Digital television receiver with match filter responsive to field synchronization code

Abstract

A radio receiver for receiving a selected digital TV signal uses final intermediate frequency signals the carrier frequencies of which are multiples of symbol rate. The radio receiver has a match filter receptive of rectified samples of digitized intermediate-frequency signal and responsive to the amplitude of the intermediate-frequency carrier being modulated in accordance with the field synchronization code group to generate a pulsed response to the beginning of each data field. This pulsed response is used to determine when data segment synchronization information should occur, so its detection is more certain to be accurate and data segment synchronization is more rapidly determined. Symbol synchronization is rapidly inferred from the field synchronization and data segment synchronization, so that the samples in each data line can be counted. The complex carrier frequencies of the final intermediate frequency signals are generated in response to the samples per data line count, for implementing synchronous detection to baseband. The adjustment of the carrier frequency of the final intermediate frequency signal to be a prescribed multiple of symbol rate is done in response to an automatic-frequency-and-phase-control signal developed from the synchronous detection results.