Granted Patent B2

US 8,306,493 · App. 12/759,675 · Granted Nov 6, 2012

Abstract

Claims (57)

1. A method of performing a decoding mode of a frequency modulation (FM) signal for an adaptive FM radio receiver, said method comprising:

passing said FM signal through a FM demodulator to obtain a composite signal, wherein said composite signal comprises a pilot signal and noise around said pilot signal;

passing said composite signal through a band bass filter;

filtering said pilot signal from said noise using a pilot and noise separator, said pilot and noise separator comprising a notch filter, wherein said notch filter filters said pilot signal from said noise;

obtaining average amplitudes of said pilot signal and said noise;

comparing a ratio between said average amplitudes of said pilot signal and said noise with a programmable threshold; and

selecting a decoding mode and an audio low pass filter, wherein said decoding mode is selected based on a quality of said pilot signal being decoded, and said audio low pass filter is selected based on the comparison ratio.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising obtaining coarse audios from said composite signal, wherein said coarse audio is obtained by passing said composite signal through a stereo decoder.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising multiplexing said coarse audios and said composite signal with an input of said decoding mode and said audio low pass filter being selected.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

obtaining an audio signal based on said coarse audios and said composite signal with said input being multiplexed, wherein said audio signal is obtained by passing said multiplexed output through said selected audio low pass filter; and

multiplexing said audio signal with said input of said decoding mode and said audio low pass filter being selected to obtain a desired signal.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said pilot signal is filtered from said noise by subtracting an output of said notch filter from an input of said notch filter, wherein said input of said notch filter comprises said pilot signal and said noise.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said decoding mode comprises at least one of a mono decoding mode and a stereo decoding mode, wherein said mono decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is below said programmable threshold, and wherein said stereo decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is above said programmable threshold.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said average amplitude of said pilot signal is obtained by using a first power meter, said first power meter comprising a first leakage average filter, and said average amplitude of said noise is obtained using a second power meter, said second power meter comprising a second leakage average filter.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said selected audio low pass filter comprises at least one of a narrow band noise filter and a wide band filter, wherein said narrow band noise filter is selected if a channel is a noisy channel, and wherein said wide band filter is selected if said channel is a clean channel.

9. An adaptive frequency modulation (FM) radio receiver for performing a decoding mode of an FM signal, said FM radio receiver comprising:

a FM demodulator unit that demodulates said FM signal to a composite signal, said composite signal comprising a pilot signal and noise;

a pilot quality monitor unit comprising:

a band pass filter unit that passes said pilot signal and said noise;

a pilot and noise separation unit comprising a notch filter that separates said pilot signal from said noise;

a first power meter comprising a first leakage average filter that averages an amplitude of said pilot signal;

a second power meter comprising a second leakage average filter that averages an amplitude of said noise; and

a decoding mode and filter selection unit that compares the ratio between the average amplitude of said pilot signal and the average amplitude of said noise with a programmable threshold;

a stereo decoding unit that separates said composite signal to coarse audios;

a first multiplexer that multiplexes said coarse audios and said composite signal with an output from said decoding mode and filter selection unit; and

a plurality of audio low pass filters, wherein at least one audio low pass filter is selected from said plurality of audio low pass filters based on a comparison ratio, said selected audio low pass filter filtering an output from said multiplexer to obtain an audio signal, wherein said selected audio low pass filter comprises at least one of a narrow band low pass filter and a wide band low pass filter,

wherein said decoding mode and filter selection unit selects a decoding mode based on a quality of said pilot signal being decoded; and

a second multiplexer that multiplexes said audio signal with an output from said decoding mode and filter selection unit to obtain a desired audio signal.

10. The FM radio receiver of claim 9 , wherein said decoding mode comprises at least one of a mono decoding mode and a stereo decoding mode.

11. The FM radio receiver of claim 10 , wherein said mono decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is below said programmable threshold, and said stereo decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is above said programmable threshold.

12. The FM radio receiver of claim 9 , wherein said narrow band noise filter is selected if a channel is a noisy channel, and said wide band filter is selected if said channel is a clean channel.

13. A system for performing a decoding mode of an FM signal for an adaptive FM radio receiver, said system comprising:

means for demodulating said FM signal to obtain a composite signal, wherein said composite signal comprises a pilot signal and noise around said pilot signal;

means for filtering said pilot signal and said noise;

means for averaging an amplitude of said pilot signal;

means for averaging an amplitude of said noise;

means for comparing a ratio between said average amplitude of said pilot signal and said average amplitude of said noise with a programmable threshold;

means for selecting a decoding mode and an audio low pass filter (LPF),

means for obtaining coarse audios from said composite signal,

means for multiplexing said coarse audios, said composite signal with an input of said decoding mode and said audio low pass filter being selected;

means for obtaining an audio signal by passing an output of said means for multiplexing through said selected audio low pass filter; and

means for multiplexing said audio signal with said input of said decoding mode and said audio low pass filter being selected,

wherein said pilot signal and said noise is passed through a band pass filter,

wherein said decoding mode is selected based on a quality of said pilot signal being decoded,

wherein said audio low pass filter is selected from a plurality of audio LPF's based on said ratio being compared,

wherein said amplitude of said pilot signal is averaged using a first power meter, said first power meter comprises a first leakage average filter,

wherein said amplitude of said noise is averaged using a second power meter, said second power meter comprises a second first leakage average filter,

wherein said ratio between said average amplitude of said pilot signal and said average amplitude of said noise are compared with said programmable threshold using a decoding mode and filter selection unit, and

wherein a desired audio signal is obtained on said audio signal multiplexed with said input of said decoding mode and said audio low pass filter being selected.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein said coarse audios is obtained using a stereo decoding unit, and said pilot signal is separated from said noise using a pilot and noise separation unit.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein said decoding mode comprises at least one of a mono decoding mode and a stereo decoding mode.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein said mono decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is below said programmable threshold.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein said stereo decoding mode is selected if said pilot signal is above said programmable threshold.

18. The system of claim 13 , wherein said selected audio low pass filter comprises at least one of a narrow band noise filter and a wide band filter.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein said narrow band noise filter is selected if a channel is a noisy channel.

20. The system of claim 18 , wherein said wide band filter is selected if said channel is a clean channel.

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