US3708623A - Compatible four channel fm system - Google Patents

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US3708623A
US3708623A US00032989A US3708623DA US3708623A US 3708623 A US3708623 A US 3708623A US 00032989 A US00032989 A US 00032989A US 3708623D A US3708623D A US 3708623DA US 3708623 A US3708623 A US 3708623A
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  • ABSTRACT Re erences Cited A four channel FM system is described.
  • the usual 19 kHz pilot signal is employed to switch between front and rear information, while in 311323233 31132? 33111111:11;""31111111333111131:113$ 2 31 other, a 76 switching signal is employed M118 3,176,074 3/1965 Browne ..179/15 BT Purpose" 3,375,329 3/1968 Prouty ..179/l00.1 TD 2,870,248 1/1959 va1a16n..
  • a four channel audio system is provided which is fully compatible with standard FM stereo and mono equipment.
  • a switching or sampling system is employed so that four audio channels are transmitted by the FM stationa
  • These four channels are designated left front, right front, left rear and right rear and are sometimes hereinafter abbreviated LF, RF, LR and RR, respectively.
  • these four channels are superimposed on the 38 kHz subcarrier and the usual 19 kHz pilot signal is used as a switching signal.
  • the left front and right front information is transmitted while during the second half cycle, the left rear and right rear information is transmitted.
  • the 19 kHz pilot is then used as a switching signal between the front and rear information as is hereinafter described in detail while the 38 kHz signal switches between left and right in the usual manner.
  • This system has the advantage of not requiring an increase in bandwidth, not requiring any additional pilot or subcarrier frequencies and permits the radio station to continue to use its normal 67 kHz subcarrier for SCA purposes.
  • this embodiment does not ordinarilypermit the use of the full frequency spectrum for front and back information so that it is sometimes preferable to provide another subcarrier to carry the front and rear information.
  • the 19' kHz pilot signal is quadrupled and this quadrupled signal is used for switching between front and backinformation.
  • Both embodiments of the present invention are completely compatible with present mono and stereo equipment.
  • the main channel carries all four audio channels so that on a mono receiver the four audio signals are combined.
  • On a stereo receiver the left and the right information is extracted in the usual manner and it is only with the receiver equipped for four channel reception that the. signal producedby the system of the present invention is broken into its four components.
  • the system utilizing the 76 kHz switching signal has the additional. advantage that there is a complete reproduction of the full audio bandwidth by each of the four channels.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a transmitter embodying the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a receiver embodying the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is an analogy diagram of one of the encoders shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is a similar diagram of one of the decoders utilized in FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 5 is a spectrum diagram of the signal employed during the transmission of front channel information.
  • FIG. 6 is a similar diagram showing the signal employed during the transmission of rear channel information.
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram of the composite wave form employed.
  • FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing how combiner net-.
  • FIG. 10 is a wave form of that embodiment of the invention wherein a 76 kHz subcarrier is employed.
  • FIG. 11 is a band distribution diagram of the system using the 76 kHz subcarrier.
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram of the encoder employed with the 76 kHz subcarrier system.
  • FIG. 13 is a block diagram of the receiver employed with the system.
  • FIG. 14 is a switch analogy for the transmitter.
  • FIG. 15 is a switch analogy for the receiver.
  • FIGS. 1 through 9 illustrate that embodiment of the invention employing a l9 kHz switching signal.
  • the authorized stereophonic system used in the United States includes a multiplex signal wherein left and right channel information is carried on a single carrier wave.
  • the composite signal includes a main channel signal on the carrier frequency which contains both the right and left signals.
  • a suppressed carrier double side band signal is provided on a subcarrier at 38 kHz which carries the left minus right signal.
  • a 19 kHz pilot signal is provided for phase lock of the 38 kHz side bands.
  • S.C.A. subsidiary communication authorization
  • this embodiment of the invention is carried out by employing the 19 kHz pilot signal as a switching signal to switch between front and back information to provide for front and back as well as left and right signals.
  • FIGS. 1 and 3 The method of transmitting the signal is shown in FIGS. 1 and 3.
  • a standard multiplex exciter 8 is employed, and this generates a 19 kHz pilot signal which serves as the switching signal for the front and rear information.
