FM receiver having variable IF filter
AssigneeH.U.C. Elektronik GmbH
InventorJens Hansen
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Abstract
In an FM receiver where the center frequency of an IF filter is varied depending on the received signal, an arrangement is described where the bandwidth of the variable IF filter is changed depending on reception quality of the received signal.
Claims11
An FM receiver, for use in mobile reception, having a variable IF filter, the center frequency of the IF filter being returned in dependence on the modulation of a received signal, the bandwidth of the IF filter being selectively variable, the bandwidth being changed in response to an output signal from a signal reception quality circuit, wherein the signal output from the reception quality circuit is formed by an adjacent channel detection circuit, wherein the adjacent-channel detection circuit includes a series connection composed of the following stages:
- a first envelope curve demodulator to which is fed the output signal of a first filter stage of said IF filter amplitude modulated by interferences between a useful and an adjacent channel;
- at least one of a high and a low pass filter for separating the demodulated interference signal at the output of the first envelope curve demodulator from at least one of high and low frequency signal components;
- a second envelope curve demodulator which forms an envelope curve signal by way of the demodulated, filtered interference signal, with the level of the envelope curve being a measure for the level of the adjacent channel carrier;
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- a threshold switching stage which compares the envelope curve signal with a predetermined reference level and changes the bandwidth of the variable IF filter if the reference level is exceeded.
An FM receiver, comprising:
- a variable IF filter, having at least one filter stage, the center frequency of the variable IF filter being retuned in dependence on a received signal;
- means for selecting the passband of the variable IF filter so that the shape of the passband characteristic of the variable IF filter is changed depending on reception quality, said means for selecting including an adjacent channel detection circuit which produces a switching signal based on the reception quality;
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- wherein said adjacent channel detection circuit includes the following stages connected in series:
- a first envelope curve demodulator which receives an output signal from a first filter stage of said variable IF filter which signal may include amplitude components caused by interference between a useful and an adjacent channel, and outputs a demodulated interference signal;
- at least one of a high and a low pass filter for separating the demodulated interference signal output from said first envelope curve demodulator from at least one of high and low frequency signal components, and outputs a demodulated, filtered interference signal;
- a second envelope curve demodulator which forms an envelope curve signal from the demodulated, filtered interference signal, the level of the envelope curve signal depending on the level of the adjacent channel carrier;
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- a threshold switching stage which compares the envelope curve signal from the second envelope curve demodulator with a predetermined reference level and if the reference level is exceeded emits the switching signal for changing the passband of the variable IF filter.
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