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US 7,480,350 B2Granted
Carrier recovery apparatus and broadcasting receiver using the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsTok Kim, Sung Ryong Hong
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Abstract
Provided is a carrier recovery apparatus in a vestigial sideband modulation (VSB) type digital television (DTV) receiver. The carrier recovery apparatus dynamically controls a sign determination level which is a reference for determining a sign of an I signal in a sign extractor. Therefore, the carrier recover apparatus can eliminate unnecessary sign extraction caused by zero-crossing which is generated when the receiver receives a pilot signal weaken by a channel ghost, and improves the frequency lock performance in the receiver. Specially, the carrier recover apparatus can effectively improve the frequency lock performance when comparatively large pattern jitter is existed in a low pass signal caused by a ghost signal produces a long delay time.
Claims17
A carrier recovery apparatus comprising:
- a first low pass filter for receiving an I baseband signal from a complex multiplier and extracting a pilot component of the I baseband signal by eliminating data components in the I baseband signal, wherein the complex multiplier converts a digital I passband signal and a digital Q passband signal to generate the I baseband signal and a Q baseband signal;
- a second low pass filter for eliminating data components from the Q baseband signal;
- a delay for converting the pilot component of the I baseband signal from the first low pass filter to a DC component;
- a sign extractor for selecting a sign determination level comprising at least one difference value and determining a sign of the I baseband signal output from the delay according to the selected sign determination level;
- an accumulator for accumulating output signals of the sign extractor and outputting a sign determination level control signal to the sign extractor, wherein the sign determination level is determined according to an average value of the output signals compared to a threshold value;
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- a multiplier for generating a phase error by multiplying the sign of the I baseband signal and the eliminated data components from the Q baseband signal.
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A carrier recovery apparatus comprising:
- a phase divider for dividing a digital passband signal to an I passband signal and a Q passband signal;
- a complex multiplier for shifting the I passband signal and the Q passband signal to an I baseband signal and a Q baseband signal by multiplying the I passband signal and the Q passband signal by a complex carrier of cosine wave (COS) and a complex earner of sine wave (SIN), respectively, wherein the complex carriers are carrier recovered complex carriers;
- a frequency phase error detector (FPED) for passing frequency components comprising a pilot component from the I baseband signal and the Q baseband signal, controlling a sign determination level by using an average value of the I baseband signal and the Q baseband signal where frequencies comprising data components are eliminated, and detecting a frequency phase error,
- wherein the frequency phase error detector comprises an accumulator for accumulating output signals of a sign extractor and outputting a sign determination level control signal to the sign extractor, wherein the sign determination level is determined according to an average value of the output signals compared to a threshold value;
- a loop filter for filtering and integrating the frequency phase error;
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- a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) unit for generating the complex carriers of the cosine wave (COS) and the sine wave (SIN) associated with the output of the loop filter and outputting the generated complex carriers.
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A broadcasting receiver comprising:
- an analog processing unit for tuning a predetermined channel frequency in a received sky wave signal, eliminating a radio frequency component generated during tuning an adjacent channel interference, and outputting an analog passband signal;
- an A/D converter for converting the analog passband signal to a digital passband signal;
- an audio/video (A/V) signal processing unit for eliminating the adjacent channel interference additionally inserted to the output signal of a carrier recovery by a transmission channel, correcting errors, recovering a video and audio signal from a corrected signal, and outputting the recovered video and audio signals;
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- a carrier recovery apparatus comprising:
- a first low pass filter for receiving an I baseband signal from a complex multiplier and extracting a pilot component of the I baseband signal by eliminating data components in the I baseband signal, wherein the complex multiplier converts a digital I passband signal and a digital Q passband signal of the digital passband signal to generate the I baseband signal and a Q baseband signal;
- a second low pass filter for eliminating data components from the Q baseband signal;
- a delay for converting the pilot component of the I baseband signal from the first low pass filter to a DC component;
- a sign extractor for selecting a sign determination level comprising at least one difference value and determining a sign of the I baseband signal output from the delay according to the selected sign determination level;
- an accumulator for accumulating output signals of the sign extractor and outputting a sign determination level control signal to the sign extractor, wherein the sign determination level is determined according to an average value of the output signals compared to a threshold value;
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- a multiplier for generating a phase error by multiplying the sign of the I baseband signal and the data component eliminated Q baseband signal.
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