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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1979
Kouichi Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Amazawa, Ohmiya, JP;
Nippon Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Clarion Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For use in combination with a gain controllable amplifier for amplifying an input signal to produce an amplified signal with the gain controlled by a gain control signal, an automatic gain control circuit comprises a first section for shifting the level of the amplified signal by a first reference level and a second section for carrying out envelope detection of the amplified signal to produce an envelope detected signal of which the level is shifted by a second reference level different from the first reference level. A comparator compares the level-shifted signal with the envelope-detected signal to produce a pulse signal when the level of the latter signal traverses that of the former. The pulse signal is supplied to a smoothing circuit to produce a smoothed signal serving as the gain control signal.