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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:
Apr. 12, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 09, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Juri Tults, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4551821 ; 4551823 ; 4551923 ; 4551971 ; 455265 ;
Abstract
An indication of stability of a tuning system after changing, the local oscillator frequency to a predetermined frequency, such as a frequency corresponding to a new channel during a channel changing operation or to a new search frequency during a search, is provided by monitoring an AFT signal during the frequency changing operation and determining when it remains consistent for a predetermined time.