  • This signal is passed through lead 10 to diodes 12 and 14 and alternate half cycles are passed by leads l3 and l5'to the encoders l7 and 19.
  • One of these encoders is shown in analog form in FIG. 3 and consists of switches 16 and 18.
  • the encoder has a line 20 leading to switch 16 for front information and a line 22 leading to switch 18 for rear information and a common output line 24.
  • the switches are actuated by pulses from lines 13 and 15 respectively.
  • switch 16 is closed so that the front information is fed through line 24 while on the following negative half cycle, switch 18 is closed so that the rear information is fed through line 24.
  • the other encoder is not described since it operates in exactly the same way with the right front and rear information.
  • the left information fed through line 24 to the multiplex exciter 8 while the corresponding right channel information is fed through line 26 to the exciter.
  • the signal generated by the exciter is then fed to the transmitter 28.
  • FIG. 5 represents the signal as it is being transmitted during the first or positive half cycle of the 19 kHz signal. It will be seen that at frequency (zero in this sense represents the nominal carrier frequency of the FM station) there is present up to l kHz, a signal representing the left front plus right front information. Centered on 38 kHz is the left front minus right front information.
  • FIG. 6 the signal is shown during the second or negative half cycle of the 19 kHz signal. During this half cycle, the main channel is carrying the left plus right information but in this case it is the rear information while similarly centered on 38 kHz the left minus right information is sent but here again it is the rear information. It will be seen that in both instances, there is no interference with the normal S.C.A. signal.
  • the method of receiving a signal is shown in FIGS. 2 and 4.
  • the signal is received on an ordinary FM tuner 30 and fed to a standard multiplex demodulator 32.
  • the 19 kHz signal is taken from line 34 and passed to diodes 36 and 38 and the rectified 19 kHz pulses are passed through lines 40 and 42 to the decoders 44 and 46.
  • the left and right channel information is taken from the demodulator 32 and passed through lines 48 and 50 to the respective decoders.
  • the upper switch is actuated by the positive half cycles from line 40 while the lower switch is operated by the negative half cycles from line 42 so that the decoder switches between the left front and the right front on positive and negative pulses of the 19 kHz signal.
  • the signals are then taken from the decoder and amplified in the usual way.
  • the right channel information is handled in the same manner by the decoder 46.
  • low pass filters which pass only frequencies below kHz are employed in the input leads to the encoders, i.e., leads and 22 of encoder 17 and the corresponding leads of the right hand encoder 19. Similar low pass filters are also employed in the output leads of decoders 44 and 46.
  • FIG. 7 The operation of the overall system can best be seen in FIG. 7 wherein it is assumed that demodulation takes place on a time division basis although it will be obvious that the invention is equally applicable to demodulators which operate on a matrixin'g system or a combination of time division and matrixing.
  • FIG. 7
  • . represents one complete cycle of the 19 kHz signal and two complete cycles of the 38 kHz subcarrier.
  • front information exclusively is being sent both on the main channel and on the 38 kHz subcarrier.
  • this is a combination of the left front and right front information while on the 38 kHz subcarrier, left front information is being sent on the upper side band and right front information on the lower side band.
  • the main channel carrying left rear plus right rear information while on the 38 kHz signal
  • left rear information is carried on the upper side hand while right rear information is carried on the lower side band.
  • This combining network combines all frequencies above 4 kI-Iz so that for the higher frequencies, the information is carried on both the front and the rear channels. At frequencies under 4 kHz there is a separation between front and back. This gives very good presence since it has been found that a great deal of the separation presence occurs below 4 kHz.
  • the 19 kHz switching signal in the case of such receiver is not a clean 19 kHz but has certain modulation components imposed thereon. In other words, the 19 kHz switching signal contains amplitude modulated components so that switching does not always take place at the exact points desired.
  • a limiter as is shown in FIG. 9 may be employed with such receivers.
  • the tuner 54 feeds a signal through line 56 to the audio gates 58 and at the same time the signal is fed to the 19 kHz tuned amplifier 60.
  • the 19 kHz signal is now passed to the limiter and doubler 62.
  • the limited 19 kHz signal is passed through line 64 to the audio gates to perform the switching function and, since it is now free of all amplituded modulated components, provides a clean switching action.
