H - Electricity – 04 – N
Patent
H - Electricity
04
N
350/20
H04N 7/167 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1220847
SO1872 S84P48 DIGITAL CODE READING APPARATUS AND METHOD ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A digital code reader reads the digital key code in a scrambled video signal. The key code represents the scheme used to scramble the signal before broadcasting and is used by the video receiver to unscramble the received signal. To prevent misreading of the key code due to interference such as ghost signals, the reader uses a predetermined property established for the broadcast signal. The change in that property caused by interference in the received signal is determined and a control signal is generated from that determination. A threshold signal is used to reproduce the key code from the received signal by comparison of the levels of the received signal with the level of the threshold signal. The level of the threshold signal is set by the control signal, which depends on the change detected in the predetermined property of the broadcast signal. Thus the level of the threshold signal can be set to enable the reproduced digital information to match the broadcast digital information.
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Kobayashi Hiroyuki
Matsunaga Osamu
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Sony Corporation
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