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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001

Filed:

Jun. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Kalavai J. Raghunath, Chatham, NJ (US);

Marta M. Rambaud, Allentown, PA (US);

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ;
Abstract

A system detects the presence of NTSC co-channel interference and enables NTSC comb-filtering when the NTSC signal is detected. The system comb-filters the baseband signal to generate a filtered baseband signal, and accumulates the noise power of the baseband and filtered baseband signals. The noise power of the baseband and filtered baseband signals is compared by forming a difference between the two noise powers, and the system detects the NTSC signal when the difference exceeds a threshold T. The threshold T is related to a product of a signal power of the baseband signal and a minimum carrier to noise ratio for the ATSC system.


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