  • the doubled signal is fed to the 38 kHz amplifier 66 which serves as the switching signal for the right and left information in the usual manner.
  • Most FM receivers do not require this added circuitry, particularly the better grade of receivers which use a phase locked oscillator rather than the simple tuned amplifier and doubler.
  • the 19 kHz signal is first doubled in the usual manner to act as a switching signal for the left and right information and again doubled to produce a 76 kHz signal which serves to switch the front and rear information.
  • the order in which. theaudio signals are transmitted is changed to LR, LF, RR and RF. It is also necessary to make a change in the bandwidth to handle the system and in the specific system described, this must be at least 91 kHz for the four channel transmission and it may be increased to l kHz to handle S.C.A. subcarrier.
  • FIG. 11 one half of the composite signal is shown.
  • a main channel in the usual manner extending from 50 Hz to kHz and this contains the left plus right information, both front and rear.
  • a pilot signal at 19 kHz and a first subchannel centered on 38 kHz.
  • This first subchannel contains the left minus right information, including both front and rear.
  • a second subchannel is centered on 76 kHz and this contains the front minus rear information.
  • a main channel extending up to 15 kHz and including the sum of the signals, for example, left and right both front and rear.
  • a 19 kHz pilot signal A 19 kHz pilot signal.
  • the first of these equations is assigned to the main channel and is the sum of the signals, i.e., (Lf-i-Lr-l-l-Rr); this main channel extending up to 15 kHz.
  • the second equation is (Lf-I-Lr-R Rr) and is located in the first sub-channel which is centered at 38 kHz.
  • Also located in the first sub-channel is another equation (LfLrRf+Rr). To differentiate these two equations, they are modulated in quadrature; that is, the first being the sine of 38 kHz and the second being the cosine of 38 kHz.
  • the final equation is centered at 76 kHz is (LfLr+Rf-Rr).
  • the origin of the time scale is chosen as the beginning of one of the sampling pulses:
  • si (t) is a periodic function with a fundamental frequency 2f and has a fourier series representation
  • This composite signal is generated by the transmitter circuit as shown in FIG. 12 and theswitch analogy as shown in FIG. 14 wherein the switch analogy switches at the rates of 76 kHz and 38 kHz.
  • the sampling system is shown. There is shown one full cycle of the 38 kHz subcarrier and natu-. rally two cycles of the newly generated 76 kHz subcarrier.
  • the 38 kHz signal is utilized by a stereophonic receiver in the usual manner so that the sampling points would be at points 68 and 70 for the left and right handed information.
  • the signal centered on the 76 kHz subcarrier contains the front minus rear infonnation so that on a four channel audio system the sampling points would be at 72, 74, 76 and 78 to extract the desired information.
  • FIG. 13 there is shown a block diagram of how the decoder works.
  • the composite signal comes from the tuner through line 80 and a portion of the composite signal goes to the 19 kHz amplifier 82.
  • the composite signal is also fed to the audio gates 84.
  • the 19 kHz signal is doubled to 38 kHz in the doubler 86 and this signal is passed through line 88 to the audio gate 84 where it is used to switch between the right and left information.
  • a portion of the signal is also sent to the second doubler 90 which puts out a signal at 76 kHz through line 92 which is also sent to the audio gates and utilized to switch between front and back information.
  • the transmitter circuit is shown in FIG. 12 and essentially consists of the opposite circuit from that described for the decoder.
  • four sources of audio are supplied through the four lines 94 A, B, C and D to the audio gates 96.
  • a 76 kHz oscillator 98 is provided which sends a signal to the audio gates for switching between the front and the back information.
  • the signal is divided by two in divider 100 and a portion of this 38 kHz signal is sent to the audio gates for switching between right and left information while a portion of this signal is sent to the divider 102 for-the generation of the 19 kHz pilot signal.
  • the pilot signal is combined with the composite signal from the audio gates to produce a composite signal on 104 which can be used to modulate a standard FM transmitter.
  • this signal will look like the signal of FIG. 11 except that no description has been included of the generation of the SCA band.
  • FIG. 14 shows a mechanical switch analogy of the switching circuit and this as well as FIG. should be utilized in conjunction with FIG. 10.
