Circuitry for multiplying a PCM signal by a sinusoid

Claim 2

Apparatus for multiplying sampled data signals, including a component having a predetermined frequency, by a sinusoid, comprising: a terminal for applying said sampled data signal; a plurality of scaling circuits respectively coupled to said terminal, for providing a plurality of signals representing said sampled data signal scaled by factors corresponding substantially to trigonometric ratios representing one of the sines and cosines of angular increments between 0 degrees and at least 90 degrees; and multiplexing means coupled to said plurality of scaling circuits for sequentially applying said plurality of signals to an output terminal in an order to produce an output signal corresponding to said sampled data signal multiplied by a sinusoid; and means coupled to said multiplexing means, and responsive to said output signal, for phase locking said sinusoid to said component having a predetermined frequency.

Claim 3

The apparatus set forth in claim 1 wherein said sampled data signal is a serial-bit PCM digital signal and said plurality of scaling circuits include: delay means having an input coupled to said terminal and having a plurality of output terminals at which replicas of said PCM digital signal delayed by incremental sample bit periods are avaialble; and a plurality of sample combining means for combining respective ones of said replicas to produce samples representing said PCM digital signals scaled by approximations to said trigonometric ratios.

Claim 4

The apparatus set forth in claim 1 wherein said scale factors are all positive valued and said multiplexing means includes a signal polarity reversing circuit for reversing the polarity of ones of the sequentially applied signals over periods of half cycles of said sinusoid.

Claim 5

Apparatus for processing sampled data signals, including a sinusoidal component, comprising: means for applying said sampled data signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said means for applying said sampled data signal, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said sampled data signals respectively substantially scaled by sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N where N is an integer equal to the ratio of the period of said sinusoidal component to the period of the rate of occurrence of said sampled data signal; multiplexing means coupled to said plurality of scaling means for selectively applying, at said sample rate, said scaled signals to an output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said sampled data signals multiplied by a sinusoid; and means coupled to the output terminal of said multiplexing means for phase locking the rate of sample occurrence of said sampled data signal to said sinusoidal component.

Claim 6

Apparatus for processing sampled data signals, including a sinusoidal component, comprising: means for applying said sampled data signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said means for applying said sampled data signal, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said sampled data signals respectively substantially scaled by sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N where N is an integer equal to the ratio of the period of said sinusoidal component to the period of the rate of occurrence of said sampled data signal; multiplexing means coupled to said plurality of scaling means for selectively applying, at said sample rate, said scaled signals to an output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said sampled data signals multiplied by a sinusoid; and means coupled to the output terminal of said multiplexing means for phase locking the rate of sample occurrence of said sampled data signal to said sinusoidal component.

Claim 7

The apparatus set forth in claim 4 wherein said multiplexing means includes polarity reversing circuitry for selectively reversing the polarity of samples of said signal applied to said output terminal over alternate half periods of said sinusoid.

Claim 8

The apparatus set forth in claim 5 wherein said multiplexing means includes means for selectively applying, at said sample rate, ones of said scaled signals to a further output terminal, in a sequence to produce a further signal corresponding to said sampled data signals multiplied by a sinusoid having a period K times the reciprocal of said sample rate, where K is one of a multiple and submultiple of N.

Claim 9

The apparatus set forth in claim 6 wherein said multiplexing means includes further polarity reversing circuitry for selectively reversing the polarity of samples of said further signal over alternate half periods of said sinusoid having a period K times the reciprocal of said sample rate.

Claim 10

The apparatus set forth in claim 6 wherein said means for phase locking the sample rate to said sinusoid comprises: a source of analog signal; sampling means having an input coupled to said source, having a sampling clock input terminal and having an output coupled to said scaling means; a controlled oscillator having an output coupled to said sampling clock input terminal and having a control input terminal; signal averaging means having an output coupled to the control input terminal of said controlled oscillator and having an input terminal coupled to said multiplexing means.

