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AssigneeGeneral Instrument Corporation
InventorsDipak R. Patel, Navaneetha Krishna Kankipati, Craig G. Martin
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A receiver is tuned to a transmission frequency of a data signal after the receiver has already locked onto a frequency carrying the data signal. A frequency offset between a locked frequency of a tuner on the receiver and the actual transmission frequency is determined by a comparator. If the frequency offset is greater than a threshold value, then the tuner is stepped to another frequency and the frequency offset is determined again. The direction of the tuning step can be determined by comparing multiple frequency offsets. An average value of multiple frequency offset measurements may also be used to determine if the tuner should retune to another frequency by comparison with the threshold value.
A receiver comprising:
A method of tuning a receiver to a transmission frequency comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium carrying instructions for a computer to perform a method of tuning a receiver to a transmission frequency comprising the steps of:
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