  • switch 104 operates at a frequency of 38 kHz for sampling the right and left information while switch 106 operates at twice this frequency for sampling the left rear and left front information while switch 108 operates at the same frequency for the same purpose in the right channel.
  • switch 104 in the upper position while switches 106 and 108 are also in the upper position.
  • Switch 108 is in effect inoperative since the right channel is open but switch 106 switches the left rear information into the outgoing signal.
  • Now switch 106 (as well as 108) moves to the lower position so that the left front information is sampled.
  • switch 104 moves to the lower position while switch 108 repeats the operation for sampling the right front and rear information.
  • FIG. 15 gives a similar analogy for the receiver where switch 110 operating at a frequency of 38 kHz switches between right and left information while switches 112 and 114 similarly switch between front and rear information.
  • switch 110 operating at a frequency of 38 kHz switches between right and left information while switches 112 and 114 similarly switch between front and rear information.
  • the signal is completely compatible with either a mono, stereo, or four channel receiver.
  • a mono receiver one would hear the main channel which during two cycles of the 76 kHz subcarrier will contain the information from all four channels.
  • a stereo receiver left front and left rear information will be extracted during the first 180 period of the 38 kHz subcarrier while the right front and right rear information will be received during the second period.
  • the four signals would be individually received as previously described.
  • the complete signal of the first embodiment has been contained within the assigned bandwidth and that there has been no interference with an S.C.A. signal, if this is being sent.
  • the four signals are all modulated to the full 15 kHz bandwidth so that there is no deterioration of separation over this bandwidth.
  • the four signals are also given the same percentage of modulation so there is no deterioration of the signal to noise ratio.
  • a compatible four channel audio system for use in conjunction with an F. M. radio transmitter having a composite signal modulated on the carrier thereof consisting of a main channel, a 19 kHz synchronizing pilot signal, a first sub-channel which is the second harmonic of said pilot signal and a second sub-channel which is the fourth harmonic of said pilot signal, wherein said composite signal is generated by providing first, second, third and fourth audio signals, providing a 76 kHz sub-carrier frequency and utilizing said 76 kHz frequency to switch a first audio gate between the first and second audio signals and a second audio gate to switch between said third and fourth audio signals, providing a 38 kHz sub-carrier frequency and utilizing said 38 kHz frequency to switch a third audio gate between the outputs of the said first two audio gates, providing a pilot signal of 19 kHz and combining said pilot signal with the output of said third audio gate and utilizing this composite signal to modulate an F .M. transmitter.
  • first audio gate means for switching said composite signal at said first switching frequency into two signals
  • second audio gate means for switching each of said two signals generated by said first audio gate means at said second switching frequency to provide four audio output signals.
  • a four channel audio system for use in conjunction with an F. M. radio transmitter for transmitting a composite signal which composite signal includes a main channel with first, plus second, plus third and plus' fourth audio signals combined thereon, a pilot signal removed from said main channel, a first suppressed sub-channel which is the second harmonic of said pilot signal, said first sub-channel having first, plus second,.
  • a main channel extending up to kHz having first, plus second, plus third, plus fourth audio signals
  • e. means to provide a 38 kHz signal and to utilize said signal to switch between said first plus second and third plusfourth audio signals
  • g f. means to provide a 76 kHz signal and to utilize said signal to switch between said first and second audio signals and between said third and fourth audio signals.
  • a four channel RM. system which is fully compatible with existing mono and stereo standards wherein there is employed a composite signal having a main channel extending to 15 kl-lz'from the carrier frequency of an F.M. transmitter with plus first, plus second, plus third and plus fourth audio signals combined thereon, a 19 kHz pilot signal removed from said carrier frequency, a first sub-channel which is the second harmonic of said pilot signal, said first subchannel containing two sub-carriers, the first modulated with the audio signal: plus first, plus second minus third minus fourth audio signals and in quadrature therewith the second subcarrier modulated with the audio signal: plus first, minus second, minus third and plus fourth audio signals and a second sub-channel centered on the fourth harmonic of said pilot signal containing a sub-carrier modulated with the audio signal: plus first, minussecond, plus third and minus fourth audio signals.

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