EP0691049A1 - Schaltungsanordnung zur ableitung eines von der qualität eines empfangenen multiplexsignals abhängigen qualitätssignals - Google Patents
Schaltungsanordnung zur ableitung eines von der qualität eines empfangenen multiplexsignals abhängigen qualitätssignalsInfo
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- Circuit arrangement for deriving a quality signal which is dependent on the quality of a received multiplex signal
- the invention relates to a circuit arrangement for deriving a quality signal dependent on the quality of a received multiplex signal in a stereo radio receiver, the multiplex signal being a sum signal (L + R) in baseband, a subcarrier modulated with a difference signal (LR) and a pilot signal with half Frequency of the subcarrier contains.
- the reception quality can fluctuate greatly - for example due to drops in the received field strength, through multi-path reception or through the reception of interference signals.
- various measures for masking these interference in the LF signal are known. For example, if reception is poor, it is possible to temporarily attenuate the LF signal or the
- the object of the present invention is to provide a circuit arrangement for deriving at least one quality signal which is dependent on the quality of a received signal.
- This object is achieved in that the multiplex signal is multiplied in digital form with a reference carrier obtained from a sampling clock generated in the radio receiver in two phase positions shifted by 90 ° with respect to one another in that the mixed signals resulting from the multiplication each have a correction signal to form corrected mixed signals are multiplied, that the corrected mixed signals are added and fed together with the sum signal to a matrix circuit to form stereo audio signals (L, R), that the mixed signals are further multiplied by the other correction signal and that the products of these multiplications are subtracted from one another and low-pass filtered become.
- the circuit arrangement according to the invention enables the detection of audible interference and is based on the evaluation of the symmetry of the auxiliary carrier-frequency stereo difference signal. It is essential in this procedure that an undisturbed signal due to the
- Two-sideband amplitude modulation must be symmetrical to the carrier. In the circuit arrangement according to the invention, this symmetry is ensured in the case of an undisturbed signal by feeding the side bands to be compared in the correct phase. An asymmetry therefore leads to the conclusion that there is an audible disturbance in the LF signal.
- a further development of the invention contributes to symmetry in the undisturbed case in an advantageous manner in that, in order to form the correction signals, the multiplex signal is multiplied by a reference pilot signal phase-coupled with the reference carrier in two phase positions shifted by 90 ° with respect to one another, in that the resulting further mixed signals are low-pass filtered and that the low-pass filtered further mixed signals for Formation of the first correction signal are squared and subtracted from one another and are multiplied with one another and with two to form the second correction signal.
- the effect of a fluctuation in the amplitude of the pilot signal which is not relevant for the purposes of the circuit arrangement according to the invention can be suppressed by squaring and adding the low-pass filtered further mixed signals to form a signal representing the amplitude of the pilot signal and by the correction signals using the amplitude of the pilot signal representing signal can be controlled in the sense of normalizing their amplitude.
- the direction of the asymmetry of the sidebands is not important, so that an amount is provided after the low-pass filter. This is preferably done by squaring.
- the quality signal derived with the circuit arrangement may well be an analog signal which can assume intermediate values between two limit values.
- a binary signal can be used for many purposes.
- One embodiment of the invention therefore provides that the amount formed is compared with a threshold value and the comparison result is output as a quality signal.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the circuit arrangement according to the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a part of a circuit arrangement for deriving the correction signals and which is only shown schematically in FIG. 1
- Fig. 3 is a block diagram of one in the
- circuit arrangement according to the invention is limited to implementation using individual circuits corresponding to the blocks. Rather, the circuit arrangement according to the invention can be implemented in a particularly advantageous manner with the aid of highly integrated circuits. In this case, digital signal processors can be used which, with suitable programming, carry out the processing steps shown in the block diagrams.
- the circuit arrangement according to the invention together with further circuit arrangements within an integrated circuit, can form essential parts of a radio receiver.
- a digital multiplex signal MPX is supplied via an input 1, which contains a sum signal L + R, a subcarrier modulated with a difference signal L-R and a pilot signal in a manner known per se.
- VHF stereo broadcasting has a frequency of 38 kHz, while the pilot signal has a frequency of 19 kHz.
- the angular frequency of the pilot signal is referred to below as w.
- multipliers 2, 3, 4, 5 and an adder 6 are provided in the stereo decoder according to FIG. 1, from whose output the demodulated difference signal LR together with the multiplex signal one of two further adders via a further multiplier 7 8, 9 existing matrix circuit is supplied.
- the decoded digital stereo audio signals L and R reach outputs 12, 13 via two low-pass filters 10, 11.
- the multiplex signal is first multiplied by a reference carrier, the multiplication in 3 being carried out with a reference carrier which is phase-shifted by 90 ° compared to the multiplication in 2.
