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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1978
Toshinori Murata, Yokohama, JP;
Shigeo Matsuura, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
An automatic channel selection apparatus comprises an electronic tuner having a local oscillator an oscillation frequency of which is controlled by an applied voltage, a voltage sweep circuit for sweeping the voltage to be applied to the local oscillator, means for deriving from an output of the local oscillator, signals of different phases and combining those signals, a detector for envelope-detecting an output of the deriving means and means for counting the number of varying cycle periods in the output of the detector which changes periodically each time the oscillation frequency of the local oscillator changes by a given amount which is inversely proportional to the phase difference to change a tuning frequency of the electronic tuner by a specified amount.