Rca Inc.

Walter H Demmer

Chandrakant Bhailalbhai Patel

Leopold A Harwood

Alvin R Balaban

A digital television receiver, having a line locked clock, includes a first digital phase locked loop which regenerates quadrature phase related subcarrier signals that are used to synchronously demodulate the chrominance signal components of composite video signals into color information signals. When nonstandard video signals (e.g., from a video tape recorder) are processed by the receiver, frequency instabilities in the line locked clock signal may cause the color information signals to be distorted. To compensate for this distortion, a second phase locked loop is synchronized to a reference signal generated by an analog oscillator. The analog reference signal is linearly added to baseband analog video signals provided by a tuner. The combined signals are digitized by an analog-to-digital converter and then filtered by parallel low-pass and band-pass filters to develop digital signals representing the video signals and the reference signal, respectively. The digital reference signal is used to synchronize the second phase locked loop, the control signals of which are used to compensate the first phase locked loop for frequency instabilities in the clock signal.

Frequency division multiplexed analog to digital converter

A digital television receiver which uses a line-locked clock signal employs chrominance signal demodulation circuitry which produces a digital oscillatory signal that is locked in phase to the color reference burst signal component of the incoming video signals. An analog voltage controlled oscillator generates an oscillatory signal having a frequency of approximately twice the color subcarrier frequency. This signal is combined with the composite video signals and the combined signal is digitized by an analog to digital converter. The digitized oscillatory signal is separated from the combined digital signal and is used to synchronize a digital phase locked loop. The digital phase locked loop generates two quadrature phase related signals having frequencies that are one-half the frequency of the analog oscillatory signal. These two signals are used to synchronously demodulate the chrominance signal components of the incoming video signals to obtain two quadrature phase related color difference signals. The control signal for the voltage controlled oscillator is generated by subtracting the burst phase of the demodulated color difference signals from a reference phase and integrating the difference.

Chrominance signal phase locked loop system for use in a digital

A digital television receiver includes a first phase locked loop which develops a sampling clock signal that is locked to the horizontal line synchronizing signals components of a composite video signal. A second digital phase locked loop is clocked by the sampling clock signal and develops a digital signal that is phase locked to the color burst signal. This signal is used as a regenerated color subcarrier signal to synchronously demodulate the chrominance components of the composite video signal into I and Q color difference signals. To compensate for frequency instabilities in the regenerated subcarrier signal caused by frequency instabilities in the line-locked clock signal, a third digital phase locked loop develops an oscillatory signal which is phase locked to a reference signal generated by a crystal controlled oscillator. Control signals from the third phase locked loop are applied to circuitry which develops control signal that is independent of the crystal frequency. This control signal is applied to the second phase locked loop to substantially compensate for frequency instabilities related to the clock signal. Since the control signal applied to the second phase locked loop is independent of the frequency of the control, there is no need for manual adjustment of the crystal oscillator.

Digital phase locked loop stabilization circuitry including a secondary

A digital television receiver includes a first phase locked loop which develops a sampling clock signal that is locked to the horizontal line synchronizing signal components of a composite video signal. A second digital phase locked loop is clocked by the sampling clock signal and develops a digital signal that is phase locked to the color burst signal. This digital signal is used as a regenerated color subcarrier signal to synchronously demodulate the chrominance components of the composite video signals into I and Q color difference signals. To compensate for frequency instability in the regenerated subcarrier signal caused by frequency instabilities in the line-locked clock signal, a third digital phase locked loop develops an output signal which is phase locked to a reference signal generated by a crystal controlled oscillator. Control signals from the third phase locked loop are applied to the second phase locked loop to substantially compensate for frequency instabilities in the regenerated subcarrier signal that are induced by the clock signals.

Digital phase locked loop stabilization circuitry using a secondary

A digital television receiver, having a line-locked clock, includes a partly digital, partly analog phase locked loop. This phase locked loop regenerates two quadrature phase related subcarrier signals that are used to synchronously demodulate the chrominance signal components of the composite video signals into two color informaiton signals. The phase locked loop includes an analog voltage controlled oscillator which generates a signal that is independent of any frequency instability in the line locked clock signal. An analog-to-digital converter digitizes this signal to provide one of the subcarrier signals. This subcarrier signal is applied to a read-only memory to generate the second subcarrier signal. The two color information signals are obtained by multiplying the chrominance signals by the first and second subcarrier signals. A phase comparator determines the phase of the vector sum of the two color information signals and compares this against a desired phase value to generate a phase difference signal. The phase difference signal is filtered and applied to a digital-to-analog converter which provides the frequency control signal for the analog voltage controlled oscillator. In a second embodiment of the invention, a tracking filter is inserted at the output port of the analog-to-digital converter to allow the quantization resolution of the analog-to-digital to be reduced without affecting the performance of the phase locked loop.

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Walter H Demmer