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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 38 ;
Abstract
In a circuit arrangement for a dropout detector for the detection of dropouts in signals which are reproduced from a record carrier, the signal path includes an amplitude discriminator before the threshold device which supplies a switching signal in the event of a dropout, the discriminator characteristic between two threshold levels of the output signals having a steep edge for amplitude discrimination in whose range the signal level which is decisive for the actuation of the threshold device is situated.