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| 7047556 | Method and apparatus for equalizing video transmitted over twisted pair cable A apparatus and apparatus for compensating for video insertion loss due to transmission over long twisted pair cable lines is presented. Transmission of video over twisted pair cable is advantageous because of its superior cost advantage over coaxial cable. However,... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6894728 | Method for equalizing a VSB high definition television signal in the presence of co-channel interference A method and apparatus for equalizing a signal containing high definition television information in the presence of co-channel NTSC interference employs an equalizer having feed forward and decision feedback filters. A comb filter is inserted ahead of the equalizer ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6680971 | Passband equalizer for a vestigial sideband signal receiver A passband equalizer that performs blind equalization upon a complex signal, e.g., a vestigial sideband (VSB) signal, without using a training sequence. The passband equalizer contains a decision directed equalizer (DFE) that operates upon separate in pha... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6222592 | TV receiver equalizer storing channel characterizations for each TV channel between times of reception therefrom An adaptive channel equalizer for a digital television receiver includes memory for storing channel characterization information for each received channel, from each time the channel is tuned to until the next time the same channel is tuned to. The stored... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6122015 | Method and apparatus for filtering digital television signals A system for filtering digital television signals is provided. The system comprises a generator for providing a first data sequence to a private data packetizer, and a transmitter for transmitting the packetized first data sequence in a data channel of a ... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6118495 | Training signal in plural PN sequences near beginnings of data segments of DTV signal or scan lines of NTSC signal Training signal for channel equalization is located in the initial data segment of each DTV data field and in the nineteenth scan line of each NTSC field. Arranging for training signal separated from plural PN sequences near the beginnings of the initial ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6081301 | DTV circuitry for measuring multipath distortion based on ghosting of data segment synchronizing signals Baseband DTV signals are supplied to a cascade filter connection of a transversal filter operative over many data segments and a match filter for data segment synchronizing (DSS) signals. The accumulated random data in the cascade filter response is suppr... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5886749 | Demodulation using a time domain guard interval with an overlapped transform A system and method for demodulation of an RF signal on a transmission channel is provided. The RF signal is demodulated to baseband as an in-phase (I) data signal and a quadrature (Q) data signal. A first block of I data is captured and a first block of ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5872605 | Video signal processing apparatus A video signal processing apparatus includes an equalizer for delaying an input color signal by an adjustable phase retardation. A low pass filter is operative for delaying the input color signal by an adjustable phase retardation. A phase detector is ope... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5841484 | Blind equalizer method and apparatus for HDTY transmission using an NTSC rejection filter for mitigating co-channel interference A blind-equalization method and apparatus are disclosed for equalization of a channel of an HDTV receiver. The HDTV receiver comprises a rejection filter corresponding to a precoder for which precoding is implemented at a television transmitter for combat... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5812217 | Automatically adjusting anti-ghosting filter coefficients when the coefficients exceed particular values A method and apparatus for the self-correcting of anti-ghosting filter coefficients is provided. A plurality of coefficients associated with an anti-ghosting filter are monitored as data is received by the filter. The plurality of coefficients are adjuste... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5808701 | Circuit for automatically compensating delay difference between luminance signal and color signal A video signal processing system includes a circuit for detecting the delay between a luminance signal and a color signal in a video signal, and for automatically compensating for the delay. The circuit includes a Y/C separator for separating a composite ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5751368 | Delay detector apparatus and method for multiple video sources The apparatus and method described herein shows a system of determining the delay of a delayed version of a sequence of images with respect to a relatively undelayed version in a system which creates an output image signal from a plurality of input signal... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5475444 | Channel equalizer for a HDTV using a composite filter A channel equalization system of a VSB transmission system for a HDTV which can correct phase errors by using composite filters as well as by using general data even in a period having no training sequence. The channel equalizer for a HDTV includes, a com... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5432562 | Television signal reception In a television signal receiver, including an intermediate frequency (IF) filter (3) having an intermediate frequency filter group delay, and an intermediate frequency (IF) demodulator (5) coupled to the intermediate frequency filter (3), a correction fil... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5371540 | Digital-signal-processing camera In the present invention, a drive circuit 12 drives a solid-state image-pickup element 11 in synchronism with a synchronizing signal generated by a synchronizing signal generation circuit 13, and the solid-state image-pickup element 11 issues an output si... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5351090 | Video and audio signal multiplexing apparatus and separating apparatus When transmitting an audio signal by multiplexing in a synchronous period of a video signal, a buffer memory for time axis adjustment of the audio signal is controlled. The number of audio signal samples in the buffer memory is detected in every n fields ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5210705 | Digital filtering with single-instruction, multiple-data processor A single-instruction multiple-data processor (10) has an input layer especially designed for high data input and output rates. The processor (10) has a number of processing elements (20), each corresponding to incoming data samples. The processing element... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5198897 | Continuous-motion line-assembly telecine with misregistration correction A continuous-motion line-array telecine has a solid-state sensor comprising linear array sensor elements (101, 201, 301). For multi-standard operation compensation is provided for vertical misregistration due to different linear array sensor positions as ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5189562 | System and method for combining language translation with original audio on video or film sound track An original film or video sound track and a translation of this sound track into another language are separately recorded and a predetermined positioning timewise relative to the original sound track introduced to the output of the translation to make for... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5179438 | Pulse signal delay device, and pulse signal phase detector and clock generator using the device A pulse signal delay device provides a fixed gate delay time in a digital integrated circuit (such as a CMOS circuit) independently of changes in a power supply voltage or environmental temperature. The device includes a series connection of delay units e... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5136368 | Television signal decoder with improved architecture In a new television signal decoder architecture, a mixer switches between two inputs, A and B, using an envelope function C, according to the relationship: Ouput=A*C+B(1-C), where A is either the composite television signal input in normal operation or a ... | 08/04/1992 |
