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US 4,142,208 AGranted
System for automatically correcting the duty factor of the carrier wave arising from reading-out a data carrier
AssigneeThomson-Brandt
InventorsPierre Oprandi, Jean-Claude Lehureau, Claude Puech, Jean-Paul Peltier, Francois Le Carvennec, Jean-Pierre Lacotte, Claude Bricot
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the read-out of a data carrier having a track along which there is transcribed an angularly modulated carrier wave. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a system for processing the read-out signal, which uses a feedback loop correcting the duty factor of a restored rectangular waveform when its value deviates from the value 0.5.
Claims4
A system for demodulating a signal obtained from reading out a data carrier, said system comprising:
- frequency demodulator means;
- waveform conversion means for producing a rectangular waveform in response to said signal, and applying said rectangular waveform to the input of said demodulator means;
- and means for automatically correcting the duty factor of said rectangular waveform said correcting means comprising filter means connected to the output of said waveform conversion means for selectively transmitting the mean amplitude of said rectangular waveform, voltage comparator means having a first input connected to the output of said filter means and a second input fed with a reference voltage, and feedback means connecting the output at said comparator means to a control input of said waveform conversion means;
- the voltage applied to said control input controlling the switching threshold of said waveform conversion means;
- said reference voltage being adjusted for causing the duty factor of said rectangular waveform of being substantially equal to 0.5.
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