the control bits represents a transmission mode, and a second sequence of the control bits a control data synchronization word. The plurality of control bits can further include a third sequence of bits representative of an interleaver synchronizaton word. A method performed in a radio receiver for determining transmission mode and synchronization for a digital audio broadcasting signal is also provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving a plurality interleaver frames containing digital information, wherein each of the interleaver frames includes a plurality control frames. The control frames include a plurality of control bits, wherein a first sequence of the control bits represents a transmission mode, a second sequence of the control bits a control data synchronization word. The plurality of control bits can further include a third sequence of bits representative of an interleaver synchronization word. The first sequence of control bits is processed to determine a transmission mode; the second sequence of control bits is processed to determine control data synchronization; and the third sequence of control bits is processed to determine interleaver boundaries. Radio frequency transmitters and receivers that utilize the above methods are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A digital signal transmission system is provided which minimizes the analog AM signal envelope distortion caused by multiple digitally modulated carriers in the same band as the analog AM signal. The present transmission system includes means for transmitting an amplitude modulated signal. Digital carriers for the digital signal are placed both above and below the frequency of the analog AM carrier. Certain digital carriers that are above the frequency of the analog AM carrier have an associated digital carrier that is at an equal frequency offset below the analog AM carrier. The data and modulation placed on the upper digital carrier and its counterpart are such that the signal resulting from their addition has no component that is in-phase with the analog AM carrier. Digital carrier pairs arranged in this way are said to be complementary. This configuration delivers dramatic fidelity improvements to analog AM reception of AM compatible digital braodcast signals. An additional means of reducing envelope distorsion is to predistort the signal envelope. The signal envelope is predistorted to counteract the distortion added by the digital carriers.
Abstract:
Methods and systems are disclosed for temporally aligning audio samples of digital and analog portions of a radio broadcast signal. The methods and systems comprise the steps of receiving a radio broadcast signal having analog and digital portions, producing audio samples of the analog and digital portions, retrieving a stored first time interval corresponding to an approximate time for the digital samples to traverse a receiver digital signal path, measuring a second time for data representing the digital portion to travel from a digital signal path input to a digital demodulator, generating temporal alignment of the digital audio samples relative to the analog audio samples by delaying the digital audio samples by the sum of the first and second times, temporally aligning the digital and analog samples to within a predetermined amount, and digitally combining the first and second audio samples to produce a combined audio output
Abstract:
A method for detecting a digital radio signal includes the steps of receiving the digital radio signal including a series of symbols, developing a correlation waveform having a peak that corresponds to a symbol boundary, normalizing the correlation waveform, and calculating a peak value of the normalized correlation waveform, wherein the peak value represents the quality of the received digital radio signal. A receiver that performs the method is also provided.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un procédé de diffusion d'un signal numérique transmis au voisinage d'un signal analogique portant un signal audio source modulant l'amplitude d'une porteuse AM. Selon l'invention, un tel procédé comprend une étape de modulation en amplitude dans le domaine fréquentiel du signal numérique par un signal de masquage représentatif d'une courbe de masquage psycho-acoustique du signal audio source.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method and apparatus for demodulating a composite AM DAB waveform which contains digitally modulated carriers and which employ a mixer (180) for converting a received signal (170) into two signals, the first of these signals represents an in-phase component and the second of the signals represents a quadrature component, two analog-to-digital converters (182, 184) for converting the two signals into digital signals, and two fast Fourier transform elements (188, 190) for extracting data separately from the two digital signals. Complementary digital carrier signals are recovered from the quadrature, and non-complementary digital carriers are derived from a sum of the complementary data and the output of the in-phase component FFT process. Leakage of the AM signal through a highpass filter (186) is prevented from interfering with the demodulation of the complementary carrier signal's use of separated demodulation channels.
Abstract:
A method of broadcasting an AM compatible digital audio broadcasting signal includes: producing an analog modulated carrier signal centrally positioned in a radio channel, wherein the analog modulated carrier signal is modulated by an analog signal, producing a plurality of digitally modulated subcarrier signals in the radio channel, wherein the digitally modulated subcarrier signals are modulated using complementary pattern-mapped trellis code modulation (CPTCM) including a code mapped to overlapping partitions including an upper main partition, a lower main partition, an upper backup partition and a lower backup partition, and a non-overlapping tertiary partition, and transmitting the analog modulated carrier signal and the plurality of digitally modulated subcarrier signals. Transmitters that broadcast the signal and receivers that receive the signal, and the reception method are also included.
Abstract:
A signal generator includes a memory for storing content information in the form of vectors including in-phase and quadrature elements of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing waveform, a processor for converting the vectors to a radio frequency signal, and a logic device for controlling the operation of the memory and the processor. The in-phase and quadrature elements represent baseband content of the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing waveform.
Abstract:
This invention provides a method of detecting time alignment of an analog audio signal and a digital audio signal in a hybrid radio system. The method comprises the steps of filtering the analog audio signal to produce a filtered analog audio signal, filtering the digital audio signal to produce a filtered digital audio signal, and using the filtered analog audio signal and the filtered digital audio signal to calculate a plurality of correlation coefficients, wherein the correlation coefficients are representative of time alignment between the analog audio signal and the digital audio signal. An apparatus for performing the method is also provided.