Stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver and method for separating dual sound channels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10026409-B2
Application number	US-201715405643-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2017
Priority date	Jul 14, 2016
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

A stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver includes: a frequency modulation demodulation circuit, receiving a reception signal, and generating a demodulated signal according to the reception signal; a frequency-division demultiplexer, generating a sum signal, a difference signal and a pilot amplitude signal according to the demodulated signal; a dual sound channel separation circuit, generating a left-channel output signal and a right-channel output signal according to the sum signal and a weakened difference signal; and a weakening circuit, weakening the difference signal according to the pilot amplitude signal or a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to generate the weakened difference signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver, comprising:
a frequency modulation demodulation circuit, receiving a reception signal, and generating a demodulated signal according to the reception signal;
a frequency-division demultiplexer, generating a sum signal, a difference signal and a pilot amplitude signal according to the demodulated signal, wherein the sum signal is associated with a sum of a left sound channel and a right sound channel, and the difference signal is associated with a difference between the left sound channel and the right sound channel;
a dual sound channel separation circuit, generating a left-channel output signal and a right-channel output signal according to the sum signal and a weakened difference signal; and
a weakening circuit, coupled between the frequency-division demultiplexer and the dual sound channel separation circuit, weakening the difference signal according to the pilot amplitude signal or a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to generate the weakened difference signal,
wherein the frequency-division demultiplexer comprises:
a first low-pass filter (LPF), receiving the demodulated signal and generating the sum signal;
a frequency multiplier, generating a frequency multiplied signal according to an oscillation signal;
a band-pass filter (BPF), receiving the demodulated signal and generating a band-pass filtered result;
a mixer, generating a mixed result according to the frequency multiplied signal and the band-pass filtered result;
a second LPF, receiving the mixed result and generating the difference signal; and
an amplitude circuit, generating the pilot amplitude signal according to the pilot signal.

2. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the weakening circuit comprises a switch coupled between the frequency-division demultiplexer and the dual sound channel separation circuit, and the weakening circuit controls the switch to be cutoff when the pilot amplitude signal is smaller than a threshold.

3. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the weakening circuit comprises:
a decision circuit, generating a weakening coefficient according to the pilot amplitude signal and or the SNR; and
a multiplier, multiplying the difference signal by the weakening coefficient to generate the weakened difference signal.

4. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 3 , wherein the weakening circuit generates the weakening coefficient in a value 0 when the pilot amplitude signal is smaller than a threshold.

5. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 3 , wherein the weakening coefficient decreases as the SNR lowers.

6. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 3 , wherein the decision circuit stores a mapping table that stores a mapping relationship between the SNR and the weakening coefficient.

7. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an SNR calculation circuit, coupled to the frequency modulation demodulation circuit, calculating the SNR according to an amplitude signal generated by the frequency modulation demodulation circuit, comprising:
a filter, receiving the amplitude signal and generating an estimated amplitude value;
a subtraction circuit, subtracting the estimated amplitude value from the amplitude signal to generate an estimated SNR; and
an SNR circuit, calculating the SNR according to the estimated amplitude value and the estimated SNR.

8. The stereo-phonic frequency modulation receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency modulation demodulation circuit comprises a superheterodyne receiver.

Assignees

• Mstar Semiconductor Inc

Inventors

• Su Yu-Che
• Lee Kuan-Chou
• Tung Tai-Lai

Classifications

• H04B1/1669

  of the demodulated composite stereo signal · CPC title

• H04H20/48

  for FM stereophonic broadcast systems · CPC title

• H04S1/007 Primary

  in which the audio signals are in digital form (data reduction aspects thereof based on psychoacoustics G10L19/02) · CPC title

• G10L19/008 Primary

  Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing · CPC title

• G10L19/265

  Pre-filtering, e.g. high frequency emphasis prior to encoding · CPC title