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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:
Dec. 07, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Hilpert, Gundelfingen, DE;
Stefan Mueller, Freiburg, DE;
Assignee:
Deutsche ITT Industries GmbH, Freiburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3581921 ; 3581931 ; 358198 ; 4551613 ; 4551542 ; 4551913 ;
Abstract
Apparatus and method for frequency-tuning the frequency-modulated sound carriers of multichannel sound transmission signals in a satellite television receiver. By utilizing digital signal processing, the audio range of the television satellite channel is searched for the desired sound carrier in steps. Then the FM center frequency is determined by calculating the average amplitude density in each measurement interval.