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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ryo Ando, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327156 ; 327160 ; 331 25 ;
Abstract
A phase locked loop circuit for extracting a clock component from an input signal and generating a phase locked clock signal. Operates to detect a partial loss of the input signal and keep the input signal of a low-pass filter that is one component of the circuit zero. The clock signal is controlled to be far from an originally assumed signal while a partial loss of the input signal is detected. Hence, the pull-in operation of the PLL is expedited after the normal clock signal can be extracted.