Claim 11

The apparatus set forth in claim 8 wherein said sampling means includes an analog-to-digital converter for providing PCM representations of said samples.

Claim 12

Apparatus for digitally processing a signal including a pilot component, said apparatus comprising: an input terminal for applying said signal; means, having a control input terminal, for providing a sampling signal at a predetermined rate; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to said input terminal and responsive to said sampling signal for providing PCM samples at said predetermined rate and corresponding to said signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said analog-to-digital converter, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said PCM samples respectively scaled by factors substantially corresponding to sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N, where N is an integer; multiplexing means, coupled to said plurality of scaling means, for selectively applying at said predetermined rate, said scaled samples to a first output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said PCM samples mulitplied by a sinusoid having a period N times the reciprocal of said predetermined rate; and means coupled to said first output terminal and said control input terminal for synchronizing said sampling signal to said pilot component.

Claim 13

Apparatus for digitally processing a signal including a pilot component, said apparatus comprising: an input terminal for applying said signal; means, having a control input terminal, for providing a sampling signal at a predetermined rate; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to said input terminal and responsive to said sampling signal for providing PCM samples at said predetermined rate and corresponding to said signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said analog-to-digital converter, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said PCM samples respectively scaled by factors substantially corresponding to sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N, where N is an integer; multiplexing means, coupled to said plurality of scaling means, for selectively applying at said predetermined rate, said scaled samples to a first output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said PCM samples mulitplied by a sinusoid having a period N times the reciprocal of said predetermined rate; and means coupled to said first output terminal and said control input terminal for synchronizing said sampling signal to said pilot component.

Claim 14

The apparatus set forth in claim 10 wherein said multiplexing means includes a polarity reversing circuit for selectively reversing the polarity of samples of said first signal over alternate half periods of said sinusoid.

Claim 15

The apparatus set forth in claim 11 wherein said means coupled between said first output terminal and said control input terminal includes sample averaging means responsive to said first signal from said multiplexing means.

Claim 16

The apparatus set forth in claim 12 wherein said multiplexing means further includes means for selectively applying, at said predetermined rate, ones of said scaled samples to a second output terminal, in a sequence to produce a second signal corresponding to said PCM samples multiplied by a sinusoid having a period N/2 times the reciprocal of said predetermined rate.

Claim 17

The apparatus set forth in claim 13 wherein said multiplexing means includes further polarity reversing circuitry for selectively reversing the polarity of samples of said second output signal over alternate half periods of said sinusoid having a period N/2 times the reciprocal of said predetermined rate.

Claim 18

Apparatus for processing sampled data signals, including a sinusoidal component, comprising: means for applying said sampled data signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said means for applying sampled data signal, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said sampled data signals respectively substantially scaled by sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N where N is an integer equal to the ratio of the period of said sinusoidal component to the period of the rate of occurrence of said sampled data signal; multiplexing means coupled to said plurality of scaling means for selectively applying, at said sample rate, said scaled signals to an output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said sampled data signals multiplied by a sinusoid; and means coupled to the output terminal of said multiplexing means for phase locking said sinusoidal component to said sinusoid.

Claim 19

Apparatus for processing sampled data signals, including a sinusoidal component, comprising: means for applying said sampled data signal; a plurality of scaling means coupled to said means for applying sampled data signal, for providing a plurality of samples corresponding to said sampled data signals respectively substantially scaled by sinusoidal trigonometric ratios of angles in increments of 2π/N where N is an integer equal to the ratio of the period of said sinusoidal component to the period of the rate of occurrence of said sampled data signal; multiplexing means coupled to said plurality of scaling means for selectively applying, at said sample rate, said scaled signals to an output terminal in a sequence to produce a signal corresponding to said sampled data signals multiplied by a sinusoid; and means coupled to the output terminal of said multiplexing means for phase locking said sinusoidal component to said sinusoid.