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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1979
Michael G Croll, Horsham, GB;
British Broadcasting Corporation, London, GB;
Abstract
Encoded digital television signals having a defined bandwidth are transmitted at reduced bandwidth by regularly omitting (18) one in every n of the signal samples, where n is greater than two and is preferably three or four. At a receiver the omitted samples are regenerated by estimating (26) their values from the samples of the reduced-rate transmitted signal by making use of frequency components outside the normal defined bandwidth of the original signal. The estimation can be achieved by a symmetrical digital transversal filter of which one in every n coefficients is zero, the amplitude/frequency characteristics of the filter being unity throughout the defined bandwidth of the TV signal and antisymmetric about half the mean lower sample rate.