Broadcast receiving apparatus

Claim 2

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuner and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifier and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuner, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, and a switching means to switch characteristic of one or more of said first filtering section, amplifying section, and detector section depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means.

Claim 3

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 1, comprising a digital processing section to process the output of said detector section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, and said switching means to switch characteristic of said second band limiting filter section depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means.

Claim 4

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 1 comprising a digital processing section to process output of said detector section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, a waveform equalization section for waveform equalization of signals from said second filtering section, and said switching means to switch characteristic of said waveform equalization section depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means.

Claim 5

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein a local oscillator to be used as a detector in the detection section for VSB detection of digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals consists of a crystal oscillator.

Claim 6

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, wherein said tuning section has a tuner for frequency conversion of analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, and a trap circuit is provided which, when receiving analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, attenuates audio carrier of the analog VSB-modulated signals before the signals pass through said first filtering section to limit the band of the analog VSB-modulated signals and digital VSB-modulated signals.

Claim 7

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, wherein said tuning section has a tuner for frequency conversion of analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, and a trap circuit is provided which, when receiving analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, attenuates audio carrier of the analog VSB-modulated signals before the signals pass through said first filtering section to limit the band of the analog VSB-modulated signals and digital VSB-modulated signals.

Claim 8

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein the band limiting filter which limits the bands of analog VSB-modulated signals and digital VSB modulated signals is a root raised cosine filter having a roll-off rate of 5.76% when receiving analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals.

Claim 9

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising, a tuner to be fed with modulated signals. a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuner and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section having a local oscillator and to detect output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed said modulated signals to said tuner, wherein said detection section uses the same detector for analog vestigial-sideband (VSB)-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, and the phase of the signals fed to said detector is locked only in-phase, wherein the detector for VSB detection of analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals feeds back to a local oscillator an auto-phase-control voltage obtained by passing through a low pass filter a Quadrature signal which is obtained by multiplying the local oscillation signal of the local oscillator of said detector and the intermediate frequency signal.

Claim 10

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising, a tuner to be fed with modulated signals. a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuner and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section having a local oscillator and to detect output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed said modulated signals to said tuner, wherein said detection section uses the same detector for analog vestigial-sideband (VSB)-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals, and the phase of the signals fed to said detector is locked only in-phase, wherein the detector for VSB detection of analog VSB-modulated terrestrial signals and digital VSB-modulated terrestrial signals feeds back to a local oscillator an auto-phase-control voltage obtained by passing through a low pass filter a Quadrature signal which is obtained by multiplying the local oscillation signal of the local oscillator of said detector and the intermediate frequency signal.

Claim 11

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, and a switching means to switch characteristic of one or more of said first filtering section, amplifying section, and detection section depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, wherein the gain from said input means to said detection section is controlled by switching by said switching means depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means thereby stabilizing the level of input to said detection section.

Claim 12

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, and a switching means to switch characteristic of one or more of said first filtering section, amplifying section, and detection section depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, wherein the gain from said input means to said detection section is controlled by switching by said switching means depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means thereby stabilizing the level of input to said detection section.

Claim 13

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 8, wherein when the input to the input means is 8VSB-modulated signals of digital terrestrial broadcast, or QAM-modulated signals and 16VSB-modulated signals of digital CATV broadcast, the gain until detection is caused to change by a certain value when receiving 8VSB-modulated signals and receiving QAM-modulated signals and 16VSB-modulated signals.

Claim 14

A broadcast receiving apparatus as recited in claim 8, wherein when the input to the input means is 8VSB-modulated signals of digital terrestrial broadcast, or QAM-modulated signals and 16VSB-modulated signals of digital CATV broadcast, the gain until detection is caused to change by a certain value by using an amplifier in the amplifying section when receiving 8VSB-modulated signals, and not using the amplifier in said amplifying section when receiving QAM-modulated signals and 16VSB-modulated signals.

