Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for improving a stereo audio signal of an FM stereo radio receiver (10). It is suggested to employ components of a standard HE-ACC v2 decoder (40) in such apparatus (1) to efficiently recover the stereo audio signal (L\ R') while also exhibiting good signal quality. To that end, parametric stereo parameters (15) shall be quantized and submitted to such decoder (40) together with a mono-downmix signal (25). The decoder (25) can then easily recover the parametric stereo parameters (15) by de-quantizing them via a simple lookup table, and finally creating the stereo output signal (L'R') from the de-quantized parametric stereo parameters and the mono-downmix signal (25). The apparatus (1) further includes a parameter estimation stage (5) which may again be embodied on the basis of components of a standard HE-ACC v2 encoder (65). After estimating the parametric stereo parameters (15) and generating the mono-downmix signal (25), the encoder (65) will not use further encoding other than the already performed PS- coding. An apparatus (1) according to the invention therefore advantageously includes decoder (40) and/or encoder (65) components of a standard HE-ACC v2 codec - utilizing its parametric stereo parameter processing capabilities.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel herbicidal oxopyridine and thionopyridine derivatives of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compound wherein R 1 , X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , X 4 , A 1 , R a , R b , R c and R d are as defined herein. The invention further relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of the oxopyridine derivatives, to compositions which comprise the herbicidal compounds, and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
Abstract:
In a circuit for deriving a quality signal dependent on the quality of a received multiplex signal in a stereo radio receiver. The multiplex signal contains a sum signal (L+R) in the base band, an auxiliary carrier modulated with a difference signal (L-R) and a pilot signal at half the frequency of the auxiliary carrier, the multiplex signal in digital form is multiplied by a reference carrier obtained from a scanning pulse generated in the radio receiver in two phase positions mutually offset by 90 DEG . The mixed signals obtained by the multiplication are multiplied by a correction signal to form corrected mixed signals which are added and taken together with the sum signal to a matrix circuit to form stereo audio signals (L, R). The mixed signals are also multiplied by the other correction signal. The products of these multiplications are subtracted from each other and low-pass-filtered.
Abstract:
A frequency modulation (FM) transmitter implemented with a delta-sigma modulator and a phase-locked loop (PLL) is described. The delta-sigma modulator receives a modulating signal (e.g., an FM stereo multiplex (MPX) signal) and provides a modulator output signal. The PLL performs frequency modulation based on the modulator output signal and provides an FM signal. The FM transmitter may further include a gain/phase compensation unit and a scaling unit. The compensation unit may compensate the modulating signal for the closed-loop response of the PLL. The scaling unit may scale the amplitude of the modulating signal based on a gain to obtain a target frequency deviation for the FM signal. The PLL may operate in a transmit mode or a receive mode, may perform frequency modulation in the transmit mode, and may provide a local oscillator (LO) signal at a fixed frequency in the receive mode.
Abstract:
An entertainment system comprising a base unit with a transceiver for interacting, at times, with a control unit via a communications link, and a control unit for controlling the base unit, the control unit being dockable with the base unit to establish direct electrical connection between them, and including a transceiver for interacting with the control unit via said link when undocked. The control unit is a separate aspect of the invention or system. The base unit may contain a tuner, preferably with bandless tuning capability, and may be designed to receive into a universal docking arrangement a digitally controllable auxiliary audio source such as a portable MP3 player or other device. The base unit may further provide alarm clock functionality with numerous features including a "fail-safe" volume control system and fail-safe alarm time setting capability.
Abstract:
A handheld audio system includes a radio signal decoder integrated circuit (IC) and a digital audio processing integrated circuit. The radio signal decoder integrated circuit produces a digital left channel signal and a digital right channel signal from a received radio signal in accordance with an enable signal and also produces a system clock. The digital audio processing integrated circuit includes a DC-to-DC converter and a processing module. The DC-to-DC converter is operably coupled to produce at least one power supply voltage based on the system clock. The processing module is operably coupled to produce the enable signal when the at least one power supply voltage has reached a desired level and to produce audio signals for audio playback from at least one of the digital left and right channel signals and a stored digital audio file.
Abstract:
The invention refers to a method for a receiver (1) having a signal path (3) incorporating a tuner (4), a frequency demodulator circuit (5) for supplying an analog stereo multiplex signal comprising a baseband stereo sum signal, a 19 kHz stereo pilot and a stereo difference signal, which is double sideband amplitude-modulated on a suppressed 38 kHz subcarrier, a sampler (6) for converting the analog stereo multiplex signal into a time discrete digital stereo multiplex signal and a stereo decoder (7) for decoding the time discrete digital stereo multiplex signal into a time-discrete digital stereo sum and a time discrete digital stereo difference signal. According to the invention the analog stereo multiplex signal is converted into a time discrete digital stereo multiplex signal and then the time discrete digital stereo multiplex signal is shifted over a frequency of 19 kHz to extract the pilot tone.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel herbicidal oxopyridine and thionopyridine derivatives of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compound wherein R1, X1, X2, X3, X4, A1, Ra, Rb, Rc and Rd are as defined herein. The invention further relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of the oxopyridine derivatives, to compositions which comprise the herbicidal compounds, and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
Abstract:
A signal receiver includes a receiving circuit, a frequency offset recovery circuit, and a control circuit. The receiving circuit extracts signal components within a first bandwidth centered at a specific frequency from a received input signal to thereby generate a first received signal. The first received signal includes at least a target signal within a second bandwidth centered at a target frequency, and the first bandwidth is wider than the second bandwidth. The frequency offset recovery circuit applies a frequency shift to the first received signal to thereby generate a second received signal. The control circuit tunes the receiving circuit to the specific frequency, and sets the frequency shift applied to the first received signal according to a frequency offset between the target frequency and the specific frequency.
Abstract:
A method of configuring a tuner includes sampling a radio frequency and measuring at least one signal quality metric for the sampled frequency. It is determined whether there is co-channel interference on the sampled frequency based on the measurement of the at least one signal quality metric. The sampled frequency is selected as an operational frequency for the tuner if it was determined in the determining step that there is an absence of co-channel interference on the sampled frequency.