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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Hitonobu Furukawa, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Ozeki, Osaka, JP;
Masami Takigawa, Osaka, JP;
Junichi Fukutani, Aichi, JP;
Yuichi Watanabe, Gifu, JP;
Kazuyori Domoto, Aichi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A receiver for a digital broadcasting service have a compatibility between tuning to a desired channel at a short period of time and an improve ment of a bit error rate (BER) characteristics. In a case where a target wave is fluctuated, to prevent the receiver from having a significant declination of BER characteristics and to ensure the reproduction of high quality images, the receiver includes an automatic gain controller including a loop filter in which the frequency range of the loop filter can be switched according to an output of a synchronous state discriminator. The frequency band of the loop filter is selectively adjusted to one setting designed for minimizing the duration for tuning a desired channel before a synchronous state is established. After the synchronous state established, the frequency band of the loop filter is switched to another setting designed for enhancing BER characteristics.