Claim 15

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the band thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplify section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the band to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, wherein when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, depending on the output of said detection means, band limiting is done by passing the signals through the band limiting filter for QAM-modulated signals in the intermediate frequency band in the first band limiting filter section when receiving QAM-modulated signals, whereas when receiving 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals, band limiting is done by passing the signals through said band limiting filter for QAM-modulated signals in the intermediate frequency band and also the band limiting filter for VSB-modulated signals as a second band limiting filter after said A/D conversion.

Claim 16

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the band thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplify section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the band to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, wherein when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, depending on the output of said detection means, band limiting is done by passing the signals through the band limiting filter for QAM-modulated signals in the intermediate frequency band in the first band limiting filter section when receiving QAM-modulated signals, whereas when receiving 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals, band limiting is done by passing the signals through said band limiting filter for QAM-modulated signals in the intermediate frequency band and also the band limiting filter for VSB-modulated signals as a second band limiting filter after said A/D conversion.

Claim 17

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch mode of signal processing depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, wherein, when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, the signals are allowed to pass the same band limiting digital filter as said second band limiting filter after said A/D conversion both when receiving QAM-modulated signals and when receiving VSB-modulated signals, and the coefficient of band limiting digital filter is switched by said switching means depending on the output of said detection means.

Claim 18

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch mode of signal processing depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, wherein, when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, the signals are allowed to pass the same band limiting digital filter as said second band limiting filter after said A/D conversion both when receiving QAM-modulated signals and when receiving VSB-modulated signals, and the coefficient of band limiting digital filter is switched by said switching means depending on the output of said detection means.

Claim 19

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, and a waveform equalization section to equalize the waveform of the signal from the second filtering section, wherein, when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, a common digital filter is used in said waveform equalizer after said A/D conversion when receiving 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and when receiving QAM-modulated signals.

Claim 20

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, and a waveform equalization section to equalize the waveform of the signal from the second filtering section, wherein, when incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, a common digital filter is used in said waveform equalizer after said A/D conversion when receiving 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and when receiving QAM-modulated signals.

Claim 21

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch mode of signal processing depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, and a waveform equalization section comprising digital filters having flips flops (FF's) to equalize the waveform of the signals from the second filtering section, wherein, when the incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, characteristic of said waveform equalization section is switched as described below depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means: when receiving 8VSB-modulated and 16VSB-modulated signals, all of the FF's and multipliers of the digital filters in said waveform equalization section are used as the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, while when receiving QAM-modulated signals, a limited number of the FF's and multipliers as required as the digital filter for processing Inphase signal in the QAM-modulated signals are used in a part of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, and a limited number of the FF's and multipliers as required as the digital filter for processing Quadrature signal in the QAM-modulated signals are used in a part of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, thereby switching input and output of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section.

Claim 22

A broadcast receiving apparatus comprising a tuning section to be fed with modulated signals, a first filtering section to be fed with signals that have been selected by said tuning section and frequency-converted to an intermediate frequency signal and to limit the bandwidth thereof to extract a desired signal, an amplifying section to amplify the output of said first filtering section, a detection section to detect the output of said amplifying section and to convert to a base-band signal, an input means to feed various modulated signals to said tuning section, a detection means to detect the modulation scheme of the inputted modulated signals, a switching means to switch mode of signal processing depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means, a digital processing section to process the output of the detection section, an A/D conversion section to convert analog signals to digital signals, a second filtering section which limits the bandwidth to extract a desired signal from the output of said A/D conversion section, and a waveform equalization section comprising digital filters having flips flops (FF's) to equalize the waveform of the signals from the second filtering section, wherein, when the incoming signals to the input means are 8VSB- and 16VSB-modulated signals and QAM-modulated signals, characteristic of said waveform equalization section is switched as described below depending on the modulation scheme detected by said detection means: when receiving 8VSB-modulated and 16VSB-modulated signals, all of the FF's and multipliers of the digital filters in said waveform equalization section are used as the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, while when receiving QAM-modulated signals, a limited number of the FF's and multipliers as required as the digital filter for processing Inphase signal in the QAM-modulated signals are used in a part of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, and a limited number of the FF's and multipliers as required as the digital filter for processing Quadrature signal in the QAM-modulated signals are used in a part of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section, thereby switching input and output of the digital filter of said waveform equalization section.