- the samples of the reference carriers are read from a table 14, the frequency of the reference carriers being an integer fraction of the sampling frequency on which the multiplex signal is based.
- the sampling frequency is generated in a manner known per se in the radio receiver.
- the multiplex signal has the following form:
- MPXn ( v Ln + Rn) + (Ln-Rn) ' « sin (2wpn * T + 2 ⁇ ) + V ⁇ « sin (wpn « T + ⁇ ).
- the signals Imr1 and Imr2 are fed to further multipliers 4, 5, the output signals of which - hereinafter referred to as further mixed signals - can be described as follows:
- Ims1 ⁇ - (Ln-Rn) • cos2cccos2 ⁇ .
- Ims2 -i (Ln-Rn) • sin2ccsin2 ⁇
- the subsequent matrix circuit from the adders 8, 9 and the low-pass filters 10, 11 then generate the digital output signals L and R.
- the low-pass filters can also be designed such that in addition to the suppression of the frequencies above the useful signal, the de-emphasis is carried out.
- the generation of the correction signals G38c and G38s supplied to the multipliers 4 and 5 is first explained below with reference to FIG. 1.
- the multiplex signal MPX First multiplied by two reference pilot signals sin (wt) and cos (wt), which are phase-shifted by 90 ° with respect to one another and are read from a table 16.
- the output signals of these circuits are fed to the network 21, with the aid of which the correction signals G38s and G38c are derived. Before a description of the other parts of FIG. 1, the network 21 is described in more detail with reference to FIGS.
- the signals SPC1 and SPC2 supplied via the inputs 23, 24 are squared at 25, 26 and multiplied at 27.
- the squared signals SPC1 and SPC2 are subtracted from each other at 28 and added at 29.
- the product of the two signals is multiplied by "2 1 at 30, so that the following signals are generated:
- the quantity A characterizes the amplitude of the received pilot signal and is converted with the aid of a subtractor 31 and a threshold value circuit 32 into a switching signal STI which can be taken from an output 33 and used to indicate stereo reception.
- the signals F38c and F38s are freed from the component A with the aid of filters 34, 35, to which the signal A is also supplied, so that the influence of fluctuations in the amplitude of the pilot signal on the stereo decoding is eliminated.
- the signals G38c and G38s freed from component A can Outputs 36, 37 are removed and fed to the multipliers 4, 5 (FIG. 1).
- FIG. 3 An embodiment of the filters 34, 35 is shown in FIG. 3. It consists of two adders 41, 42, two
- Inputs 46, 47, 48 are fed signals F38c and A and a real number ⁇ , with which the step size can be controlled.
- the signal at the output 49 of the filter according to FIG. 3 then results
- G38sn G38sn-_1. + ⁇ (F38sn - A « G38sn- .1).
- the number ⁇ can be fixed. However, it is also possible to vary the number ⁇ and thus the settling time, for example to implement a short settling time corresponding to a high bandwidth of the filter immediately after a transmitter has been reset, which is then reduced to a smaller bandwidth for the purpose of improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
- the parts 50 to 59 of the circuit arrangement according to FIG. 1 represent a symmetry detector, the function of which is based on the fact that when the
- Stereo multiplex signal with a reference carrier which is in quadrature with the carrier of the stereo difference signal, in the case of sidebands with the same high amplitude, no output signal is produced.
- a signal is generated in any case in stereo decoders with quadrature demodulation of the carrier-frequency stereo difference signal, in which multiplication is carried out with two reference carriers which are phase-shifted by 90 ° and the phase position relative to the carrier is determined by a PLL circuit.
- the signal obtained from the demodulation of the quadrature component can be fed directly to a low-pass filter 53, which is followed by a sampling rate conversion 54 around the divider 24.
- An amount is then formed at 55, whereupon the resulting signal SD1 is compared with a threshold value SDS at 56 and 57.
- the comparison result is evaluated in such a way that the signal ASD at the output 59 has the value 1 if the signal SD1 is greater than the threshold value SDS.
- the signal processing described below is required before the low-pass filtering at 53.
- the signal Imr1 is multiplied by the correction signal G38s.
- the signal Imr2 is multiplied at 51 by the correction signal G38c.
- the output signals of the multipliers 50, 51 are subtracted from one another at 52 and fed to the low-pass filter 53.
- the signal ASD representing the reception quality can be used to switch from stereo to mono reception and can be supplied to the multiplier 7 instead of the signal D, for example.
- other quantities can be used to form the signal D, such as the received field strength via the amplitude of the IF signal or spectral components in the multiplex signal above 60 kHz. These criteria can also be combined in a suitable manner, which is indicated in FIG. 1 in the form of a circuit 22.
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